Democracy first requires a demos, a definable set of a coherent people with a homogenous culture to engage in politics. It also requires the demos to be able to engage in government, and the root of goverment stems from the monopoly on violence. Voting is the most pathetic form of political engagement. It is almost entirely passive. The highest form of political engagement is for the demos to collectively participate in the excercise of governmental violence, which inherently requires the demos to be well-armed. That does not mean chaotic rampaging mobs that burn down cities, but precise violence directed towards those who disrupt a well-ordered society. The greatest single act of democracy is a community lynching, where violence is most precisely wielded by the general will of the people to maintain good order.
The people claiming that democracy is at risk are the same people who hate everything associated with democracy.
There is a decent argument that Pulp Fiction is accidentally a modern take on medieval Christian morality tales. Augustine's rightly ordered loves is God at the top then blood bonds then friends neighbors then material and pleasures, and evil is a result of misordering these loves.
Medieval stories were often told out of order for the sake of the message. The first part, where Jules famously eats the burger, shows evil winning as Vincent and Jules place material gain over love of fellow man. The second part features Vincent about to betray his boss by sleeping with his wife while they are both high, but ends with good prevailing as their loyalty to Wallace is placed above sex and drugs. The third part has Butch putting familial love, the gold watch, over his own safety and material gain. Butch and Marcellus bond over spilling blood, both theirs and others, and the ensuing love resolves their material dispute. The movie ends with Jules placing his faith in God above all else, giving up crime, his money, and sparing the robbers.
Bartering is difficult due to the double coincidence of wants. Both parties must possess something the other desires at the same time. Money solves this problem due to its near infinite alternative uses. Don't expect bartertown to arise, expect alternative forms of money in much the same way prisons use ramen or cigarettes.
The good thing about bullets is that there are multiple ways to trade them.
Be on the look out for the phrase "best practices" too. It means some bureaucrat is about to do something terrible while putting the responsibility for it nominally on the entirety of the global laptop class, which is functionally nobody.
Everything is shit. The world is dominated by criminals. And, there are fags everywhere. Yep, that checks out.
There is some good stuff in postmodernism such as Deleuzian territorialization or Virilio's accident, even Foucault's power analysis is almost entirely correct. Postmodernism is actually old hat though. The world is post-postmodernist as new metanarratives inevitably and simultaneously emerged alongside attempts to reject metanarratives, so no one attempts complete rejection anymore. Mark Fisher is a great example of a post-postmodernist, for lack of a better word.
The Hegelian dilectic is inescapable because attempting to refute or reject it is necessarily engaging in the dialectical process. Marx tried to flip the Hegelian dialectic on its head when he reduced it to profane material conditions, which ended poorly for everyone involved.
You lost me at utopianism.
Twitter can't get anymore full of child porn, but regime media might start pretending to care about it.
Make them part of the solution. Lock them in a shipping container outside for the winter. Their carbon footprint will be zero.
There was a pull line on the outfit. The producers knew exactly what they were doing.
Competing religions are banned from state temple grounds.
AWFLs believe whites are superior. By shouldering the burden of uplifting the other races, they gain emotional satisfaction and social status.
Empathy is, and always has been, explicitly the vicarious feeling of the emotions another. It's meant to engender a subversive out group preference, as a person will overlay their own emotions onto another and mistake themselves for the other.
Empathy is effeminate bullshit about shared emotions. Rejecting empathy as a concept doesn't mean a disregard for the motivations of an external enemy. I can readily understand the CCP without having to share their emotional state, which is impossible.
Capitalism versus communism is a false dichotomy. Unrestrained capital will trend towards complete global homogenization in order to maximize aggregate demand and simplify production. The resulting dissolution of culture and nations is indistinguishable from communism. This becomes readily apparent once you realize public ownership of corporations, the stock market, has resulted in the people owning the means of production under a dictatorship of proletarianized elites.
I got the date slightly wrong. It took off after WW2. The point of the word is to get people to identify with out groups as a way of breaking down homogenous societies.
Empathy is fake and gay. The word itself is a psyop that came out of the universities in the 60s.
I was otherwise occupied while replying and my phone was being weird about selecting and copying the whole thing.
The majority has been objecting to progressivism forever. Organized minorities will always the dominate the majority. Opinions of the masses are only relevant in so far as they give hope that this trajectory towards the zombie apocalypse could easily be averted after an absolute regime change.
Hahaha, they think Ben Shapiro, the nexus of Con Inc, is an ebil yahtzee.
It's part of the language game for manufacturing consent. Fortunately, the current elites don't understand the propaganda machine they inherited. They are functionally cargo cultists that can only faintly imitate the appearance and mannerisms of the great, albeit still evil, progressive propagandists of the past.
Imagine thinking a pajeet occupying the nominal head of the British government could possibly be an encouraging sign.