Delete comment from: Captain Capitalism
Here, hear! Evolution (natural selection) is more intelligent and just given mortal restrictions than authoritarian humans can ever be. The question of when did we go wrong is philosophically wrong, but that is trivial compared to how philosophically correct the blog is on the main point:
Because the constitution of the people is more important than the Constitution...(1) let each generation get immediate feedback and pay its bills, (2) (@ Anonymous, lol) let Jefferson buy the Louisiana Territory even thought it was unconstitutional. Jefferson's big sin to me was using the then Federal Government to try and kill Aaron Burr, my favorite Founding Father (until I learn more I suppose).
I believe the philosophy of the question is the antithesis of the philosophy of the main point. The brainwashing is never completely gone. The red pill journey pushes to an asymptote. I have studied history extensively with not much to show for it, mostly Doug's Neuropsychic Prototype for the American Have-not, ch. 1.
The proper question to ask is:
WHEN DID GOVERNMENT EVER GO SO RIGHT AS TO LET PEOPLE REAP WHAT THEY SOW?
The answer I suspect is never to a very high degree in terms of potential. The United States of America is remarkable in the relative degree of doing that compared to the rest of history and apparently human nature. It is the fact that our natures in the Manosphere do not fit the overwhelming majority's nature than makes us, the would-be builders of society, the losers in this temporary wrong-is-right cannibalism feast. The elite don't want competition in the building of the future, obviously.
Any people who decide to follow the ideal presented on properly limited government will become so powerful in freedom and affluence it will be incredible. Hell, anarcho-engineered social order my be possible. Ideals do come true progressively. I expect people in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere would turn their noses up to the 'ideal' of property rights as we practised them not too long ago. The bias is progress. The path is crooked. In the end, if there is a future, it will belong to philosophers because brains evolves faster than brawn. It is the brains of the NWO that scares me. We must use our brains to hone our moral code(s) and bide our time.
Sep 19, 2012, 3:11:41 AM
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