Comments on: Democracy is Doomed

By: Lightning Round – 2014/03/05 | Free Northerner

Lightning Round – 2014/03/05 | Free Northerner — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 06:03:37 +0000

[…] Democracy is doomed. Related: The aristocracy of outrage. […]

By: Thales

Thales — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 03:40:33 +0000

As the downward spiral goes mainstream, the most important thing is, of course, to have a set of witty rejoinders at the ready, for example:

“You heard it here first!”

“I hate to be an I-told-you-so, but…naw, I actually enjoy it…”

“Oh, but you see, baby, I really am the ‘last man on Earth’…”

When the EBT-zombies come and the future goes r-type, a perfectly-timed twist of the shiv will DHV and set off the tingles necessary to knock-up as many HB8’s as possible to genetically Win The Future…

By: VXXC

VXXC — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:39:00 +0000

The Optionality for Heroism is coming. That isn’t good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGRMhVMkQG0

Conflating democracy with say the USSR is quite edgy anywhere and trendy here, as well as a recycling of the end of the Cold War arguments of the 80s.

It lacks the merit of being true, Russians are bastards for a reason

By: VXXC

VXXC — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:09:49 +0000

@Mamet,

“flowing from a state of high entropy (the individual) to one of low, the government.”

It takes the playwright who made poetry of “Fuck You” to call our government low entropy.

By: Orthodox

Orthodox — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:31:43 +0000

How about this one? NYPost calls a school the worst in NYC, then students write letters to complain. NYPost makes it the front page news, “Read It and Weep”

http://nypost.com/2014/02/23/students-defend-murry-bergtraum-hs-in-error-filled-letters/

It’s as if Heartiste was made editor.

By: ultraZEN

ultraZEN — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:54:43 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate#Post-Imperial_Senate_in_Rome

By: piwtd

piwtd — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:24:24 +0000

How long did it take to abolish the Roman Senate? I’ve always wondered about that and never have been able to google the answer. Did the oligarchs of Rome stop getting together and calling itself the senate with Odoacer or did they continue even after that? At what precise moment did such an ancient institution stop existing? What was the last session like? I know that in Constantinople they kept their senate until the Turks came. There were people titled senators in Renaissance Rome but I don’t suppose that there was any continuity with the ancient senate.

By: Lesser Bull

Lesser Bull — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:39:53 +0000

Suspect? I’m certain of it.

The collapse of democracy is probably still to be welcomed from an accelerationist standpoint, though, as democracy has more often functioned as a brake on the Cathedral than as a gas pedal.

It probably should also be welcomed by lovers of truth. ‘Managed’ democracy where only votes that the elites like count is a sham and better to do away with it.

By: Orthodox

Orthodox — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:38:32 +0000

The key is that they’re abandoning their strong position because they realize it is crumbling around them. This opens up instability in the system as it seeks a new equilibrium. Reactionaries have optionality in this moment. We have several paths to achieve our goals and our freedom of movement increases as the Cathedral collapses both ideologically and in fact. Their options are collapsing into a very bad singularity.

By: Peter A. Taylor

Peter A. Taylor — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:21:39 +0000

The objective is social dominance. Political philosophy is just rationalization.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/politics-isnt-a.html