That is kind of my point. If Divine Right and Enlightened Absolutism are innovations and leftward drift then we’re left with the traditional rights and duties (optionally these rights and tuties are grounded ultimately in natural law) that the king must fullfill based on custom and if the king doesn’t fullfill them the lords have the right to check the king as they did with Magna Carta and

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If the above is true, that gives lord a right to revolution if the king won’t be checked by the lords through parliment since the lords through parliment have power of the purse. But then that makes the Glorious Revoltion a conservative revolution and not the beginning of leftward drift.

Anyhow, historically Divine Right itself looks like leftward drift, or at least a product of it. Earlier you had customary and legal limits on kingship that Divine Right displaced as part of a centralizing rationalization of the ideology of monarchy.

Juuuuuust sayin’ that Smith, Ricardo, and Malthus were considered liberal in their day for their advocacy of markets as a means of distributing resources and information. Moldbug gives us no reason to assume he is against the libertarian goal, which is emphatically not the goal of Filmer or Fitzhugh, but it is the view of Carlyle, well not quite but to some extent. His negative description of democracy matches Moldbug’s.

Oh yes Carlyle. Now how does moldbug describe Carlyle?

“Thomas Carlyle is not just an atheist. He is a Christian atheist.

Thomas Carlyle is not just a Christian atheist. He is a Protestant atheist. And he is not just a Protestant atheist. He is a Calvinist atheist. And he is not just a Calvinist atheist. He is an Anglo-Calvin atheist. In other words, he can also be described as a Puritan atheist, a Dissenter atheist, a Nonconformist atheist, an Evangelical atheist, etc, etc.”

Oh wait I had the wrong person.

moldbug cares about violence and increase in profit because what is good for the polity is good for the state. the entire point of neocamerialism is to make anarcho-capitalism’s policy platform work. Libertarian drift, is for moldbug, a *feature* not a bug. The whole point of authority for moldbug is people live lives that maximizing long term purchasing power and a decrease in political violence, a overriding concern for purchasing power over violence is a *libertarian* not a monarchist concern. Filmer is concerned about the state as oriented to God, which is not a concern moldbug shares since he is an atheist.

Also going from Enlightened Absolutism to Divine Right was leftward drift.

Also take into account… $17 trillion in National debt as of now and $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities. Can’t put down resistance if the national police and the army isn’t being paid in reliable currency.

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Current trends will continue and your transsexual mestizo grandchildren will inherit your guns, decide it’s not worth taking the time and expense to register them and turn them in for a $50 Walmart gift card.

Despite the fact that the slightest move that way sets off escalations in the internal arms race?

By arms race I mean: guns and ammunition on back order for months or over a year for the higher end weapons such as Bushmaster?

Police chiefs and sheriffs nullifying the laws publicly and privately?

Public and repeated threats of revolution? The very powder panics a powder keg waiting, indeed hopefully waiting for the spark?

Not just the NRA but the very munitions companies themselves becoming very openly and belligerently political?

That’s not a fuss waiting to happen?

Then why did they back down?

Well perhaps we’ll see. I would look again.