As Alan Moore once said, fascism is basically giving simple answers to complex problems. I can't find that quote at the moment, but this seems to sum it all up pretty nicely:
》I thought that this was worrying because retreats to infantilism are generally precursors to fascism; that desire for a simple solution to really complex problems. The desire to be told that this has all been done by the illuminati, the international banking Jewish banking conspiracy, the underground Democrat paedophile demons drinking children’s adrenochrome underneath the Comet Ping Pong Pizza restaurant in Washington DC. These are all comic book solutions to comic book problems. Donald Trump — The Donald — is a perfect comic book superhero come to save us from the equally ridiculous threat of whatever it was that he was worried about, [...]《
I'm inclined to think that they didn't get their ideas by perverting Hayek. Comic books and junk SF are far more likely.
You don't mention fascism at all, so I suppose the book doesn't either. Just that all that is not very liberal. Ok, it's not. But what is it, then?
The end of republics is nigh, even if they don't all turn out fascist.
There is an international banking conspiracy, headed by the troika of the Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank. East Asians became rich because their central banks used to fund their economies. The IMF reformed the Japanese central bank ushering a lengthy period of economic stagnation. In the US, the banking system has its favorite recipe of expanding credit (creating roaring twenties or housing bubbles) and then tightening it. The rich then get bailed out and the middle class loses their real assets. But the conspirators, just like the alt right, are not well read. Alan Greenspan's favorite author is Ayn Rand.
«borderline racism (“the Christian west is the only creator of morals in the modern civilization”, p. 35)»
I am disappointed that our blogger is not beyond smearing by insinuation of proximity to racism and ethnicism (two completely different concepts too) a cultural ("social capital") argument. Even as I think that the claim of that argument is quite wrong.
How is it not ethnicist? I think most Westerners would view the claim by say Bin Laden or some other Islamists that only Arabs produce a worthwhile moral system in the world to be somewhat racist and insulting. Similarly i think most people would judge the argument that the West is the only source of argument to be quite "racist" or discriminative at the least
«the argument that the West is the only source of argument to be quite "racist" »
Apparently in your unrestrained fantasy "the West" is a race that includes USA latinos, finnish lapps, french jews, english tamils, italian arabs, german syrians, etc. :-)
«or discriminative at the least»
Whether it is western christian or west asian muslim or chinese post-feudal culture etc. that produced in the modern era better cultural artifacts in one specific area is a matter of judgement not of discrimination. Not all cultures are equally fertile in all areas. Unless the title "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" is your proof that Web was a racist :-).
I also think that "that only Arabs produce a worthwhile moral system in the world" has a very different scope and not just type subject from "the Christian west is the only creator of morals in the modern civilization” which is a much narrower claim.
Your comment seems to me to imply that you are an eager recipient of astutely worded smears and insinuations.
Thank you, definitely goes on my reading list. I am too squeamish to delve into that zoo of intellectual mutations myself, very happy someone took the cross for us sinners
‘Much of the media has framed the populist right as a backlash against neoliberalism – but they share common roots in the project to defend social hierarchies against the threat of equality’. https://tinyurl.com/4t5kxyh8
Resist Comrades, resist! The forces of evil have fckd the plebs over once more. Those poor sods just can't understand where their true interests lie.
Maybe we should adjust democracy just a lil' bit until they become reasonable again. Then we'll let them drink from the well once more.
As Alan Moore once said, fascism is basically giving simple answers to complex problems. I can't find that quote at the moment, but this seems to sum it all up pretty nicely:
》I thought that this was worrying because retreats to infantilism are generally precursors to fascism; that desire for a simple solution to really complex problems. The desire to be told that this has all been done by the illuminati, the international banking Jewish banking conspiracy, the underground Democrat paedophile demons drinking children’s adrenochrome underneath the Comet Ping Pong Pizza restaurant in Washington DC. These are all comic book solutions to comic book problems. Donald Trump — The Donald — is a perfect comic book superhero come to save us from the equally ridiculous threat of whatever it was that he was worried about, [...]《
I'm inclined to think that they didn't get their ideas by perverting Hayek. Comic books and junk SF are far more likely.
You don't mention fascism at all, so I suppose the book doesn't either. Just that all that is not very liberal. Ok, it's not. But what is it, then?
The end of republics is nigh, even if they don't all turn out fascist.
There is an international banking conspiracy, headed by the troika of the Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank. East Asians became rich because their central banks used to fund their economies. The IMF reformed the Japanese central bank ushering a lengthy period of economic stagnation. In the US, the banking system has its favorite recipe of expanding credit (creating roaring twenties or housing bubbles) and then tightening it. The rich then get bailed out and the middle class loses their real assets. But the conspirators, just like the alt right, are not well read. Alan Greenspan's favorite author is Ayn Rand.
«borderline racism (“the Christian west is the only creator of morals in the modern civilization”, p. 35)»
I am disappointed that our blogger is not beyond smearing by insinuation of proximity to racism and ethnicism (two completely different concepts too) a cultural ("social capital") argument. Even as I think that the claim of that argument is quite wrong.
How is it not ethnicist? I think most Westerners would view the claim by say Bin Laden or some other Islamists that only Arabs produce a worthwhile moral system in the world to be somewhat racist and insulting. Similarly i think most people would judge the argument that the West is the only source of argument to be quite "racist" or discriminative at the least
«the argument that the West is the only source of argument to be quite "racist" »
Apparently in your unrestrained fantasy "the West" is a race that includes USA latinos, finnish lapps, french jews, english tamils, italian arabs, german syrians, etc. :-)
«or discriminative at the least»
Whether it is western christian or west asian muslim or chinese post-feudal culture etc. that produced in the modern era better cultural artifacts in one specific area is a matter of judgement not of discrimination. Not all cultures are equally fertile in all areas. Unless the title "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" is your proof that Web was a racist :-).
I also think that "that only Arabs produce a worthwhile moral system in the world" has a very different scope and not just type subject from "the Christian west is the only creator of morals in the modern civilization” which is a much narrower claim.
Your comment seems to me to imply that you are an eager recipient of astutely worded smears and insinuations.
Thank you, definitely goes on my reading list. I am too squeamish to delve into that zoo of intellectual mutations myself, very happy someone took the cross for us sinners
Quinn Slobodian:
‘Much of the media has framed the populist right as a backlash against neoliberalism – but they share common roots in the project to defend social hierarchies against the threat of equality’. https://tinyurl.com/4t5kxyh8
Resist Comrades, resist! The forces of evil have fckd the plebs over once more. Those poor sods just can't understand where their true interests lie.
Maybe we should adjust democracy just a lil' bit until they become reasonable again. Then we'll let them drink from the well once more.
One has to deserve The Truth after all.
And we don't want to lose ours.