Fuck, I broke my pledge to make April fools this year just about joking about not being a pedo....
Oh well.
British "liberal" philosophers be like "Ahhhh, Napoleon brought slavery back to Haiti!!!!! Napoleon talked about a "White, European race"!! See?!?!?! He's eeeeeevil!!!!"
Also British "liberals": "The niggers and the Amerindians and the Indians etc... etc... are cockroaches under our boot. We should exploit their labor for our own purposes. Hail the White European Race! This is true "noble" liberalism! The World is ours to play with! We are the master-race!"
The only Brit worth any respect in this regard (for being open and relatively consistent about the true tennents of his philosophy) was Carlyle. He supported slavery and imperialism, was openly racist to a degree that even other racist philosophers were freaked out by him, refused to change or aknowledge that change could be good for society, and generally was a curmudgeon (although a very articulate and witty one).
One of the greatest mistakes of all time was American thinkers siding with the British (their literal enemies only a few decades prior) instead of the French (some of their closest historical allies, and those from whom they drew inspiration for their own revolution).
"“The people had said there was something higher than work, more precious than cotton…it was right, and liberty, and doing justice, and bidding defiance to all wrong.”" - THIS is the difference between materialistic obsession with money/property and true, higher, spiritual, human values.
https://fpif.org/the-lockean-roots-of-white-supremacy-in-the-u-s/
British/English philosophers are materialists and utilitarians.
They are obsessed with money and finding the easiest ways of getting more of it.
They are not spiritualists, like the French or Germans.
Marx's critique of Judaism applies to British philosophy.
"What is the worldly religion of the Anglo? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of the British Empire, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Anglo. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Anglo is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general."
It's no surprise that Marx even thought the way he did. He grew up in a materialist society that lied about its materialist slant. So Marx thought there was nothing wrong with materialism, but the world just needed "real/honest" materialism.
The British created Communism by being liars, essentially.
@bulky_nerd not at music festivals.
I mean, you get people doing ridiculous things trying to skirt the law like having star stickers on their nipples so they can claim they aren't "nude".
The one (only once) time I went to a festival with some people, one of the girls basically went there in a thong (OK, I'm exaggerating, but she went there with her asscheeks hanging out).
From what I've read and seen, American music festivals can be even more raucous than the ones in Europe.
@bulky_nerd the closest I ever got to Christianity was calling myself a "Cultural Christian".
Whenever I told other Christians that I was agnostic, they'd try converting me with some stupid "return to Him" line, which is just cringe and makes me not like Christianity.
My Muslim friends were much more tactful about it. We'd get into philosophical discussions about the meaning of life etc... and then they'd say "you know, Islam says this..." and I'd be like "oh, that's interesting...".
Anyways, yeah I'm not against other people existing. I'm against the mas-movement (which by itself is unnatural) of people from their lands to our lands. Small amounts of migration is manageable. There is almost always a nefarious reason behind the movement of huge amounts of people from one place to another.
Go around Europe. In fact, go around the world.
Everyone knows about French or German philosophers. They are the greatest philosophers Europe ever produced.
No one cares about "the Austrian school" (popularized by an Austrian who became a British citizen, surprise surprise) or Lockean or Burkean economics.
The whole "British liberal philosopher" thing is a LARP. It's a big fucking LARP.
They complain about the "French Empire spreading democracy" while literally wanting the British Empire to expand to cover the entire world and turn everyone into cashcows.
I've got it now.
The difference between Anglo and Continental understandings of "liberalism" is quite simple.
The Anglo understanding is: "I want to be able to have slaves, and to exploit them and get lots of money"
The Continental understanding is: "I want to be able to fuck kids and jack off in public"
https://newdirection.online/2018-publications-pdf/ND-Report-ConsFreeMarket-preview%28low-res%29.pdf
"...the French Revolution, leading to terror and then to Napoleon’s military coup and war in Europe, scarcely can be considered a success..."
"Hoppe envisions the French Revolution as the crucial collapse of the foundations of property rights in Europe. In these works and numerous articles, Hoppe elaborates on theme of the aggressive and acquisitive nature of the republican democracies that followed. Hence, his chief historical moment of truth is the shift beginning with the French Revolution. In Hoppe’s view, the old aristocratic order of Europe and to some extent the European monarchies emerging in the Middle Ages were hardly ideal forms, but as “owners” of their their territories or their realms, monarchs tended to operate with very low time preference. They were looking above all for the continuation of their realms (and their dynasties) into the future."
The Mises institute says that they're basically against the French Revolution because it led to an Empire that tried spreading the Enlightenment via force.
Right before that, they quote Hoppe saying that the Imperialist European Monarchs were actually good people because they respected "property rights" (i.e. the rights of them to treat their population as slaves).
You couldn't make this shit up.
And they start their article by saying evaluating the French Revolution is a "Rorschach Test for educated people", lol
https://mises.org/mises-wire/was-french-revolution-good-or-bad
Now it makes sense why "rightist" "far-right" "Nazi" "Catholic/Protestant/Muslim/Jewish fundamentalist" people harp on and on about how much they hate the "Enlightenment" and how "the French Revolution was a disaster!".
They hate pleasure itself. They hate pleasure and true freedom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide
"Voltaire believed everyone had the right to liberty and hedonism. He believed people had the right to question everything to find truth. This made him an advocate for the freedom to question societal practices."
"Voltaire fought for free will. He believed free will was enabled through one's freedom of liberty, hedonism, empirical science, and skepticism."
I think I can see it now.
Hedonism is more "moderate" than most assume.
In most (i.e. Abrahamic) religions, you have all these "sins", where, allegedly, society can't engage in them because they'll corrupt or destroy it.
Yet, in times of war, there are no inhibitions on "sin" anymore. People go out and rob, rape, murder etc... at will. One of the great ironies about the "Crusades" was that many "Knights" went on them to remove their "sins" from previous wars in Europe. It was a "cleansing" (both internal and external) operation.
So, that begs the question.
Which society is more moderate?
The one that aknowledges pleasure and does not seek to restrict it (or at least, to restrict it only when it leads to physical or psychological harm to others - i.e. when there is no consent) or the one which represses pleasure until it explodes during war leading to things like the destruction and looting of cities and ancient artifacts, mass-murder, mass-rape, sex-slaves etc...?
@bulky_nerd it depends when, who and for what reasons.
It's crazy that, if this article is to be believed, Catholic organizations hold "mass-migration" over everyone's head like a guillotine blade, until/unless they convert to Catholicism.
Sick, sick people.
And, if you like more humor, you can always watch Hellsing Ultimate Abridged.
The philosophy doesn't change haha
Another great anime to watch for its philosophical undertones is "Hellsing".
A key part of the plot is how there ends up being no real distinction between how the undead/vampire + one cyborg Neeeezis and the Catholic Church operate.
Both are obsessed with war and purity. Both openly slaughter millions of people (men, women and children) in the climax.
Both send their champions to fight Alucard (who is against both the supremacy of the Neeezis and also the supremacy of the Catholics). Both are defeated by their own hubris (in addition to Alucard's wit).
You can't beat death itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNl1buMHKIY&ab_channel=WHATISUTUBE
The Amerimuttification of the European polity is just such a horrifying crime against humanity.
I think it will be seen as such in the future.
It permeates everything; all levels. Europeans are only now openly speaking out about it, but for years many people were voicing their displeasure with it in private, even Americans living in Europe.
There needs to be a sea-change in the "Western" world, but it won't happen in Europe.
It will, indeed, it must happen in America, the belly of the beast.
I don't know man, whatever...