“Conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future”
- Jefferson Davis
There is nothing to concede, he has destroyed your argument that your perception of what society should be, does not work in a society this vast and diverse. You ask where has communism been implemented successfully, I ask you, where has your libertarian society that you argue for, been implemented successfully?
“Conscientiously believing that the proper condition of the negro is slavery, or a complete subjection to the white man, and entertaining the belief that the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent, and in view of the future harmony and progress of all the States of America, I have been induced to issue this address, so that there may be no misunderstanding in the future”
- Jefferson Davis
This was cute.
Sense, to select a tiny slice of time and say "war is now uncommon" is a poor argument to begin with but what I found amusing was that you attributed this relatively peaceful period (similar to the Pax Britannica of 1815-1914) to "global organizations". No, Common Sense, it should be attributed to empire. The one you are safely ensconced next to.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
I argued nothing about how society should be, nothing whatsoever. It was CS who argued that when insisting that the government is necessary. But the is no government at the global level. Nor has there been a government for 98% of man's existence. Those are facts. They falsify his claim.
This is what I just pointed out, how people tend to try to defend what they prefer by attacking the opposite.You ask where has communism been implemented successfully, I ask you, where has your libertarian society that you argue for, been implemented successfully?
The very notion of implementing a libertarian society, which would be through a government, reveals another thing I pointed out, that people do not understand what they argue against, so they invent strawmen. Libertarianism is not implemented. One does not implement a libertarian state. Utter nonsense.
Finally, analogy is not an argument. One might use analogy to compare two things so as to explain the unknown with the known. Or, in this case, contrast libertarianism with communism: one is non-authoritarian, the other authoritarian, one plans distributively, the other centrally, one is individualist, the other collectivist--libertarian individualism arose in the Englightenment, communist collectivism arose in reaction to individualism. --But that explanatory, not argument. Analogy is used to explain, not argue.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
I don't even need to look at his links to know the source of his conjecture is Stephen Pinker and his The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.
Pinker has been criticized for that. Specifically for narrowing his timeline to exclude major wars, i.e., "to select a tiny slice of time and say "war is now uncommon" is a poor argument to begin with."
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Thoughts on empire. The age of empires is done. The empires of Alexander, Monguls, Rome, Spain, France, England are long gone. Germany wanted it, so did Russia under communism. The US might be considered one but only a defacto one because there are no more superpowers. They've all broken up into nation states for ethnic nations, and continue to be--and people even in the US seek smaller states. History ended more or less in democracy.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler