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There is a curious (albeit incomplete) parallel here to Moldbug's theory of the five castes of the United States.


Funny you should mention He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, because in this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829796

I love watching Mr Bug's thought percolate through the Net. I can only imagine this is what it must have been like for the first proto-Communists as Karl Marx went to town.


I kind of went to deep end of the pool. The dude points out widely believed lies. The argues that because they we're lies, complete opposite must be true. And because you believe opposite is true, then you ought to take opposite political stance than the lying people.

But because the opposite is weak ass conservative party that only defines itself as opposite of the democratic party, you need to go back in time to find genuine alternative.

So you go back to monarchists. Which surprisingly fits snuggly with hard core libertarian views. Libertarian monarchism with attitude of "Lets cut the crap, someone is anyhow pulling all the strings, might as well be public knowledge. It's going to be pretty much like nowadays, except you're not going to be lied to."

The whole thing is incredibly anglocentric, mostly doesn't take into account geopolitics and gets into weirdly pacifist streak. Which only suits monarchism if you pick the period of 1840 - 1910. (As if war/violence is the only problem of human kind.)

It's exactly what U.S. needs if it's going to follow the footsteps of roman republic. You guys are still way too fervent with this democracy thing if you aim for Imperial future.




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