I enjoyed Fred Reed’s April 24 essay “Ignorance, Its Uses and Nurture,” which refers to universal suffrage in anything larger than a small town as a “crackpot” idea. In a mere thousand words, Reed painted the American public as entirely incapable and unqualified to understand United States foreign policy, let alone vote on it. Therefore, he concludes, the entire democratic system is a sham. Yes, the statistics he presents bolster his point admirably. But maybe not as much as epic burns such as this one: (more…)
Tag: democracy
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A new trend has emerged in the country where I live. Maybe it has been going on for quite some time elsewhere, but it’s advent in my neck of the woods is recent.
I am, of course, talking about the sudden (for me at least) prevalence of bottle caps which are attached to the bottle. Milk, juice, pop, energy drinks . . . all now come with caps that cling to the bottle with a stubborn fortitude. (more…)
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Democracy may not be the silliest idea concocted by man but, for anything larger than a small town, it is crackpot. It consists in the idea that a public, on average knowing almost nothing, can choose leaders in popularity contests among provincial lawyers who know little more and are required to know nothing, except how to get elected.
In a democracy, this ignorance is both a protected quality, such as motherhood, and a valued resource. By common consent, the ruled do not look too closely at the mentality of elected rulers, and the rulers speak solemnly of the wisdom of the people, who have none. (more…)
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The Authentic Reactionary: Selected Scholia of Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Translated with commentary by Ramon Elani
North Augusta, S. C.: Arcana Europa Media, 2023Large linguistic communities such as the English and Spanish-speaking worlds are peculiarly liable to insularity. It was only in the late 1980s that a few adventurous German souls caught on to the existence of then-septuagenarian Colombian aphorist Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994). From there, awareness of his work spread to other European countries. (more…)
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The second half of our latest livestream was a continuation of the Ask Me Anything with Millennial Woes (official website here) and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), focusing particularly on the issue of how dissidents can deal with the decline of the white world. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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March 27, 2024 Counter-Currents Radio
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 578
Angelo Plume on Confronting the Ethnicity DeniersAngelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) was our guest host on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where he discussed confronting the ethnicity deniers, among other issues, and answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:00:27 The Story of Angelo’s viral Wikipedia battle
00:07:34 Who is English?
00:18:40 On Phil Lynott (see Angelo Plume, “The Phil Lynott Conundrum“) (more…) -
February 7, 2024 Greg Johnson
Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha
Capítulo 17: Notas Sobre el Populismo, el Elitismo y la Democracia3.116 palabras
English original here, see also French, German, Polish
Capítulo 1 aquí, Capítulo 16 aquí, Capítulo 18 aquí
¿Es la democracia un buen sistema desde una perspectiva Blanca racialmente consciente?
1. Cuando tanto los Estados Unidos como Corea del Norte se definen a sí mismos como democracias, es seguro concluir que “democracia” significa casi todo y prácticamente nada. Para mi tesis, definiré democracia como la idea de que el poder de tomar decisiones políticas debería residir en los “muchos”. (more…)
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There is nothing in the principles of free speech and individual liberty which bears responsibility for turning Western governments into the anti-white dystopias we live in today. Rather, it was the toxic pill of hostile foreign aliens which poisoned the great Enlightenment project from the start. (more…)
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I am communing in my office with a sufficiency of Wild Turkey, the whiskey of the great Hunter Thompson. With its help I think curmudgeonly thoughts about America, which is over, done, surrounded by feeding leeches, ticks, hag fish, lampreys, and corporations. And Joe Biden. I find this deeply satisfying. (more…)
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I confess that I am a bad American. Yes, I pay little attention to Congress. Why? Because it seems to me little more than a storefront operation for the powers that count in America: Big Pharma, the military industry, Wall Street, and so on. They make policy. Congress just announces it. Nor do I much read the Constitution, a document in tatters that has little obvious connection to American life. (more…)
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In our country we wish to substitute morality for egotism, probity for honour, principles for conventions, duties for etiquette, the empire of reason for the tyranny of customs, contempt for vice for contempt for misfortune, pride for insolence, the love of honour for the love of money… that is to say, all the virtues and miracles of the Republic, for all the vices and snobbishness of the monarchy. — Maximilien Robespierre, “On Virtue and Terror” (1794) (more…)
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Last week I was having a good early morning over coffee. While reading a blog, I saw a reference to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, a government agency I suspected was invented to employ people with no practical experience and psychopathic tendencies at high salaries. (more…)
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Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)
And even if all financial incentives were totally eradicated from politics, this would not — and could not — exclude non-monetary forms of lobbying and influence, where private entities influence politicians in ways that do not involve any form of financial compensation. In the words of Rep. Maggie Wood Hassan, “When you are in the legislature, it can be hard to distinguish the loud from the many.” The distant nature of political representation ensures that even the most well-meaning politician’s perspective can be biased and distorted by dozens of external influences. (more…)