Either: a) You're feeling the effects of democratic culture and how reductionist it is by appealing to the masses. b) You whimsically fashion yourself a nomad or wanderer, but actually it seems you need societies and people with functioning markets to survive and you'd rather

Mao uses state force to destroy the 4 olds: old ideas, habits (traditional social norms), culture, and customs to make the people only loyal to the state, the Party, and Mao. Libertarians use freedom to destroy the 4 olds until their children are loyal only to the state, their

Tocqueville on American Christianity: "In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, everyone abandons him, and he remains alone." "I do

“It’s ours” is a statement of ownership. “It’s ours” means: maybe it sucks, but what matters is that we’re in power. At least when Lucifer wanted to rule in hell, he left. He didn’t turn heaven into hell

women: no one wants to date me, i can’t find anyone also women: 50 unread dms, 300 dating app matches, 5 exes trying to come back, 15 men stuck in the friendzone trying to escape

On a society of free speech from John Adams' perspective "Your research in the Laws of England, establishing Christianity as the Law of the Land and part of the common Law, are curious and very important. Questions without number will arise in this Country. Religious

So, you speak fluent German, Gaelic, Italian, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Laotian, Igbo, Native American languages? Oh, no you don't? I guess you don't really believe this nonsense.

So why do you want to import them until America becomes Brazil or India?

"What shall we say? The editors of newspapers have no check and yet have power to make and unmake characters at their will, to create or unmake the constitution, to erect and demolish administrations - When a few scribblers, all foreigners, whose origins history and characters

John Adams predicting the electioneering and politicization of every topic in the future culture wars: "Your research in the Laws of England, establishing Christianity as the Law of the Land and part of the common Law, are curious and very important. Questions without number

I don't understand what's so hard to understand about this phenomenon. It's young men of the vassal states of America who wants a better run British Empire or a return to WASP America, more than this DEI, gay, feminist, communist leadership. You should feel embarrassed rather

"Since then, as every schoolboy knows, a sort of civil religion of America has grown up, in which almost everyone here (to include the vast majority of Catholics) is a communicant. It has its sacred history comprising an old covenant — the Pilgrim Fathers’ — and a new one,

If liberals wanted to fix the environmental problems of the world, they should demand that every factory be brought back to the West, where they have the highest environmental regulations. Instead, they want cheap products from around the world, and don't mind the mass pollution

If Liberals, for 60 years, had done immigration properly by building a wall, creating immigrant processing centers like Ellis Island on the Southern border, been stricter with illegal immigration, and clamped down on Liberal states, none of this would be happening.

All of this is off the back of US Military spending. If Europe had to build their own military infrastructure, maintain armies, spend on R&D, and yearly military costs, they would not be able to afford universal healthcare and child education. Now Europe is militarily weak.

Rare 1901 footage from northern England: Women in headscarves (shawls) for modesty & practicality looks just like hijab. Yet critics call hijab oppressive while ignoring Europe's own veiling history going back to even before the Byzantine. Thoughts?

Marcuse draws from John Stuart Mill: youtube.com/clip/UgkxTR6A_…

Everything the Progressives want in America from China is impossible because the Chinese are able to do it due to a lack of worker's rights, cheap labor, not having environmental regulations, and not having 100 years of compounding regulation at the local to federal level.

The Dark Ages and the Enlightenment should switch names.

Liberal legal jurisprudence is literally built on precedence and traditional understandings and interpretations by people who wrote the law originally. So even liberals historically value and use tradition.