If you live in a blue district then consider moving

But waaaaah I just want to watch anime and complain about how bad everything is

Though honestly if you’re young the best thing you can do is to just read and get yourself the education you were denied by boomers

Library cards are free

Hey! That's what I'm doing.

So is talking to your local priest

That too. A month ago I confessed to my priest at a local Cathedral.

I’m at my local church library right now

The best part of the Catholic Church is that it has money and a long history of reverence and study of classical texts

There are probably plenty of Good Books™️ and somebody to talk to you about them

If you know who to ask

Speaking of texts, this arrived a few days ago:

Nice

Can't wait to sink my teeth into this writer. He's apparently a Catholic thinker.

Chesterton is based

Alright what's going on here?.

A while back I also read *The Collected Works of Joseph de Maistre* as translated by Jack Lively.

Very based book.

Not familiar with Maistre

Who dat

I felt that parts of it echoed what Endeavour talks about in his *Lies of the Enlightenment* series.

@Norik French philisophe who was vehemently against the growing liberalism in France circa the French Revolution and wrote a lot of very good essays on his thoughts against liberalism and traditional conservative values.

Ah

Honestly not that familiar with frenchies from that time

Besides the meme ones like Voltaire or Tocqueville

He is one of the many from France who established the intellectual attack on liberalism, believing its faults to be ideological and intellectual rather than simply the roots of a ruthless constitution or war.

@Norik Reading anything from anyone reven remotely associated to the Enlightenment is a big risk imo. There's too much bullshit.

Eh

The Social Contract which Endeavour talks about in his series is one such example I've come to dislike.

It’s overrated by the general population but there’s certainly value to certain ideas

Like property rights

Hobbes’ description of government as the natural order arising from the nature of man is probably right at its core

Why don’t you read siege

@Norik That presupposes that man was able to create civilization out of their want. And to presuppose such a thing is to fall into the trap of liberalism again. We know what Hobbes and Locke didn't back then now, that our ancestors worked in communities and not simply the perfect anarcho-primitivist wet dream. We formed civilizations and became social beings out of a need to survive, not out of a rational intellect. That is simply the divine order of God.

That’s literally Hobbes’ argument in the Leviathan lmao

He argues for monarchy with exactly that framework

Haven't read the Leviathan. If that's the case, Maistre and Hobbes are more similar than they'd comfortably like to believe.

Oh.

I misread your message.

Bruh moment.

I don’t think I’m a liberal, but I do think they’re at least partially right