Frankfurt is rebuilding the old town

Nice

I'd like to see a revival of brickstone gothic or Gründerzeit architecture

Based

Looks like all those tourismbux Poland and Hungary are getting might finally be waking the right people up in real countries

@Norik Tourismbux?

Money from tourism

Because places like Budapest have become the new big meme destinations for people who want to actually experience Europe™️

For, uh, obvious reasons

When you are from real country and need to go to "fake" country to experience some authenticity it really tells you something.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRQO3VbJsMw

Has anyone else read Filmer? It's interesting that this is the guy that Locke was arguing against.

yeah

we read him in my reading group

i wish i could read

> we read him in my reading group
@Pseudo-Analysist What'd you think?

@Tome_Enthusiast pretty good. 2/3 of it was theological. The other third was practical/historical reasons for monarchy

The most elitist author I've read

Very based

Have a Cambridge edition of his work. Waiting for Imperium Press to come out with theirs.

lmao kant <:pepejoy:611733498499432472>

When your footnote is 80% of the page

at that point just dont make it a footnote lol

he's such an atrocious writer it's actually kind of impressive

@Justine Brown's Bookshelf yes, it was light reading really, he has some devastating criticisms of liberal ontology, but also overly reliant on biblical sources, however Locke’s state of nature is also basically biblical so it’s like the Spider-Man meme.

@marcusC Yes, I like his emphasis on family (fathers) as the basis for government because it precedes the individuated adult.

Yes the important take is that authority flows downwards, not up, liberalism assumes that people come out of the ground like mushrooms and spontaneously form political orders, but Filmer does a good job showing this to be groundless. @Justine Brown's Bookshelf

https://reactionaryfuture.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/locke-versus-filmer-or-why-you-are-all-communists/

That is a great article discussing this debate and it’s significance for NRx

Most excellent; thanks @marcusC. I just finished reading Lord Bolingbroke's "The Idea of a Patriot King", which he wrote once the House of Hanover had been established. So it's a bit compromised, but still an interesting vision.

The only other non-Lockean English Tory I can think of is Dean Josiah Tucker, unfortunately his views on many other issues are very weak

the old reactionary futures blog is back up

nice

Bolingbroke was quite a complex figure. He launched the 1715 Jacobite Rising. When that failed he managed to gain influence with Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Yeah, reactionary future’s blog is a bit of a waste of time, just check out his book or the journal

progressive historiography is dumb and gay