Message from @fallot

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2017-08-04 18:08:51 UTC  

I think any "secular right" is doomed to fail

2017-08-04 18:08:58 UTC  

it will eventually become leftism

2017-08-04 18:12:25 UTC  

lemme make a very basic argument to you

2017-08-04 18:12:43 UTC  

I won't be offended at all if you think its dumb or unworkable and it's also not very developed

2017-08-04 18:12:52 UTC  

please, I'd love to hear it

2017-08-04 18:12:59 UTC  

I don't necessarily disagree that any secular right will become leftist either, I want to explore that later

2017-08-04 18:13:49 UTC  

I think I've read this before, reading

2017-08-04 18:14:19 UTC  

you can skim the first part, it's just background

2017-08-04 18:15:05 UTC  

why don't you go on while I read

2017-08-04 18:15:34 UTC  

nah that's the argument.

2017-08-04 18:15:43 UTC  

so the argument is utilitarianism

2017-08-04 18:15:49 UTC  

is that right?

2017-08-04 18:15:58 UTC  

Maybe a derivation of utilitarianism.

2017-08-04 18:16:10 UTC  

But more of a law and econ point about transaction costs

2017-08-04 18:16:11 UTC  

it's the same as prozakian nihilism

2017-08-04 18:16:30 UTC  

this kind of pragmatic/utilitarian ideology will always fail, it is inferior to leftism

2017-08-04 18:16:37 UTC  

in moral terms

2017-08-04 18:16:43 UTC  

I agree

2017-08-04 18:16:44 UTC  

PC leftism will always be morally superior to it

2017-08-04 18:16:57 UTC  

My goal was to come up with a way to justify a secular right-ism

2017-08-04 18:17:13 UTC  

I think nationalism is a temporarily workable solution

2017-08-04 18:17:14 UTC  

I think the best argument is the transaction costs point, but I think it will always be eroded

2017-08-04 18:17:28 UTC  

basically an antichrist ideology that raises the nation to god levels

2017-08-04 18:17:38 UTC  

fascism++

2017-08-04 18:17:58 UTC  

that in theory could work for a few generations at least

2017-08-04 18:18:14 UTC  

the other argument I am still going to write at some point is basically Filmer's argument filtered through Darwin, which is that all authority flows from Fatherhood, which imposes a non-theological hierarchy

2017-08-04 18:18:30 UTC  

I don't agree that this is a non-theological hierarchy

2017-08-04 18:18:34 UTC  

as fatherhood must also proceed from somewhere

2017-08-04 18:18:37 UTC  

Filmer's premise was God as Father, but I think you could do with out that

2017-08-04 18:18:41 UTC  

if it is incidental, then this is just arbitrary

2017-08-04 18:18:45 UTC  

and argue that it procedes from biology

2017-08-04 18:18:46 UTC  

yeah, it has to be "God the Father" to work

2017-08-04 18:18:51 UTC  

to work well

2017-08-04 18:18:56 UTC  

to work okay, you can sub in Darwin maybe

2017-08-04 18:19:01 UTC  

I appreciate the procession from biology but

2017-08-04 18:19:11 UTC  

that also removes your ability to raise this one aspect

2017-08-04 18:19:22 UTC  

and also, it reduces to utilitarianism

2017-08-04 18:19:30 UTC  

because your argument is ultimately "this works"

2017-08-04 18:19:41 UTC  

no framework for what working ultimately is, or what is good or bad