for the last point, Nietzsche is the best example

ultimately a tragic figure

the concern I have with that perspective is first that these slides happen on such a bigger-than-human timeframe it's hard for some people to connect the dots. They don't necessarily even see that they have problems, much less that their neurotic leftist moralising is causing those problems

and second that the advance of technology is a crutch that props up bad government

and makes it hard to point out the flaws because people revert to "well look at how far we've advanced"

you're quite right

however regarding the timeframe stuff you said, I used to have a perspective like yours and still sometimes reflexively slip into that sort of thinking

its ultimately a secular and pragmatic mode of thinking, whereas I've been converted to a perspective that values individual souls first

and in such a picture, things could work out just fine

while seeming to be disastrous

from a more utilitarian or pragmatic pov

what you actually said is perfectly valid though

Hmm I don't think we really differ on perspective that much. Most of the time I spend thinking about political stuff on the national / world scale and talking about us voting blocs is just out of genuine hobbyist interest. My priority is always the good people around me and my own inner growth and life.

I don't sweat the other stuff, I'm just an interested observer

I see, yeah I think you're right

have you read Seraphim Rose's essay on "Nihilism" @UOC

no, link me

it addresses all of these concerns in a broad fashion

http://web.archive.org/web/20100111142452/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/nihilism.html

my little brother is texting me some good shit right now. I was worried he had the soul of a leftist but I trusted him and he's coming through

depending on what is meant by leftist, I don't think anyone does

I know what you mean though

even people like you or me absorb a lot of leftist assumptions

In this case I guess I meant an inability to be honest enough with himself to acknowledge the difficult truths

that remain unquestioned

the alt-right at the moment is simply anti- or inverted leftism

a mirror image

that's what I was ranting about yesterday

I'll read this essay on my walk home for lunch

what does the alt-right have to say about the proper level of protection for intellectual property?

I don't think it has any unified position

alt-right is just an umbrella for anti-leftism

I think those are the kind of sorta drab questions you can't be a real political platform until you can answer

probably a relatively libertarian mindset

yeah, probably relatively libertarian

I don't agree with you about that

what's Trump's position on intellectual property?

this is falling into the trap of accepting things as they are

Nah my point is more like

your broader point I accept

How could Trump's ideology be applied to that question?