Message from @stem
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Neo Reactionary thought recognizes that Whig History started with Luther
Liberalism is the replacement for religion, for the people that would in the past be very deeply religious
Whig History was the start of "progress"
that line of neo reactionary thought is getting at something
It provides you with arbitrary rules that must be followed, or you are "bad"
Just like religion
but not the whole thing
not even close
Catholicism was Liberalism from Orthodoxy
It gives you ground to morally judge others and feel superior based on adherence to loosely defined, ever-shifting rules
Just like religion
but of course, catholics love this explanation
i don't give a shit what website you link
Since when did I say it was the whole thing?
@The Eternal Swede Not understanding evolutionary reasons behind religiousness is low IQ
you pretty much traced all this religious and ideological development without referencing the material world at all
>EUROPE
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that's not very helpful
@iippo I don't understand, did you take from what I said that I somehow disagree with that concept?
the reformation itself resulted from economic and political changes
@stem Listen. I'm at school and explaining the development of liberalism would take up time I don't have
Go back to class Nick
Your teacher will be pissed
Some may say it was inevitable
With the Hussites
Just kidding I'm at work, my boss would be pissed too
And Wycliffe
You just called religious rules arbitrary, which they aren't if they aid in reproduction
But regardless of its inevitability, it still was the beginning of the ideology of rejection of authority
Which is progress incarnate
Oh, then I follow
Gtg
I mean they are not rationally derived, and without a rational derivation process they can easily be shifted to whatever the ruler-maker wants
But I can understand why a religious inclination has been an evolutionary advantage
It adds another layer of in-group preference, for example, which is a strong evolutionary advantage in itself
Rationality right now is about turning your dick inside out & blowing your brains out after years of suffering
No, that's liberalism, but the current incarnation of that is so far from rationality that it's not even funny