If Nick Land in the John Locke style Darwinian then I am more of a Hegelian: he believes in letting people perish/fend for themselves. I take a more Germanic view: that if society is going to act as a farm for domesticating humans then the state is to blame for the existence of
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degeneracy. In Lectures on the Philosophy of History G.F. Hegel articulates a view of the state as the highest manifestation of general will. If the state breeds humans through selection effects of its policies, then the state is both cause of human nature and political effect.pic.twitter.com/rF95TyoCvL
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Since there is nothing outside The State it follows that there is an ethical duty of The State to craft human nature well, and if degenerates exist then The State has bred them, is to blame for doing so, and should have crafted better policy. The State has an ethical duty to both
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craft human nature well, to care for the results of its own failures (with a welfare program) and to preserve the illusion of freedom through participatory mechanisms. This leads me to a kind of "demotist monarchy" idea where the people are free to vote, but the king controls
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all popular opinion, education, media, and immigration. He tells them what to think and how to be, and they then govern themselves using the opinions he gives them. His Majesty is the architect of a thousand year breeding program but the people run their own day to day affairs.
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