A consent-based morality inevitably leads to the exploitation of children and, let’s be honest, everyone else
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Replying to @AuronMacintyre
NRx in a nutshell: every government is a theocracy, whether it realizes it or not.
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Replying to @MagneticNightm1 @AuronMacintyre
Not exactly true - but governments are always vulnerable to capture by a religious collective because religions allow non-kin coordination. A government that lacks a state religion has no way to stop this.
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Additionally, we do have a state religion now, and DC is big rent-seeking orgy. On a scale never seen before. The key to mitigate capture and rent-seeking is accountability.
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The key is having a *sane* state religion - not just any state religion. We have an insane state religion that is growing more and more insane by the day.
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Of course our state religion is fake and gay and doesn’t provide any true internal restraints to rent-seeking, like a good religion should do. Obviously, U.S. now a low-trust society for a lot of reasons.
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Replying to @Explicatur1 @CovfefeAnon and
However, Ancient Greece did seem to exhibit characteristics of a high-trust society without any Christian-like religion.
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On exactly that topic I strongly second Yarvin's recommendation of James Anthony Froude's Caesar, a Sketch. The initial setting is that elite faith in the state religion had collapsed at least one generation before Caesar and this collapse set the stage for the later events.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Explicatur1 and
The elites lost their faith and so they lost asabiyyah. Everything followed from that.
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Jim is big on that point.
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Yarvin says "sovereignty is conserved". Jim's take is that this is very wrong - sovereignty and coordination are *hard*. Jim is right.
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