Listening to the @jmrphy chat on Neoabsolutism helped me recognize (again) what the fundamental axiom of ontological illiberalism is. ...
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... The assumption that anarchic competition tends inevitably to full monopoly is absolutely basic to a huge range of statist ideologies. ...
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... I find it hard to understand how this axiom got so deeply established, given that basic biological reality so dramatically disqualifies it. ...
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... Nature is anarchic competition, and clearly doesn't tend to a monopolistic equilibrium. (Nor does world history or domestic economics, although the evidence is more open to controversy in those cases.) ...
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... "War is God" says only this (more elegantly, of course). ...
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... War is God, and it will not long tolerate a steward.
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Neo-absolutists are the right wing version of Marxists, everything is crammed into the generative anthropology meta-narrative and they believe in organic centralization.
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They share a programmatic rejection of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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Hence this insanity:https://twitter.com/Dick71224996/status/1152398306288361473 …
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joeldavis @Dick71224996Replying to @______138190 @cyborg_nomade and 3 othersThe origin of linguistic performance would need to be an event of some form, for that event to occur someone must have been first to signify something, therefore that someone (not "God's angels") would be performatively responsible for the gift of language.0 replies 0 retweets 4 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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