... The Cathedral concept is profound (which means, difficult). Take it step by step. It's a systematic critique of democracy, we all agree.
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... When democracy is understood with maximum generosity, stripped of all Rousseauistic madness, it's justified as a control mechanism. ...
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... Government failure is hard to correct. Pushing them into bankruptcy is next to impossible. Removal through conquest is coarse. ...
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... So political opposition through the democratic mechanism is, superficially, a plausible solution to a deep problem. (Incipit Cathedal.)
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... The process that destroys democracy is a strand of creative modernity. Specifically, the mastery of the art of propaganda. ...
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... The People can be taught what to speak. When this social technology has been learnt, no critical feedback will again be heard from them.
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... The Supreme Propaganda Organ ventriloquizes to itself through the populace, with steadily improving reliability. ...
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... There is no 'voice from Outside' within a mature democracy. To suspect that such a thing is imaginable is self-indulgent romanticism. ..
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... This is the Cathedral -- Moldbug's "closed circuit of power". A critique, demolishing the pretensions of democracy at their strongest. .
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... It comes with no intrinsic positive recommendations. To summarize it as 'monarchism' is a crude and misleading reduction. ...
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... Certainly, democracy attains an extremity of fundamental systematic dysfunction beyond anything the ancien regime could have conceived.
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... But 'monarchism' is a critical foil, far more than a practical proposal. Monarchies were not born out of a Cathedral culture. ...
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... Nothing has ever been. To argue that something COULD be is already to enter trackless speculative wilderness. ...
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