Nick Land is smarter than his followers, but he has the same predilection for using ahistorical trash as the basis for an entire worldviewhttps://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/892982603313172480 …
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Replying to @paulcurrion
So you've pretty much committed yourself now to telling us which major wave of US immigration made the country more libertarian. I'll wait.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I haven't committed myself to anything. How did Native Americans and early African Americans fit in to this "classical liberal culture"?
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Replying to @paulcurrion
Through complete political disenfranchisement. (That might also have worked for the Irish and Italians, but it wasn't tried.)
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Replying to @Outsideness
So complete political disenfranchisement of the individual is a hallmark of "classical liberal culture"?
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Replying to @paulcurrion
Actually, yes. That's why Hong Kong is still a roughly classical liberal society. Mass enfranchisement is almost definition of illiberalism.
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Replying to @paulcurrion
Your articulacy is not on an upward curve at this point.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Articulacy isn't judged by using long words, but by communicating as effectively as possible. Thus, "bullshit".
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Replying to @paulcurrion
You think indiscriminate mass enfanchisement is classically liberal. I think it kills classical liberalism. ...
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... Unless you have anything further to add beside expletives, we should probably stop there.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I'm using bullshit in the Harry Frankfurt sense, not as an expletive.
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