4. Why does this create meaning and purpose? It is the same as an expedition: a small group of comrades fighting to exist. Heidegger and Sartre agree meaning springs from confronting death. This is terrifying for an atomised individual, but in a small group it is canalised.
Yes. What we’re dealing with is really a degraded liberalism—most of the values of classical liberalism, quite elitist, have been discarded. That’s why I call it technocratic liberalism, the language of rights is used as an ideology by a technocratic corporate-state hybrid.
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The reason the French Revolution, the English Civil War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and so on were so violent was that these were revolts against reality—usually leading to bizarre and fanatical pseudo-religious social policies, mass persecutions, and famines.
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