Instead, the next guy is, 'neato, I guess we'll also have to repeal the 14th amendment' instead of "you realize your plan is basically to rebuild the Stalinist system c. 1935, right? Gulag slave labor for some, forced labor under the state for others, maintained by terror? Did that system work?
The fact that it didn’t work is the thing that gets me. These people are so intoxicated with greed and cruelty that they’d destroy the very thing that enables their excess.
The Goose that Laid Golden Eggs has proven to be almost prophetically accurate.
Yes. For 50+ years.
Obviously these fellows aren't real intellectuals in any meaningful sense of the word and that's the point I want to make here: journalists and academics need to stop treating Deneen and Rufo like they are members of the guild, when they're not.
Maybe we need to accept they are in the guild if we can’t kick them out without all the money and influence circling to protect them under cover of “open inquiry.” The guild is rotten. It insists you open our mind wide enough to let your brain to fall out so they can fill it with tripe instead.
They are the same that think Plato's Republic or Hobbes' Leviathan are ideal forms of governance. They are unserious.
That has actually been their plan all along. They want to reintroduce something indistinguishable from chattel slavery. IMHO, worth what you paid. I suspect they also intend to roll the bankruptcy code right back to Imperial Rome AD 5O, and sell debtors into slavery as well.
I mean, it "worked" in the sense that it kept Stalin in power untill he died. And I rather suspect that for all of thier posturing about the common good, that's really all people like Yarvin care about for thier proposed system.