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QuoteIndividualism = dedicated to the individual, namely maintaining its mental state and fiction-absolute; transcendentalism = dedicated to a realistic outlook and search for a holistic sense of enhancing the transcendentals (good, beautiful, real).

QuoteIndividualism, political and social philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual.

Following the upheaval of the French Revolution, individualisme was used pejoratively in France to signify the sources of social dissolution and anarchy and the elevation of individual interests above those of the collective.

The French aristocratic political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) described individualism in terms of a kind of moderate selfishness that disposed humans to be concerned only with their own small circle of family and friends.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/individualism

In other words, a bourgeois disconnection from the holistic.

I do not see it as a "collective" in the Marxist sense, but the idea that civilization is larger than the individual and like nature, is essential to our survival and the maximization of our efforts.

Without it, whatever good we do vanishes into the void.

QuoteLiberalism, political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/liberalism

What are they being freed from? Obviously nature, the divine, culture, and the rules.

Evil is defensible, good is not.

Evil means pure function and reductionism, an allegiance to ends-over-means.

Good is means-over-ends. Over time however, those means become inverted and achieve opposite ends.

Evil pares down good before it can choke itself, and our lack of evil has produced DEADS.

I like the idea of value-for-value. Reward those who do good things, even if they do not "make money." Those who do nothing get nothing, and will drift on to someplace else.

Even more, mono-ethnic societies require less internal chatter. Everyone knows roughly what they should be doing, and most of them do it. You remove a few outliers -- usually gene drift cases like psychopaths and sociopaths -- and you have a functional space where each person experiences a force multiplier of his work.

Caste systems proven right once again. Most people are concerned with what is for lunch, and will complain about anything.

It is sanest and kindest to limit their decisions to what they can do well. They need good leaders and may not be the best choice for those who select the leaders.

Quote from: Sevil Nox on Aug 03, 2026, 07:34 PMWhy am I taxed at 45-50%?

If you make any money in this society, they take it all.

I am leaning toward a "citizenship fee": $10k per person per year.

This cuts out all the bureaucracy. When you do any transaction, your drivers ID shows your citizenship fee paid for that year or not.

It will mean that no one votes to use Other People's Money (OPM, pronounced "opium").

Quote from: Sevil Nox on Aug 04, 2026, 07:55 AMEquality creates false expectations about how reality operates. Again, there are two kinds of people: those who think there is the way things are, and those who think there is a way they should be. One is a realist, and one is an egal. Then revenge against people, and god/reality occurs. The revenge can always be justified by his betrayal and greater sense of recompense.

Realists are concerned with how reality operates; egalitarians want to judge it. The result is that they pass moral judgments on methods not goals, and any sense of goal is lost.

Is it gene drift? Possibly a lot of it. The danger of liberalism is that it lures in lots of well-intentioned people who feel bad about the way the world is going. It fools you for decades if you are not wary. This means that while the cadres may be gene drift, the rank-and-file of Leftism are ordinary people just "going along to get along" (pacifism) with what seems like the dominant theory.

Quote from: Flying Kites on Aug 07, 2026, 10:49 AMThe perverts/priests (same thing, no?). The underclasses. The retards. The grifters. The educated. The hedges need pruning.

All victims of dualism/ secular Semitic religion/ Communism/ popularity.

Put cyanide capsules in the bushes and on the sidewalk. Addicts can't resist the allure of an escape.