In my recent reading, thought, and debates with Konkvistador I become more and more of the opinion that a highly refined and ethically grounded theocracy of some sort might indeed be the best solution ever to our political and social dilemmas. Expect the focus of my comments to turn from grappling with Neo-Reaction to exploring this possibility in the coming months.
Well, most people here actually do hope for a “direct theocracy” of FAI rule to turn out very well, so the “only” big leap of logic is to make the case for human institutions made up around an imaginary/potential Supreme Power being able to perform with anything approaching its benevolence and not turning completely inefficient. That sounds like an enormous stretch, I know. But consider the vast achievements of Western Christianity as a sociocultural institution from the 4th to the 19th centuries—not its (very apparent) flaws, but what good changes one would honestly have to attribute to this system.
Also, its regrettably narrow-minded progeny, born practically in its death throes—Leftist idealism—eventually turned out to look more or less “nice”, despite having a hand in a few disasters while trying to step into the old system’s shoes during early 20th century. (I’ll muse some more about this.)
(By the way, if someone’s just spree-downvoting me for any recent words rather than disliking this particular comment, please place your downvote here instead and remove it from the parent. Let’s not confuse the public. If you do dislike the parent on its own merits, never mind.)
In my recent reading, thought, and debates with Konkvistador I become more and more of the opinion that a highly refined and ethically grounded theocracy of some sort might indeed be the best solution ever to our political and social dilemmas. Expect the focus of my comments to turn from grappling with Neo-Reaction to exploring this possibility in the coming months.
Well, most people here actually do hope for a “direct theocracy” of FAI rule to turn out very well, so the “only” big leap of logic is to make the case for human institutions made up around an imaginary/potential Supreme Power being able to perform with anything approaching its benevolence and not turning completely inefficient. That sounds like an enormous stretch, I know. But consider the vast achievements of Western Christianity as a sociocultural institution from the 4th to the 19th centuries—not its (very apparent) flaws, but what good changes one would honestly have to attribute to this system.
Also, its regrettably narrow-minded progeny, born practically in its death throes—Leftist idealism—eventually turned out to look more or less “nice”, despite having a hand in a few disasters while trying to step into the old system’s shoes during early 20th century. (I’ll muse some more about this.)
(By the way, if someone’s just spree-downvoting me for any recent words rather than disliking this particular comment, please place your downvote here instead and remove it from the parent. Let’s not confuse the public. If you do dislike the parent on its own merits, never mind.)
This request seems bizarre to me, like asking a mugger to please come back another day, as today is very inconvenient.
Too bad we can’t see upvotes/downvotes separately, to tell whether it worked.
Wow, thanks for honesty! …you bastard.