...Economic, Cultural, or Other
The Philosophy of Jean-Clause Michea
Liberalism: The Empire of the Lesser Evil
Modern politics no longer offers a good, it offers the prevention of something worse. Every reform is sold as the avoidance of a catastrophe, and the catastrophe is always the past.
Tradition, the nation, the limit, the refusal of growth: all filed as dangers to be escaped.
A population trained on the lesser evil cannot ask what a decent life is. It can only consent to the next removal of an obstacle.
What is the function of the Progressive Left? It's an Intelligencia that merely breaks existing/ traditional moral limits. It no longer stands for the workers.
It's just a moral hazard of Contracts
The Gift Against the Contract
CONTRACT GIFT
(Liberal Form) ( Popular Form)
FAIR BINDS
ANONYMOUS OBLIGES
ENDLESS LOCAL
TRANSACTIONAL REFUSE A STRANGER's TERMS
Progress is Theology, an ersatz religion.
All limits are dismissed as nostalgia or fascism
More ignorance and stupidity from an ignorant and stupid person.
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck are you doing here LEAVE!
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DeleteLes is correct. The claims made in this post are simply idiotic.
It's actually the other way around, as it is the Right that has allied itself with the billionaires and corporations.
el0n musk, the world's richest man, is allied with the right, not the Left.
Consumerism is a societal problem and not a uniquely Left or Right problem.
But remember all the major social media platforms are now rightwing and billionaire owned. And the billionaires are taking over the media, with David Ellison (and trump ally) recently taking over CBS and getting Stephen Colbert fired, despite his late night show being the most popular in the nation.
LES IS NEVER CORRECT
DeleteOnce again, you've completely missed the point. Neoliberalism is a uniparty. The Left once sought to protect the working class. Now it's just a lesser of two evils Hobbsian choice.
DeleteThe old Left provided a balance offsetting capitalism. The New Left is capitalism's ally in atomizing and isolating the individual against his class interest.
Delete@Anymouse @6:09 PM: Perhaps it's your ignorant ass that fails to access reality and the truth.
DeleteCorrection: It is Definitely you that is delusional, ignorant, and void of any real substance.
That's why the Left needs to take back the party. You're obviously worried this will happen. That's why you've jumped on the "Communist" bandwagon and are blabbering about this BS on your blog. Because your cult leader instructed you to do it.
DeleteA bunch of Muslims aren't the old Left, Derv..........
DeleteI don't care about religion. I care about policies. You care due to your hate for Muslims. That should disqualify them for public office, yes?
DeleteYes, their ideology disqualifies them from leading and enacting a democratic system.
DeleteAnd fyi - Socialism and Progressivism are two distinct and different things. Socialism is conservative. Leftism is progressive. And progressivism (seeking unlimited progress) makes current Leftists the allies of capitalism, not its' enemy. Islamism is fundamentally conservative. It's against "progress" especially in the social and cultural sense. It seeks to establish and maintain a 7th century society and system of cultural relations. Does that sound "progressive" to you?
//Socialism is conservative.
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//And progressivism (seeking unlimited progress
Where you saw such..... last time??? %^))))
//It seeks to establish and maintain a 7th century society and system of cultural relations.
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You dunno Cybernetics, History and zero in Meta-Thinking...
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Minus: And progressivism (seeking unlimited progress) makes current Leftists the allies of capitalism, not its' enemy.
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Minus: Islamism is fundamentally conservative. It's against "progress" especially in the social and cultural sense.
So, what you're saying is that Muslims should be running as republicans.
Minus: Yes, their ideology disqualifies them from leading and enacting a democratic system ... Islamism is fundamentally conservative. It's against "progress" especially in the social and cultural sense. It seeks to establish and maintain a 7th century society and system of cultural relations. Does that sound "progressive" to you?
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...there seems to be a mix-up here between Islam (a global religion) and Islamism (a modern political ideology). Islamism does seek to implement strict religious law into governance, but the vast majority of Muslim Americans running for office do not advocate for Islamism. Just as we don't assume every Christian candidate wants to establish a strict biblical theocracy, Muslim candidates in the U.S. overwhelmingly run on standard democratic platforms, take an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, and actively participate in our progressive and secular legal system.🛑
As a Democrat, I'm sure yout VERY familiar with the concepts of both entryism and taqiya
DeleteAlexander never did what he said. And Caesar never said what he did.
DeleteProgressive Is Leftist
ReplyDeleteLeftist is Socialism
Socialism is Communism
America Doesn’t Need COMMUNISM’
You, MOiTAW, obviously have zero understanding of socialism or communism. Other than what your demented Fuhrer trump tells you. So, you're believing a person probably more ignorant than you are.
DeleteYour 2nd premise is flawed.
Delete//You, MOiTAW, obviously have zero understanding of socialism or communism.
DeleteSaid cretin to which it was impossible even to understand simple question: "Where to take money to pay 'fair salaries'?" %^P
Qtard: Said cretin to which it was impossible even to understand simple question: "Where to take money to pay 'fair salaries'?" %^P
DeleteYeah, you asked that question not knowing or understanding the answer.
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DeleteAnd I should care... because you are "professor" of Cretinity??? %^P
ReplyDeleteSocialism is Always a Move Toward Communism, with the Same Results
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DeleteMore ignorance from anymouse. Do you ever tire of being wrong, anymouse.
DeleteSocialism is a Maussian "Gift" economy. It's an economy of social obligations, not contracts. It follows the law of Zeus. Every gift received must be reciprocated and exceeded. Failure to do so will result in a loss of "social capital" and prestige. Social capital (respect) is the currency of a socialist system.
DeleteIn other words, it's NOT the fake respect of intersectional wokism (which is pure appearance lacking substance) Individuals, not social groups, are the only entities worthy of respect. Does he honour his word? Does he follow the law of Zeus.
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DeleteMinus: Socialism is a Maussian "Gift" economy. It's an economy of social obligations, not contracts. It follows the law of Zeus. Every gift received must be reciprocated and exceeded. Failure to do so will result in a loss of "social capital" and prestige. Social capital (respect) is the currency of a socialist system.
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Why This Thinking is Mostly Flawed...
...the writer is arguably conflating small-scale tribal anthropology with modern political systems. Here is where their logic falls apart:
1. Scale Mismatch: A Maussian gift economy and the Law of Zeus only work in small, tight-knit communities (like a tribe, a village, or a small cult) where everyone knows each other and can track who owes whom. It is impossible to run a massive, modern country of 350 million anonymous people based on "Zeus's law of gifts".
2. Modern Socialism relies on Contracts: The commenter claims socialism isn't an economy of contracts. In reality, modern democratic socialism (like in Scandinavia) or state socialism (like the USSR) relies heavily on legal contracts, bureaucratic institutions, and state-enforced taxes. It is not a causal system of neighbors trading favors; it is a system of laws.
3. Currency Still Exists: Socialist systems still use traditional money to function. The idea that "respect" completely replaces currency is a romanticized view of communal living, not a reflection of actual socialist economics.
In short, the commenter is describing tribal communalism, but they are mislabeling it as "socialism".🛑
I also asked what percent of US citizens worship Zeus, and Gemini said 100000 (estimated) or 0.029% of the US population.
I don't think that Jean-Claude Michea was advocating for tribalism. And he certainly wasn't advocating for a currency system, either. But hey, you didn't watch the video. *tsk-tsk*
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DeleteIn Isaac Asimov’s 1957 science fiction novel The Naked Sun, the character Dr. Anselm (Joram) Quemot is depicted as a Solarian sociologist whose field of study has devolved into a warped pseudo-science due to the complete lack of direct human interaction on his home planet. Because Solarian culture treats physical proximity as deeply repulsive and conducts all communication via holographic "viewing," their "sociology" operates without its most fundamental component: actual human society.
Summary of the "Solarian Sociologist" Anomaly
When Earth detective Elijah Baley travels to the planet Solaria to solve a murder, he interviews Quemot to understand the planet's bizarre culture. Solaria has a tiny human population where individuals live isolated on massive estates, each managed by thousands of robotic servants.
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Because Quemot has spent his life in absolute isolation—never physically interacting with another human being except during rare, mandatory reproductive arrangements—his sociological theories are entirely ungrounded in empirical reality. Asimov presents Quemot's career not as a rigorous academic pursuit, but as a textbook pseudo-science driven by confirmation bias, historical distortion, and an inability to test hypotheses on a functional population.
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Why Solarian Sociology is a Pseudo-Science
Asimov uses Quemot to satirize how science corrupts when it is divorced from real-world application, social contact, and peer review:
Absence of a Subject Matter: Sociology is defined as the study of social relationships, institutions, and human groups. Because Solarians live solitary lives, there are no groups, community dynamics, or organic social structures to study. Quemot is essentially an expert on an empty set.
Warped Historical Analogies: To justify the Solarian way of life, Quemot relies heavily on cherry-picked historical models from ancient Earth, particularly the slave-owning society of classical Sparta. He views Solaria's master-robot dynamic as the perfection of the Spartan master-helot model, ignoring the fact that robots lack human agency and consciousness.
Echo-Chamber Methodology: True science relies on falsifiability and rigorous testing. Because Quemot never leaves his estate and only interacts with others via highly controlled holographic feeds, his work is never challenged. His "postulates" are merely philosophical rationalizations meant to comfort his own agoraphobic worldview rather than objective findings.
Blindness to Impending Collapse: As a pseudo-scientist, Quemot fails to see the fatal trajectory of his own planet. He genuinely believes that Solaria represents the absolute pinnacle of human evolution, completely oblivious to the psychological decay, genetic stagnation, and eventual vulnerability that extreme isolation introduces to their civilization.
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Asimov's Broader Thematic Commentary
Through Quemot, Asimov delivers a biting critique of intellectual insularity. Asimov, a staunch advocate for rationality and the scientific method, believed that science must serve the common good and remain connected to humanity. By presenting a sociologist who cannot bear the sight of an actual human being, Asimov illustrates how easily data can be manipulated to serve cultural taboos, transforming a legitimate science into a self-serving myth.
Using your method...
DeleteI can say that USA is just like Ancient Egupt. ;-p
Where everyone cares only about afterlife -- and building pucturesque hieroglifical chambers -- same way as modern usaians build up their social networks acciunts. %^P
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We'll remain Social Media Solarians until The Machine Breaks (EM Forster). ;)
DeleteYawn.
DeleteIt'll *never* break.
As to break it you'd need to know technology. ;-p
...two different theories, but the same result.
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Every election season I hear the same complaint from frustrated conservatives. The Republican Party’s leaders cave at the first sign of a bad headline. They campaign like lions and govern like they are just as they campaign ! That’s what I like about them, they know what’s best for America and they won’t accept anything less.
ReplyDeleteAll true. I have written plenty of angry posts about Republicans who I thpught would be Pussy Cats, but they turned out to be lions.
You are not choosing a spouse. You are choosing which direction the country moves for the next two, four, or six years. When the other option is a party that has drifted further left every cycle, sitting on their hands. And you are throughly disgusted at seeing just what our country is becoming!
Elections are binary. One side wins, and the other loses. Your protest vote for a third party, or your decision to skip the ballot entirely, does not send a message to anyone in Washington or Sacramento. It just lowers the bar for the candidate you like least to win! If you vote for today’s Progressive, Socialist, Democrats, or let them win by default, you will get exactly what you didn’t want. You should expect to see more and more of these Anti-Americans like Abdul El-Sayed sitting in our Senate, and voting to destroy our Country! You shoud see and accept less Cops throughout the country. And Mr. El-Sayed’s fellow Muslims wiping their ditry hands on the American Flag. You shoud see no more Prisons, and instead the Dangerious Criminals walking our streets alon with your Wives, and Daughters.
Immigration Policies with almost no meaningful limits, where enforcement is treated as cruelty and border security is an afterthought.
You should see a Resistance to basic election safeguards like voter ID and clean voter rolls, which most Americans support and most democracies treat as normal.
Even Van Jones Called El-sayed “Insane”. Is this the kind of Seantor you want?
And Staying home is a Vote for people like that. Every Republican, or Conservative who skips an election because the Republican candidate is imperfect is doing the Progressive, a big favor. They count on your disgust. They campaign on it. Low turnout among frustrated Conservatives is part of their strategy, whether they say so out loud or not. Also, It's ridiculous to call him a “Doctor”, he's not a Doctor.
You can fight to fix the Republican Party if you have a problem with it, in the primaries. Back better candidates. Show up at local party meetings. Call your representatives and make them nervous. But in November, Your Vote Is Crucial .
I Can't believe this is the best that the Democrats have to offer. It’s no wonder that our Country is falling apart! And it doesn’t stop with people like El-Sayed’. The New Democrats are filled with these people.
Nice run on diarrhea blast. And a stinky filthy one at that
DeleteTrump says Republicans need to show up and vote because of Democratic Parties Candidates are pushing for Communism to rise up into their party.
ReplyDeleteAnd my biggest fear in politics is that the press unites with a political party and no longer holds that party accountable, while persecuting any opposition. That slippery slope has already been reached. My suggestion is to not make these midterm elections all about Trump like the dumocraps and the press want; let's flip the script and ask the most important question: Do the dumocraps offer anything tangibly better than the GOP? Trump is not up for reelection in November, but the house and 1/3 of the senate is. Let's make this vote about how we want congress to run.
Speaking of dumocraps, you anymouse highlight the depth of the ignorance as well as the stupidity demonstrated by the fascist trump rethuglicans.
DeleteHave you noticed tha Les has NEVER DENYED. that his Mother. Was a orangatang.
DeleteWhere the hell is James Tarafino . Why can’t anyone find him?
ReplyDeleteDorsey he have the Flu? Or is it CHICKENPOX?
This has been the Democrat playbook. They want to answer to donors, not the voters. They kept Biden down in the basement where nobody could find him for an entire election cycle.!
The objective is to push out a narrative that the actor plays, in this case Talarico and hope the voter remains uninformed while they hide him.
With Trump in Texas and the people of Texas wanting a warrior who will stand up and be counted. This will probably end up being an own goal for the Dems as long as the pressure keeps being applied.
I would have a field day with A.I ads if I were on his campaign team and my opponent was in hiding.
Imagine what Trump will say. "Texans are tough. Wake up and work hard for their families, do heavy lifting, sometimes while not 100%. This guy doesn't even have enough respect or stamina to fight for his state!
Talarico, while too Christian for my liking is FAR superior to the rethuglican dufus.
ReplyDeleteWHO GIVES A SHIT? Not Me.
DeleteLike a MAGAt moron you reveal your ignorance.
Delete...and like most Socialist wannabe's your ignorance is always readily apparent and on permanent display.
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DeleteHave you noticed that LES. has NEVER D denied that his Mother was an
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ReplyDeleteHave you noticed tha Les has NEVER denied . that his Mother. Was a orangatang
ReplyDeleteNo. It was Les’s Mother who was an orangatang.. Not his Father
Delete^^As they crew of the anymouse primates gather for their scratching convention^^
DeleteLike in any DEMN blog/echochamder? ;-p
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ReplyDeleteThat are reports this morning, currently unverified mind you, that the reason Tallyrico has not been seen in a couple of weeks, despite his close Senatorial campaign being in its final leg, is because he has recently had a total mental breakdown and is hospitalized in a psychiatric facility. Again, it is not verified. But that does not necessarily mean it is not true. In fact, it is quite believable. This is the guy who apparently believes that if Jesus returned today he would take a job as an abortionist, and moonlight as a pediatric tranny surgeon. Only a total nut would say and/or imply such a thing.
Maybe a mental breakdown is a good thing for Talirico as it implies that maybe he has a human conscience, but it simply collapsed under the weight of all the crazy and degenerate crap he has been spouting. This suggests that he still has an opportunity to come to his senses and join the human for the rest of his life. Or, the major mental malfunction may be merely symptomatic of pathological mental illness.
The mental breakdown will be trumpty dumpty's when his white suppremacist rethuglican filth gets beat in the mid terms.
DeleteA SIMPLE QUESTION FOR THE DEMOCRATIC, SOCIALIST, of the COUNTRY!
ReplyDeleteis should the world's terrorist leader that kills its own citizens , as well as has been killing Americans for Decades, be allowed to control the flow of oil through the middle east and have nucala capabilities?
It's the murdering genocidal Zionist filth that has created the problems in the ME. And dimwitted Christian Nationalists with their anti-Christ presnit support that filth.
DeleteJust keep it up LES, and see who that gets you!
ReplyDeleteYeah NURSIE PO. Just keep up the Name Calling.
DeleteWe haven’t started yet. So don’t be surprised, at what’s in store for you
DeleteNot a problem anymouses. You're Wimps who are to cowardly to identify yourselves.
DeleteAbdul El-Sayed Is a POS , and a lying DON OF S BITCH
ReplyDeleteStaring in the mirror again I see.
DeleteAbdul El-Sayed Is a POS and a Lying Som of a Bitch .
ReplyDeleteSelf identification seems to be your thing anymouse.
DeleteA hoax from the beginning. Obama, Brennan, Clapper, And Comey orchestrated an attempted coup.
ReplyDeleteWhistleblowers finally feel safe telling the truth since the fascist Biden regime has been vanquished.
Now I say that they should all be charged with insurrection and treason.
You have spoken perfectly as to how the malignant narcissist, insurrectionist, rapist, pedophile protector, racist, misogynist, indecent human form, 34 count felon, criminal president trumpty dumpty should be treated. Then the bastard should spend the remainder of his miserable disgusting life in prison, and die there..
DeleteGo FUCK YOURSELF WITH A RUSSIAN HARDON
DeleteOh my!!
DeleteWhat an astoundingly authentic MAGA come back!
You must be very proud of yourself.
Abdul El-Sayed thr POS that we are speaking about is going to be the Biggest Loser in the November elections .
ReplyDeleteBut not quite the LOSER THAT LES IS RIGHT HERE ON THIS VERY SITR
The only POS on this thread is you, anymouse. As well as being the most accomplished loser.
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ReplyDeleteWhy bother getting a job? When you can literally live off the free stuff hobo out free by the Moronic Democrats .
The idiocy and bullshit of the MAGA rethuglican party is the stuff horror stories are made of.
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ReplyDeleteAs for Obozo the Commie Clown.........
"Consider Obama’s record. He claimed global warming was a national threat, so he funded three high‑technology manufacturing programs to combat it. All three failed. Their assets were sold for pennies on the dollar and bought by Chinese companies — directly benefiting China. That looks suspicious. It looks like corruption. And it happened on Obama’s watch."
"Obama was a president who couldn’t get anything done. In fact, doing nothing might have been less damaging than what actually happened."
I find it nauseatingly vulgar that everybody seems to forget the race riots Obozo started in this country, and then disappeared for almost a year.........hiding on the golf courses and then running off and hiding in Ireland.
Then he came back and pretty much destroyed our economy. Gas went up as high as $9.00 a gallon, but nobody seems to remember this heinous abuse of power and greedmongering.
Obozo came to the edge of destroying our ecomonic system by instilling a "recessive depression" of hyperinflation onto all US citizens, except for the elites.
And nobody seems to remember the TENT CITIES popping up all over the country, from millions and millions of people losing their personal businesses and houses and lives, and having to live in "tent cities" all over the country!! And they asked for food, blankets, heat, clean water, and medicines.........and Obozo IGNORED ALL OF THEM.
So yeah..........Trump has his faults and sometimes they get in the way of progress of staying on track of cleaning this government up.........
but Trump is still better than the alternatives of the Oligarchy Commie Democrats who only want us as their personal ATMs and biological guinea pigs.