Slavoj Zizek agrees with Curtis Yarvin:
They are both right. What we call democracy is meaningless because the press is dishonest and spreads politically biased lies. The cultural apparatuses are completely ideologically captured and aren’t performing their functions. Politicians can’t afford to have a long-term vision because they need to please the lowest common denominator voters with fantasies and unrealistic promises.
What we get as a result of all this is oligarchy dressed up as democracy. The only part of it that is democratic is the effort to coddle and please the most undisciplined, dumb and emotional among us. What Yarvin proposes is telling this part of the population to get shafted and let people who aren’t low-IQ emotional wrecks steer society.
The biggest objection to Yarvin’s proposal is that there’s no way to ensure that the oligarchy that will come to power as a result will, indeed, be responsible and will act for the common good. However, the democratic oligarchy we currently have definitely isn’t responsible and isn’t acting for the common good.
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LOL, Kid, whatever are you suggesting now? That the West’s universal suffrage social experiment is failing because increasingly elected leaders must “coddle and please the most undisciplined, dumb and emotional among us?” ;-D
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I’m personally not suggesting anything. I’m retelling what Yarvin and Zizek say. These are two of the most influential thinkers of our times. One is far left. Another is far right. They are both reaching the same conclusion. I think this merita attention.
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As for stupid, undisciplined people, they are equally prevalent on the left and the right. And politicians of both sides cater to them because what’s the alternative?
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Well, that politicians cater to those that can vote was the point. I don’t believe in any philosophical “noble fable” — particularly from an extremist of either wing, to paraphrase Pogo, “We have met the enemy and he is us” ;-D
https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-met-the-enemy/
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“what’s the alternative”
Poll tests, and the franchise limited to property owners. We did used to have that.
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“Poll tests, and the franchise limited to property owners”
Define property owners…. Fewer and fewer of those around.
In theory I think there should be voters tests similar to (though easier and different from) the kind of tests prospective citizens have to take.
But the Southern legacy of “literacy tests” make that a non-starter at present….
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I propose removing the voting rights of all subscribers to Candace Owens channel. That will be a great first step.
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When the electorate of strongest nation in the world almost elected Kamala, a very large component of the electorate sadly are likely voting largely, if not solely, on gender and ethnicity.
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I am completely in favor of making absolutely everyone take the naturalization test as a prerequisite for voting.
You’re right, property ownership is a very tricky question these days.
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It’s always so good listening to Zizek. You can tell he doesn’t let ideology cloud his judgment and that’s extremely important to perceive the world as it is.
He and Byung-Chul Han are the best modern philosophers.
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Hmmm, not so sure about his judgment, communists are communists. He understood that Hillary posed a greatrer danger than Trump, but then preferred Biden, allowing the Democrats to actively support the flooding citizens with untold tens of millions of illegal aliens.
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