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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: rangerrebew on June 05, 2019, 12:59:59 pm
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June 4, 2019
Encroaching Totalitarianism in The West
By E. Jeffrey Ludwig
We in the West are no longer threatened by monarchism but by the totalitarian impulse of ever-expanding bureaucratic institutions and mindsets. These mindsets find their home in the vast secular bureaucracies of Brussels, Geneva, the UN, and, in U.S. politics, our ever-expanding federal and state power here at home. Western Civilization is threatened also by the globalist worldview that believes an informed elite can manage a more peaceful world where both problems and solutions are shared among all nations. The individual is disparaged as lacking in power and usefulness and as a fundamentally selfish entity who can never understand the utilitarian principle of the greatest good of the greatest number.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/encroaching_totalitarianism_in_the_west.html#ixzz5pyiVxCSp (https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/encroaching_totalitarianism_in_the_west.html#ixzz5pyiVxCSp)
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Didn't some guy named Eric Arthur Blair write a book describing how this will look, 'way back around 1949 ??
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June 4, 2019
Encroaching Totalitarianism in The West
By E. Jeffrey Ludwig
We in the West are no longer threatened by monarchism but by the totalitarian impulse of ever-expanding bureaucratic institutions and mindsets. These mindsets find their home in the vast secular bureaucracies of Brussels, Geneva, the UN, and, in U.S. politics, our ever-expanding federal and state power here at home. Western Civilization is threatened also by the globalist worldview that believes an informed elite can manage a more peaceful world where both problems and solutions are shared among all nations. The individual is disparaged as lacking in power and usefulness and as a fundamentally selfish entity who can never understand the utilitarian principle of the greatest good of the greatest number.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/encroaching_totalitarianism_in_the_west.html#ixzz5pyiVxCSp (https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/encroaching_totalitarianism_in_the_west.html#ixzz5pyiVxCSp)
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Monarchy is the oldest form of governance in the world;
commencing w/Menes of Egypt in 3000 BC.
It threatened none and was the choice of early Man.
Ludwig is an ignorant buffoon!!!!
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Monarchy is the oldest form of governance in the world;
commencing w/Menes of Egypt in 3000 BC.
It threatened none....
Huh? I mean, monarchy was fine and dandy if you lucked into a wise, benevolent monarch. But history is chock full of monarchs who basically were looking to advance their own interests and glory, and the welfare of the powerless peasantry of their own country be damned. Also, if you were unfortunate enough to be in a country adjacent to a kingdom that was aggressive (which was really most of them), you most certainly were threatened by them.
and was the choice of early Man.
"Choice"? It was the "choice" of those who had enough support from the military castes to force their rule upon others, who were generally not involved in that "choosing". Rule of the strongest.
There were literally hundreds of (overwhelmingly unsuccessful) peasant revolts in medieval European history alone
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Huh? I mean, monarchy was fine and dandy if you lucked into a wise, benevolent monarch. But history is chock full of monarchs who basically were looking to advance their own interests and glory, and the welfare of the powerless peasantry of their own country be damned. Also, if you were unfortunate enough to be in a country adjacent to a kingdom that was aggressive (which was really most of them), you most certainly were threatened by them.
"Choice"? It was the "choice" of those who had enough support from the military castes to force their rule upon others, who were generally not involved in that "choosing". Rule of the strongest.
There were literally hundreds of (overwhelmingly unsuccessful) peasant revolts in medieval European history alone
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While all are entitled to their opinions, history deals in reality not gossip.
Man's earliest cultures were tribal/communitarian in form.
Then nation/state governance began evolving slowly in the extensions
of the Fertile Crescent around 7000 BC. primarily in Egypt and Persia.
Governance/rule became hierarchical w/the Family Unit as the template,
derived from the Natural Law; along w/a pyramidal class system and Monarch.
This largely persisted for some 9000 years, until the modern era.
Mankind's greatest advances/achievements occurred under Monarchy
such as the dawn of western civilization under Greek Kings, such as
Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander, as well as many Roman Emperors;
giving birth to the Art and Science of Europe which transformed our world.
If nothing else, Monarchy represented continuity and stability while recognizing
that Men are imperfect and unequal. Yet the modern world, in thrall to democracy,
has bought into the horse manure that we are all equal and good guys.
The destruction and devastation that has occurred across the globe since the
French Revolution is mute testament as to which governance was superior for Man.
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@Absalom that hurt my eyes. Ever heard of "word wrap?"
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Monarchy is the oldest form of governance in the world;
commencing w/Menes of Egypt in 3000 BC.
It threatened none and was the choice of early Man.
Ludwig is an ignorant buffoon!!!!
Monarchies are why there are now democracies. The myth of the wise ruler if just that...a myth.
England started the whole thing with the Magna Carta. That was when the King was considered the absolute ruler. You could not hunt a rabbit without risking getting hanged because everything in the country belonged to the King. We don't need that.
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Monarchies are why there are now democracies. The myth of the wise ruler if just that...a myth.
England started the whole thing with the Magna Carta. That was when the King was considered the absolute ruler. You could not hunt a rabbit without risking getting hanged because everything in the country belonged to the King. We don't need that.
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vJxrf1r0ak#)
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The road to serfdom.
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@Absalom that hurt my eyes. Ever heard of "word wrap?"
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Then please stop reading immediately and changes glasses!!!
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Then please stop reading immediately and changes glasses!!!
LOL! No, I fixed it by getting back on my regular computer. That stretch was really bad road on a cell phone. :laugh:
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Monarchies are why there are now democracies. The myth of the wise ruler if just that...a myth.
England started the whole thing with the Magna Carta. That was when the King was considered the absolute ruler. You could not hunt a rabbit without risking getting hanged because everything in the country belonged to the King. We don't need that.
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnZw5C8AtqU#)
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qtgm5g5Gyo#)
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Monarchies are why there are now democracies. The myth of the wise ruler if just that...a myth.
England started the whole thing with the Magna Carta. That was when the King was considered the absolute ruler. You could not hunt a rabbit without risking getting hanged because everything in the country belonged to the King. We don't need that.
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Utter malarkey.
The Rulers of the Greek City/States governed w/the advice and consent
of their Legislative Assemblies.
The Senate was a co-equal part of Roman governance until Augustus.
Magna Carta enshrined the twin concepts that every Englishman had
Rights and was subject to the Law, including the King.
Absolute rule was a characteristic of Oriental culture, particularly in
China, Japan and India (until British Control), never in Europe.
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7,000 years?
What about Gobeke Teple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe