Fascist and Socialist Idealism

 

In many ways the fascists and socialists of the 1920s and ‘30s in Europe and America were idealists. They wanted to change the world. The crony capitalism and welfare statism of the late 1800s and early 1900s, and especially of the 1930s Great Depression, were obvious political, social, and economic failures. The fascists and socialists wanted something better.

In order to create the ideal society and government – or at least far better ones – the idealistic Western thinkers and leaders of around 1920-1939 decided to turn away from what they mistakenly thought of as capitalism and freedom. They thought both had been unambiguously refuted by history. But what they didn’t understand is that the things they identified as “capitalism” and “freedom” weren’t that at all but something close to the exact opposite. Moreover, these idealistic fascists and socialists, to a considerable extent, were already living under fascism and socialism.

What these yearning and hopeful folks of 1920-39 didn’t realize is that true capitalism and freedom – not the phony, crony capitalism and coercive welfare statism of the day – yielded precisely the political, social, and economic paradise they were looking for. They simply needed to straighten out the deformed systems of them. Utopia was right under their noses, they just didn’t see it.

Unfortunately, obtaining societal and governmental perfection required knowledge they lacked. What they needed to understand is that all that government ownership of roads, parks, and schools; all those government-built “internal improvements”, “water projects”, and infrastructure additions; all the government monopolizing, subsidizing, and regulating of business; all that government trust-busting and penalizing of business; all that government redistribution of wealth and charity; none of it was normal or natural. None of it embodied capitalism or freedom in the least. It was all the perversion, warping, undermining, and destruction of them.

However standard and universally-accepted all that 1800s-based nonsense was, this governmental behavior was actually wildly deviant from, and even annihilating of, genuine capitalism and freedom. So too of societal cooperation, interpersonal harmony, cultural richness, individual greatness, and personal happiness. That misbegotten 1800s-type of government did need to be replaced – but not with expanded fascism and socialism.

Paradise and utopia are easy to create. But to obtain them you need the superior idealism of real capitalism and real freedom – not the fake and hopeless versions of 1930s crony capitalism and welfare statism. And especially not the nightmarish and depraved idealism of full fascism and socialism.

The American Empire

 

America needs to conquer the world. Or at least a large part of it. Morally and practically, it’s the right thing to do.

Admittedly, America today isn’t nearly as good and great as it was before the 1930s New Deal and the 1960s Great Society. But it’s still far better than virtually all the other nations. Only such small and odd countries as Holland, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Singapore even come close to the American level of civilization and nobility. Maybe also Japan – but they can’t be much trusted when it comes to territorial expansion.

Today’s socialist, Moslem, and Third World nations are all backward, savage places with almost no understanding of, or respect for, the rights of man. Therefore they have none. Or at least few rights America needs to respect. Their lands, resources, and people need to be liberated, civilized, and brought to life.

America should start with the Persian Gulf. The inner territories of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the various emirates should be seized and annexed. These areas have been effectively abandoned by civilized man and therefore are without legitimate ownership. America should take all their best lands with the most oil, natural gas, and other valuable resources. Then she should kick out all the people who don’t love America, liberty, and White people. Pass a new 1862-style Homestead Act for high-quality Americans and Westerners. And so on.

Next, grab Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Panama, and perhaps others. Make them confederate states under radical libertarian rule. Let Americans and White Westerners move there and run businesses without visas, but not the reverse. Next, collect as much of Mexico, Brazil, and Indonesia as might be thought advantageous and not too infected with hideous tropical diseases. Seize Madagascar and deport anyone not utterly submissive to liberalism. Liberate South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Rhodesia. Coldly throw out every black and colored who is the least anti-libertarian or racist. Make these four European outposts also part of the American Confederacy. Try to get various Canadian provinces to join the American superstate too. And, oh yes: At a minimum, seize Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, and most of Siberia. The totalitarian vermin of China and Russia have no right to “their” land and really need to pay for all their threats and terrorism over the decades.

Such is what ought to happen in the world. Whether it will or will not is another story. But it’s certainly not hard to make much of this global upgrade happen. America has suffered a lot on this hellhole, welfare statist, fascist planet, and so deserves every last bit of these lands and resources.

Justice for All

 

China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, and Saudi Arabia need to forfeit a great deal of their land and resources to America and the West. Justice demands this. The Chinese, Russians, Pakistanis, North Koreans, Iranians, and Saudis – lead by their tyrannical leaders – are savages and evil monkeys which have been abusing and torturing America and the West for many decades now. It’s high time they paid the price for this. They’re way past due for retribution and condign punishment.

As for their pathetic and insectoid chauvinist pride, lowly racism, and jealous hatred of America and the West – these are invalid and depraved sentiments. They need to deal with them on their own or just suffer. Maybe it’s best if they crawl into a dark, slimy hole and die. America and the West will take brotherly care to insult and laugh at them as they pitifully weep and perish. (Or, at least, I will.) The defense mechanisms and inferiority complexes of these disgusting baboons is their problem. What is needed in the current situation is for these sissy-boy wimps to take some personal responsibility, convert themselves into men, and finally overthrow their demonic dictators!

The only thing the Chinese, Russians, Pakistanis, North Koreans, Iranians, and Saudis are good for today is threatening and attacking their neighbors, the West, and America. Unfortunately, these contemptible clowns are way too stupid and evil to realize that Western Civilization's rationality, individualism, and liberty are good things, just as irrationality, self-sacrifice, and slavery are bad ones. Hence these losers quickly set up and maintain authoritarian states, and then live like hell. And instead of directing their anger and hatred at the people who actually hurt and oppress them – namely their dictators – the fatuous and depraved Chinese, Russians, Pakistanis, North Koreans, Iranians, and Saudis aim their rage and loathing at their victims. These wretched apes do so despite the fact that noble-souled Westerners and Americans are exactly the people who might actually liberate them and bring an end to all their misery.

Yet the ridiculous vermin of China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, and Saudi Arabia know nothing about this – or at least pretend they don’t – and so continue to threaten, attack, and harm the very best people on Earth. This is incalculable evil. They deserve to pay an incalculable price.

This is why the six barbarian nations need to surrender the majority of their land and resources to the relatively good and civilized people of the Earth. As an alternative to that, maybe these failed and subhuman nations should simply be extincted. Even if it’s reasonable and proper that they should survive for a bit longer: decency, morality, and justice demand that they surrender the majority of their land and resources to America and the West.

Goal and Purpose

The goal and purpose of life seem to be: accomplish as much as you can, be as great as you can, maximize your potential, and fulfill your destiny. But also: experience as much happiness, pleasure, excitement, exhilaration, ecstasy, fun, satisfaction, and inner peace as you can during a rich, full, diverse, challenging existence. You need to find the best combination and ideal balance of these two.

The Liberal Lifestyle

 

Your life is greater and happier if you guide it by liberalism. It’s even better if most of your family and friends follow the philosophy of liberalism too. It’s best of all if large numbers of your neighbors, coworkers, hometown, country, and mankind are also liberal.

But it’s hard or impossible to find or make this type of society today. “Changing the world”, “saving the planet”, and converting humanity to liberalism is immensely difficult and unrewarding. And it takes you away from your real goal in life which is changing, saving, and converting yourself.

Your main job in life is clearly improving and uplifting your own person. Almost everyone else you should let alone, ignore, and forget about. They’re mostly irrelevant to your achievement, pleasure, prosperity, and flourishing. So you should just let them “go to hell” in their own way – which they almost always do anyway.

The good news on all this is as a mostly-free adult you are almost completely within your own power. People mostly can’t hurt you or force you down the path of illiberalism. As adults, they rarely even want to. And yet, if you’re a solidly-knowledgeable liberal, you can often semi-guide and help those closest to you, such as your family and friends. You can partially educate and enlighten them. This moderate alteration might well enhance your own level of greatness and happiness.

But even if you can’t much increase the level of liberalism in your family, friends, and immediate social circle – or even if you don’t much want to – you can still choose to surround yourself with a relatively-liberal, already-existing, social milieu and environment. You can immerse yourself in beneficial and fun liberal entertainment, art, culture, activities, socializing, and work. This lets you live a significantly better life.

How to Win In Iran

In the current war against the Iranian dictators, America is very determined to learn the lessons from past war "victories". Thus America is furiously committed to not engaging in "nation-building" or "teaching democracy" by "putting boots on the ground" in "yet another forever war".

So how do we truly win?

1. Immediately gather together as many hundreds or thousands of expatriate Iranians as possible in Paris, London, New York, or the like, and form a government-in-exile. They should meet with a lot of pro-freedom (not pro-democracy) Western advisors, and quickly form a new constitution, executive, legislative, and judiciary which are ready to immediately take effect when the tyrants and religiosos surrender. Create a liberal republic. Make this group as legitimate as possible with lots of people who are popular, impressive, and acceptable to the homeland Iranians. Try to get a lot of input from people inside the country. Publicize all this activity widely and cleverly.

2. Continue to bomb as many military facilities, police stations, Republican Guard locations, and security forces and installations as possible, but heavily advertise to the people and rebels that there's bound to be a lot of good weapons and ammunition available which they can secretly gather up right after the bombings.

3. Figure out a way to sneak in as many pistols, rifles, grenades, and rocket-propelled grenades as possible to the freedom-fighters.

4. Get the rebels to cozy up to as many of their family and friends as possible which still back the slave state. Cajole or sweet talk them into switching sides, or at least laying down their arms, and providing intelligence and guns to the freedom-fighters.

5. Tell the Saudis, Kurds, Iraqis, and others they need to invade with heavy force, but be sure to focus hard on destroying the slave state supporters -- not the liberty-loving people.

6. Tell the dictatorships supporters that they truly need to surrender or switch sides by a certain date and they WILL receive amnesty. But tell them that after this date they WILL receive death. Then make it happen.

7. Propagandize the hell out of the population over radio, t'v', and internet. Have a wide diversity of programs including serious and profound pro-liberal philosophy; mixed with cold, hard, news facts; mixed with vicious, personal mockery and insults of the leaders, their acts, and their beliefs.

8. Pick a date for the people to go out in the street all at once, and (hopefully!) overwhelm the evil authorities, and induce them to surrender and transfer power to the government-in-exile.

All of this combined probably will overthrow the regime in a few weeks. It will not require any hated "nation-building" or "teaching democracy" or "putting boots on the ground" in "yet another forever war".

Realism

 

Realism says reality is real. Realism says reality is realistic, natural, existential, and universal. The metaphysics of realism says reality is physical, material, solid, sure, sound, definite, certain, and absolute. Realism says that reality is present, manifest, observable, describable, measurable, knowable, and known. Realism says that reality exists independent of and separate from anyone’s perception or knowledge of it. Realism says nothing exists above, below, beyond, outside of, or askew to reality.

Realism says there is no such thing as Platonic “forms”. Realism says there’s no such thing as Kantian “noumena”. Realism says that reality isn’t an illusion. Realism says reality isn’t a dream or figment of your imagination. Realism says reality isn’t a drug hallucination, psychic delusion, or computer simulation.

Realism says supernatural forces, places, and beings don’t exist. Realism says extra sensory perception, telekinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and astral projection don’t exist. The metaphysics of realism says the Elysian Fields, the Garden of Eden, a magical Mount Olympus, Hades, hell, purgatory, limbo, heaven, and paradise don’t exist. Realism says that vampires, werewolves, zombies, witches, ghosts, fairies, angels, demons, and gods don’t exist.

Realism says only reason and science can determine the nature of Nature, the reality of reality, and the truth about the universe. Realism says to live your best, greatest, happiest life you should believe in and follow reason and science.

Scammers

 

What is the value of such obviously false and evil theories as those put forth by Parmenides, Zeno, Gorgias, and Pyrrho? Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and Hegel? Lyotard, Foucault, Derrida, and Fish? Does intellectually entertaining such metaphysical and epistemological fatuity and depravity expand the mind, strengthen the heart, and uplift the soul?

Just the opposite. Such "thinking" should be treated as the vacuity, disease, and blackness that it is. At most these warped and deviant ideas should be regarded as intellectual curiosities, parodies, or trolling. Seriously considering or debating such absurdities and deliberate lies harms human life immensely. Philosophical inquiry of this kind is like a really bad version of discussing: "If a tree falls in the woods, and no-one hears it, does it make a sound?" and "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" and "Can god make a rock so big even he can’t lift it?"

The history of human philosophy, alas, is mostly the history of debating, or at least babbling about, such remarkably errant and arrant nonsense. Seriously ruminating upon and investigating such transparent lies and fraud has caused mankind pain and suffering beyond measure.

Willingly Undermined and Subverted

 

Parmenides, Zeno, Gorgias, and Pyrrho, as well as Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and Hegel, spew their virtually infinitely false, evil, irrational, nonsensical theories into the world, and stupid, evil, fundamentally-flawed mankind mostly believes them. This is why human history – and modern society and culture – are mostly irrational and senseless. This is why mankind is so self-hating, self-destroying, socially-hating, and socially-destroying. People look at themselves and their fellows – and at all the beliefs that they hold – and they can’t help but be appalled and revolted.

Considering how inherently and culturally depraved man is, both historically and currently, maybe it’s good for people to pretend to believe in “god” or “the collective”. Maybe it’s good to fundamentally lie to themselves. What else can they do? What else have they got?

Maybe it’s strategically best for mankind to assiduously brainwash itself into semi-honestly and semi-sincerely believing in this wretched and disgusting “god” and “collective” business. Compared to all the poor alternatives they know of, perhaps people personally and socially profit.

As for the fact that no such supernatural entity or unitary conglomeration actually exists, humans find it easy to substitute some charismatic mediocrity and lowlife as their leader in all this. He will take all the responsibility for their beliefs. If he’s wrong, he will bear all the guilt for their false and evil ideology. Meanwhile, people can readily pretend that he’s individually great, and a magnificent embodiment of their philosophy, just as they can pretend to believe in a god or collective, just as they can pretend to believe in the obvious frauds Parmenides, Zeno, Gorgias, Pyrrho, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and Hegel.

In the end, humans do terrible evil, and they know they do terrible evil, and they do it willingly and happily. People are vermin. The more they suffer, the better. The sooner they’re extincted, the better too.

Top of the Totem Pole

 

Despite what the communists, socialist, and leftists have claimed for around 200 years, "the workers" of the Western world are not exploited and oppressed. They’re essentially empowered and liberated. Under true capitalism and genuine economic freedom, the blue-collar and low-skill workers are not somehow taken advantage of and abused by Big Business owners and bosses, by company fat cats and the rich. Rather, they’re fantastically blessed, benefited, and uplifted. It's like they all hit the lottery! The reality is that under Industrial Revolution-style free enterprise and free trade, the mindless, lowlife workers amazingly all live somewhat like kings. They're basically as rich as Midas and as powerful as Hercules – neither of which they fairly worked for or earned.

Under normal circumstances – prior to 1800s social libertarianism and economic laissez-faire – "the workers" almost all lived in misery and agony, before they starved and died – as they often deserved. Meanwhile, the superior men and workers – those of greater intelligence, virtue, and hard work – almost all lived and thrived, as they generally deserved. This has been the case for both types of workers for about 300,000 years. Life improved somewhat about 11,700 years ago with the advent of agriculture – but not much. The yeoman farmers and peasants still usually lived poorly and suffered badly. Life didn’t really get good until the 1700s Industrial Revolution, followed by 1800s semi-capitalism, factories, assembly-line work, and extreme division of labor. Then the lower-class workers and monkeys finally prospered. It was a miracle!

The elite, outstanding, ingenious, high-quality creators, producers, and workers almost always lived well, thruout history. Even 300 millennia ago. Meanwhile, the situation for the massman, average Joe, and man in the street was very different. Before the low-grade, quasi-capitalism of the 1800s, his life was close to hell on Earth. This animal lived like an animal.

But under economic semi-liberty and the invention of factories, assembly lines, mass production, and significant division of labor, the lowly hoi polloi all became rich, fancy free, and singers of joy. The regular guy – in all his natural mediocrity and failure – laughed, danced, frolicked, and swooned in ecstasy while essentially living in heaven on Earth. This is the way it was and still is.

And yet for two centuries now the communists, socialists, and do-gooder leftists have all lied thru their teeth that “the workers” and “the people” are somehow, someway being exploited and oppressed. Really now? Yes, the low-intelligence, poorly-educated, low-virtue, lazy, careless, low-quality, easily replaceable, virtually-worthless workers do earn less money than their high-intelligence, highly-educated, high-virtue, hard-working, conscientious, high-quality, irreplaceable, invaluable counterparts. But so what? That’s merit and justice. That's moral goodness triumphant. Obviously.

Rather than being allegedly and mysteriously mistreated and abused, the truth is the average man and worker is almost treated like a god under the freedom and capitalism socio-economic system. Meanwhile, the superior man and white-collar worker is forced to work like a dog. He’s treated like a slave.

Under true, pure, and real capitalism (or my new term "companyism") – and not today's ubiquitous welfare statism – the drone-like, low-quality, blue-collar workers can be evil, stupid, mean, nasty, and disgusting. They can show up for work late and drunk as they piss on the floor and curse their supervisors. The only punishment they’re likely to get under laissez-faire capitalism is: “Please go home, sober up, take a shower, and show up on time for work tomorrow.” And if instead the miscreant is fired, so what? He’ll get a new job – probably a better one – the very next day. Such is life under true freedom and capitalism.

Meanwhile, the invaluable, irreplaceable, high-quality, white-collar workers – the managers, bosses, executives, and owners – all have to hustle non-stop and perform with excellence. They can never slack off. They have to work hard, sweat, and slave in order to stay ahead of the competition. 

Meanwhile, the workers practically haven’t a care in the world. Their hearts are light, their spirits are free, and their wallets are fat. But the “parasitical” higher-ups never stop working. They worry, ache, and suffer without end. Even at home – even on week-ends and on vacation – their minds and hearts are burdened with work. Their job never gives them a break. They’re truly and permanently exploited and oppressed. Such is life under true freedom and capitalism.