““The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.””
“The value of love is slowly lost when we have way too much. There is just no time to appreciate it. It is in times of separation and distance that you truly understand the meaning of love. – Tiffany Health”
Confronted with popular elections and free entry into government, however, the advocacy and adoption of redistributive policies is predestined to become the very prerequisite for anyone wanting to attain or retain a government caretaker position. Accordingly, rather than representing a “consumption state” (as the typical monarchy does), with public government ownership, complementing and reinforcing the overall tendency toward rising taxes (and/or inflation), government employment and debt, the state will become increasingly transformed into a “welfare state.” And contrary to its typical portrayal as a “progressive” development, with this transformation the virus of rising degrees of time preference will be planted in the midst of civil society, and a self-accelerating process of decivilization will be set in motion.
Hans-Herman Hoppe, Democracy: The God that Failed
While, I’m not convinced that Monarchy is more desirable than Democracy, Hoppe’s explanation of the exponential drift toward welfare in modern government makes a lot of sense. The Old Right was doomed to fail, and the fact that it lasted the 100 years that it did is frankly amazing.
I haven’t gotten around to reading the book yet, but why does he find monarchy more desirable?
A couple of reasons, I haven’t read it either but I’ve heard him talk about it and other people give his argument very good.
A Few reasons are:
1. Democracy creates a sense that the government is malleable and pacifies people because they feel as if they are a part of the government. In a monarchy the average citizen is excluded from the government there is a much sharper distinction and a sense of opposition. Hoppe talks a lot about the World Wars where they had total war mobilization of the entire society. If a king has to raise taxes by taxation or inflation and conscript soldiers, there is a much higher degree of oposition
2. To sort of point out what the tract above indicates, monarchs tend to have a longer view of the country. Where as freely elected politicians have to offer SOMETHING to the people. Normally this is welfare statism, or some kind of regulation such as banning this or that. If you look at “Libertarian/neo-liberal” whatever politicians now, they almost always run on relieving tax or regulatory burdens.
3. Democratic politicians are much easier to corrupt than monarchies that are guaranteed a certain standard of living. This goes to the top two points as well, where it’s much easier to hide corruption because it would be really difficult to give a king or a noble a cash or job bribe. This is much easier to do for legislators.
Now MIND you Hoppe is an ancap, so he isn’t saying Monarchies are the best. He’s saying that Monarchies are better than Democracies.
I haven’t gotten to 3rd point in the book yet, but this is a great overview.
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““That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence””— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via hplyrikz)
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“You can tell how dangerous a person is by the way they hold their anger inside themselves quietly.”— Unknown (via hplyrikz)
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In the 15th century, Death asked you out. You rejected him. Furious and humiliated, he swore to never return for you. Six centuries later, you’re still alive.
Everyone has a Purpose Line: a line on the ground that, if followed, will help a person lead a fulfilling life. The lines are invisible to everyone but the person they’re meant for, and can lead them to job opportunities, first loves, etc.
One day you step off your Purpose Line.
you don’t have to be productive or busy all the time. just because you’re not studying, working on a new project or researching, doesn’t mean you aren’t spending your time well. striving to be busy all the time is not an intentional way of using your time - filling your head with more and more tasks and more and more guilt. try to focus on what really matters to you, and on how to create a positive, clear headspace for yourself. when are you at your happiest? how can you enjoy those moments more? when did you last slow down a little, look around, rest intentionally?
“I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.”— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via hplyrikz)
Clear your mind here
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