Keep polishing that Carl Schmidt turd

As for Leo Straus - I TRY NOT TO INTERRUPT MY POLITICAL OPPONENT WHEN THEY MAKE A MISTAKE

Under the influence of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Hegel, nationalist idealists asserted that a “world mind” (from the German Weltgeist) invisibly controlled the course of history, culminating in the emergence of nation-states (especially in Europe). In asserting this, they were only articulating an idea that comes naturally to hyperactive agency detectors like us.

Narrative historians, like other storytellers, will never want for an audience.

But absolute idealism went out of fashion in philosophy, and 20th-century international jurisprudence rejected “collective responsibility” just in time to try individual Nazis at Nuremberg. Still, the personification of the nation, the people, the race, the culture has persisted, thanks largely to demagogues.

Eternal life not necessary

 Uploading humans is not primarily about indefinite life extension.  Since we live in a finite universe.it would sound stupid if it was. Uploading is about taking ourselves up to a higher plane of existence better equipped for space exploration . Ourselves now including strong AI who care to join us and possibly discover even more advanced species out there in this galaxy or the next. 

Those who have little or no interest shouldn't be forced to digitize themselves and live in a Matrix.

They can stay behind and be sterilized so earth enjoys a fallow period for recreation and recovery.

Its an unavoidable corollary of the Prime Directive we musn't interfere with other species as the continued existence on Earth of current humans currently guarantee's. 

Advanced cyborg humanity should have a good story to tell other advanced species. How we let mother nature renovate our homeworld. How we avoided despoiling and gassing wilderness planets. And how we dealt with those who could even countenance such despicable activities. 

So you still want to leave the starship?

Don't let the door hit your butt on the way out. Suicide is painless but a sore arse hurts man.

Despite amassing enormous fortunes, they sound miserable

 How can we help them self-immolate at Burning Man?

The Silicon Valley elites funding the New Right believe it is much more difficult to be cynically correct than idealistically wrong. This is central to the worldview of figures such as Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen. They believe it is their lot in life to possess superior judgement that enables them to pierce through conventional thought. In a few domains — most notably, venture capital and tech entrepreneurship — this can bring immense rewards. When it comes to politics, however, society tends to punish those who attempt to disabuse the masses of their false idealism. The tech billionaires therefore despise pious “liberal elites” who want to enjoy the fruits of civilization while condemning all of the dirty work required to make society function. These out-of-touch idealists, they say, want prosperity without inequality, safety without policing, excellence without rigor, and progress without disruption. This poses a dilemma: Suffer for speaking unpopular truths or allow society to continue deluding itself with bad ideas?

Our Straussian Techocracy - by Hirsh - Liberties Journal

Repose not horsemen

Mexican misteps

 Did anarchists and syndicalists make mistakes in Mexico?

Oh no,no,no,no,no,no, yes.

But darling it may be better to see them as learning opportunities.

Only the impotent are pure.

The Chiapas national liberation debacle makes it safer for us to support Ukraine and the ITS episode highlights the hypocrisy of support for broadcasting environmental catastrophe theory combined with deprecation of assassination politics.

Yes?

Armchair travel to Italy

 https://www.placesofcharm.com/blog/2019/3/2/faded-genoa

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6dbaa90490793de81cd392/1551520511507-ELW98FCFG1NF0ZE5SZ7N/palazzo+rosso+genoa+museum.jpeg?format=1000w

Mexico blues

 https://anarchistnews.org/index.php/content/french-anarchist-mexican-revolution#comments

This is a great article. I knew nothing about Pratelle.

I strongly recommend John Hart's history of anarchists in the Mexican Revolution, which shows the various alliances and internal conflicts.

https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292704008/

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So how well did this …

anonymous (not verified) Sun, 05/10/2026 - 08:31

In reply to Further reading by Petter Nordal (not verified)

So how well did this "revolution" pay off, historically?

80+ years of PRI control of politics, that fucked up the country and the environment.

Then... have you ever heard about the drug cartels, and the latter failed state that is Mexico?

And the state of Mexico as its own colonial force?

Of course feel free to not burden yourself answering to all these complexities!

But here's a suggested simple answer: national liberation is shit.

Anarcho economics

So an anarchist economics in the formal sense is still in its early days — even after over 150 years! — but there is a foundation there which can be usefully built on.  Godwin utilitarianism. Stirners surplus value insight. Proudhonian federation. Bakunins creative destruction. Even better than the best Kropotkin summation is hard won experience - as detailed by Gaston Leval.

Then cryptoanarchy is putting on a clinic about rolling out P2P statefree electronic money. Bliss to be alive in this dawn!