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Confessions of a Monarchist
March 15th, 2018
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I don't normally talk about politics, but I'll make one brief
exception tonight. You see, I don't vote. I make an active choice
in that. Right about now people tend to try to figure out what
sort of party alignment I have. I'll save you some time, it's not
on the radar.
I don't want to participate in democracy. I refuse to participate
as an active member in the republic. I'm a monarchist.
You, my gopher friends, are not like the seething masses out
there. You've shown proclivities for the Antisocial Media
Manifesto [0], for living of the grid [1], for searching for
freedom from oppressive legislation [2] also known as liberty. You
are like me in many ways, and so I feel okay sharing my secret
with you. I believe democracy is a guaranteed path to ruin in the
form of dictatorship via demagogy.
TEXT [0] Antisocial Media Manifesto
DIR [1] melton's phlog
TEXT [2] solderpunk - hobby farming
My preference is for a world of individual liberty over all other
things. Your preference may be different, but if you can
understand my point of view you can understand my arguments for
monarchy as a superior form of government. I will spare you the
details beyond a very simple observation that to enforce equality
(not equity, as in the Christian virtue) the state must exercise
powerful controls that limit liberty. Democracy must, by its
nature, promote equality and thus limit liberty.
If you are not thoroughly bored by the topic already, I'll leave
it there and suggest a fantastic book that will explain it so much
better than I could [3] by a brilliant author. [4] His views were
a lot more conservative than mine are, but we agree on the state
of democracy.
HTML [3] Erik von Kuhnelt-Liddihn
HTML [4] Liberty or Equality (1952)
A single leader can make decisive choice and remain above the
wills of the mob who exercise their preference for envy over
utopian brotherhood. That's part of what I believe in, and why
I just keep my damned mouth shut about it.
Jesus, that turned into a rant. Sorry 'bout that!