Not Far-Right, you understand, but right in the sense of “correct” or “accurate” which are words that have not yet been corrupted by Collectivists, who deviously seek to spread confusion and thus serve their aims. Those are the fanatical groups or packs which gang up on Individuals, humans charged with a moral duty to…
Not Far-Right, you understand, but right in the sense of “correct” or “accurate” which are words that have not yet been corrupted by Collectivists, who deviously seek to spread confusion and thus serve their aims. Those are the fanatical groups or packs which gang up on Individuals, humans charged with a moral duty to serve the wants and needs of others. These individuals are everywhere, compelled to raise families, contribute to open societies, to a free marketplace, to the idea that everyone can have a shot at leading a fulfilling life through service to others.
The problem with collectives is that everyone of them, everywhere, conspire to gain an advantage, to raise prices, to exclude others, to game the system. Soon, that advantage morphs into cheating others, into colluding toward a self-serving imbalance of power for the group, into cancelling their adversaries livelihoods and reputations: anything to nullify personal self-sacrifice and increase the viability of the collective, which takes on the biological imperative of individual animated star-stuff: survival at all costs.
Lord Acton, a paragon of wisdom in the ethics of freedom and Western classical liberalism, (https://www.acton.org/lord-emerich-edward-dalberg-acton) nailed the diagnosis of the social pathology that humans constantly face, which does not arise in the animal kingdom (e.g. wolf, orca, lion ethnology/sociology): “power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Put more simply, power allows the substitution of selfish aggrandizement for duty (sacrifice) to others; if the power is unrestrained, the distortion of agency is complete.
He also said, “great men are almost always bad men”.
Lord Acton Was Right
Not Far-Right, you understand, but right in the sense of “correct” or “accurate” which are words that have not yet been corrupted by Collectivists, who deviously seek to spread confusion and thus serve their aims. Those are the fanatical groups or packs which gang up on Individuals, humans charged with a moral duty to serve the wants and needs of others. These individuals are everywhere, compelled to raise families, contribute to open societies, to a free marketplace, to the idea that everyone can have a shot at leading a fulfilling life through service to others.
The problem with collectives is that everyone of them, everywhere, conspire to gain an advantage, to raise prices, to exclude others, to game the system. Soon, that advantage morphs into cheating others, into colluding toward a self-serving imbalance of power for the group, into cancelling their adversaries livelihoods and reputations: anything to nullify personal self-sacrifice and increase the viability of the collective, which takes on the biological imperative of individual animated star-stuff: survival at all costs.
Lord Acton, a paragon of wisdom in the ethics of freedom and Western classical liberalism, (https://www.acton.org/lord-emerich-edward-dalberg-acton) nailed the diagnosis of the social pathology that humans constantly face, which does not arise in the animal kingdom (e.g. wolf, orca, lion ethnology/sociology): “power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Put more simply, power allows the substitution of selfish aggrandizement for duty (sacrifice) to others; if the power is unrestrained, the distortion of agency is complete.
He also said, “great men are almost always bad men”.
Amen!