Narcissistic Ideas of Progress: Our Dystopian Future (with Ginger Coy)

Enlightenment was a victimhood movement (Church as the abuser) and focused on the social compact. The Renaissance was centred around the individual, cult of personality, autocratic leadership, and reversion to the classic past.

Renaissance and Nazism as Ideas of Progress

In the Enlightenment, counterfactual ideal assumption of rational agent sets us up for failure and self-destructive self-rejection.

External locus of control resulted in a sense of victimhood (eg, medicalization of mental illness and ideal of mental health).

Scientism, consumerism, economic growth, and atheism as new religions that regulate human relationships as well.

It is time to give up on the failing liberal democracy project and its attendant ideologies: human rights, sanctity of life, rule of law, civic engagement, international community, and other such infantile inanities.

Liberal democracy is fading everywhere because exactly like Communism it is founded on a counterfactual view of human psychology and on a fallacious reframing of human history.

Ideologies are inflexible and self-defeating straightjackets. Adherence to such fantasies ineluctably and inexorably leads to conflict and mayhem.

As the USA’s Founding Fathers knew, universal franchise democracy is a dangerously flawed idea. It empowers the nescient and the dumb, gives rise to demagogues, and elevates ruthless, populist antisocial leaders.

Similarly the human and civil rights agendas are totalitarian victimhood doctrines that abrogate the inalienable and primordial right for self-defense and the meritocratic allocation of resources, among many other consequent distortions.

We need to get rid of all this delusional enlightenment baggage and revert to Realpolitik: the consummate use of power, hard and soft, to create and maintain peace and to regulate conflict.

Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store