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Blogger Francis Berger said...

When it comes to our modern democracies, I have become an utterly disillusioned man (and I didn't have too many illusions to begin with).

29 March 2019 at 16:19

Blogger Bruce Charlton said...

@Francis. It is possible taht Hungary - and Central Europe - may have a different, and disconnected, destiny than the West - as does Eastern Europe (and Russia). Or perhaps there will be for Hungary, Poland, Czech, Slovakia - perhaps even cultural-Germany? - a choice between East and West...

29 March 2019 at 16:26

Blogger Francis Berger said...

@BC - Terry Boardman mentioned something similar in one of his videos. It is a possibility. Still, I spent most of my life in the West/Anglosphere, and this idea of a choice between East and West saddens me.

29 March 2019 at 17:31

Blogger Bruce Charlton said...

@LB - Thanks, fixed.

29 March 2019 at 19:44

Blogger Sackerson said...

There are those who say that Albion will return to lead Europe. The other way round is a disaster aiming at catastrophe.

29 March 2019 at 20:59

Blogger Bruce Charlton said...

@S - I don't know that Europe should be led - ideally, I would suppose that France, Italy, (cultural-) Germany, and Spain (at least) would each have distinctive destinies.

29 March 2019 at 21:45

Blogger Crosbie said...

12th April is more historically auspicious, being the day the Union Flag was first adopted. It was also apparently the day the crusaders breached the walls of Constantinople, whatever that might signify. Nothing much seems to have happened on 29th March.

30 March 2019 at 02:27

Blogger Bruce Charlton said...

@C "Nothing much seems to have happened on 29th March. "... Exactly.

30 March 2019 at 06:29

Blogger Avro G said...

From Wikipedia:

"Originally and often still specifically, a racket was a criminal act in which the perpetrator or perpetrators fraudulently offer a service to solve a nonexistent problem, a service that will not be put into effect, or a service that would not exist without the racket."

Assume "your government" is a racket as defined here and you will never be disappointed.

30 March 2019 at 06:30

Blogger Bruce Charlton said...

@Avro - They are (even) worse than a racket! In the sense that a racket is self interested only.

Our Global government is strategically evil, even when this goes against the self-interest of the individuals concerned, who may indeed be consumed and cast aside in the process (because the humans are in service, in thrall, to the powers of purposive evil).

30 March 2019 at 06:35