The myth that a democracy or representative republic is a government by and for the people is a great way to implicate the populace in all the wars and nefarious activities government engages in. You hear "We" did this or that, or "We" decided to.... It has perfectly conflated the state with every individual who lives within the geographical borders known as the U.S.A.
Your argument is too broad and errs without considering the nature of the republic's constitution. For example, the extent and protection rights of citizens to hold, express and act on individual differences with the majority.
@SBCBears nah, the rights are supposedly guaranteed by the constitution. Democracy has nothing to do with that. Democracy was an agreement. The constitution was a part of that agreement and it is infringed upon. Once the agreement was crossed all bets were officially off. The south understood something was off and it did something to address this and they got punished by the puritans and their allies for it.
@TheMachiavellians , I'm really interested about everything. So, when posts come up that I really didn't understand or think about very much, it's fun to learn. Generally, I'm neutral avout past historical events. It's good to be aware & understand how history rhymes & prevent dumb things to happen. v
"They", are the world bank/IMF... "You" are their subject through your Corporate fiction, denoted by ones name spelled in all caps, and your "ship", sailing on the seas of maritime, commerce law.... Citizen.
“Knowledge will make you be free.” ― Socrates + “Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention.” ― Richard P. Feynman = “Freedom is not free, you need to pay attention.” ― Grzegorz Ochman
If American GOVERNMENT's unapologetic complicity in the genocidal butchery that is occurring in Gaza is not abhorred and condemned by the American Public, then we as a nation, are condemning ourselves to a future of dystopian anguish that would make Orwell's prognostication look naive.
Genocidal butchery is what makes the world go round. You, as an American citizen, and I, as a European, are allowed to enjoy not being the victim of it for as long as the privilege is bestowed on us.
@@PropagandasaurusRexwe can change the government they won’t be around forever also they can’t start wars and destroy the earth for ever and take the oil from china and Russia !
The first half exposes the scam of collectivism. The second half uses the language of collectivism to put the blame on individualism. It's a backhanded defense of individualism, meaning it's not a defense of anything.
@@werder4849 Do you think that Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands etc. are tyrannies? What about pre-revolutionary France, Austria-Hungary, unified Germany in the past? Tyrannies are are almost exclusively secular republics, marxist or fascist. We can see this most clearly in the Muslim world. Monarchies are stable and relatively prosperous (by local standards) - Morocco, Jordan, Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia... Democracies (usually in the name only) / republics are unstable - Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen. Tunisia being an exemption. There are no Christian monarchies left in the world for comparison. But we can have a look in Europe's past. The most successful countries where always is monarchies.
@@SpaceCowboy1218 you might need to F off because what you're saying makes no sense at all, go back to your cave where you can tell yourself nonsensical word salads till you grow old and sore.
If you want to see what a good attempt at 'proper democracy' looks like, have a look at Denmark's political system, it's not perfect but I have yet to come across a more truly representative system and it works pretty well. Full disclosure, I am not a Dane but visited their parliament recently so I do have knowledge of how they try to make it work.
This was an excellent, thought-provoking discussion. Thank you for sharing. I added this to my Truth Bombs playlist and look forward to viewing more of your videos.
Making this video was a paradigm shift for me. I now understand why I do not participate in the political system. My participation would only contribute to its increased strength. What we need is more autonomy and independence.
Democracy... do you even define it... in my mind... When I compare the US constitution with the Swiss Constitution and the Liechenstein constituional reforms of 2003... I can see clear progress.
Democracy is hard to define. I was working with the notion of any system predicated on the concepts of popular sovereignty and representative government; in otherwards "a government of the people by the people for the people." The distinction between Republicanisms difference from Democracy were not important for the scope of this video. One of the points I was trying to express in this video is that there is a difference between political freedom and individual liberty. We have conflated the two by assuming that everyone must have a stake in the system in order to be free. But Liberty is in independence and NOT in participating in the sovereignty of the whole over the parts. That is how the collective tyrannizes over the individual.
I'm learning something. I have had some of these ideas floating around in my head for some time now. I just didn't know how to express them. I was born in 1957 and my brother and I were named after Eisenhower. I became curious about the man and read some biographies about him. That's where I found out about the military industrial complex idea. At the time it sounded kinda like a tin foil hat thing, I could never imagined the military taking control of the government here in America. Boy was I wrong about that. We, America, that is, have been at war constantly since the end of WW2. I know we've had some lulls in between but just think about Korea Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Now we're blundering around in Ukraine and facing the prospect of nuclear annihilation. The shocking truth is the American media is complicit in this fiasco and how easily duped people are by the propaganda that they spew forth every day. They say we have to stand up for DEMOCRACY, while they threaten remove our rights to free speech and liberty and gun ownership. Can you imagine living in a world where the WOKE MOB has the power to silence any dissenting voices? Of course they are just being played by the elites and after their usefulness they will be dealt with. I have the feeling we're on our way to the end. The world will burn while we play games until the power goes out.
People need to be governed. Throughout all history humans understood this, and they accepted the hierarchy in society, they didn't see it as oppressive or demeaning, we witness hierarchy in all of nature. The problem was never authority, or having a leader. The issue almost always seemed to come from when leaders abused their authority, not when they exercised authority or force, but when they used it for means that didn't help their people. This delusion of democracy is decadent and corrosive. It can work at small levels, in a population which is largely homogenous ethnically and religiously, with a shared history and values etc. But it can't be sustained in the USA. There is no way. It will eventually collapse under its own weight, a fat ass American citizen is ironically a great metaphor (and a symptom) of democracy.
Let's be honest, most people are not "thinkers". They aren't leaders or innovators, genius, intelligent, most people don't have ideas worth listening to. Most people don't even have ideas of their own. Whether because our creator made us this way, or whether it's because natural selection made us this, it is this way for a reason. A very good reason. Society wouldn't function without, how should I say it, "sheep". You need a large population who is willing to dig the latrines, they can't all be Caesars. But that's not to say they cannot have dignity, or shouldn't be respected. What am I even trying to say ffs... I guess, democracy is cringe, Plato was right. We need a leader, not another president or prime minister, we need, dare I say, a fuhrer. A man who body and soul is connected and responsible for his people. One people, one nation, one leader. This diverse democracy will be the death of our race, and the entire world will be worse off without our Faustian spirit.
That's exactly the point Machiavelli makes. A rulers actions should be in the pursuit of order peace and unity. The specific actions taken to achieve this are less important. The problem with modern democracy is that it is predicated on the notion of universal equality from Christianity. This idea gives justification for the dismantling of all hierarchy and distinction. It is a leveling force. It left a power vacuum for the state to fill. This Christian idea turned against the church and the aristocracy---the only two institutions to ever successfully resist the state. A "fat ass American citizen" is a great metaphor for democracy. I like that. I would only add decadence to that.
@@TheMachiavellians - I Really don't Think CHristianity's Concept of Universal Equality is to Blame, and have Noticed How Christianity is also Blamed for Anti-Democratic Tyranny. In Reality, Christianity tends to be Heirarichal, and Historically Christians had No Real Desire for Democracy, supporting Monarchy as The Ideal. The Church itself is also a Heirarchy.
@@TheMachiavellians - It may be better to say The "Protestant" Idea of Universal Equality, though even This is Inaccurate since its not All Protestants, just Certain more for want of a better Term Congregationalist forms of Protestantism, like The Actual Congregationalists, or The Quakers, or the Like. But I Really don't see how Catholic or Orthodox Churches have an "Equality" Concept that Abolishes Hierarchy, or even Lutherans, or Anglicans.
@@TheMachiavellians - I Realise that Regardless of the "Side" It is Popular to Bash Christianity but, given Christianity's Ideal for a Long Time was Monarchy, I Really don't see how "The Christian Idea of Universal Equality" is to Blame for Amy of Todays Ills, considering Christianity Never Taught that We should Not have a Hierarchy, and is itself Hierarchal, as are most Churches.
I am amused by your idyllic notions of monarchies. To understand why, consider the case of Richard The Lionheart. He and his brother, King John, emptied the coffers of all England, and then taxed the peasants (a “gentle” form of slavery) nearly into oblivion… In service to Richard’s aspirations of war in the Middle East (a Crusade), and of course the war related giant ransom for his personal freedom (literally, a king’s ransom). Having succeeded, they simply abandoned England (to France’s version of green and pleasant land), while still maintaining monarchical control. [And yes, peasants were kept extremely poor by direct seizure of crops and possessions, and sometimes bought and sold… It’s pretty easy to be freer than that.] The notion that modern Western democracies have the largest state control in the history of the world doesn’t really even rise to the level of ridiculous. One simply cannot have understood much history to realize this. [Is it a crime to be unemployed? Is it a crime to criticize a prime minister or president? Is it a crime to be the wrong religion? [Of course many more could be added…]] [Essentially everything you say for the first three minutes of this video is either ill-informed, a misdirection, or incorrect. With that swampy beginning, sinking into quicksand is more or less inevitable.]
Look at the debt to GDP of every modern democracy and you get a true picture of the problem. There was no attempt to portray monarchy as desirable---you are clearly more interested in contradicting than in understanding. Monarchies did use violence and oppressed their populations and this is partly why democracy became so popular. However your argument fails because not a single king, prince, baron or emperor has ever come even close to the level of malicious destruction as Hitler, Stalin or Mao. They all came to power through a system intended for the people. Hitler is obviously the best example since he came to power through the democratic process. That is the point.
@@SystemsMedicine - Peasantry is not a Gentle Form of Slavery and it Really is Not True that Peasants could be Bought and Sold. It is also Bizarre to say Peasants were Kept Intentionally Poor given many Peasants became Rich. I Really don't Think You Understand How Society Worked in The Feudal System.
@@SystemsMedicine - The "High Taxes" under Richard were also Far Lower than the Taxes We Pay Now and were Taxes on Movable Goods, and were in Effect a Sales Tax.
@@SystemsMedicine - I Also find it Odd when People Make These Anti-Monarchy Arguments as if Monarchists are all utopian. and Really, even if what You had said was both Fair and Entirely Accurate, its One example, not a Pattern. Am I Really supposed to Think Modern Democracy Really does Free Us and Monarchy Really is Slavery based on One Example? Or even a Few? That is Not an analysis of History. That is Polemic.
@@TheMachiavellians Peter Joseph started what became known as _The Zeitgeist Movement,_ much talked about in the late 2000s and early 2010s, which was an outgrowth of something called _The Venus Project_ created by US futurist and self-described social engineer Jacque Fresco. (You can assess for yourself the value of either _The Zeitgeist Movement_ or _The Venus Project_ or the underlying premise, a “resource-based economy.”)
Fantastic! Extremely well done. Very thought provoking. This is why I prefer independent creators. May I ask about the artwork? AI? Def going to screenshot some for a new background
No AI generated art was used in this video. I did use AI to expand the dimensions of some of the art (for UA-cam). I'm assuming you are referring to the art of Beksinski which kinda does look AI generated. You can find some of his art here: www.wikiart.org/en/Search/beksinski
No, its not that a democracy can do no wrong, its that a democracy offers a CHANCE for correcting the state's past or current misdeeds, i.e., a chance for redemption to try another path.
I may be incorrect but I feel Democracy is a front for something else. Whatever it may be, its interest is not in the welfare of their fellow human beings. I hope I am wrong. But, alas.
@@TheMachiavellians Be sure to discuss the two-tiered system in the US we have been watching with dismay as Mr. Rich & Famous You-Know-Who gets away with stuff that would have put the rest of us in the slammer in a New York minute.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. That’s why the founding fathers chose to make the US a constitutional republic, and not a democracy. They thought democracy was a terrible form of government.
A Republic is just democracy with a belt on. Acting like theres no distinction or correlation between the two is categorically false. One rises from the thoughts of the other. More simply, the concept of a Republic wouldnt have ever arisen without democracy first being on the table And the founding fathers wrote more on what they thought about the corporation than they did democracy. Almost none of which was positive. Corporations weren't ever supposed to exist without super strict guard rails, a time limit and a purpose for the public good being first and second foremost. Neither of which do we recognize today. They'd be rebelling against our current society too, make no mistake. We've contorted their creation demonstrably.
It's not entirely honest to portray Nietzsche's philosophy using The Will to Power as your source. He didn't compile and publish it, his sister did, from his half finished and scattered notes with tidbits from his other books mixed in to try and make it a cohesive narrative - to support his sisters support of rising fascist groups in Germany. Nietzsche would not have been a fascist, quite the opposite.
Democracy can not truly be fixed as it is flawed by design. Democracy is not ‘when people vote’ and it’s not ‘when people have a say in their governance’. Democracy is the tyranny of the majority. The founding fathers thought it was a terrible form of government, which is why they went out of there way to make sure the US was not a democracy. They made it a constitutional republic, instead; much like the polity that Aristotle spoke of. The corruption of polity is democracy, just like the corruption of monarchy is tyranny.
@05:30 you quote Bertrand de Jouvenal stating, that the people threw off the power of Kings to relieve themselves of among other things,"...above all, military conscription" ... right after you talked for some minutes about how the monarchs did not conscript and their power was limited by the treasury to pay for soldier, since that is how they did it. This is just the latest and most blatant contradiction in your presentation. I won't watch anymore of your inconsistent ramblings. This is, of course, completely ignoring the fact that your channel is a DIRECT AND COMPLETE ripoff of Academy Of Ideas. Well, not "complete", the owner of that channel actually understands what he reads and quotes.
So what's your alternative, a Trumpist dictatorship? Whats your antidote for what ails us? Back to the Articles of Cofederation which did not work for the first 12 years of the Republic? Thats what bugs me about the current generation: They are good at criticizing the established order or administrative state, but cannot construct anything to replace it!
Still the least disfunctional system developed yet. But considering the flaws in it you explained in detail, it is not unlikely we might fall into a new Totalitarian oppression of unknown horrors, if democracy fails because of those mentioned issues.
Democracy is the tyranny. Don't confuse totalitarianism for tyranny. You can have a great state and society under a totalitarian, for example monarchs. Today's democratic societies are so dystopian people prefer to literally go extinct than have children in them.
Probably the most dysfunctional system ever implemented. It accomplishes the direct opposite of what it claims it exists to avoid. Democracies create the need and incentives for a gigantic bureaucracy to form and never stop growing. This ironically creates the conditions that make true totalitarianism possible in the first place. Outright authoritarian and autocratic systems were almost always extremely decentralized and had a relatively small state apparatus with far fewer total laws than any democracy that existed at the same time. The Russian Empire for example was an outright autocracy, but compared to the French Republic that existed at the same time, the average person was FAR and away more autonomous. There were more police officers in the city of Paris alone than in the entire Russian Empire, which had a much larger population. It seems to be a trend that the more a state talks about freedom, rights, liberty, democracy, etc, the more totalitarian it is in practice, while states that are openly authoritarian, autocratic, or even totalitarian in the technical sense (the way the Duce defined it), the more autonomous and less micromanaged the average person is.
The myth that a democracy or representative republic is a government by and for the people is a great way to implicate the populace in all the wars and nefarious activities government engages in. You hear "We" did this or that, or "We" decided to.... It has perfectly conflated the state with every individual who lives within the geographical borders known as the U.S.A.
It goes hand in hand with the notion that debt is an ethical obligation.
Your argument is too broad and errs without considering the nature of the republic's constitution. For example, the extent and protection rights of citizens to hold, express and act on individual differences with the majority.
@SBCBears nah, the rights are supposedly guaranteed by the constitution. Democracy has nothing to do with that. Democracy was an agreement. The constitution was a part of that agreement and it is infringed upon. Once the agreement was crossed all bets were officially off. The south understood something was off and it did something to address this and they got punished by the puritans and their allies for it.
“Classic Education is an education in freedom, today few receive one.” Mortimer Adler
Correct
Going to support this channel when i'm in a better financial situation. Thank you.
Interesting concepts that I generally don't investigate. So, I'm happy you did! Thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it! The more we know about these subjects the better we can understand them, even if we don't like what we find.
@TheMachiavellians , I'm really interested about everything. So, when posts come up that I really didn't understand or think about very much, it's fun to learn. Generally, I'm neutral avout past historical events. It's good to be aware & understand how history rhymes & prevent dumb things to happen. v
7:59 - ""They," are the problem! Who are, "They," everyone who is not "Us.""
"They", are the world bank/IMF...
"You" are their subject through your Corporate fiction, denoted by ones name spelled in all caps, and your "ship", sailing on the seas of maritime, commerce law.... Citizen.
Sounds kinda vague.
Everyone who isn't me...
Bro, what happened with that comma?
@ Fat fingers! Good Catch! ^.^
“Knowledge will make you be free.”
― Socrates
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“Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention.”
― Richard P. Feynman
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“Freedom is not free, you need to pay attention.”
― Grzegorz Ochman
I love getting “go out and vote” ads on videos like these. Even worse are the “who you vote for is private, but whether you voted is public record….”
Right? I've been thinking the shame
I mean, the same
Brilliant. Have not regretted subscribing to your channel. Keep up the great work.
If American GOVERNMENT's unapologetic complicity in the genocidal butchery that is occurring in Gaza is not abhorred and condemned by the American Public, then we as a nation, are condemning ourselves to a future of dystopian anguish that would make Orwell's prognostication look naive.
Genocidal butchery is what makes the world go round.
You, as an American citizen, and I, as a European, are allowed to enjoy not being the victim of it for as long as the privilege is bestowed on us.
@@PropagandasaurusRexwe can change the government they won’t be around forever also they can’t start wars and destroy the earth for ever and take the oil from china and Russia !
Thanks for the wisdom, brother. Keep looking for the light in the darkness. God will show you the way.
I can't help but think of Animal Farm while watching this video
The only true authority is the Authority of Truth.
Truth is the natural enemy of politics.
whose truth though?
Each type of government has different types of experts who can exploit the rules of that system.
I stumbled on here on accident and I must say: excellent video. Subbed
"Power tends to Corrupt; as Power and Revenues increase they Corrupt Absolutely,.....and increasingly" - John E. E. Dalberg-Acton
The first half exposes the scam of collectivism. The second half uses the language of collectivism to put the blame on individualism. It's a backhanded defense of individualism, meaning it's not a defense of anything.
Democracy is literally rule through the collective.
“Democratic parliaments are not forums where debates take place, but rather where popular absolutism registers its decrees.”
Nicolas Gomez Davila
TLDR: Monarchy is the supreme form of governance 👍
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@@jirislavicek9954 Yes, the supreme tyranny.
@@werder4849 Do you think that Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands etc. are tyrannies? What about pre-revolutionary France, Austria-Hungary, unified Germany in the past? Tyrannies are are almost exclusively secular republics, marxist or fascist.
We can see this most clearly in the Muslim world. Monarchies are stable and relatively prosperous (by local standards) - Morocco, Jordan, Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia...
Democracies (usually in the name only) / republics are unstable - Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen. Tunisia being an exemption.
There are no Christian monarchies left in the world for comparison. But we can have a look in Europe's past. The most successful countries where always is monarchies.
@ I don’t believe in monarchy. Those countries are not truly monarchies anymore. Especially Spain. A lot of revolutionary changes.
@ First we took power from Monarchs now we have to take power from the bourgeoisie class.
This was good. I'm going to have to start reading de Jouvinel...
Reading his work was a paradigm shift for me. I definitely recommend reading him.
"Total destruction, the only solution. "
- Bob Marley
Fun fact: the more democracy make us "free" the more prisoners per capita keep growing. Isn't that some weird s**t?
Very narrow scope of examination. You might need to qualify what you mean by "more democracy" and then look beyond a single example.
@@SpaceCowboy1218 you might need to F off because what you're saying makes no sense at all, go back to your cave where you can tell yourself nonsensical word salads till you grow old and sore.
Technically, the Borg are the ultimate democracy.
Freedom without the structure of morality, will always be chaos.
24:42 Within cells interlinked
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Interlinked.
WITHIN CELLS INTERLINKED
The ego doesn’t sustain boundlessness
If you want to see what a good attempt at 'proper democracy' looks like, have a look at Denmark's political system, it's not perfect but I have yet to come across a more truly representative system and it works pretty well. Full disclosure, I am not a Dane but visited their parliament recently so I do have knowledge of how they try to make it work.
This was an excellent, thought-provoking discussion. Thank you for sharing. I added this to my Truth Bombs playlist and look forward to viewing more of your videos.
Making this video was a paradigm shift for me. I now understand why I do not participate in the political system. My participation would only contribute to its increased strength. What we need is more autonomy and independence.
@TheMachiavellians Couldn't agree more.
Democracy... do you even define it... in my mind... When I compare the US constitution with the Swiss Constitution and the Liechenstein constituional reforms of 2003... I can see clear progress.
Democracy is hard to define. I was working with the notion of any system predicated on the concepts of popular sovereignty and representative government; in otherwards "a government of the people by the people for the people." The distinction between Republicanisms difference from Democracy were not important for the scope of this video.
One of the points I was trying to express in this video is that there is a difference between political freedom and individual liberty. We have conflated the two by assuming that everyone must have a stake in the system in order to be free. But Liberty is in independence and NOT in participating in the sovereignty of the whole over the parts. That is how the collective tyrannizes over the individual.
All human systems of governance are inherently flawed. So what do we do, then?
I'll go with democracy, with all it's flaws.
Replace democracy with bureaucracy and say oh no our bureaucracy is in jeopardy.
Thanks
I'm learning something. I have had some of these ideas floating around in my head for some time now. I just didn't know how to express them.
I was born in 1957 and my brother and I were named after Eisenhower. I became curious about the man and read some biographies about him. That's where I found out about the military industrial complex idea. At the time it sounded kinda like a tin foil hat thing, I could never imagined the military taking control of the government here in America. Boy was I wrong about that. We, America, that is, have been at war constantly since the end of WW2. I know we've had some lulls in between but just think about Korea Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Now we're blundering around in Ukraine and facing the prospect of nuclear annihilation. The shocking truth is the American media is complicit in this fiasco and how easily duped people are by the propaganda that they spew forth every day.
They say we have to stand up for DEMOCRACY, while they threaten remove our rights to free speech and liberty and gun ownership. Can you imagine living in a world where the WOKE MOB has the power to silence any dissenting voices? Of course they are just being played by the elites and after their usefulness they will be dealt with. I have the feeling we're on our way to the end. The world will burn while we play games until the power goes out.
The most effective deviousness is the evil that is perpetrated in the name of virtue.
Like MAGA and its endless death threats (even against emergency disaster workers!) is somehow better than extreme Wokes? NFL.
Keep on declaring your income...
The Establishment thanks you for that
9:58 🎶 I know, I know I've let you down 🎶
People need to be governed. Throughout all history humans understood this, and they accepted the hierarchy in society, they didn't see it as oppressive or demeaning, we witness hierarchy in all of nature. The problem was never authority, or having a leader. The issue almost always seemed to come from when leaders abused their authority, not when they exercised authority or force, but when they used it for means that didn't help their people.
This delusion of democracy is decadent and corrosive. It can work at small levels, in a population which is largely homogenous ethnically and religiously, with a shared history and values etc. But it can't be sustained in the USA. There is no way. It will eventually collapse under its own weight, a fat ass American citizen is ironically a great metaphor (and a symptom) of democracy.
Let's be honest, most people are not "thinkers". They aren't leaders or innovators, genius, intelligent, most people don't have ideas worth listening to. Most people don't even have ideas of their own. Whether because our creator made us this way, or whether it's because natural selection made us this, it is this way for a reason. A very good reason. Society wouldn't function without, how should I say it, "sheep". You need a large population who is willing to dig the latrines, they can't all be Caesars. But that's not to say they cannot have dignity, or shouldn't be respected.
What am I even trying to say ffs... I guess, democracy is cringe, Plato was right. We need a leader, not another president or prime minister, we need, dare I say, a fuhrer. A man who body and soul is connected and responsible for his people. One people, one nation, one leader.
This diverse democracy will be the death of our race, and the entire world will be worse off without our Faustian spirit.
That's exactly the point Machiavelli makes. A rulers actions should be in the pursuit of order peace and unity. The specific actions taken to achieve this are less important.
The problem with modern democracy is that it is predicated on the notion of universal equality from Christianity. This idea gives justification for the dismantling of all hierarchy and distinction. It is a leveling force. It left a power vacuum for the state to fill. This Christian idea turned against the church and the aristocracy---the only two institutions to ever successfully resist the state.
A "fat ass American citizen" is a great metaphor for democracy. I like that. I would only add decadence to that.
@@TheMachiavellians - I Really don't Think CHristianity's Concept of Universal Equality is to Blame, and have Noticed How Christianity is also Blamed for Anti-Democratic Tyranny. In Reality, Christianity tends to be Heirarichal, and Historically Christians had No Real Desire for Democracy, supporting Monarchy as The Ideal. The Church itself is also a Heirarchy.
@@TheMachiavellians - It may be better to say The "Protestant" Idea of Universal Equality, though even This is Inaccurate since its not All Protestants, just Certain more for want of a better Term Congregationalist forms of Protestantism, like The Actual Congregationalists, or The Quakers, or the Like. But I Really don't see how Catholic or Orthodox Churches have an "Equality" Concept that Abolishes Hierarchy, or even Lutherans, or Anglicans.
@@TheMachiavellians - I Realise that Regardless of the "Side" It is Popular to Bash Christianity but, given Christianity's Ideal for a Long Time was Monarchy, I Really don't see how "The Christian Idea of Universal Equality" is to Blame for Amy of Todays Ills, considering Christianity Never Taught that We should Not have a Hierarchy, and is itself Hierarchal, as are most Churches.
I am amused by your idyllic notions of monarchies.
To understand why, consider the case of Richard The Lionheart. He and his brother, King John, emptied the coffers of all England, and then taxed the peasants (a “gentle” form of slavery) nearly into oblivion… In service to Richard’s aspirations of war in the Middle East (a Crusade), and of course the war related giant ransom for his personal freedom (literally, a king’s ransom). Having succeeded, they simply abandoned England (to France’s version of green and pleasant land), while still maintaining monarchical control. [And yes, peasants were kept extremely poor by direct seizure of crops and possessions, and sometimes bought and sold… It’s pretty easy to be freer than that.]
The notion that modern Western democracies have the largest state control in the history of the world doesn’t really even rise to the level of ridiculous. One simply cannot have understood much history to realize this. [Is it a crime to be unemployed? Is it a crime to criticize a prime minister or president? Is it a crime to be the wrong religion? [Of course many more could be added…]]
[Essentially everything you say for the first three minutes of this video is either ill-informed, a misdirection, or incorrect. With that swampy beginning, sinking into quicksand is more or less inevitable.]
Look at the debt to GDP of every modern democracy and you get a true picture of the problem.
There was no attempt to portray monarchy as desirable---you are clearly more interested in contradicting than in understanding.
Monarchies did use violence and oppressed their populations and this is partly why democracy became so popular. However your argument fails because not a single king, prince, baron or emperor has ever come even close to the level of malicious destruction as Hitler, Stalin or Mao. They all came to power through a system intended for the people. Hitler is obviously the best example since he came to power through the democratic process. That is the point.
@ Hi TM. Thanks for your response. I’ll think about this a bit, and then rewatch your vid. Cheers.
@@SystemsMedicine - Peasantry is not a Gentle Form of Slavery and it Really is Not True that Peasants could be Bought and Sold. It is also Bizarre to say Peasants were Kept Intentionally Poor given many Peasants became Rich. I Really don't Think You Understand How Society Worked in The Feudal System.
@@SystemsMedicine - The "High Taxes" under Richard were also Far Lower than the Taxes We Pay Now and were Taxes on Movable Goods, and were in Effect a Sales Tax.
@@SystemsMedicine - I Also find it Odd when People Make These Anti-Monarchy Arguments as if Monarchists are all utopian. and Really, even if what You had said was both Fair and Entirely Accurate, its One example, not a Pattern. Am I Really supposed to Think Modern Democracy Really does Free Us and Monarchy Really is Slavery based on One Example? Or even a Few? That is Not an analysis of History. That is Polemic.
That is a disturbing image of a failed system.
Nature vs institutions, a tale as old as the moon
Thank you. We need a natural resource-based economy as described by Peter Joseph's podcasts.
I'm not familiar with the concept.
@@TheMachiavellians Peter Joseph started what became known as _The Zeitgeist Movement,_ much talked about in the late 2000s and early 2010s, which was an outgrowth of something called _The Venus Project_ created by US futurist and self-described social engineer Jacque Fresco. (You can assess for yourself the value of either _The Zeitgeist Movement_ or _The Venus Project_ or the underlying premise, a “resource-based economy.”)
8:38 And security to the new empire
Fantastic! Extremely well done. Very thought provoking. This is why I prefer independent creators.
May I ask about the artwork? AI? Def going to screenshot some for a new background
The thumbnail looks like Becsinski (spl?), amazing Polish artist.
Finished the vid, definitely Becsinski, seems like one of the AIs favorites.
No AI generated art was used in this video. I did use AI to expand the dimensions of some of the art (for UA-cam). I'm assuming you are referring to the art of Beksinski which kinda does look AI generated.
You can find some of his art here: www.wikiart.org/en/Search/beksinski
No, its not that a democracy can do no wrong, its that a democracy offers a CHANCE for correcting the state's past or current misdeeds, i.e., a chance for redemption to try another path.
I may be incorrect but I feel Democracy is a front for something else. Whatever it may be, its interest is not in the welfare of their fellow human beings. I hope I am wrong. But, alas.
Cool
Now do justice's true face.
That would be an interesting topic. I have been considering it for a while. I just need to prepare my sources first.
@TheMachiavellians I will be waiting. Don't mess it up. Don't.
@@TheMachiavellians Be sure to discuss the two-tiered system in the US we have been watching with dismay as Mr. Rich & Famous You-Know-Who gets away with stuff that would have put the rest of us in the slammer in a New York minute.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. That’s why the founding fathers chose to make the US a constitutional republic, and not a democracy. They thought democracy was a terrible form of government.
A Republic is just democracy with a belt on.
Acting like theres no distinction or correlation between the two is categorically false. One rises from the thoughts of the other. More simply, the concept of a Republic wouldnt have ever arisen without democracy first being on the table
And the founding fathers wrote more on what they thought about the corporation than they did democracy. Almost none of which was positive. Corporations weren't ever supposed to exist without super strict guard rails, a time limit and a purpose for the public good being first and second foremost. Neither of which do we recognize today.
They'd be rebelling against our current society too, make no mistake. We've contorted their creation demonstrably.
Please take a long walk on a short pier.
You misspelled "independence."
The thumbnail looks like Ned Kelly!
Hahaha... Democracy is 2 wolves & 1 sheep voting on what's for dinner.
It's not entirely honest to portray Nietzsche's philosophy using The Will to Power as your source. He didn't compile and publish it, his sister did, from his half finished and scattered notes with tidbits from his other books mixed in to try and make it a cohesive narrative - to support his sisters support of rising fascist groups in Germany.
Nietzsche would not have been a fascist, quite the opposite.
'Participatory democracy' is a redundancy. 'Representative democracy' is an oxymoron.
Would AI be a perfect ruler if addressed adequately?
1:10 The 'Declaration of Indepence' :) - because even The Machiavellians are fallible ;)
Democracy can be fixed with accountability and strong judicial system. This is the only step humans need.
Democracy can not truly be fixed as it is flawed by design. Democracy is not ‘when people vote’ and it’s not ‘when people have a say in their governance’. Democracy is the tyranny of the majority. The founding fathers thought it was a terrible form of government, which is why they went out of there way to make sure the US was not a democracy. They made it a constitutional republic, instead; much like the polity that Aristotle spoke of. The corruption of polity is democracy, just like the corruption of monarchy is tyranny.
@05:30 you quote Bertrand de Jouvenal stating, that the people threw off the power of Kings to relieve themselves of among other things,"...above all, military conscription" ... right after you talked for some minutes about how the monarchs did not conscript and their power was limited by the treasury to pay for soldier, since that is how they did it.
This is just the latest and most blatant contradiction in your presentation. I won't watch anymore of your inconsistent ramblings.
This is, of course, completely ignoring the fact that your channel is a DIRECT AND COMPLETE ripoff of Academy Of Ideas. Well, not "complete", the owner of that channel actually understands what he reads and quotes.
1:06 spelling, amigo. spelling...
So what's your alternative, a Trumpist dictatorship? Whats your antidote for what ails us? Back to the Articles of Cofederation which did not work for the first 12 years of the Republic?
Thats what bugs me about the current generation: They are good at criticizing the established order or administrative state, but cannot construct anything to replace it!
Monarchism is the solution
This narrative reeks of Dugin.
Still the least disfunctional system developed yet. But considering the flaws in it you explained in detail, it is not unlikely we might fall into a new Totalitarian oppression of unknown horrors, if democracy fails because of those mentioned issues.
Democracy is the tyranny. Don't confuse totalitarianism for tyranny. You can have a great state and society under a totalitarian, for example monarchs. Today's democratic societies are so dystopian people prefer to literally go extinct than have children in them.
You consider democracy the least disfunctional system??? Have you seen the divide and the corruption between the sides???
Do we need a centralized system? I don't think we do. I think such things are imposed upon us for the benefit of the people who impose it.
Probably the most dysfunctional system ever implemented. It accomplishes the direct opposite of what it claims it exists to avoid. Democracies create the need and incentives for a gigantic bureaucracy to form and never stop growing. This ironically creates the conditions that make true totalitarianism possible in the first place. Outright authoritarian and autocratic systems were almost always extremely decentralized and had a relatively small state apparatus with far fewer total laws than any democracy that existed at the same time. The Russian Empire for example was an outright autocracy, but compared to the French Republic that existed at the same time, the average person was FAR and away more autonomous. There were more police officers in the city of Paris alone than in the entire Russian Empire, which had a much larger population.
It seems to be a trend that the more a state talks about freedom, rights, liberty, democracy, etc, the more totalitarian it is in practice, while states that are openly authoritarian, autocratic, or even totalitarian in the technical sense (the way the Duce defined it), the more autonomous and less micromanaged the average person is.
lol okay bro
based monarchy gang 👑