We May Be The Only Ones Left And That's Frightening
I admit that I have a love/hate relationship with the concept of logical consistency. Hear me out please. First, my enemies don’t care if their arguments or policies possess logical consistency and, unfortunately, they tend to be the ones that control the reins of power that keep me in bondage to the State and their apparatchiks. Second, if I stay wed to the idea that I must adhere to logical consistency to be a legitimate voice for people who desire the same freedom from oppression that I do, it’s almost certain that I will only be doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result (insanity). It appears that the few of us who do value logical consistency may be the only ones left. And that’s something that should be discussed more often.
In the past, the American Christian-Right (CR) did a decent job of being consistent in their principles when it came to endorsing candidates, even if it was superficial. At least George W Bush and Ronald Reagan portrayed themselves as Christians, but when the American Evangelicals chose to go to the mat for a twice divorced, foul-mouthed billionaire who bragged about banging porn stars, they lost any high ground they claimed to have. Any Christian who threw their lot behind someone who is closer to Ron Jeremy than Billy Graham deserves every bit of scorn and derision thrown in their direction.
One of the things the CR loves to do is highlight what they often call “liberal hypocrisy.” As an example, the Left championed the George Floyd riots which were responsible for 19 deaths, maybe more, but when it came to the incident at The Capitol on January 6th of this year, they were outraged and even lied about how a Capitol Hill police officer died. The CR, and the Right in general, claim this to be hypocrisy. The problem I struggle with is how the CR can care about logical consistency when the person they’ve literally referred to as their “Savior,” Donald Trump, has as much in common with their soteriological New Testament Savior, Jesus Christ, as Kim Jong-un does. If logical consistency is going to be a watermark you use to judge your enemy, it would make sense that you would do everything within your power to make sure your strategy doesn’t submerge you as well.
For those promoting Libertarian/Anarchist/Agorist (LAA) ideology who are considering using logical consistency, much can be learned by looking at the CR over the last 5-6 years. On one hand, the CR abandoned logical consistency and clearly lost the battle they waged. On the other hand, the question must be asked as to whether they even stood a chance when you take into consideration that even with the Right controlling the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, the Left still possessed all of the power. Is abandoning logical consistency a way for the LAA to attempt to gain some power over the Left? That’s a question for the individual to consider, but I believe the answer is clear.
Your podcast has highlighted this dilemma and shown that logical consistency is an excellent North Star, but that all politics is the art of the possible. The possible happens in the real world which could put LAA types in the situation where they could gain advantage by abandoning logical consistency.
I think its a bit of a tightrope because LAA don't want to take the devil's bargain by acting just like the hypocritical liberals and conservatives. I feel like that would be a spiritual death, to know you were making bad arguments once you've "seen the light" of logical rigor. So like you hinted at, the question is How?
What does calculated, advantaged, and deliberate logical inconsistency look like? How can it be weaponized and used to "turn" folks to the anti-state worldview?
I think emotional appeals would work well, because many people are already operating on that level. Maybe like asking them how do they feel knowing their children are watching them comply with the Mark of the Beast, etc? How long before you leave your abusive husband, the State?
I enjoy hearing your work on the podcast as well as the new Stack. Thanks Man
I love fern hear both Christians and Trump supporting libertarians and any other bird brains who supported a Trump claiming “he didn’t start any new wars” and I refer to his own words where he supported and started a “war on opioids” as well as possibly World War 3, the mist costly and deadly war in human history under the pretext of his “war on a virus.” If we are to look at how 400,000 Americans actually died in a year, we’d likely find medical malfeasance which is typically the third leading cause of death in America but which will likely not see a single case in 2020 as hospital deaths went unseen by civilian eyes. Do we trust that our enemy like in any war would declare any death they caused as any less than a casualty of the pretext? Would they really say, “this was a terrible mistake for which I should be convicted.” I expect much more along the lines of “I was just following protocol” of which for Covid there was a negligence among health agencies to provide one and there was a propensity to demonize and discredit anyone who tried to formulate one before their Frankenstein technology was finished being created. I never call what they are doing a vaccine because it is an experimental mRNA technology and it is being rolled out on the public in no more finesse than what people were hung for after Nuremberg. All the govt programs that were behind this latest govt operation are no less than a unified war effort. At what other time in history of the good of mankind have agencies unified? Never. If it weren’t a war against humanity, against the domestic citizens agencies would be working and playing against each other as they are in any time but war time. This is a unified plundering and massacre and it’s not just the 400,000 deaths of a pretext but all the suicides, all the deaths of despair, all the deaths of an intentionally disabled medical system. The only part of this death machine called medicine that ever worked was targeted and destroyed. When we look back on history, this will be seen as nothing less than a full blown nuclear attack on the public and who was at the helm form the get go? Oh, yeah, that buffoon you said “never started any new wars.” I’m sure wherever he is on earth, he’ll be rewarded for playing his part down to his last speech on so-called, completely orchestrated “insurrection day.” I’m sorry but potentially the greatest war criminal president in history is not going to get off so easily through my lazy rhetoric. I always say it, “every president is slightly worse than the last”, but Trump catapulted over any measures of his predecessors in bringing down his own supporters and setting them personally up to be the targets of the actual war machine for the next four years at least and they still keep making excuses for him and lauding him like the complete mind controlled cattle going to slaughter that they are. Sorry, probably should have put this in my own blog but it kind of fell out of my brain after reading your piece. All this to say, it’s pretty hard to stay philosophically or intellectually consistent if you don’t have any sense of self preservation, and I am going to sound like an insane person to say it again, personal boundaries that you know innately you should have.