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  • Inevitably, all hierarchical organizations end up on the wrong side of history.

    In hierarchies, people compete for position.

    People with principles, morals, integrity and/or empathy will have choices that they simply will not make.

    People without those things are not constrained. They can and will make whatever choices might benefit them, with no regard for the consequences to others.

    So all other things being more or less equal, psychopaths actually have a competitive advantage in hierarchies, and hierarchies end up effectively rewarding and thus selecting for psychopathy.








  • I clearly and concisely supported my contention that the term “fascist” is appropriate to this administration.

    You responded with a string of laughably false ad hominems, painfully transparent paychological projection and a pathetic attempt to just dismiss my argument out of hand. The one thing you did NOT respond with is even the faintest trace of intellectual integrity, so there’s no point in trying to pursue thecdebate any further.

    Oh and… a thing that people like you seem to generally fail to grasp - you don’t really fool anyone. The lurkers can see what you’re doing just as clearly as I can.








  • Most of those ‘sectarian’ spaces are the end result of anti-sectarian attempts

    This is a vital observation, and not just in this narrower context but in the broader context of leftism subverted by authoritarianism.

    The thing is that we actually can have instances free of sectarianism. All it requires is a population among whom enough people hold to the value of non-sectarianism to not only establish such spaces, but for them to continue to be non-sectarian solely because nobody succeeds in driving wedges (or better yet, nobody even tries). And again, this dynamic holds in the broader context and not just in this narrower one.

    But of course the problem, at whatever scale and in whatever context, is that we don’t have such a population, and there’s no indication that such a population will come to be in our immediate future either.

    And that’s the exact point at which it starts to go wrong.

    Through some combination of indoctrination and irrationality-driven-by-impatience, some number of people, faced with that fact, decide that that means that what we have to do is force it into being, which is inevitably doomed to failure, since it essentially boils down to establishing a hierarchy by which some claim the authority to eliminate hierarchy and prohibit authority.