Sublime

D’où la possibilité d’un despotisme démocratique dont Robespierre a exploré la voie, qui sera ensuite systématisé par les totalitarismes du XXe siècle et se trouve aujourd’hui réinterprété par les démocratures du XXIe siècle.

It’s easy to caricature Jones as a lunatic or a clown. But Jones subtly and consistently preaches several essential New Right ideas. The first is that politics is often a public sideshow, a distraction that grants the illusion of choice when actual decisions are made covertly and secretly without even the pretense of public input. The second is tha

Ceux qui refusent de réagir de manière adéquate pour protéger leur territoire risquent autant de se faire exploiter que ceux qui ne peuvent se défendre pour des raisons d’incapacité ou de déséquilibre flagrant des forces en présence.

The Machiavellians provides the grounding for much of the New Right’s views on politics.

—The Europeans believe that liberty is promoted by depriving the social authority of some of its rights; the Americans, by dividing its exercise—Almost

People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.

With the public terrified and distracted, power-hungry players were able to move in and ram through policies that benefited corporate elites without debate or consent—not unlike the brutal methods deployed by torturers who use isolation and stress to soften up and break their prisoners.