Petterson interviews Poilievre

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I'm not for annexation even though it may be inevitable

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Nothing about it is inevitable. It won’t happen, and it shouldn’t. The US and Canada have never once, for a single second, been governed as a single entity. There is nothing inherently driving the two nations to merge. We have different histories, different domestic political principles and ideologies. If they didn’t speak English this wouldn’t even be a conversation.

watch this,, your opinion may not change but you'll think about it differently

timely bump

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Trad Conservatism,, American and Britsh-ish is the way

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Those ideas are why society is collapsing around us

Conservatism is a flavor of liberalism, and liberalism the application of a philosophy called nominalism to our lives.

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Nominalism takes its name from this act of naming. It is nothing more than the act of naming that generates the illusion of some deeper connectedness between things.

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This is a really simple but dangerous idea

So if I was to describe us both as human beings, that would be an act of arbitrary labeling on my part. And if we’re not both humans, if that’s just an arbitrary label, then we don’t owe each other anything

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For centuries, that was the assumption — at least, in theory — that human beings all have something very basic in common, and that on the basis of this, we owe each other a certain kind of moral respect.

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But nominalism, especially in its current political iteration, will have absolutely none of this. There is no such deep connection between these squashy things made of flesh and blood that we have lumped together as “human beings” out of rhetorical convenience.

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Under nominalism, “human being” — only a name, after all — turns out to be a weaker connector between people of very different life experiences.

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Liberalism, classical liberalism, applied this to every aspect of our world, which led to the scientific revolution, but it also ate away all of the underlying structure that bound us together. It attacked religion, family, race, nation, ultimately leaving these ideas severely damaged.

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"Nominalism" laid the foundation for future liberalism, both ideologically and economically. Here humans were seen only as individuals and nothing else, and all forms of collective identity (religion, class, etc.) were to be abolished. Likewise, the thing was seen as absolute private property, as a concrete, separate thing which could easily be attributed as property to this or that individual owner.

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The first phase was the introduction of nominalism into the realm of religion. The collective identity of the Church, as understood by Catholicism (and even more so by Orthodoxy), was replaced by Protestants as individuals who could henceforth interpret Scripture based on their reasoning alone and rejecting any tradition. Thus many aspects of Christianity - the sacraments, miracles, angels, reward after death, the end of the world, etc. - have been reconsidered and discarded as not meeting the "rational criteria".

The church as the "mystical body of Christ" was destroyed and replaced by hobby clubs created by free consent from below. This created a large number of disputing Protestant sects. In Europe and in England itself, where nominalism had borne its most thorough fruit, the process was somewhat subdued, and the most rabid Protestants rushed to the New World and established their own society there. Later, after the struggle with the metropolis, the United States emerged.

Parallel to the destruction of the Church as a "collective identity" (something "common"), the estates began to be abolished. The social hierarchy of priests, aristocracy, and peasants was replaced by undefined "townspeople", according to the original meaning of the word "bourgeois". The bourgeoisie supplanted all other strata of European society. But the bourgeois was exactly the best "individual," a citizen without clan, tribe, or profession, but with private property. And this new class began to reconstruct all of European society.

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Alexander Dugin, writing at Katehon