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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Juxtaposition

I was struck a few days ago by the similarity between the views expressed in this piece, and the views explained in this one.

Moldbug on governance appears to be a cross between a standard-issue state-department foreign-policy "realist" and a neo-con...with a sprinkle of libertarian economics for seasoning. Not shocking, given his biography.

Ethics is not part of the political discussion. And autonomy is good for folks-like-me, not for everyone. Odious. Like the neo-cons. Like the state deparment "realists". And like historical apologists for slavery. Lots of pretty words, all of which say, "fuck the others and their preferences...the important folks are folks like me".

2 comments:

Tushar Saxena said...

I don't quite understand. Are you actually calling Mencius a neocon? lolwut?!?
Okay, seriously, the guy is more isolationist than Ron Paul. This post appears to me to be a severe failure of reading comprehension or at least context comprehension.

Aretae said...

Of course not. That would be a reading-comprehension epic-fail. But the approach to foreign policy is based on similar approaches. There are BIG similarities.