Anybody listen to it?
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Alt-right=I'm not going to listen to it. However, I'm sure it's more interesting than Stephan Molyneaux.
Stop believing stupid things
Last edited by Origanalist; 03-16-2017 at 10:22 PM.
"The Patriarch"
I've listened to it many times just like I listen to Slate's political podcasts. Rebel Yell and the rest of therightstuff is just /pol/ memes audio version. They aren't talented or original. It's just background noise to me. They say that libertarianism is "degenerate". They want laws to legislate morality.
Last edited by fr33; 03-16-2017 at 10:50 PM.
I'm sure the NRx is more your thing
Apparently the guy identifies as a "Christian Anarchist"
This is one of the things I hate the most about the alt right. They have made people connect the south and things like states rights with being idiotic rude jerks instead of with things like honor and principle and chivalry. Robert E. Lee would throw up.
Ahh, that is the moniker of the Rebel Yell host (I've never listened and am not familiar with it, by the way).
I don't think that ironic is the word that you want.
I have chosen as my moniker here the name of a man who was excommunicated from my church, a church of which I am very much a loyal member in good standing. Ironic?
Gaius Musonius Rufus was a great Stoic philosopher. The Stoics were, by the way, some of the best philosophers. They have been unfairly forgotten and very much overshadowed by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in the educational institutions of today. Wait, what am I saying? Ha, ha, ha, you have probably received as much instruction in Greek thought as you have in writing cursive. I should rather say the Stoics have been overshadowed and replaced by such philosophic luminaries as Malcolm X, Tupac Shakur, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, Toni Morrison, Heather, her Two Mommies, and Dr. Seuss.
By choosing to honor Gaius Musonius Rufus, was he being "ironic?" You tell me, Hito. Read up a little on (the real) Gaius Musonius Rufus, and then let me know: what do you think this podcast host was trying to say?
No it was the fact that the man with the moniker of Musonius Rufus identified as a Christian Anarchist like someone else we know that was ironic or should I say coincidental?
......................so I take it your a mormon?
Last edited by Lamp; 03-17-2017 at 02:43 PM.
That was quick reading, Hito! So, tell me about Gaius Musonius Rufus.
That is even less ironic. At least seeing irony in a Christian picking a non-Christian name is... somewhat coherent.
Ironic really, really is not the word you were looking for.
"What a coincidence!" would be more fitting; but not that, even, once you realize how common Christian anarchists actually are, at least in our circles.
True blue, through and through.......................so I take it you are a Mormon?
Sure. In the old days the southern cause was defended by people like Lee who were well read and behaved honorably even in the face of their enemies. They were informed on the history of freedom and could have long discussions defending ideas like states rights and such. They treated women with respect and would never refer to a woman on the opposing side as a whore or any of the names the alt right uses. Someone like Lee would never stoop to calling someone a cuck and other insults.
The term southern hospitality shows how people used to think about the south. Even some people in the north who cared nothing about history used to speak highly about southern culture in the early 1900s. The alt right is doing all they can to reverse all of that.
Nothing but a bunch of childish shock jocks who think the stupider they act the cooler they are. Along with their freak show of people like Milo.
I agree with your point and appreciate your putting in a good word for civility and civilization. As well as a bad word for degeneracy -- that's always called for and not heard nearly enough.
That said, to my understanding, the alt-right is anything but monolithic; probably even less so than the libertarian universe (a universe which includes, you'll recall, Howard Stern, and other reprehensible characters). The parts that both you and I would find degenerate are just a reflection of the general degeneracy of our society. But much of the alt-right that I've run across has been well-written, well-rounded, erudite, and not only free of anything profane but advocating a return to very old-fashioned traditional values and a strong moral code (the very thing *I* advocate for! And you, too, I think, William.).
I would say that the fact that this fellow has chosen as a pseudonym a philosopher from archaic Greece (and a good philosopher) indicates that his show is probably not rude and crude. One can hope.
He was a roman stoic philosopher who advocated asceticism in order to develop good character.
Yeah, that kind of sums it up, although all the Stoics advocated that, so the asceticism doesn't really set him apart, as key as it was to his philosophy.
I very much like his emphasis on action and results. That good philosophy is lived, not merely written, and that if the philosophy does not lead to tangible good and wholesome felicity in the lives of its practitioners (practitioners, not adherents, note) then what is it good for?
Like love: absolutely nothing!
Worth a listen:
http://tomwoods.com/ep-862-the-alt-right/
It was essentially a group of pragmatic libertarians who rejected both anarcho-capitalism and constitutionalism, in favor of a proprietary state ala Hoppe's "Democracy: The God That Failed." It grew out of the writings of a blogger named Mencius Moldbug. It always contained a "race realist" element, but nothing like the white nationalism of the alt-right (which seems, most lamentably, to have pretty much subsumed neoreaction at this point).
...or one of their dupes.but from what I hear you have to be a white nat to be in the alt right
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