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Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries
Third Position writes "Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But there's a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolution. Neoreactionaries believe that while technology and capitalism have advanced humanity over the past couple centuries, democracy has actually done more harm than good. They propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy."
As long as the monarch is a computer and not a person, that is programmed to run a small number of tasks, that are similar to the ones that are given to the government as powers in the original USA Constitution (but take away any type of patent and copyright protections, running the post office, any roads for it, specifically disallow for any form of income related taxes and any form of wealth redistribution, prohibit the monarch from coming up with any type of business related regulations, prohibit the monarch from money manipulation, money should be market based) then it will make perfect sense.
Democracy is garbage, it degenerates into the 'bread and circuses' self destructive behaviour, where the mob votes for more armed robbery committed by the government on behalf of the mob, which is what destroys the individual freedoms and the economy. Complete Anarchy is usually replaced with some type of autocracy or a feudal system, where the results will vary based on the whims of a feudal. Constitutional monarchy, where the rules are set up to provide a very consistent rule of law and where the rules cannot change on the whim of the monarch (thus a computer program that is set up once and protected from any changes) and where the rules are set to provide as much individual freedoms and as little collectivism as possible and where the monarch holds the overriding military power (robots with sharks and lasers?) to protect the system from being manipulated by any outside force makes most sense.
You can't handle the truth.
>> democracy has actually done more harm than good
Was this posted from the white house? :)
Harry Reid just got rid of the filibuster in the Senate. It was one of the few protections against the tyranny of the majority. Maybe his next step will just be a winner-take-all type setup in the Senate where the minority party is abolished completely. Once this is done, he can just declare Obama King. Sadly, most on the left would cheer for this.
But why the fuck would anyone want to rebel for a more backwards government?