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Well it's certainly possible that democracy will be able to continue to prevail. As I said, I'm not one for prognostications. But if I am not outright...

As you said, many of these major events listed have either failed, are failing or fairly fragile or simple ineffective. I don't think that democracy i...

This is a disservice to the many Chinese and Russian men and women who openly advocate for political change in their respective countries, and risk th...

Aww I was hoping it would go on for a little longer

Xi Jinping Say China's One-Party Authoritarian System Can Be A Model For The World "At the big annual gathering of Chinese lawmakers and political adv...

Few people believed that Trump would win, including many on the right, and including Trump himself.

Surely there is a Cioran quote for that

Damn, foiled again

I got there first @"Banno"

I'm not one for prognostications, so I can't comment on what the probable trajectory will be for democracy, but it's hard to imagine a near-future whe...

Yeah running for public office on a pro-monarchy platform is probably more pragmatic. I'll give you that.

You can be given the sword Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake, signifying by divine providence, that you, Agustino, are to be king. Now personally, I d...

A pro-monarchist running for public office :ok:

I mean I get it, I wouldn't want my clients to know I support constitutional monarchism either.

You live in Eastern Europe correct? For several reasons, I assume your business is fairly small, so your clientele is likely local, especially if they...

Yeah I definitely want to steal your Eastern European customer base :roll:

As I said, if @"Agustino" doesn't want to share it for personal private reasons, I totally understand that. Of course he doesn't have to share it with...

Except you aren't "targeting" us by merely sharing a company name. That doesn't cost you any CPI or CPV because it's not coming out of your advertisin...

As I said, I don't see how any web development or marketing business model could be so secretive that you can't even provide a website, or even a name...

This is pretty baffling to me, because I used to work at an advertising agency that specialized in website development, marketing, etc. and I can't th...

lol this is a profoundly lazy cop-out, even for you. We are not talking about future predictions. We are talking about how post-modernism became, andi...

@"Agustino", does your company have a website that you can share?

The Philosopher's Toolkit is an excellent book to start with.

The David Harvey lectures are fantastic. I watched them while reading volume 1 of Capital back in 2011.

Edward Luce has recently put forward an intriguing (but not very robust) theory that "the secret to any nation's diplomatic character is embedded in i...

This isn't an answer, though. How did an esoteric academic philosophy transform into a the prevailing "cultural zeitgeist" or the paramount "values of...

I might write a full thread about this, but I was recently thinking about why Peterson, Sommers, Quillette contributors, and other members of this sor...

Here is recent research showing the growing influence of China, in both covert and overt ways, across Europe. China is leveraging the fact that they a...

I watched The Godfather for the first time in a decade, and watched Part 2 for the first time. Both are fantastic movies. I slightly prefer Part 1 ove...

I did the same with a number of 180 Proof's posts, my posts, and intelligent posts from other members. It's a shame that a large number of pre-2014 po...

Something "existing" outside "physical reality" doesn't sound meaningful at all.

Love it

I'll have to pick up Voegelin work sometime, but I've seen a mostly welcoming response from historians regarding Israel's work. Of course, there's bou...

Jonathan Israel uses the term "Radical" (in the context of the Enlightenment, of course) to describe a set of overlapping (but not necessarily uncondi...

Let me know how this is, it's been siting in my Amazon cart for a while.

I've read the entirety of Jonathan Israel's trilogy on The Enlightenment, and they are some of my favorite history books. What are your questions?

There's nothing wrong or unprofessional with professors influencing or guiding students. Often times, they should act as mentors. What's wrong is infl...

Ah I misread your post, thought you had started Harvard last autumn. In that case, check out Mr. Bartley's Burgers in Harvard Square when you do go. T...

Within 2 years, as Peterson's target audience graduates college and enters the work force, he'll become passé and fad into obscurity, and some other e...

Agreed. It generally adulterates online philosophical conversation.

I dislike it for several reasons, among them 1) it's aesthetically ugly 2) it often, whether intentionally or not, separates otherwise connected argum...

ugh there it is, my hero :victory:

Agustino, you are absolutely free to criticize the various pitfalls, flaws, and limitations of democracy. As I stated, they exist incontrovertibly. Ne...

Does anyone remember the term for when someone responds to a post online by breaking up the argument sentence by sentence? I remember there was a thre...

Sounds quite lovely, happy 48th. I was actually looking at my profile from the old forums, and coincidentally, noticed that my very last shoutout was ...

Just stumbled across this.

Wolfman was great too. Lot of great comments on Ethics

is today your birthday?

Of course. The type of abstraction I'm providing could easily be conflated with a naive 'folk democracy'. While democracy isn't without it's unique fl...