{"id":2156,"date":"2022-03-24T07:21:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T07:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/compact-mag-not-a-gun-post\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T07:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T07:21:48","slug":"compact-mag-not-a-gun-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/compact-mag-not-a-gun-post\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPACT Mag (Not a gun post!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This new online journal<\/a> looks really good.  From the 'About' page<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our editorial choices are shaped by our desire for a strong social-democratic state that defends community\u2014local and national, familial and religious\u2014against a libertine left and a libertarian right.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I too oppose libertinism and libertarianism.  I note in passing that they in some respects feed each other. See Libertarians and Drug Legalization<\/a> and Arizona Pot Prop 205 Defeated<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A compact is a political union drawing together different people for a common end. It is neither a contract nor a covenant, neither a market relation nor a religious sodality. It depends not on shared blood, but on shared purpose. We are concerned with advancing this properly political form of solidarity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I too am opposed to the Blut und Boden<\/em> mentality of some on the alternative Right. I have come out strongly against tribalism and race-based nationalism while conceding that in the present circumstances a certain amount of pro tempore<\/em> white tribalism may be necessary to counter our political enemies effectively.  In a war you must do things that you don't want to do and would not have to do in times of peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

That being said and well understood, I am skeptical of finding "shared purpose" with people from radically different cultures.  What "shared purpose" could we have with sharia-supporting Muslims,  to take but one example?<\/span><\/p>\n

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We believe that the ideology of liberalism is at odds with the virtue of liberality. We oppose liberalism in part because we seek a society more tolerant of human difference and human frailty.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That's strange. The touchstone of classical liberalism is precisely toleration.  I wonder how these boys are using 'liberalism.'<\/span><\/p>\n

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Compact <\/em>will challenge the overclass that controls government, culture, and capital. Whoever does this is bound to be called radical. We do not shy from the label, but we insist on its proper meaning. Rightly understood, to be radical does not mean going to extremes. It means getting to the root of things.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Very good. 'Radical' is from the Latin radix<\/em>, meaning root<\/em>. A radical goes to the root of the matter. But not like the Communists who literally e-rad-icated<\/em> (uprooted) their class enemies breaking millions of eggs for an impossible omelet. (That's what we call a mixed metaphor, by the way.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The trick here is to avoid both deracination and a form of autochthony<\/a> rooted in soil and nourished by blood. We need to find the via media<\/em> between Bodenlosigkeit<\/em> and Bodengebundenheit<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

One more pun. I have come out against, not masculinity, but toxic masculinity which could be characterized as Blut und Hoden<\/a><\/em>, blood and balls, given the tendency of some on the alt-Right to embrace toxic masculinity in conjunction with an illiberal attachment to the indigenous.<\/span><\/p>\n

Humanity certainly has its work cut out for it, assuming we don't nuke ourselves into oblivion. <\/span><\/p>\n

I stand for free speech against the fascists of both the Left and the Right. And so I wish the COMPACT-ers all the best.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This new online journal looks really good.  From the 'About' page: Our editorial choices are shaped by our desire for a strong social-democratic state that defends community\u2014local and national, familial and religious\u2014against a libertine left and a libertarian right. I too oppose libertinism and libertarianism.  I note in passing that they in some respects feed … Continue reading “COMPACT Mag (Not a gun post!)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}