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Disagree. Peaceful change of power is highly overrated. The biggest advantage of monarchy, which in a feudal monarchy in s repeated all the way down to the lowest level fractally, is if your government isn’t doing its job, you know exactly is responsible, and if It needs changing, who exactly...

And everyone who tries to find an alternative kills even more than the ancien regime ever managed.

Human life is tragic and fallen, this is why we are reactionaries; building utopia just means piling bodies for a lie instead of for the truth; because life requires killing. “In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the...

Which is why there is really only ever either monarchy or plutocratic oligarchy with aristocracy and democracy as speed bumps along the way to one or the other. Either there is someone who doesn't need the merchant's money to purchase the authoritas and gravitas to back and legitimate his...

You can't have Tradition and Honour without Power sufficient to secure them from traders and merchants. And Freedom just means license for Traders and Merchants to play subversion games.

"Power" is not a cause though. Or at least, if it is a cause, it is only a necessary cause but not a sufficient one. The root cause is always the will of those with the power to do the thing to be done. Powerlessness is not praiseworthy. Powerlessness is not virtuous. Powerlessness is not...

Treating the problem of the 20th century mass graves as one of 'too much power' strikes me as magical thinking. As if we could abolish power. This is just a recipe for remaining powerless and thinking ourselves good thereby. Power is the capacity to do something in the face of opposition...

'Strong' and 'Large' are not synonyms. Large government is not strong, it is weak, which is why it has to be large in the first place. The strongest government is also the smallest, the rule of the one.