Summoning the Third Demoness
"Liberty in our Lifetime" and the Moral Cowardice of Libertarians
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.
The history of modernity is the history of new ideological constructs arising to create ever more effective war waging coalitions of beneficiaries, ever larger groups of enforcers, and ever larger charnel houses of the losers.
Ideology is is first and foremost an organizing principle for violence.
The various spiritual, moral, and political evolutions and revolutions in the medieval and later absolutist systems allowed larger military forces, and more coherent better trained men, the Protestant reformation itself was a massive catalyst for new ideological coalitions and the confiscation of the property of wealthy monasteries and institutions.
But the real Revolution in ideological warfighting begins with the enlightenment revolutions, and the role radical printers, daily publications, and ideological pamphleteers played to revolutionize the memetic space.
The siren cry of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (Brotherhood)) set off by the enlightenment was their slogan, and their organizing principle, which allowed the immediate overthrow of the Ancien Regime in France and the aging decayed fuedal aristocracy and its bizzare bureaucracy.
Of course almost imediately the ideologies changed upon attaining power.
Out of the cry of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, came three world changing national revolutions.
Like the Judgement of Paris, the Peoples of the west each chose a Goddess.
The American Revolution, Corresponding to the idea of Liberty. Obviously.
The French Revolution, which despite its tri-color flag and tri-value slogan very quickly devolved into egalitarian terror.
And finally Otto Von Bismarck's unification of Germany was the final Fraternal “revolution” in the western world. Creating a unified German state where none had meaningfully existed in history, despite protestations about a “First Reich” under the holy roman emperor.
Liberté, Égalité, and Fraternité were each chosen by a people… And each’s fate was determined therein.
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However as the enlightenment progressed and these ideologies and states failed or reformed… In the 20th century as the memetic landscape was changing yet again with the rise of Mass Media such as mass newspaper circulation, the radio, and the rise of mass movement party politics… these three sister ideas took on new and disturbing dimensions beyond even what the earlier revolutions had hinted…
Where the French Revolution’s egalitarianism had killed 10s of thousands in terrors and maybe hundreds of thousands in starvation… the Communist Russian Revolution killed millions in the pursuit of a leveling not just of class and noble titles, but all material distinctions and property.
Equality without choice.
Where Bismarck had unified all of the German states and duchies under the Prussian government of the Kaiser (a call back to Caesar and the Holy Roman Empire), the Fascist regime of the Nazis unified all German nations under one party, one secret police and one Fuhrer. In the words of Bennito Mussolini summarizing fascism: Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
Unity without dissent.
And where the American Revolution fought a massive war in the name of liberty….
The third dread Ideology to rival Communism, and Fascism, and kill its own 10s if not hundreds of millions… the third blood sister of the 20th century, failed to appear.
Égalité became Communism.
Fraternité became Fascism.
Liberté became what?
Antidescrimination? Butt sex? Legalized Marrijauna? Hyper regulation? Buying the world a Coke?
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What was the name we gave the 3rd Totalitarian ideology?
Communism… Fascism… “Libertarianism”?
Where is Liberty?
Americans took the exact wrong lesson from Libertarianism. Owing somehow to the wealth of the US… Their antidescrimination delusions… And the mistaken belief that somehow frontier liberty was achievable via mere constitutional legal maneuvers…
“Libertarians” took principles such as: "Government is just the biggest gang" "Taxation is theft"
And they concluded: So we should be useless pacifists? "Don't hurt people and don't take their stuff"? Appeal to the supreme court?
No you should form your own gangs to hurt THEM and take THEIR stuff, because "The Non-Aggression Principle" has already been violated by them, and therefore as long as they live they will never be protected by it ever again. Taxation is theft… therefore no one who lives off the taxes of others has a rightful claim to anything they hold, not even their own bodies. The final appeals court of inalienable liberty isn’t SCOTUS but the merciless field of combat, honor, and glory.
The natural conclusion of “The NAP” (the Non-Aggression Principle) is that All violence against leftists, statists, and government employees, collaborators, and beneficiaries are necessarily ethical… as they have, are, and continue to participate in the violence of the state against non-aggressing individuals according to the most natural interpretation. They can be mugged, robbed, killed and worse… for fun or profit, without any ethical or moral implication aside from offering the assailant a chance to demonstrate their virtuous skill and profit themselves according to the logical conclusion of libertarian ethics.
According to the plain reading of Libertarian values, Violence against the state, left, and corrupt corporations is self defense in all circumstances... Luigi Mangione killed in self defense, Thompson used violence against him by profiting off Obamacare, was doing so even as he was shot attending a shareholder meeting for a company profiting off Obamacare, and planned to continue to do so… Luigi, according to Libertarian logic, was defending tens of millions of Americans from active and continuing violence, fraud, and coercion.
"Taxation is Theft" rightfully interpreted, and as expansively understood as logic would dictate says that Insurance companies, State Employees, welfare recipients, boomer retirees, educational institutes, and spying foreign governments, are active organized criminals, violent racketeers, robbers, murderers, and rapists… Under no protection or shared humanity which free men owe to free men.
Continuing the Luigi Analogy: The individual Obamacare mandate is a Tax. Brian Thompson was actively Taxing millions of Americans by selling them products he collaborated with the state to violently force them to buy… And was violently forcing on Americans even at the moment Mangione shot him.
“Taxation is Theft” rightfully interpreted would demand as many millions dead as "Property is Theft".
This is what the essence of Libertarianism should have been, it’s natural totalitarian, ideological megafauna state. Its 20th century logical conclusion.
That Illegitimate criminal violence is being used against you, therefore all violence employed against those doing it is legitimate. Government employees and welfare recipients have no rights a free man need respect. They are the complicit beneficiaries of mass theft and criminal murder, and so nothing done against them can be theft or murder.
This is the immediate, logical, unalterable implication of the libertarian's own slogans and principles. That all welfare recipients and government employees should be some combination of hanged, shot, dispossessed of all they own, indentured for life, or permanently enslaved in arctic work camps... and only the unprincipled mercy, expedience, or moral cowardice of free men prevents this.
In the exact same manner that "Property is theft" implied the bourgeois property holding class were entirely a criminal culture, every one guilty of theft over hundreds of thousands of dollars, everyone deserving conviction or ad hoc punishment equivalent to a bank robber, and those who violently resisted or organized to perpetuate their crimes were guilty of even greater an more violent crimes justifying ever more ruthless and punitive warfaring and punishment...
The Libertarian Gulags would rightly hold just as many class enemies of liberty as the Stalinist Gulags held class enemies of the worker.
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Maybe the most famous quote in American life is:
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
-Ben Franklin
Except this Ben Franklin quote isn’t true. Many a warrior, barbarian, king, warlord, and criminal has wholly eliminated the second from their life by maximizing the first.
Yet somehow the movement attached to the ideology which says “Taxation is Theft” would never propose we simply become horrifyingly violent enough Taxation cannot occur.
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"Liberty in our lifetimes" and "Live Free or Die" combined, necessarily implies that YOU ARE NOT FREE, your natural liberty is being systematically violated by illegitimate tyrants... And tens of millions dead in wars of liberation are not only justified, but THE ONLY possible response any honorable free man could have... And that anyone who doesn't want such a war is a willing slave and enemy collaborator who not only deserves to have such a war forced on them, but rightly would perish in it.
"Liberty in our lifetimes" and "taxation is theft" would not mean that maybe we could get a marginally lower tax rate by the time our grand-kids are 80... But that we should be escalating to wars of Armageddon within a 5 to 10 year plan, so that after 30 years of bloodletting and horror our survivors might know a truly ungovernable world of honorable violent men who cannot but be free.
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It is for this reason that, inspite of everything, I can't quite bring myself to stop identifying as a "libertarian".... Despite the obvious soy dysgenic Ellis-island mystery-meat cowardice and complacency of all the actual libertarians, buried within the ideas, slogans, and "principles" (which none of them will fight or kill for) is an ideological structure which properly conceived could do to the 21st century what Communism and Marxism did to the 20th century.
“Taxation is theft” “Liberty in our lifetime” “Government is a criminal organization” “Live Free or Die”
By right these slogans and ideas, plainly interpreted, demand the mass death and destruction of the current western states and governments on a par with the Russian or Chinese Civil Wars.
That morally and rightly the Houses of Windsor, Obama, Blair, Bush, and Clinton could and probably should face the same fate as the Romanovs… and likewise the house of Trump if he fails to move fast enough or prosecute the deep state hard enough to recieve exemption from his crimes as an ally.
That far from “antidescrimination” racism and discrimination is the innate inalienable right of free peoples, and the dependent black and brown hordes who depend on welfare and handouts should not only be cutoff immediately and left to become productive or die, but any resistance or attempts to fight for their gibs should be met with violence.
The sudden end of all welfare and the roof Koreans and arctic slavery for all who riot in anger. That they have no right to their systemic theft, and free men have every right to defend their lives, property and liberty from such systemic theft with force.
That “Live Free or Die” truly means every man, woman, and child sorted into the one category or the other, and war to the knife and the knife to the hilt until that is the case… That peace itself must die until such a time as the last tyrant threatening us is dead or the last man standing is free.
That no free man exists in America except those who already consciously see themselves in the state of war, and all law abiding behavior treason to their Gods, Family, and Individual dignity.
That there are taxpayers, and tax consumers… And the one must destroy the other.
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This is the interesting transformation that has largely already happened to America’s founding ideology… The Soy autists and degenerate losers who have clung to "individualism" have, in their uncomprehending autism, forged the fearsome steel symmetry of the Third Demoness… Fascism and Communism’s more terrible sister has indeed taken shape in her dusty shadows and mouthed but unbelieved slogans… If only suitably wicked men of iron will and ruthless malevolence would dare to dance with her?
Who will be the White Karl Marx? Who the Western Lenin? Who the Trotsky ordering the decimination of DMV employees? Who the Stalin to ship millions to West Alaska? Who the Mussolini of Missouri? Who the Hitler of New Hampshire?
Who will dare to make the Final Logical Leap of the Anglo-Saxon’s Enlightenment choice.
Who will forge the pact with the Third Demoness?
Which Paris will present the Apple of Discord to that Mad Athena?
We’ve seen Equality without Choice. We’ve seen Unity without Dissent.
Who will show us Liberty without Mercy?
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> It is for this reason that, inspite of everything, I can't quite bring myself to stop identifying as a "libertarian"
I can relate very strongly to this. I hate with a passion what libertarianism has become, but the core principles are too beautiful to abandon.
Beautiful article!
We have reason to believe that the state that best knew how to balance Liberty, Equality and Fraternity was the Venetian Republic.
Freedom: home to trade and the press in a feudal world, thanks to elections, rotation of offices and written laws (Statuta). Magistrates were mostly unpaid, avoiding a bureaucratic caste.
Equality: aristocratic but legally equal for patricians and emerging merchants. Offices were assigned by lot or vote (Maggior Consiglio, Consiglio dei Dieci, Senato). The Doge saw his powers progressively reduced as Europe evolved towards enlightened despotism.
Fraternity: parish colleganze, Scuole Grandi, corporations and fondachi created networks of mutual aid and solidarity. Great state works united citizens in a shared project of common good.
These pillars, supported by cross-checks (rota, auditing, balancing magistracies), guaranteed Venice a thousand years of stability and prosperity.
We at Third Venetia believe it is essential to rediscover these parallels: by erasing the Venetian Republic from western history, we have discarded a model for balancing freedom, equality and fraternity. Let us recover its lessons to face the challenges of today.