Ideologies, not nations or tribes, are the fundamental unit of our time ⭐
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One of my controversial opinion is it is now becoming increasingly untenable to talk of nation states as the unit of analysis because increasingly intra-national differences are now greater than inter-national ones in some ways.
1. Who is the “alien enemy”, today’s analog of the Rāj?
“Men back then simply did not see the Company as we do today. Moral judgement on them is pointless.”
10-mark question: What is the analogous entity today, whose ways are so alien that nationalists do not understand as their competition, but has emerged as the true sovereign?
The answer is, of course, left-liberalism.
RWs constantly underestimate the sheer strength of the Left-Liberal Empire, its absolute control over all the institutions of the world, with silly memes like
“oh they’re just deluded college students, they’ll outgrow it”
“they’re idiots who don’t realize they’re getting played by oil companies/christian missionaries/online racists/landlord farmers/terrorists”
They think of liberals as their rivals only in the narrow domain of winning elections and making policy, not seeing the latter’s desire to (and success at) completely and absolutely control every last aspect of society.
They look at “liberals crying over something trivial” and laugh at it as pathetic, not understanding what this means: that the liberal sees even the slightest bit of unconquered territory as intolerable.
The right-winger thinks the real game of politics is between nations, companies and groups motivated by self-interest. The idea that some “ideology” could be a serious participant in this game sounds like a childish delusion.
Well, those deluded idealistic children grew up, and remade the world in their own image.
Their goals are alien. Their methods are alien. Their behaviour is alien. Much like the Rājās confronted by the East India Company, RWs conclude that this must mean liberals’ goals are orthogonal to their own, and not a direct threat.
Nonetheless their goals require the complete annihilation of your world and all you hold dear. And they have no reason to compromise with you.
2. Ideologies as the “Potential Energy” of realism
A physics analogy for parasitic ideologies/soft powers–
If you see the world as governed by people/groups maximizing their interests, a lot of evidence appears contradictory.
E.g. big-brain rEaLisTs will tell you that leftist groups are akshually serving GAE/corporations/Christians, but this doesn’t make sense when you realize those groups also act against GAE/corporations/Christians. Whose “interests” are served when Soros funds Rahul Gandhi in India and unleashes criminals onto the streets in America?
Similarly: you start out with a basic kinematic model of the world where the quantity ∑1/2 mv2 is an important conserved quantity. But then you observe an apple falling toward the earth, contradicting this model.
So to patch this model you introduce the concept of “forces” and “potential energy”, and say that it’s actually ∑1/2 mv2 + U that is conserved.
The realist big-brainers scoff at you for introducing fudge factors and postulating imaginary things, but you can’t really call it imaginary if its consequences are directly observable before you.
Analogously to account for these “negative-sum” or “irrational” behaviors (from the perspective of pure material self-interest) we must introduce the concept of Ideologies into our framework.