Order Trumps All Other Concerns

What most people want is order. To that end everything else is subordinated, in order of preference. "Freedom" means "Order" because it means that they are about to go about the daily business of doing what is necessary to produce and maintain the conditions by which people for families and keep the line going. This Twitter rant is worth reading because it nails that topic hard. It starts here:

This is something of a problem for free market Protestants who understand capitalism as a normative value system predicated on "work ethic," rather than a sociological phenomenon or economic system. https://t.co/ky8mxAbw4f pic.twitter.com/NnoAUfxWJe

— Arthur Frayn (@fraynarthur1) July 21, 2018

It goes on for quite a thread, but here's the big points made:

• The legitimately social conservative and religious right was correct about social policy, the labor left was right about free market fundamentalism being a scam.
• You kill the golden goose. You negate the whole purpose of capitalism, the whole reason that any of us would sign off on it. What did you think the purpose of it was? Your magical economic liberty? No, the purpose is to provide jobs so that people can start families
• None of this bullshit matters. It never did. It was all just a means to an end. The end is civilized society wherein there is both the proper social and economic environment for family formation so that we can exist in the first place. It's very fucking simple.
• Capitalism is not a normative value system, it's not a religion or even an ideology. It's just a pragmatic means to an end which we'll use so long as its useful in achieving that end. We'll regulate it or even discard it if it is destructive of that end.

Now you can see how Civilization can vary from place to place, time to time, nation to nation and still be Civilization. It's sole justification for existence is to protect lawful human existence. It is not there for power tripping. It is not there for glory-mongering. It is not there for sating base needs or making others suffer your degeneracy. It is there to protect the things that Mankind requires to survive and thrive- material and spiritual alike. Everything destructive to that end gets destroyed.

Thanks to the Internet we know now what a lawful Civilization looks like: homogeneous nation-states. One nation, one domain, one culture, one religion. A world of kingdoms living as good neighbors, not a world of empire and its necessary evil just to exist.

Empire is Chaos lying about being that necessary Order. Empire the perversion. Empire must fall. Deus Vult