Timothy Birdnow

This is an interesting essay and makes some good points. But I disagree with a fair amount of it. For example it says:

"Maybe you’ll do what I do and mash up Buddhism, Christianity, stoicism and techno-futurism."

There is a name for that. It's called Theosoophy.

The top brass of the Third Reich were members of the Thule Society, which was a theosophistic religious order (there is no evidence Hitler himself ever joined but all the others - Goehring, Rosenberg, Goebbles, Himmler, Hess, etc. were members and the Nazi insignia - the lightning SS and the swastika - came from there.)

Is it any wonder our modern era feels more and more like the Third Reich? The forces that shaped National Socialism are being embraced by many in our modern world.

Theosophy argues that all religions have a portion of teh truth and we should amalgamate them. It is monistic, meaning it blends all things together. That is why Mussolini called Fascism "totalitarian"; by that he meant every aspect of society is intimately involved with all other aspects. So nobody ever just leaves you alone; you have to submit to the State as you would to your church. There is no difference between science and religion, between history and propaganda, between free will and the dictates of the greater society. All are one.

Increasingly that is where we are now in our modern civilization. And I blame that on the rejection of religion for this "spirituality sans religion" people are flocking to these days.

Mussolini understood this, which is why Fascism is different from classic socialism. Mussolini argued society had to have a spiritual aspect because it's how people are designed. He wanted to substitute the state for the church. He got the idea directly from Jean Jacques Rousseau who argued for this very thing. Classic socialism is purely about economics and atheism. Mussolini realized it needed a spiritual component to control the masses and give them a sense of purpose.

Now we are replacing God with the State and with AI. But in the end these are both idols, false gods. Remember what the Bible said about such things.

Communism failed because it couldn't produce any wealth, but also because it was morally and spiritually bankrupt. But how are we any better? Instead of worshipping nothing we now worship our leaders, our pop culture, and our computers. Anything but God Himself.

In many ways Fascism is more sinister and dangerous than Marxism. You knew where you stood with the commies. And neo-Western Fascism is far, far more duplicitous and evil than even the Reich. They at least were honest about their evil plans.

" You need to believe some things are worth fighting for… and some are beneath you."

A bad cause is far worse than no cause at all. Most of the world's misery came from idiots choosing idiotic causes.

As Viktor kamorovski says in Dr. Zhivago of Lara's future husband, he was pure and true of heart and an idealist and "such men are dangerous" and cause most of the misery in this world. He was right. As Strelnekof he murdered countless people and caused enormous misery only to hand an empire to people worse than the Tsar. A bad belief is worse than nihilism.

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