trip report
1:10 principalities & kingdoms are totalitarian governments? hahahaha what.
1:25 now that we've redefined the context we're going to say those other folks are wrong with a hand wave
1:30 MAYBE THE ANSWER IS IN THE MIDDLE.
1:40 again lol that they equate monarchy with total complete government power considering the political arrangements of all monarchies ever.
1:50 okay now that they have a spectrum of power from centralized to diffuse it's pretty lol that they consider republics ("rule by law") to be more diffuse than democracies ("rule by many")
2:10 their explanation of monarchy has improved. i am sated for now.
3:00 you see anarchy is mistaken because the greeks said something.
3:10 founding fathers weren't anarchists, mind blown.
3:30 i'm kinda curious just how much crazy violent stock footage was actually taken in an anarchic situation.
3:40 civilized people
hiring government. if that isn't a frame setter i don't know what is.
4:20 who the hell is he talking about? the only anarchist terrorist i can think of is nechayev and he was fucking crazy and irrelevant.
4:30 it seems that they are taking footage from cuba to discuss anarchy sliding into oligarchy? p. sure that the revolutionaries weren't ever shy about being marxists so uh.
4:35 lenin piggybacked on anarchic tendencies? what.
4:40 hitler piggybacked on anarchic tendencies? WHAT.
5:00 argument by etymology. i should have guessed when i first read the topic title that this would be an argument by etymology. jesus christ, this is the singularly dumbest way to argue anything. what greek stems the word is made out of doesn't mean shit you crazy hyperprescriptionists.
5:15 democracy is mob rule is valueless lawless anarchy. thanks for your valuable insights john birch society.
5:40 the public thing....THE LAW. ahahahah golden.
5:55 bullshit.
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/gbi/docs/kingmyth.html
6:20 democracy is mob rule is valueless lawless anarchy. thanks for your valuable insights john birch society.
7:40 after almost eight minutes they're finally dropping references. madison and hamilton basically have the same argument against democracy, that factions of people of a common interest will launch the democracy into a valueless lawless anarchy.
so anyways i guess this is mostly a problem of definition. the birchers understand democracy as something without rules or conventions or values, in which everything is constantly under a popular vote. this definition is impossible (how would that function, practically?). and if we are going by that definition then every historic "democracy" was secretly a republic. from the athenian democracy to the city-states of medieval italy to various non-white people societies, all republics of a sort.
