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This is the assessment of Jean Bodin, Louis XIV, & Voltaire–the Popes (in respect to the Orthodox bishops)–& also Gaius Caligula said, "Let there be one lord, one king" to all his vassal kings at a banquet–so I agree with them.
…Monarchists… on the other hand… are always snarling at absolute monarchy, the vast majority of them being constitutional monarchists… and bickering about centralization/decentralization, and arguing on behalf of Aristotle's notion of a partnership of clans, either for the Nobility of estates (without the preeminence of one royal estate) or for multi-party democracy (without the preeminence of one party corporatism…)

Emperor Tiberius often used a phrase – Auribus teneo lupum – "holding a wolf by the ears" to describe ruling the Roman Empire.
A great deal of people think a ruler is overthrown on account of good or bad of a ruler, but there is a great indifference overall, and like the standpoint of Hobbes… the tongue of a man is a trumpet of war and sedition – no matter how good or bad of a ruler – and civilization is not something to be taken for granted, but may easily be broken – no matter how integral – and dashed to pieces.

Don't take anyone's loyalty for their word or think it will come naturally with the gentle breeze. It takes a lot of effort. And even then… By default, don't consider people reliable that way. Seek out the opportunity, but definitely don't take anything for granted.
Like Machiavelli suggests, there are many counterfeit loyalties. When the heat is on, people bail.
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As for revolting, Tempest Shadow (from the MLP movie) & Hobbes are more accurate: people revolt either when it is opportune or when their discontent foments from personal harm to them directly as to kill them. They don't revolt because it is their duty. Their natural state might as well be revolt (war of all against all)–no need for Aquinas to tell them.
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People don't care. –They don't really care if USA is bombing and killing other people far away or if others they barely know suffer–and they'll bring up the suffering to take advantage of it against their opponents to shame them, not out of compassion for the suffering.
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When it comes to resistance theory, and in particular Aquinas, another factor Hobbes has over them is that while they anticipate people will revolt when there is injustice – I think what Hobbes has over Aquinas here is that civilization is not a free gift of the human spirit, or a political animal, and that people are naturally inclined to stick together for the benefit of their body-politic – rather, ruling the people is like ruling wolves, who are ready to pounce and bite at any instance, unjustly or justly, they'll pounce if you stick your neck out and give them the opportunity… and among the reasons they don't revolt is because there is an influx of doggy treats holds off discontent and fear for their livelihood if they do–but this view, that people are predisposed to revolt, basically unravels pulls the rug from underneath resistance theory by changing the perspective, as Hobbes says, that the tongue of a man is like a trumpet of war, and this pessimistic tone that civilization is fragile and can fracture at any moment puts more stress on security and stability in spite of this.
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I'm not altogether sure I would say people are totally motivated by self-interest/life preservation, but I agree with Hobbes that people aren't born apt for political society (which Hobbes states against Aristotle) – at least, if anything, people aren't born ready for royal monarchy – instead they have to be reared and ePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Opinion on work / life balance
Ideally, on the level of comfort, you wouldn't have to work constantly to survive, but have some level of subsistence if you wanted a break.
My friend had a nice life / work balance by occasionally working every few months to rake up money, then after his job… taking his own time off to have free time.
He could only get away with this lifestyle thanks to living with his parents.
Work probably wouldn't be as grating if it wasn't something you were shackled into by a number of forces like make you have to stick to the grind.
If people had security to join and leave the workforce every once in a while and bide their time, kind of like a part time worker, that would be better.

>Would it solve all humanity's problem?
It's not only for profit and necessity that people are constantly working.
Government begins with the economy and workplace itself. That is where the business of government takes place, to tidy you up, and begin to influence your life. It is really like the 2nd layer after compulsory education in a long series of events to rake people in and discipline them and take time to preach whatever the regime wants to teach the populace, which also happens through employment because the government can also have its gospel carried down through the employers to teach the employees how to behave… is one way employers and the government work together to enforce an agenda in coordinating how the public is taught to behave.
There is a saying, Unworked hands are dangerous hands.
If people were unemployed, a concern is they'd take time to break into rebellion or commit petty crime constantly like hoodlums. That is another reason why from the governor's perspective it is better to have the general populace working, since ample leisure time not only inhibits their capacity to discipline and mold you, but also generally speaking gives people time to rebel and do petty crime, especially if they aren't hooked, and a plethora of other problems if people are interacting more.

>It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor [so they keep working]… the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting [or revolution]

• Aristotle, Politics
  
  

I honestly agree more with Hobbes than Aristotle… people are more inclined to bitterly fight and compete against one another than be kept by ties of companionship, so fundamentally a concord of hosts or partnership of clans fails to take heed and deference ultimately goes to an arbiter to keep the wheels turning functionally.
That is nothing to parade about, but do people revolt for justice or injustice?
–No, they revolt when it is opportune or due to harm–people do not revolt when it is their duty, but again when it is opportune or they are in harm's way.
If people revolted because it was their duty, which many people are mistaken to think is the case, and that the masses are incorruptible judges… well… they would have moved to overthrow during the Epstein files–the reality is people just don't give a fuck in general. They don't care if the US bombs brown people or atrocities are committed, and they gladly also eat the spoils of war like fledgling birds with their mouths open.
People are also far easier to play divide and conquer with–than to unite–and naturally, any government (not only a dictatorship or tyranny, lest you only scruple them) has a keen interest keeping the general populace employed enough to not revolt, as is the case not only for so-called tyrants but republics and democracies like our own.
The natural state of people is already a revolt… that what keeps that revolt at bay is an influx of dog treats… and subsistence… it takes layers upon layers of training to achieve the state of society to keep the people's loyalty not only to a regime, but also loyalty amongst themselves, and they are far from born loyal, but have to be reared and taught like Xenophon says,
>But never think that loyal hearts grow up by nature as the grass grows in the field

Hobbes writes, in denial of Aristotle:
>1st. For first among them there is a contestation of honour and preferment; among beasts [such as ants or bees] there is none: whence hatred and envy, out of which arise sedition and war, is amPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>789246
That's mean :(
Can't you have sex in a wholesome way?

>>789274
It used to be word-filtered to "fun" for a long while, dating back from 8chan days, but somehow a few years ago some mods decided it should be reverted because Trotskyists talk about "degenerated worker's state" every once in a blue moon. I think it should be filtered again, it was funny.

this but i don't leave her and we raise a loving family

>>789281
then u fuck the daughters?

>>789283
obviously

Bump

>>788945
What if two people fuck and then have a homebirth without your permission?

4 hour workday, 4 day workweek
No borders and nations
Religion abolished
Labor vouchers instead of money
No banks and financial systems

>>789136
Terminate.

>>788937
because then they just use gay people as surrogate mothers/fathers duh

>>789229
I meant reading about mental health etc. There's some terrible therapists out there of course but they're not all that bad.

>>789222
Sometimes I feel truly alive, if only for a moment. It's like the fog lifts and I can see everything in astounding clarity. Maybe that alone is worth living for.
>>789224
No, I could barely afford rent this month, which is why I had to ask my father for a small loan of $300. That kind of proves my point, real poor people don't have that luxury.

>>789230
I have an unusual set of specific traits and symptoms that "professionals" seem unable to wrap their minds around. It's actually just ADHD, OCD, and PTSD, but somehow that mindbreaks them the second I mention any specifics.

>>789232
Fair enough, but I can see why they aren't really able to deal with that, that's more psychologist territory

>>789233
I guess that didn't really occur to me until recently. If I went to a medical doctor and complained of abnormal pain, I would expect a cause, diagnosis, and treatment, based on his expertise, not a "That must be difficult". So I don't know why they call them "professionals" because the only thing they're professional at is making me even more confused and enraged.
Also, the fact that I can even afford therapy at all thanks to having insurance through my father is another thing that makes me fake poor.

>>788594
Hard to say as much of the scandalous material about him comes from reactionaries like Judith Reisman.

One such allegations concern Kinsey’s data on child orgasms which, contrary to the misinformation propagated by chuds, was actually sourced from a diary written by a single pedophile who Kinsey anonymously interviewed (mostly as part of his MO to gain confidentiality from his subjects) with the events taking place long before the research began.

As for charges of “degeneracy”, that’s the part where it gets grayer since Kinsey would tell his staff to have sex with their adult interviewees as long as they were comfortable in order to obtain greater intimacy and thus greater confidentiality in terms of sex research.

i don't know who any of these people are, why are we talking about them instead of my cool friends?

>>788620
>that’s the part where it gets grayer since Kinsey would tell his staff to have sex with their adult interviewees as long as they were comfortable in order to obtain greater intimacy and thus greater confidentiality in terms of sex research.
Based

>>788620
not ufo so this might be the right place but now that i think about there was this podcast that i litsend to not that very long ago hat ties it to project mk ultra? obviously take it with a grain (or mabye a pound) of salt https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1635289434/things-observed/alfred-kinsey-mkultra-nazis-crowley-and-sexual-blackmail

bumping

>Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies.

I'm not saying they're right, but also have you seen the average voter? They're fucking retarded and should not be trusted to even represent their own interests. Just look at the MAGA movement jfc.

>>789207
Anatta, no soul doctrine is more amenable materialism

>>789027
I don't care, I am superior to all redditors, I don't watch marvel movies, I don't watch slop, I don't read YA, I don't watch baby shit, I am better morally, politically, intellectually, everythinglly then those low scums.

they blocked my account and started asking for my government id or a face scan on this shady ass AI website
ive been reddit free for a week now

just stop using reddit. it's terrible and filled with bots, advertisements, and shills.

>>788900
Doesn't everybody use reddit? I mean, I don't. But not because of my chan superiority, I just never use sites that require an account. You and those 4chud faggots are the projecting-est ass mothafuckas on the internet. Or at least the part without login pages.

>>789076
NTA but nah, reddit is a very niche and insular community that has been caught faking and/or misrepresenting the metrics of how many users it has on multiple occasions.

insomnia

>>789122
We are vampires.

>>789122
Time zones