Quote:I doubt he'd be willing to allow unpopular opinions to be suppressed here.
There's "unpopular opinions", and then there's me. All right, at the risk of being banned for being too evil to tolerate, I'll be more direct. I'm an (irreligious) reactionary. I'm a self-described kyriarchist. I think, that outside the narrow elements of the natural sciences and (most) technology, the entire "Enlightenment project" was a dire mistake, and that the last 500 years (at least) of social "progress" are nothing of the kind.
I'm a Monarchist — but for neither constitutional monarchy nor the "absolutist" monarchies of the Early Modern period, but the comparitively weak monarchs, balanced by powerful lords and barons, of the Medieval period (think King John and the Magna Carty). I'm in favor of hereditary aristocracy. I'm moderately opposed to "capitalism" — not in favor of socialism or any other proposed "post-capitalism", but in favor of pre-capitalism; that is, (manorialist-style) feudalism. I think marriage went wrong not with gay marriage or no fault divorce, but with the rise of "romantic love" and the decline of arranged marriage, and marriage as about a deal between families for the propagation of bloodlines. I'm an atheist, but I'm a fan of the Inquisitions, the Crusades, and Arnaud Amalric and the "Albigensian Crusade". I think the "Founding Fathers" of America were vile traitors who should all have been hung for their inexcusable crimes against their Rightful Monarch, and that the "Glorious Revolution" was not glorious at all. That Martin Luther should have been executed for his heresy and all his works burned — and the same for William Wilberforce. Xunzi, described as the Hobbes to Mencius's Rousseau, is not only my favorite Confucian philosopher, but one of my favorite philosophers period. Pretty much every form of inequality and "oppression" the modern Left (and even the modern mainstream Right) denounces, I'm for it. I don't belive in "equality"; of the Confucian Five Relations that make up society, four are explicitly cast as unequal, between a "superior" and a "subordinate", and even in the fifth (friends/colleagues/coworkers), issues of seniority make them unequal in practice as well.
In short, by the beliefs of pretty much the vast majority of the political spectrum, I'm pretty much Evil Incarnate.
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."
--Voltaire