R. J. Shaw: "There’s No Such Thing As The Far-Right :or Truth Vs. Nothingness"...idea of the spectrum of right & left...liberal idea that truth is cut out...It has no connection to this scale of right & left...concentric circles around the truth, that's where the medievals lie...modernist idea is that not only is man the center [not God]...communism & fascism almost right next to each other on this scale...using subjective norms in order to evaluate...because man is the center..There is an objective end. There is a point of truth"

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Hey, how you doing? This is R.J. So, today I'm going to discuss why there is no such thing as the far right. Now,

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normally when I discuss things, I try to reference people that are much more intelligent than I am, who have spent

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their entire lives, usually delving into questions of truth and falsity. And I will do some of that today, but I'm

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going to have to overlay some of my own analysis onto the entire thing because the point is we live in a period of time

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where those kinds of men no longer exist. And I'm going to be examining ideas of today and the modern ideas. So,

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I'm going to have to play a little bit fast and loose. That is to say, to give you my own two cents on a few things.

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And if you don't like it, I don't really give a flying fig. I'll try to be as logical as I possibly can and if you disagree with me, please put that in the

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comments. But I really would urge you to listen to the entire video first so that your comments can at the very least have

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some kind of substance to them. And I'll tell you right off the bat, I won't get to the point of why there is no such thing as the far right until the very

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end. except to begin with well the graphic that I have created the very crude graphic that I have created which is in the background and I will try to

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describe to people who just listen to these videos as if they were podcasts as I go along but my basic gist the bare

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bones of it is as I was discussing on my Wednesday live stream thank you very much to Mr. Bailey for his super chat

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and this question which prompted my thinking about all of this to begin with. That is to say when you go to the right there is a natural stopping point.

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But when you go to the left there is no such thing as any kind of stopping point at all. And the reason why first of all

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we think there is such a thing as the far right is because a we live in an age of liberalism. We have for hundreds of

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years now we are surrounded completely by it like fish and water and it is difficult extremely difficult for us to

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see outside of that dynamic. Now I'm going to try to describe things outside of that dynamic today. But more to the point number two is the fact that since

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the far left never has any stopping point and they have no idea how to think

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according to any other way except how they think. They apply their train of thought and their way of movement to the

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other side assuming the other side is simply doing the opposite of what they're doing which is to say continual movement but it is not the case. The

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right has a natural stopping point and that natural stopping point is the truth. So what I'm going to do is

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describe first right and left according to a larger dynamic and that larger dynamic is the dynamic of virtue and

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vice which I always talk about as heroic virtues but more than that just virtue and vice in general here and as those

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things exist themselves on the larger scale of truth. You see because that's the point that's why many people many many people get this entire thing wrong.

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They're talking about the scale of right versus left while being completely immersed in the ideas of liberalism

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themselves and as such is a completely subjective metric whereas I'm going to describe as best as possible and again

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I'd like to refine this more and more so comments comments comments please I'm going to describe it according to the larger metric of the truth so let's

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start there start with the fact that preodern societies that is to Okay.

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Anything. Well, we'll use the demarcation point here roughly as the enlightenment. So, pre-enlightenment.

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And I hate to use that word because we'll see as we go along that what we live in right now is not an enlightened

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period. Honestly, can you look around you today, look at the cultural, societal, political, and personal ways

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that people and our societies act and say, "Oh, we are so enlightened." No, I don't think so. Quite honestly, I think that when the pendulum does swing back

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and we finally get to a societal norm which reverences the truth once again, ancient and medieval thinking, far be it

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from being declared in the darkness, will be the enlightened quote unquote periods of mankind and then modernism

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will be an era of darkness viewed by these people. And then once we emerge from this current stuper that we're in

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and return to truth, it will be clawing our way back towards the truth again.

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But anyways, first off, does anybody know of a term that encapsulates the ancient and medieval worlds together,

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which is not in reference to a modern idea? I don't know what you call it. The period of veritatus perhaps, I don't know. But the ancient and medieval

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period was a period when when you boil everything down and again being simplistic here using large strokes.

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When you boil everything down, questions were asked according to their situation as they revolved around the truth. Now you might want to call the truth God.

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You go right ahead. That is the Christian way to do it. God himself declared, "I am the truth." But let's just talk about it as truth. Capital T

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truth. So again ancient medieval world large strokes the questions that they ask revolve around the truth. How does

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our existence as human beings and the questions which arise from that existence circle around the truth as planets around the sun. All right. But

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then we get into what you might call the modern period. If you're looking at my little infographic that's not what I have it on the infographic but I will

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call it the liberal period. The period of again quote unquote enlightenment.

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everything after the enlightenment until now. In that period, everything I would bracket under the heading of liberalism.

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Why? Because the whole point was with the enlightenment to take the focus off of God as being the center and making

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man the center. This is why we have things like liberal arts education.

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Okay? And I know because I had to go through it because there was no such thing as a ancient arts education that I could find. But the point was to no

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longer ask questions about reality or existence or our being according to the center of truth. Everything after that

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point was no no we're asking questions according to the center of man. And a liberal arts education does exactly

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that. It says man is the center. We will ask according to the idea that man is the center. And again, I have some

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knowledge of this entire thing, having gone to a master's program in obviously the modern period and structured a

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thesis around the idea of what exactly did the Greeks mean by inspiration with the underlying assumption that their

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inspiration was indeed what they were pursuing, which is the divine breath, which rest upon the assumption that truth actually exists and that they were

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trying to discover a path more and more, more refined and more refined toward towards that truth. My assumption underlying my entire thesis that truth

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actually exists and that mankind revolves around the truth. Well, that kicked a hornets's nest. Anyway, so the

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point is that we have lived in this millu of liberalism since the enlightenment. Let's go roughly 500

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years ago, wherein man asks questions assuming the answer can be found strictly in man himself. And this is

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where we get the traditional idea of right versus left. This idea comes out of a liberal discussion. A discussion

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had under well I'll dare say it the tyranny of liberalism itself. If you look on my little infographic you see on

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the line that well oddly enough well I was just working according to the way western writing actually exists. So oops

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I put the conservatives on the lefthand side and the liberals quote unquote on the right hand side. But anyway, I'm not going to redo the whole thing. Deal with

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it. But you see the conservatives, they are to one side of man. What side is that? That is the side that is trying to

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get back to what the truth is. They're directed towards the truth. Now, this is still within the millu of liberalism

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itself. This, by the way, is why I would not even consider myself on the spectrum of right and left. Because the whole idea of the spectrum of right and left

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is all under the liberal idea that truth is cut out completely. If it is there, it's just off in space. It has no

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connection to this scale of right and left of conservative and liberal. Those extra little concentric circles around the truth, that's where the medievals lie. That's where the ancients lie.

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within those circles, circling around the truth. That's hopefully where I try to be. Anyways, so I'm not even on the scale of right and left. And I'm sure

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there are at the very least a couple of people who are listening to my voice who think the exact same, who think to themselves, sure, if you have to put me on the scale, I guess I'm a

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conservative, but really, I don't feel like I'm on the scale at all. And you're not. You were driven off the scale when the Enlightenment came along and said, "Cut off the demarcation point here.

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Everything is man-c centered. truth floats off in some possible existence.

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It's not connected. But I say it is connected. But my point being, you'll see that everything in that conservative path, it's going towards the truth. It's

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trying to get back to the truth. But it still lies within an overarching liberal mindset. Whereas if you look to the

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other side of man, it is moving away from constantly away from the truth. And this is where we get first of all

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modernism and then after that postmodernism. You see the ancient again ancient and medieval way of thinking was that the truth is the center and we

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revolve around the truth. The post-enlightenment idea was man is the center and let's keep man as the fixed

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center. But modernist idea is the idea that not only is man the center, but man then moves in a quote unquote

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progressive direction towards a more and more enlightened existence. So it's a movement in one direction. By the way,

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when I have modernism here on this scale, and I'm talking about it as a philosophical and ideological movement,

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not as a historical period. But modernism finally got far enough away from the truth that then we get

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postmodernism. Postmodernism said to itself, well, look, we are on this continual path, but we are so far away

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from the truth that we no longer even wish to reference it as the thing we are moving away from. So postmodernism is to

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say there's no actual direction that we should go. We can go hell, west, and crooked because modernism at the very

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least took its again quote unquote true north from the fact that they're moving away from truth towards enlightenment.

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It's towards enlightenment in their minds because it's away from the oppressive ideas that truth has dominion over us. We have liberated ourself from

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that. Hence liberalism. But again the postmoderns say no no we are so far away from truth that we reject even the idea

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that it sets out a demarcation point from which we must move away from.

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Therefore you just move around willy-nilly in all directions. And this is where we are right now in a postmodern era. But of course, let's

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look at the entire thing according to the larger scale, which is only possible to look at if you have a pre-modern, a

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pre-enlightenment way of looking at things in order to tag truth as being actually the overarching control of the

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entire thing is to say that well, first of all, it's a very Christian way of thinking. The pre-Christians did have some concept of this, but it wasn't very

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defined at all. But the idea is that there is only one pole and that pole is the truth. If you move away from the

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truth, what do you move towards? You move towards nothingness. And so where does modernism and then postmodernism

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drive mankind towards? Drives them towards nothingness. Perhaps that's why postmodernism exists because it had to

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say we can't keep on going in this direction. We have to say let's just go in a circle in loops because if we keep on going in this direction we're going

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to hit nothingness and we will cease to be and we want to eat our cake and have it too. And that gets into the bottom half of my scale which is to say

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according to the larger metrics of truth. Even when you put man at the center you can separate it into virtue and vice. Everything on one side of man

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which is moving towards the truth is virtuous. Everything on the other side of man which is moving away from truth which is modernism, postmodernism, those

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kinds of ideas. That is vice. That's the point. The point of moving away from the truth is to indulge in vice. Is to have

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the ability to indulge in vice without pesky things like law or morality or your conscience telling you, hey, that's

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wrong. And of course, right and wrong being a metric derived from the truth.

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And again, if I have anyone in the comments saying you can't get an o from an is, I'm sorry, but I've answered that question many times, even in complete

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videos, you can get an from an is, go read natural law theorists and they are taken the entire thing, which revolves around the truth and realize that if you

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believe you can't get an off from an is, you're working according to deficient logic. That's all I'll say about it because again, cover that many times.

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And if you're passionate enough to write comments about it, then I think you should be passionate enough to actually go and do a little bit of research into

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the natural law theory answer to that question. Now, a question you may be asking is, well, even on this scale of liberalism where men is the center, you

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say there is some virtue. Yeah, virtues come in different forms. There are virtues in themselves. There are virtues

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which are goods in themselves. For example, there are virtues that man himself can work on. And there are virtues that are given to mankind. I

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would say that demarcation point between those two would be where those concentric circles start. The concentric circles of revolving around the truth.

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Again, today is not the day to parse through all the different kinds of virtue and how they all operate. But I would say yes indeed. As long as you're

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directing yourself towards the truth, even if it's just back towards the truth from a concept that man is the center,

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you're trying to struggle and live a virtuous life. Now, I don't think you should stop there. I think we should return to the ancient and medieval way of thinking where man is not the center,

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where the truth is the center. And the reason I'm doing this video today is because I'm finally finally starting to

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see some cracks in the liberal facade that makes everyone think in the terms of only liberalism. There are some

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people out there saying, "Hey, wait a second. There is a overarching and objective way of looking at this entire thing that includes the truth." Perhaps

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we should look at everything according to a larger scale than just right and left, than just conservative and liberal, which ironically enough is the

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beginning of understanding that those two smaller concepts are all under the overarching banner of liberalism.

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Whereas man is the center and he has liberated himself quote unquote from the tyranny quote unquote of the truth. Now,

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very briefly, I've been thinking about this all week, but oddly enough, yesterday, just last night, I ran across a video. I think it was from trigonometry where they're asking an

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historian, "Isn't fascism really just on the scale next to communism? Aren't they on the left hand side of the scale?

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Isn't this discussion of whether fascism is on the right hand side of the scale not really correct?" And you know what the guy did? The historian, the

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historian took five minutes to not answer the question and back away from talking about how similar the ideas were

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by talking about the historical, I kid you not, differences between those two ideologies as it existed materially,

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saying things like, well, you know, the communists didn't even use the little epilelettes on their military jackets for years and years because they didn't

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want to give the impression of being in any way fascistic. And I'm thinking to myself, buddy, you call yourself an intellectual truly because he was

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someone so in so stuck in the mud of the fact that there is no actual discussion

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of overarching ideas that he couldn't even in a supposed intellectual discussion talk about ideas themselves.

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He could only talk about the material.

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And this is why I would say it's a moot discussion. Anyways, I would place communism and fascism almost right next to each other on this scale. But the

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point is this scale of right and left is a scale again that is completely under the sway of liberalism. That is to say

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completely under the sway of a subjective interpretation which is why people can twist it and bend it and try

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to make so-called sense of it by making it into a horseshoe or saying no no this that the other thing. Fascists are

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people who employed capitalism, blah blah blah. Sure, if you're using subjective norms in order to evaluate the question, you obviously can bend it to your will because man is the center.

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But when I'm answering the question, I'm answering the question according to an overarching idea of the truth, which again is baffling to almost everyone you

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meet today. Is anathema to the way that most governments work and our societies operate. They can't even begin to

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understand the question. If you're saying the question revolves around the truth, you're operating on two different

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metrics completely. And this brings us back to my initial statement. There is no such thing as the far right. Why?

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Well, because again, the entire point of everything on the modern, postmodern, current day side of man is the extension

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of liberalism to the very edge of nothingness. But it is constant movement. I would dare say hearkening

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back to something like the Nietian idea of dynamism. And since that constant movement is part and parcel of the

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proceeding of that line, they believe they can always go farther and farther left or at the very least farther and farther into quote unquote

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enlightenment. And again as I said at the first they believe that on the right the other side of man when they proceed

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towards a virtuous existence the same idea holds because they can't interpret again the further and farther you go

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into the vicious cycle the vicious side of man as the center the less and less you understand anything except the

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subjective. And so those people cannot in any way understand people with opposing viewpoints. And so their

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assumption is that the other side of the coin, the flip side of the coin of them is simply doing the exact same thing except in the opposite direction. But

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it's not. The further and farther towards the quote unquote right you get, the more and more you delve into virtue

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and wish to make the truth the center of your existence and certainly your questioning of that existence, the more

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and more you get to a very specific end point. And not just a very specific endpoint but an endpoint which

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philosophically theologically has been described as the unmoving unchangeable truth. The one of the truth. It is

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perfect. It is unmovable. It is unchangeable. It is one. And it is that point of oneness which is the final end

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of moving in the direction of virtue. It is not a constant movement. There is a constant struggle. I admit there is a constant struggle to try to get to that

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point. We are constantly moving uphill in an uphill battle to try and get back to a point where we can revolve around

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the truth. Sure, but that's because we keep on sliding backward due to our broken nature. But there is no constant movement always and everywhere at all

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times further and further right. There is a point of actual end. We have an end point. And again, this is why people on

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the quote unquote left, especially you go farther and farther into the left, you ask them that question. Okay, but what's the end point here? They have no clue what you're talking about. No clue.

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To them, there is no such thing as an endpoint. You probably believe there's an end point because you believe in something like objectivity. And to say, well, we have to have an endpoint at

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some point because you still at the very least if you think that have some minuscule at the very least minuscule

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concept that there is an end point to things. There is an objective end. There is a point of truth. And if that is you,

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my friend, welcome to the side of virtue. Steal yourself with the ideals of heroism because on this side, it is a

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constant battle against the ever pervasive forces that try and drag you into nothingness.

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