Fried Egg wrote:
Typical...one does not like the free choices that other people make so they must therefore be forced to do what you think is noble.

I don't care what fascists and their supporters regard in others as triviality, plebian, decadant or banality. I love freedom and I will never support those who simply seek, through their arrogance, to impose their values on others.

Democracy may have it's downfalls (and it has those aplenty) but I'll take those anyday over fascism.

unrealist42 wrote:


Russia has learned the lesson that military force is anti-productive. If you have been paying attention lately you will have noticed that they have tacked with the winds od capitalist enterprise and are now building power through organizing new cartels in raw materials like natural gas, aluminum, and other raw materials.

If they are successful, then we can see the rise of more cartels which will put the producers, which Russia is, in the drivers seat for the trade of far more than just oil. For a country like Algeria or Ecuador, having Russia behind it in setting gas prices can be nothing but a winning situation.

This will be the new paradigm, producer countries getting together rather than being played off against each other. It worked for oil producers, there is no reason it will not work for other some of the other commodities that the first world needs but does not have enough of.

Freigeist wrote:
I do not identify with any of the fascisms of the past, but the general philosophies that animated these movements I do agree with. Fascism comes naturally to me given my hatred for what humans typically do with their free will (see signature). I think the average human's life only reaches its potential when it is shaped by a greater man's influence. The challenge is to find a suitable ubermensch capable of leading the world to more noble values. Hitler and Stalin were good models, but both became obsessed with their own contracted objectives to their political downfall. Sadly, though, they might be the closest thing to a great leader the world will see. The world, led by the West, has become so decadent, so plebian, so determined to pander to the lowest common denominator (democracy) and so enthused by all that is trivial (capitalism) that it does not have the fertile soil to produce a Marcus Aurelius or Napoleon. I suspect the future will deliver a backlash to this devaluation of all values. People will slowly grow tired of Western banality and experiment with fascism yet again. However, most likely these experiments will fail again, because humans are too flawed to succeed at fascism. The aristocratic class itself will become complacent and corrupt as it indulges itself at the expense of collective Progress. In my opinion humans are destined to keep repeating the cycle of democracy/totalitarianism/failed totalitarianism/democracy. Now that I've got it in print, the future is free to remember me as a prophet. Just kidding.