All decent, reasonable men are horrified by the idea that the government might control the press. None of them seem concerned at all that the press m… - Curtis Yarvin

I don't think the conversion of Southern slaves into Southern sharecroppers made anyone much freer, because it created few practical options for the people involved. Before, you were an agricultural laborer who worked on the same farm for your entire life; after, ditto.

When we look at the astounding violence of the democratic era, it strikes me as quite defensible to simply write off the whole idea as a disaster, and focus on correcting the many faults of monarchism.

[T]he ruling caste are the people who say "we" when they mean "the government". The ruled castes always say "they".