tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post8047018585285820169..comments2023-10-16T11:28:03.544+00:00Comments on Anomaly UK: The Trichotomy ExplainedAnomaly UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780148789321563441noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-75089234290769969882014-11-06T09:19:28.544+00:002014-11-06T09:19:28.544+00:00It has often struck me that there is a similarity ...It has often struck me that there is a similarity between your thinking on monarchy and Islamic revival in the Middle East. Many earnest and foolish young men in that quarter believe that everything will be perfect if they can just restore Shariah Law, and in some cases, the Caliphate. <br /><br />The problem with this belief is, in another context, pointed out by dear Oscar:-<br /><br />Dr Chasuble. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church was distinctly against matrimony.<br />Miss Prism. (Sententiously.) That is obviously the reason why the Primitive Church has not lasted up to the present day.<br /><br />The Caliphate, obviously, did not possess the qualities that allowed it pass the test of time. As I recall, every single caliph, except for the first, was assassinated, the act traditionally taking place at Friday prayers when he was obliged to appear in public. The problem of a theocracy is that there is no method of effecting change, except by assassinating the head honcho. Assassinocracy remains in force throughout the Middle East: no-one ever resigns or is voted out of office.<br /><br />Similarly with autarchical monarchy, the experience of history is that it doesn’t work. The King in England, after 1715, was merely a front man for a particular clique: later, genuinely autarchical survivors, such as the Kaiser, perished at the end of the Great War.<br /> <br />Monarchy as we know it in England is a product, rather like Dunhill lighters or Mills and Boon novels, inessential to the running of society, but nevertheless multi-million £ industries which give pleasure to many.<br /><br />A case worthy of study is 23-F, the failed coup against the Spanish Constitution in 1981 by elements in the Guardia Civil led by one Antonio Tejero. King Juan Carlos refused to assume autarchical powers, sensibly perceiving that he already had all the enjoyable perquisites of monarchy, and that to assume actual political power would be extremely hard work, expose him to assassination attempts and degrade him to the level of politician, with correspondingly reduced shelf-life. Politicians and diapers, said Mark Twain, should be frequently changed, and for the same reason.<br /><br />This was a very apt decision: Tejero went to jail, and Juan Carlos remained in office and has recently handed over to his son Felipe. Juan Carlos’s brother-in-law Constantine of Greece tried the opposite approach and lasted 5 years.<br /><br />So what you are proposing is not neo-reaction but better termed Tejerismo: not, in the current atmosphere, a particularly useful approach.<br />A Nonny Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15824713232073772433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-1056046933979734682014-11-01T07:14:05.674+00:002014-11-01T07:14:05.674+00:00Well said.
Notice that the two examples of reason...Well said.<br /><br />Notice that the two examples of reasonably stable anarchic societies, Saga period Iceland and Judges Israel, were oppressively theocratic.<br /><br />In Saga Period Iceland, if you need help to enforce the law, the posse leader was a priest. If your law enforcement was disputed, your lawyer was probably a priest, your opponent's lawyer was probably a priest, and the judge was a priest.<br /><br />Saga period iceland was anarchic because their religion demanded that a manly man himself enforce the law when wronged, thus rejecting a special role for the state. But it was cohesive, because everyone in power was supposed to subscribe to the official religion.jimhttp://blog.jim.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-59344744359270763232014-11-01T02:26:28.586+00:002014-11-01T02:26:28.586+00:00I didn't focus on traditionalists because I th...I didn't focus on traditionalists because I think Christianity is part of the problem, but I was the first to say that we need a new religion because there can be no order without religious authority.<br /><br />Traditionalists disagree though. All they want is the Pope.spandrellhttp://bloodyshovel.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-16137381922293742122014-10-31T23:06:20.196+00:002014-10-31T23:06:20.196+00:00Recommend this one.Recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Political-Destructive-Institutional-Evolutionary-Economics/dp/1843768984" rel="nofollow">this one</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com