>The United States of North America exhibit the attempt to proceed without any such arbitrary basis; that is to say, to allow abstract right to prevail pure and unalloyed. But the result is not attractive. For with all the material prosperity of the country what do we find? The prevailing sentiment is a base Utilitarianism with its inevitable companion, ignorance; and it is this that has paved the way for a union of stupid Anglican bigotry, foolish prejudice, coarse brutality, and a childish veneration of women. Even worse things are the order of the day: most iniquitous oppression of the black freemen, lynch law, frequent assassination often committed with entire impunity, duels of a savagery elsewhere unknown, now and then open scorn of all law and justice, repudiation of public debts, abominable political rascality towards a neighbouring State, followed by a mercenary raid on its rich territory,—afterwards sought to be excused, on the part of the chief authority of the State, by lies which every one in the country knew to be such and laughed at—an ever-increasing ochlocracy, and finally all the disastrous influence which this abnegation of justice in high quarters must have exercised on private morals. This specimen of a pure constitution on the obverse side of the planet says very little for republics in general, but still less for the imitations of it in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Peru.>A peculiar disadvantage attaching to republics—and one that might not be looked for—is that in this form of government it must be more difficult for men of ability to attain high position and exercise direct political influence than in the case of monarchies. For always and everywhere and under all circumstances there is a conspiracy, or instinctive alliance, against such men on the part of all the stupid, the weak, and the commonplace; they look upon such men as their natural enemies, and they are firmly held together by a common fear of them. There is always a numerous host of the stupid and the weak, and in a republican constitution it is easy for them to suppress and exclude the men of ability, so that they may not be outflanked by them. They are fifty to one
Based.
lmao i didn't know schopenhauer was so woke.
>>25299319nigga, he's literally advocating for the monarchy.
>>25299325starts off whining that americans are too mean to folks of color unlike uhh imperial germany? ok... let's read more... next argues that monarchy, literally rule by nepotism, is more meritocratic than a republic? surprisingly stupid. like i had to google to make sure i wasn't being trolled.
>>25299332I think he's trying to say that republics have far more red tape and opportunities to abuse red tape against people that established parties don't like, than monarchies do.
>>25299276now I understand why Americans like myself don't find philosophy affable. our pragmatist tradition could be very well seen as anti-philosophical. we have the naturalists like Emerson and Thoreau but over all, we are more concerned about the practical than the speculative.
>>25299276>For always and everywhere and under all circumstances there is a conspiracy, or instinctive alliance, against such men on the part of all the stupid, the weak, and the commonplace; they look upon such men as their natural enemies, and they are firmly held together by a common fear of them. There is always a numerous host of the stupid and the weak, and in a republican constitution it is easy for them to suppress and exclude the men of ability, so that they may not be outflanked by them.This is just repeating with Callicles said in the Gorgias 2200 years earlier
bump.
>>25299319>>25299332
When you visit the rural areas of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, etc and see large homes, each distinct from the next and yet visibly 'American', set on a sizeable plot of land surrounded by plentiful woodland and fecund seas and rivers, it's hard not imagine that you are looking at the zenith of Anglo-Saxon civilisation and the realisation of its ultimate ideals of liberty. The simple, pleasant co-existence of the yeoman, the seaman, the merchant and the preacher.It does feel like a country that is excellent in what it does, but which faltered very early in its existence and whose pattern of growth was driven too quickly and too greedily by mass immigration and a desire to manifest a destiny that was inevitable anyway. The best of nations, the worst of nations, simultaneously.
>>25299276Inferiority complex.
