it’s a pretty garbage political philosophy and pretty regressive.
In my opinion, Wilhoit boiled away the justification of authoritarians of any ilk and refined their ethos in the following 3 sentences:
For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been.
“I’m/We’re in charge. Forever. I/We don’t need a reason. You also have to like it too, or else I’ll/we’ll kill you.”
From Stalin, to Mao, to Hitler, to Putin, to Xi Jingping, to Trump, to <insertDouchebagBulliesHere>, it’s the same rule. “We run shit because fuck you.”
I won’t pretend to know the proper response to that, but the most satisfying one to me is, “Go fuck yourself forever!”.
In my opinion, Wilhoit boiled away the justification of authoritarians of any ilk and refined their ethos in the following 3 sentences:
“I’m/We’re in charge. Forever. I/We don’t need a reason. You also have to like it too, or else I’ll/we’ll kill you.”
From Stalin, to Mao, to Hitler, to Putin, to Xi Jingping, to Trump, to
<insertDouchebagBulliesHere>, it’s the same rule. “We run shit because fuck you.”I won’t pretend to know the proper response to that, but the most satisfying one to me is, “Go fuck yourself forever!”.