The Glories and Pathologies of Texocentrism

You might wonder what this has to do with Texas.

Just read it all.

There is another factor. Left-liberalism in our
time lacks a robust theory of what holds society
together. Having a distaste for consumer culture,
capitalism, and the bourgeois works of peace
through churches, families, and localities, and
hit with doubts about the viability of full-blown
socialism, the typical leftist is left with no
viable model of makes the world livable,
peaceful, and civilized.

The political right, of course, has long
suffered under the delusion that all good things
come from the barrel of a gun. But even for the
left, supposedly against political violence, it
always comes back to the same ideal of a world
run by a benevolent despot. Their hope for a
political messiah never quite goes away.

Even if the impulse can be explained, it is a
sick view of the world that confuses the mass
violence of war with the bringing of civilization.

Such is the ultimate nature, the Ruling Concept,
of all politics.

All of Texocentrism

Via Roderick T. Long