lying in bed at night i reflected on the fact that 9 months…

im wrong about a lot of things

but i think it wasnt too far off. if europe has proven anything in the past two years its that if one country does anything, the rest of them follow in lemming lockstep, and if austria had gone through with the hard mandates, it would have spread

people have asked for an explenation for how every single country in the world addopted the same policies, as an alternative to primitive conspiracy. how about, social democracy is a system that is expressly designed to mitigate responsibility

in a social democratic "international community", if one government does something, YOU HAVE to do the same thing, everyone else HAS to mimick it. otherwise you stand out and have to be responsible for your choice, and you are forcing them to do the same

only by being totally "united" and indistinguishable can responsibility be diluted and spread out to the collective. if this system is not in place, you can be punished for making wrong decisions

the moment any democracy chose any measure, everyone else had to follow it, or risk being responsible. the entire purpose of our political system is to avoid this. to avoid any particular leader having any particular responsibility. ironically its extremely anti individualist

but if austria had gone through with it, just like any and every other political response to the crisis, every single european nation would have followed in lockstep, without even thinking about it

keeping the party doctrine pure and universal is always more important than any practical measure. competency and personal political responsibility threathens the liberal doctrine, and no practical sacrifice is to great to pay for saving the doctrine. arre democracy

sam harris exemplified this as a philosopher of the establishment resently: no amount of child torture and rape would justify not taking totalitarian measures so secure social democracy status quo. you ask, how the fuck did all of europe fuck this all up so bad, for years

and the answer is: they are all sam harris, and sam harris is an honest expression of their beliefs and mode of operation. no amount of actual real world terror would ever justify threathening the doctrinal purity of arre democracy