Nationalism is now a hallmark of right-wing ideology. However, in the 19th century, nationalism was a revolutionary left-wing force, driving movements like the Italian Risorgimento, the American Revolution, and, perhaps most strikingly, the French Revolution. The nationalists sought to dismantle monarchies and empires, empowering "the people"—a quintessentially progressive aim. Similarly, libertarianism finds roots in left-wing thinkers like John Stuart Mill or even early anarchists like Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who opposed centralized authority in favor of individual autonomy. Over time, these ideas, once radical and emancipatory, were adopted by the right as defenses of tradition. Thus, the left’s innovations have ossified into conservative principles; you, the nationalist, the libertarian, the rightoid, have been fooled into defending your enemy's ideas, fooled into championing the entropic ideas of your enemies as if they were your own, fooled into championing the ideas that destroyed (past tense) the civilization you champion; you, the rightoid, stand atop your civilization's corpse singing praises of its destructors.

We like big rock with tree

When I say "Eagle River," I don't mean WI

I wonder if maybe living in the Nashville metro will be expensive. Hmm....

Asking a local convenience store employee about her worst customer service experiences. It has come out that she can't tell the difference between Indians and Mexicans. Has not seen enough to learn the difference

Amateur numbers. I'm not sure how many readers we ought to have, but it's definitely under 500k. That's the ceiling. That we have 295 million additional people who can read is inexcusable and a sign of poor leadership.

It should be at least 99.9%.

Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.

—Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda

Books for the masses?
Ideas mangled; truth lost!
Ignorance prevails.

Reading makes them wise?
Ha! Just fills their heads with noise.
They're still clueless fools.

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