observation vs deduction in politics

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By FOS
6 Oct 2022 1:18 pm in No Holds Barred Political Forum
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6 Oct 2022 1:18 pm
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Let me give a simple example. Lets say that you lived in a world that never had grocery stores. Distribution of food was always a responsibility of a state.

then let us suppose someone suggests creating grocery stores.

naturally, people would think this is a terrible idea. Obviously the rich people would just buy all the food and then use it to increase their political power or something. ANd how could the grocery stores possibly be capable of planning future demand? how could they coordinate with freight companies to that effect? what if the grocery store chooses to charge too much? etc. etc.

many intuitive arguments would enter into the brain of the deductive thinker that would cast doubt on the whole concept of grocery stores. They might even think it would be a world ending disaster.

But ok...we live in a world that has grocery stores. And we know that they are not a big problem. That is the advantage of scientific observation over trying to deduce everything about how politics works. maybe if we were attacked with arguments from the anti grocery store party, we could not explain why it is not a problem. but we just know from experience that it is not.

this is why the study of history is deeply important to develop a reasonable grasp of politics and how to make human societies work. 

people who lie about history, therefore, are trying to handicap your understanding of politics.


 
 
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6 Oct 2022 1:19 pm
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and modern schools absolutely lie about history. Indeed, the whole holocaust mythology i have explained many times on this forum is a complete lie, and nobody has been able to demonstrate otherwise. But in many questions it is illegal to question the holocaust...and this is because those countries are ruled by jewish interests....and appeal to the holocaust mythology is the greatest weapon for the jewish minoirity to control the pilitical intuition of the masses. It also helps prevent people from understanding what a resounding success national socialist politics war prior to it being destroyed by the 3 greatest empires on earth (motivated by fear of german success).

Furthermore, we are told that in the past europeans had terrible 'white supremacist' attitudes. That is quite true. It is also true that they built the greatest empire in history with such attitudes. Over 90% of the landmass on earth was controlled by europeans around the year 1910.

since europeans decided that racism is a bad thing, they have lost their entire empire and all their power. 

this is called a correlation. this is a very clear correlation. people like to say 'correlation doesnt imply causation'...but it doesnt rule it out, either. 

there are other examples as well. WHen the roman empire was nationalistic, it became the greatest empire the world had ever seen. the moment they became less racist (caracalla removed  the privileges of being born ethnically roman around 200 AD), it fell into decline. 

also...if you really cared about being educated on history, you might learn that the majority of slaves have self reported after they were freed that they preferred slavery. This is also supported by their behavior. Even after being freed, slaves tried to stay with the family of their future enslavers and work for them...but because their employers no longer were allowed to provide room and board, the material quality of life of those slaves objectively declined. 
 
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