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February 11, 2016

The traditionalist rebel is not seeking perfection, but humanity.

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He is a skeptical idealist who is interested in character rather than movements.
He is above all else an individualist with an instinctive distrust of any movement that requires him to abandon his rights for the greater good. The traditionalist rebel is the snake in the liberal Eden because he does not have faith in the noble motives of the bureaucratic activists who claim to be the gods of this Eden. He knows enough of human nature to reject the fallacy that the right ideology makes men so righteous that they can be trusted with absolute power without absolute corruption following in their wake. He knows that socialists have not risen above the crimes of selfish self interest that they condemn mankind for. Sultan Knish: The Traditionalist Rebel

Posted by gvanderleun at February 11, 2016 9:28 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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He sits back and waits for a whole buncha people to get their heads out of their asses and start behaving like human beings. He waits in vain, while continuing with his own life.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 11, 2016 10:02 AM

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