Dmitry Chernikov

I’m a libertarian, neither on the Left nor on the Right.

I am not a pervert as the Left is, nor a warmonger as the Right is.

I do not seek to conquer the planet to give the subjugated people gay rights.

I wish neither to invade the world nor to invite the world.

I’m neither a liberal Keynesian nor a conservative Keynesian, indeed I support a 100% gold dollar.

I oppose both welfare and warfare.

I oppose both parts of anarcho-tyranny.

I want children in government schools neither to turn trans nor to join the military, I want to end government schooling.

I know, shocking.

I thought the word “problematic” meant “raising problems or difficulties or issues.”

Guess what, Merriam-Webster has in addition the following definition: “having or showing attitudes (such as racial prejudice) or ideas (such as falsehoods) that are offensive, disturbing, or harmful.”

So for them “problematic” means less than fully woke.

Two wings of the same Ukrainian bird of prey.

Of course, as soon as Zelensky has outlived his usefulness, he’ll be thrown under a bus.

Christ says, “Strive for righteousness, and I will forgive your past sins.”

Heretical cult leaders say, “Obey me, and I will allow you to sin in the future at your pleasure without guilt.”

(1) Such a leader is no God; (2) his doctrine is false; (3) what he offers is impossible. It’s a scam.

Transgenderist cultists, for example, require total obedience to their dogma.

Any deviation from the party line, whatever it may be at any given moment, is punished with instant excommunication and condemnation.

In return, the faithful are offered full freedom from all moral restraints. They are the elect and can do no wrong.

Salvation is by faith, ideological purity guarantees perfect righteousness.

For many people, this is an attractive trade.

I am in favor of women’s liberation.

Women should be liberated from home, family, and children so that they can toil thanklessly in routine and monotonous jobs within faceless corporations until they are old and gray.

The law limits my pleasure, the woke say, so to hell with the law.

Of course, in the end, it will be the law that will send them to hell.

The paradox is that the Idealist Left is morally absolutist and does not reject law as such; they make up their own, and it’s batshit crazy.

As I write in Secrets, there are worse things than relativism, specifically getting your absolute morality wrong.

You see, personal fulfillment includes “feeling righteous,” and righteousness involves obedience to law. But discovery of and adherence to the true law is hard. But if you make up your own moral code, however arbitrary, you can more easily claim to be holy and signal this to others.

So, for example, I say, “trans women are women” (or whatever). Now I and everyone who agrees with me are the elect, “subtle in spirit,” and saved, at least for the time being; all those who defy me are by that fact the non-elect, “crude in spirit,” and condemned. Satisfying, isn’t it?

One good thing about being subtle in spirit is antinomianism: it’s impossible for one to sin. Whatever one does is always right and just. At the same time the non-elect are unregenerate scum who can be treated like dirt. So we end up with both extremes: merciless and ever-changing law on the one hand, and total license on the other.

This is another face of anarcho-tyranny today.

To adapt an old libertarian saying to the crisis in New York, it is easy to be charitable with other people’s migrants.

Neocons want a “benevolent empire” (an oxymoron like totalitarian democracy, liberal egalitarianism, or market socialism) to spread American values.

It’s ludicrous. There are no American values, not anymore. There is only madness, perversion, and wickedness.

For the health of the world we must self-isolate.

The main beneficiaries of masks are ugly people because both their ugliness and the beauty of their competitors are hidden.

Of course, ideological egalitarians benefit too.