Even before getting racepilled by J Philippe Rushton and PumpkinPerson, I've always had an instinctive dislike of race mixing and multiracialism, even before I knew racial differences in IQ and other relevant traits were primarily genetic. I remember hiding behind my mother when I saw a black person for the first time in my life after moving to the US. While I did not discriminate against individuals of other races and still don't, I've never supported race mixing ever
As for Fascism, I already knew capitalist authoritarian states were viable from the past experiences of the East Asian Tigers + the pre Cold War origins of many of the institutions tht underlay Japans postwar economic miracle. Their eventual democratization was not due to rising expectations from a burgeoning middle class, but pressure to maintain good relations with the world's most powerful state, which had obliterated all ideological alternatives to Democratic Capitalism. Park Chung Hee, the principal man behind the Economic Miracle of the Han river was pressured by the Carter administration not to declare martial law. Similarly, Taiwan's eventual democratization and the lifting of martial law in the 1990s was a ploy to improve diplomatic relations with America after Nixon's China Pivot
But I've always been secretly sympathetic to totalitarianism: desiring the banning of all labour unions, execution/enslavement of any actual or potential political dissidents, draconian restrictions on media and travel, and population eugenics even before learning about the viability of right wing totalitarian dictatorships with capitalist institutions (defined by me very broadly as respecting private property, entrepreneurialism, and free markets to ensure a modicum of economic efficiency and wealth creation) even back when most academics and pundits I read emphasized the sheer wastefulness and destruction wrought by such regimes. I've long admired the total rejection of Liberal values and the uncompromising ruthlessness of many prominent figures in the early twentieth century.
Of course, as Peter Liberman and Azar Gat have shown, such weaknesses have been greatly exaggerated to avoid embarrassing preconceived cherished notions of Democracy. Even the most politically repressive, economically advanced police states only spent a small fraction of GDP on financing repression since economic modernization + urbanization facilitates surveillance and atomization. That is not to mention the fact that despite the persecution of many brilliant Jewish scientists, Nazi Germany remained at the forefront of the global scientific frontier
As for Fascism, I already knew capitalist authoritarian states were viable from the past experiences of the East Asian Tigers + the pre Cold War origins of many of the institutions tht underlay Japans postwar economic miracle. Their eventual democratization was not due to rising expectations from a burgeoning middle class, but pressure to maintain good relations with the world's most powerful state, which had obliterated all ideological alternatives to Democratic Capitalism. Park Chung Hee, the principal man behind the Economic Miracle of the Han river was pressured by the Carter administration not to declare martial law. Similarly, Taiwan's eventual democratization and the lifting of martial law in the 1990s was a ploy to improve diplomatic relations with America after Nixon's China Pivot
But I've always been secretly sympathetic to totalitarianism: desiring the banning of all labour unions, execution/enslavement of any actual or potential political dissidents, draconian restrictions on media and travel, and population eugenics even before learning about the viability of right wing totalitarian dictatorships with capitalist institutions (defined by me very broadly as respecting private property, entrepreneurialism, and free markets to ensure a modicum of economic efficiency and wealth creation) even back when most academics and pundits I read emphasized the sheer wastefulness and destruction wrought by such regimes. I've long admired the total rejection of Liberal values and the uncompromising ruthlessness of many prominent figures in the early twentieth century.
Of course, as Peter Liberman and Azar Gat have shown, such weaknesses have been greatly exaggerated to avoid embarrassing preconceived cherished notions of Democracy. Even the most politically repressive, economically advanced police states only spent a small fraction of GDP on financing repression since economic modernization + urbanization facilitates surveillance and atomization. That is not to mention the fact that despite the persecution of many brilliant Jewish scientists, Nazi Germany remained at the forefront of the global scientific frontier
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