Don't Take Advice from a Habsburg
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https://x.com/hop_scotch_/status/1664017656926687234?lang=en
I think Zizek is a super nice guy, despite disagreeing with 90% of what he says. I still think he's a great person with a nice soul.
I have same view as you in your second paragraph. But let's not put everything on same level. This is the danger of this era. I respect different political views I do not agree with. I do not respect populist's manipulation.
He doesn't need us to defend him nor does he particularly deserve a defense.
Passing time and getting entertainment from being an asshole to random people is super cheap compared to many alternatives, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Wilhelm_of_Austria
It was interesting to read about the diverse opinions of the different parts of the Hapsburg.
If there's somebody renting property without doing any work they're probably better characterized as a slumlord.
Kind of depressing that the grandparent comment got people angry enough to flag it into oblivion. Leave it to HN to stand up for the big guy, I guess.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2155-the-persistence-of-...
take away what Habsburg recommends (family, religion, ownership, traditional values that built a dynasty, etc) and what are you left with as far as advice for a good life? middling status eating disorders and yoni sunning from what i can tell. it's good to take advice from people who win, and his family has been in that business for quite some time. it's probably worth a listen.
Even the lowliest ambassador enjoys some authority, and much higher formal rank, than pretty much every non-unicorn startup founder.
though more involvement in international affairs than a lot of countries with all of the above
* You get modern medical care
* Fancy cars
* Killing you isn’t a major political objective for a bunch of different countries
* You can probably hang out with American celebrities if they have the time
* Better food
As OP says the fashionable thing in media seems to be "dismiss absolutely anything that even faintly resembles old fashioned values as idiotic"
So why are you doing the same?
For it's use in a sentence, see the very fun cover of "come on petunia" by the blow:
Jamie stood on the stoop
and he challenged his homies
to go get some girlfriends
and locate their yonis
Interviewer: “Ok but your family wasn’t really great to the people of Peru”
Habsburg: “We were learning.”
> Habsburg: “We were learning.”
I don't know what they did to the people of Peru, but if it follows the general pattern of crimes committed against colonized peoples, that is one hell of a euphemism.
And it seems intentionally morally vague, since it's not clear from that statement what it is that they learned.
There's a reason the Habsburg Empire isn't around anymore.
This hides quote a lot of awful, cruel, selfish and unfair. You don't build monasty by being nice. Dynasties are possible only due to little stuff like massacres and human rights violation, belief that you are more entitled then others.
When you remove religion, traditional values that build monasty you get awful lot of great people who help other, who are nice, who work to create better world. And if you remove family you get the same except more lonely.
What eating disorders have with any of that is mysterious, since that is a disease of perfectionist girls with bad handling of fear. They are typically girls who try to please people.
It is power struggle. You build and keep it by playing power well and pripritizing power. It does not mean you cant have other values as well, but this is deciding factor.
https://theworthyhouse.com/2021/06/17/the-foundationalist-ma...
Thus, the iron core of Foundationalism is that it opposes autonomic liberalism, and plans to destroy it as Foundationalism’s first act. Only when the Enlightenment, political philosophy based on false claims of wholesale human emancipation from all unchosen bonds, is both gone and wholly discredited is a new thing possible, for if not, the serpent will whisper his sweet lies in men’s ears forever, keeping them fixed in the dream become nightmare.
It'd be interesting to work out what the differences are between the philosophy described by these "pillars" and according-to-Payne Fascism.
The last 4 are certainly in keeping with undoing human emancipation from unchosen bonds, but I'm not sure what "vitalist philosophy" might mean.
another cursory search yields "Vitalism, as a philosophical position, is usually tied to the assumption that there is a fundamental difference between the organic and the inorganic, between the physical forces and the “life force”"; anyone know if (a) Payne is referring to that, and (b) if so, what the Foundationalist position may be?
The Austrian president has mostly a representative/safeguarding function and currently held by a chain-smoking former Professor who was a member of the green party.
Might the Habsburgs have weathered 28 June 1914 any better if they'd only been a little less Bourbon during 1848?
A belief in that speech in the Iliad which justifies getting the best portion of everything at home because of one's willingness to stand in the van overseas being one example of a custom/rule which proved exceptionally stupid in the years leading up to 11 Nov 1918.
A good friend of mine is a real Habsburg-Lothringen. From a poor farmers branch of the family.