Twitter cuts (#52)¶
@Outsideness "The Crown" isn't the same thing as the monarch, or even as the monarchy.
— Lulach the Simpler (@lulach_cuardach) March 8, 2016
Responding to this (Outsideness) twitter-stream:
The transcendental self is not the empirical person, Kant
argues, though confusion of the two is a reliable
anthropological fact. … ‘Sovereignty’ demands disciplined
critique on exactly these lines. Monarchical theater is
(exactly) a naive image of ‘the sovereign’. … Moldbug is clear
that the ‘monarch’ (state CEO) is an agent of sovereignty, and
not the sovereign ‘himself’. … The LARPing loved by romantic
reaction, and derided by the Left, dwells entirely within this
rigorously identifiable philosophical error. … Sovereignty is no
less a profound philosophical enigma than the transcendental
self, the prompt for an exploration of vast difficulty. … “We
know what a sovereign looks like.” — It is scarcely possible to
imagine a delusion of greater absurdity.
Something of greater articulacy is clearly called for, but the kernel would be unchanged. ‘Sovereignty’ is the translation of the transcendental into the realm of political philosophy. This is why, even for atheists, the Idea of Divine Right sovereign legitimacy is a superior point of departure than mere charismatic leadership.