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What relevance is his religion?

Why? What is so Satanic about praising de Maistre? I've seen many descriptions of the man, but I've never heard something so true from a liberal!

@@hashkangaroo The swine demonised Maistre. He stated that Maistre's Catholic integralism is proto-Nazi. A diatribe is not praise. It's venom. It's hatred.

@@hubertusvenator5838 He only briefly called it "proto-fascistic", and I'll do Berlin the courtesy of assuming he knows the difference between fascism and Nazism. Regardless of de Maistre's relationship to fascism, he clearly praises the man, which he wouldn't do if he treated it the way most liberals would treat Nazism. You could cut out the sentences with the word 'fascism' in them and nothing about Berlin's tone or appraisal of the man would change.

@@hashkangaroo Maistre and Berlin are antithetical.

@@hubertusvenator5838 And? That doesn't one can't respect the other.

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Cringe.

12 years old mentally

Yes. Satan has considerable supplies not only of dominium, but aluminum and vanadium.

@@plekkchand I know what aluminium, AI 13, is. What is aluminum?

I've been trying to take study notes from this for days now. You just made my life much easier

Thanks. I wasn't even aware this was possible. I'm listening at 0.5, this chap is worth it.

Thank you for this suggestion. Appreciated.

Thanks! I didn’t even know I could do that! It did help

@@thejackbancroft7336these are all transcribed and published.

Funny, I thought he was _praising_ de Maistre. What makes you think otherwise?

thanks!

189-194 + Saint-Simon.

Yes I bought his books, cost a fortune but man it was worth it. Everything he writes is as relevant today as it was back then, amazing insight and the truth he writes strikes at the heart. You can dismiss him as religious, but the funny part is, he wasn't really religious.

@@chrisyuri4187 What makes you think he was not religious?

@@latitudeselongitudes1932 I don't have any direct quotes but from reading St Petersburg Dialogues it was clear to me at least that de Maistre viewed religion like Cicero does in "De re publica", that it is a means for social cohesion through traditions and ceremonies that build community and loyalty, and also political control in providing justifications for various laws and necessary hierarchies. Cicero observed Roman religious traditions but never believed that the God's were real, I think the same goes for de Maistre based on what I read.

@@chrisyuri4187 A sort of cultural approach to religion,i see.Thank you for your answer

@@chrisyuri4187 That's profoundly stupid. Just because someone thinks religion is "a means for social cohesion through traditions and ceremonies that build community and loyalty, and also political control in providing justifications for various laws and necessary hierarchies", you don't believe that God's real. In fact it would be to conclude, that because I think math is useful therefore I don't really believe in math, but merely think 2+2=4 is a useful social construct. In fact you can't in good conscience call yourself catholic and dismiss traditions, ceremonies or privatize your religion whenever "politics" happens.

Thank you