I was just existing. Food was just there to fill me up. Music had become nothing more than patterned noise. I was simply, you know, there.
In a 2018 Pew Research Center poll of twenty-seven countries that take half of the world’s immigrants, including the US, Canada, and Western European nations, a median of 45 percent wanted fewer or no immigrants and 36 percent were satisfied with the existing number. Only 14 percent thought their countries should allow more immigrants. In the US in 2018, a mere 24 percent wanted to admit greater numbers of immigrants each year, while 73 percent wanted the same number (44 percent) or fewer to none (29 percent). In Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed a large influx of Syrian and other refugees in 2015, 58 percent wanted fewer or no immigrants and only 19 percent wanted a higher level of immigration. In both Britain and France, only 16 percent favored raising the level of immigration.
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Not surprisingly, Lenin, while praising his criticism of capitalist exploitation and governmental violence, saw in Tolstoy’s advocacy of religion ‘one of the most corrupt things existing in the world’. The Tolstoyan non-resistance to evil, he declared, was ‘the most serious cause of the defeat of the first revolutionary movement’.
With Kropotkin anarchism develops into its most developed form in the nineteenth century. Even those who are generally hostile to anarchism single out Kropotkin as worth reading. He not only tried to base his anarchist philosophy on the findings of science, but to demonstrate its validity by appealing to existing trends within society.
Godwin rejects the idea that the justification for government can be found in some original social contract. Even if there had been a contract, it could not be binding on subsequent generations and in changed conditions. Equally, the idea of tacit consent would make any existing government however tyrannical legitimate. As for direct consent, it is no less absurd since it would mean that government can have no authority over any individual who withholds his or her approval.
De Sade eventually came to believe that nature is fundamentally destructive (its sole object in creation is to have the pleasure of destruction) and proceeds by corruption. It follows that by satisfying his destructive instincts man is following nature. This is the metaphysical and moral foundation of sadism: if making others feel pain gives pleasure, it is natural and right. To be moral in the conventional sense is to oppose nature; existing virtue is therefore unnatural and the result of a false education.