Everything I have said and done is these last years is relativism, by intuition. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for himself his own ideology, and to attempt to enforce it with all the energy of which he is capable. If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories, and men who claim to be the bearers of an objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than fascism.
—Benito Mussolini, Diuturna (1921)
9.17.2008
Mussolini on Moral Relativism
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Reminds me of our political campaigns: so ideological yet so fictional. The modus operandi of most campaigning politicians seems to be deception in the pursuit of power.
Love the Kierkegaard quote in the title, by the way.
It's unfortunately true: Machiavelli rules the day. There are a few exceptions, but they come around very infrequently.
Sigh
But Kierkegaard is great!
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