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>>10586749
>"All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility."

Yes, he is correct. Mill btfo 99% of people in authority and exposed modern political dialectic as mere eristics. We live in dark times.

He was right... in the only time and place in history where truth was able to declare its independence from power.
That day is almost gone. So if you want to make a living off being an intellectual you'd better find some oligarch to hitch your wagon to.
And start reading up on Leo Strauss.

>>10586749
If he was still alive today he would admit that he was wrong.
Freedom and utilitarianism sound nice but are memes.

He was one of the original nu-males, married like a good cuck to a literal feminist and was balding at like 25

Why were all moralfag libtards beta?

>>10586818
delete this

>>10586749
He makes several really good points in his book 'On liberty', which I consider one of the most important political books ever.

Reading the second chapter, On Liberty of Thought and Discussion, was one of the greatest moments of my life. I think in that chapter he hits upon one of the greatest achievements of the human race, and definitely one of the singular contributions of the Western ethnos to the race, namely the epistemological principle of free speech as an ontological necessity in any self-conscious system of knowledge. Not just as a nice moral principle or emotional commitment, but as something actually philosophically and logically necessary to knowledge at all, to the practice of inquiry itself. It's essentially Hegelian, and if it had been stated by Hegel as a high metaphysical principle instead of by Mill as part of a merely political treatise, it would be better appreciated.

equality comes before freedom

>they haven't read his book on Political Economy

Why even bother.

>>10586749
Yes, and a wonderful writer.

>>10587181
Good post.

>>10586765
this. golden apples rain like gag ping pong balls.