Why Honest Conversation Is Impossible

… Bureaucratic opportunists and unprincipled technicians and would-be technicians find it difficult to engage in any sort of reasoned argument. Argument means principle, and principle is precisely what opportunists are always weak on. Stalin could never out-argue Trotsky or Bukharin; he just had the bureaucracy with him, which, unfortunately, turned out to be enough.

What bureaucrats and power elites always want is for the opposition to shut up and go away, to obey orders, to accept their assigned tasks, to […] “go along with the program.” The last thing they want is widespread discussion…

Rothbard, Libertarian Forum volume 2, p. 970

Chazon Ish on the Difference Between Private and State Action

The rabbis opposed drafting women into the army or even “national service”. Yes, if she goes to work, too, she will be under the authority of a male boss, and surrounded by male co-workers. But she is there under the auspices of her father.

The authority of the state competes with that of the girl’s father.

Is Breslov Shy About Their Beliefs?

There is a perception that Breslov holds more than meets the eye.

As Rothbard wrote regarding the “Ayn Rand cult“:

Every religious cult has two sets of differing and distinctive creeds: the exoteric and the esoteric. The exoteric creed is the official, public doctrine, the creed which attracts the acolyte in the first place and brings him into the movement as a rank-and-file member. The quite different creed is the unknown, hidden agenda, a creed which is only known to its full extent by the top leadership, the “high priests” of the cult. The latter are the keepers of the Mysteries of the cult.

I am not Breslov, but I want to make a comment.

Read the following short, publically available essay, חלוקי הנחל, by a leader of Breslov (1905) and tell me how this can be considered “crypto” doctrine:

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It seems to me he lays out all the cards, barring none!