The Second Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student. Political fiction of Meritocracy

https://substack.com/home/post/p-162809813

The J'Accuse people (and Amarnites in general) are up to something interesting but I don't entirely understand it. This little story starts out describing the "Examinations of the Crossworld Meritocracy", a ritualized gaokao for citizens of a future political order established after a revolution pulled off in the early-mid 21st century by people who are a stand-in for J'Accuse themselves. It's a fun and well written cross section of the society of such a world. It's a world in which Armarnite (right wing anime zoomers) culture has become entrenched as the highest and most solemn commitments, high level candidates for the exam already have several genetically-enhanced wives, and the whole solar system is populated by only about 100 million highly selected people. I would like to know more.

Partway through, it becomes apparent that the exam is itself a framing device: one of the main characters (an ambitious and irreverent student-destined-for-greatness typical of shonen anime) has to write a history paper on the founding revolution of the Meritocracy. This is itself a framing device for laying out a theory of revolution for how such a thing could be done in modern Britain, and what would need to be done. Of course being fictional it has to commit to a particular future and play to certain tropes beloved by the Amarnites (triumph-in-intrigue of young handsome amoral calculating genius over normalfag conflict-avoidance morality (pic of yagami-kun very much related)). I found myself annoyed by the belief in the power of lies and subterfuge in founding a glorious new order, but hey at least they are breaking out of the "everyone in the story talks and thinks like a millennial young adult fiction reader" trope.

But the last bit devolves into a strange pseudo-occult biography of the founder of Meritocracy which reads like a fictionalized self-mythologization of the author. I believe it falls flat, or at least I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Maybe I would understand it better if I studied, and this is me failing the Examination, making me fair game ("just a clump of cells") for murder by some bored Meritocrat. Maybe you guys will have more luck.

Overall though, I like radical political fiction. Hell I even liked atlas shrugged. I am bored with yet another dystopian sOciAl CriTiQUe or ZHPL-like moral horror. I like to see earnest and sincere attempts at depicting the future the author actually wants and how it might come to be, no matter how insane. I may have to write some of my own.

I read this when it was first posted, but never commented for some reason. I had fun reading it though, and wanted to tie it together with a peculiar thing I heard recently: Thiel Capital has been taking a serious look at the philosophical content of anime. One Piece, in particular, has yielded some results for them. I don't know much beyond that, but I think it's evidence in favor of the conclusion that anime-jugendom is operating on some very serious ideas.

There's also a point to be made here about aesthetics. In our native Gnon theology, we hold the unity of the transcendentals to be correct, which has the convenient implication that where there's aesthetic Beauty there is Truth, there is God. Anime is certainly one of the most successful aesthetic regimes of the postwar period, and I think it's Beautiful. I believe many in our sphere would agree (even if it's weeb-coded to do so publicly). Indeed, the story of a hero kissed by God tearing down a malformed or corrupted order seems to be a relatively common one. Indeed, that hero often succeeds by physical prowess or divinely-inspired gnosis. On the margin, I think it's a hell of a lot better to watch Naruto than most stuff you'd find in a theater today.

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Careful lionizing the majority of shonen-slop anime. Any true student of anime knows the japs have fallen off and have gotten increasingly tied up in uncreative repetition of dumb tropes much as our own "extended marvel cinematic universe" has taken to simply remaking the same old shit at lower quality but higher budget. Most manga are about the pointless lives of mangaka at this point, or just formulaic isekai. I've refused to watch Naruto and One Piece for this reason. Convince me I'm wrong.

The important thing about anime is that what real signal there is there is genuinely alien. Their whole spiritual outlook, set of moral tropes, taboos, etc are all different. Anime is important because it's at least partially the output of an unreconstructed axis propaganda machine. It is an enlightening escape from the closed in perspective of western media. The Chuuni tropes played with in the OP essay for example are retarded, but at least they have the courage to indulge the power fantasies of 14 year old boys. The Amarna party line is that the world should be run by handsome genius teenage psychopaths (as in anime like Owari no Seraph where a bunch of them get their pfps). Say what you will about that, it's directionally correct from the current rule of ugly stupid boomer church ladies, and not so crazy considered historically. British warships in the golden age were run by young men, as was the apollo program.