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Which essay or blog post most shaped your worldview?
I'm particularly interested in political essays that have flown under the radar over the last decade due to censorship. posted 5d ago with 4 replies received bookclub

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Definitely hasn't flown under the radar, but "Politics and the English Language" is my favorite piece Orwell ever wrote, and I don't say that lightly. Required reading.... 5d ago received

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I believe you can find the former on the Arktos Press website, under the title "Protocols of the Elders of MIT." 4d ago received

I believe you can fi received

Parenthood and Consent Morality
From the great DHH:... (world.hey.com) posted 1w ago with 2 replies received bookclub life

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I grew up around old people, so those values have always seemed strange to me. 7d ago received

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The Dark Knight <> King Warrior Magician Lover
The Dark Knight: that comic book movie, yes, this is a post about capeshit... (archive.org) posted 2w ago with 3 replies received philosophy bookclub

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I'll be honest I tried reading that Moore & Gillette book and I couldn't get through it. The archetypes were poorly defined, vague, in such a way that you can (un)reasonably justify any kind of reading using them. Also wasn't clear to me that it described ... 2w ago received

I'll be honest I tri received

A Hidden Gem
One of the reasons I am posting here is to discover some hidden gems that cannot be found easily elsewhere on the web.... (www.sscnet.ucla.edu) posted 1y ago with 10 replies received meta philosophy bookclub

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This is really interesting. Struggle is the principle that creates life, health, and truth, and it has justice to it. I have not heard of this so I will have to go read it. Is there a good english translation you recommend? Looks like archive has the germa... 1y ago received

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Could you send some of your favorite R/ACC essays or discussions on "agonistic inamic unity"? It seems highly relevant and historically fascinating, but I can't find much online apart from the foundational book which is an academic tome. 2w ago received

Could you send some received

The Future of Paganism and Christianity / Lost Gods
I want to try a new book club. We begin with this documentary featuring Tom Rowsell that pairs nicely with our recent "true religion of the coming civilization" thread: https://sofiechan.com/p/3110... (www.youtube.com) posted 4w ago with 7 replies received gnon bookclub nietzsche

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That's a very Whiggish view of human ideas. It's also wrong (to an extent) since there were plenty of pre-Christian pagan philosophers. Hellenist polytheists invented philosophy as a concept, although many of the ancient Greek influential philosophers did ... 3w ago received

That's a very Whiggi received

Rowsell is a reconstructionist and I believe leans Platonist in his theology, for what it's worth. Reconstructionism, at least in a British context, inevitably feels at least somewhat like LARPing because ancient Anglo-Saxon culture does not have much in c... 3w ago received

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Phenomenology as useful turbo-autism
I was reading the Heraclitus fragments this weekend, and luckily my pdf had the Greek alongside English. Fragment 10 says "Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ", which was translated as "Things keep their secrets". My Greek knowledge, despite being ... posted 2mo ago with 4 replies received philosophy gnon bookclub

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You should check out THE ART AND THOUGHT OF HERACLITUS by Kahn. Lots of commentary on Heraclitus filters his fragments through Aristotle and other later philosopher's interpretation. Kahn attempts a purely textual exegesis which attempts to reconstruct Her... 1mo ago received

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These resources are all very good — thank you to everyone who's replied. I think given the tenor so far we should just turn this into a spergathon of posting the best Greek resources. Please continue with hidden gems, forbidden texts, and generally the m... 4w ago received

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An Addendum to Quigley's Evolution of Civilizations.
In the Evolution of Civilizations, Quigley models organizations in the following way: he argues that organizations have social missions, and they are called ‘instruments’ to the extent that organizations fulfill their social missions. However, if they ... posted 1mo ago with 3 replies received history bookclub

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Very interesting anon, I think you are on to something. However I'd like a point of clarification. You say that... 1mo ago received

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An important feature of the theoretical approach in The Evolution of Civilizations is that it looks at changes over very long timescales, and glosses over anything which doesn't endure for at least half a century.... 1mo ago received

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Ordeal of Civility by John Murray Cuiddihy
One of the best treatments of the JQ, IMO. Interested in discussing it and maybe working through some of the sociology that informs it like Erving Goffman, Weber, and Matossian. Second City Bureaucrat has some great articles drawing from its insights for a... posted 2mo ago with no replies received bookclub

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Introduction to Yarvin-Land-Accelerationism-Neo-Monarchism, etc.
I often find myself grappling with the question of how to introduce the people around me to the ideas of Yarvin and Land (especially Yarvin), and by extension to libertarianism, monarchism, and related theories. The length and tone of Yarvin's writing can ... posted 2mo ago with 4 replies received bookclub

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It's the great thing about Land, he really is a philosopher of our time and has totally leaned into it. The Greeks had scrolls (some of which have been lost) and dialogues, we have defunct blog posts and forums, scattered remnants on long forgotten website... 2mo ago received

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Agreed, with important works you’re not just reading the content but also the spirit of the author. That which is left behind after the words are through. Been feeling a greater pull towards original texts after LLMs, separating what needs to be consumed... 2mo ago received

Agreed, with importa received

When does a people become "historical"? Can we achieve a Greek-like stance as Nietzsche believed late 19th C. Germans could?
Inspired by the final section of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditation titled "On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life".... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies received history bookclub nietzsche

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In the context of Nietzsche's essay, "historicality" refers precisely to when a civilization/people emerges from acting freely, or, uninhibited by a variety of historical phenomena—ancestral worship, rigid moral tradition, and so forth. Perhaps in other ... 2mo ago received

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Imperium
Has anyone here read F.P. Yockey's Imperium? If so, do you think it is possible to overcome cultural distortion in the current state of affairs and establish a pan-Western Empire? What do you think the world would look like in such a case? posted 3mo ago with 27 replies received politics history bookclub

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I am very skeptical of accelerationist hopes where there is some kind of social-political reset or resurgence of the virtuous possibilities via metaphorical bankruptcy of "the system". I think de Gobineau's demographic hypothesis on civilization is more pl... 3mo ago received

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https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/meister-eckhart-maurice-o-c-walshe-bernard-mcginn-the-complete-mystical-works-of-meister-eckhart-the-crossroad-publishing-company-2009.pdf 3mo ago received

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The border patrol shooter was a zizian rationalist. Let's read ziz.
I love edgy philosophy. My general hunch is that the forbidden stuff contains truths that the nomos longhouse doesn't want you to know. Those truths give you important leverage against the established control structures, so it's a key move in the martial a... posted 7mo ago with 6 replies received rationality bookclub

The border patrol sh received

interesting theory. You're right that rationalists have self-serving motivation to believe intelligence is and ought to be the one true virtue, and have fantasies of omnipotence. I'm less convinced of the particular psychologization of abuse-seeking or rat... 4mo ago received

interesting theory. received

Tragedy and Hope reading group canceled due to lack of interest
The first reading had some good discussion and I was very satisfied with it. The second reading had only one post that wasn’t from me. The third reading had none.... posted 1y ago with 5 replies received history bookclub

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Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion III
Our reading this time was chapter V, The First World War, 1914-1918, and chapter VI, The Versailles System and the Return to “Normalcy”. Please post in this thread only if you’ve read these chapters.... posted 1y ago with 2 replies received history bookclub

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Relevant to the discussion at >>1804.... 1y ago received

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Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion II
Our reading this time was chapter IV, The Buffer Fringe. Please post in this thread only if you’ve read that chapter.... posted 1y ago with 3 replies received history bookclub

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I think there is a tendency in parts of the dissident right to look for some "outside" source to blame for woke ideas, and I often wondered whether or not they are correct. But the discussion of the ideology of the Round Table group made it clear to me tha... 1y ago received

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Tragedy and Hope Reading Group, Discussion I
Our reading this time was chapter I, Western Civilization in its World Setting; chapter 2, Western Civilization to 1914; and chapter 3, The Russian Empire to 1917. Please post in this thread only if you’ve read these chapters.... posted 1y ago with 6 replies received politics history bookclub

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Reading Group Announcement: Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope
Following our discussion at >>1305, let’s read and discuss Tragedy and Hope. This book, published in 1966, is one of the masterworks of Carroll Quigley, arguably the 20th century’s best historian. It’s an ambitious macrohistory of Western Civilizatio... posted 1y ago with 7 replies received bookclub

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I'm going to try, but am not sure if I'll be able to keep up with the reading pace due to other commitments. I'll do my best. 1y ago received

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The Philosopher's Diet (general dietary wisdom thread)
I've never been tempted to take the peat pill. I get my diet advice from Plato, Tacitus, and ibn Khaldun: the Guardians should eat simple diet of roast meat and avoid allowing Corinthian girlfriends to feed them decadent food. The ancient Germans were stro... posted 1y ago with 4 replies received eugenics bookclub

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Just joined, greetings to all.... 1y ago received

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One of my biggest frustrations is that people are quick to seek nutritional advice when nutritional self-experimentation is incredibly easy.... 1y ago received

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Guide to Carroll Quigley’s books
Carroll Quigley was a historian who lived from 1910 to 1977. He is a major influence on a bunch of people in our little circle, myself included. Mr. Quigley’s great genius is in analyzing how political and economic systems are intertwined, a subject wher... posted 1y ago with 5 replies received history bookclub

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Maybe I'll run a series of threads to read and discuss Tragedy and Hope, or Weapons Systems, depending on interest and on my schedule. Both are big, dense tomes, but rewarding. Who here would be committed enough to do the reading? Anyone have a preference ... 1y ago received

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I just bought, but have not yet started, Tragedy and Hope, so that one would have my vote. 1y ago received

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Retrochronic. A primary literature review on the thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical
https://retrochronic.com/ posted 2y ago with 7 replies received accelerationism bookclub

Retrochronic. A prim received

I would be more specific and say that it is the program of Francis Bacon. He didn't talk about AI in particular, but he laid out a (then) new approach to science and technology and its integration into a regime that we've been following ever since (cf. Nov... 1y ago received

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As such works go, I would say that New Atlantis (and Bacon in general) is less on the esoteric side. Bacon is pretty clear about his program, and it aligns with the development of technology that actually unfolded, up to a Landian perspective on AI. 1y ago received

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first thoughts
In any text, there's something that's left unsaid. And sometimes that unspoken thing isn't even known by the people supposedly behind it. Romance is a lot like this. You don't say everything, and you almost can't say everything. No matter what you say or d... posted 1y ago with 3 replies received rationality bookclub

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Justin Murphy wrote a little book called "Based Deleuze" that I found helpful in arranging Deleuze's thought in a way that I could better relate to my interests.... 1y ago received

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Should we read Foucault?
It seems silly to invite strangers to read with me parts of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) by Michel Foucault. I assume everyone has read it. A foundational text! But I realize I’m basing tha... posted 1y ago with 10 replies received politics bookclub

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Foucault can productively be read as a find-grained theorist of power, in its structures and channels.... 1y ago received

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I must say, his methods for resisting power are intended for the mentally ill and homosexuals, if those should be separated, but his conceptions of those categories are different from those popularly used at present, and they can still be adapted for other... 1y ago received

I must say, his meth received

What are the most important (history, philosophy, etc.) books for the home educator to read?
Think: “things the teacher needs to know so he or she can avoid misleading his or her students”.... posted 1y ago with 14 replies received history philosophy bookclub

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I was going to say the English Civil War seemed like one of the first big blows for liberalism. The Peace also seems relevant. In any case the point stands: maybe study the historical genealogy of our own system. But if I can refine the prompt somewhat, I'... 1y ago received

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I wanted to select OP's refinement of the prompt for the newcomers. My interpretation of this prompt is that we want to determine what is important to us, and I think that would start with understanding what the ideological foundations of our current regim... 1y ago received

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Book Club: Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy.
Dr Alamariu dropped his groundbreaking dissertation last year and by now you have all had a chance to read it. Let's read it again and discuss. This book really hits hard doing two related things that I think are of supreme importance:... posted 1y ago with 37 replies received politics eugenics bookclub

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This point is key. For both Plato and Aristotle, a polis needed to be small. In the Laws, Plato puts the ideal number of citizens at 5040. There are good reasons relating to coordination for favoring the small (think of Elon firing 80% of Twitter employees... 1y ago received

This point is key. F received

Agreed, the cover is what provides security, and provides a barrier to external threats (impeccability). For an internet community, especially considering possible threat models, this sort of barrier is far stronger than material security, say, in the form... 1y ago received

Agreed, the cover is received

Eight Books To Read (Samo Burja's recommendations for independent study of society)
https://medium.com/@samo.burja/eight-books-to-read-c35804edfbd2 posted 1y ago with no replies received bookclub

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What books are you currently reading?
I'm reading:... posted 1y ago with 10 replies received bookclub fieldtrip

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Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer... 1y ago received

Inside the Third Rei received

I think there's value in that. Despite Foucault being the most frequently cited contemporary philosopher in academia, and there being readymade attacks for abuses of ideas branded Foucauldian, that he's misunderstood. That's my feeling. We can see if it's ... 1y ago received

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Who is Portugal For? (and what's the point of democracy anymore?)
https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/02/23/who-is-portugal-for/ posted 1y ago with 12 replies received politics bookclub

Who is Portugal For? received

In everyone's favorite family-owned city-state, one sometimes encounters locals with recognizably Portuguese family names such as Pereira, Theseira (Teixeira), Gomes. I only considered the origin of these names much later when exploring the legacy of Roman... 1y ago received

In everyone's favori received

Indeed. The difference between what seems possible according to the world of ideas and what actually is possible is potentially large and always the essence of the game. This is why I'm not sure we can put too much stock in the "it can't reference or be mi... 1y ago received

Indeed. The differen received