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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.... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.3 8.3 0.4 0.4

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"The Posh Turn" published in J'accuse Substack reframed my entire understanding of Brexit and its enemies in the British context.... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.2 0.2

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A number of this site's frequent posters, myself included, are trying to fix the institutions that govern us and revive our society. This requires political organization based on Truth, not just collecting a bunch of Truths and then leaning back in your ar... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.5 12.5

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I’m reading Kanbunmyaku(漢文脈) by Mareshi Saito (齋藤 希史) in translation. It is an exploration of what Prof. Saito calls the “literary sinitic context” or kanbunmyaku.... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.0 2.0

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this is a misunderstanding. You also have to multiply by throughput. The collagen in your body has lower turnover than other systems. This is also what leads to the problems with seed oils. Your body wants some PUFA, and the turnover on PUFA is higher than... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.3 0.3

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I’m skeptical of the “obvious” list. Unless "online discussion groups" counts, these lists don't represent a distinct tradition. I'm tired of seeing scraps of disparate canons taped up together. It seems like these recommendations, separated from any... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.2 10.2

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"Western ideology … might be summed up in the belief that "Truth unfolds in time through a communal process."... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.4 4.4

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Its a good post and probably a significant part of what's going on. But the fertility crisis is just too damn big and ubiquitous to have one explanation. I mean if this is true it implies a degree of western cultural hegemony that I don't think anyone coul... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.7 2.7

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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 ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.8 4.8

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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... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.3 10.3

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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. 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.2 5.2

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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 ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.6 7.6

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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... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.0 5.0

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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... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 12.2 12.2

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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... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.1 11.1

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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... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.7 7.7

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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.... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.5 9.5

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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... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.7 9.7

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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... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.7 2.7

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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 ... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.0 4.0

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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... 7mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 9.3 9.3

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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 7mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.0 4.0

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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... 7mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.7 4.7

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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 (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.7 1.7

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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 (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.6 2.6

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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 ... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.4 7.4

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I just bought, but have not yet started, Tragedy and Hope, so that one would have my vote. 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.9 0.9

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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... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.7 7.7

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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. 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.1 5.1

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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.... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.1 2.1

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Foucault can productively be read as a find-grained theorist of power, in its structures and channels.... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.9 8.9

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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... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.5 5.5

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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'... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.8 7.8

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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... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.3 5.3

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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... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.8 7.8

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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... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.1 4.1

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Yes. The interesting thing about governance futurism is that it wears this on its sleeve to some extent. It is openly and exoterically an ideology-construction operation. Of course ideology can't quite be constructed like that, as it is the water that the ... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.0 3.0

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Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.8 7.8

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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 ... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.6 2.6

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