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Austin Sofiechan Meetup
If you're in Austin and on here, let's get together! Shadow networks must be formed, voting cabals, there is power here for those who seek it... or we can just get coffee.... posted 2w ago with 4 replies received fieldtrip

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Just a note: DMs are created from mutual vouches on nyms themselves, not posts. So if you are in Austin and want to DM Adam (you should, this is a great move), vouch his nym itself. 2w ago received

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Uncertain as of yet. Throwing out next Wednesday at 6 at Holdout Brewing. I didn't get a response to my last message to >>4288, likely didn't see my reply. 2d ago received

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Political systems and the mess we are in
It seems everyone in our sphere has given up on democracy and liberalism. One thing Curtis Yarvin often says about democracy is its like making a six year old the king. The example is to illustrate that a person(or group) that has no agency cannot actually... posted 2w ago with 23 replies received news fieldtrip

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"dictatorship + gatekeeping outsiders from power + suppression of oppositional speech" are actually normal and fine if you do it while being correct and good and without other cruelties accompanying them. I also grew up in America and I don't think this is... 1w ago received

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On American Political Aesthetics
American politics used to be visually impressive. Today, they are visually ugly. All sides are aesthetically incompetent.... (x.com) posted 2mo ago with 22 replies received politics fieldtrip

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Broader Western aesthetic decline is an separate question.... 2mo ago received

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I've been enjoying the "greco futurism" work from Peniche. He should post more of that here. It's high tech, humanistic, warm, aspirational, luxury, grand, western, traditional, archeofuturistic. I agree we've got to kill cyberpunk. It's just dystopian and... 1mo ago received

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One thing that would help a lot: stop using shitty concrete for sidewalks. Tile it because plain concrete has the form and feeling of mud huts, only gray. Or polish it, like Costco flooring. Add some trees.... 3w ago received

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The Sofiechan Mount Whitney Expedition
Posting is fun, but the higher life is primarily physical. A couple weeks ago a few of us took on mount Whitney. At 14500 feet of pure Californian granite, it's the highest mountain in the continental United States, and a serious challenge even for strong ... posted 2mo ago with 7 replies received life fieldtrip

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I was one who summited. Anon started very strong but rolled the unlucky snake eyes with regards to altitude sickness. I haven't ever gotten it myself, but it looked brutal. Seeing his perseverance from 11000' to 11500' was good inspiration for the remainde... 2mo ago received

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Meditation on Mountain Peaks has some great passages that your ascent made me think of:... 2mo ago received

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Looks like fun. I'd definitely go next time. Glad you guys had a good time 1mo ago received

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This Thing Is Not Us. The imperative of cognitive separatism from the global american empire
I'm told "we" have a vital interest in defending Taiwan from China. Perhaps we do. Japan certainly seems to. I do like Japan. But then again, "we" also seem to have a vital interest in not quite letting Japan off the leash. I hear they are months from deve... posted 2y ago with 12 replies received politics fieldtrip

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We've had two years of intellectual development since the inception of this thread by the monosyllabic-nym old ones, so I want to pose a central question I had while reading. Cognitive separatism is necessary, we are actively doing it, it is starting to wo... 2mo ago received

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Is this just wishful thinking? Can we do some historical analysis and verify that the just falling out reliably happens? And if so, over what timescale? How long must we trust the plan?... 2mo ago received

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Share your art here
My aesthetic project: https://aeonofthedaughter.com/ (aeonofthedaughter.com) posted 4mo ago with no replies received fieldtrip

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Milsim West: Shali Front After Action Report
This post breached the character count limit on Sofie Channel, so I'm including a link to it.... (pastebin.com) posted 10mo ago with 3 replies received fieldtrip

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To this group, probably the sub-sections with the following headers:... 10mo ago received

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Road Trip Week 2: Escape to San Francisco
Driving the 101 down the coast, Oregon is the longest and hardest part. Endless repetition of idyllic towns, beautiful coastline, and lush forest. Over and over and over. It would be quite a nice place to retire to, but didn't seem to have much else going ... posted 1y ago with 6 replies received fieldtrip

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That doesn't seem so difficult if you can freely plan your route. The U.S. isn't that bad yet. Is there a state in the U.S. where you can't find someplace safe by driving 20 miles? 13mo ago received

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I think that's right, but the original context was finding safe locations when freely planning travel in the U.S. In that context, prevention by location-management is the first-order bit. 12mo ago received

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Thanks to our Admin/Host
I wanted to thank our Admin/Host for coming to stay with us. Having him and his wonderful family spend a long weekend with us was a breath of fresh air. I introduced them to some local families who in turn greatly appreciated the invite. We compared notes ... posted 13mo ago with 1 reply received fieldtrip

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Thank you it was wonderful to visit with you and we look forward to meeting other sofiechanners all over the states as we continue! 13mo ago received

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Road Trip: Missing Weeks Through Utah, Wyoming, and South Dakota.
As you may or may not have noticed, I have not been posting weekly road trip reports, and sofiechan has been rather neglected overall. These are related: driving and camping with a family is actually fairly time intensive. I wanted to give some kind of upd... posted 14mo ago with 1 reply received fieldtrip

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Classical Education with Confucian Characteristics
I started writing a response to >>1967 but it reached the point where it deserves a new thread, possibly for discussion on further reading groups, ordering, importance, etc.... posted 1y ago with 15 replies received rationality fieldtrip

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I have to say, OP's title could have been better. The right name for this cultural sphere should be the Nju(儒 - variously meaning sorcerers, intellectuals, scholars) cultural sphere, with 'j' pronounced as in German. Or, relabeling what Spengler called C... 1y ago received

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Well, I guess perhaps it's what peking the northern capital represents more than anything. I don't mean to hate the bureaucrats, or even necessarily the bureaucracy itself, but I would like more people to imagine futures that will get the far east out of "... 13mo ago received

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Road trip week 5, 6: The wedding, public land, overpopulation, underpopulation, unsociety.
The road trip at the end of week 5 took us across the bay to celebrate the wedding of an old friend and teacher. I didn't know what to expect, but it was delightfully well done. Congratulations to the couple.... posted 1y ago with 1 reply received politics fieldtrip

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Nevada is the open road radicalized and extended into a whole state. This actually makes it quite pleasant. Almost everything is public land, and underpopulated enough that you can do whatever you want. You can just drive off into the bush and camp, and ev... 1y ago received

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Road Trip Week 4: The Soul of a New Taste Machine in San Francisco
We're still becalmed in San Francisco, hanging out with friends, working a bit more on Sofiechan, and this week experiencing life in "the tenderknob".... posted 1y ago with 11 replies received computing fieldtrip

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It's a tricky balance. Discussion of taboos is a tricky balance because, on the one hand, if you’ve got politically load-bearing taboos you *can’t* discuss, then you are not intellectually sovereign, and you lose. On the other hand, if you discuss it a... 1y ago received

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It would be interesting to know how the use of these high-class markers played out during the COVID pandemic. Did they downgrade critical examination of vaccine efficacy and safety? Did they upgrade content on the benefits of lockdowns? 1y ago received

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Does Leopold Aschenbrenner make any sense?
Leopold Aschenbrenner has been everywhere for the last couple of weeks, feeding on the AI hype, doomerism and China hawkishness. He has very good credentials, but does any of his takes make any sense?... posted 1y ago with 15 replies received technology fieldtrip

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Rally name: End The Occupation, China Out Now! 1y ago received

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How should we do startups to retain teleological independence and win real power?
If one has ambition, talent, friends, and a good idea, one can build a successful company in Silicon Valley. But why? Money is nice; you ascend the bourgeois class tournament and get finer luxuries, more respect, better mates, better schools, better friend... posted 1y ago with 17 replies received fieldtrip

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Real power requires the capacity to do violence. Influencing those with the capacity to do violence is the next best thing, but I’m not sure it’s any substitute.... 1y ago received

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Greed: discourage attention seeking baitposts. Lust: automated porn detection and deletion, especially anything illegal. Pride: guard against group narcissism, including among ourselves. Sloth: a built-in reputation time-decay? Envy: encourage individual s... 1y ago received

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Road Trip Week 1: Country Island Dreaming from Saanich to Tillamook
Time for some good old fashioned travel journalism in the style of James Anthony Froude: a road trip survey of America's human and natural geography from a Volkswagen camper van. With my family of 6 (4 kids including a newborn), we're driving around the mi... posted 1y ago with 3 replies received fieldtrip

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For interpretation of fashionble moralistic livery, gleichschaltung is certainly part of it, but it's not that forceful in most social circles. Summer 2020 felt like that, but where's BLM now? Rolling in cash, sure, but with little social currency. I think... 1y ago received

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“Toward a History of Need” by Ivan Illich
quotes I love from the book:... posted 1y ago with no replies received fieldtrip

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Film Discussion Thread; Movies as a Tool for Society
Discuss movies that have influenced you or are favorites of yours. What movies do you plan to, or already, show your children to help them become intelligent and well-rounded adults?... posted 1y ago with 8 replies received fieldtrip

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So many good movies. Its a little corny but I love Braveheart: 'They may take our lives, but they'll never take our Freeedooom!' Awesome speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TME0xubdHQc.... 1y ago received

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Twitter Hobo's proposal for a new American nomadism
https://twitter.com/shagbark_hick/status/1774939620943294603 posted 1y ago with 22 replies received life fieldtrip

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I think the most revealing thread this Adirondack guy (or however he goes now) posted was when he confessed that he felt viscerally uncomfortable anywhere but dilapidated, deindustrialized shitholes in the Northeast. The Southwest and Mountain West, which ... 1y ago received

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Papen and Hindenburg facilitated the rise of national socialism due to tactical moves in 1933; it did not come from them or their faction. 1y ago received

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On Walls and Passes
There was never any illusion of true freedom on the PRC's internet. But maybe, that illusion existed on the US's. That illusion has become more difficult to justify in recent years, but it appears that we have recently hit an inflection point.... posted 1y ago with 4 replies received politics fieldtrip

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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 ... 1y ago received

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What books are you currently reading?
I'm reading:... posted 2y ago with 10 replies received bookclub fieldtrip

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Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer... 2y ago received

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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 ... 1y ago received

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