/ideology/

White Identitarian Symbology
I'm not sure what percent of this board is supportive of White identitarianism/nationalism (a survey would be interesting), but even if only as a theoretical exercise: It is undeniable the power symbols have in unifying, directing, and coordinating a mass ... posted 3d ago with 7 replies politics ideology eugenics

White Identitarian S

I am not insisting that this conception of white nationalism is any sort of theoretically ideal organisation of society. I am sure your theory-crafted model for aristocrats of the soul is far more refined and creative than this "vulgar" project, but we liv... 2d ago

I am not insisting t

What can we learn from Chinese political theory?
A lot of threads that I saw focused on the economic differences between China and the US. However, China also seems to have its own vibrant community of political theorist, trying to synthesize something new from Confucianism, Marxism and Liberalism (see h... posted 1mo ago with 1 reply ideology

What can we learn fr

Nice post, these are the right questions to be asking. Mao definitely cooked up something new by running a version of Marxism that worked and inventing novel military strategy. At the same time though, I think 90% of the picture can be described by the CCP... 1mo ago

Nice post, these are

The End of Strategy
The collapse Yarvin, Thiel, Vassar, Burja, Tivy, Anders, and Tallinn saw coming was real.... posted 2mo ago with 7 replies ideology rationality economics

The End of Strategy

Collapse is not the end. Collapse is the winter.... 2mo ago

Collapse is not the

Accelerationism
Has anyone read a lot of materials on Accelerationism that wants to have a good discussion on pros and cons of this theory? posted 5mo ago with 23 replies ideology gnon

Accelerationism

Tieing it back to the topic in OP, energy rate density is closely related to a lot of the thermodynamics that are used and abused by accelerationists. In many ways that Chaisson article I shared is accelerationist through and through. And on a personal lev... 2mo ago

Tieing it back to th

Should You Hide Your Power Level?
It's common in radical chan-derived internet circles to speak of "hiding your power level", meaning not letting the normies know just how much anime you watch, or just how nuanced your opinions of Hitler are. Its a sort of necessity to keep the tradition a... posted 8mo ago with 21 replies ideology rationality learning

Should You Hide Your

This is great. Thanks. 2mo ago

This is great. Thank

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 5mo ago with 6 replies ideology rationality bookclub

The border patrol sh

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... 2mo ago

interesting theory.

Rationalists should embrace will-to-power as an existential value fact
Imagine a being who systematically questions and can rewrite their beliefs and values to ensure legitimate grounding. I think humans can and should do more of this, but you might more easily imagine an AI that can read and write its own source code and bel... posted 4mo ago with 5 replies ideology rationality gnon

Rationalists should

am I supposed to envy this? 3mo ago

am I supposed to env

Ideology is more fundamental than *just* post-hoc rationalization
Mosca argued that every ruling class justifies itself with a political formula : an ideological narrative that legitimizes power. Raw force alone is unsustainable; a widely accepted narrative makes dominance appear natural. Internally, shared ideology unif... posted 4mo ago with 10 replies politics ideology sociology

Ideology is more fun

I think even acts of intuitive human intelligence are often difficult to explain to other people; perhaps the metaphor of Cassandra is a good reminder how genius is often recognized far too late:... 4mo ago

I think even acts of

should we be anti-principle?
clickbait title but maybe you can help me out on this one.... posted 5mo ago with 5 replies ideology rationality

should we be anti-pr

Thats true for principles as zero sum political tools, but the positive sum questions requires principles as leap-of-faith on strategy that must actually work on its own terms. 5mo ago

Thats true for princ

Against Yarvin's Absolute Monarchy
I recently watched the Yarvin interview on NYT. I want to argue against Yarvin’s position on monarchy. Yarvin makes his typical argument in favor of monarchy: ‘look around you, everything here in this room is built by a monarchy’ and ‘NYT is a 5th ... posted 5mo ago with 7 replies politics ideology

Against Yarvin's Abs

Monarchy in Yarvin's sense (per OP) need not be hereditary and typically is not.... 5mo ago

Monarchy in Yarvin's

How a more intelligent/educated population would change the system
I have been thinking a lot about how a more educated population could both become just economically richer or understand/realize the flaws of the system and so create a better one based on less exploitation (as the current one) of less intelligent /fortuna... posted 6mo ago with 9 replies politics ideology

How a more intellige

The Chynese don’t want global government, that is a mischaracterization of American boomers that believe everyone thinks like them 5mo ago

The Chynese don’t wa

Is independent thinking still possible in an environment where escaping social media ecochamber is nearly impossible?
Is it possible to be an independent thinker in general?... posted 5mo ago with 6 replies ideology rationality sociology

Is independent think

Independence is tough as always. The time before social media, many too didn't have independent thinking, just there wasn't a platform to make it evident.... 5mo ago

Independence is toug

How did Effective Altruism get so big?
I disagree with many of the views behind EA, but I've been fascinated by how they managed to make institutions, build a scene, start companies, NGOs, get funding, etc.... posted 12mo ago with 14 replies politics ideology rationality

How did Effective Al

Right, you can't serious probe and weigh these questions without getting into questions of ends that are ultimately not utilitarianism.... 12mo ago

Right, you can't ser

How do you make yourself a Nazi?
“1) Wherever there is impersonality and chance, introduce conspiracy, lucidity, and malice. Look for enemies everywhere, ensuring that they are such that one can simultaneously envy and condemn them. Proliferate new subjectivities; racial subjects, natio... posted 1y ago with 10 replies politics ideology

How do you make your

The better known version of this thesis is Burnham's Managerial State, which many think would more precisely be called the administrative state. That some version of this is true is pretty uncontroversial in our circles. Calling it "fascism" is a kind of p... 14mo ago

The better known ver

The Post-Liberal Synthesis. The founding essay of the Governance Futurism project.
https://www.palladiummag.com/2018/09/29/towards-the-post-liberal-synthesis/ posted 1y ago with 3 replies ideology philosophy palladium

The Post-Liberal Syn

Yes. "Post-Liberal" rapidly became a useless label colonized by insincere pseudo-movements.... 1y ago

Yes. "Post-Liberal"

Nietzsche - Homer's Contest
Some of you may have already seen this piece; I think it’s worth revisiting following the book club. In it Nietzsche offers more details on the relation between tyrant/warrior and philosopher/artist in the ancient Greek polis. It’s another of his early... posted 1y ago with 5 replies ideology philosophy nietzsche

Nietzsche - Homer's

Yeah there's a phase shift with Plato to philosophy as a self-conscious program and type, with a politics. Alamariu points out tyranny and proto-philosophy existed for a while pre-plato, but true philosophy only really comes into being with xenophon and th... 1y ago

Yeah there's a phase

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 politics ideology sociology

Who is Portugal For?

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

Indeed. The differen

Six Sufficiencies of "Religions"
I really wanted to like Religions. There were philosophical cores there that no one else was anywhere close to. They were ambitious, elite, curious, systematic, and utterly unashamed. That's what drew many of us in.... posted 1y ago with 11 replies ideology funposting theology

Six Sufficiencies of

I will reformulate your six points as I see them from the Nietzschean perspective, especially as articulated by Dr Alamariu:... 1y ago

I will reformulate y

Some thoughts on extropian/accelerationist life strategy
What is to be done with respect to acceleration and accelerationist arguments? Should you try to accelerate overall intelligence growth, or decelerate it, or do your own thing despite it, or cut off your balls and go insane, or what? People do all of these... posted 2y ago with 6 replies ideology accelerationism lifestyle

Some thoughts on ext

\> I need a way to think about accelerationist AI apocalypse in a non-millenarian way.... 2y ago

\> I need a way to t

Ideology is not for arguing or justifying. It is for living.
A forum is an ideological thunderdome in which we can train the martial art of ideology.... posted 2y ago with 9 replies politics ideology philosophy

Ideology is not for

u got me 2y ago

u got me