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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 3w ago with 8 replies received politics ideology history eugenics

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I think the techno-optimist/Faustian faction is a good gesture towards what a revitalized Western Anglo-Saxon identity and ideology might look like. Focusing on the content of national/racial identity rather than a purely empty identitarian label that incl... 5d ago received

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Commentary vs Plans
Most discussions on the right are still largely bogged down by targeting what the left does wrong instead of formulating actual plans. Commentary vs Plans.... posted 1mo ago with 11 replies received politics ideology sovereignty

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Some organizations should be reformed, others deleted. The macro trend is metastasizing bureaucracy---we simply have *more* of everything to the point of sclerosis. Cities with 100s of committees, insolvent states, uncountable federal agencies. If we have ... 1mo ago received

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How many civilizations are there ?
People fall into 2 camps when talking about civilization. Either they speak of 1 global civilization, or of distinct civilizations as politico-cultural units. Huntington is perhaps the best expression of this latter confused conceptualization (is it cultur... posted 1mo ago with 7 replies received politics ideology history

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I don't think that I am missing the point nor do I disagree with you. It is necessary both to be abstract and concrete. You see pundits talking about high minded ideals like "defending Western civilization", making sure "Civilization doesn't collapse", pre... 1mo ago received

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Uptrust. Another alt-social app designed to foster great conversations
This seems interesting. Someone linked it to me. Has anyone used it or know anything about it? It seems like there are multiple parties thinking in serious ways about what we might call the “alt social media problem” and how to design really great cult... (www.uptrusthq.com) posted 2mo ago with 3 replies received ideology meta startups coordination

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I believe strongly in the inevitability of new alt-media spaces and digital enclaves that cater to specific scenes. Referring to the failure of past players, I think this has much less to do with network effects and far more with the fact that none of them... 1mo ago received

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Empire Without Frontier Is Dysgenic
People will leave their shtetl and cultural identities behind to participate in The Empire if there are opportunities available to them that wouldn't be available at home. And I'm not talking about computer job opportunities. I'm talking specifically about... posted 2mo ago with 3 replies received ideology history coordination

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I have skimmed it but will give it a more thorough read. While I appreciate Spengler (I understand Yockey has a spenglerian approach) I don't know how illuminating he is for our time. There is a failure to explain what makes cultures/civilizations tick (wh... 2mo ago received

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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 2mo ago with 1 reply received ideology

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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... 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 2mo ago with 27 replies received politics ideology history bookclub

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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 2mo ago received

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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 6mo ago with 23 replies received ideology accelerationism gnon

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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... 3mo ago received

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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 9mo ago with 21 replies received ideology rationality learning

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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 6mo ago with 6 replies received ideology rationality bookclub

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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... 3mo ago received

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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 received ideology accelerationism rationality gnon

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am I supposed to envy this? 3mo ago received

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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 5mo ago with 10 replies received politics ideology accelerationism sociology

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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 received

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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 6mo ago with 7 replies received politics ideology

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Monarchy in Yarvin's sense (per OP) need not be hereditary and typically is not.... 6mo ago received

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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 6mo ago with 6 replies received ideology rationality sociology news

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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.... 6mo ago received

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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 13mo ago with 14 replies received politics ideology rationality

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Right, you can't serious probe and weigh these questions without getting into questions of ends that are ultimately not utilitarianism.... 13mo ago received

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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 received politics ideology

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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... 1y ago received

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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 received politics ideology philosophy palladium

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

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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 received ideology philosophy nietzsche

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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 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 ideology sociology

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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

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The martial art of ideology
The best idea on Lesswrong was the martial art of rationality. It didn't deliver.... posted 2y ago with 24 replies received ideology rationality philosophy

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Interesting. I need to be more consistent with the Romanization. It is a pet peeve of mine that the usual Romanization of the Peking dialect promulgated by the government... 1y ago received

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