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I like this wholesomeposting. Interesting you connect Ayn Rand to slice-of-life philosophy. It's a sort of lifestyle wu-wei: just be clear on your code of values and try to live it as directly as possible, and refuse to apologize or compromise. To your poi... 2d ago (collapse hidden) 66

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intelligent super-ants make a good thought experiment. Let's add the standard set of capabilities: language, learned culture, tool use, fire, reflection, etc. Note these are just capabilities, not values or arbitrary architectural narrowings, but they are ... 5d ago (collapse hidden) 77

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"Hidden Gems" — Rare(-ish) Books list below seems possibly relevant ... 6d ago (collapse hidden) 00

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The point of the story isn't that the devil is good or even that the devil was right. It’s that this creation (physical reality) is the good one, the pain in it is part of a greater plan and beauty, and the paradise imagined by bronze age semites is fake... 1w ago (collapse hidden) 55

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We need a school of true anthropology. 3w ago (collapse hidden) 22

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I agree anon, this is why I think the core issue here is the lack of aesthetics or taste in the perception of the world. It is like trying to understand the world with only sight and sound but no touch. You would build all these mental castles about the di... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 22

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I have not read Lefebvre, but it sounds similar to thoughts I've had. The beach, the real one out there on the coast and not just some piece of watery sand on the local waterway, is a little slice of titanic permanently wild landscape. Civilization can't r... 10mo ago (collapse hidden) 33

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There would also be a complicated quasi-religious system put in place. He is against feudal superstitions, and imagines instead a system of belief based on aesthetics. He calls for the construction of temples devoted to the cultivation and worship of aesth... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) 55 22

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Nope. The only difference between "Anonymous" vs "Numbered" is whether your posts are visibly associated with each other in the thread. It's just to make discussion easier between anons, while also allowing you to dodge association with your own posts if y... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) 55

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Aristotle described animals as having souls* capable of knowledge derived from the senses and the capability to use that knowledge to support the movements characteristic of their species. ... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) 22

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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... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) 22

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Glorious. Right on. With respect to the other transcendentals, I've recently been thinking the way we should launch this philosophical movement is radicalizing around the natural law ("The Idea") operationalization of Truth. Beauty is very charismatic, but... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) 33

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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... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) 77

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I've read and re-read this essay and keep returning to it. It helped explain the nefarious effect in my life of some Bay area subcultures. And I've quit a useless master's (credentialism) to pursue more Abrahamic-value courses of action. - coyotespike 13mo ago (collapse hidden) 44

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I like this reframing. It's very much in the spirit of what I was thinking when I (re)posted the reference. 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 22

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Yes. "Post-Liberal" rapidly became a useless label colonized by insincere pseudo-movements. ... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 33

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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... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 33

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I think when i was a bugman atheist I was secretly terrified of death, that was the root cause of extropianism/transhumanism/radical life extensionism... it's just fear of death. ... 2y ago (collapse hidden) 33

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Dieting beyond what is comfortable for your digestion seems much more energetically taxing than simply increasing your activity, which actually *builds* your energy. The human body is a perfect example of a structure that becomes more, not less powerful th... 2y ago (collapse hidden) 44

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