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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...
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The third-worldification of the global internet: are private network enclaves the answer?
Following recent anon discourse on the general third-worldification of the internet, I've been pondering potential solutions....
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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....
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BAP: The Right of the Stronger and the Better
BAP is sometimes obscurantist. In this essay, which only appeared in print prior, he is not obscuring anything. If one had any questions about the power core of his program, here it is on a silver platter. I personally tend to think the formation of new st...
(www.bronzeagepervert.yoga)
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Budapest, Revisited. Can we build cool new stuff?
Pokorny is a breath of flowery fresh air, despite this piece in reality being an indictment of Orbán's blip-on-the-historical-radar regime's aesthetics of 'kitsch atop concrete'. Is it in fact possible to build works of great splendor anew, with strange a...
(www.jaccusepaper.co.uk)
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The Second Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student. Political fiction of Meritocracy
The J'Accuse people (and Amarnites in general) are up to something interesting but I don't entirely understand it. This little story starts out describing the "Examinations of the Crossworld Meritocracy", a ritualized gaokao for citizens of a future politi...
(substack.com)
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Quinlan Terry's Career Retrospective
Quinlan Terry is probably the most eminent classical architect in Britain today. He is the favorite of King Charles III, and someone I admire for his lifelong bravery and commitment to his ideals. This interview by his son is a fascinating portrayal of his...
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On the Erosion of Society, Erroneous Optimism, & what should replace it
By now, all can smell the new feeling in the air. Whether it be 53 BC Rome, 1787 France, or 1850s America, this pungent sensation is something all have felt prior to years of great change & strife. We may discuss the recent feuds in California, the instabi...
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Elon vs Trump, Tech Right dead?
It was always an unlikely coalition but it seems to be over. Trump is effectively selling national socialism of a sort and the tech right wants global capitalism, with some protections against China at home but nothing beyond that....
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Democracy in America or Modernity in Democracy?
From a twitter post today by Tanner Greer (https://x.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1928597464006738035?t=Cper8b-TzL9_zK8Ggzw-zA&s=19) :...
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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...
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Patchwork city states ?
With State capacity decline and movement of decentralization how probable is it that we see something like sov corp city states emerging ? First through corporations providing private security (I think this is already the case in Brazil to some extent) eve...
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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...
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What longform piece is missing from the Mass Deportation/Remigration discussion?
Two years ago a Palladium article was written that forcefully argued that the replacement of meritocracy with DEI wasn't simply a "design decision," but was instead sowing the seeds of an unwind of complex civilization. The article escaped the Muscular Cen...
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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?
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America isn't going to become Brazil. It already is Brazil.
According to the 2020 census, the United States was 57.8% non-Hispanic white....
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Advice for smart, right-leaning zoomers
This post is from friend of mine whom I met at a right wing conference. He’s very intelligent and funny, I thought a lot of these tips were very good, some I hadn’t heard before. I am doing most of them pretty well and am beginning to find a path for m...
(open.substack.com)
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Trump Admin 2 Months In
The Trump 47 administration has been in office roughly 2 months. I created this thread so people can discuss their actions, where they’ve been succeeding, and where they can to do better....
(www.bbc.com)
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internet supplants america
Modern Americans have outgrown our republic....
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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...
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The Greater East Asia War
>Did our Greater East Asia War really result in total defeat? The former colonies that became battlegrounds all gained their independence during or after the war, and they have not fallen into white hands again. What are we to make of this fact? In the pos...
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Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.
Thread for discussion of the recent interview of Curtis Yarvin for the New York Times. I thought this was a great interview and am still in awe that the Times published this. Seemed unimaginable 4 years ago. My thoughts will be the first reply. Feel free t...
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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 ...
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A Sketch of Near Future Political Prognosis
I want to speculate for a minute about what kind of revolutionary or reform potential exists in our political-economic system as the current era of boomer senility and liberalism reaches its breaking point. I'm going to skip over a lot of reasoning here fo...
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We need to make mental-firmware for normies
I was talking to my normie parents (Harvard educated, Clinton supporters) about the presidential debate. My parents think I support Trump, but when politics is brought up, I say "both are bad" and divert the conversation....
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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....
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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....
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The internet social apocalypse and its solutions
folks over on twitter are complaining that all the twisty little passages full of unique social subcultures have been dissolved into a single global free market of slop. Elon giveth, and Elon taketh away. It seemed like an interesting topic so let's have a...
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Throne, Altar, Freehold. Jim.com's classic defense of monarchist libertarianism
https://blog.reaction.la/economics/throne-altar-and-freehold/
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Silicon Valley's Military Fever Dream
Thank goodness I can just Ctrl-A Ctrl-P before the paywall shows up. That was a close one. It does appear that Silicon Valley wants to appear more chad, so to speak. Perhaps nerds have too much of a reputation for being hunchbacked and quiet, as the articl...
(www.forbes.com)
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On Religion
IMO, the #1 insight I've absorbed from our general sphere is a far better grasp of the holistic significance of religion and theology within human society. In this regard, I found Wolf's article on Abraham especially insightful. I especially owe him for hi...
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El Salvador Questions Thread
I’ve been to El Salvador twice recently and have spent over two months there. It’s a great spot, I loved my trips both times and will return....
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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...
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Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on Twitter? A little something on what we're up against.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/who-is-behind-all-the-pussy-in-bio-porn-spam-on-x.html
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Heredity and Character
Today’s “scientific racists” sometimes tend to discard all of human psychology except for IQ, because IQ is almost the only part of psychology that’s been quantified in a way that adds more signal than noise. This isn’t unique to the study of rac...
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Heredity and Charact
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Are aesthetics really primary when seeking converts?
A common theme I see in some circles online is that many political opinions and other social convictions are downstream of aesthetics. This leads to a sort of propagandizing via art and literature, appeals to physical beauty, etc....
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Should we read Foucault?
It seems silly to invite strangers to read with me parts of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) by Michel Foucault. I assume everyone has read it. A foundational text! But I realize I’m basing tha...
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Book Club: Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy.
Dr Alamariu dropped his groundbreaking dissertation last year and by now you have all had a chance to read it. Let's read it again and discuss. This book really hits hard doing two related things that I think are of supreme importance:...
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Book Club: Selective
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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/
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Who is Portugal For?
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Drugs, generally
On my sixteenth birthday, I bought five grams of mushrooms, ate them in my bedroom, tuned my Walkman to Coast to Coast AM, flew out the window, and experienced ego death. A few months later, I took LSD sent in a Christmas card by friends on IRC. I got a ti...
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