in thread "Imperium": I've been meaning to for years but haven't got around to it. I go back and forth on the idea of empire. On the one hand, massive gains from scale and cooperation exist. On the other hand, the creation of super-states seems to be a huge vector of corruption... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.7 4.7 I've been meaning to (view hidden) log in to judge received 4.7 4.7 I am very skeptical of accelerationist hopes where there is some kind of social-political reset or resurgence of the virtuous possibilities via metaphorical bankruptcy of "the system". I think de Gobineau's demographic hypothesis on civilization is more pl... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 8.8 8.8 I am very skeptical (view hidden) log in to judge received 8.8 8.8 I don't mean to say that Yockey is a reactionary (I haven't read him yet so can't judge), but to caution against ourselves becoming reactionaries by idealizing an alternate history. I like your quote "If the American ascendancy continues for fifty years, t... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.7 5.7 I don't mean to say (view hidden) log in to judge received 5.7 5.7 I've read Man and Technics and do not recall any arguments in it that bear on Darwin's theory of life. As for this first things article, I have skimmed it and it seems to be a basic reflection on how complexity theory (in particular nonlinear attractors an... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.7 4.7 I've read Man and Te (view hidden) log in to judge received 4.7 4.7 Cool map. The point against over-expansion is an important corrective to the high modernist universalism that tries to encompass the whole world and thus lets into itself a bunch of really alien others, or fractures its internal will for lack of external o... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.2 5.2 Cool map. The point (view hidden) log in to judge received 5.2 5.2 This speculation that the linear-universal myth is not actually natively Faustian is fascinating. I should read more Spengler to really get his idea, but If I can introspect on my own root cosmology, I would now say that the meta-organic consciousness of n... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.5 3.5 This speculation tha (view hidden) log in to judge received 3.5 3.5 I've not read Eckhart himself though he seems to come up a lot in these discussions. Do you have pointers on what the best stuff to read would be? 3mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.5 3.5 I've not read Eckhar (view hidden) log in to judge received 3.5 3.5