anon_vuvu

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... 1mo ago

I've been meaning to

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... 1mo ago

I am very skeptical

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... 1mo ago

I don't mean to say

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... 1mo ago

I've read Man and Te

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... 4w ago

Cool map. The point

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... 4w ago

This speculation tha

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? 4w ago

I've not read Eckhar