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This was very well-written and informative, though I feel that one can get overly wrapped up in explaining everything in terms of historical factors. In the process, one can also end up reducing history to something mechanical. I love Thomas Carlyle’s essay about this, The Signs of the Times: Such a mechanical explanation avoids the mysterious and spiritual origin of human creativity, which is the true fountain from which world-historical processes spring. Ironically, it has this in common with the scientific worldview whose development you have explained in such terms…

When I was a late teenager I dabbled in psychedelics and it exaggerated my suicidal tendencies. I was living in London at the time and I used to feel a strong urge to throw myself in front of the tube…

I imagine he would say that the Mongol invasions were an earlier phase of Kali Yuga and thus part of the same process. Incidentally, the Mongols were quite important to Hitler, especially as they were presented in the book The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy by Michael Prawdin.

“Sovereign is he who decides the exception”…

Savitri Devi believed that Hitler was an incarnation of Vishnu in one of his late and destructive forms, but she was a very odd woman… Maybe Netanyahu is the next incarnation! Shunyamurti said something related to this recently — in our time, the function of God is destructive:

A lot of “alt-right” ideology is just self-help with a right-wing bent. That’s how Jordan Peterson became famous, for example. This will probably improve your life, whatever that is worth… I just find it snivelling and disingenuous. It comes from an over-socialised schoolgirl desire to be approved of. Of course he has. Sentiments like this fail to grasp the inherently polemical, “friend-enemy” nature of politics. Why would you admit you were wrong to people you despise and who despise you? Especially when you know they are never going to admit to being wrong.

Is that for his political views? I have a theory that the left-wing Scandinavia trope is actually a result of the extreme conformism which one finds there, since what one is supposed to conform to nowadays to score social points are left-wing ideas. By the way, I would like to visit Norway sometime and I would rather avoid the city. Is there anywhere you would recommend?

In my experience, which is not saying much, women don’t like it if you share your emotions with them. They will start trying to solve your problems for you like your mother. So this dynamic only applies one way around. Women want to share their emotions with men - or rather, want someone who is calm and detached enough to not be emotionally reactive - but they don’t want men to share their emotions with them.

I’ve always disliked this over-earnest, self-righteous “how I escaped X or Y” type of content. He’ll just go on to delude himself with something else.

Interesting UK development: Elon is planning to donate a large amount to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party… https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/elon-musk-nigel-farage-donald-trump-reform-uk-b1197417.html

Trump isn’t even in office yet. It wouldn’t surprise me if this turns out to be a joke account. You are like a parody of Trump derangement syndrome.

On the one hand: Thank God we’re finally free to express our true nature! All of our repressed desires have been liberated. On the other hand: Human nature is evil, tribal, racist, bigoted, misogynistic, and must be overcome through a heavy program of brainwashing. How do you square these completely contradictory ideas?

Because God is a dead word to most people nowadays. Western philosophy is largely just a restatement of spiritual ideas for people who can no longer believe in them.

In this sense Nietzsche was quite a Christian writer… Oops! I’ve always felt that this is strongly suggested in aphorism 38 of The Antichrist: A very hard-hitting attack on the hypocrisy and empty, performative Pharisaism of modern religiosity!

This is pretty funny actually…

Modern mass society is extremely dysgenic. Add that to the fact that the two World Wars had already wiped out most of the European aristocracy and you have our situation… “The blood of Numenor is spent”!

I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour. Paralysed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom Remember us—if at all—not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men II Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death’s dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind’s singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star. Let me be no nearer In death’s dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer— Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom III This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man’s hand Under the twinkle of a fading star. Is it like this In death’s other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone. IV The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death’s twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men. V Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o’clock in the morning. Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

Thanks! A beautiful song from the whiny loser with a castration complex:

It is a bit more complicated in that Trump represents an inversion of liberal perversion. It is the New Left playbook turned against itself: frame yourself as defending fun and freedom from your stuffy and boring opposition. This is a very easy game to play, since the left have become so anal, rigid, self-righteous and boring. For me, it is just doing whatever I can to stay sane. I find life today almost unbearable…

That might be your view. However, it is not the view generally expressed by the left today. Here is an example from Leo’s blog: My question is: how can anybody pretend that absolute drivel like this is compatible with the program to liberate all of our repressed desires?

These condescending arguments work until they don’t. For so long as the left reigns triumphant, it is only natural that those who oppose them will exist on the margins. Once they are inevitably finished, we’ll see who is whining… Just look at their reaction to Trump. This is only a taste of what is to come.

I’m not so sure. It’s obvious that certain factions within the system (“neoliberalism” or whatever you want to call it) wanted Trump this time around in a way that they didn’t before. The media were much less anti-Trump than in 2016, minimal protests are being stirred against him, and - in relation to your post - many prominent people spoke out in favour of him who wouldn’t have before. Most of these people are just stooges of said factions within the system, despite any pretences to rebellion. This is why they are supporting Trump now. That’s because being “nice” and “charitable” is just papering over the more fundamental disconnect. One can pretend that it’s not there but the elephant in the room is always going to rear its ugly head again. American politics feels uniquely charged. No amount of niceness is going to bridge this division.

It’s just another leftist inversion of reality, and a rather lame attempt to co-opt yet another meme from the Right. They do it all the time: normie, NPC, based. I remember that overgrown infant on TYT Cenk Uyghur trying to make a similar move regarding paedophilia. Even your precious postmodernism is just a cheap rip-off of Nietzsche and Heidegger; your cultural relativism a mediocre rehashing of Spengler, Toynbee, Vico and such; the “genius” bullshit of Ken Wilber a retarded version of the Perennial Traditionalism of Frithjof Schuon and René Guénon. Naturally, their so-called “education” would not have taught them any of this, since it is merely an education in subversion. The left have no ideas and nothing to say, and they never have. All that remains is to step over them like the parasitical maggots that they are. ”But look at our worthless, toilet paper University degrees! Remember all the hard work we did to get those… Sleeping around at degenerate parties, drinking moonshine from plastic cups… Ooh, aren’t we so intelligent?!” Meanwhile, this is the perfect description of all of you: While they go on perverting everything you care about, they will smugly call you perverts…

And you can keep pissing your pants about Trump like an infant.

This part of the article struck me: Most of those older books were also written by people who had degrees… Why didn’t their hallowed “university education” teach them the same standards, if that’s really all it comes down to? No. As part of the Long March Through the Institutions, the Universities have been hijacked to indoctrinate people into New Left ideology. And it has nothing to do with bias or self-deception. The only difference is that this regime serves the self-interests of ethnic and sexual minorities rather than the old white male elite.