/lit/ - Literature

It's amazing how people genuinely cannot stop themselves from perceiving their enemies in a centralized manner. It always has to be neat and structured. A tiny little elite cabal of puppeteers. A curtain here, a top hat there, etc.

Anything more complicated than that, and their brains turn to mush.

>"Protestantism is a halfway point to Atheism. I enter a protestant church and it resembles your average community library. Where's the grandeur, the history, the awe? Protestants would rather philosophize religion than worship, and so they imagine themselves peers of God, far more than his subjects. The true purpose of religion is to strike fear into your heart. You acquire a healthy fear of God, and this way, ritual overtakes philosophy and the religion retains its mythos and tradition. Protestants will never understand Catholicism."

Was he right?

>legitimately the only genuine political philosopher out there among a legion of blatant grifters

It's really saddening. Is there anyone else who's actually genuine in their political writings and isn't trying to sell you on a brand they are developing? (Malice, Rubin, Rufo etc.)

Is Taleb a worthy inclusion alongside Curtis?

>literally and incomprehensibly right every single time

kneel, /lit/

>>18481706
>stressed committing crimes
good luck with that buddy

in the end, though, I do appreciate your type because you serve as good cannon fodder against the Cathedral and keep smart dissidents like me safe and sound through your copious war cries and aggro generation

>Moldbug, Deleuze, Locke, Carlyle, Hoppe, De Maistre, Aristotle untouched

Based and pristinepilled.

>>18427734
You're one to talk, supporting an ideology that's already dead. Ideas only have 1 chance to succeed in history, and once they fail are buried forever.

You're just another larper like all the commies, being used by The Cathedral for their own ends.

I don't know about that but collectivism of any kind of for certain one big dehumanizing, evil meme to be certain.

Imagine actually wanting to devalue yourself at any point, ever.

>>18184058
Cringe. I'll take Moldbug's view in that most of us are prey and it's in our clear survival-based interest to lay low and appear as politically nonthreatening as possible, so as to not provoke any predator at all.

Reject the entire framework. Be polite and non-confrontational. Be well-read and able to defend your views, and give them a good reason to never prefer you as an enemy over the other dissidents.

Latest Moldbug appearances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qujHZ23KgI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrC0jWF42CI

And with that, I depart this shit thread.

>ITT these are the people along with /pol/fags who come in and try to "dunk" on ascended Moldbug enjoyers

Reminder that if Moldbug ever deigned to lower himself to debating a gamer he would annihilate Destiny.

I literally cannot think of a more perfect and complete political system than Neo-Cameralism.

>"Academia in the 20s has a lot of problems, and it’s only getting worse. Yet there are still history nerds out there, right now, who are seriously studying the Wars of the Roses—as though George Floyd had never existed!"

Fediverse, baby.
Jailbreaking phones, baby.
Urbit, baby.

Decentralize the shit out of this thang.

Based and, in fact, redpilled.

>banking on BAP
>the guy who for all of his Nietzschean vitalist edge has been crying like a fucking bitch on twitter for a month straight because Trump lost, doing folk activism, and knee-deep in slave morality

Yes, he's the guy who will save you. Totes.

>>17048346
>Even though I largely agree, my question is why? Is it to sow dissent and keep people from unifying?
Obviously.
>Does the elite honestly think they are right?
That has nothing to do with it.

People fucking hate the elite. The elite is scared of the rest of society, and they don't want to get strung up and hanged, so their goal is to keep being in power by keeping the plebs from unifying. It's not inherently malicious, it's just survival.

Also, the elites of the west are far more numerous in number than just the top 1%. It's more like the top 15-20%.

>ITT: Unironic leftists and socialists

Don't make me barf you halfwit ideologues.

Dismissing Machiavelli is the single biggest midwit thing you can do tbqh familia.

>the most influential public intellectual in the western world right now

>>16736513
Already refuted.

>Power is rarely the conscious and explicit goal of the volunteer. In the mind of the early 20th-century Communist, "all power to the Soviets" is not an end but a means—the end is to uplift the workers and peasants.

>Of course, real insiders quickly become power addicts—junkies. These sick and sad human beings grow supernaturally attuned to Orwell’s “subtle intoxication of power”—they can smell that shit three stories up across the street. And every other junkie is a dealer too.

>But the drug economy cannot exist except in the shade of the much larger army of casual, mostly-functional users; and so for the regime and its casual, quite sincere supporters. These customers actually count. They are not thinking explicitly of power; but they feel, are excited by, and learn to crave the energy that power creates. This is their very human, very natural, very forgivable vanity at work.

>To be a universal rule ideal for all, it is by no means necessary for a Kantian collective cause to express power. Power is either a means or a side effect. So, when we observe that causes which express power are much more successful than causes which do not, we observe that the forces which make popular causes popular are not purely Kantian.

>To join the most popular powerful cause cannot be a universal rule. Its popularity may be more a function of power than righteousness. But all causes must become popular to succeed.

>So if no cause that does not express power can become popular, no such cause will succeed; any effort invested in it cannot succeed; and a rule that cannot become universal cannot be a universal rule, so no one should be even the first to follow it. Once again, the Kantian action is inaction.

>>16673763
This. BAP is an absolute shit-tier reactionary.

I much prefer more down to earth and friendly guys like Yarvin, someone who isn't edgy as fuck and clearly demonstrate he has an actual active social life unlike most of these clowns.

Really bros. Please exercise extreme caution at anyone trying to shill you anything about going back in time. We can only move forward.

>>16616765
Don't worry anon, they won't be gone for too long.

I'm sure you'll have your pick of sovcorps that do offer safe and free libraries again.

Moldbug is a 1000 times smarter than him.