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Erotic compulsion is the most terrifying emotion. There are no words to capture the exact sensation of perverse desire, though we have all felt it at some point in a

We have seen how the modern world is structurally left-wing. Our society has a chronic aversion to the investment of power into individuals, and therefore we find ways of putting

What is the new right and what distinguishes it from the old right? For one thing, we are NOT conservative. Open your eyes, what do you see that you want

A key insight for me has been to understand ideology—religion, philosophy, and politics—in terms of biological metaphors. When I say “memetics,” this is what I mean. Ideas are an emergent

A man goes every day to the same teachersThey teach him the same lessonHe hears, but does not listenIs it the lessons of these teachers that you need?You already know

In a network of competing agents, each agent has a growth strategy. No matter what resource the agents are competing for, if they can recognize and remember each other, they

Everything is 80% heritable. (I apologize for an earlier thread where I said 50; mea culpa). This is the reactionary’s hidden revelation, his revolt against the modern world. From this

I hate the standard political compass, which I am pretty sure was popularized by libertarians trying to peel converts away from left and right using a childish and poorly conceived

Any time you draw a line, someone will accuse you of reductionism. "It's not a binary, man, it's a spectrum". My models allow for gradients of being, but when people

The old civic nationalism has transformed into neocolonialism. It still demands assimilation, but in order to scale globally it had to create identities that could transcend ethnicity, hence boutique sexuality.

An intellectual Turing test is when a person on the right tries to pass for a person on the left, or vice versa. We have long observed that most rightists

Yesterday I was reading about the ideas of Girard. His first big idea is mimetic desire: when you look for the source of your desires you find that most of