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What is Gnon? It stands for “nature or nature’s god”, and the acronym is reversed because “nong” sounds terrible, aesthetics matter
Gnon is an adapter. It gives people with differing theo- or atheological views a common interface for discussion that allows us to decouple our agreements from our disagreements
And what do we agree upon, or at least, what should we agree upon? On the right we acknowledge the existence of truths outside of humanity and the visible world that are not contingent. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1034801268160487424
Truths that are not contingent? How can this be, how can we know them? We know from Kant that we can never perceive the world as it is, only our image of it. Trapped in the Kantian wilderness, armed with only our wits, searching for an impossible theory of knowledge!
The only way out of the Kantian trap is to embrace some kind of contradiction, to give yourself PERMISSION to be in error. As with morality, epistemology is heuristic. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1032659643321872385
As to the exact content of non-contingent truths, they are unknowable, though the world around us hints at them. The sun gives us light by which to see but we ought not to stare at it. Gnon is not a description of the sun, only a way to speak of what its light reveals
Epistemology is wankery, naive realism is truer than any philosophy. If you try to use logic to find meaning, purpose, and morality, you will always fail.
Nature didn't make you for truth, it built you to lie effectively. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1023550713811501057
Nature didn't make you for truth, it built you to lie effectively. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1023550713811501057
The critical thing to understand is that there are limits to the elasticity of man, that the resources that sustain us are finite, that despite the appearance of limitless abundance around us, every action and every act of charity has a cost
Leftists are at heart idealists, believing that their ideas are primary and matter is contingent on ideas, which is why they love “the world is a simulation” lines of thought. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1036625361461633025
Overly cerebral types often fall into this trap, and the tendency is amplified in the USA where our youth learn the idiotic nerd/jock dichotomy, that snare which compels us to choose between developing the body and the mind https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1034162730930847744
Many intelligent people become bitter and resentful because they believe they must forsake the body to embrace scholarly disciplines, and in so doing become ugly and undesirable. No wonder they convince themselves of the primacy of ideas
It’s only possible to be an idealist when you do not see the finitude of our wealth. It is easy to imagine a future of privation, but very hard to believe it.
The right believes that decadence is a debt, and that all debts are repaid in time.
The right believes that decadence is a debt, and that all debts are repaid in time.
The perennial cry of the right: the end is coming! Soon we will pay for our decadence! Every generation thinks it’s living in the end times. Will we be the lucky winner? https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1019938214688145409
To whom do we owe these debts, rightist?
Why, to Gnon, of course.
Why, to Gnon, of course.
When a meteor strikes the earth, Gnon is the meteor
When bacteria become immune to antibiotics, Gnon is adaptation
When a new paradigm causes a nonlinear increase in wealth, Gnon is capital
When you bankrupt yourself trying to feed the whole world, Gnon is the ravenous horde
When bacteria become immune to antibiotics, Gnon is adaptation
When a new paradigm causes a nonlinear increase in wealth, Gnon is capital
When you bankrupt yourself trying to feed the whole world, Gnon is the ravenous horde
Gnon is Malthusian limits
Gnon is climate change
Gnon is cold
Gnon is brutal
Gnon is patient
Gnon is unforgiving
Gnon is never merciful
Gnon is just
but his justice demands perfection.
Gnon is climate change
Gnon is cold
Gnon is brutal
Gnon is patient
Gnon is unforgiving
Gnon is never merciful
Gnon is just
but his justice demands perfection.
When you push too far against the limits of nature, Gnon sees your hubris, and it is delicious to him, so he devours you. That’s the god that I believe in
