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. Bioleninism? more like homocolonialism
Your avg republican voter is just someone who hasn’t figured out the mechanics of American imperialism. You see, we figured out a way to get 2nd gen immigrants to voluntarily sterilize themselves. Trump gets it, as does Tariq
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The problem is market-economic society succeeded in doing what communism could only dream of: it made everyone comfortable. And we did not evolve to be comfortable. The warrior, in times of peace, attacks himself https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1086446012594438144
So because of this evolutionary mismatch to our circumstances, people find themselves to be intolerable, and they try to dissolve themselves. The incredible popularity of samatha meditation in the west attests to this
What do you think intersectionality MEANS? It means that no matter what particularity you pick from the ethnosexual rainbow, your identity is a wholly owned subsidiary of globohomo, inc.
You’re not really gay, you’re not really black, you’re not really trans, you’re not really Latinx. Those are simulations of identities.
The A in LGBTQIA stands for either “white girl” or “autist” depending on the biological sex of your penis.
https://twitter.com/moldbugman/status/1099155168132620288
“Everyone gets to be proud of their ethnicity but me” no, wrong, everyone gets to have their ethnicity co-opted by the market except for you, which is to say everyone else gets to merge with the crawling chaos, the sprawling abyss. 🩋 is this thirst for annihilation?
Narratives are the wellspring of identities, but all the old narratives are zombies, dead yet walking. The culture war is a fight over identity, not of one identity against another, but over what kinds of identities will be able to exist https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1068665057804869632
Our culture has embraced a form of scientism that excludes all mythical, philosophical, and religious narratives from the public debate except one: the myth of never-ending technological progress
And in this story of technological ascension, there is only one identity that center-leftism permits. Or, as Ambrose Bierce so memorably wrote in his devil’s dictionary, an African American is a [redacted] who votes our way.
We need to understand why both the right and the left feel the constant suspicion that they are losing the culture war very badly, and this will require sympathy—or actually, empathy—for the devil
To the right, both moral & political good are found in alignment with tradition, which is the revelation of uncreated values independent of arbitrary will. As good things endure through history and bad things fall away, These values are revealed
To the right, what is sinister both morally & politically is the rejection, not only of historical superstructures but of their underlying values, which are defamed as MERELY oppressive ideologies imposed by the dominant classes
This is how the right sees the world, and from this vantage point they are losing very badly. On the other hand...
To the left, the only moral principle must be dissolution of hierarchy. Leftism does not see leftism as ideology, and believes authority and ideology prevent us from realizing our destiny as a single, united humanity existing in a higher plane of moral and spiritual cooperation
To the old left, evil is the political right, understood as "management technique at the service of the strongest,” regardless of what ideologies are used to justify this management
From this perspective, managerial hierarchy has coopted egalitarian ideals by commodifying them, and one sees @wokecapital as a victory of the right over the left, as a monster wearing the corpse of egalitarianism as a skinsuit
There was a point in history when leftism was actually quite a reasonable-seeming position and when the living conditions of industrial laborers were so horrible that some kind of radical action really was preferable
The old left was genuine in its humanism, which is why when you hear someone like Bernie Sanders talk, there is something sympathetic and resonant underneath his communism, despite the fact that his ideas would drag us to hell if implemented https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1086445891697819648
The old left was not interested in the enterprise of dissolving human nature, they were trying to RESTORE humanity, and their project of "progress," in recognizing the malleability of man, became an unrecognizable, all-devouring shoggoth
Bernie has no defenses against the new left, as we have already seen. Think of the French deconstructionists as a kind of intellectual antibiotic, evolved to sterilize any discourse it touches; intersectional social justice is the superbug that learned to grow in that environment
The "new left," which is really a cluster of woke centrists, is happy to betray the old left by constructing a managerial hierarchy, and it has no allegiance to the right, so it will use tools like immigration and trans/homosexuality to deracinate nations as a way to gain power
The dupes of this system, the people who have been colonized, imagine some hidden treasure of human nature that will free itself by exploding the crust of a repressive society.
1984, whatever, but capitalism is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the managerial left-center. Yes, right after we emancipate the gays, no wait the trans, no wait the pedos, then we’ll get right along to dealing with this pesky capitalism business, buy these hormone pills while you wait
The market economy is the true transvaluator of all values. Why is it possible to buy a Che Guevara t-shirt? I know you’ve read the last psychiatrist. Hint: it’s because you’re a narcissist. Wait, wait, it’s not your fault https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1096971123646857216
The special trick of both nazism and the sexual identity spectrum is that they both give you the opportunity to be something in the way a rock is something, that is, innately, passively, inalienably
And this desire, to be rock-like, is something that weighs heavy, and perhaps most people don’t have the strength to lift it. The only identity that has been able to sustainably resist narcisso-centrist capitalism is negative identity, the zero
But negative identity is never going to work as a rallying point; like negative theology, it only excites a few nerds. What has more gravity, a rock or a void? In the outer right, we live in void-land, dreaming of stars and singularities
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