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The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing.
I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard.
A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land, and out of the abysses between the stars swept chill currents that made men shiver in dark and lonely places.
Everyone felt that the world and perhaps the universe had passed from the control of known gods or forces to that of gods or forces which were unknown
And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why
Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciencesâof electricity and psychologyâand gave exhibitions of power
I remember when Nyarlathotep came to my city. What was thrown on a screen in the darkened room prophesied things none but Nyarlathotep dared prophesy; in the sputter of his sparks there was taken from men that which had never been taken before yet which shewed only in the eyes
Nyarlathotep drove us all out into the hot, deserted midnight streets. We drifted into curious involuntary formations and seemed to know our destinations though we dared not think of them.
-Nyarlathotep, HPL
-Nyarlathotep, HPL
There is something universal in the story of Nyarlathotep, who is a grim reflection of the character of Christ, the soul of Lovecraft's dark elder gods of the outside made flesh.
All of us want a strong leader to look up to. As I have told you before, egalitarian philosophy causes tremendous psychological harm to you by making it morally wrong to look up to your betters. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1088813012276989952
Depending who you ask, it's either a bug or a feature that our "democracy" moves very slowly. If you can construct a winning formula for government, part of that formula is necessarily a mechanism for insuring coherency across time https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1080557505581699073
The problem in engineering any institution that spans centuries is to provide a mechanism for self-updating that doesn't cause self-destructive goal drift
There are two choices: either the constitution is working as intended, in which case it is monstrous, or it is not, in which case it is useless. -Nick Land
One of Moldbug's more contentious claims is that America is a communist country. This teaching can be hard to understand. It means that America is structurally left-wing. For this reason it is no surprise that leftward vectors are perennially popular https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1065641461696188416
We sense a certain deceleration lately in the trajectory of American powerâmany call it a declineâbut whether we have passed the inflection point or not, there is still very far yet that we could fall
As each new leader percolates into the consciousness of the spectacle, we flock to him like the crowd to Nyarlathotep. What the spectacle ceases to talk about for three days ceases to exist. By coincidence, this is just long enough for a Christ to be crucified
I feel I was born with election fatigue, which is why my heart was such good soil for the gospel of nrx. And for a moment, many of us imagined that maybe electoral politics could bring forth something good to nourish man, but it turns out man has nothing good to recompense heaven
Ever so slowly, Cthulhu swims left. Perhaps this is only the entropy of a once functional machine. Thereâs an old chestnut, I know you have heard it: a democracy [...] can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury
Even very good people always follow their incentives
There is a certain claim I hear that working for a wage is somehow demeaning. I claim it is ennobling. In fact I think thereâs nothing more admirable than a life of hard work. And I think that as foundational myths go, the myth of the American work ethic is a grand one
Noblesse sans oblige is a recipe for human garbage. Maybe one man in ten, maybe far fewer, are aristocrats of the soul, capable of doing useful, unincentivized labor. If you really want to ennoble the masses, why would you fight to ruin their incentives?
The final emancipation is to be the emancipation from the necessity of labor. If that ever truly happens, then a spiritual decay will ensue they will make the opioid epidemic look like the glorious conquest of a new frontier https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1050389151760113667
It's a cliche to note that people use irony as a way to protect themselves from having to be psychologically vulnerable. And yet, if you ironically support a political candidate, that's exactly what you're doing. B-Be gentle with me, y-yang senpai
Millennials are so eager to larp the civil rights movement that they will probably march for pedos in foreseeable future. In a similar way, many of my friends are anxious to relive 2016. You chase the feeling of that first high but itâs never the same. Sad!
And we don't need to agree on this. From my perspective, the presidential election is analogous to Disney holding a contest to decide who gets to wear the mickey mouse suit. By all means, vote your brains out. The vast, unelected government machine maintains its hideous velocity
The more you shift the locus of dependency from the family to the state (and by extension, the markets the state facilitates), the more you atomize society. This is the root of all modern evil. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1084159608690634752
Nyarlathotep... the crawling chaos... I am the last... I will tell the audient void...
And through this revolting graveyard of the universe, the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly; the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep.
Kantbot is woke on this. https://twitter.com/KANTBOT20K/status/1121270153050841088
