From 585-1085, Europeans embraced a religion they thought was Christian but was radically anti-bible. Thought it was Satanism.
Due to embracing the bible in 1085, circa 1585 Europeans embraced Science, which they thought was bad because it was anti-biblical. Thought it was profane.
It occurs to me that Moldbug thought he was writing in a leftist mode. "progressives are generally decent, intelligent and well-meaning people" Clearly, such folk wouldn't be intentionally rejecting the truth, right? They must be accidentally misplacing their faith, not forcefully projectile vomiting at the slightest contact, right?
Moldbug was no doubt horrified when he attracted a rightist less-leftist following. Hence the pivot to Yarvin. Pseudonymity is less-leftist, Yarvin realized; Voltaire fucked it up. For example. Especially in Communist-ascendant jurisdictions, anyone "good and sweet and true" writes under their real name, see?
Autistic nerd, lol.
Conservatards are clearly rejecting the truth because they can't handle it, thus if conservatards are accepting your message, it must be wrong. Get it?
Hypothesis: some folk think Moldbug is a bad writer because they read the open letter and dawkins series, which are overall terrible. Tested this hypothesis by re-reading the first few entries to see if it was accurate. Of course, it was accurate. Yes, these things are a waste of time even for Moldbug fans. Dawkins 1 promises a great post, then stops, and the promise is never delivered. For example.
In the course of testing this hypothesis, I noticed a) the actual problems with Moldbug's writing, which aren't new to Yarvin, and b) it makes way more sense if we assume it was never supposed to be less-leftist.
Yarvin's essays are heterodox enough to stomach at least. His philosophy falls apart on the topic of genetics. I enjoy reading his work for the most part, but I think the future is more tribal than he would like to admit.
ReplyDeleteAccidentally heterodox. He thought he was being ultra-orthodox.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, Moldbug has good posts, just not the ones that newbies will hear about. Yarvin worked it out, and does more harm than good, as intended.
P.S. I think Yarvin only pretends to be antitribal, but in fact has noticed that democracy is bad for the jews.
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