you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Because the Woke do not comprehend anything outside their bubble, they drift uncomprehendingly towards war. Because they do not comprehend anyone outside their bubble, they drift towards a war they are likely to lose.
Thermidor — well Thermidor is more complicated. They think the woke are holier than they are, but have just gone a little too far. So they comprehend the Woke just fine. Except that they fail to comprehend the woke are evil and insane.
However they do not comprehend Russia, China, or the Middle East.
There is a forever war with Russia Thermidorean faction that wants Russia to diminish the war to a level such that the Globhomo empire can make low level war on Russia forever, there is a war for Israel faction, a faction that wants low level forever war with China, and a faction that wants war with everyone. All four factions are horrified by the weakness that was revealed in the Ukraine, and correctly blame the Woke for it.
The woke want forever war on legacy Americans, and are puzzled by the fact that America has not successfully made forever war on external enemies. The latter could not possibly be their fault. They are generally opposed to war for Israel, but are fine with low level forever war on China and Russia.
Trump understands Russia and China just fine. And he also understands that America has lost in the Ukraine. But he needs Thermidor.
In the Hegseth confirmation hearings Senator Schmitt started laying into Diversity Equity and Inclusion root and branch The senator to his left started looking at him as though he had gone mad and was frothing at the mouth, And then Schmitt said that “Dei divides the room into oppressors and oppressed”. And it was obvious that the senator to his left had not heard that said before, and it was making him think.
That he had not heard this before shows how utterly isolated those inside the bubble are.
“DEI divides the room into oppressors and oppressed” because DEI, like LGBTP and all the others, is 100% pure Marxism. They use race and/or sex stuff as a proxy for class because people have caught on to class warfare so they need a new way to divide. People like us understand it’s the same thing, and Karl Marx would instantly recognize it as his own, but for those who haven’t caught on, it still works.
Fortunately, we’re now in a phase where more people are starting to wake up to it. Time will tell whether it’s enough people.
The Yarv’s latest piece is not bad, you might find it relevant:
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/paul-grahams-error
He is back in form. Probably because it is now safe for namefags to write such stuff.
But even before he was doxxed, never wrote on the woman question. Should it become safe to address that, perhaps he will.
I don’t think he has it in him to be redpilled on women. (Same thing with Nick Land.) He also, for that matter, doesn’t get that leftism is rooted in sin, and in its later stages is full on demonic. He identifies a fundamental flaw in the ever shifting Harvard memeplex, but he is unable to pinpoint what that flaw exactly is, because — born of the spiritual kakistocracy himself — he is afraid of looking in the mirror. He can so vividly describe the instruments of leftism, but he doesn’t really want to hear the music of those instruments. The music says “Gnostic death-cult.” His focus, alas, is on the instruments, not unlike Land by the way; as such, he would not be inclined to search for the Deeper Truths.
Leftism — be it Anglo leftism, Jewish leftism, French leftism, or any other — is at root a demonic egregore, a (rapidly mutating) memetic entity drawing its lifeblood from the worst impulses of Man, traditionally understood as sins like pride and envy; a collective failure mode (consisting of many individual failure modes) selecting for ever worsening failure; a Priesthood of the Worst.
Does Moldbug get it? I don’t think so.
It’s a really hard sell for most people, because the standard male and the standard female sexual strategies are antithetical to each other, and most men have trouble openly supporting their interests as men. This is despite the fact that female sexual choice and working indoor plumbing can’t coexist long term in the same society. This is despite the fact that giving women what they say they want doesn’t make them happy, in fact it makes them way more unhappy, depressed and mentally unhealthy. My position is that women need to lose the franchise and be substantially reduced in terms of social status–at least enough that an average man becomes ‘attractive’ to the average woman. I support this because I support the fruits of civilization. But it’s a very very hard sell to anyone within a mile of normie. While it really IS ‘for their own good’, that’s not why I support it. In the counterfactual where most women were as unhappy in patriarchy as they are currently, I’d still support patriarchy for reasons of who…whom and indoor plumbing and the other fruits of civilization.
Excellent comment.
Marxism tells the peasant with one cow to kill the cows of the peasant with two cows, so that it can take away all their cows and all their grain.