The Orthosphere and Zippy Catholic seem curiously optimistic about the future of the Roman Catholic Church. Seems to me that anyone who is genuinely Roman Catholic should be making spiritual and organizational preparations for excommunication. Here are some entertaining bits from the Pope’s interview with La Republica, which came to my attention when it was parodied as “The Third Vatican Councilâ€. I at first mistook the parody for the real thing, since Pope Francis is hard to parody.
Category: politics
Egyptian Referendum
Do you want a tall man on a white horse to restore order? Having experienced democracy, briefly and suddenly, 95% of Egyptians voted yes.
Demotism and lies
North Korea is demotic. The US is demotic. North Korea murders large numbers of people. The US does not. Scott Alexander argues, therefore, that the word demotic is not meaningful, in that it lumps unlike things together. The North Korean regime is based on lies, since it claims its right to rule comes from the will of the people. Therefore, the North Korean regime needs an elaborate apparatus of thought control. The US regime is based on lies, since it …
A creationist, an evolutionist, and a Darwinist were walking in the woods
They saw a patch of flowers. “Why are these flowers beautiful?†asked the creationist rhetorically. “OK†said the evolutionist, “Why?†“For the joy of God and man,†said the creationist. “No†said the evolutionist, “Beauty is subjective, in the observer, not in the flower, and nothing in nature has any purpose. It just is.†“No,†said the Darwinist. “These flowers must be pollinated by a creature that drinks nectar by daylight, probably a bee, and the flowers are beautiful to …
Leftism as cancer
Leftism is to memes as cancer is genes. If the cells of the body mutate, cells that multiply at the expense of the body will be selected. And cells that mutate to a faster mutation rate will be selected, since they will have more fast multiplying variants. In a healthy body, each cell lives for the body, and performs its role in the whole body, making the body one. In cancer, each cancer cell lives for itself, at the expense …
The overclass hates you.
People notice the overclass (brahman, in Moldbug’s terminology) hates whites. So they figure. Well, people who think of themselves as white cannot possibly hate whites, so it must be Jews, who don’t consider themselves white, hating us. Wrong. The overclass hates whites because it is almost entirely white. It hates Jews because it is disproportionately Jewish. It hates males, marriage, and so on and so forth for much the same reasons. And it hates all humans because it is composed …
The Jewish Conspiracy
A lot of people believe that the Jews act as one, that they secretively and conspiratorially pursue Jewish interests at other people’s expense. The coordination problem is hard. No one successfully acts as one. Two Jews, three factions. That is why neoreactionaries propose terrible solutions to the coordination problem, on the grounds that other, more sophisticated, solutions are even worse. The Cathedral acts more or less as one – one madman, but they have visible institutions to coordinate them, and …
Radish on anarcho tyranny
Radish is excessively unkind to anarcho capitalism, though he is correct to point out that a lot of anarcho capitalists would be quite horrified by an anarcho capitalist polity in which, because the police and judiciary were in large part the direct employees of shopping malls and suchlike, capitalists had a lot of legal authority, and even more horrified if, because suburbia was protected by heads of households, and organizations paid by heads of households, each head of household had …
Equal opportunity
Whenever someone announces that they are in favor of equal opportunity, in favor of equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome, they have usually a few paragraphs, or a few comments away, defended some outrageously unjust inequality of opportunity implemented and enforced by state power to destroy group X, as punishment for group X privilege. Everyone is in favor of equality of opportunity. I am in favor of equality of opportunity. But, realistically, you are not going to get …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ: war and democide
Scott, good progressive that he is, assures us that with the rise of democracy, war has diminished. He gets this bizarre conclusion in two ways:Â By starting the clock at Zhang Xianzhong, after which violence diminished, and by starting the clock at World War II, after which violence diminished. But Zhang Xianzhong was a radical leftist, not an emperor, and violence diminished after Zhang Xianzhong, because everyone was so horrified by the bloodthirsty record of leftism that they did not …