This is a relatively short recap of Moldbug on the origins of leftism. Leftists like to trace leftism to the people who sat on the left hand of the French assembly, which traces back the left to its very first pretense to be something other than a religion, and then traces it no further. The French left, before they were “the leftâ€, were Gallicans, and before they were Gallicans, were adherents of the false Popes of Avignon. Yet no sooner …
Category: politics
Your taxes at play
Crystal Mangum, the whore who accused the Duke University Lacrosse team of raping her, is currently charged with murdering her boyfriend Reginald Daye Wilson. The incident that led to the death of her boyfriend started with her applying for food stamps, Medicare, subsidized child care, cash, and employment assistance, which application was, in whole or substantial part, granted.  Your taxes at play.
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ: Sluts
Scott, good progressive that he is, is horrified by the fact that reactionaries use the word “sluts†and feels that reactionaries are being illogical and inconsistent to endorse different standards for different genders. Which argument, like all his arguments, presupposes that men and women are exactly alike and everyone knows this and believes it.  So it is completely unnecessary for him to bother producing any argument for the proposition that men and women are alike. Scott cannot believe that reactionaries …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 4, Ever leftwards movement
In his anti reactionary FAQ Scott argues that ever leftwards movement is not a bunch of conspiracies run by Harvard and the State Department, but rather a natural response to prosperity and power. We are richer and safer, so can afford a little decadence, perhaps a lot of decadence. This fails to explain the ever more drastic measures applied by the state to move us left, for example population replacement, and the ever more strident propaganda in school and on …
Apostolic Succession
According to some branches of Christianity, notably Roman Catholicism, Jesus ordained his disciples to perform certain sacraments, and they in turn ordained others to perform these sacraments, and only the legitimate successors of the apostles can validly perform these sacraments. Â So supposedly most sacraments are invalid unless performed by a priest, by someone who has been authorized by someone who has been authorized … all the way back to Jesus. Trouble is that because the official Roman Catholic Church …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 3, Freedom and Monarchy.
In his anti reactionary FAQ Scott tells us how terribly repressive Queen Elizabeth was, failing to compare actually observable dissent in her time with actually observable dissent in our time: Likewise, Elizabeth and the other monarchs in her line were never shy about killing anyone who spoke out against them. Henry VIII, Elizabeth’s father, passed new treason laws which defined as high treason “to refer to the Sovereign offensively in public writingâ€, “denying the Sovereign’s official styles and titlesâ€, and …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 2, Crime.
A major reactionary argument is that since the early eighteenth century, since the reign of throne and altar, war, state political repression, state violence against respectable citizens, underclass crime, and minority crime have all risen enormously, that the overclass and underclass are attacking the productive, and the attack has been escalating. Scott’s anti reactionary FAQ points out that murder is pretty much the same as ever it was. Quite so. Those crimes that the state tolerates are increasing – thus …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 1, Terror and mass murder
In this post, I address Scott’s anti reactionary FAQ on terrors and mass murders. In other posts I will address economic growth, sex, freedom, art, and other issues. The anti reactionary FAQ is big, and has a lot of points, most of which I will deal with in separate posts. Reactionaries say that democracy leads to the left singularity, which at best results in great suffering, and usually in mass murder. Scott in his anti reactionary FAQ refutes this by …
Obamacare is not the law of the land.
Obamacare is not a law that Congress and the President negotiated together and passed. As Hayek pointed out: Socialism needs a central plan. There are an infinite possible number of different central plans, any one of which will step on the toes of quite a lot of people, so one can never get majority support for any one central plan, or even the support of a significant plurality for any one central plan. So the ordinary procedures of legislative rule …
Australia wins the right to remain white.
Since Europe has been flooded with non whites, Australia is close to being the whitest remaining country, possibly is the whitest remaining country.  This is of course illegal under international law – since the Cathedral writes international law. The Cathedral holds that international law requires that if a boatload of third worlders shows up, the first world country where they show up has to take care of them and put them on welfare for the rest of their lives. (It …