In our current liberalist hellscape a "neutral institution" is like someone without an immune system taking a trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo during Ebola season.
@@positiveanion4085 well I know what you're saying, and in an absolutely meta sense that may be true. But if you mak an institution, and you aren't opposed to the prevailing norms of a society, then it doesn't really matter that you have no immune system because there's nothing really to be protected from. It's when you are at odds with the general pull that your society is imposing on institutions that it becomes necessary to defend against it, even if just to remain where you are.
Distrubtist has made similar points on his large video on Moldbug. He also points out that leftism is antinomian while rightism is pronomian. But technology helps loosen discipline and gives the left an edge while masking decline. Two ways the “Cthulhu only swims left” stops is 1) the right uses overwhelmingly force and literary removes the decay from society and 2) a Strongman figure comes in an purges the madness like Cromwell or Stalin. Thought lately it seems like Cthulhu no longer swims left, he is ridding a jet ski.
I'm old enough to remember that the Right's acquiescence on religious influence in culture turned the leftward ratchet into a jackhammer. We spent the entire 80s and 90s telling each other, "Hey, could you turn down the Jesus stuff?" Conservatives went to great lengths to appear as progressive as Progressives by saying, "Sure, we can keep our Jesus stuff to ourselves. Y'know, liberalism and all that." Meanwhile, same sex marriage, then trans, then drag queen story hour, kids getting sex reassignments, full term abortions, etc etc etc. The whole "war on Christmas" thing? You thought that was hyperbole, but now you have churches being barred from meeting while strip clubs stay open during pandemic. I did not grow up a religious person - I was a child of agnostic hippies - but I have learned the value of it as I got older, and more importantly, I realized the importance of religion and religious standards to a society. It is /extremely/ short-sighted to be screaming about free speech and Conservative values while murmuring that the one freakin' website to pull it off is a little too "churchy." There is no Conservatism without conserving the most basic of human value systems.
Only it has not really "pulled it off" Gab is only for free speech because it's currently being suppressed. Were it to achieve "mainstream" status/dominance you can bet Torba would declare that blasphemy isn't free speech and get to censoring those he and his ilk deem to be heretical.
@@Kevin-kr7od Devout Christian. I got pregnant as a teenager, went through a lot of hot mess, finally realized I couldn't do it without a miracle or two. So I gave my life to God. I finished high school and went on to get two degrees, now working in programming. That child I was pregnant with went on to college and is now an architect. I had two more children later on, and we are regular church members, and volunteer in various capacities.
I think your point about the third law is the most important. The metaphor I like to use is a game of Civilization: in a game of Civilization, you want the Civilization to win, whichever you're playing, right? You will spend whatever influence or capital you can to get that victory, to make your civilization, and its people, the greatest. People assume government functions for that purpose, that the American government wants America to win. But what if we change the dynamic. What if your game of civilization could _pay you_ as a player? You could cash out whatever you earned in the game for real world money, or turn the culture you earned into real world fame and influence for yourself personally. Wouldn't you do it? Who cares about the ones and zeroes in your game if you can have a ferrari or get that hot model to sleep with you? So you cash out, and all your civilization becomes, at that point, is a way for you to maximize your real world earnings and fame. That's what happens to organizations and bureaucracies. You might set up a bureaucracy to, say, protect against external infiltration, or to monitor nuclear waste or to protect the world from climate change, but inevitably, all of them will turn out to actually be about the aggrandizement and enrichment of its upper echelons. They will cash out the entire organization to get at that money and fame.
The most important aspect of any group or society that aspires to Excellence is the ability to exclude. The moment the spirit of democracy or inclusion for the sake of inclusion gains traction, incompetence is guaranteed, failure becomes equated with success, materialism overtakes the spiritual sense, and entropy begins.
Okee Dokee's Law 1) What's best for the most people in any given moment is often left wing. 2) What's best for the most people's future and descendants is always right wing.
This is genius. A harsh environment necessitates low time preference. Low time preference accumulates goodies. An abundance of goodies advantages high time preference. High time preference erodes the goodies.
@@RUfrikkinkiddinME Yeah but yours is better because it actually completely explains it. It's not that high time preference is lazy or stupid. It's that past a certain point, high time preference is *rewarded* while low time preference is *actively punished*. After enough accumulation, buying a house on credit is more advantageous than saving for it for decades - benefits measurable in eg fertility. Low time preference people *get left in the dust.* At this stage game theory dictates that those who eat away at the goodies, win. Those behind of the curve, who still focus on production, lose. It's a seesaw of winning strategies, a negative frequency-dependent selection. Main takeaway - IT'S NOT A REGRESSION, DEGENERATION. IT'S A CHANGE OF BALANCE. And until that balance changes again (hard times), strong men ie conservatives will keep losing and losing and losing. Ideally, the winning strategy is to keep switching. Build when building wins. Erode when eroding wins. To not be on the losing side of the equation. In practical terms, to not starve during bad times, to not foot the bill during good times. This is immense. Thanks for the insight.
J.R.R. Tolkien's worldbuilding is an exploration of these ideas in a fictional context. In his world, not even immortal beings such as elves can build a civilization that lasts forever. Each civilization will always be conquered, from inside or outside. The fleeing refugees eventually build a new civilization only to watch it fall again.
Fantastic discussion of bureaucracy and why it trends the way it does. Those of us who are "normies" have never put a minute of thought into this. Super helpful and makes a ton of sense.
@@AuronMacIntyre maybe later I’ll do a video about it. For now I’m doing a video whether r@ce is a social construction or not for now. The research is already done.
@@ubersoy2000 It would be nice to start a video like that with a precise definition definition of what a social construct actually is, and whether something being a social construct invalidates its objective truth. The phrase seems to be typically used with that assumption.
@@ubersoy2000 race is a social construct in the sense that one can make one, five, or a hundred distinctions based on appearance, depending on how specific you want to be. But underneath it all is a genetic reality, wherein some populations cluster together closer than other populations. Race deniers often equivocate on race by using the sociological definition of race to say something about the biological reality -- that is, "Since we can divide humans seemingly without end, race is social construct and depends on how we define what a 'race' is." The normie will go, "yeah, okay, that makes sense." But then the race denier will use the 'social construct' point he just established to then make statements about genetics, and will go back and forth as needed. It's all a part of the word games they play. A perfect example is claiming that the Irish were never considered white, but "green." They, of course, just mean that they weren't considered "white" in a cultural sense (which is untrue, but beside the point). They then use this to say that there is no genetic commonality between the Irish and other Northern Europeans -- "it's all arbitrary, ya see..."
@@ubersoy2000 Der Schattenmacher also made one on that. I can tell you now, that it will not stay online, no matter how evidence based and respectful you are
I was thinking about how best to react to law #2 and I came up with the Dune Messiah solution. In that novel Paul sees the disastrous consequences of his ascension and decides to walk into the desert and die, leaving his son in charge. If you are the founder of an institution what if you just destroy it and sell off the assets to ensure that noone can misuse them once you are out of power or dead yourself? (Ironically Paul's son decides the best path forward for humanity requires him to become an immortal God-king and rule with an iron fist for 3000 years.)
It's funny that people expect neutrality from a free speech platform in this era. Why the hell would you go through all the shit they went through if they didn't have deeply ingrained beliefs? What could possibly sustain them otherwise through their trials? It shows profound ignorance to even suggest neutrality. And besides the purpose of liberty, as described by the church fathers of old and the founding fathers of anerica, was that so men could be free to serve God in accordance with their position in life and abilities. God ordained liberty. Tyranny seeks to subvert and enslave.
I see something tangential with "brain drain" and the crumbling of smaller communities with the more intelligent and creative people moving out. If you want to preserve something you have the make the culture and society engaging, if not dynamic, to keep those who might go somewhere else. The internet has given us a shallow base layer of culture which is enough for many people and those who crave more can easily travel somewhere else and be a part of another culture. The people who want to preserve their culture the most end up being the least impassioned and creative or even actively participating in it.
Great video. Torba has done more for right wing anti-fragility than every 'cool' and clever shitpost since 2015. To those for whom he is too cringe to acknowledge, are you right wing based on real principles or is it just an edgy aesthetic? If the latter you are dead weight, Torba is not.
This topic of entropy reminds me of the exercises I would do in my thermodinamics class in uni. After the development of a process in any given system, unless it were perfect, entropy was always generated and the energy in the system, although preserved, would lose "quality" (e.g. Kinetic energy of a helix turning into thermal energy in water, which could not be reversed back into kinetic energy). However if their were to be an outside source of energy, separated from the system, there can be a return of "quality" energy (e.g. someone manually moving the helix). Every time this topic comes in NRx I wonder what this "outside source" could be that faces entropy, it would have to be something out of this world, yet something that man can reach nonetheless.
as a religious person, I can't think of anything else other than God. Listening to youtubers like auron and settler's lament kind of turned my morality into "based" and "cringe," where Cthulu swims slowly but always swims left towards cringe but God is the way out.
What's so interesting about Conquest's Laws is how hard they are to find. If you look up Robert Conquest, they are nowhere near the first result. Now this is somewhat understandable, the man was a prolific researcher and book-writer. However, even if you look-up the laws specifically (which is an unlikely thing for a normie to do) the search results are still rather vague. If I remember right, there is no page for it on Wikipedia, nor is there anything about them on Robert Conquest's wiki page. The search links that do talk about the laws usually are either from blogs or talk about the laws in such a way that it makes them seem uncorroborated (ie it cannot be confirmed if Robert Conquest actually said them). Quite odd. I believe I first saw them on Unqualified Reservations.
Pretty niche example, but my local Black Metal community has proven all of Conquest’s laws. Very much a “if you don’t like it, fuck off” attitude. It’s no coincidence most of us are right wingers/nationalists.
@@AnonyMous-gt8vq yeah, Varg is pretty wrong. When I need to explain the value of gatekeeping and healthy elitism, I always bring up the local BM scene. I consider it a sort of model on how to conduct decentralized groups.
There's a flaw in Conquest's First Law. I just realized it and haven't thought it through yet. I'm connected through family to the classical music world and know some world class performers. These are people who have dedicated their lives to their crafts. By Conquest's First Law they should be uniformly conservative about classical music even if they are radical progressives on other topics. Thing is, many aren't. Some are. But many want to radically change their field. They want to change the way the instrument is played, what music is played, how its taught, who pays it, etc, etc. As you can imagine all of these progressive reforms are tied to progressive political ideas. Classical music is European and traditional so its bad and so it must be changed. But the same people who belive these are highly trained masters of their craft. So, there's a crack in the first law. Under some circumstances people can violate the law and be progressive about what they know best. I'm not sure exactly what those conditions are but they deserve to be explored.
I think the key is “most conservative about “ is different than “is very conservative about”. But you are right that the people who begin the leftward progress will be more invested than those who come after.
They might see a preservation in that kind of change. Granted I don't know the full extent of what they're doing, but they might see their craft as being revitalized and by abandoning cultural ties and allowing experimentation opens it up to more people and more intellectual stimulation. Or they are under enough pressure themselves and feel they benefit more socially by just giving in.
It's a theory by Moldbug that the academic institutions and media operate in a Leftist direction inherently although they have no connection or affiliation to each other....and that cathedral influences all of our society.
Also the 2nd law is displayed through how Hollywood became pozzed, when it was neutral in the 30s. Razorfist has a couple good videos on Hollywood’s communist history
@@every.single.time.2668 the Jewish conspiracy is an inaccurate meme, plenty of Hollywood communists were vanilla WASPs. It’s about the eastern political establishment going west, ethnicity barely plays a factor
@@oaa-ff8zj I forgot, anything said about them, even when it's from their own mouths is an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Here's the link. ua-cam.com/video/OJifkSyrU24/v-deo.html
@@every.single.time.2668 The video you linked is not the full documentary. I found the full documentary and you can watch it for free with the option of buying it or renting it for travel or offline. ua-cam.com/video/iHfGuYiKlF4/v-deo.html The strange thing is that the documentary is uploaded on a channel about "educating" blacks and contains documentaries, both new and old, made in the perspective of blacks. Apparently, the film (under a different title) was uploaded for the purpose of showing blacks the lack of diversity and the message was not what the channel intended judging from the "antisemetic" comments.
@@every.single.time.2668 Okay, I had to post my comment three times because UA-cam kept deleting my comment for some weird reason. The only words that may have been objectionable was the film's title which doesn't make sense because those words on their own aren't objectionable and you had typed the film's title in one of your comments. That wasn't deleted.
But gab is neutral. Andrew Torba talks all about his Christianity and if you don't wanna read it, block him. I don't even get what ppl are complaining about. There is no Christian "requirements" to be on Gab.
Totally. I just kinda look to Torba as an example. He goes off on his Christianity as if to say "this is how free speech is done". I don't have to agree with a man to admire him because he lives by his values and does great works. I am a big boy, I can use my words. I know where the block, log out, and off buttons are.
I'm not a Christian, but I would obviously prefer a society in which Christian morality dominated, as was the case only a few generations ago in America. However, I think you underplay the degree to which neutrality can be achieved, even in a traditional society. We may live in a secular theocracy, as per Yarvin, but I don't think that means the only alternative is Christian theocracy. Religious toleration is not a modernist heresy. If one looks East, there are numerous Buddhist kingdoms and empires throughout history that tolerated a multiplicity of religions without widespread conflict and violence. All of this is to say, I suppose, that I sympathize with those who find Gab to promote fairly cringeworthy boomer Christian conservatism.
We're far too down the rabbit hole to go for something that is entirely or mostly neutral. Either we gain full influence or we just leave it as an open door for what we're seeing today to happen Again.
Obviously, you're not up to date with Buddhist in Asia. There have been fights over control between Buddhist and Muslims. Fights have also been shown in japan oda and the Buddhist that fought him. Buddhist aren't as neutral as westerners give them because they don't know history or only know the idealized version. Once there is an actual threat to displacement does more violent responses come out in any group or be subsumed into the other. India another one people keep picking. they had fights contrary to views only when there is a dominant one is there relative peace.
I often heard atheism=bad arguments, so I suggested that the weeb and otaku go shinto in order to not be atheist. If they can't tolerate the Godpill, take something else.
I think you're getting O'Sullivan's law and Conquest mixed up. O'Sullivan cites both Michels and Conquest, but he came up with: 'All orgs that aren't explicitly right wing, will over time become left wing'
Don't exactly agree with this take: much of the "entropic" pull is contingent upon the particular society one lives in. For instance, during the Reformation the entropic pull was towards Catholic rule; and Protestant forces saw themselves as consciously pulling out and away from that center of gravity. To be sure, the U.S. has never had a confessional tradition, and so naturally defaults to Pluralism, Liberalism, etc; yet I firmly believe this is only because Americans are still searching for their Categorical Imperative.
In our current liberalist hellscape a "neutral institution" is like someone without an immune system taking a trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo during Ebola season.
@@positiveanion4085 well I know what you're saying, and in an absolutely meta sense that may be true. But if you mak an institution, and you aren't opposed to the prevailing norms of a society, then it doesn't really matter that you have no immune system because there's nothing really to be protected from. It's when you are at odds with the general pull that your society is imposing on institutions that it becomes necessary to defend against it, even if just to remain where you are.
Distrubtist has made similar points on his large video on Moldbug. He also points out that leftism is antinomian while rightism is pronomian. But technology helps loosen discipline and gives the left an edge while masking decline.
Two ways the “Cthulhu only swims left” stops is 1) the right uses overwhelmingly force and literary removes the decay from society and 2) a Strongman figure comes in an purges the madness like Cromwell or Stalin.
Thought lately it seems like Cthulhu no longer swims left, he is ridding a jet ski.
Actually really interested to hear someone bringing up Stalin in this context. But you are right.
@@wizard_of_poz4413 Their is not enough nrx historiography of the history of the USSR.
>a strongman comes along and removes the decay
And we were all taught to hate him as children
An object in motion will remain in motion
Are 1 and 2 different in practice?
I'm old enough to remember that the Right's acquiescence on religious influence in culture turned the leftward ratchet into a jackhammer. We spent the entire 80s and 90s telling each other, "Hey, could you turn down the Jesus stuff?" Conservatives went to great lengths to appear as progressive as Progressives by saying, "Sure, we can keep our Jesus stuff to ourselves. Y'know, liberalism and all that." Meanwhile, same sex marriage, then trans, then drag queen story hour, kids getting sex reassignments, full term abortions, etc etc etc. The whole "war on Christmas" thing? You thought that was hyperbole, but now you have churches being barred from meeting while strip clubs stay open during pandemic.
I did not grow up a religious person - I was a child of agnostic hippies - but I have learned the value of it as I got older, and more importantly, I realized the importance of religion and religious standards to a society. It is /extremely/ short-sighted to be screaming about free speech and Conservative values while murmuring that the one freakin' website to pull it off is a little too "churchy." There is no Conservatism without conserving the most basic of human value systems.
And we all know what the background of all those people who wrote the secular Christmas songs right?
Only it has not really "pulled it off" Gab is only for free speech because it's currently being suppressed. Were it to achieve "mainstream" status/dominance you can bet Torba would declare that blasphemy isn't free speech and get to censoring those he and his ilk deem to be heretical.
I went to a Methodist church for Easter and the priest said in her sermon that Christianity was part of our culture "for better or worse."
Hey sorry I’m replying late but curious to what your relationship with religion is now? Love hearing testimonies
@@Kevin-kr7od Devout Christian. I got pregnant as a teenager, went through a lot of hot mess, finally realized I couldn't do it without a miracle or two. So I gave my life to God. I finished high school and went on to get two degrees, now working in programming. That child I was pregnant with went on to college and is now an architect. I had two more children later on, and we are regular church members, and volunteer in various capacities.
I think your point about the third law is the most important. The metaphor I like to use is a game of Civilization: in a game of Civilization, you want the Civilization to win, whichever you're playing, right? You will spend whatever influence or capital you can to get that victory, to make your civilization, and its people, the greatest. People assume government functions for that purpose, that the American government wants America to win. But what if we change the dynamic. What if your game of civilization could _pay you_ as a player? You could cash out whatever you earned in the game for real world money, or turn the culture you earned into real world fame and influence for yourself personally. Wouldn't you do it? Who cares about the ones and zeroes in your game if you can have a ferrari or get that hot model to sleep with you? So you cash out, and all your civilization becomes, at that point, is a way for you to maximize your real world earnings and fame.
That's what happens to organizations and bureaucracies. You might set up a bureaucracy to, say, protect against external infiltration, or to monitor nuclear waste or to protect the world from climate change, but inevitably, all of them will turn out to actually be about the aggrandizement and enrichment of its upper echelons. They will cash out the entire organization to get at that money and fame.
I started off being annoyed with your position but ended up in agreement. Blind I was to this observation.
check out charlemagne and his series "Mulling over Moldbug"
Listening to NRX people for the first time be like
The most important aspect of any group or society that aspires to Excellence is the ability to exclude. The moment the spirit of democracy or inclusion for the sake of inclusion gains traction, incompetence is guaranteed, failure becomes equated with success, materialism overtakes the spiritual sense, and entropy begins.
Okee Dokee's Law
1) What's best for the most people in any given moment is often left wing.
2) What's best for the most people's future and descendants is always right wing.
This is a great law, but I'd modify point 1 to: 'what appears best'.
@@benedictcarter8095 I'd modify it further to "what feels best"
This is genius.
A harsh environment necessitates low time preference.
Low time preference accumulates goodies.
An abundance of goodies advantages high time preference.
High time preference erodes the goodies.
@@SoaringSuccubus weak men, bad times...etc, etc
@@RUfrikkinkiddinME Yeah but yours is better because it actually completely explains it.
It's not that high time preference is lazy or stupid. It's that past a certain point, high time preference is *rewarded* while low time preference is *actively punished*.
After enough accumulation, buying a house on credit is more advantageous than saving for it for decades - benefits measurable in eg fertility. Low time preference people *get left in the dust.*
At this stage game theory dictates that those who eat away at the goodies, win. Those behind of the curve, who still focus on production, lose.
It's a seesaw of winning strategies, a negative frequency-dependent selection.
Main takeaway - IT'S NOT A REGRESSION, DEGENERATION. IT'S A CHANGE OF BALANCE.
And until that balance changes again (hard times), strong men ie conservatives will keep losing and losing and losing.
Ideally, the winning strategy is to keep switching. Build when building wins. Erode when eroding wins. To not be on the losing side of the equation. In practical terms, to not starve during bad times, to not foot the bill during good times.
This is immense. Thanks for the insight.
'Just be a neutral platform and keep your beliefs to yourself.'
'No'
Liberalism destroyed.
400 years of political thought, demolished.
"I just want to be left alone!"
Well, they're not leaving you alone - so now what?
J.R.R. Tolkien's worldbuilding is an exploration of these ideas in a fictional context. In his world, not even immortal beings such as elves can build a civilization that lasts forever. Each civilization will always be conquered, from inside or outside. The fleeing refugees eventually build a new civilization only to watch it fall again.
Fantastic discussion of bureaucracy and why it trends the way it does. Those of us who are "normies" have never put a minute of thought into this. Super helpful and makes a ton of sense.
I really needed to hear this. Lets say it's like an affirmation.
I wanted to do a video about it but, you have made it quicker.
Always good to have another perspective. You should.
@@AuronMacIntyre maybe later I’ll do a video about it. For now I’m doing a video whether r@ce is a social construction or not for now. The research is already done.
@@ubersoy2000 It would be nice to start a video like that with a precise definition definition of what a social construct actually is, and whether something being a social construct invalidates its objective truth. The phrase seems to be typically used with that assumption.
@@ubersoy2000 race is a social construct in the sense that one can make one, five, or a hundred distinctions based on appearance, depending on how specific you want to be. But underneath it all is a genetic reality, wherein some populations cluster together closer than other populations. Race deniers often equivocate on race by using the sociological definition of race to say something about the biological reality -- that is, "Since we can divide humans seemingly without end, race is social construct and depends on how we define what a 'race' is." The normie will go, "yeah, okay, that makes sense." But then the race denier will use the 'social construct' point he just established to then make statements about genetics, and will go back and forth as needed. It's all a part of the word games they play.
A perfect example is claiming that the Irish were never considered white, but "green." They, of course, just mean that they weren't considered "white" in a cultural sense (which is untrue, but beside the point). They then use this to say that there is no genetic commonality between the Irish and other Northern Europeans -- "it's all arbitrary, ya see..."
@@ubersoy2000 Der Schattenmacher also made one on that. I can tell you now, that it will not stay online, no matter how evidence based and respectful you are
You deserve way more subs. Great video, as always!
You're on a roll with these quality videos, mate ;) This one was particularly important, I think. Good job, keep 'em coming! God Bless.
Well said. Merry Christmas Sir
Me about to go to bed
I hear a UA-cam notification
I see this video
Sleep can wait
Very insightful!
I was thinking about how best to react to law #2 and I came up with the Dune Messiah solution. In that novel Paul sees the disastrous consequences of his ascension and decides to walk into the desert and die, leaving his son in charge. If you are the founder of an institution what if you just destroy it and sell off the assets to ensure that noone can misuse them once you are out of power or dead yourself?
(Ironically Paul's son decides the best path forward for humanity requires him to become an immortal God-king and rule with an iron fist for 3000 years.)
It's funny that people expect neutrality from a free speech platform in this era. Why the hell would you go through all the shit they went through if they didn't have deeply ingrained beliefs? What could possibly sustain them otherwise through their trials? It shows profound ignorance to even suggest neutrality.
And besides the purpose of liberty, as described by the church fathers of old and the founding fathers of anerica, was that so men could be free to serve God in accordance with their position in life and abilities. God ordained liberty. Tyranny seeks to subvert and enslave.
I see something tangential with "brain drain" and the crumbling of smaller communities with the more intelligent and creative people moving out. If you want to preserve something you have the make the culture and society engaging, if not dynamic, to keep those who might go somewhere else. The internet has given us a shallow base layer of culture which is enough for many people and those who crave more can easily travel somewhere else and be a part of another culture. The people who want to preserve their culture the most end up being the least impassioned and creative or even actively participating in it.
Evil cannot create, it can only corrupt.
Great video.
Torba has done more for right wing anti-fragility than every 'cool' and clever shitpost since 2015.
To those for whom he is too cringe to acknowledge, are you right wing based on real principles or is it just an edgy aesthetic? If the latter you are dead weight, Torba is not.
Who is Torba ? Thanks
@@sixjeunesmabusent8886 the dude who set up and runs gab.
16:19 I picked that up by reading AJP Taylor’s book on the Habsburgs. It’s very dense and dry but informative
Chaos vs. Order in this context reminds me much of the War Hammer series.
Just wondering when auron and morgoth will be doing another stream, really enjoyed the last one.
Bump
Accidentally discovering one of my favourite Twitter poasters has a UA-cam channel at 00:49 on Monday morning, based
Hey. Just discovered your channel and like your work. 👍
Does anyone have a link to Nick Land's essay?
My sweet little grandma used to always tell me that you’re never standing still. You’re either moving forward or backward and she was right.
This topic of entropy reminds me of the exercises I would do in my thermodinamics class in uni. After the development of a process in any given system, unless it were perfect, entropy was always generated and the energy in the system, although preserved, would lose "quality" (e.g. Kinetic energy of a helix turning into thermal energy in water, which could not be reversed back into kinetic energy). However if their were to be an outside source of energy, separated from the system, there can be a return of "quality" energy (e.g. someone manually moving the helix). Every time this topic comes in NRx I wonder what this "outside source" could be that faces entropy, it would have to be something out of this world, yet something that man can reach nonetheless.
as a religious person, I can't think of anything else other than God. Listening to youtubers like auron and settler's lament kind of turned my morality into "based" and "cringe," where Cthulu swims slowly but always swims left towards cringe but God is the way out.
Ying yang. The rule is the equilibrium of order and chaos
UA-cam, Twitter, Disney, BBC, all in decline. I feel better now.
What's so interesting about Conquest's Laws is how hard they are to find. If you look up Robert Conquest, they are nowhere near the first result. Now this is somewhat understandable, the man was a prolific researcher and book-writer. However, even if you look-up the laws specifically (which is an unlikely thing for a normie to do) the search results are still rather vague. If I remember right, there is no page for it on Wikipedia, nor is there anything about them on Robert Conquest's wiki page. The search links that do talk about the laws usually are either from blogs or talk about the laws in such a way that it makes them seem uncorroborated (ie it cannot be confirmed if Robert Conquest actually said them). Quite odd.
I believe I first saw them on Unqualified Reservations.
Conquest's fellow academicians never forgave him for being on the "wrong" side of the Cold War (the anti-Soviet side).
Pretty niche example, but my local Black Metal community has proven all of Conquest’s laws. Very much a “if you don’t like it, fuck off” attitude. It’s no coincidence most of us are right wingers/nationalists.
Despite what Varg says about the black metal community I too find it to be pretty based. Hail to my fellow black mettalers.
@@AnonyMous-gt8vq yeah, Varg is pretty wrong. When I need to explain the value of gatekeeping and healthy elitism, I always bring up the local BM scene. I consider it a sort of model on how to conduct decentralized groups.
\m/
Vukari - Cursus Honorum
Based ;)
@@Vingul I was on the Black Metal stream with you a few days ago.
There's a flaw in Conquest's First Law. I just realized it and haven't thought it through yet. I'm connected through family to the classical music world and know some world class performers. These are people who have dedicated their lives to their crafts. By Conquest's First Law they should be uniformly conservative about classical music even if they are radical progressives on other topics. Thing is, many aren't. Some are. But many want to radically change their field. They want to change the way the instrument is played, what music is played, how its taught, who pays it, etc, etc. As you can imagine all of these progressive reforms are tied to progressive political ideas. Classical music is European and traditional so its bad and so it must be changed. But the same people who belive these are highly trained masters of their craft. So, there's a crack in the first law. Under some circumstances people can violate the law and be progressive about what they know best. I'm not sure exactly what those conditions are but they deserve to be explored.
I think the key is “most conservative about “ is different than “is very conservative about”. But you are right that the people who begin the leftward progress will be more invested than those who come after.
They want to change classical music, but what they want to change it to, they will be conservative with respect to it.
They might see a preservation in that kind of change. Granted I don't know the full extent of what they're doing, but they might see their craft as being revitalized and by abandoning cultural ties and allowing experimentation opens it up to more people and more intellectual stimulation.
Or they are under enough pressure themselves and feel they benefit more socially by just giving in.
CTHULHU ALWAYS SWIMS LEFT
I love it.
100% accurate
I have no idea what the "cathedral model" that you write mention in your Twitter account is. What the heck is it?
It's a theory by Moldbug that the academic institutions and media operate in a Leftist direction inherently although they have no connection or affiliation to each other....and that cathedral influences all of our society.
That was created by Moldbug.
This explains why The Telegraph and The Times now occasionally read like an SJW rag today.
The 3rd law is so real.
those look like lovecraft monsters
Chthulhu is a god from Lovecraft’s work.
It seems like every reactionary dabbles in Lovecraft to some degree.
I definitely prefer distributists explanation of rule 3, other than that great video..
Viktor Orban's "illiberal democracy" in Hungary is what you are talking about.
Also the 2nd law is displayed through how Hollywood became pozzed, when it was neutral in the 30s. Razorfist has a couple good videos on Hollywood’s communist history
Lmao, communist..
Hollywood was never neutral.
Watch : "An Empire of Their Own"
...if it's still up on yt.
@@every.single.time.2668 the Jewish conspiracy is an inaccurate meme, plenty of Hollywood communists were vanilla WASPs. It’s about the eastern political establishment going west, ethnicity barely plays a factor
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I forgot, anything said about them, even when it's from their own mouths is an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
Here's the link.
ua-cam.com/video/OJifkSyrU24/v-deo.html
@@every.single.time.2668 The video you linked is not the full documentary. I found the full documentary and you can watch it for free with the option of buying it or renting it for travel or offline.
ua-cam.com/video/iHfGuYiKlF4/v-deo.html
The strange thing is that the documentary is uploaded on a channel about "educating" blacks and contains documentaries, both new and old, made in the perspective of blacks. Apparently, the film (under a different title) was uploaded for the purpose of showing blacks the lack of diversity and the message was not what the channel intended judging from the "antisemetic" comments.
@@every.single.time.2668 Okay, I had to post my comment three times because UA-cam kept deleting my comment for some weird reason. The only words that may have been objectionable was the film's title which doesn't make sense because those words on their own aren't objectionable and you had typed the film's title in one of your comments. That wasn't deleted.
I'm here to defend Gab's right to explicitly Christian beliefs. And for very many people like me it would be a very bad thing to lose that platform.
Is this not just Hegel's dialectic?
But gab is neutral. Andrew Torba talks all about his Christianity and if you don't wanna read it, block him. I don't even get what ppl are complaining about. There is no Christian "requirements" to be on Gab.
Totally. I just kinda look to Torba as an example. He goes off on his Christianity as if to say "this is how free speech is done". I don't have to agree with a man to admire him because he lives by his values and does great works.
I am a big boy, I can use my words. I know where the block, log out, and off buttons are.
Oh I think you do get what THOSE ppl are complaining about. ;)
Whatever is called "neutral" is actually transitioning to the left or right wing
Politics is not a state of being, it's a process. Either you're moving to the left or to the right. There is no endpoint.
I'm not a Christian, but I would obviously prefer a society in which Christian morality dominated, as was the case only a few generations ago in America. However, I think you underplay the degree to which neutrality can be achieved, even in a traditional society. We may live in a secular theocracy, as per Yarvin, but I don't think that means the only alternative is Christian theocracy. Religious toleration is not a modernist heresy. If one looks East, there are numerous Buddhist kingdoms and empires throughout history that tolerated a multiplicity of religions without widespread conflict and violence. All of this is to say, I suppose, that I sympathize with those who find Gab to promote fairly cringeworthy boomer Christian conservatism.
We're far too down the rabbit hole to go for something that is entirely or mostly neutral. Either we gain full influence or we just leave it as an open door for what we're seeing today to happen Again.
Obviously, you're not up to date with Buddhist in Asia. There have been fights over control between Buddhist and Muslims. Fights have also been shown in japan oda and the Buddhist that fought him. Buddhist aren't as neutral as westerners give them because they don't know history or only know the idealized version. Once there is an actual threat to displacement does more violent responses come out in any group or be subsumed into the other. India another one people keep picking. they had fights contrary to views only when there is a dominant one is there relative peace.
I often heard atheism=bad arguments, so I suggested that the weeb and otaku go shinto in order to not be atheist. If they can't tolerate the Godpill, take something else.
Neutrality is cringe and effeminate
Hypocrisy
I think you're getting O'Sullivan's law and Conquest mixed up. O'Sullivan cites both Michels and Conquest, but he came up with: 'All orgs that aren't explicitly right wing, will over time become left wing'
Don't exactly agree with this take: much of the "entropic" pull is contingent upon the particular society one lives in. For instance, during the Reformation the entropic pull was towards Catholic rule; and Protestant forces saw themselves as consciously pulling out and away from that center of gravity. To be sure, the U.S. has never had a confessional tradition, and so naturally defaults to Pluralism, Liberalism, etc; yet I firmly believe this is only because Americans are still searching for their Categorical Imperative.
Protestanism was the entropy, the decay
Christ is king
null is right about gab
understand power and the human condition
I couldn't care less if Gap is promoting christian believes on their twitter site. Don't see anything wrong with that at all
Cthulu swims left? My God, how sinister.
He actually exists in non-euclidean space. Moldbread is no Lovecraft scholar.
My opinion doesn't matter, and I realize nobody asked, but your use of repetition is a bit much
the constitution is dead and now you want companies to follow it?
hahaha