Mayb this is well-known but the main thing people seem to be grappling with is that capitalism is the process of increasing centralization while Darwinism requires decentralization
For instance the Marxist end-goal of capitalism is full centralization (i.e. homogenization), which is why Nietzsche describes it as anti-life, because at that point there is no more Darwin involved. You have reached an "end state" (and, directly related, end of states)
Look let's not kid ourselves, there's a flaw in the Matrix here, where capitalism inevitability pushes itself toward the gray-goo state of full centralized homogeneity
All post-banking/Industrial Revolution ideological systems are an attempt to grapple with this problem
Communism sees this drive as a good thing (also why it believed the entire world has to be communist for it to succeed), fascism wants to tame this for the benefit of the nation, liberal democracy survived a while longer but is now making itself an atrocious marriage of the two
Many best modern right-wing thinkers can be viewed through this lens: to preserve Darwinism, Moldbug wanted to fragment 200 nations into 20,000 or more
Land wants to bust free of this closed system, interstellar humanity fragments into "humanity" (correct if wrong @Outsideness)
Meanwhile I've always secretly thought the lib-dems were halfway right to call Trumpism "fascism," in that it's Fascism Zero™, an attempt to just slightly bring American back toward an American identity rather than a globohomo empire-state: a mild Darwinian correction.
This is easily proven by the fact the Cathedral went into a manic state during Trumpism to destroy you, if you wanted to pull things back toward nation/state/nativism:
Which fully explains Woke Capital: capital loathes Darwin. This is part of Thiel's Thesis, after all
To succeed at capital, you don't want competition. You want to destroy any *chance* of competition.
The modern ruling state understands this completely. It wants you locked in, that's why it loved you locked down. Why do you think capital hated Musk for so long
I don't have an answer to this: the point is, capitalism wants global, and you want local. You don't want to be gray goo, but that's what it wants of you: to be one of an infinite number of cancer cells, rather than part of a body
This is the right's problem to solve
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Reminder that "irony" is, historically traced, pretty much the case of "being out of favor of the gods."
There is almost no irony in the Sumerian myths, or the Vedas, and only starting to emerge in the Homeric epics, or in the Germanic Beowulf etc
The Greeks certainly did, they had a grasp of it in Homeric times, and as they reassembled themselves, the Classical Greeks perfected it: to the point where the Romans created the first ironic novel, the Satyricon
In the "Dark Ages," irony was then dead for centuries
Even the irony of Beowulf was Greek in nature, an ironic falling out with the gods, until a fully unironic hero emerged to kill the demons of chaos. The banishment of dragons and monsters.
Well it turns out the extreme risks of globalist liberal democracy is that it results in the gradual extermination of the very people capable of maintaining it.
Note how fertility rates crater every time civil rights are widely expanded. Global-liberalism destroys human ability.
The first three graphs show dysgenic fertility. They're all modern, global-liberalism in action.
The last one shows eugenic fertility during the Middle Ages: along with a transition period in the Industrial Revolution where the reproduction of human ability became flat
"Eugenics" is of course a hate-word, so let's replace it with a kind-word: "sustainable"
So what we see here is that cosmopolitan global liberal whatever is a non-sustainable devourer of human capital
Which means that the longer it persists, the worse the collapse will become
With another round of BLM riots kicking off, just keep it in perspective that the odds of an unarmed black person being unjustly killed by police is now down to roughly 1 in 100,000
Over the course of a *lifetime*
To put it in perspective, the number of unarmed black people killed in bad police shootings each year is the same as the number of Americans killed by snakes (5)
More perspective: if you're a white South African farmer, you have a 10% chance of being murdered in your lifetime
You know how people use the phrase "struck by lightning" as paraphrase for "something that basically never happens"
According to weather.gov, an unarmed black person is exactly as likely to be killed by a lightning strike as they are by police.
Since the prizes awarded by these institutions are 100% fake, this means the institutions are 100% fake as well: and yet as @toad_spotted describes in this piece, the supposedly brightest people in our society are increasingly subservient to them
Hence fake elites
It's no coincidence that "the admissions office are presumed true and righteous altogether": since the prizes they offer aren't real, their judgment on who deserves a seat at the table can be 100% arbitrary
As long as people keep buying into the delusion it will only get worse
There's a freaky parallel here where once scientific progress banishes the demons of Malthus, relaxing selection pressures to almost nothing, the resulting void immediately conjures up new social demons to recreate the genetic grinder we thought we were escaping
Note for instance how it's no longer "safe" to have just 1 kid, because of the large chance he/she will be reversed into she/he, or made a eunuch drone in the hive-city, extincting your genetic line. Reason says you should have several
The new demons aren't material, but psychic
And so far, the *psychic* demons are turning out to be far more dangerous to humanity's future capital than all of the demons of droughts, famines, plagues, wars, and cave bears ever were
The bind that liberalism has put itself in is very simple. It promises a level playing field, but when you actually play the game, it keeps resulting in unequal outcomes between different groups
"Reasonable people" should conclude that something is fundamentally wrong with it
Wokeness buys liberalism's basic promise—all groups are equal in ability, and we will treat them fairly—then watches as the system keeps spitting out "unfair" disparities
From this perspective, it is perfectly reasonable and logical to then say "Well this system is just a lie"
There's no escape hatch here. If you're a liberal, and you keep seeing big disparities in outcome between races or genders or etc, logic insists you should become Woke to correct this
You're only quibbling about the best Woke policies. Not that Wokeness is itself wrong