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May 4, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Ah— yes— this is the missing piece of my D&D thred, knew KB would have it— every single “RPG” derives from group psychotherapy games designed by this guy
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_L._…
Psychodrama— group psychotherapy as “improvisational theater”— he gets plugged into the cybernetics guys & they create “rollenspiele” or “role-playing games” Image
Simultaneously uses these RPGs to model “social networks” (the origin of the term)
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They wanted adults to learn how to be “like children” again— spontaneous— capable of full immersion in “improvisational psychodrama” Image
His disciple, Kurt Lewin, founds the school of “Group Dynamic Psychology” & invents “sensitivity training” Image
Lewin is tapped by the OSS, guess what his job is? Image
Sensitivity training, LARPing, Dungeons & Dragons, & Improv Comedy have the same origin— the codevelopment of psychological warfare & cybernetics at the OSS during WWII.
Lewin is at that same conference where Bateson says “anthropomorphic rat” — as the model of the citizen. This later becomes “the committee for national morale” Image
This is just the beginning of the wormhole too

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Jan 27
“Healthy nasal breathing started at birth. Mothers in all these tribes followed the same practices, carefully closing the baby’s lips with their fingers after each feeding. At night, they’d stand over sleeping infants and gently pinch mouths shut if they opened.”

“children were often swaddled in cloth, laid on a cushion of soft plant material, and then lashed securely. This binding often prevented the movement of arms and legs, which imitated the feeling of being held. Children spent the majority of their first two years of life in a cradleboard, only removed for short periods of time. Cradleboards served the roles of both bed and carriage. With the child safely secured, mothers and family members were free to complete daily chores, either with the cradle strapped to their backs, or leaning upright against a stable object. This allowed the child to socialize with the group, and be easily accessible, should it need feeding or changing.”Image
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“Let us begin with the beginning. From time before memory, Indian babies have been taught not to cry within days of their birth. If there was a hunt in progress, if there were hostile neighbors to avoid, or if the Seventh Cavalry was stalking, the cry of a baby could place the survival of the group in jeopardy. Whether training babies not to cry was universal among Indian groups, or to what extent it is still practiced is unclear, but the method is simple enough: when the newborn begins to cry, place the hand over the nose. The mouth now must be used for breathing, not vocalizing. Take the hand away. If the baby cries, repeat. The method teaches quickly. From now on, communication from the baby will be a small whimper, not the piercing wail we often hear today.”
The idea that going back “thousands of years” children were inculcated with a sense of absolute priority— that “if they cry, they get attention immediately” is false & actually more found in northwest european cultures than in hunter gatherer societies etc. They used to teach the baby to be quiet, breathe through its nose, strap them to a cradleboard, & hang them in a tree.
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Jan 22
What happens to him in the end? People don’t really mention that part. What happens to the Anarch? Who publishes this journal he wrote?
What did Junger mean by this? Venator, the Anarch, is executed as a servant of the Condor— he did not take his role seriously, but that did not save him. It turns out that individualist anarchism is nothing but a cope— world historical forces transcend the ego. Image
This is the most self-critical work of Junger’s outside his journals. He is describing the failure of Stirnerian Individualist Anarchism— the Anarch burns himself with a candle in the mirror and feels nothing— the telos of egoism is self-transcendence, ego death. Ironic!
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Jan 22
"I knew I was doing something wrong [publishing Min Kamp against the wishes of his family] and then I got all the rewards you could dream of... & that is kind of the plot in this book [The School of Night]" -Karl
People always criticize me for interpreting art in this manner-- that it's alway about the absolute particularity of the particular artist making it-- but it's always just the most basic thing to understand about it in order to make sense of it in any serious manner.
Oh themes & techniques & blah blah blah-- it's about the particular person at the particular time, no different than any other thing anyone has ever done ever. The best art is simply the most forthcoming about itself in this concrete manner. With the barest screen of allegory.
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Jan 22
As Kojeve noted, a post-historical animalized man is no longer subject of right or human in the historical sense-- a post-historical snob takes responsibility for the maintenance of the historical form of human dignity-- but an animalized man can only be "sick" or "healthy"
Legally, to be "sick" enough is to become a ward of the state-- that is, no longer a human subject endowed with rights, but rather the domesticated animal in the charge & husbandry of another, be it guardian or institution.
The demand for an inhuman world is a demand for a reanimalized post-historical society-- animal men domesticated by intelligent machines-- absolute "furry" liberty. It is only the Communist answer to this Liberal End of History which maintains historical human dignity.
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Jan 10
It's been sad seeing in real time people who could see through the immediate fictions of the 2010s become completely blind to the immediate fictions of the 2020s-- they simply keep pointing back to the 2010s & avoiding recognizing that all of that is immaterial now.
Someone who was respectable 10, 5 years ago even, for taking a stand against the excesses of the 2010s, ends up becoming the victim of 2020s psyops which take this "you were right in the 2010s & that makes you special" belief as its basic ground.
At this point now, people are fully saying: "Yeah well in my head I am simulating this person & they were wrong about 2010s woke culture war stuff, so they are subhuman & should have no rights." & what they're talking about is "two weeks to slow the spread" lol which was under Trump 1...
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Jan 2
You know what pisses me off about Dugin? He thinks that America is “materialistic” as if it needs more theosophical woo-woo bullshit. As if not enough Americans are into “spiritualism”— he is talking about his own complaints with Russia, he doesn’t know America at all.
American Empire has always cloaked itself with the utmost mystical theosophical messianic “perennialist” language— his whole schtick is presenting America as *identical* to the late USSR, but this metaphor only carries so far, he doesn’t grasp this
Freemasonry & all these manner of esoteric secret societies are more fundamental to American life than to Russian life. I think if someone explained college fraternities to Dugin he’d have a schizophrenic break.
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