I can write you guys a long essay on theory of history or just give the basic points of my response. I'm guessing most people prefer the latter:
(1) There is not a structural-conceptual dichotomy possible that saves nationalism as an originating worldview in need of no greater help.
(But beyond that, I do take Keith as a tactically serious person and support him wanting traditionalists to have fuller-bodied praxis.)
(2) Adam and I have already been working on this maturer reconciliation with Modernity, which respects all levels of language and institutions, identity and autonomy.
It wouldn't be that I think Joel is a total moron, but it's the strangest thing seeing how much he continues to not understand the pure theory Adam developed 5+ years ago and the operational grand strategy I laid out two and a half years ago.
It's fine if we all get there at our own pace and through our own path—I think Joel is a good leader of his flock, but for those keeping score, I just want it known he's fairly significantly lower grade material and analysis than what Adam and I are doing.
Stated another way, don't take his word about us from him without coming to us (and it's fair to reciprocate that principle).
I'm not sure what he's all going through but it seems to be primarily enjoying being a media figure and dancing to the tune of his audience.
I know he can do some of the philosophical work when he comes back to it (yet another video on nationalist political economy is not it).
Adam and I literally gave him not only the concept but also the methods of how you interface with modernity, and he's just NOW (vaguely) talking about needing to get serious and away from religious sentiment only.
𝘢𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢
As I said, I'm returning to the academic work this spring now, after a year of operational planning. If he or anyone wants to philosophically challenge me, I'm game. They will remember how I founded all of this.
I ruptured my spleen a long time ago playing fairly high level hockey (finished the remaining 50 minutes with it and scored a goal). I was sidelined for two or so months while it healed.
I truly loved the sport. When I got back, there was a superhuman energy I was animated by. I never skated harder in my life before, and I was already the fastest skater on the team, and I never hit harder before, and I was one of the harder hitters on the team.
This is what it feels like to watch mediocre minds stagnate or even misuse a project you founded, over two or three years.
I have been itching to get back into this and the energy will be so hyper-excessive that I won't even feel the first dozen heads come off.
Do and shut up already about the doing, yes. Just giving you the warning how unready these fools are. I'm both angry and excited.
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I do support 'gun control' and have for a number of years now, in the same way the medieval kingdoms controlled weaponry: it belongs to the responsible, not to everyone.
That means people with a heritage that understands the responsibility (Hajnal peoples) and individuals that can prove themselves an exception, no one else!
That is how we finally end the gun control hot button issue without it leading to all the other bad we do not want.
Love means something much more than what most people think (material obsession, therapy of disorder).
I was always hesitant myself about how feminine Buddhists (especially Western Buddhists) could be. And while I already knew to suppose they mean something very expansive,
I still couldn't understand until I got older and had even more experiences and self-reflection. Talking with religious people of equal intellect and seriousness and sincerity has helped magnify the same in me.
There is no void of strength and power in love; there's no cowardice, there's no pacifism, there's not even a pause before war, where you kill whom you ultimately love. It's weird but not false.
The world will head in a better direction, but it will inevitably involve war and death, as it always does.
Tucker was 100% right that the Ukraine issue effectively distracts from China, if it wasn't intentionally done to do exactly that.
Now we have to ask ourselves why Putin is comfortable being Xi's human shield—and how easy could it be to turn Putin against Xi by giving Putin what he wants?
The only serious anthropology and the only serious leadership are both religious.
I'm 'unaffiliated' and will likely continue into syncretism, but I have great respect for Orthodox Christianity (don't read too much into my silly trolling of what is probably more feminine Episcopalians) and Islam.
Contemporary philosophy can (and does) have technical innovation ('linguistic elaboration')—here's one nested example: anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2701/2701kat…—but in the end everything new must reconcile with origins