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Feb 20 • 33 tweets • 7 min read
Meta-thread of my various philosophical and historical reading perambulations -->
Year Zero:
Ostracism:
Witch Hunts:
Human Sacrifice:
Salem Witch Trials:
Auto-da-fé:
Moral Panics:
Moral Entrepreneurs:
Ressentiment:
Cluster B Personality Disorders:
Dark Triad personality traits:
Emotional Blackmail:
Crybullies:
Danegeld:
Orwell on atrocities:
Apollo and Dionysus:
Preference Falsification:
Breastplate of Righteousness:
Ellsworth Toohey part 1:
Ellsworth Toohey part 2:
X-Altruism:
Mr. Market:
Availability Cascades:
Havel's Greengrocer:
Nomenklatura:
Iron Law of Oligarchy:
Vanguard:
The Tyranny of Structurelessness:
Tall Poppy Syndrome:
The Law of Jante:
Hatred of the Good for Being the Good:
The Friend/Enemy Distinction:

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Feb 22
"The specific political distinction is that between Friend and Enemy."
"The distinction between friend and enemy is essentially public and not private. Individuals may have personal enemies, but personal enmity is not a political phenomenon. Politics involves groups that face off as mutual enemies."
"Two groups will find themselves in a situation of mutual enmity if and only if there is a possibility of war and mutual killing between them. The distinction between friend and enemy thus refers to the 'utmost degree of intensity of an association or dissociation.'"
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Feb 21
"Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that those who feel it seldom dare admit it even to themselves. That emotion is: Hatred of the good for being the good."
"This hatred is not resentment against some view of the good with which one does not agree. Hatred of the good for being the good means hatred of that which one regards as good by one’s own judgment. It means hatred of a person for possessing a value one regards as desirable."
"If a child wants to get good grades in school, but is unable or unwilling to achieve them and begins to hate the children who do, that is hatred of the good."
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Feb 21
"The Law of Jante is a code of conduct created in fiction by the Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose and [is used] to explain the egalitarian nature of Nordic countries."
"The Law of Jante characterizes as unworthy and inappropriate any behavior that is not conforming, does things out of the ordinary, or is personally ambitious."
"The Law of Jante is used generally in colloquial speech in the Nordic countries as a sociological term to denote a social attitude of disapproval towards expressions of individuality and personal success."
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Feb 21
"Tall Poppy Syndrome is a cultural phenomenon in which people hold back, criticise, or sabotage those who have or are believed to have achieved notable success in one or more aspects of life."
"In Australia and New Zealand, 'cutting down the tall poppy' is used to describe those who deliberately put down another for their success and achievements. In Japan, a similar common expression is 'the nail that sticks up gets hammered down'."
"The specific reference to poppies occurs in Livy's account of the tyrannical Roman king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. He is said to have received a messenger from his son Sextus Tarquinius asking what he should do next in Gabii, since he had become all-powerful there."
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"The more unstructured a group is, the more lacking it is in structures, and the more it adheres to an ideology of 'Structurelessness,' the more vulnerable it is to being taken over by a [ruling class]."
"During the years in which the women's liberation movement has been taking shape, a great emphasis has been placed on what are called leaderless, structureless groups as the main -- if not sole -- organizational form of the movement."
"The source of this idea was a natural reaction against the over-structured society in which most of us found ourselves, and the inevitable control this gave others over our lives, and the continual elitism among those who were supposedly fighting this overstructuredness."
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"The Vanguard [consists of] the most class-conscious and politically 'advanced' sections of the proletariat; forms organizations to draw the working class to revolutionary politics and serves as manifestations of proletarian political power opposed to the [status quo]."
"Lenin argued that Marxism's complexity and the hostility of the establishment required a close-knit group of individuals pulled from the working class Vanguard to safeguard the revolutionary ideology."
"The Vanguard would protect Marxism from outside corruption from other ideas as well as advance its concepts, and would educate the proletariat in order to cleanse them of their 'false individual consciousness' and instill the revolutionary 'class consciousness' in them."
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