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Since people enjoyed my conversation with @exit_org about life in woke big tech as a white guy, sharing some funny moments:

1) HR announces that 3% of workforce is now disabled - and they intend to increase those numbers. Worried looks from colleagues (what are they planning?) Image
2) Social organizer plans team social at some quite radical gay bar to be progressive. Small group of compliant normies attends and emerges looking shellshocked
3) We’re instructed to paint shapes on each other’s faces at a ‘summer party’. An autist - without comprehension - paints a star of David on Jewish girl’s forehead. Palpable uneasiness
4) VR social in one of those warehouses in an attempt to be inclusive - you don’t need to be able bodied! Someone projectile vomits in the studio
5) Newly hired recruiter asks at a company forum if Armenians count towards diversity targets. Armenian contingent visibly furious

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May 27
The medieval Icelandic hymn 'Hear, Smith of the Heavens' is hauntingly beautiful.

Yet the vision of God as a smith seems conflicted, echoing an ancient pagan understanding.

🧵 on Catholic 'inculturation' in a strange time of kings, demons, myths, miracles, and warring faiths: Image
"Heyr himna smiður" (literally "Hear, smith of the heavens") is a medieval Icelandic hymn.

It written on his deathbed by chieftain and poet Kolbeinn Tumason in the 13th-century, as his head was caved in by a rock.
It is haunting, lamenting, and conflicted. It is perfectly Christian and yet laden with pagan imagery.

It begins:

"Hear, smith of the heavens,
what the poet asks.
May softly come unto me
thy mercy.
So I call on thee,
for thou hast created me.
I am thy slave,
thou art my Lord."
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May 13
The healthy conservative instinct that is destroying conservatism:

Respectability.

In times of madness, the desire for respectability must be cast off.

On this, Christians and Nietzscheans align.

Why? THREAD: Image
Respectability is derived from maximally embodying consensus morality.

It is the satisfaction of knowing that those around you admire you for who you choose to be.

In healthy times, it incentivizes men to act in unison with their brethren. Image
But what happens when the consensus morality becomes warped?

What if the community in which you reside has been convinced to elevate evil and squalor over good? Image
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May 5
Sam Hyde’s (@wigger) attacks on Hassan Piker represent the next great artistic frontier:

Action art.

A return to the rawest forms - physicality, emotion, violence.

Captivating, undeniable, and breaking through cultural programming.

Why? THREAD: ImageImage
Contemporary art’s connection to reality has been severed by over-intellectualization.

This decline is a symptom of a sterilized society, untethered to beauty and truth.

It is time for the Right to take up its rightful role as the true artistic avant-garde. Image
The modern Left cannot transcend our dying society because it is symbiotic with it.

Atheism, materialism, scientism, lawlessness, and excess serve as the foundation for progressivism.

If the parasite was to depart its host it would die. Image
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Apr 28
The right should not promote shows just because they are implicitly right-wing.

Subtext is wasted on normies, who need explicit instructions.

Take Harry Potter, which draws its seductive power from reactionary undercurrents, but spawned an army of ultra-lib fans.

Why? THREAD: ImageImage
First we must clarify an important distinction, using terms that I’m going to bastardize from the philosophy of language:

Denotation vs. Connotation.
By denotation, I mean the literal interpretation of the narrative as explicitly told by the author.

By connotation, I mean the subtext: the underlying but unstated emotional foundation that makes the story compelling.
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