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Jan 4, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Naval warfare is in many ways a completely separate beast from land warfare; many times tactics fail in favor of technics, etc.

Mahan, Hale, and others should be mandatory reading for an understanding of the base theory of war at sea.

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Also histories of the dreadnought race: the nuclear arms race of its day.

Due to the investment and pacing of naval warfare, as well as its inherent bureaucracy, it functioned on a strange and alien level throughout 19th-20th c. history. Still does today, to an extent. Image
We also used to inspire boys with stories of seafaring hardship and adventure, and actually send them out as midshipmen and crew; obviously this is no longer the case, but the memetic weight of the grand and dangerous sea persisted through WWII before fading. Image
It was once a major element of school curriculum; crossing the T at Trafalgar and repelling the Ottoman fleet at Lepanto were major points of interest.

It's less tactically relevant today... but I'd argue more spiritually important, as inspiration. Image
True education would include a strong history of the sea and warfare on it, to inspire wanderlust; aspirations to greatness and adventure. A spiritual inculcation to man's most ancient and powerful impulse. Image
I would recommend these works:

-Famous Sea-Fights, from Salamis to Tsushima by Hale
-Naval Battles of the 20th Century by Hough
-The Influence of Sea Power Upon History by Mahan
-Blind Man's Bluff by Drew, Drew, & Sontag
I did produce a version of Famous Sea-Fights via @Dissident_Rev, with the intention that it'd be nice enough to do the subject matter justice.

The hardcover is below. It is also on Gutenberg if you'd like to read online.
amazon.com/dp/B0C9SBNV7F?…
The other three are widely available (Mahan at least is public domain and thus free online), and come highly recommended.

Blind Man's Bluff is most relevant to the modern day, an excellent work of history covering Cold War submarine antics.

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Dec 15
This is the most important article of the year. Highlights below, but you should really read it in full. Image
The article traces the systematic exclusion of young white men from media and high-status careers. This is from the end, but it’s one of the boldest elements: we ruined basically everything, just to spite white men. That’s the only driving ethos. Image
The piece starts off with a brief history of DEI.

2014 was *the* pivot, America’s Cultural Revolution against “white guys.” It was a defined historical moment, not just some cultural miasma that grew over time.

(My article on the subject below) Image
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Nov 3
“Behold, a man!”

The endpoint of social media is to reduce the user to his central nervous system alone — the physical body made vestigial, skipped entirely in favor of machine-legible reflexes. You already have Neuralink; we all do.

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It does not take long to see that online behavior is autonomic, libidinal. Engagement — likes, replies, reposts, DMs — is more often reflex than “thought.”

The same reply 150 times is schooling behavior, is just as biologically-ingrained as in fish. It skips the frontal lobe. Image
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The brainstem-level autonomic reflex to Content is inseparable from the desire to shape The Audience by one’s response. Engagement is not “honest” but instrumental, meant entirely to “control the discourse” with one’s contribution, knowing that it’s public. Image
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Oct 21
Aella is a really odd figure. She’s clearly not just dumb, which is what many people say; and her thinking is just close enough to the “dissident sphere” so as to make people feel like she’s engaging with it.

Outside of people falling for bait, “so close, yet so far” is a common reaction. She does accurately diagnose a lot of things about sexuality and lust, and the odd forms of self-consciousness around it today. Female desire inherently involves being objectified, male desire is in many cases performative or competitive for its own sake, popular sexual morality is pretty bizarre and contradictory, the culture lies that women don’t enjoy sex, etc.

But as close as she can get, there is an unbridgeable gap. She extrapolates strange morals from those observations, weird and off-base personal norms. Alien desires.

As far as I can tell, Aella was raised as some flavor of ultra-fundie, and as a result she experienced “sexual liberation” in a direct and unselfconscious sense. She Actually Went Through It. Now she hosts rationalist orgies as a way to extend that revolution — a continual exercise of the same process — the process of ritually disabusing oneself of “traditional sexual morals” — of seeking more “philosophically true” or “essential” pleasure.

But this is *not* the popular experience of “sexual liberation.” Most of the people on here were born far after the Sexual Revolution proper, and experienced it as a continuous mass-cultural ritual. Young women, for example, are expected to ritually experience and reject traditional sexual morality, to act in a stage-play of the Endless ‘70s that includes both the shame of “traditional morality” and the activist anti-eroticism of the new. Young men are beaten into neuroticism about their sexuality, a similarly-staged process *in which the “traditional view” is a key player even long after its death* and desire is used only as a social-political signal.

So even though many people share language and concepts with Aella, and she even touches on some wrongthink truths about sexuality, there’s this unbridgeable gap.

Aella exists unknowingly as a tulpa of the sexual-cultural ritual “unbinding” that she Actually Underwent, but her audience only pantomimed; she is pure Process; she is a human representation of the bizarre stage-play that is modern sexual-moral instruction. That people alternately treat her as a weird pet or a demon only demonstrates this. She is the Noble Savage of the Sexual Liberation Cinematic Universe made manifest, and I don’t think she realizes it because no one in her audience (or her critics) has identified the process they’re both participating in, surrounded by even, as they engage with it.
Whenever anyone engages with Aella, positively or negatively, they are participating in the same mass-cultural ritual that produced Aella, she is a memetic construct manifested by the fact that “sex discourse” is the actual goal of popular sexual morality
Social media is sort of an infinite Aella-spawner; she might dematerialize without the specific discourse environment that supports her existence, which includes the inevitable “she’s a stupid whore” replies to this, as if my post is a defense of her

“Aella doesn’t exist theory”
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Oct 16
Women will post this captioned “me and who???” and then go on the Tea app to ruin a guy’s life for being a little too pushy at a bar. They are a fundamentally unserious species and our customs should reflect this
Extrapolate this to traditions, laws, social customs
Writing customs around the reality of female lust would lead to strange and foreign experiments in human organization; this will be the Great Work of any truly ambitious group that wants to affect change in the modern world
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Oct 9
AI is a bubble because tech is a bubble, in turn because data is a bubble, in turn because institutional investment is a bubble, in turn because US macro policy has been deranged for ~15 years

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AI in itself is the most overleveraged industry in recent history; capex is in the trillions and revenue in the low billions. Every major AI company is operating at a vast loss, which is justified by media histrionics about AGI bringing the apocalypse.
Actual product adoption is strongest at the consumer level, the segment which can only operate at a loss. Enterprise integration experiments are failing, & it’s evident that most of them were just a way for executives and PMs to advance their careers rather than produce value
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Jan 11
The “work” debate is mostly people talking past each other, but it’s very clear that old-type “bootstrap” discourse is just done. Sandblasted into nothing each time it encounters reality. The “deal” for young people only gets worse with each passing day.
Doesn’t mean you should just become a NEET, obviously. But I don’t think most of the people arguing on that side are NEETs, or want to be NEETs. It’s just the premise.
The solution for young people is to exploit any advantage they personally have; to seek marginal living/employment situations that break the “rules” in their favor.

Also high-powered careers — “normal life” is broken, so you have to aspire to something else while it’s repaired.
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