Veblen was so prescient he basically articulates how western marxism went astray in 1906 & diagnoses this betrayal as the result of an undue influence of utilitarian/darwinian anglophone hermeneutics transplanting & displacing the “neohegelianism” that undergirds marxism. “The number of the "revisionists" is very considerable, and they are plainly gaining ground as against the Marxists of the older line of orthodoxy. They are by no means agreed among themselves as to details, but they belong together by virtue of their endeavor to so construe (and amend) the Marxian system as to bring it into consonance with the current scientific point of view. One should rather say points of view, since the revisionist endeavors are not all directed to bringing the received views in under a single point of view. There are two main directions of movement among the revisionists: (a) those who, like Bernstein, Conrad Schmidt, Tugan-Baronowski, Labriola, Ferri, aim to bring Marxism abreast of the standpoint of modern science, essentially Darwinists; and (b) those who aim to return to some footing on the level of romantic philosophy. The best type and the strongest of the latter class are the neo-Kantians, embodying that spirit of revulsion to romantic norms of theory that makes up the philosophical side of the reactionary movement fostered by the discipline of German imperialism.” -Veblen

The biggest changes in my life have been the complete collapse of popular literacy (it used to be cool to actually read books, hard to believe now) & the emergence of a totalizing cultural japanophilia. Growing up they said “put down the gamebox pokemans and read your harry potter” In a sense, popular literacy only exists now in the millennial-YA-to-erotica pipeline & in manga readers (most of which is erotica). That whole world I grew up in of David Foster Wallace being presented as a rock star, which provided this sense that such a fate was even possible, gone

Bugonia was very beautifully shot, great score etc— no complaints on a technical proficiency, acting performances were fantastic. It will probably be more beloved than Eddington for the same reasons I feel that it was not as good as Eddington. I laughed a lot— but it’s really all in service of a very cheap sort of misanthropy. This misanthropy is in some sense complicated by a reverence for authoritarian structures over what is implied as the ultimately evil nature of “populism” — but it is not so much a reverence for Communism as it is reverence for the World Economic Forum. A Greek director who after the EU raped his country comes to the conclusion “humans are sick apes.”

I'm not here to moralize-- I'm just describing how our economy was set up to work. Most EBT recipients work-- they work, & their wages are not enough to pay for their cost of living & debt servicing etc. If you, as the state, intercede & cover their food costs (or subsidize them)-- that means there is more money from the wages that can go to "debt servicing" etc.

https://x.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1983223417139511416

If, now, every working EBT recipient has to pay for all their food-- their new household spending will have to take more money from wages to pay for the food-- this means, less money is available for "debt servicing" etc. Maybe now all those klarna debts stop getting paid off.

We simultaneously celebrate Individualism, & recognize that Individualism is actually deeply evil unless wedded with a Collectivist sense of individual self-sacrifice. This is the paradox of the "Anti-Christian" West. We play fast & loose with "Individualism"-- "Jesus Christ was a True Individualist"-- but Jesus Christ was a Communist... This is simply to say-- that we celebrate Evil, & simultaneously collect rents for preaching against Evil. Everyone is very loose with this arrangement. Everyone's got an evil side-hustle. Evil 6 days out of the week, but going to Church, touching home base, on the 7th.

Racism is not some universal thing-- racism is always particular, because race does not transcend history. For Americans, China *must* be imagined as "pre-historical" ie: as the "Heathen Chinee" who have not yet "entered history" under the dominion of the Catholic Church/The West (etc). Americans do not think that the Chinese are less innately capable than themselves (in fact, they fear that they are more capable, even the White Supremacists have to make copes about how median population IQ doesn't matter *that* much etc)-- they simply say "the Heathen Chinee do not know good from evil in the way we do"-- this means that they are also not capable of the evil we are capable of (& here-- to impose your will by evil means & get away with it is simply called WINNING). The Heathen Chinee are considered "naive"-- this is a distinct type of racism compared to, let's say, the racism against Indians...

https://x.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1982255593198075952

The racism against China is "they are not creative"-- this means, really, they are not as comfortable with evil. Creativity is infernal, really-- the arts are a "deal with the devil"-- Lucifer, Angel of Music-- Tubal-Cain, the creator of the arts-- this is, in truth, what the West prides itself on. In "not following the rules"-- in "anarchy"-- in "individualism"-- in "faustianism" as Spengler called it. In making deals with the Devil. An extreme fascination with evil, unparalleled in any other society.

How deeply I wish the average reader of Dostoevsky's Karamazov understood the scope of its intended sequel. Knausgaard misunderstands the parable of the Grand Inquisitor here-- & also Dostoevsky's proto-communism-- because he just lacks the context of the work.

https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1980767816031650057

Knausgaard is not a very "political" thinker-- so he doesn't grasp that Dostoevsky was actually sentenced to death for revolutionary activism before the sentence was commuted (V. Nabokov's grandfather gave him books when he was imprisoned).

The funniest thing in OBAA is that the fascists & the "revolutionaries" have completely parallel structures-- funniest scene is Pat having to demand to "talk to the manager" of a low level call center revolutionary. It actually equates the Fascists & Revolutionaries multiple times. It's fundamentally apolitical-- in the sense that "being personally invested" in politics, individually & narcissistically, is presented as evil. The only noble characters are "just living their lives" which so happen to include "acts of resistance"-- all the Latinos are not "being revolutionary" -- their lives have just incorporated routine escapes from las migras-- Benicio, the Sensei, is never stressed or concerned about any of it. It's just another day in his life. He's not shouting "VIVA LA REVOLUCION" he smirks & raises a fist like he's humoring a child. It is the white chauvinists & black chauvinists who make "the revolution/counterrevolution" about *themselves* personally that are presented as being in the wrong. They are in the wrong because they do not subject "politics" to the interests of Family. Really, the low-key message to it is that the mixture of Black & White (ie: the becoming of the Latin American "cosmic man" mixture of the peoples into a new ethnogenesis) is the solution to the dialectic of White / Black Supremacists. This is more obviously the case when one considers that PTA's children are mixed race, his wife is mixed race, etc.

This is progressive idealism in action— it actually does nothing but exacerbate the class divide between private & public schools & increase the demand for charter schools. Rather than improving public schools, which would mean imposing a level of discipline that parents would cry about for being “discriminatory” (my son is special and has to learn through short form video content) — this will also increase the churn rate of public educators creating again more demand for charter schools. This is another example of social democrats being basically libtarded sentimental fascists who try their best to embody the parody of socialism found in Ayn Rand’s works. They are making “Harrison Bergeron Public School” — a forced compliance to the regressive mean. Actually existing Communism does not do this retarded reactionary nonsense. Let’s take a look at Zohran— was he a public school educated kid? No! He has gone to elite private schools from birth! He has no idea what a public school is like! He went from St. George's Grammar School (Cape Town) to the Bank Street School for Children in the Upper West Side (As of 2025, tuition ranges from $37,554 - $68,793 per school year). Goddamn do I hate this guy.

The fall is the most beautiful season because things are most beautiful when they are pushed beyond their limits & begin to distort & decay. That is all the "bearing fruit" is-- it is the self-exhaustion of the seed, the bud, the flower, exploded & gnashed in the maw of time. The spring is the ascent from 0, a new creation-- summer is the filling out of this potential space, yearning toward, going on-- autumn is the exhaustion of potential into material, the transcendence of the limit, the apogee-- & winter is the blank slate erasure, the slow fade.

I like Pynchon but here's what Pynchon liked that "Pynchon fans" are forgetting about.


There has been a Gen X-ified "approachable Pynchon" produced by his relation to Warner Brothers cartoons, The Simpsons, "pop culture" more generally-- but this is really ancillary to his actual milieu of elite yankee highly educated cynical satirists who liked to troll the "New York literary elite liberals" & are now forgotten for that reason, while Pynchon always gave them a little more of what they wanted & didn't kick them in the shins too much. Like-- Pynchon hangs out with Maya Rudolph, SNL types, you can't imagine William Gaddis being able to stomach that. Gaddis would have spat in their faces.

Catholicism sort of cheats because they just siphon all the future apostates into monastic orders where they get to do Communism-- & are unconnected from the real levers of power in the Church-- in this way, Catholicism invented Social Democracy by doing this with figures like Saint Francis etc. "One morning in February 1208, Francis was taking part in a Mass in the chapel of St. Mary of the Angels, near which he had by then built himself a hut. The Gospel of the day was the "Commissioning of the Twelve" from the Book of Matthew, in which Jesus' disciples are commissioned to go and proclaim that the Kingdom of God is at hand. Francis was inspired to devote himself to a life of poverty. Having obtained a coarse woollen tunic, the dress then worn by the poorest Umbrian peasants, Francis tied it around himself with a knotted rope and went about exhorting the people of the countryside to penance, brotherly love and peace. His preaching to ordinary people was unusual as Francis had no license to do so."

The actual "Overton's Window" is just between Liberal Zionists & Likudniks & their associated patronage networks.

"The Radical Left Liberal": The Genocide in Gaza is actually making it more dangerous for Israelis & Jews

"The Radical Right": Genocide works The most radical position you can have in the mainstream is: "Yo Israel, cool off with the genocide, it's too public, it's creating blowback. You need to go back to doing a more covert genocide. Get the heat off. Maybe come up with a new type of chocolate bar."

My favorite mentions notifications are when people find the gold in my back catalog. This was a great one. It will never be answered, ever. Thanks @Sinister_Skills for retweeting this one. It made me happy to remember this. A long time ago my old friend stopped responding to me in anything but petty quips. I knew then I had gone beyond his threshold.

I think that's partially true, but I think more it's about the whole "masculinity is not raising your kids" thing that gets passed around as "alpha"-- I'm a stay at home Dad who does most of the childcare, & the only people who give me shit for it are childless men.

https://twitter.com/163fighter/status/1969547527729840269

Most of the costs are "cultural/social" costs-- it's not that people don't have enough money to do it-- it's that doing it doesn't get rewarded or celebrated, it actually comes at a cultural/social cost in terms of reputation. A whole bunch of stuff is considered "women's work."

In reality, you read Veblen, & Nordic Supremacy is just that the Jomsvikings invented Financial Trusts & were increasingly hired by the Vatican to govern the restless celto-germanics. Thus, the Danelaw, the Norman Yoke, etc. "Sweden is the best country in the world, followed by Denmark & Norway." "..."

If you talk about "White Privilege" as a White Person & acknowledge "I have White Privilege"-- you are a white supremacist, openly. If you say "What's my privilege? I worked for what I have etc" -- you are not an elite white.

https://twitter.com/macro_horror/status/1969494208063926493

That's the funny scene in Eddington-- the boy who is aping "white privilege" discourse to swoop the upper middle class liberal girl who ends up dating the son of the mayor-- he tries it on his family (from set dressing, clearly "lower middle class") they say "What are you retarded?"

I think African Americans reached their apogee of cultural power in the 2010s. They are, demographically, being "replaced" by Latinos & Asians. You can already see the high tide of Black Americana receding-- right now there are no African American artists in the Billboard top 10. The 2010s will probably be remembered as this apogee. The Obama Era. I think, also, the "assassination of Drake by the coward Kendrick Lamar" will be remembered as the exact moment this crashed. Drake's hope of getting another Billboard #1 is to collaborate with either Latino Bad Bunny, some KPOP artist, or "the white alt underground" space (Julia Wolf + Yeat, etc). Even the supposed dominance of Lamar/SZA/Doechii was a hallucination of bot farming, it didn't have a real cultural impact. The greatest legacy of this was Swedish FinTech companies doing remixes to "They Not Like Us." lol

With the dawn of "intersectional rightism" in the form of brown white nationalists, normie MSNBC NPR liberalism will increasingly become a domain for "wink wink" white SUPREMACISTS (not "white nationalists" -- there is a class distinction here). SUPREMACISTS believe in "diversity"-- they love hiring brown menial servants to service their aristocratic "passive income" on assets & property claims. Richard Spencer saw this first, but plenty of people are following in his wake. They just realize "Oh, I get it, it's ESOTERIC, I'm not supposed to TELL THEM" "Me? I'm a Progressive Democrat. I love Opera. I have a PhD. Diversity is our strength. Russia & China are the real threat to world peace. ;)"

Very strange experience today, woke up from a dream, the dream in which I woke up from was me waking up from what I assume was a blackout, I woke up in the dream with writing on my hand that had some cryptic apology written by "the staff" who had, I put together somehow, thrown me into this janitorial locker space when I was, I assume, blacked out. I left the space & found that it was a strange abandoned strip mall / luxury hotel combination in the middle of an infinite plain of autonomous farms, massive threshers & combines, gargantuan machines with nobody in them-- nobody anywhere-- I walked in circles around this estate confused-- & then I actually woke up for real. I only remember a few dreams a year vividly-- this is one of the strangest ones that I can remember in recent times-- it was vivid at the level of the vivid dreams/nightmares I had as a kid. I've been sort of beside myself all day with the imagery in my head of it all. It was a profoundly beautiful but terrifying scenery. It felt like some one-off concept episode in Black Mirror where the only way it could resolve is "none of it was real"-- which is how it resolved in reality, I just woke up & was like "oh that was a fucking dream"

Yes, it does. When you have literally millions of workers doing corvee labor, because the Inca had higher population density than medieval europe, & myriad generations operating in a tradition of stoneworking & the production of immense public works projects— they get good at it!

https://twitter.com/sun_rise_coast/status/1964378377302806763

If you’re looking for “evidence” in the form of some hypothetical Incan codex manuscript instructing stone workers how to do their jobs— you won’t find it!