Content I live, this is my stay--
I seek no more than may suffice--
I press to bear no haughty sway--
Look-- what I lack my mind supplies!
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Sep 9 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
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"
Sep 6 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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!
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!
Sep 2 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
All the "IQ Discourse" doesn't take into account that above the median, IQ is diminishing returns-- elite midwits are the only people interested in just accumulating money & status for its own sake-- the highest IQ person I ever met was a "mentally ill" homeless person.
IQ is also correlated with executive function-- if you have really high executive function your basic principle is "leave me alone" & not wanting to have to follow orders. Lao Tzu was more high IQ than Confucius, & Confucius essentially admits this when he refuses the call to be emperor-- being emperor sucks, any extremely intelligent person would do everything to avoid that imposition on life. The highest IQ person in the world probably plays video games all day & schemes the disability system. The only people interested in public acclaim in the form of status & money are midwits.
Sep 2 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The funny thing about America is that the most honest people are the hedge fund managers. They don't bullshit you-- they say "the defense of my class interest is paramount." They tell you what they actually believe.
Now, a Politician who is backed by hedge fund managers (etc)-- they have to be very careful with their lies, they can't tell you their job is to serve the hedge fund managers (etc)-- they tell you something else, which is a lie.
Sep 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
“Fascist” becoming a meaningless term people call anyone who disagrees with them has been a disaster for any popular understanding of Fascism as a political economic order— conveniently, this happened at the same time that America became more fascist than any fascist state prior.
“The specter of fascism” is useful in that it allows people to believe fascism isn’t the order of the day already. “We might be becoming fascist” is a way of avoiding the recognition that we’ve had fascism for a hundred years. FDR was just the most competent fascist.
Aug 30 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Aliens: Earth is funny because all its engagement with 70s/80s scifi film canon is done rather tastefully & with subtlety— when it wants to make a literary reference, it has to hammer you over the head constantly to make it stick. You could have just named her “Wendy” & called them “The Lost Boys”— that was enough.
Look it’s a Peter Pan reference— you know because they hold the book in front of your face & read it & before that they show you the Disney animation— so it’s like a reveal that the book exists. I guess this is what it takes with modern audiences.
Aug 26 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
All this "Eddington discourse" & no one is talking about tribal sovereignty in the US being used to build data centers in the same way it was used to build casinos after the 70s-- they're talking about if poking fun at White Girls doing BLM Activism is ontologically evil lol
People are still reading it as a "black comedy about 2020" & not a WESTERN. It's a WESTERN. It's Cowboys & Injuns! tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/energ…
Aug 26 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
“Really beginning with the Carter administration, when he was promoting immigration as a means of cutting wages in the southwest. It was Carter that began to realize that, well, there’s a lot of labor that’s making too much money in the southwest, we’ll spur immigration.” - Michael Hudson
To push inflation into assets rather than wages you need mass immigration.
What’s wrong with wage inflation? It means you have a stronger working class. Who benefits from that? The working class. Who loses? The “asset owning class.”
That’s it.
Aug 23 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The status quo is a result of deindustrialization policies promoted by the Thatcherites to produce the status quo— yes, now there are only individuals, proletarians have been converted into petty bourgeois “individual contract workers” etc.
The most telling quote is “this working class business is in the past”— where are the proletarians now? Not so much in the center of the empire— we now have a “service” dominated economy of unproductive menial servants— servants are petty bourgeois, the bartender for instance is a great representative of the mercenary individualist petty bourgeois.
Aug 23 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
John 14:12
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Wouldn't this be taken as heretical by pretty much all Christian denominations now? That a subsequent Christian could be equal to, if not surpass, Jesus Christ himself in works?
This is my issue with debating about "philosophical theological Christianity" -- Christianity is not some finished product-- go read these books yourself, try to figure out what's going on there with all your sophisticated technology, your centuries of scholarship-- what is going on in John 14:12?
Aug 22 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Talking politics with people is a waste of time considering “politics” under this hegemony is just the manufactured discourse trailing in the wake of digital infrastructure projects. Yeah sure blahblah debate the semantics of ideology, the data centers are being built.
The only end of discourse is when the participants both come to an understanding that “politics” is not something “talked about”— it is the material process of constructing infrastructure— the “talking about” only has meaning in relation to the infrastructure being built.
Aug 16 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This is the material origin of interest on debts. A debt in the form of a cow included the increase of the cow’s reproduction of cows. If you killed someone’s cow, you owed them the cow + the cows the cow would have sired.
Kurt is so based— “I’m glad I grew up in a doomsday cult.” — “You didn’t get to have birthday parties.” — “oh no! I didn’t partake in the consumer ritual of narcissism!”
Aug 13 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Every year that goes by I think of being "cast out" of "the right" as a blessing. I have absolutely nothing to do with that entire shitshow. I am not a rat scurrying on a rapidly sinking ship. I am not Ahab, I am Ishmael.
It's really all about class-- as Haz said not too long ago-- the secret of "right wing infighting" is class-- just as the "secret of left wing infighting" is class.
Aug 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What if I told you it always was a bank & it *invented* currency.
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord.
Aug 5 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
No I think the valorization of crime is key to anti-communism & we don’t live in a police state at all, it’s much worse. It’s just a corrupt criminal state. The police are all on the take, they are a part of organized crime. We celebrate criminals because criminals are free individualists.
The “patriotic” crime families supported America in WWII— because the communists were also a threat to them. The American Dream is becoming Jeffrey Epstein— in one generation you can blackmail royalty.
Jul 31 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
People have a tendency to assume that their own personal “special interest” is also, coincidentally, the key to understanding reality. The problem with this is that very few people are interested in international banking. More people are interested in Lord of the Rings.
Woah this guy who is a computer programmer explains that everything is a computer program.
Well check this out, this guy who studies “evolutionary psychology” has an explanation for why you can’t find a date.
Oh yeah? Well this guy who watches Lord of the Rings has thoughts on Ukraine.
Jul 30 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I understand Wyndham Lewis's anti-pathos-- the aesthetic satisfaction with objectivity, with the complete renunciation of pretense-- to observe the world like an ant hill, letting words like "Honor" & "Justice" pass by like any other gaseous expulsion of the hominid. So many words, such fantasies spun by the daily ideological speech of the unconscious "individualists" -- "What this society lacks is Honor"-- but watch the speaker's hands, they're in his pockets, gripping his wallet. Just complex geometric shapes milling about pretentiously. "Honor" says the shark taking a bite out of the Whale-- Shark's have honor, which Whales lack, as is known to all Sharks. The human aquarium of it all. To become truly socratic-- I literally have no idea what Honor is, your honor. Could you define it for me? Is it honor when the shark bites the whale?
People just yap all day, saying nothing at all except "me me me me me, I am me, me is good, me me me, look at me, I am me, me is good" -- reduce it all to what it is, the cat meows all day "meow meow meow"-- the pretense of the cat, "meow meow HONOR meow meow." It's funny to see the cat's pretense to being the master of the house. The cat is trying to tell me what to do. You are trying to tell me what to do.
Jul 30 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
“Elite overproduction” is literally just the rightoid understanding of the deindustrialization of America & the rise in FIRE Sector unproductive employment— we have never had more doctors making more money than today. We have never had more “brand ambassadors.”
We have an elitism of superfluous labor— of unproductive labor— there have never been more “content creators” — there have never been more NGOs. The upper middle class are almost entirely superfluous to the real economy & live off recirculated rents. College professors have done nothing to advocate in the interests of students— they want higher wages & those wages come from student debt. Professors in other countries make less money. Surgeons in other countries make less money. America is the Paradise of the petty bourgeois.
Jul 29 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Plato represents a Western attempt to recreate Eastern wisdom (all Greek Philosophy is the attempt to explain "Eastern Wisdom" to the world's first Individualistic Society). Plato fails to convince the Tyrants that they ought to be philosophers, like the Sages in Eastern Tyrannies.
All Western Philosophy is the attempt to "Reason with Sovereign Individuals" that they ought to act Wisely. But this is doomed to fail, every time, because Wisdom is not sovereign by individual volition or "convincing" or "persuasion"-- but by a way of being, a Tradition.
Jul 29 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I think you can sum up the difference between West & East with the following-- in the West the question is "What is the best imaginable individual person & what are his thoughts & interests?" while in the East the question is "What is the best imaginable society & what are its laws?"
In the West, you begin with the superlative individual, the messiah, the "good fucking person"-- you are to philosophically construct the perfection of this individual, & then, you are meant to imitate this person. In the East, you begin with the superlative society, the Mandate of Heaven, & you are to practically, pragmatically, subordinate your individuality to that state.
