The more I learn about Chinese history the more jealous I am for them— they have a much longer, almost overwhelmingly so, tradition of record keeping. In the West, ones antiquity comes out of cosmopolitanism— we must look far afield to find our ancient records. The West’s much easier time with simply “abandoning tradition” is a benefit of this— to simply “forego having a past” of being concretely determined by Time— it is, ultimately, a sort of delusion, but one that inspires a recklessness that can be fruitful as well as harmful.

That’s not really how it went down. As Hudson explains:

“In the Carter Administration (77-80) leading up to the great price inflation of 1980, Fed Chairman Paul Volcker expressed his economic philosophy in a note card that he kept in his pocket, to whip out and demonstrate where his priority lay. The card charted the weekly wage of the average U.S. construction worker. Chairman Volcker wanted wages to go down, blaming the inflation on too much employment.”

https://x.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/2074013555662135454

“An American School of Political Economy emerged to guide the nation’s industrialization based on the Economy of High Wages doctrine to promote labor productivity by raising living standards and public subsidy and support programs.
These are not the policies that today’s Republicans and Democrats advise. If Reaganomics, Thatcherism and Chicago’s free-market boys had guided American economic policy in the late nineteenth century, the United States would not have achieved its industrial dominance. So it hardly is surprising that the protectionist and public investment logic that guided American industrialization has been airbrushed out of U.S. history.”

The Platner thing goes to show you that leftoids they can’t even accomplish what MAGA does, totally not caring about the interpersonal crimes of their candidate, focusing exclusively on hurting the perceived enemy & not caring about “personal conduct.” The whole thing with Trump is that it’s not about his personal character, it’s exclusively about punishing the enemy— that’s all anyone got out of it— but “the left” conceive of voting as the “one degree of kevin bacon” to their personal sense of moral dignity politeness decorum etc.

Yes, I know, & that’s what yours will be as you simultaneously have an economic depression due to enabling american imperialism & increase your military funding for Ukraine— you will be paying for this by stripping your public goods for sale to private capital. I think this is bad.

https://x.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/2072973350041764089

You could have simply not enabled American Imperialism & not elected atlanticist liberals for decades— but again, that’s too tall an order for Europe, they are such ameriboos they will destroy their own society for the interests of American empire. Very stupid!

“AI” is a branding term for algorithms that have too “jargony” terminology, I think a major problem is the anthropomorphic PR language around it. There’s nothing “intelligent” going on in it’s just search algorithms on LLM vector spaces etc, but you say that & the investors tune out so you go “it’s maybe ALIVE & its got a NAME & maybe it will become GOD” & then they give you money to do something like “automating github search & integration” or “automating rotoscoping video clips” etc

https://x.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/2072701335972012432

I would, personally, like a law about the rectification of names here— calling it “artificial intelligence” is false advertising. There’s no “intelligence” at all. In fact, a synonym for “artificial intelligence” is “fake news.”

Dialectical materialism is the ultimate product of “faustian civilization” & it’s the part that will outlast its collapse in the same manner that monotheism was the ultimate product of “magian civilization” prior. The eurasian civilization that is coming into being is as Spengler predicted “The next millennium belongs to Dostoyevsky's Christianity.” Dostoevsky’s Christianity is the Christianity which doesn’t eschew the material world, but governs it. It is not the “individualist antichristianity” of the faustian subject, but the “civilizational being” of Eurasian communism. There is no future for the “secular world”— it has already been unmasked as the faustian project of premillennial dispensationalist zionism. Civilizational states in Eurasia are the future. “The West” is already dead.

https://x.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/2072693994585260286

Dostoevsky was more communist than the communists— that is the irony many people fail to see. “Secular materialism” or naive materialism in the anglophone model of “empiricism” is not capable of maintaining a civilization. The USSR collapsed for this reason. China describes the building of “Spiritual Civilization” without eschewing dialectical materialism, but recognizing that these are the same thing. Karl Marx is made into a brother of Confucius.

This same shit happened with Net Neutrality & none of the paranoid fantasies came to fruition. “Democracy” in America means that the corporations can spend millions of dollars fighting against the public good & brainwashing retards into fighting the public good by turning them into delusional paranoid narcissists who actively misunderstand how everything works

Metal exists on a continuum between death & black — the former axis represents the material, the guttural, the biological, the putrid even— the latter axis represents the immaterial, the ideal, the specter, wraith, all that is ghostly. It is the continuum of growl & hiss. The closer to whispering & singing falsetto is black metal, the closer to grunting, pig squeals, burping; is death metal. Black metal is very “soft” music actually, & death metal is more “hard.” They are easier to distinguish by vocal style than anything else.

The ongoing left twitter kerfuffle over religion is actually secretly about constrictions on behavior— “religion” is only code for “socially conservative norms” here. Otherwise it’s “spirituality”— which is the real issue of the left lol I think a devout muslim is already by default a better communist than a “secularist” who believes in libertinism as a positive social good.

After having kids I understand superstition as the alpha & omega of the rational faculty— “irrationality” of the sort that sublates superstition is only available to metacognition & direct revelation. It is not obvious that ghosts do not exist. Real atheism (lack of superstitious belief in the power of immaterial entities like the heavenly bodies, astrology, etc) is only possible through a purification of superstition imposing a “superstition against superstition”— there is no “rational” reason to not believe in UFO demon reptilian alien dmt elves etc

Honestly has any president done more to enable the rise of Eurasian Communism than Trump? It’s like Hoover helping establish the basis of the Russian & Chinese revolutions. It’s like Nixon giving Mao & Deng the keys to the next century. Is this the exoteric platform of Trump? Was this his stated goal? No. But isn’t that funnier? Nixon was trying to destroy the USSR & ended up building Communist China. Hoover was fighting the British Empire for American interests. Funny.

Usually when I land at Logan, I think of how Boston reminds me of the late soviet union— but this time, it became more obvious, it’s just what it is, it felt like Heathrow, London. New England becomes so obvious to me, after the longest I’ve been away from it. Within 30 minutes every time, I go “yup, here we are”— the Pike was narrowed to one lane, no construction ongoing, no discernible reason— but all the cawps put on their lights, swerved into the closed lanes, & passed our sorry asses. Half the drivers were drunk. Yup, here we are.

Juice WRLD on Drake being his favorite rapper

youtube.com/shorts/FMsB-mg… If you go to the Juice Wrld subreddit, the fanbase speculates that he actually dissed Drake & would have been a K Dot stan for sure— because they truly understand what poets respect… I swear, fans are the worst people.

American society exists at this point as a balance entry on a ledger— americans are financial fictions, a culture created to expand debt ledgers & their corresponding ability to produce claims on fractionalized credit issuance premised upon the recouping of these debts. Debt is an asset. A social economic order premised upon the state subsidy of private issuance of debt is a society that actually subsidizes gambling directly. The thing is, the debt never has to be paid, because the debts are insured. You bailing on your debt is often more immediately profitable considering the banks invented the deposit of the credits from out of thin air. They sell the debt collection off & get the nonpayment insurance payout. They already used the asset of “future debt servicing” & sold it. The sales funnel of it all is just this very tall pyramid scheme where at the top the pharaonic private issuers of credit trickle down their godlike power to create value out of nothing instantaneously & beneath myriad niche cargo cultic projectors & dramaturges producing demand for this debt by means of spectacle. At the very bottom you sit, harangued by sacred clowns in business suits, lying to you for their free scraps of credit ex nihilo. A society founded around a void now— military nihilism as Haz says, but really the military just defends this voidness anyway, it is really the 0 of the debt to credit ratio— in order for the .01% to gain 10% more, it means indebting millions upon millions of people into the range of “negative assets.” Their savings are the same as the debts of the poor. This is the balance of payments here— you exist not in discrete classes so much as a proximity to the central operation— the void, the complete absence of meaning, the self-replicating code of financial vehicles, the warped illogic of private finance. Staggering machine. Every dystopian fantasy people have of chinese “social credit scores” exists here already & is normalized but also taboo. Nobody talks about their “private credit score”— ie: what a bank is willing to give them ex nihilo. It’s not linear. Sometimes being “poorer” gives you access to more credit than being “semi-poor.” The classes are formed by legislation on finance here. Some people are given housing because they aren’t profitable for banks to loan to, & others are profitable to loan to, so they become private thralls rather than public ones.

We need to become post-political in the sense that you probably only need to run psychometric profiles on people in order to run the state & that’s actually just how it’s run now, except that in America we select exclusively for psychopaths. What if instead of optimizing for psychopathy we had a state which ushered the most psychometrically healthy people into power, people who are not psychopaths but the opposite, what if we had Communist Party?

I think the CIA hasn’t mattered much since the 70s and the real power is with the Department of Energy but I’m “schizo” for that one.

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"Prominent outstanding member of rural community" is code for like the Police Chief who fucks kids etc. The upstanding School Principal who fucks kids. The Town Priest who, you guessed it...

https://twitter.com/westofeastcoast/status/2038699940398895444

The "Prominent Outstanding Members of Rural Communities" -- Freemasons, Elks, Knights of Columbus, Rotarians-- the black coffee breakfasters at the sales convention in the Motel 6 off the highway. All that can be imagined of the Epstein Elite is a routine occurrence amongst these "Prominent Outstanding Rural Community Members."

This only happens in suburban & small town america-- if you live in a city with kids, nobody is surveilling you like this & you are actually more free from 'societal surveillance'-- everyone who romanticizes "rural small towns" doesn't know it's surveillance hell, everyone knows everyone & watches everyone & it never ends.

https://x.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/2037961228962717824

This is due to the insufferable boredom of rural life in tandem with the ubiquitous adoption of social media (before, this would just be a phone tree of church gossip, now it's a local Facebook group). It's the worst part of rural/small town life. The anonymity of city life is more life-affirming.

About that time to remember the peak of indie rock music
I love Modest Mouse-- but people are still reluctant to admit that this is their magnum opus, not a departure or a compromise but a fulfillment of everything they'd ever worked toward. Johnny MARR on an indie arena rock epic about THE SINKING SHIP OF AMERICAN EMPIRE?

Melville writing lucidly about class relations in America compared to the British who he are calling “Epsteinites” in their relation to Nell Gwyn the young mistress of Charles II. He also notes how america’s crypto-aristocracy will prove more enduring than the British peerage which is itself artificial etc You can see how against contemporary sensibility Melville was at this point of his career— this was a scandalous paragraph! He’s calling the British peerage a whorehouse compared to the cryptoaristocracy of America.

It’s funny how Jiang’s authority is always presented as him being Chinese but he’s actually a Canadian. All his research is primarily in english language literature which he studied at Yale. This is pretty much the world concluded by the corpus of anglophone literature. Jiang is an “american” style gnostic hermeticist who found out about all this stuff by reading American literature. His inspiration is Isaac Asimov. Now, I disagree with his cosmology here, but I respect the work.