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The broad ideology of Marxism has killed roughly 100 million people. It's ghoulish and stupid. Classical liberalism actually works.
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Oct 19 • 12 tweets • 8 min read
Let's do a few long posts laying out Hess's influence on Marx. 🧵
So, Hegel absorbs Böhme's Ungrund-myth and the Lurianic cycle into philosophy, drawing from sources like Johann Jakob Brucker's Historia Critica Philosophiae, whose treatment of Kabbalah is largely Lurianic, as well as Swabian Pietists like Oetinger who reworked Lurianic ideas and synthesized them with Böhme. Hegel encountered Lurianic Kabbalah directly through Knorr von Rosenroth's Kabbala Denudata, which he cited in his lectures, referencing Abraham Cohen Herrera's Porta coelorum (Magee). Pure Being contracts, like Ein Sof, in tzimtzum, yielding Difference and Nothing; this self-limitation explodes as Nature, a world of finite forms mirroring shevirat ha-kelim, where Spirit's light is refracted into opaque shards. History becomes the labor of Weltgeist, a collective agent gathering sparks through determinate negation (Aufhebung): each contradiction is preserved, lifted, and woven into fuller unity, a rational tikkun without human agency. The triad of Logic-Nature-Spirit thinly secularizes theosophy, with categories unfolding like the Sefirot in dialectical reconciliation, culminating in the ethical state where freedom realizes itself. Hess inherits this Lurianic-infused Hegelian framework, blending it with Spinoza's monism from the Ethics, which treats thought and extension as modes of a single substance and informs Hess's vision of a reconciled community. While Kant's regulative teleology in the Critique of Judgment and his providential view of history in the 1784 "Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim" provide a background for seeing progress as purposeful (albeit antagonistic), Hess anchors this teleology in human agency, secularizing it into praxis through his "philosophy of the deed" and making communal reconciliation the product of conscious action rather than inevitable unfolding (Hess, "Philosophie der Tat"; Avineri).
Oct 5 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
Let's🧵 "plain speak" collective consciousness raising esoterically. Collective consciousness raising works on two levels. There's an exoteric layer that's out in the open and helps bind people together. Then there's an esoteric layer that's more hidden and provides the deeper meaning or engine behind it all. Groups use these layers to wake up to some kind of perceived problem or rupture in the world and then chase a goal oriented fix. First, let's look at the exoteric layer. This is the out in the open coordination system.
What it is includes shared narratives, moral codes, catchphrases, and organizations. For example, things like "justice" in social justice movements or "our people" in ethnos movements.
What it does is get people moving through protests, pilgrimages, campaigns. It signals belonging with flags, hashtags, badges. It legitimizes leaders as interpreters of the story. It recruits and polices boundaries with membership rules, loyalty tests.
Where you see it is in schools, media, law, manifestos, etc. These lead to holidays, oaths, dress codes, policy talking points.
It scales to the masses, but it takes its direction from the hidden layer.
Oct 4 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Good question. Let's do a🧵In this [withdrawal → rupture → repair → wholeness] model there is no separate demiurge. Distortion unfolds inside one reality. the decisive events occur within the One (say a unity consciousness, a Godhead, Geist), not by a rival maker, and they treat the break and the mixed condition that follows as the pivot of the story. This framework resists dualism. What can look like a secondary creator is framed as an appearance of the One’s activity rather than an independent being. The opening move is a narrowing that makes historical room, followed by a break in the ordering of things that leaves a residue. This process is internal within (the Geist, the oneness), and the framework is explicit re; the internality of this process and the persistence of a trace after contraction; this explains how fragments can still bear the mark of the source even in a damaged field.
Sep 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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Sep 8 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Sure. 🧵Let's start with the revolutionary period and the regions within the US. Woodard is instructive if we're to look at America's regions.
Treat the Declaration’s “self-evident” truths as asserting a realist natural-law ontology (inalienable rights grounded in creation order), taught in America largely via Scottish Common Sense Realism (SCSR) (Reid/Witherspoon), layered onto Lockean natural-rights politics and consent-based constitutional design. The question for each region is twofold:
1. Ontology: Did they accept the realist grounding of rights?
2. Application: How did they translate it into institutions/law?
The Northeast (Yankeedom): The Ontology was broadly affirmed. SCSR easily reinforced this “self-evident” stance.
Application? Town-meeting localism, compulsory schooling, moral legislation, clergy-statesmen—comfortable using government for public-good projects. In the Revolution, a leading edge for mobilization and institutional reform.
But there's a tension. This region tends to extend the moral order into programmatic state action, pushing beyond minimal rights-protection toward reformist (sometimes moralizing) governance.

New York (Dutch-rooted commercial pluralism): The ontology was bracketed in favor of practical coexistence. It's a trading cosmopolis prized conscience, press, and commercial freedom. it's more procedural than metaphysical.
Application? They were strong champions of pluralist rights (free exercise, press, due process). At Philadelphia, this translated into vigorous protections that crystallized in the Bill of Rights.
But there's a tension. This region can treat the realist-natural-law frame as optional background, insisting the polity work even when citizens disagree about ultimate metaphysics.

Midlands (ol Quaker Pennsylvania & German Backcountry): Ontologically, Quaker “Inner Light” and German pietism made elites cautious about metaphysical policing. Meaning, they could accept natural-law language yet refuse to weaponize it.
Application? It's anti-coercive, de-centered government; religious toleration, civil peace, local diversity of lifeways; steady support for federalism and suspicion of crusading projects that were more popular in Yankeedom.

Now, down south, lets look at:

Tidewater (Chesapeake gentry): They theoretically affirmed the ontology (Virginia rights discourse, classical republican virtue) but in practice, it's hedged by hierarchy and deference. The application is that there's rights and and consent for the gentlemanly order, and that coexists with slavery and estate power. So there's strong constitutional craftsmanship, but it comes with built-in aristocratic inflections.

In the Deep South (West-Indies inflected): The ontology is carved out in practice. Rights are a privilege for the planter class; and the enslaved people are excluded.Image Fast forward a few years, and you have a clash between Northern and Deep South interests.
Northern interests were for revenue for the new state and protective duties for shipping and manufactures; comfortable using national instruments to cultivate a common good political economy.

Meanwhile, the Deep South was interested in an export regime (rice/indigo, later cotton) needing low tariffs to import British goods cheaply and keep markets open; hostile to policies that raise input costs or empower a central fiscal state.

The divergence is visible from the 1789 Revenue Tariff and Hamilton’s program and hardens through the 1816/1824 tariffs, culminating in the 1828 “Tariff of Abominations” and Nullification (1832–33).

Philosophically, it reprises the earlier fault lines described above: one side affirming a national capacity to order the common weal; the other resisting national encroachments that threaten its social order.
Aug 3 • 47 tweets • 17 min read
Again, they think they're an elect, awakened to a spiritual drama of rupture, exile, & obligated repair, where trauma defines authenticity. The goal is for them to lead a collective consciousness to elevate the marginalized, sublate the oppressor, & then utopia happens. Again, they think they're an elect, awakened to a spiritual drama of rupture, exile, & obligated repair, where trauma defines authenticity. The goal is for them to lead a collective consciousness to elevate the marginalized, sublate the oppressor, & then utopia happens.
Jul 27 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
🧵The real discussion online is not about facts. It's about controlling emotions & framing. Facts alone rarely change minds because people interpret them through lenses shaped by emotions, biases, & values. Framing builds & controls those lenses -which controls the conversation. So, what exactly is framing? At heart, it's a mental and communication trick where people, groups, or the media pick and choose how to package information. This influences how you perceive it, make sense of it, and react. In psychology, it's called the framing effect, a kind of bias where the way something's worded or presented, like focusing on the upside versus the downside, nudges your choices without altering the facts. It plays on quick brain shortcuts, making one side feel way more attractive. In broader fields like communication and social studies, framing builds whole stories by spotlighting some details, such as who caused a problem, the moral takeaway, or the fix, while shoving others into the shadows or cutting them out completely. Think of it like a picture frame: it highlights the main scene, draws your eye to certain colors, and crops out distractions, guiding your emotions and actions while setting boundaries on what's acceptable to talk about.
Think of this well-worn meme here. I'm sure you can come up with dozens of examples, like "mostly peaceful protests."Image
Jun 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I omitted Rousseau here on purpose looking for a loose thread.
Fun fact, Rousseau’s role as a librarian-secretary in the 1740s placed him in direct contact with aristocratic libraries, which, by the mid-18th century, often included esoteric works. The Kabbala Denudata (1677–1684) was commonly found in well-stocked French libraries, and Pico della Mirandola’s works were widely accessible. Aristocratic libraries, likely including those of the Dupins, contained esoteric works due to the 18th-century fascination with occultism, fueled by cheap printing and Parisian dealers. Rousseau’s task of indexing such collections makes it highly likely he handled these texts in the 1740s and thus influenced Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755) and The Social Contract (1762). Another is that Rousseau, in the 1740s, was closely associated with the Dupin salon as secretary and tutor; that salon was a key Parisian intellectual hub. The exposure is also plausible here, considering prevalence of such ideas in 1740s Parisian intellectual circles.
Jun 20 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Mapping collective orientation & 5GW resilience globally, the 2025 US awkwardly straddles A and E, -fractured in spirit, loosely networked in form, & haunted by a fading memory of D(esque). Its collective telos is fading, yet legacy structures still offer some 5GW resilience. Image From a Game Theory POV
Atomised Individualism: Yields a low payoff due to its fragmented structure and susceptibility to 5GW’s narrative manipulation, making it an easy target for division into micro-tribes.

Fragmented Tribes: Offers a low payoff, as its localized cohesion fails to scale against 5GW threats, leading to deepened fractures and civil conflict under pressure.

Rigid Collectivism: Provides a medium payoff, leveraging high initial cohesion for resistance, but its payoff collapses sharply if the core telos is lost, triggering implosion.

Modular Collectivism: Achieves the highest payoff through a balanced strategy of high cohesion and adaptability, though this advantage plummets if the telos is lost, risking fracture.

Networked Coalitions: Delivers a high payoff via adaptable coordination, yet this is moderated by the risk of centralization or fragmentation if the telos falters, potentially drifting toward Rigid Collectivism.
Jun 6 • 19 tweets • 19 min read
🧵Each form of "woke" has a shared esoteric trunk. The development of Western Esotericism from antiquity to Boheme shows how the idea of an elect slowly shifts from personal escape to a collective repair of the material world. Greek Magical Papyri (c. 2nd c. BC (ish)
The Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) are a collection of texts from Greco-Roman Egypt, containing spells, rituals, and invocations for purposes such as love, protection, cursing, and divination. These texts reflect a syncretic blend of Greek, Egyptian, Jewish, and other cultural traditions. In many spells, the material world is depicted as a realm of danger and illusion, from which the magus seeks to extract power or escape. For instance, spells often involve invoking deities or spirits to grant temporary power, after which the deity is dismissed to prevent entrapment in matter. This is a view of salvation as a "tactical exit" rather than renovation, with the magus (Magician) focusing on personal benefit or transcendence. The overall orientation is towards individual mastery, not collective repair.

For the PGM, salvation is a tactical exit, an escape of the material world; the dialectic is partial & incomplete, centered on withdrawal (escape) but lacking shatter or repair.

The elect are solitary practitioners, focused on personal power and transcendence, with no collective or societal responsibility. This marks the earliest stage, where the elect’s role is purely individualistic.

Salvation = individual tactical exit, not collective renovation.
Jun 5 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
The esoteric right seeks to restore sacred order. Its telos is a return to primordial hierarchy, cosmic harmony & rooted identity. Scale is civilizational or ethnic, steered by a disciplined minority of custodians of culture, warrior aristocrats or an ethical state. Their critique targets decadence rather than equality, viewing modern liberalism as a fall from transcendence. Awakening is selective, shaped by myth, ritual & inner discipline that elevate the few who can impose form on the many. Revolutions are taken as divine punishments that purge decline so this elect can rebuild throne, altar & organic community. History moves in cycles of rise, decay & rebirth; repair arrives by re enthroning transcendent authority, not by universal emancipation. The last major figure or node shared by both the esoteric left and right, before they diverge, is Jakob Böhme (1575–1624).

His mystical theosophy blends Christianity, alchemical symbolism, and Kabbalah, particularly influenced by Lurianic ideas of divine withdrawal, fragmentation, and restoration.
Jun 5 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Joseph de Maistre, a quarter century before Hegel, saw history as a force that uses men, not one led by them. It moves through them to achieve larger ends, then casts them aside.
Both ideas have similar esoteric origins.
(Considerations on France: 1796) Image Image
May 27 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Theories below trace a cosmic drama: sacred unity contracts and shatters, forming false husks. Divine sparks scatter to the margins. Each theory seeks to awaken these sparks and begin the work of gathering what was broken and helping to reweave the divine into the world. In the beginning, the fullness of the divine retracts, allow the illusion of autonomy & difference, meaning the space where finite creation and multiplicity appear. In that void, the world of power structures & dominant ideologies forms. These structures fill the vacuum but are fragile & limited vessels such as capitalism, whiteness, patriarchy, normativity, imperialism. They arise as 'ignorant' overextensions of partial truths, born in a world now separated from its source.
See the chart column "Preeminent Systems or Structures."
May 26 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Pirenne’s thesis has weathered and outlasted decades of criticism, much of it from the left, because it cuts against foundational assumptions in leftist theory. Let's bring up four of those points. 1) Leftist theory follows a redemptive arc: Rupture → Alienation → Memory → Praxis/Repair → Return → Wholeness.
Pirenne disrupts this by relocating the rupture. Instead of blaming Europe (feudalism, capitalism, patriarchy, empire) he places the break outside, in the Arab-Islamic conquests that fractured Mediterranean unity.
May 25 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Each of the four main characters in Sex and the City functions as an archetype for women to map onto, offering a path to rewrite the self by amplifying marginalized identities, affirming leftist power dynamics, & sublating traditional forms as false.
It's reinvention as ritual. Image Anxious narcissist: Carrie glamorizes instability, turning serial monogamy, emotional chaos, and compulsive spending into symbols of self-discovery and authenticity. She subverts ideals of marriage, modesty, and financial discipline, reframing moral drift as personal liberation.
May 15 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵The Left wants to dismantle the Enlightenment because it only 'appeared' to contract the sacred (monarchy, Church) making space for Reason, science, liberty, and equality. Superficially, it resembled a noble self-limiting. But, for the left, the withdrawal was a soulless lie. The void it created wasn’t sacred emptiness for the other; it was exclusion in disguise, a hollow cleared to enthrone a new God-form: Rational Man (white, male, European, scientific, landowning, heteronormative). He didn’t just inherit the thrones of Church and Crown. He became the axis of being, the new vessel for truth, law, order, and meaning.
May 13 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Marx's Capital wears the mask of an economics tome, but its engine is a drama of exile and return. Surplus‑value, commodity fetishism, & accumulation describe how human creative essence is exiled into objects; the revolutionary process is the return of that essence to communal control. This is a mythic structure, only dressed in the language of political economy.Image Marx insists ideas follow material relations, yet the whole system is driven by an inner telos: history must pass through rupture toward reconciliation. That is a metaphysical conviction, not an empirical law of markets. Economics supplies metaphors and data; the plot comes from an inherited redemptive archetype.
May 11 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Let's take a quick look at Glenn Magee's "Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition," illustrating each Lurianic stage and its Hegelian parallel. Lurianic K
Tzimtzum: Ein Sof (God) Ein Sof contracts its infinite light, "self‑limiting," (creating a void) so the finite can exist

Hegel
The Absolute freely limits itself, "othering" into finite being, which is the first moment of the dialectic. Image
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May 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Back in 1996, a Cuban-born Prof at Northwestern University tried to warn us all.
"What unsophisticated or malicious bourgeois observers have traditionally considered ‘‘lying’’ is therefore not lying,but merely a different socially fashioned truth." Image
Image "At an American university, a materialist professor...approvingly explains..'Western philosophers conceive of truth as objective and unalterable. Marxists, though, assume there is no such thing as objectivity, inasmuch as even the greatest minds are prisoners to the society they live in . . . truth has one meaning in a bourgeois society, quite another in a socialist state.'"
Mar 30 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
🧵You're in a 5GW battlespace, not a neutral forum where trust is exploited, & authenticity easily faked. Individualists unaware of collective manipulation tactics are vulnerable rubes. So, here's how collectives operate & how to defend yourself in low-trust environments. Collective groups prioritize shared identity & goals above the self. They act cohesively, *especially* when threatened, & leverage group solidarity, clear narratives, & common purpose. This unity makes them effective at influencing or dominating less coordinated individuals.
Mar 16 • 50 tweets • 17 min read
The moral circle heatmap for leftists primarily maps the universalist tendencies of white leftists, but they are in decline, being replaced by a diverse coalition of many collectivist groups who have strong ingroup preferences and their own non-universalist moral allocations.