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ἀλλὰ λαλοῦμεν Θεοῦ σοφίαν ἐν μυστηρίῳ τὴν ἀποκεκρυμμένην ... ἡμῖν γὰρ ἀπεκάλυψεν ὁ θεὸς διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος τὸ γὰρ πνεῦμα πάντα ἐραυνᾷ καὶ τὰ βάθη τοῦ θεοῦ
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Jun 16 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Technology and magic are essentially the same.

Why?

Both believe that correct process leads to positive results.

If you bring together the right ingredients, hand gestures, time, location and get the incantation right, the spell will work. Image
Image 2. Technique works the same way. We must understand that technology is as much, if not more a way of thinking about the world as it is the machines and devices. In this regard, we see this at work clearly in places where administrative systems are in place.
Jun 3 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
1. While there is a lot of value in “elite theory,” it is a thoroughly modern school of thinking, mostly because of its deep cynicism. All the formulas for rule are, as AA put it, “Blah, blah, blah.”

I think this strikes at the heart of modernity’s crisis of authority. 2. The grounding of authority is an old, old problem. Elite theory basically argues that the organized few rule over the disorganized many. This is largely true. The cynicism comes in what is called the “ruling formula.”
May 25 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
1. People sometimes wonder why “Anons” spend so much time reading political and social theory.

It’s partly so they we have the tools to answer this kind of performative outrage porn.

It’s the kind of thing that feels good and right to say as long as you know nothing. 2. Once you read a work like Bertrand De Jouvenel’s “On Power: the Natural History of Its Growth,” you would understand the role that the monarchy plays in transitioning a society from a collection of smaller dominions under an aristocracy to a unified larger whole under a king.
May 18 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. One of things you have to learn to do when paying attention to the news is look at the kinds of things that are being said from what sources.

Here, the Toronto Star, a loyal left wing/regime paper, publishes a chart and an article questioning Canadian immigration policy. Image 2. When you begin to see these types of pieces from these kinds of sources, basically state media in Canada, you know that they are now providing propaganda support for a change in government policy, what my friend @TheBlackHorse65 and I have come to call “The Pivot.” Image
May 12 • 32 tweets • 6 min read
1. There are layers to this “problem” of getting “trapped” in particular ways of thinking. First, you will notice I put those terms in quotes, because these are not necessarily bad things. It truth, they are actually a good thing that can become a bad thing in certain contexts. 2. The way our brains work and develop is that we build brain structure around certain habits and patterns, making them more efficient, so that they demand less conscious thought. This why we practice things over and over, and in doing so they become more natural.
May 7 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
1. There are two groups of “conservative” Christians. One group, like Neil here, argues that Christians must fully participate in “polite society,” whether for career purposes or engage in evangelism, the price of said participation is to ignore many obvious social realities. 2. Rather than doing the hard work of finding Christian language to point out glaring problems occurring not just in America, but across the west — often funded by the US government as we have found out recently — we instead must just simply look away.
May 6 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
1. I am beginning to think “slop” is the wrong word. I get the associations to Indian street food and the sense of disgust it evokes. The content that we call “slop” is not some generic gruel produced merely to be edible.

What we call “slop” is the exact opposite of this. 2. What we call “slop” is deliberately manipulative to game the system, game the meta so to speak — to put it in the language of 40k — to find a “combo” that guarantees victory without much skill or intelligence. The kind of list that a middling tactician can use to win.
May 6 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
1. Jacques Ellul talks about this feature of technique and the technological society, that process becomes more important than outcomes.

This is why Ellul compared “technique,” that is, the way of thinking that produces technology, as a similar to casting magical spells. 2. How many times have been in some administrative context where participants spend all their time emphasizing process, as if good results will magically emerge from a perfected process.
May 3 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
1. There is a lot going on here in this short video. This woman is obviously feeling a fair bit of internal stress.

Why?

I get the sense that, in spite of her protestations, that she is feeling very trapped. Trapped by conflicting expectations. 2. Her identity is very much shaped by external influences, associations, demands and perceptions. She embraced a certain set of expectations that were presented to her. You are decently attractive. Relatively smart. If you want status, you need to get an education and work.
Apr 26 • 29 tweets • 5 min read
1. For those of us on the right, we need to begin thinking about politics in terms of competing interests and not ideology or policies.

Why is this?

Because all policy and all broad ideological frameworks work for managerialism and the administrative state.

A thread.🧵 2. All policy begs the question of how will it be enacted? It gets enacted through the administrative system, that is how. In this sense, all policy proposals validate and reinforces the administrative state as the singular form of governance.
Apr 25 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Yes. Trump basically needs to go to war with the administrative state. They must think of it not as a tool to be utilized, but rather as an enemy that must be defeated. 2. Even then, “the administrative state” is not a neutral, empty vessel waiting to be filled with political and ideological content. No, it must be properly understood primarily as a way of thinking, a way of approaching problems that has been instantiated across society.
Apr 11 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
1. I am going to try to answer this question, “What is a Canadian?” in a way that is not typical. .

What makes Canada, well, Canada is its geography and its climate.

This is why the Group of Seven hold a special place in the hearts of Canadians. Image
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Image 2. It is the middle of April and yesterday it snowed here. Not everyone can endure this year in and year out and thrive. Many died to make a home. They died because Canada can be an uncompromising environment. Image
Apr 6 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
1. This completely misunderstands how Canadian politics works. It assumes that elections dictate the direction of politics in Canada and that ideology is what drives the parties.

This could not be farther from the truth.

Canada has real politics with “fake” elections. 2. By using the work “fake,” it does not mean that they are rigged or that there is cheating or stolen elections, only that electoral politics are of only marginal importance to how power operates in Canada.
Apr 2 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Let’s just say this straight out. This woman’s problem is that she wants it all and expects her husband to bend his entire life around her to support her in her aspirations.

The οἰκονομία, the running of the household, has throughout history been the woman’s task. Image 2. From the sounds of it, she does a great job running the household.

That is not the problem. She wants to have the household run like a well oiled machine … AND … she wants to work and have a career.

Maybe she has a certain lifestyle she wants to live.
Mar 31 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
1. Canadians are going to have to come to grips with a new political reality.

In the past the political conflict has revolved around three interest groups, the Laurentians, the Albertans, and the Quebec nationalists.

In theory they were all supposed to put Canada first. 2. But in reality, they groups have worked to secure power for themselves and their own interests, often at the expense of the other and the nation as a whole.

The Laurentians have dominated this battle, working in concert for a set of shared commitments around their own interests.
Mar 31 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. So what is the alternative to collective political action by groups which share common political aims?

Mutual disarmament because the tactics of your opponents are effective?

Liberalism only works in a society where everyone is committed to the same set of values. 2. Liberalism only works when everyone is willing to set aside their private interests in the public realm and act in concert, in spite of any differences they have, for the collective good of the whole of society.
Mar 30 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. This a perfect example of why politics is not a women’s domain. The majority of women really don’t see the world as an object, nor do they evaluate things in terms of what is right or wrong. Rather, they place themselves as subject into a web of relationships. 2. Everything that happens is evaluated in terms of how does this affect me and my network of relationships. How do I feel about this? How does this enhance my sense of wellbeing? Will this impact the relationships in my life?
Mar 25 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. This might be one of the dumbest implied arguments for mass immigration.

The whole Japanese population is never going to be managers. You always need people to do menial work.

The dirty secret is that people like Bryan don’t want to pay decent wages for their menials. Image 2. So they advocate for policies which support mass immigration, that give carve outs for temporary or immigrant workers or they just hire illegals under the table to do menial work. Foreign born nannies. Underpaid Indian programmers. That sort of thing.
Mar 22 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
1. It won’t matter. The pivot is happening. The era of the politics of values is over.

It’s not just Canada. There are early signs a similar move happening in Britain. We saw this during the lead up to the American presidential election. 2. Figures like @pmarca were arguing that it was time to shelve DEI and get back to a focus on making excellent products.

This is a similar move and reflects a preference cascade happening among the most influential members of the managerial class.
Mar 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. Mass immigration is over. Many politicos and the propagandized masses don’t know it yet, but those that actually write policy have figured out that it’s a failure that threatens everything, and now they are scrambling to figure out how to fix it. Image 2. Another screenshot of this article: Image
Mar 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. This is another canard of the libertines.

Once the social order breaks down and morality is no longer enforced at the community level, if social order is to be maintained, the state now must fill the role once taken by the community. 2. Morality, once enforced by your neighbors who all knew “this is how we do things around here” now must be enforced by the state if social cohesion must be maintained.

At this level of social breakdown you have a choice between more social breakdown or state tyranny.