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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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Dec 1 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
1. Here is the thing. Burke is not really a "conservative." Burkean "conservatism" is the kind of thing that works in theory but cannot be instantiated in reality. It's the kind of thing that works on TV, but not in reality. The problem is that it never actually conserves anything. 2. My political journey has been to realize that the "conservatism" of the @erinotoole's of the world isn't really conservatism at all. It is merely a kinder, gentler liberalism. They believe in things like the "rule of law" which facilitated the managerial takeover of society.
Sep 18 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There was a time when the activities of the market were thought about under the umbrella of ethics, morality and religion, instead of as they are now as a "scientific" area of study. The idea of a "free" market comes about as a result of this transition. 2. The reason why this transition took place is that if what happens in the market is merely the result of impersonal forces such as "supply and demand" that can be quantified and measured, then this absolves the participants in business and the market from the moral responsibility for their decisions.
Aug 14 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1. The future of Canadian politics…

The Laurentian elites saw this as the impending future of Canada and realized that this very dynamic threatened their power and so Mark Carney was brought in to quietly “fix the glitch.” 2. Mark Carney is a manager’s manager. The chairman of two national banks, his way will not be the firebrand. There will be no anti-immigrant propaganda. On the surface all will look the same. But under the hood, changes will be made. They will quietly “fix the glitch.”
Aug 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. One of the primary manifestations of the decadence and nihilism of our time is that our society is gripped by “high time preference” thinking masquerading as a form of nobility, in terms of “rights” or making the youth earn their way and other drivel like this. Image 2. This results in women who will sacrifice their own children, whether murdering them in the womb or simply refusing to have them for little more than a cubicle job, the freedom to travel or eat out at cool bistros. Everything is about today.

High time preference. Image
Jul 29 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
1. I think we need to pause and think about what former Canadian Prime Minister is saying here in a speech he gave in Saskatchewan recently.

As Harper himself states, even a year ago he would have urged Canada to deepen its ties with the US.

Now he is advocating the opposite. Image 2. What does it all mean? Harper is speaking on different levels here.

On one level he is signalling to his Alberta power base, the people who put him in power, the Western Elites, that as much as they hate the Laurentian Elites, Canada’s best future is not with the US.
Jul 11 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
1. Both Helen and Auron make excellent points here. Here is something to think about: the problem is our society’s obsession with novelty.

Homer was great, not because he said anything new, but that he told the old stories with singular skill. 2. In a society obsessed with what is “new and improved” or the latest version of the iPhone. Nobody cares about telling the old stories. Writers have to be innovative or groundbreaking. Nobody wants to hear old stories. (Yet, they will watch and rewatch their favourite movies, read and reread their favourite books…there is a lesson here)
Jul 11 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. It is interesting. Academics talk a good game about the free exchange of ideas and the inviolability of academic freedom, but they don’t really mean it. They want the free exchange of ideas that reside within the fences of left wing orthodoxy. 2. Confronted with actually different ideas, they immediately begin hyperventilating and labeling them hate speech or fascism or some such. This is the core of their hypocrisy.
Jul 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. Be offended all you want. I stand by the statement. When you have a media control room which rivals that of a television studio, whatever is happening on Sunday is the product of mass communication propaganda techniques. It is a simulacrum of a church. Image 2. Propaganda is inherently manipulative, aiming for control. It is materialistic and works actually to cut people off from God while giving the perception that people are being brought close to God. You can’t build a real community with 45,000 people.
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.