In modern marriages, even happy ones, there is a significant structural tension rarely discussed. A husband is expected to treat his wife as an equal. But he is also required to be the ultimate director and guarantor of the family's physical, financial, and spiritual well-being. No amount of feminist discourse in the home ever successfully overwrites the fact that the man is the ultimate backstop for any problem that can't be solved otherwise. The contradiction between this and the equality norm is a problem that defines modern marriage.

Accelerationism is back, with everyone from @garrytan to @pmarca rocking the "e/acc" now.

Not many people know that "e/acc" is a resurgence of an obscure theory circle I was involved in, on Twitter, about 6 years ago.

A quick history of internet accelerationism... The naming convention "X/acc" harkens back to this strange and forgotten moment of internet history.

More than 6 years before e/acc, there was l/acc, r/acc, u/acc, and g/acc.

You can twitter search for this stuff around 2017 x.com/search?q=until…

Something I learned from René Girard, which has always stuck with me, is that the Crucifixion was a "trap" set for Satan.

When you think of it as a genius plot to tempt Evil into abolishing itself, the logic is really illuminated and its coherence becomes hard to deny. 🧵 Paul writes to the Corinthians: "If the princes of this world had known [the wisdom of God] they would not have crucified the Lord of glory" (1 Cor. 2:8).”

They thought it would be just another "single victim mechanism." They'd kill Jesus, and it would promote their interests.

Might as well get something else off my chest...

I alluded to this months ago and started hemorrhaging followers so badly that I immediately deleted the tweet in a moment of cowardice. I've been ashamed of that ever since.

I think abortion is probably wrong. Unfollow, idc. I'm not really interested in talking about the topic and I am not above anyone: As a younger man, I would have 100% supported an abortion if I caused an unintended pregnancy. So it is only out of 'moral luck' that I have not participated in it myself.

In 1972, the London Scientology Center (pictured below) moved out of 37 Fitzroy Street.

Then the Moka Bar moved out of 29 Frith St.

Why?

William S. Burroughs says he caused both moves through a novel method of reality-distortion he called Playback. Burroughs' Playback method involved recording sounds and photographs at a specific location, and then playing them back on-site.

He believed that playing back the recordings at the targeted location would bring about negative outcomes for the target.

The apocalypse has already begun and the antichrist will be precisely what you least expect.

1/6 In a 2009 interview, Girard affirmed his view that we are living through the biblical apocalypse. But his view of apocalypse is unique.

For Girard, it's a long and "slow increase in the symptoms of destabilization."

2/6

What are you doing after the orgy?

That's the famous question posed by Jean Baudrillard in his essay, "After the Orgy."

This is an extremely important question, but most people haven't read this text.

So let me explain, as I recline and take a drag... Today, everything has already been liberated. People can do pretty much whatever they want.

However, this creates a peculiar malady: Not knowing what to do after all the constraints have been lifted.

This leads to "hyper-realizing" desires through simulation.

In a 2008 interview with Last Things, René Girard was asked a series of questions about his relationship to Christianity.

I love how detached and thoughtful he is toward culture war topics.

Quick thread on what surprised me the most (e.g. on marriage, homosexuality, etc.) While it's widely believed he stumbled into Christianity through his research, in fact he had a Christian upbringing; his research was instead a renewal. He acknowledges the importance of childhood experiences, and says his devout mother was an influential figure for him.

Nick Land was correct: Renaissance rationalization and oceanic navigation really did lock into commoditization take-off. "The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off." —Nick Land, "Meltdown"