/lit/ - Literature

Thread for the discussion of Mencius Moldbug's essays and poetic works.

Yaaaaaaayyy! It's Mency Moldy time! Everyone's favorite lit thread!

>Let’s start with my ideal world – the world of thousands, preferably even tens of thousands, of neocameralist city-states and ministates, or neostates. The organizations which own and operate these neostates are for-profit sovereign corporations, or sovcorps. For the moment, let’s assume a one-to-one mapping between sovcorp and neostate. […] Let’s pin down the neocameralist dramatis personae by identifying the people who work for a sovcorp as its agents, the people or organizations which collectively own it as its subscribers, and the people who live in its neostate as its residents.

>A Neocameral ‘neostate’ is not owned by its residents or its agents. Its ‘monarch’ (or ‘CEO’) is an executive appointment. (90% of all confusion about Neocameralism, and Neoreaction in general, stems from a failure to grasp this elementary point.) Note: ‘subscribers’ (plural). More coming on this immediately.

>Every patch of land on the planet has a primary owner, which is its sovcorp. Typically, these owners will be large, impersonal corporations. We call them sovcorps because they’re sovereign. You are sovereign if you have the power to render any plausible attack on your primary property, by any other sovereign power, unprofitable. In other words, you maintain general deterrence. […] (Sovereignty is a flat, peer-to-peer relationship by definition. The concept of hierarchical sovereignty is a contradiction in terms. …) […] The business of a sovcorp is to make money by deterring aggression. Since human aggression is a serious problem, preventing it should be a good business. Moreover, the existence of unprofitable governments in your vicinity is serious cause for concern, because unprofitable governments tend to have strange decision structures and do weird, dangerous things. […] (Nuclear deterrence (mutual assured destruction) is only one small class of deterrent designs. To deter is to render predictably unprofitable. Predictably unprofitable violence is irrational. Irrational violence is certainly not unheard of. But it is much, much rarer than you may think. Most of the violence in the world today is quite rational, IMHO.) […] General deterrence is a complex topic which deserves its own post. For the moment, assume that every square inch of the planet’s surface is formally owned by some sovcorp, that no one disagrees on the borders, and that deterrence between sovcorps is absolute.

Let's talk about this Mency quote and all things Kingy Mency!

>>16159927
>neospacetime mining corp ultrasovereign

To be fair, you have to have a very high social and emotional intelligence torelate to Mencius Moldbug crying. The feels are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of patchwork most of the NAP 1% will go over a communist's head. There's also Moldbug's leather jacket, which is deftly woven into his filler wording - his irony draws heavily from postmarxist neocarlylism, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the social-intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of his clear-pill back patches, to realize that they're not just profound - they say something deep about leather. As a consequence people who dislike Moldbug Digipunk truly ARE idiots - of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the meaning in Moldbug's tear-pill meanderings, which in themselves are a cryptic reference to post-leather insignia and cyber-vegan initiation into the future. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those hyperaddlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Mencius Moldbug's genius unfolds itself from the activity patchwork. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a "Who is MOLDHOG MC's Enforcer?" tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's outside the dome - and even it has to demonstrate that it's within 25 urbit cash of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

>>15114790
Holy shit he sounded
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
GOOD

No for real, not even being ironic

>What was Carlyle's tax policy?

>>14163347
>silicon-edge-liberalism
Without question.

>>14057387
>Moldbug
Cringe.

>>13856645

>>13382886
People actually think Moldbug is smart?

>>13360893
>Why, yes, i would like to edit my crispr in realtime so as to increase my hypermasculinity feedback rates.
>And with a cryptocurrency leveraged for each synth-injection? I would definitely include this in my patchwork.