/lit/ - Literature

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>>21725120
I will buy it.

>>21725398
Same. I'm buying multiple copies in fact. One copy for indoctrinating my techie friends.

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/acorns-for-the-culture-war

Listen up goyim! Electoral politics doesn't work. Le Cthulhu only swims left. What should you do instead? Give money to me and my friends!

>send a few coins to my friend Beckett Rosset, who needs to raise just seven grand this week to fund his literary magazine, TENSE.

>You could also support the Delicious Tacos/Peter Vack film, or lit at Expat Press, or…coming soon, you could even buy my own archives from Passage Press. These days I see approximately a million and two deserving acorns of based art and publishing. Like all real artists, these people are BROKE and a little real coin goes a long-ass way.

Subsidizing redpilled™ artists is the first step to an American Caesar!
>To really plant acorns, you have to get as far upstream of power as you can. While, as a donor, obviously your goal in funding the arts is world domination, there is no way at all to measure this impact. In art, the delay between action and impact can be decades.

>And yet… the golden rule of fashion is that fashion flows downward. Do you want your ideas to be the ideas of a billion people, taught in a million schools? Then who are the first hundred people you want to infect?.

This is YOUR opportunity to invest in the top of a beautiful pyramid. Trust the SCIENCE!
>Status is a pyramid. You want your ideas to start at the top and saturate every level of the pyramid before it moves down to the next. You want to traverse this pyramid in what computer scientists call a breadth-first search, not a depth-first search.

You don't even have to like what we're shilling!
>For the purposes of turning money into power, the art itself does not matter.

Preorder volume one of Unqualified Reservations for the low price of $39.95 today!
https://passage.press/product/unqualified-reservations-volume-1/

moldbros..

It’s embarrassing how many university intellectuals think they’re the next elites. Pages and pages of useless crap on why we should obey and follow them, when they’re all massive chinless nerds.

>>21725743
Isn't this dude a multimillionaire? Why is he asking other people for money lol

>>21725870
That's how you stay rich

>>21725759
The dominatrix gave birth and they're back together, they just haven't announced it to avoid harassment. She's sensitive.

>>21725887
Source?

>>21725906
You'll just have to take my word for it. Baby was born this winter.

Am I the only one who is salty he picked abstract art for the cover instead of something more classical?

jew

>>21725870
Because that’s what Jewish people do

>>21726782
Maybe the word "Formalist" gave it a modern air?

This shit is already dead, only ever caught on with a small number of twitterfags who have an attention span of less than a year and need everything to be based on an influencer's personality.

Moldbug was never a real reactionary because he never supported the Church. Indeed, like the typical Jew he is, he made it an enemy. Why did he label his unofficial cabal of collaborating institutions "the Cathedral"? Makes you think, doesn't it?

>>21726782
Yes. The classical aesthetic that his contemporaries use is cringe.

>>21727014
If you had actually read his stuff you would have noticed that he thinks most tradcaths are "elves" (noble of spirit).

>>21726923
Yarvin has thousands of people paying him $10 a month on substack.

>>21725120
bruh, $40?! Print that shit paperback and charge $11.99 + $3 shipping please. $40 is celebrity biography / political current events level pricing

>>21725120
Weren't his old stuff already self-published? I remember a link in his old blog saying so or maybe it was only digital?

>>21727394
It was on Kindle or something, nothing printed

>>21725743
I mean he's right, although I'm sure continued access to arthoe pussy is part of what motivated that post.

>>21725887
How do I get into those circles? Pls tell me. I am not some loser NEET, I can contribute.

>>21727481
You talk to the people involved. Most of Peter Thiel's friends have Twitter accounts and you can talk to Moldbug on substack.

>>21727481
I can help fren, whats your name/email? I can get you onto our closed distro list

>>21727481
Mainly by critiquing stuff they post. When you eventually hit a nerve, they'll write something to try to ruin you, which will inadvertently give you more attention, then you consolidate these gains by reconciling with them in a joint article or by doing a debate that winds up friendly.

It's kind of pointless though since the being non-anonymous sucks all the fun out of posting your thoughts. The worst part is having to be consistent in your views or else suffer the constant accusations of hypocrisy.

>>21727100
>tradcaths are "elves" (noble of spirit)
Where wrote?

>>21725120
What is the tl;dr on his thoughts? I missed the train and google is the antichrist.

>>21727928
I know this will probably fall on deaf ears but 90% of the tl;drs you will get are ignorant oversimplifications written by his ideological opponents. Best you can do is read an article called 'Introduction to the Cathedral' or something along those lines on his Substack.

>>21727947
Thats fair. I guess I was just trying to get a sense of what topics he discusses more than his actual thoughts on them. Could you give me a run down on that?

>>21727958
I think there are roughly three major areas of his thought:
>Critique of the current regime from the Right - i.e. 'the Cathedral' etc.
This is his best work, although some dislike that his critique is fundamentally rationalist and pragmatic in nature. IMO he's the only one from the contemporary Right to produce defensible arguments in this area that can be taken seriously and go beyond polemic.
>Defense of Absolute Monarchy
Somewhat weaker as here he relies heavily on HH Hoppe's defense of Monarchy. His fascination with startup culture and other Silicon Valley BS also shines through here. Still, a lot of his arguments in this area are interesting simply because he tends to bring up very obscure historical facts to defend them.
>Speculative Policies/Government Forms/etc.
Can be interesting but it's his weakest area. None of his positive proposals have been viable so far.

Overall - stick to his critical essays like 'Open Letter' if you have to choose. He can be very verbose but his arguments are funny, creative, biting and innovative.

>>21727992
Thanks anon. That was more than I had hoped for.

This is quite possibly the gayest shit of all time. I was convinced the leftoids had reached that with their anodyne and defeatist Mark Fisher worship, but the rightoids perfected it.
Imagine shilling for Silicon Valley monarchy. Imagine shilling for pozzed San Francisco hyperbugmen having absolute sovereignty. What the fuck are you doing on a literature board?
Generation X well and truly has produced nothing but cringe, but it is so fucking painful to see the young pick it up as their identity du jour.

>>21728014
Meh, you just fell for a caricature of his thought.

>>21725120
Listen up, fellow CHUDS. Democracy is EVIL, and the only way to save it is to elect super Jews, a la moi, who will turn you into permanent pay pigs and wage cucks.

>>21728114
Explain exactly what is incorrect?
Moldbug supported lockdowns, a surveillance state, simps for technocrats, and justifies all this through libertarian values.

>>21725120
preordered for daddy yarvin!

>>21728375
>Moldbug supported lockdowns, a surveillance state, simps for technocrats
This. He's just another controlled op gatekeeper with some edgy ideas.

>>21728375
>Moldbug supported lockdowns, a surveillance state, simps for technocrats, and justifies all this through libertarian values
lmao, you're retarded

>>21728404
Where is he wrong? Moldbug describes his ideal state as a technocracy where everyone is heavily controlled.

>>21728482
>supported lockdowns
he did not, he's made fun of the americanvirus many a times
>surveillance state
was victorian england a "surveillance state"?
>technocrats
Mostly but not quite
>justifies all this through libertarian values
He makes fun of lolbertarianism every time that subject is brought up.

>>21728482
His final position on lockdowns was that either full on laissez faire or total control make sense, the shit in-between does not.

>>21727014
Such a shit critique. The Cathedral is an analogy for an all pervasive system of belief in a civilization. It doesn’t mean Christianity is le bad

>>21727928
Watch “A Gentle Intro to Moldbug” by the Distributist on YouTube. Great summary. Just over an hour

>>21727917
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-tolkien-system-of-social-roles

>>21728691
the distributist supported DoA for being into blacked porn
these are your online tardcaths btw

>>21727928
There are many intros on youtube, the perks of having an autistic male fanbase.
Mulling over Moldbug is one. He has also done millions of podcasts.

>>21728404
>>21728614
I can't tell if this is bait or not. I read his substack and he talked about China's success in containing the virus. Pretty sure it's a free article.
I'm genuinely convinced you haven't read his main documents. He explicitly advocates a surveillance state. (This is in patchwork, I can provide a direct quote later)
As for technocrats, that is also blatant. Like, word for word, he advocates technocrats.
And again, the libertarian argument shows you have not read Moldbug. He and Ancaps regularly interact and his work is based largely (almost entirely) off of lolbertarianism.
Read Moldbug and stop defending things you have not researched in the slightest.

>>21728721
I have read all of his free articles on gray mirror and I've listed to audiobooks of his core UR blog. You're unbelievably retarded

>>21727567
name: Ben Dover
email: peepoocaca@protonnail.com

add me pl0x

>>21728737
You have no reading comprehension.
Cope, seethe, dilate.

>>21728911
he's right, moldbug was an enthusiastic vaxxie ands only criticised that we didn't get more of it and sooner.

you can cope all you want but despite his preference for "monarchism" moldbug is exactly the blue city atheist techy liberal gen x snarky elite he looks like. his only gripeis that the usa isn't run like apple or tesla.

>>21728948
>despite his preference for "monarchism" moldbug is exactly the blue city atheist techy liberal gen x snarky elite he looks like
Exactly this. He made some good arguments for monarchism but once I got into his longer form interviews, the truth emerged. He's a gatekeeper at best, a trendy salesperson for the most hideous dystopian agendas at worst.

Cold Anarchy is a good chaser to Moldbug’s latest mewling hot takes. UR is gold, Gray Mirror is well, gray.

>>21728948
>>21728972
The fact that he lived in a liberal shit hole and appeared on Fucker Carlson ended any doubt in my mind.

>>21728737
I should also say, I criticize Moldbug from an unironic classical, divine right monarchist perspective and I don't like his justifying it from a Libertarian lense.

a few years ago i had to meet yarvin quite a few times, and one of my friends used to work pretty closely with him. just gonna say he's fucking weird, definitely an aspy, and in my opinion a pseud. dont feel like doxxing myself by saying more but him, thiel, and all the other silicon valley "dissident" types are weird as fuck and you should stay clear of their orbits.

>>21729314
doesn't the mandate of heaven imply that whoever is in charge deserves to be, for biden as much as louis xiv?

>>21728014
Exactly. Moldbug wants a Dictatorship of the Shape Rotators. He's a jumped up STEMfag and his dumb blog posts are not literature.

Modbug presents a right wing alternative to the wholesome chungus tradcath ethos & I feel most of his detractors are of this persuasion
I don’t see him as some utilitarian technocrat, he is explicitly antiutilitarian… he has flirted with ideas akin to segregation, human primitivist reservations, virtualized pod people…
Ultimately the most important recognition of him and others like him is an inegalitarian recognition that different people must be governed differently. His vision for the country isnt some mandatory bugman program, its a federalized system with some bugman cities, trad mormon theocracy, african gang tribes in one country.

>>21725820
It’s worse than that. These aren’t university intellectuals proper. These are people who straddle universities and California startups. Curtis Yarvin actually described Napoleon Bonaparte as a startup guy.

>>21728614
Yarvin thought china style lockdowns were the best approach. He said he was open to the view that a Sweden style approach was preferable to the half measures America and most other governments took, but an actually competent government should engage in extreme coercion and surveillance to quickly stop the virus.
https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/plan-a-for-the-coronavirus-7db3997490c1
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/against-omicron-and-governance-theater

>>21728701
>internet eceleb drama
Who gives a fuck, the video is a good explanation

>>21729333
No, since the source of Biden's power is from a rejection of monarchy.
Mandate of Heaven is more Chinese I believe, in which case you are correct since the overthrow of Emperors can be justified as God's Will, whereas European Divine Right specifically states Kings are not subject to any evaluation on Earth (and hence revolts are illegitimate)
That's my understanding at least.

>>21729749
if god allows the world to stray from monarchy isn't that his divine will too?

>>21725120
Like many thinkers of his time, Jarvin was influenced by Indian philosophy. The Hindus and Buddhists understood that what gave man continuity over countless lifetimes was not his body, or even his mind, but his cathedral's structure, his karma. The cathedral determines his future, not his class or the whims of God. If you want to understand Moldbug, you have to understand the Upanishads

>>21729770
god let man stray into sin so that man could redeem himself by his own will, thereby becoming closer to god than if he hadn’t initially strayed
eras of interregnum can be considered a product of that sin, and therefore like the sin itself, are not merely an obstacle but also an opportunity by which to test & fortify our souls

>>21725743
He's literally equating his ideas to a pyramid scheme. lmao

>>21729796
Seems kind of narcissitic, letting a little kid gets lost in the woods so that we becomes more attached to your guidance after things go wrong.

>>21729828
yeah what does he have, a god complex or something?

>>21729782
same could be said about Karlyle

>>21729798
not all pyramids are pyramid schemes…

>>21729903
>yeah what does he have, a god complex or something?
not like this atheistsisters...

>>21729903
>>21729923
thinking admitting to demiurge tier shenanigans is a gotcha

learn to theodicy better

>>21729770
No, just as people sinning isn't necessarily God's will.

>>21729937
figures only a gnostitard would call felix culpa “demiurge tier”

>>21729960
>almighty creature sets up ignorant creation to fail
>omnipotent so knows exactly what they will do
>vast majority of people ever born go to hell
>hihi what a happy accident

>>21725743
Still buying it cuz I prefer physical copies

>>21729329
Weird how? He's definitely an asspie but he seems cool from a distance. Did he like, try to finger your bum or something?

>>21730440
Second this because I met him as well.

>>21730440
>>21730482
There is a general form of silicon valley brain rot that a lot of the Tlon Urbit guys I met definitely had. Moldbug wasnt like that, but he was still very weird. I feel like he was lying about everything he said, even inconsequential things, and just had an out of this world sized ego. Past the normal aspie shit, anyway. I just have this very bad gut feeling about him and that whole sphere. The general sphere of orbit around him though, those guys were mega weird. Weird substance abuse, ketamine or hallucinogens just all the time, always adderalled up to keep them moving on whatever new spiritual journey they were taking in some savior complex. Just so annoying and up their own ass.
Not to keep name dropping but I met a bunch of the FTX crew as well (not SBF but those around him) and I would say they were comparatively weird but still not as weird as Moldbug and co.

>>21730624
Did you meet the mathweasel?

>>21728693
What would be some examples of dark elves literature? Chesterton?

>>21730624
Yeah these retards are basically killing themselves with the designer drugs, it's hilarious

I knew people who did stuff with Thiel and they were typical midwit academic addy tweakers who would do literally fucking anything to be part of a "scene," to be the kind of person who goes on podcasts, etc.

This is brutal.

https://youtu.be/AaCe1GvbsD8

>>21731472
>52 minutes
imagine listening to that whole shit, lmao.

>>21731424
Why do they take so many drugs? It doesn't sound very good for self actualization.

>>21731503
They are quasinormie outsiders/nerds with STEM degrees who cope with their generation's ridiculous pressure to have an identity archetype by self-identifying as GODS because they know about bitcoin. They fantasize about being like chess savants or streaming coders who take adderall and do genuinely impressive stuff at way faster than normal human levels. It's like 4chan "doomers" who go night-walking and listen to Russian synth music with a beanie because wojak did it in a tweet they saw, except their archetype is guy who rides the new wave of the technological revolution and the current political fragmentation by knowing about bloggers and stuff. There's a lot of shallow "blogs are the new books," "x is the new y" Silicon Valley autofellatio to it. It's like a more cerebral and nerdy form of those influencers who talk about how they read 5 books a day by speed reading. In fact, being "the real version of that guy," because you know the real scoop that makes it actually possible and not just a myth for plebs, is part of the archetype, part of the fantasy. "Actually 3 books a day is possible if I do the right mix of (insert nootropics and study drugs here)."

It's just an identity. A lot of actual autists fall into it because it feels to them like the real world is finally acknowledging and giving a space to what they are. But most are just rich hipster queers with midwit IQs who do methamphetamine study drugs in college because literally everybody is doing them, and I mean everybody, constantly. Beyond that point, no explanation is really needed: meth makes you manic and makes you prone to thinking you're a god. If you're already a childlike retard who wants to be Magnus Carlsen and be appreciated despite dressing schlubby because you're just that brilliant, meth will take that fantasy and make it a reality for a few hours.

Anyone who uses any form of amphetamine should not be trusted, they are subhuman scum and it only gets worse and worse. But autists and self-identifying technodork college kids who use adderall should be avoided at all costs.

>>21731548
I forgot to mention, a lot of them really liked the movie Limitless, which is really funny because it shows how childish they are. Look up clips on Youtube. Any time you're talking to one of these used car salesmen or one of their little crew of preeningly unpretentious autists, remember, they are watching Limitless in their head while they talk to you. They want you to be Robert DeNiro.

>>21725743
>mentions a bunch of trusties and podcasters
>like all real artists they're BROKE
cringe

>>21731496
>imagine not listening on 2x speed

>>21725120
>it's finally scrawled into a folded up dead tree, so now it's Real Literature™
really makes you think

>>21731548
Sheesh. Don't do drugs, kids.

>>21731424
I wasn't in Silicon Valley for that long and I left for a lot of reasons, but I really could not take another second pretending to "network" with these people. What's even worse is when you realize it's not even a facade they're just that desperate for some identity that they just became permanently like that. A bunch of boring prep school kids from rich families that need everyone to know how tortured and misunderstood genius they truly are.
>>21731334
I only met FTX crowd once and she wasn't there. I bet all the FTX guys I did meet were fucking her though

>>21732178
i am probably a sucker for believing that this is not a larp but just wanted to say thanks for writing up what you have, i appreciated it, it helps to clarify my somewhat mixed feelings about the broader urbit crowd (Justin Murphy gives me the creeps)
any further details you wish to drop would also be appreciated
>t. English programmer considering learning nock and hoon

>>21732647
Why does Murphy give you the creeps? He seems to me like the most beta man alive.

>>21733076
Because that post was made by a f*moid Anon

>>21731334
whatever happened to her

>>21732178
I had a somewhat similar Wall Street experience and I wasn’t even in New York. The industry and the people in it really disgusted me so I left and never looked back.

>payed 300 dollars for gray mirror
>no book out
>he's republishing what's available for free online

>>21733215
Yeah this pisses me off as well but I am still buying the books. Who knows that they're going to ban or censor next.

>>21733076
it's hard to put my finger on it, but it's something about how desperate he seems for clout (and cash)
his schtick is about how you should be intellectually true to yourself, disdain clout and money, disdain high-status-but-sclerotic institutions such as academia, and yet he just seems desperate for relevance, for followers, for money, in a way that seems vaguely sociopathic to me
e.g. see this (last seconds thereof) about why he is excited about urbit and tell me that's not a slightly creepy, unhinged person
>https://twitter.com/jmrphy/status/1567956170324824066
to be clear, chasing clout in itself wouldn't be such a crime, many such cases, it just doesn't sit well for me with all his schtick about being virtuous, trad, and catholic
and also he just looks like the coomer meme.

>>21733182
>programmer
>femoid
i may be a justin-murphy-level beta but i'm no moid.

>>21733301
Yeah Murphy seems to be a bad faith ladder climber, he just does so in a very niche environment so it's harder to spot.

It's like he wants to be a public intellectual first and whatever he actually says or does is subservient to that goal rather than the other way around.

>>21733301
>>21733315
Ok in that case I agree. It's sort of my impression too.

>>21733365
His whole claim to fame was trying to get cancelled and fired as an academic just when the Peterson thing was first going on btw. Felt very inorganic.

>>21725743
i still think he could pull off a good otacon in a MGS move.

And there is a deep well of Moldbug x MGS meme that could be made

>>21733301
>That nose
>That voice
Yeah, I'm thinking cringe.

>>21733374
guys pls stop trashing justin murphy
i admit he is very jewy but at least he's basically upfront about his thoughts, motivations, and ideologically consistent with his decisions

>>21732647
I'm glad you appreciate it anon. I'm not a programmer, I just fell backwards into working in payment processing. My only further comment is to say avoid silicon valley.
>>21733207
Wall street seems like hell

>>21734399
He is unbelievably unlikeable.

>>21730624
I think you’re on to something here. I think Moldbug may just be the personification of the will to power in that way. I don’t care for him much either. The only thing that bugs me is how and why Land decided to shackle up with these guys. That’s the part that I don’t get.

>>21733301
Yeah I mean you just have to accept that people who chase power and clout aren’t really ever as virtuous as they pretend. Literally any one of these guys with big followings should be approached with skepticism. Sometimes they have decent interviews but they’ll never be on the level of someone who treks on their own and writes books that contain real knowledge.

>>21725743
he's completely right and the only serious right wing thinker today

>>21734613
Justin Murphy sucks ass. I watched his Yarvin interview and he just came off as annoying, talking way too much when he had nothing to contribute. Like, you're not his peer, guy.

>>21734706
All the podcast interviewers in a nutshell

>>21734716
No, some know when to shut up.

Women are surprisingly good hosts often for this reason, if they have the natural inclination to quietly be mansplained to. Alex Kashuta is a better host than Justin Murphy for example.

ITT faggots discuss what faggot internet shit they listen to because they're too stupid to read books

>>21725120
Moldbug is the smartest person alive and anyone who says otherwise is a brainlet

>>21735749
t. professional youtuber/blogger

>>21725743
/lit/ supports Delicious Tacos

>>21730624
>but still not as weird as Moldbug and co.
Look up his elder brother at Yale.
>State Dept. '7th Floor Group' comes from Soviet one ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCiylpzR60U

>>21732178
Bret Easton Ellis subjects, but the nouveau riche with neurotic hangups rather than hedonist ennui

>>21733315
Add in bad conscience lapsed Catholic that speaks of confession as 'therapy', and you have the dicked version of Red Scare basic bitch

>>21735772
TV too. Waiting on the Andrew Ruse short with him to drop.

>>21728114
>>21728375
>t. "literally Xi Zero Covid" shill & elf vs. hobbits pablum
Admitting to ever taking Moldhead seriously should be an embarrassment.

>>21728014
Bad conscience libertarians insistent on cleaving to libertarian priors, having their progresivism and eating it too. The clown sucks FDR's Soviet asset handled ass for good reason. Yarvin & Land were always mentioned together and their respective trajectories bear out who stand where, and whose thought is of use to whom.

>>21735799
Maybe you didn't read my post fucking retard.

>>21735772
Does /lit/ support Delicious Tacos enough to finish funding his short film?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/untitleddt/untitled-delicious-tacos-film

Based Moldbug is counting on redpilled™ dark elves like us!
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-power-of-crowds

>But while it’s great to help Beckett out more, we still have a ways to go on the Untitled Delicious Tacos Short Film—six days and fifteen thousand dollars, to be exact. Let me be very direct and explain why this is such a worthy and important project. In fact, UDTSF is nothing less than a kind of supergroup counterculture event.

>And before subscribers note that they are giving me money and not getting results—I am sorry. There has been some turmoil in my life. But I will have a new Gray Mirror (the book!) chapter out soon…Every new culture needs fiction. Tacos is the Hemingway, the Raymond Carver, of our scene. It needs film. Peter Vack is a badass veteran of the NY underground film scene and famous for the infamous Mike Crumplar struggle session.

>You may ask: what Delicious Tacos story? Come on. If you’re a DT fan, you know what one it has to be. The worst one. The most unacceptable one. The one we can’t say. Yeah. It’s that one. I’ve read the script, too…

And remember:
>Also, you should smash that button and preorder Unqualified Reservations Vol. 1. This is not just a bunch of old blogposts someone reformatted as a book—well, it is—but real love and care have gone into the publishing process.

https://passage.press/product/unqualified-reservations-volume-1/

>>21725820
I think so much of what's bad about today''s culture comes from software engineers have an inflated sense of importance. Do I really want to read some guy's ramblings about why they should actually be our new feudal lords?

>>21736047
Silicon Valley is cancerous trash and I'm tired of giving it undue importance. We trusted these nerds to build us a gleaming sci-fi future but all they did was make everything ugly, ruin our attention spans, and make all men dress like shit. Fuck Silicon Valley, fuck computer science, fuck all these nerds. It's time to start shoving them back into the lockers where they've always belonged.

>>21736060
I think we'd see a pretty drastic improvement in society if all software engineers had their salaries cut by 20%. But instead we've allowed them to act as though they're experts in all things and shape every aspect of our society for the worse.
I can't imagine someone complaining about the state of modern society, and saying the way to fix it is by giving the people responsible for its current state even more power and influence. This whole project has always seemed ridiculous to me.

>>21725120
Literally who

>>21725870
>being this retarded

>>21735799
>Look up his elder brother at Yale.
My goodness this man glows harder than I could have ever imagined. I'm glad to know my gut was correct lol.
>Bret Easton Ellis subjects, but the nouveau riche with neurotic hangups rather than hedonist ennui
Definitely some American Psycho going on there but in it's own unique californian vein. If it was just doing drugs that would be one thing, but it's how they were all convinced they were brilliant and enlightened just because they made a bunch of easy tech money, and the way they were really just fried on a bunch of drugs, further convincing them of their own superiority. Add on their weird savior complex as well.

>>21725743
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>>21725120
Will this have any textual differences compared to the free versions?

>>21736213
He admitted to glowing before he was even famous. Besides, like 80% of that whole scene glows to some extent. You expect me to dismiss his valid points because he's guilty by association? That would be silly.

I'd rather be locked in a cage reading Nick Land's more esoteric ramblings on cryptolithic qabbalah than be forced to be confronted Moldbug's insufferable worldview. His brilliance is severely overrated, he has a giant daddy complex with techno-capital and is just a puny evil man all around. So lacking of lyricism and panache. Why do people fall for this shit? I expect more from this board.

>>21736746
People fall for that shit because he makes good arguments.

>>21736784
Reconstruct literally a single one of his "good" arguments and it will be torn apart and shat on by this bunch of autistic retards in minutes.

>>21736800
Alright, keep this thread alive.

>>21736502
no, but it'll be a nice flex in a post reaction world/ the reason for your execution in a post revolution world

>>21736502
>>21736812
... you know, because Moldbug could use an editor (or two).

>>21737583
His current style is pretty good in that regard IMO.

>>21735772
Tacos is based, the most sincere and likeable of all these internet writers. Also no politics which is a godsend.

>Curtis is friends with Anna and Dasha
>Dasha is rumored to have been dating Louis CK at some point
>Louis CK has met Houellebecq through his former gf Blanche Gardin
>Anna and Dasha also had a podcast with Houellebecq
>Houellebecq has recently met the oldest French royalist society

This all just confirms that Curtis' strategy of going after the cultural elite first is correct. I mean look at this sequence of events, pretty damn fucking exciting, no?

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Those look like guitar neck profiles.