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#89 | 2025-12-04 22:13:43 UTC
Re: On consolation
StJohn Piano

- Great post. Very true. - Where I'm at mentally: Human activity can be so bad that it's preferable to believe in God in order to have a defense against demonic behavior. - To go one level deeper, and to turn the focus away from other people, I understand my own proclivity towards evil / sin, which is quite strong, and the church offers a remedy, which is significantly better than the only two real alternatives: buddhism & nilihism. (I don't consider Nietzche's Ubermensch a viable alternative.) - That said, i still think the faith should be held in balance / tension against instinct / thor / odin / zeus / darwin. Sanity / truth emerges from the tension of opposites. - Incidentally, this is a way to avoid the temptation to try to justify christianity in the terms of scientific proof. I watched a lot of people try to do this. It's pointless. Cedes frame. - The faith is the faith. It needs no further justification. - cf "I am who i am" / ipsum esse

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#11 | 2025-06-15 18:35:16 UTC
Re: Late-stage Capitalism & Techno-feudalism
Duncan Tertius-Froude

Good article. Thanks for sharing. The author quotes Matt Taibbi, who in turn quotes Anne Applebaum: “Anne Applebaum of the Atlantic suggested a reason resistance hasn’t been more forceful is a divide among protesting demographics, between those playing by old rules, and those ready for obliquely-defined “new” solutions.” Further, I suspect the counter-revolutionaries are searching for a new sacred cause. BLM and the voter coalition it galvanized were enough in 2020 - it won the streets and the polls, but events have made that winning narrative untenable (especially Israel-Palestine). Now, MAGA has won the polls and could feasibly win the streets if they needed to. If I was a counter-revolutionary, I'd be scouting for the force that will drive young men to act for those “new” solutions.

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