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On The Pointlessness of Debating Spergs: A Rebuttal to CA Bond (opens the original)
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CA Bond wrote a good book elaborating and sharpening Bertrand de Jouvenel’s central concept of the high-low middle mechanism called Nemesis (2019). However, unfortunately, like many intellectual types, Bond seems to suffer from significant bouts of spergery. In my years of dealing with these sorts of people, of which there are many, they share three common traits, which make it somewhat difficult to engage with them on any serious level. Let us take these three traits as our working definition o
On Elite Theory: Clearing Up Conceptual Confusion, An FAQ (opens the original)
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On Elite Theory: Clearing Up Conceptual Confusion, An FAQRecently, there has been much conceptual confusion around “elite theory”. This article aims to clear it up. There was a stream on this by others, where they focused on the confused and flailing criticisms they see of elite theory. However, in the long-run I think this might work better in written form so that people have an easy one-page resource they can go to as a starting point. I also deliberately state this as an alternative way of un
The Futility of Arguing With People Caught in the Grip of Delusion (opens the original)
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Enthusiastic Young Men (EYM): Dr Parvini, we’ve read all your books and wanted to tell you that we’re putting the principles of The Populist Delusion into practice! We have formed an organised minority and we have hatched an amazing plan that is going to save football from the corrupt and evil clutches of FIFA!Me: Fantastic, what’s the plan?EYM: Well, we’re putting together a team, and we’ve got a great manager signed on, and … we’re going to win the World Cup! That’ll show FIFA once and for all
The Online Right as IQ Shredder (opens the original)
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In March 2013, the blogger Spandrell described Singapore as an ‘IQ shredder’. The mechanism was simple enough. A high-functioning city sucks in the bright and the conscientious from a much larger hinterland, puts them on a hamster wheel of rents, credentials and status competition, and then so thoroughly postpones or prevents reproduction that the very genetic material which made the city valuable is incinerated for the sake of property prices. Nick Land later generalised the point: the model
On Danny Tommo and the Portsmouth Counter-Gang Protest (opens the original)
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On a recent stream, I poured significant scorn on the absurdist state theatre surrounding Danny Tommo and his blockades of various ports using gangs of black-clad masked men. Here I will summarise my basic argument:1. The protest cycle is kayfabe (staged political theatre)If an event is given breathless, coordinated coverage across left- and right-leaning outlets that simultaneously introduce a previously obscure figure as either villain or hero, then the event is being treated as a media storyl
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