NeoReactionaries Redux… oh my!

Solely now – through his acolytes Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance – this monster’ll be strolling the White Home, crooning gleefully that “Decadent democracy is over! Onward to absolute monarchy and feudalism!”

Do I exaggerate? I’ve dissected this nasty, ingrate “endarkenment” fetish earlier than. Its roots and branches and openly-touted plans for us. And I let you know that Elon Musk is saintly and innocent, by comparability to this horror. 

They know that the huge, educated center class has entry to highly effective applied sciences that — ought to we develop into enraged — might make the guillotine appear to be louffah. Therefore, the very ideas of science and democracy and meritocracy as nice equalizers should be undermined after which destroyed.

These days, in his position as ‘Thiel-Whisperer‘ and ‘Speaker-to-Gullibles,’ this lobotomizer-to-oligarchs – Moldbug, often known as Curtis Yarvin — prompted me to ponder an outrageously cartoony fantasy character —

— the bewitcher-of-Thèoden, Tolkien’s Grima Wormtongue. 

And I made that connection lengthy earlier than I took a more in-depth look. 

So, are we anticipated to give you a Gandalf to interrupt this spell?* 

== Supposed good guys – clutching determined chants ==

As soon as once more, I problem these unimaginable ingrates to a fact-off! 

I assert that I can simply disprove each side of your justification incantations! Even many of the baseline/underlying ‘info’ that you simply deem foundational. 

Furthermore – whether or not or not I’m proper about that – such a problem, issued by an individual of my stature, should elicit CURIOSITY, not less than in minds which are as free and sagacious as you guys declare that yours are. 

Incapability to utter the sacred catechism of science — (“I is likely to be improper, so let’s discover out!”) — is prima facie proof of a cult. And – provided that Moldbug’s followers are both wealthy harem-seekers or else incel wannabes – it’s a extremely masturbatory cult.

What I do know from previous encounters is that Moldbug/Yarvin desires of changing into High Canine – or lackey-vizier to 1 – within the coming restored feudalism. (He by no means favored it once I predicted his future position to be ‘kibble.’)

== The gauntlet, the gage, the glove is thrown! Choose it up, feudalists? ==

However hey, Brin, aren’t you taking an enormous danger, insulting them, this fashion? 

Properly, sure. However I’ve 5 capsule solutions to that.

1. Delusionals, who encompass themselves with flatterers, think about that they’ll quell or repress the 100 million nerdy high fact-users on this planet, plus their half a billion co-workers. Of us who know cyber, chem, nuclear, nano, bio and so forth. Plus medication and the legislation. They assume the boffins will settle right down to their place, if smacked somewhat.

However, within the phrases of Bruce Banner, you gained’t like us after we lastly get mad.

2. I’m loyal to the primary civilization that ever not less than considerably instituted fairplay. And therefore the one one which produced not solely justice, but in addition Adam Smith’s prescription of flat-fair-creative competitors — the c-word that no ‘conservative’ ever utters anymore…

… of their rush to ally with “ex” commie-kremlin-commissars, plus homicide sheiks, hedge parasites, carbon lords, cable impresarios and inheritance brats, all with a purpose to resume 6000 years of feudal darkness… 

… though Adam Smith’s c-word (‘competitors’) is what made this probably the most artistic (one other c-word) of all eras.

However you dopes would quash it, identical to each insipidly stoopid king or lord of the final 6000 years. (Lets tally the exceptions and wager over the few kings who had been measurably clever? Had been there even ten, throughout all continents and 60 centuries?)

3. Oh, then there are the prepper-bunkers that you simply guys preserve constructing – fantasizing that you simply’ll emerge after the mud and poisons settle, to be worshipped as demigods by ragged survivors. Solely, this aftermath gained’t resemble both Mad Max or A Canticle For Liebowitz, friends.  The survivors gained’t go burning books and lynching nerds… however they’re going to wait eagerly to greet you, if you emerge, blinking like cicadas within the daylight. 

And sure, we nerds have the schematics and locales of each deep or mountaintop ‘prepper’ compound. (Need proof?) And people hidey-holes will not have the specified outcomes. Particularly after you do what I’ve heard a few of you (like J.D. Vance) overtly say… that you simply count on to intentionally set off “The Occasion.” 

Assume I’m exaggerating? Get Douglas Rushkoffs e book (cited beneath) about this circle-jerk of sick jerks who chant semi-erotic fantasies to one another: justifications to speed up a civilizational collapse that by no means needed to occur. And this is an extra article concerning the very actual accelarationism cult.

Besides we’ll know and keep in mind whose doing it was. As on this track, the survivors will keep in mind.

An apart: how do I do know these guys? Criminy, Ted Kaczynski despatched me his e book The Anti-Tech Revolution from jail, hoping for a blurb! Yarvin would deny any overlap with TK, however their pretensions and incantations and psychologies have way more in frequent, than not! 

Furthermore, each Doug Rushkoff and I’ve been requested – instantly by lordly ‘preppers’ — the way to resolve their greatest worries, like “How do I preserve my safety workers loyal, when cash isn’t good anymore?”

Certainly, I do know that Isaac Asimov felt daunted, that those that had been impressed by his ‘psychohistory’ speculations included not simply good fellows like Robert Reich and Paul Krugman, but in addition Osama bin Laden and Shoko Asahara. So, certain. Sci-fi fertilizes a billion flowers. Some stink and others might save the long run. Hey, don’t blame the bee.

Again to instantly addressing the stinkiest flowers…

== Okay, guys, virtually finished with my howl of defiance =

4. Let’s suppose that – as now appears believable – your revanchist oligarchy does succeed at crushing this newest Periclean renaissance and restoring default feudalism — (#1 on my checklist of Fermi Paradox theories, BTW.) In that case, are you so certain that you would be the ultimate beneficiaries? The ultimate kings and lords?

As I present in Existence, it’d take a clade of trillionaires a lot smarter than you.

Key level. A lot of you bought wealthy by being predatory Second Adopters. Or third, plundering first innovators, as occurred in each business, from railroads to radio to the WWW to e-cars and palantirs. (Bezos/Amazon look like a really uncommon exception.)

And therefore, will others (at present biding their time, much less flamboyant and noisy and noisome than you) merely take from you the august thrones that you’ve got painstakingly erected, via your betrayals?

For one factor, these second-wavers may have tens of millions of vengefully indignant nerd-allies on their facet!   Will you?

And therefore… will these second wavers even wish to preserve round yattering ‘advisors’ like rabid-frothing moldbugs? 

Not in the event that they’re good sufficient to take the whole lot that the takers took.

Maybe as an alternative they’ll encompass themselves with those that fought in opposition to the mess you dopes are making. Advisors who thereupon are able to providing recommendation that’s not masturbatory-lame flattery? 

It’s what Machiavelli did – who fought like hell for the Florentine Republic – until he lastly realized that dream had fallen into shadow. At which level Niccolò (I knew him effectively) switched with agility to advising the Dukes, in order that their undemocratic rule would not less than be laced with some precise sapience. Because the central locus of Enlightenment migrated, together with nerdy refugees, north to Holland and England, after which onward…

And for those who don’t immediately understand the place I went with that – in case you are incapable of understanding it on a primary learn — then possibly that’s significant. Would possibly it testify that you simply would-be Medicis aren’t as synaptically well-endowed as your flatterers let you know that you’re? 

Flattery that’s all a part of their helpful benefit – these simpering advisors – however not yours.

Certainly, in hilarious self-flattery, right here’s Moldbug/Grima styling himself as you-know-who. 

== What I’m leaving out ==

Oh, did I say there have been 5 causes? Really, there are seven… and I’m not telling the remainder of them! Not at the moment. As a result of telling may assist a few of these ingrate traitors to succeed. And in addition as a result of… effectively… like Niccolò, I’m not giving out free recommendation.

Not until I see you might be undoubtedly successful. But it surely’s nonetheless manner too early to depend out Adam Smith and Franklin and MLK and Marshall, et. al. All of whom had been geniuses. Not like you. 

Or to depend out the members of each career that research and investigates info.

Or ladies, who know what you harem-builder misogynists plan for them.

Or huge numbers of regular, keenly-aware human residents, who know that an open-transparent and self-critical civilization stays a greater wager for them than all or any kings ever had been, for all or any of our ancestors.

However particularly… I certain as heck gained’t discuss #5 via #7 until I see your provide. What you’re keen to pay. Simply out of curiosity, in fact.

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== And at last, as my final December Daydream, I am going to reiterate a tactic for Outdated Joe – How he might torpedo the noxious pirate ship of traitors and fools ==

Talking of highly effective males who’re surrounded by shortsighted fools…

Hey Joe Biden, there may be one final, tremendous daring factor you can do which may tip over the clown automotive that’s bearing down upon us all. 

It could defy Putin’s putsch of the USA…

… and defy the mafioso heading to take a seat in your chair… 

… and it’d defy the incompetents in your individual celebration, who put us on this place. 

Do that and be remembered for it, without end.

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PS: um… concerning that parallel with Wormtongue… significantly? Use a few of your conspiracy yarn to attach that thought with RFK Jr.  and all of it will get kinda… effectively… bizarre. Who writes this stuf??