For thus you speak: ‘Real are we entirely, and without belief or superstition.’ Thus you stick out your chests – but alas, they are hollow! – Nietzsche The phrase “men without chests,” originally coined by C.S. Lewis, is taken from a chapter in Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man. Much of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘egalitarianism’
Self-importance
Imagine that late at night, you could glide over this city. Start at your home and work your way inward, toward the gleaming center of the city. Look how these buildings thrust off the earth and rise. They scream an immortality at a sky they believe to be empty and thus uncaring. Paradoxical but powerful [...]
Rebellion against rebellion
The idea of rebellion is simple: the jerks in power are forcing the rest of us away from the good life, so we’re going to band together, outnumber them, and take over. Rebellion puts the rebels in an unassailable position: we’re the good guys, doing this for you! The bad guys have rules, but we [...]
‘Game’ – the game that’s played on you
“Game” is essentially a fancy title for picking up girls. I’ll write something about the following thought-train, which I recently discovered on a blog: “Think about it like a Point system. Positive moves (alpha behavior, DHV spikes and the rest) give you positive points. Beta and negative behavior has your points taken away. When you reach [...]
Frailty, what is thy name?
In a dream, it was this morning revealed to me at long last what women are really like. So as soon as I rinsed me from my slumber, I decided to come to this website to write down the most valuable findings of my revelation. I dreamed that I was visiting some young, soft and appealing woman. [...]
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On a philosophical level, before we even get to any practical implications, I object to the idea of equality. Equality presupposes a universal state in which abstract objects are equal like numbers, which being purely abstract can of course be equal. We can talk safely about 4×3 being equal to 12, but if we are [...]
Doublespeak
The world socialist movement provides us with an interesting narrative. They tell us the capitalist system enjoys free movement abroad to harness the cheapest available labor. Globalized capitalism is free to seek out choice locations with the most lax environmental regulations to keep its profit margins maximized by dropping the operating costs side. Endless growth [...]
Who wins at equality?
The primary component in the equality game is ideology. Ideology is the default winner, similar to the house in a casino. Ideology manages all of the other components in the game, delegating authority through the bureaucracy. The secondary component is the bureaucracy. As ostensibly impartial arbiters accountable to an ideology which is by definition quite [...]
