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Why is Moldbugman so right about everything?

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>Existing social, political, and educational systems were all declared ‘l’ouvrage des mauvais lois [the work of bad laws]’, the outcome of false concepts and legislators, and corrupt government, militating against the people’s ‘happiness’. All needed to be overthrown by intellectual reformation followed by actual revolution. Obstructing their path, though, radical enlighteners encountered obstacles which, if not insuperable, seemed massively threatening and dangerous. Much the greatest in their estimation were popular ‘ignorance’ and ‘superstition’. Where the people prefer ‘superstition’ to Enlightenment, concluded Condorcet, the situation is so unpromising and unconducive that it is better not to attempt a democratic republican revolution since the risk of a populist, all- crushing tyranny emerging, championed by the unenlightened, is then simply too great.

this to me seems to be the issue today, it's just that our forms of superstition are those in fact that come out of postmodernity also, and are primarily aimed at assuaging the guilt and horror associated with the fruits of the French and Industrial revolutions. hyperstition is preferable to superstition, and in the long run that hyperstition must in time also be navigated through, but not by recourse to only a new despotism - including the almost inevitable ones of r/acc.

this is why Moldbug makes sense. the only reasonable form of government would be the one that grants the maximal degree of liberty to its citizens, but it only comes out of a close meditation on what it is that drives that freedom, and what the freedom ultimately portends in turn, a question about the ongoing meaning of human intelligence itself. we don't necessarily have to be champions of the Enlightenment, but we probably shouldn't be militantly anti-Enlightenment either. as for counter-Enlightenment stuff it just seems to me to be virtually impossible to keep it from becoming far-right socialist in the long run, as much as it seems to be impossible to prevent left-leaning liberals from spiraling into Woke Progressivism. there has to be an equilibrium point in the centre.