/lit/ - Literature

>>13219786
>industrializing too soon
any more info on this?

>>13194412
>>13194502
I think it's a shallow criticism to attack his ideas by assuming some sort of perverse motivation on his part. This armchair psychology is tiresome! And frankly I'm not too sold on libertarian crowds wanting to foist their whims on other people as you say. Moldbugs anti-universalism and Land's politics of exit are the pure opposite of domineering
>>13194533
The NRx critique of the cathedral identifies a closed loop it forms on the population, with the role of propagandizing in a democracy. This loop has no "quality control" as moldbug would put it, or "reality affirming mechanism" as Land would put it. The anitdemocratic systems Moldbug proposes sever this loop by severing the popular will of the people from governance. His ideology isn't one that is seeking to replace the current one and install itself in the same cathedral system, it's trying to create a system in which the Cathedral has no power.
This is the whole reason Land was interested in Moldbug, the loop is pure cybernetics and it points towards leftist singularity if left unchecked.

>>12901394
>And again, don’t let this be your only introduction to Carlyle. To repeat the course: Chartism, then the Latter-Day Pamphlets, then Shooting Niagara, then the Occasional Discourse. If this doesn’t stretch your skull, nothing will.

from https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2009/07/why-carlyle-matters/

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>>12842458
I really like Moldbug, I've been reading him and Land a lot lately. I also read his recent resignation article from Urbit. Unfortunately I don't think he'll be getting back into writing, but you never know.
If I have one objection to his work it's that I have difficulty seeing a patchwork scenario as sustainable. Governments seem to have a natural incilnation towards absorbing eachother, and I'm not sure they would be able to stop this from happening. It sort of makes sense though, with profit oriented governments not wanting to commit costly invasions usually. I feel like a Swiss model of federalism might be better, but as Moldbug would point out the Cantons aren't soverign.
Also, one might notice that all neoreactionaries are extremely handsome. This is because the beautiful sort of soul that draws one to such ideas literally transfigures the human flesh into a beacon of beauty, as if Gnon himself blesses them