Beautiful Lies

November 27, 2019 – 3:51 pm
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Beautiful Lies

Curtis Yarvin, a.k.a. “Mencius Moldbug”, has published the second installment of his five-part “Clear Pill” essay series over at The American Mind. The new essay is about how coordinated, pervasive error enters the national culture in distributed, democratic societies — i.e., without the top-down influence of centralized, authoritarian control. The essay is long — in […]

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Beautiful Lies, Cont’d

November 29, 2019 – 8:50 pm
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Beautiful Lies

I’ve been thinking some more about the Curtis Yarvin essay we looked at a couple of days ago. There were good comments on the previous post. A couple of readers pointed out that, despite Mr. Yarvin’s assertion of the scarcity of sociopaths in the general population, many political systems (and in particular ours, I think) […]

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Beautiful Lies, And A Vulnerability of Academia

November 30, 2019 – 7:03 pm
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Beautiful Lies

In the comment-thread of our previous post, J.M. Smith discusses status in academia: I’m a professor of human geography, a discipline that lurched left en masse. The movement was just starting when I was a graduate student in the 1980s, and was all but completed within twenty years. One reason human geography shifted is that […]

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