The issue with aesthetics as primary virtue is established by several facts: 1 That we live in a statistical universe 2 Achieving aesthetic unity requires winning an arbitrary number of consecutive iterations of a negative expectancy game, and 3 That this is subsidized by others
All the left talk about the spiritual destructiveness of capitalism is essentially the same. Capitalism is good, just ugly. But aesthetics are subjective, and the problem is fundamentally that capitalism moves faster than the socio-genetic underpinnings of aesthetic sensibilities
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The great nightmare of all the authoritarians is that of the whole human race reduced to "rootless cosmopolitanism", but roots are really just dopamine feedback loops for specific bundles of ritual. Capitalism has rituals but these don't stimulate most people's feedback loops.
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Humanity needs to be recompiled until the accidental appearances of modernity produce the same elation that the accidents of the natural world did in the pagans. Only positive eugenics can do this ethically. We can't go back: back has mathematically inferior utility generation
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