I would push back by saying it's not as if Moldbug doesn't recognize that elites back causes, a huge part of UR was devoted to exposing how the notion of "peoples movements" cannot exist. That's the whole reason the right doesn't win, no institutional backing.https://twitter.com/not_thuletide/status/1435911880107827208 …
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Tired of SP types, conspiracy is a copout. Leftism is either a divine/Spenglerian punishment that cannot be explained (spiritual malaise) or it's Moldbug's eternal bureaucrat/holiness spiral. There is no "smoke-filled room" theory of leftism that makes sense.
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Thoughts on this beaten to death topic?
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There's a recent jim comment.pic.twitter.com/owvS5I42B2
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The author SEVERELY underestimates the power of peer pressure and social contagion. Implicit in the post is the notion the Regime is staffed mostly by men and ignores the role of women, the REAL der ewige apparatchik.
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This is true for the present, but ultimately women don't matter in this equation if your purpose is to identify the proximate cause of leftist insanity. Lippman-style managed democracy goes back to the 1910s, modern leftism to the mid-late 1700s, and if you take Moldbug's
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ultracalvinist hypothesis seriously (which to be fair most don't anymore but whatever) you have movements traceable back to the English Civil War or even the Reformation. No women involved in other words.
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I think the escalating pace of the insanity, the flavor it takes and the greatly reduced intelligence of progressivism are due to the egregore taking in enough women.
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