1/ Memes and progressivism's deathwish values.Ideas may spread preferentially from parent to child--"vertical" or "mitochondrial" memes--or
5/ mechanisms of meme spreading: each mechanism preferences different kinds of memes. Memes that tend to increase the survival and numbers
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6/ of your descendants will, over time, be the most successful vertical memes. In contrast, the most successful horizontal memes will tend
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7/ to be the ones that increase the success of your society but may not be as helpful to your descendants.Of course, this is complicated by
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8/ the fact that the success of your society and the success of your descendants are related. However, these are not perfectly correlated,
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9/ and there is some tension between the two. A vertical meme that increases the immediate success of your descendants at the expense of
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10/ your society may result in your society and your descendants being wiped out by other societies. A horizontal meme may help your society
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11/ at the expense of your descendants. For example, memes resulting in low fertility may help your society achieve sustainability in a
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12/ crowded environment, but they might result in your having few to no descendants.To quote Evolutionistx: "So your meme-mitochondria will
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13/ most likely protect you from dying, but don’t much give a shit if you end up killing people who are not-you or at least don’t share your
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14/ genes. And meme-viruses will try to get you to not kill society at large (which is busy propagating them,) but don’t particularly care
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15/ if they kill you."Memes promoting tribalism and clannishness are largely vertical, while memes promoting inclusiveness are largely
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16/ horizontal. The progressive memeplex is, of course, largely horizontal.Obviously genes are passed vertically, and along with those pass
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17/ genetic predispositions for traits like clannishness. Additionally, despite the dominant horizontal transmission of progressive memes,
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18/ the genes predisposing people to those memes can be passed vertically. NW Europeans are notably susceptible to anti-tribalist memes due
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19/ to a long history of outbreeding. See
@hbdchick and Peter Frost on this and gene-culture co-evolution.In recent centuries, technology -
20/ has dramatically changed the memevironment. Europeans developed the printing press and invented far more efficient modes of
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21/ transportation. Radio, TV, Hollywood, the Internet, and social media have allowed ideas to spread rapidly. Horizontal memes are winning
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22/ in this new environment, and we can see that in the rise of progressivism and the decline of religion.This brings me to what I consider
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23/ the essence of neoreaction, or at least its ultimate weapon. To quote
@Empedocles "The ultimate weapon of reaction/neoreaction is that -
24/ claim that anti-liberal structures are inevitable given the workings of nature (gnon) and human nature; that liberal values are
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25/ deathwish values." https://darwinianreactionary.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/teleofunction-not-tradition/In … other words,
#NRx understands that the liberal values such as anti-clannishness that were so -
26/ effective at building up Europe in the past (for example, by increasing trade and trust among larger groups of people) have become
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27/ self-destructive in the modern technological environment. Mass migration has changed everything.The progressive memes that resulted in
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28/ democracy will result in the dispossession of the people most in favor of them. Under the progressive memeplex (in which short-sighted
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29/ utilitarian universalist anti-racism dominates all other ideas), there is no legitimate way to prevent one's own destruction through
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30/ demographic change. The plight of white South Africans and the future of Sweden provide the world's best examples of this.
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One thing I neglected to mention here: rise of the modern large corporation is another reason for the rise of progressive, horizontal memes
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Companies make more profits if they sell to everyone, so they benefit by promoting prog values. Also, their size allows them to communicate
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to the masses.
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You guys might be interested in this series of tweets, also in 1 tweet: https://twitter.com/HbdNrx/status/613803936290508800 …
@Outsideness@MikeAnissimov@Nick_B_Steves
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You might also like this @Tachyon_Web
@TruthWillLive
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