accelerationism: come for the intellectualized excuse for ruthless opportunism, stay for the fast-cycling fungal bloom of love-hate personality cultshttps://twitter.com/jenphalian/status/1050013775909269504 …
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nihilism: come for the courageous embrace of the absence of received meaning, stay for the facile ability to disclaim any responsibility in anything
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feminism: come for the articulation of the oppression of half of the human race and call for their liberation, stay for the construction of what it means to be a woman based on the narcissisms and bigotries of rich nineteenth century housewives
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anarchism: come for the principled commitment to opposition to power, stay for the leisure to indulge in ever more pure intellectual rightness thanks to being thoroughly insulated from any of one's ideas being put into broad practice
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capitalism: come for the unprecedented engine of economic growth and innovation, stay for the absence of any barrier to unbridled rent-seeking
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progressivism: come for the noble commitment to uplifting the most oppressed, stay for the vicious infighting over limited resources based on how high an oppression score you can gin up for yourself
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exit/patchwork: come for the promise of being able to build a community without yahoos and sociopaths rolling in and shitting it up, stay for the screeching racism
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Replying to @kacperwikiel
if i say "Galt's Gulch times infinity" does that explain it
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Replying to @chaosprime @kacperwikiel
I was wondering the same thing, and yes, that does explain it to a point...but I don’t understand how an objectivist-style meritocracy(++) —undemocratic as it might be— could possibly be racist. Elitist, sure, but elites very obviously come in all colors. What am I missing?
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turns out evaluation of merit covers a multitude of sins, but the "breaking off from society to do your own thing" is the part i meant, not so much the Objectivism, the "patchwork" in patchwork is a lot of loosely coupled insular cultures
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