it is unfortunately true that criticizing left discourse is more fun than criticizing right discourse because right discourse is either indescribably tedious or so obscure that you have to waste time proving to people that it exists
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or just really weirdly ahistorical, but that's because moldbug told them to read old books and they did it uncritically like everything else
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people are honestly in so much awe that moldbug read old books and then drew his own conclusions about history, as if that wasn't the whole point of reading old books
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history lessons in high school: you have to look for primary and secondary sources and interpret them with a critical eye every fucking moron adult anyone actually encounters: i read a book and now i'm smart
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everyone reads now, the question is what
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tangentially im in absolute awe that Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a mainstream celebrated book, it's easily on the order of uncle ted's work
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which to me suggests no one read it
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i've discovered that it's possible to read it without reading it like i know someone who absolutely *read the book* and when i said something about it being about the experience of being a de novo ego post ECT they were like "huh"
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The Zen/Motorcycle guy did ECT?
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yeah. "Phaedrus" is his name for the ego that lived in his body prior to it
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and importantly, lives there now. this was the first other example in the wild i have ever found for my experience of ego recovery
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