I suggest Gaetano Mosca, a contemporary of Pareto, is probably a much bigger influence on Moldbug's thought. Mosca wrote his book in 1939 though and he has some great predictions that turned out to be true, as well as some that will make you laugh
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I have seen all these elite theorists recommended before (by
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Yeah that's what I was thinking. That many here arrived at the same conclusions, apparently by rediscovering them indepently, but that surely someone must have written about this before (at least before Moldbug, he can't possibly have been the first to come up with it)
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yes to inventing the cathedral meme, no to restoring the stuarts, though he does praise monarchy quite a bit, to claim that this is what he advocates is to misread him
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Not that I remember Moldbug well enough to defend him, but the standard meme is the people become more right when grow up and have kids (worked for me, anyway)
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many path's to this destinationhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1100988188779110401?s=19 …
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Imagine being on weed while having kids You must share your revelations soon
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naw i stopped when wife became pregnant and also when i acquired firearms CPS and ATF provide strong incentives to piss clean
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