if we separated the contemporary Western state from Moldbug's Cathedral, just accepting the ontology for a moment, in absolute terms the State and the Cathedral would most likely respectively become
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Replying to @eigenrobot @AlexGodofsky
the cathedral isn't a coherent concept or group of people that can be attributed with agency
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Isn't that Moldbugs entire point? That it's a mechanism organizing groups without them actively trying to do anything.
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that's too cute and I don't buy ithttps://twitter.com/sgodofsk/status/1362893617547870210 …
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so, if we are going into this, my critique of Moldbug's precise formulation of the Cathedral, and my critique of the _common use of "Cathedral" in discourse_, are distinct things; but the latter cannot be defended by appeal to the former
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the precise "Cathedral" does not exist; and in addition the term is the sort that will be immediately corrupted into a lazy and inconsistent label for "stuff the speaker dislikes" which produces reams of discourse that are totally inarguable because they have no fixed meaning
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>be me >"please accept this loose concept arguendo" >thread of replies arguing about the concept >pic related deaddove.jpg
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Don't pretend this is not exactly what you wanted.
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This moment was such shock and awe for me btw. Someone doing this stuff in 2017 And only like 30 min from where I was at the time. But now it's completely faded. One of the moments lost in the turbulent stream of Trump year events.
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oh lmao I didn't know until now what this was actually a picture of
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