this is the kind of thing where i read it and doubt everything else that the authors have ever written like not that i was a lindsay fan anyway but this is i struggle
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reading this now seems they also misunderstand what "right-" and "left-hand path" mean in the Arts https://twitter.com/MScott_King/status/1461127450323214340?t=hOR7VahgAwwejqSEBc_Jew&s=19 …pic.twitter.com/kD44ok9kxo
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this piece is fractally bad I don't even know where to start in criticizing it I guess at a high level its selection of features as "Modern" is completely unprincipled and unsystematic and its notion of tight correlation between left/right and post/premodernism is unexamined
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at this point i think i should link
@meaningness's essay covering exactly the same territory, but coherently and incisivelyhttps://metarationality.com/stem-fluidity-bridge …Show this thread -
i appreciate the yearning of the Modernist reactionaries for a sane, systematic world but modernism collapsed under the weight of its own shortcomings and contradictions. i dont think its possible to "go back" and i dont think doing so would yield the results the authors want
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in the mean time i basically see them falling into the same trap as the failsons of the OG postmodernists, not quite grasping the framing of the world they purport to advance and slipping back into tiresome tribalism idk. i wish they wouldnt. the end
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Yep! Here's the sauce. It's a bad read, just bad. And it does not give me much faith their readings of other things are any better.https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ …
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Charitably (lol) the last sentence is an adequate summary of _Individualism: True and False_ (re Cartesian rationalism)
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how is there not a James Lindsay Joker meme
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