Deploying an intellectual heritage created by independents & nonconformists AGAINST the Jacobites during the English Civil War, in order to claim that Cromwell was the real SJW. It's like Crypto-Anglicanism, which is what the Puritans came here to avoid lol.
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The Great Ejection that followed the restoration of Charles II & Anglicanism was the reformation of the Ex Cathedra authority Moldbug's ostensibly against. The same dissonance exists in Carlyle, who can't tell if he loves or loathes Cromwell.
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"POOR Cromwell,—great Cromwell!" Carlyle begins his essay, in which he criticizes him as a sort of Trumpian doofus hypocrite, but one of admirable character, even the "one man, that I can get sight of, who ever had in the heart of him any such purpose at all."
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To stand against Democracy would put one on the side of the Royalists against the Parliamentarians- but to also stand against a stultified aristocratic bureaucracy, puts one at odds with the Royalists. Carlyle solves his dissonance with Hero Worship, which is ultimately, Fascism.
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However- Moldbug tells us that Fascism is tainted with Democracy- in that a Hero cannot exist without a Hero Cult to recognize him. "The rise of democracy is the cause of the Holocaust." - & yet Cromwell looms over Carlyle, & Carlyle over Moldbug, hero cults within hero cults.
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Instead of looking at "Democracy" as the fundamental cause of 20th century violence, this sort of Idealism over Materialism thesis, we'd be better off reversing it & noting that Democracy is downstream from media technology, impossible without newspaper, telegraph, radio, etc.
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Form > Content. Content is merely former forms reformed, framed in new forms, as McLuhan noted that all media contain older media as content. To criticize the "democratic", an obvious element of internet blogging, is to flail hopelessly against the form we are within.
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We can reframe a Moldbuggian thesis- that "Democracy" is a veil to hide Media Monopoly. Better to bust ex cathedra information dams in the name of "Democracy" than to reserve them in the name of Jacobitism- thus, the Puritans are redeemed for demanding information to flow freely.
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If a Libgen model is "democratic" & JSTOR is "traditional autocracy"- what use do I have for this damned tradition of credentialed curation? Politics are downstream from Culture, & Culture is downstream from media environment. The only battles that matter are technological.
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Thus Urbit- the democratization of information monopoly, providing each man ownership of his own data, is properly a Puritan project- a RADICAL puritan project in the mode of English Non-Conformists like Milton's Aeropagitica. Moldbug's Jacobite pose dissolves into Lollardry.
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Hmmm idk if we would desire the democratization of all information. I think this model would be resisted for decades to come by cathedral institutions. Say for instance, the universities, it would essentially implode huge parts of the system.
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