Mencius Moldbugman

The standard view is that civilisational collapse happens due to degeneracy and stagnancy. The civilised peoples become soft and spoilt by the rewards of civilisation: society degenerates, birth rates dwindle, morality disappears, introspection rules.pic.twitter.com/ElkgBwGbkk

Then - the barbarians. Swarthy types rush in and conquer the effete Eloi. They pillage and rape, but over time the power of a superior culture is felt, and these barbarians adopt and sometimes extend the ways of civilisation, until they too are overthrown in their turn.pic.twitter.com/LzuAFte5eI

It was easy in the past, but in these modern times of cultural relativism when all cultures are believed to be equal, how can we even assess when a superior culture has fallen to an inferior culture? Relativism means the loss of the tools to assess even one’s own decline.pic.twitter.com/Bvc3SxMogL

Civilisation was once a sensibility shared by a certain class, while barbarism was found not only outside, but also in the slavish & stupid who dwelt within civilisation itself. Ancients were careful not to give them power: “idiot” once meant someone who didnt partake in politicspic.twitter.com/UgxXe0XSWE

In modern democracies the relation between a culture and a class has disappeared. Everyone is now touched by the higher forms of culture. Schooling, museums, and the media are available to all. As is the vote.pic.twitter.com/u4YQtrvPLe

But barbarism remains an active force in modern societies, partly in gracelessness and ignorance, and partly in a loss of cultural coherence found among those who mistake a few years at an institution of higher learning for education itself.pic.twitter.com/bXZY5bLRWk

You must remember that the tendency towards barbarism is an active force all around us. Western society’s walls won’t be stormed without, but from within. Those who hate civilisation know that it cannot be taken by direct assault. It must thus be captured from within.pic.twitter.com/o3ZgByuK8x

This was the plan adopted by many revolutionaries who built a new hostile tribe called “the proletariat.” They could be made into a revolutionaries by equipping suitable people (EG: workers) with a unified consciousness, so that they always understood themselves as a collective.pic.twitter.com/sQgeGalQyP

The proles were taught they were being victimized by the oppressive bourgeois. Like the guardians in Plato’s Republic, these revolutionary insurgents had to be taught to be docile within the movement while snarling at those without.pic.twitter.com/cicLxcf4N5

This became the model for all subsequent movements aiming to take power. But revolutionaries soon discovered that a prole revolution only really works if you are dealing with fairly unsophisticated peoples: preferably non-Whites who lack all experience of freedom & political lifepic.twitter.com/0ZzTPEqLkN

A question: if you were seeking to destroy a civilisation, who would be the most powerful ally to your cause? Maybe one that formed about half the population? Maybe one that was in every household? Maybe one that even otherwise intelligent men listen to?pic.twitter.com/kUowkLWmFv

The first 1960s feminists were generally women who had taken some sort of degree & were living domestic lives. Technology had liberated them from housework while pharmacology had released them from excessive procreation. This is the tribe that now threatens civilisation.pic.twitter.com/HxRDKZvvr6

Differing from their predecessors, feminists made one innovation that has been crucial to the destiny of the West over the last 60 years. They suppress totally the idea that they want a transfer of power. They operate entirely on the principle that their demands are morally just.pic.twitter.com/89VZLNhNRs

Minogue believes the reason for this change was boredom. The malaise of privileged women due to “a slow death of the mind and spirit.” Feminism was born of boredom, not oppression. The solution? Women clamoured to become wage-slaves; they resolutely fled the challenge of leisure.pic.twitter.com/6K0aDl4TCH

This is important and we will come back to this: what is meant by leisure? To the Ancient Greeks and Romans it meant higher employment of the mind once the necessities of life have been dealt with. Remember this. It’s one of the crucial differences between the sexes.pic.twitter.com/TYpsuKAL8h

Women need to be radicalised and have their indignation and moral righteousness exploited to turn them into effective 5th columnists. Feminists turned the home into prison, work slavery into happy liberation, and husbands and fathers as the oppressors who confined them.pic.twitter.com/DfOYy3dkAU

What radical feminism essentially did was to deny complementarity between the sexes and set men and women up as competing teams playing exactly the same game, but a game in which all the rules were stacked against the women.pic.twitter.com/bj1zdxcAoa

It’s only on this eccentric assumption - that women have identical talents and inclinations to men - that they can support the conclusion that there has been foul play. The basic principle is one of flattery: “Women are uniquely talented goddesses who have been suppressed by men”pic.twitter.com/ye8CevjuNM

Feminism is fundamental. It means that all judgements must stem from identity as a woman or as an oppressor of women. There’s no nuance. In WW2 Rosie the Riveter was a woman, but she was also a wife, a patriotic American and many other things too. Now she’s just a sacred woman.pic.twitter.com/Gw1scvlFjL

Feminism is not only an attempt to destroy an existing power structure, but also the civilisation it sustains. It is an attack from within that exploits certain features of our civilisation: our civilisation that was built by the achievements of white males - and only white malespic.twitter.com/WsOyTBuaV9

Civilisation is a succession of clever men developing the set of traditions or inventing the benefits which constitute where we are today. And from Thales and Euclid to Edison and Bronze Age Pervert, very very nearly all of them were male. Thank you dead white men!pic.twitter.com/5LlWICFq5z

“What about Chinese philosophers? What about Arabic mathematicians?” Shush. I am discussing primarily western civilisation here, which anyway is the civilisation that has contributed the bulk to our modern global and homogenised nascent world civilisation.pic.twitter.com/t9LuK75VV9

Men create all civilisation, though of course it is true that without the medium of social/political life none of this could have happened. Like all social life, Europe was a world of sexual complementarity, and there’s no way of sifting out what was contributory from what wasn’tpic.twitter.com/w1JcipyFL2

But of women we may say what Falstaff said of himself - namely that he not only had wit but also was a cause of wit in others. Women may say it isn’t fair to judge on these qualities, but by setting women up as a weak team in relation to inventive men, that’s the game they’ve setpic.twitter.com/sQIL8Cvfr4

It’s in pursuit of this mistake that they’ve attempted to set up a competing set of writers, philosophers, painters, etc whose talents were suppressed by the patriarchy. These resuscitated figures are often worth looking at in their own terms, but they cannot serve as a new canonpic.twitter.com/uAv7taVJY5

For centuries women have determined the way we live. Radical feminist doctrine is that this is not enough: women can only be recognized as equal, and enjoy equality of esteem with men, if they are recognized as excelling in exactly the same activities as men.pic.twitter.com/ujBmXpQ7O9

Women must, as a team, be able to point to a scoreboard of artistic and technological achievements on the same scale as men. Feminist tribal consciousness depends upon this. But it just isn’t there. Anyone is is really honest and truthful knows it isn’t there.pic.twitter.com/UO6PRSrGb9

This whole charade depends upon the fallacy that women are the same as men & their happiness is found in the same areas as men. But this is untrue: it’s a mistake that could only have occurred to women who have been deranged by superficial contact with education in the humanitiespic.twitter.com/ETiBA5yZ4t

(I know this is a long and meandering thread but I promise it’s all going to make sense by the end. We’re getting to the collapse. In the meantime, do enjoy the tits.)pic.twitter.com/tcuiF22ZYS

Western civilisation is unusually open compared to others. At various times in the past many women have had access to education. From the 18th century onwards some women developed a taste for taking up professions restricted to men. By the 19th century they were in the colleges.pic.twitter.com/DtkPO0BoQa