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Venkatesh Rao
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Aug 9, 2018
“Magic is the politics of the excluded” John Michael Greer has a nice ongoing occult+Jung series on culture wars. 4 parts so far. HT Ankur Sharma Part 1: https://ecosophia.net/the-kek-wars-part-one-aristocracy-and-its-discontents/… Part 2: https://ecosophia.net/the-kek-wars-part-two-in-the-shadow-of-the-cathedral/… Part 3: https://ecosophia.net/the-kek-wars-part-three-triumph-of-the-frog-god/… Part 4:
ecosophia.net
The Kek Wars, Part Four: What Moves In The Darkness
In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we saw how a band of outsiders linked by the network of online forums loosely called “the chans,” and armed with the tools of chaos magic, found th…
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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
Heh, lucid explanation of elite overproduction in terms of fueling competition to manufacture TINA-loyalists (from part 2)
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Seb Paquet
@sebpaquet
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Aug 9, 2018
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A restatement of the "excellent sheep" thesis?
nytimes.com
The Lower Ambitions of Higher Education (Published 2014)
“Excellent Sheep,” by William Deresiewicz, takes aim at America’s elite universities and the graduates they produce.
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