Damn. Wtf. How big is this memeplex? It’s mostly off to one side of what I’m gnawing on but close enough to cast a big gravity field.
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Okay that last link is the mother lode. Deep history of the idea.
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Having slept on this it strikes me that much of my own disenchantment stems from all these people trying to pursue their anti-modern re-enchantment programs 🤣
Like someone remarked that Q was a re-enchantment project. That example kinda sums up the problem with the idea.
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Thesis: Re-enchantment Olympics as an emerging replacement for Oppression Olympics (which was started by black lesbian crypto-marxist identitarians in 1989 and won by cis-white male crypto fascist identitarians in 2020, much to the amusement of thise with any sense of irony left)
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Events:
early education
post-theism
grand narrative
new domesticity
media production
techno-animism
climate relations
environmental stewardship
alien relations
nature relations
economic visioning
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Nations competing in most events
conspiracyville
neoreactionistan
wokeistan
rickmortyia
hypernormalia
neoliberal deathstarism
China
COP21
Elon Musk nation
Waldenpondia
VeryOnlinistan
StatueHeadTwitter
AnimeAvistan
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He noticed a Cambrian explosion of re-enchantment underway.
And he just sat there making a spreadsheet out of it.
Like a psychopath.
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I don’t know whether this is much of an improvement on oppression Olympics, but I’m rooting for some linear combination of Rick and Morty and Elon musk to sweep all the golds and silvers
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Good thing most people don’t pay much attention to the levels of being at which I’m a thoroughly awful person
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Hmm there’s now enough here to write up. Usually this is the stage where I’ve convinced myself a solution exists and lose interest for a year before writing a long post about it when I’m in a random heavy-lift mood looking for something to do.
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A rude caricature is forming in my head: “everything is about re-enchantment except re-enchantment itself, which is about Nazi aesthetics”
The last time anyone successfully achieved re-enchantment was probably P. G. Wodehouse.
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The thread through my stuff that leads here would be:
Return of the Barbarian (2011)
Welcome to the Future Nauseous (2012)
The Locust Economy (2013)
You Are Not an Artisan (2013)
Premium Mediocre (2017)
Against Waldenponding (2019)
Domestic Cozy (2019)
Internet of Beefs (2020)
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Huh, none of these has made it into an ebook collection yet. Time to make one I think.
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Maybe I’ll call the collection “Incerto” just for fun
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Update 10 months later… yeah re-enchantment is toast as a usefully general concept. It was promising but too loaded with reactionary primitivist baggage to be of much use to anyone else. Poison-pilled as far as I’m concerned.
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