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I’ve lived almost my whole 47-year-life in a world enthralled by Great Men/Women, starting with Reagan, Thatcher and Welch. In this entire period, believing ordinary people — only capable of and desiring ordinary lives — had a right to exist was the most unspeakable sin.
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The idea that rule by/for/of the “people” in the sense of mediocre people of mediocre abilities and ambitions, had any value at all, came under relentless attack, to the point that we now seem to think we need Great Men to tell us how to put on socks in a Noble, Optimal Way.
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A world that relies on Divine Intervention to function at every level is one where ordinary people increasingly degenerate to a guilty, apologetic, shame-ridden learned helplessness where their fundamental worthlessness becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Wasn’t going to go to this inside baseball level but why the hell not, since a lot of this just normification of NRx by people who may or may not know the term, as others have observed… So let’s go there. Thread after-party begins here 🤣
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I’m personally exceptionally skeptical of the nrx path as in practice the right of exit isn’t that easy to implement
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You see, the reason NRx and Woke hate each other is that they recognize they’re essentially the same thing: People with a deep-rooted Fear of Being Ordinary (FOBO) in denial of their own mediocrity BIRGing idealized greatness to recast themselves as At Least Chosen by Greatness
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To be NRx is to believe Great Men like Musk can Save Us, and that you can transcend your own mediocrity by at least recognizing that fact, with some help from Straussian priesthoods interpreting the esoteric greatness in exoteric ways for your small mind.
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To be Woke is to believe Great Principles like Social Justice can Save Us, and that you can transcend your own mediocrity by at least recognizing that fact, with some help from Straussian priesthoods interpreting the esoteric greatness in exoteric ways for your small mind.
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Sorry dude. Your team lost control of what woke means almost decade ago. You’re going to have to to pick a different word. This one’s taken by your adversaries and is way beyond reclamation.
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