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Except that the best political opinion blogging could never possibly be published on newspaper-replacing websites — to an anything but the narrowest audience th
by blasdel 17y ago
Except that the best political opinion blogging could never possibly be published on newspaper-replacing websites — to an anything but the narrowest audience they'd be completely indigestible.
Take my favorite Jacobite Neo-Cameralist: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/ http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/ — not only is his writing TL;DR by a few orders of magnitude, his ideas are so legitimately politically-incorrect (not in the 90s movement-conservative sense (he's anti-democracy!)) that he'd be literally pilloried as a public figure.
- dmfdmf 17y agoSomeone should tell Moldbug that the first thing the fascists do when they get into power is lop off the heads of the intellectuals. He prides himself on his historical analysis so he should research that. Maybe he is delusional enough to think that he is the "great man" (Thomas Carlyle) that will run the world, so he is safe. MM should be pilloried. Read his blog... don't be taken in by the rhetoric, long winded as it is.
- ableal 17y ago[This is really way off topic, I'll keep it short] His writings have plenty of holes and inconsistencies, but "non-democrat = fascist" is not one. I'd suggest one writer he doesn't go back far enough to reach: Polybius, in book 6 of his Histories, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis .