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That's because this blogger is clearly inspired by the dark enlightenment.[0] They promote and use obscurantism in writing. Partially out of elitism, but primar

That's because this blogger is clearly inspired by the dark enlightenment.[0] They promote and use obscurantism in writing. Partially out of elitism, but primarily to veil the fascist (and often racist) motivations underneath. A recent post is literally "the myth of progress" [1] which is the central tenet of the Dark Enlightenment. edit: How appropriate. The very first post quotes Deleuze who was perhaps not intentionally writing in this way, but is strongly associated with the tradition. Out of curiosity did some additional digging and found that indeed this blog is what I believe it to be: https://twitter.com/meta_nomad/status/1187046976950587398 https://twitter.com/meta_nomad/status/1187046976950587398 [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment [1] https://www.meta-nomad.net/the-myth-of-progress/ https://www.meta-nomad.net/the-myth-of-progress/

dr-detroit 6y ago
Yeah I picked up that the author was alt right when he started talking about "walks in the countryside" like you cant take a nice calm walk in any other setting. This comes to us from the Internet Research Agency's official handbook and style guide. I'm honestly surprised he didn't say to marry a blonde 18 year old and walk in a wheat field with her.
bsanr2 6y ago
>Read books published before 1900 This is going to bias a reader, who is ill-prepared to approach their reading on a socially-critical level, towards patterns of thought that are socially archaic. Cutting out pre-20th century work is going to cut out almost everything written by anyone who wasn't a well-off white man, unless one makes a purposeful effort to look into translations of Eastern works. There are plenty of books publisher in the last 100 years that are valuable. With this rule, you leave behind Sinclair's The Jungle, Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, and every Hugo Award winner. (Shadow rec: John Chu's short story "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" @ https://www.tor.com/2013/02/20/the-water-that-falls-on-you-from-nowhere/ https://www.tor.com/2013/02/20/the-water-that-falls-on-you-f... ) I think there's some truth and some good advice in the essay, but I'm somewhat wary of how committed he (presumably, he) was to his argument despite having little to show in ways of citation and support. It reads to me less as an overview of empirically tested knowledge than a synthesis of other writings and conversations whose veracity I find indeterminate and whose origins I would be very interested in discovering.
ceres 6y ago
Well if he was trying to be obscure, he did a really poor job of it. It didn't take that many paragraphs before he laid out his political and social ideology on the reader. I really thought I was going to learn how modern technology engenders my brain-fog and how to prevent that. I've been had, I guess.

dr-detroit 6y ago

Yeah I picked up that the author was alt right when he started talking about "walks in the countryside" like you cant take a nice calm walk in any other setting. This comes to us from the Internet Research Agency's official handbook and style guide. I'm honestly surprised he didn't say to marry a blonde 18 year old and walk in a wheat field with her.

bsanr2 6y ago

>Read books published before 1900 This is going to bias a reader, who is ill-prepared to approach their reading on a socially-critical level, towards patterns of thought that are socially archaic. Cutting out pre-20th century work is going to cut out almost everything written by anyone who wasn't a well-off white man, unless one makes a purposeful effort to look into translations of Eastern works. There are plenty of books publisher in the last 100 years that are valuable. With this rule, you leave behind Sinclair's The Jungle, Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, and every Hugo Award winner. (Shadow rec: John Chu's short story "The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" @ https://www.tor.com/2013/02/20/the-water-that-falls-on-you-from-nowhere/ https://www.tor.com/2013/02/20/the-water-that-falls-on-you-f... ) I think there's some truth and some good advice in the essay, but I'm somewhat wary of how committed he (presumably, he) was to his argument despite having little to show in ways of citation and support. It reads to me less as an overview of empirically tested knowledge than a synthesis of other writings and conversations whose veracity I find indeterminate and whose origins I would be very interested in discovering.

ceres 6y ago

Well if he was trying to be obscure, he did a really poor job of it. It didn't take that many paragraphs before he laid out his political and social ideology on the reader. I really thought I was going to learn how modern technology engenders my brain-fog and how to prevent that. I've been had, I guess.