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It’s probably inefficient to deduce an author’s actual position from their [non-autobiographical] work. The more they think of themselves as artists, the more o
by gradschoolfail 2y ago
It’s probably inefficient to deduce an author’s actual position from their [non-autobiographical] work. The more they think of themselves as artists, the more one has to try and read from their comparatively banal actions.
See the following, it threw me off as well.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/should-america-have-a-monarch/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/should-america-have-a-mo...
> Yarvin is voting for Joe Biden at the next election
- 082349872349872 2y agoI currently have Yarvin in the "inconsistent" bucket (eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41228601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41228601 ) so if you think he actually has a line, I'd appreciate learning what it may be.
- gradschoolfail 2y agoThe writing has gotten less focussed since he returned from Urbit, but … he’s been consistently denying the Reds. https://graymirror.substack.com/ https://graymirror.substack.com/ His line.. wants to be remembered as Machiavelli/Mencius by the Dems, for the Dems Not sure about the OP grumbling, seems resigned to not getting into the IP.
- 082349872349872 2y agoHaving just bounced off of three posts there, maybe it's just that I'm too "normie" to get whatever he wishes to communicate, but I find de Maistre (1753-1821) argues conservatism and monarchism far more lucidly.
- gradschoolfail 2y agoI just wanted to riffle on the ‘River’*, it was no indication I cared about the reasoning there, seized the oppo you provided though (with an epsilon of contrition) If it’s any consolation to “us” [:)], here Nate Silver https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41252911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41252911 dM: thanks though, he survived, thats interesting in of itself! *Ezechiel 47,12