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Curtis Yarvin's Monarchal Antifascism(deepsocks.substack.com)
3 points by bshepard 4y ago|5 comments
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Jason Stanley's Fascist Spectrum(deepsocks.substack.com)
2 points by bshepard 4y ago|3 comments
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Fascist Medusa in the Mirror(deepsocks.substack.com)
2 points by bshepard 4y ago|0 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
There are, I believe, real prosocial possibilities in the lottery form: https://deepsocks.substack.com/p/nomophobia-and-the-future-o...
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by bshepard 4y ago
Nice motive, seriously, very prosocial -- which parts seemed most culture warrish to you? The whole network state program feels very unhinged to me from what an actual state is, but I also don't have a nice phone.
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by bshepard 4y ago
While I understand the desire to claim that bifurcation has reached the point where the "America is not really a single “nation state” anymore" it is, in fact, still a nation state, in the same way that a family that fights a lot
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by bshepard 4y ago
This pattern goes back to Napoleon: the idea being that the democratic states created by the invading armies were more legitimate/self-determined than the existing monarchal states. However the idea didn't work: monarchal rule ret
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by bshepard 4y ago
Invading a country is the opposite of self-determination, and justifying invasion based on an abstracted universalism was also used by the British empire.
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by bshepard 4y ago
Actually, they have a lot to do with each other, as the violence that the United States did to Central and South America was always justified with anticommunist rhetoric, like this. A Peter Kingsley quote, more about spiritual perception,
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Lacanian Therapy for Fascist Psychosis(deepsocks.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 4y ago|0 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
Key Chunk: Bad care comes in many forms. Pill mill doctors. Doctors who collaborate with patients in obvious self-diagnosis. Overprescription of pain medication in general. Collaborating with delusional behaviors, such as Munchausen's.
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The Second Millennium Prize Problem of Management: Iatrogenesis(deepsocks.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 4y ago|1 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
Another note from the author: it is interesting to me that so many of the commentators seem to think that I believe management to be evil. There are relatively obvious reasons for why readers might come to this conclusion: the start of the
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by bshepard 4y ago
Oppression is very natural: the moral value of "nature" is quite complex, so it seems inaccurate to say that oppression equates with evil, or badness, although certainly it does in many contemporary political cultures. This is a s
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by bshepard 4y ago
Burnham's prediction shows his Marxist background: instead of thinking about social formations as alliances, he sees them inevitably as conflicts with a single dominant victor, in Marx's case the victorious class is the proletaria
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by bshepard 4y ago
Managerialism can work with both capitalist and state socialist structures. This kind of pragmatism is a great strength of the so-called "manager-fractal" - it doesn't matter, really, what the content of management is, becaus
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by bshepard 4y ago
Evil wasn't mentioned in this article, only oppression. If you don't think that the managerial system is oppressive, perhaps it isn't to you, but many people around the world find administrated life unbearable.
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by bshepard 4y ago
Money laundering, tax evasion and speculation are parts of normal market life; their existence does not challenge the vitality of the commercial sphere. This vitality arises from the constant need for novelty that (this kind of) market stru
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by bshepard 4y ago
There are plenty of positive aspects to all oppressive systems, that's why they exist, but these positive aspects are typically overmentioned: this is a critical piece, and so that's why it focuses on the negative/oppressive
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by bshepard 4y ago
Thank you for introducing this concept of the "Eternal September" - it has a real archetypal power to it, reminds me of Northrop Frye's genre-seasons: comedy with spring, romance with summer, tragedy with autumn, satire with
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by bshepard 4y ago
Author of the piece here. One reader wondered what it was that make these aesthetics managerial. Think, perhaps, here about how Baroque artwork glorified emerging absolutist monarchy -- through aesthetically pleasing representation of both
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Managerial Aesthetics, or Documenta Fifteen(deepsocks.substack.com)
24 points by bshepard 4y ago|20 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
The parent comment, me, was an American. Yes, the US state offers "protection" to Europeans, gangsters do that too.
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by bshepard 4y ago
This is a life experience, my friend. I don't use Reddit. Anyone who lives in one of the non gamma social levels in Europe knows that life here is better: the bargain made with the metasystem is superior. Only for alpha pluses is the U
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by bshepard 4y ago
The success of the US stock market and the US as a society are not exactly related, and may in fact have an adversarial relationship, so continued investment in the US could be wise.
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by bshepard 4y ago
There's a lot of alcohol and drug use in Berlin, but there are not vast open air drug markets like Kensington in Philadelphia or Skid Row in San Francisco. The issue is, indeed, "over the top."
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by bshepard 4y ago
This is not exactly a financial response, and that was the context of your question, so forgive the somewhat off-topic aspect of the remark -- yet, the negative aspects of life in the US have both real actual costs and possible future risks
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by bshepard 4y ago
Hello there, I live in Berlin now and used to live in the United States. My family is there, and I go back to the east coast of the US often. The degenerating and dystopian quality of the United States is difficult to overstate, but almost
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by bshepard 4y ago
This part - about professionalization and automation -- feels especially fresh: "This process by which the intellectual capacities of a particular job are turned into processes that could theoretically be subject to automation is also
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Computer God and the Escape from Reality(deepsocks.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 4y ago|1 comments

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