Inbox: - https://graymirror.substack.com/p/principles-of-the-deep-right - https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/04/open-letter-to-open-minded-progressives/ - https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/04/formalist-manifesto-originally-posted/ - https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-faq/ - Democracy as an Adaptive Fiction ## Alex Kaschuta 2nd interview Right now he's arguing that perpetual class war is not inevitable, but a lot of us mistakenly think it is. His pointing at historical examples where leaders were able to diffuse this and get the interests of different classes well aligned (and get them to recognise this). As an aside, he said he finds the idea that men and women have and will be perpetually engaged in war (by which I think he means struggle for dominance over each other) is ridiculous, though he can see why reasonable people could come to believe this. I tend to agree. Economism: hedonism, plus idea that society should be optimised around that. GDP as proxy. Desire satisfaction. 10% more fun because %10 more growth. "Bread water and heroin " Trad Econ theory says that people don't like work, it's be good to get rid of it. CY: no, I don't think this is paradise. Vitalist: pursue human excellence. Seek pleasure only is child values. Cities full of overgrown children. Historically when societies got anywhere near this point they've basically been slaughtered by barbarian tribes. Question of what a human being is worth is a very hard question, it's actually an aesthetic judgement. Ideal form of work for most people is artisanal. (Contra industrialisation) References Bronze Age Pervert. PH: [[Two-thirds utilitarianism]] - other 20% is excellence / moral perfectionism? Balance of power basically creates internal conflict and one side wins, it's not stable equilibrium where thinks balance out. Controlled conflict as stabilising is overrated. Freedom to have civil war seems undersirable. To see the US Supreme court as anything more than a political organ is just willful blindness. There's no superhuman quality about it. Search for limited govt is sort of the search for the superhuman. If you want a power that's conceived of as superhuman, you could have stuck with your kings and emperor's. Because the idea the king is just doing the will of God is not too dissimilar from the idea that the supreme court is just enforcing the law. It's this artifice. If you need an artifice, one artifice is as good as another. Obviously o don't feel that I need an artifice. This why thinking of sovereignty as being preserved, you can't eliminate power but only divide it, is the basis of a political science that actually makes sense, and is not sort of the captive of a regime. Think of Marxist thought as captive of a regime, same with last 300-400 years of Anglo-American political philosophy, this idea of limited government is an illusion and a trap. Realism is willingness to look at reality anew. In these regimes the best and brightest people can come to believe things that are obviously not true. ## Alex Kaschuta interview: - Inferential distance / intelligence level distance makes it hard for people with different level of expertise or intelligence in a domain to communicate. - As a libertarian you're basically a disobedient child at heart, with that attitude to hierarchy. - Prussian general: to lead you must first learn to obey. - Yarvin likes The Young Pope ## Tablet mag profile https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/red-pill-prince-curtis-yarvin two paths to power in a democracy: secrecy for the plutocratic persons of action, or, for those in the public political class, skill at deceit.