Facts describe our current state. Evidenced theories describe how actions affect the current state. Values determine which outcomes we should prioritise or care about.
"Facts are tools, they are not prescriptive. Narratives are prescriptive. Facts are used to form narratives, and narratives are in service of moral foundations."
Brilliant. Yes. It's axiomatic (imho) that we "gut check" what's right and wrong, then scramble our cognition to figure out sentences that explain why we feel that way. Temperament seems as good a word as any for that proclivity. Very helpful. Looking forward to more.
tyvm. indeed, brain scans confirm how a lot of our information is processed and where this morality.... er "political beliefs" are coming from. temperament rules most imho.
Rufo has won several significant victories that are not pyrrhic. The anti-DEI legislation in TX and FL have changed both the overt content (fire/reassign DEI administrators), but also weaponized the bureaucracy against DEI proponents. UT Austin is one example of this. It's one of the most liberal state universities in Texas. Now student groups (that are allowed to exist under current legislation) cannot even reserve rooms because the bureaucrats are so afraid of losing their state funding.
The commies haven't figured out how to deal with Rufo yet, and they will counter-attack. Maybe they will prevail longer term, but that happens only if Rufo et al loses the fight.
The joke of "monarchy" vs "democracy" is that the real form of gov't is bureaucracy. I'm not clear on what Yarvin has accomplished in terms of dismantling the bureaucracy or subverting it to his purposes.
before replying I want to emphasize that my opinion on Rufo's tactics are by far the least interesting, even borderline not relevant, points of this piece. the essence of this essay is what you think of his tactics is essentially a temperament derivative.
>the year is 1984. Regan just won 49 out of 50 states. the conservative energy has swelled to new heights. the overton window has pivoted to bagging on commies and "hippies", the rightwing energy is palpable. institutions are taking notice.
>the year is 2016. the Brexit vote just passed. the UK will leave the neoliberal bureaucrats who run an oligarchy that masquerades as a democracy. UKIP surges in popularity. the overton window shifts decidedly right. the wokes have been dealt a fatal strike. this is a huge blow to the EU and GAE.
and look where we are today in both instances. both of these were rightward surges of energy in an undeniable left-bound drift. Reagan's dominance/popularity and Brexit were orders of magnitude more salient and impactful than getting some college administrators and the head of Harvard fired.
the leftward swim is a systemic, inexorable byproduct of something much deeper. and getting some wokes fired does not cure it. what Yarvin advocates is much more distal-cause focused than Rufo's cultural victories.
I think one point of disagreement is the inexorable leftward swim. I was taught it was inexorable in school, but I no longer believe that. I believe there is a deathmatch of ideas, except ideas are immortal. There isn't one victory that will win them all, nor is their ultimate victory assured. It takes continued vigilance and energy.
Brexit was a huge victory, but the globalists did their best to mitigate it. Plus, Brexiteers lost on immigration, and got outflanked on still other issues. IIRC, Reagan was also pro-amnesty for illegals. But I think these are best analyzed as battles won/lost in the context of a larger war.
If Rufo stopped where he was and said 'got the president of Harvard fired, I'm all done', then I would agree that his victories would be short-lived. But his approach is institutional because he aims to make his victories last as long as possible.
The problem is Rufo is pro-multiracialism, and thinks it will be a good thing for Europeans to be wiped out as there will be no more racism in his utopian vision.
America and Europe are turning into 3rd world countries from losing their White majority. Academic Agent gets into the boomer truth regime and how White boomers were essentially put through a "denazification" program by the Frankfurt school so they would feel guilt about their race, and have bad feelings towards nationalism.
Demoralization: What Yuri Bezmenov didn't tell you (Rufo will talk about CRT, but we won't dare get into what this video does).
Straussians like Rufo ignore the truth about the Civil War that until are corrected will never result in the freedom the US originally had, this was a comment to a Rufo tweet:
We are in a global race war, that's the heart of the issue, and we are being played from both sides, Zionists and anti-Zionists, as Westerners have been taught reality is like a football game so they pick one side and fight the other, not realizing both sides are helping their enemies (the way out is going to be called "fascism" no matter what the action, which is why they spent so much time demonizing the term).
All other topics about what works in a society are meaningless. With 90% Whites you could run pretty much any system and it work out well; democracy, monarchy, anything really. Then have 10% other highly qualified races, and then surrounding countries tend to be at peace (America long ago as the city on a hill).
Once Whites are gone, the jews will dominate and destroy everyone else as well. It's in everyone's interest to save America and Europe's White population and somehow get it back to what it was, but balkanization is probably the best hope, and that somehow the jewish bankers that started their revolution with Cromwell taking out their first monarch (see his correspondence with Ebeneezer Pratt promising $$$ for the Monarch's head and the jewish financiers allowed back into England), will finally fall one day.
So much out of England was done in the name of the British, but like the Irish "potato famine" it was those very bankers who had captured the country after the 1650's, and they hate the Irish to this day more than any other place for not being able to propagandize them to hate the Germans.
Jews are like the insane new prison warden who come in demanding the only way to have peace is to mix all the prison gangs together and anyone against the idea is against progress and a racist.
The only hope is the entire world uniting against the jewish bankers who have enslaved all of us. The only hope in this life anyway, all my eternal hope is in Christ.
yes, exactly. WWE for the mids. whoever has better verbal dexterity and curation of factoids in service of their narrative "wins". two different moral frameworks speaking past each other.
Facts describe our current state. Evidenced theories describe how actions affect the current state. Values determine which outcomes we should prioritise or care about.
A good policy requires clarity on all three.
"Facts are tools, they are not prescriptive. Narratives are prescriptive. Facts are used to form narratives, and narratives are in service of moral foundations."
Love this. This is what I was getting at in this essay as well: https://drmonzo.substack.com/p/reckoning-with-truth-and-myth
thanks friend. I read your essay, it's very good. and yeah the sentiments are similar regarding this comment.
Brilliant. Yes. It's axiomatic (imho) that we "gut check" what's right and wrong, then scramble our cognition to figure out sentences that explain why we feel that way. Temperament seems as good a word as any for that proclivity. Very helpful. Looking forward to more.
tyvm. indeed, brain scans confirm how a lot of our information is processed and where this morality.... er "political beliefs" are coming from. temperament rules most imho.
will post more on it soon.
Rufo has won several significant victories that are not pyrrhic. The anti-DEI legislation in TX and FL have changed both the overt content (fire/reassign DEI administrators), but also weaponized the bureaucracy against DEI proponents. UT Austin is one example of this. It's one of the most liberal state universities in Texas. Now student groups (that are allowed to exist under current legislation) cannot even reserve rooms because the bureaucrats are so afraid of losing their state funding.
The commies haven't figured out how to deal with Rufo yet, and they will counter-attack. Maybe they will prevail longer term, but that happens only if Rufo et al loses the fight.
The joke of "monarchy" vs "democracy" is that the real form of gov't is bureaucracy. I'm not clear on what Yarvin has accomplished in terms of dismantling the bureaucracy or subverting it to his purposes.
before replying I want to emphasize that my opinion on Rufo's tactics are by far the least interesting, even borderline not relevant, points of this piece. the essence of this essay is what you think of his tactics is essentially a temperament derivative.
>the year is 1984. Regan just won 49 out of 50 states. the conservative energy has swelled to new heights. the overton window has pivoted to bagging on commies and "hippies", the rightwing energy is palpable. institutions are taking notice.
>the year is 2016. the Brexit vote just passed. the UK will leave the neoliberal bureaucrats who run an oligarchy that masquerades as a democracy. UKIP surges in popularity. the overton window shifts decidedly right. the wokes have been dealt a fatal strike. this is a huge blow to the EU and GAE.
and look where we are today in both instances. both of these were rightward surges of energy in an undeniable left-bound drift. Reagan's dominance/popularity and Brexit were orders of magnitude more salient and impactful than getting some college administrators and the head of Harvard fired.
the leftward swim is a systemic, inexorable byproduct of something much deeper. and getting some wokes fired does not cure it. what Yarvin advocates is much more distal-cause focused than Rufo's cultural victories.
I think one point of disagreement is the inexorable leftward swim. I was taught it was inexorable in school, but I no longer believe that. I believe there is a deathmatch of ideas, except ideas are immortal. There isn't one victory that will win them all, nor is their ultimate victory assured. It takes continued vigilance and energy.
Brexit was a huge victory, but the globalists did their best to mitigate it. Plus, Brexiteers lost on immigration, and got outflanked on still other issues. IIRC, Reagan was also pro-amnesty for illegals. But I think these are best analyzed as battles won/lost in the context of a larger war.
If Rufo stopped where he was and said 'got the president of Harvard fired, I'm all done', then I would agree that his victories would be short-lived. But his approach is institutional because he aims to make his victories last as long as possible.
The problem is Rufo is pro-multiracialism, and thinks it will be a good thing for Europeans to be wiped out as there will be no more racism in his utopian vision.
America and Europe are turning into 3rd world countries from losing their White majority. Academic Agent gets into the boomer truth regime and how White boomers were essentially put through a "denazification" program by the Frankfurt school so they would feel guilt about their race, and have bad feelings towards nationalism.
Demoralization: What Yuri Bezmenov didn't tell you (Rufo will talk about CRT, but we won't dare get into what this video does).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niiF8hCSrYQ
Straussians like Rufo ignore the truth about the Civil War that until are corrected will never result in the freedom the US originally had, this was a comment to a Rufo tweet:
https://files.catbox.moe/5g0m3z.png
https://files.catbox.moe/s9xb46.png
We are in a global race war, that's the heart of the issue, and we are being played from both sides, Zionists and anti-Zionists, as Westerners have been taught reality is like a football game so they pick one side and fight the other, not realizing both sides are helping their enemies (the way out is going to be called "fascism" no matter what the action, which is why they spent so much time demonizing the term).
https://files.catbox.moe/w7oix7.jpg
All other topics about what works in a society are meaningless. With 90% Whites you could run pretty much any system and it work out well; democracy, monarchy, anything really. Then have 10% other highly qualified races, and then surrounding countries tend to be at peace (America long ago as the city on a hill).
Once Whites are gone, the jews will dominate and destroy everyone else as well. It's in everyone's interest to save America and Europe's White population and somehow get it back to what it was, but balkanization is probably the best hope, and that somehow the jewish bankers that started their revolution with Cromwell taking out their first monarch (see his correspondence with Ebeneezer Pratt promising $$$ for the Monarch's head and the jewish financiers allowed back into England), will finally fall one day.
https://www.henrymakow.com/2023/06/jews-beheaded-king-charles-in-.html
So much out of England was done in the name of the British, but like the Irish "potato famine" it was those very bankers who had captured the country after the 1650's, and they hate the Irish to this day more than any other place for not being able to propagandize them to hate the Germans.
https://files.catbox.moe/sz35rm.png
https://files.catbox.moe/zzswng.png
As Aristotle pointed out, you will never have peace without an ethnostate.
https://files.catbox.moe/6u9loc.jpeg
Jews are like the insane new prison warden who come in demanding the only way to have peace is to mix all the prison gangs together and anyone against the idea is against progress and a racist.
https://files.catbox.moe/mclhlh.jpg
So I look at the deeper issues with the debate. I see a race traitor globalist arguing with a jew, all else will flow from there.
Most of us respected other races, Whites tried to care for others, and that's what doomed us. And it started with infiltration via feminism.
https://files.catbox.moe/ah8135.jpg
https://files.catbox.moe/x38wvj.png
https://files.catbox.moe/539g65.jpg
The only hope is the entire world uniting against the jewish bankers who have enslaved all of us. The only hope in this life anyway, all my eternal hope is in Christ.
yes, exactly. WWE for the mids. whoever has better verbal dexterity and curation of factoids in service of their narrative "wins". two different moral frameworks speaking past each other.