Taleb is a great thinker, isn't he? I think the West's decline is driven by what one might call successive meridian drift. Whatever new norm emerges as a successor to the previous new norm, it is inevitably more distant from the meridian which made Western civilisation flourish.
It's less related to the Leftist ideological project, but a while back I did begin to wonder whether the act of announcing that the market was amoral might have been inadvisable. If one voices such unspoken truths does the act itself shift the framework of the ethnical and moral paradigm?
I'm not familiar with the fulminations against ableism, but I do know this is a communistic mindset. I can see how these Equality people would probably think that being a standout achiever is immoral if you're a White man that isn't sufficiently Antiwhite.
For all of Weavers brilliance and erudition, there was a bit of the mystic about him. I mean that in the best way. Hope that turns out to be true of you as well.
It is even worse in my country, not only is the concept of hierarchy based on higher human qualities negated, but the least worthy, the least capable, intelligent and independent are held up by the various governments and their media flunkies to be most admirable of human beings due solely to their dysfunction which is framed as “victimhood”. Such people are considered superior to “ordinary folk” who do not parade and trade off being “victims”.
The normal human hierarchy has in practice been inverted, with the least useful at the top.
The propaganda rolls on. I watched a video on Louis XIV of France and the various horrific illnesses this fellow claimed he suffered from, and how they were related to absolute monarchy. Totally ridiculous and obvious propaganda against hierarchy. This creature has other videos detailing the alleged conditions other monarchs or nobles were afflicted with as meaning that their position was the result of their illnesses. He never fails to describe the lives of these people in the most disgusting terms. I'm sure most people just eat them up, with their AI generated fake pictures. Oy, working all the time from within, just like cancer.
But wait, I thought we were all equal! Except white men.
The Bed of Procrustes …
Became the Template .
Taleb is a great thinker, isn't he? I think the West's decline is driven by what one might call successive meridian drift. Whatever new norm emerges as a successor to the previous new norm, it is inevitably more distant from the meridian which made Western civilisation flourish.
It's less related to the Leftist ideological project, but a while back I did begin to wonder whether the act of announcing that the market was amoral might have been inadvisable. If one voices such unspoken truths does the act itself shift the framework of the ethnical and moral paradigm?
Equality as a first principle destroys freedom, wealth, excellence, and civilizational advancement in general.
Remember the fulminations against 'ableism'? As if being able to do something well was a horrible moral fault.
I'm not familiar with the fulminations against ableism, but I do know this is a communistic mindset. I can see how these Equality people would probably think that being a standout achiever is immoral if you're a White man that isn't sufficiently Antiwhite.
Brilliant, on point, very positive and uplifting.
Chad this is elegant and beautiful prose! It’s poetry really! Thanks
Brilliant piece.
Your article, quite well done by the way, reminds me of Richard Weaver’s Visions of Order.
Thank you, I take that as high praise. Weaver's influence runs deep within me!
For all of Weavers brilliance and erudition, there was a bit of the mystic about him. I mean that in the best way. Hope that turns out to be true of you as well.
It is even worse in my country, not only is the concept of hierarchy based on higher human qualities negated, but the least worthy, the least capable, intelligent and independent are held up by the various governments and their media flunkies to be most admirable of human beings due solely to their dysfunction which is framed as “victimhood”. Such people are considered superior to “ordinary folk” who do not parade and trade off being “victims”.
The normal human hierarchy has in practice been inverted, with the least useful at the top.
Collapse cannot be far off.
The propaganda rolls on. I watched a video on Louis XIV of France and the various horrific illnesses this fellow claimed he suffered from, and how they were related to absolute monarchy. Totally ridiculous and obvious propaganda against hierarchy. This creature has other videos detailing the alleged conditions other monarchs or nobles were afflicted with as meaning that their position was the result of their illnesses. He never fails to describe the lives of these people in the most disgusting terms. I'm sure most people just eat them up, with their AI generated fake pictures. Oy, working all the time from within, just like cancer.