Chaos Patch (#49)
(Open thread + links)
Reclaiming Burke. NRx culture, or tradition. A question of order. The ontology of modernity. Be the trigger (1, 2, 3, no one can say they weren’t warned). White flight (ultimate). Marxism. Fixing America. This could be a lot worse. Angelic machines. Where Urbit’s at. Fragged Friday is still going strong, Secession Lagniappe is back, the Metastasis continues (1, 2, 3, 4).
America’s (unplayed) Gulen card. ISIS buried regime change (it’s not America’s problem). Normalized terror. Camp of the Saints report: “I meet Afghans, Sudanese, Iraqis, Syrians, Libyans, Eritreans, Pakistanis, Iranians … the list goes on.” Based Blackwater. America and the Ukraine (plus a modest proposal). What India isn’t doing.
The second economy. Tribes and jobs. Expect more of the same. The post-petrodollar epoch. Peak parasitism?
The new conformity (fact free, but can bite).
Historical vicissitudes of guilt culture. Eugenics spelled out. Bred for gullibility? NRO crosses the line (and it’s noticed). Jewish leftism. Ethno–Bolshevism.
Chesterton and Donovan on men and women. Lashed.
Into the deep web. Virtual totalitarian urbanism. Chinese Internet censorship choir.
An alternative universe would help the economy.
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Posted on February 15th, 2015 at 4:10 pm | QuoteISIS buried regime change. Trillions of dollars and thousands of dead American soldiers merely fertilized the desert sands from which true regime cahnge sprang forth. Hopefully we have learned from our own deadly and costly mistakes..But I doubt it.
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Posted on February 15th, 2015 at 5:42 pm | QuoteThe Rainbow Mansion looks to be a very interesting place. If correcting damaged genes proves to be feasible we will be at the crossroads of an entirely different world. A world where preceived beauty and intelligence will dominate those lacking in either.
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Posted on February 15th, 2015 at 5:58 pm | Quote@Richard
ISIS is a CIA-Mossad front:
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/02/un-reveals-israels-support-for-isis/
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Posted on February 15th, 2015 at 7:10 pm | Quote[…] Source: Outside In […]
Posted on February 15th, 2015 at 8:41 pm | QuoteNick,
I asked your Urban Future account but I don’t think you got it. Since when did Ed West reference Moldbug/The Cathedral? Has NrX drifted as far as The Spectator? I must have not being paying attention (i.e. using twitter).
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Kgaard Reply:
February 16th, 2015 at 1:01 am
Makes sense: Ed West has suffered at the hands of the cathedral as much as anyone. His book Diversity Illusion got him in serious hot water. Speaking of which … the NRO piece on South Africa is very disturbing. Raises a key question: Is persecution/genocide the fate of ALL market-dominant minorities — or does it only happen when the majority itself is unified. In the US, for instance, the non-white majority may not be particularly unified, with hispanics, Asians, Indians and many blacks and middle easterners identifying with whites …
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Mark Warburton Reply:
February 16th, 2015 at 1:13 am
It’s a great book. Didn’t realise he paid the iron price. Is there anything online about it?
I’ll read the NRO piece, reminds me of the Amy Chua ‘World on Fire’ line of thought.
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admin Reply:
February 16th, 2015 at 7:21 am
Not sure when that started.
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That NASA stuff is frightening, but also oddly exciting (holding off comment on the secret society stuff until after I read the long PDFs). Got anything that goes even further down that rabbit hole?
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Erebus Reply:
February 16th, 2015 at 9:37 am
The NASA whitepaper is 15 years old. Most military/defense whitepapers of that age are only interesting as historical curiosities — yet, despite its old age, this NASA paper has held up quite well. Of course, it was a bit too optimistic with respect to progress in robotics, sensor engineering, nanotechnology, energy storage, and explosives… we won’t get there by 2025, but we’ll probably have most of it by 2040…
(It was interesting to consider the implications of their “$10 Million Dollar takedown plan”. It’s bioweapon-biased, though — and aflatoxin isn’t very stable, anyway.)
Tech-evangelizing aside, the NASA paper’s core message is mundane: Non-state actors are increasingly going to use advanced technology coupled with guerrilla tactics to destabilize powerful nation-states, and open war between more-or-less evenly matched nation-states is becoming increasingly unlikely. Martin Van Creveld, a modern-day prophet, wrote about this subject at length in “The Transformation of War.”
There’s an interesting overview of some recent DARPA projects here.
Lastly, the book “Military Nanotechnology” by Jürgen Altmann is worth a read.
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Naïve question: if tech-comm NRx is a means to an end, what is the ultimate “end”?
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SanguineEmpiricist Reply:
February 16th, 2015 at 3:41 am
It’s more of an outline towards unspecified ends if you ask me.
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NRx_N00B Reply:
February 16th, 2015 at 4:00 am
Thanks, I guess a “specified end” that interests me the most—the context: is tech-comm NRx the most efficient route off this rock?
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Semantics question for the day: What does “equality” even mean? I know a young man who can jump like a Thompson’s gazelle. I’m just a fat old man. Are we “equal”? If so, by what criterion?
I want to interpret “equality” as having something to do with the assumptions that a court of law makes, or refuses to make, regarding the trustworthiness of different people based on their ancestry. But that doesn’t seem to be the way anyone else uses the word.
Are monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide “equal”? Does that mean that they should be stored in the same container?
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Posted on February 16th, 2015 at 4:44 am | QuoteI knew I wanted to work for NASA for a reason.
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Posted on February 16th, 2015 at 6:35 am | QuoteFrom Second Economy Link—“This suggests to me that the main challenge of the economy is shifting from producing prosperity to distributing prosperity. ” [because no jobs].
We don’t have jobs because the state/elites don’t want us to have jobs. For the same reason the Irish didn’t have jobs, the same reason the Buffalo were hunted nearly to extinction – Plains Indians economy revolved around Buffalo- we are unwanted.
The prosperity he’ll redistribute will be from successful [white] middle class types to himself, and not the unwanted [formerly] working class.
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Posted on February 16th, 2015 at 10:44 am | QuoteThe next true Boom will be Amercian post bellum civilis and should be pointed at Space.
I warrant it will be, and by us.
This will require *Work*. These are matters of *Duty*.
I realize these are 4 letter words for many, so enjoy being popcorn. For the popcorn crowd being popped is your natural utility.
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Posted on February 16th, 2015 at 11:23 am | QuoteIslamo-bolshevism, Ethno-Bolshivism and regular Bolshevism: old and busted
Monarcho-bolshevism: New hotness
(nobody mention North Korea)
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Posted on February 17th, 2015 at 4:17 am | QuoteMy latest video upload. I thought it ‘ok’ as an addition to the “Chaos” mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zjpqrTLwQ
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Posted on February 17th, 2015 at 4:20 am | Quote