The length contraction according to a distant observer goes infinite before you hit the event horizon, which effectively means there’s an infinite distance between you and the surface. Which means you can, in fact, drop something in there and it will work like a bottomless pit.

Or maybe progressives are just wrong, and physicists need to ‘shut up and compute’ less.

Sir. Noblesse Oblige doesn’t work because they’re swine. If you asked them to explain what they should sacrifice for it – the original meaning meant life itself – they’d be at a total loss. They are long Noblesse Sans Oblige.

You can’t get away from status in any human endeavor, so the linked article has some real insights. At the same time, how much status-seeking is there actually in a movement where lots of people have to be anonymous, haven’t even met any of the rest of you, and haven’t even tried? If you wanted to try a reductionistic approach on most of us, you wouldn’t call it status-seeking behavior, you’d call it entertainment.

My main motivation for getting into NRx is that I have kids and I am willing to grasp at straws.

1. The truth focus of Neoreaction is a subset of the truth focus of the Dark Enlightenment. The Dark Enlightenment is the superior term for truth seeking divorced from values clouding it one way or another, it should be used more. Strange it was displaced.

2, It isn’t a new insight that Neoreactionaries are often status chasing hipster Brahmin. It is a new insight that Neoreactionaries are very much signalling holiness. He goes on to make a distinction between holiness and nobility, an interesting point, but an exercise in wishful thinking in my opinion, at least if he is looking at society. He misses a brutal decapitating move, maybe because he’s only read second hand use of the Holier Than Thou phrase, instead in its original Jimian Glory:

If Neoreaction is Holier Than Thou, and it undoubtedly is, then Neoreaction will not correlate to truth, and Neoreaction will eventually suffer the same maladies that Leftism does. Indeed according to Jim’s definition NRXN IS LEFTISM and NRXN has no consistent relationship to reality(!), it only accidentally, for now, coincides with reality.

I think I’ll start following his blog, hopefully this wasn’t only a lucky brush with new insight, I’ve been starved for good sources recently.

One of the individual’s that pushed the ban said the following: “Far-right racists, sexists, and homophobes trying to organize on campus is a direct threat to the student body, and if our efforts at their disaffiliation have been at all successful in preventing them from organizing, then, yes, we are pleased … It is like starting a society to study Hitler.”

Here is the quoted person’s twitter (before you all click on his twitter, try to guess how the person self-identifies): https://twitter.com/timur_dautov

For extra laughs and a curious juxtaposition with the above quote, click on the Facebook profile on the twitter, then on “photos,” which gives this photo:

http://imgur.com/ao6zYYM

Imaginary “Hitler” on campus? Very Bad. Actual Lenin on campus? Very Good.