http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/#comment-86169 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:18:53 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=625#comment-86169 […] ‘Meditations on Moloch‘ might want to take a look at this. (Also more Gnon, here, and […]

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/#comment-6464 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:37:35 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=625#comment-6464 “But which (if any) of the impulses in this standoff is in the evolutionary ascendant?” — that’s the War.

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/#comment-6461 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:34:55 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=625#comment-6461 - so far
But which (if any) of the impulses in this standoff is in the evolutionary ascendant?

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/#comment-6458 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:07:22 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=625#comment-6458 There’s enough egalitarianism wired into the brain to make communism inevitable, combined with enough self-interest to make it impossible, hence the pleasant contours of human history.

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/#comment-6441 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:10:11 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=625#comment-6441 Just looked at Jared Taylor’s review of that Pathological Altruism study. Seems the offhand remark I made about the appeal of egalitarianism being hard-wired into the brain might have more evidence to support it than I’d thought.

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/#comment-6395 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:52:13 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=625#comment-6395 @ John Hannon
“a stratified society is necessary for the egalitarian impulse to arise in the first place” — the mystic non-differentiators are found at the top (Brahmins), which isn’t incompatible with your thesis, but twists it in a pathological altruism ‘direction’. The view from the bottom is sheer folk idolatry and mesmerized priest-worship.

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/#comment-6393 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:34:05 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=625#comment-6393 Yes, a stratified society is necessary for the egalitarian impulse to arise in the first place (insofar as it is defined by its opposition to social stratification), and there’s never any guarantees of its fulfillment.
Civilization could have collapsed long ago if there were.

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/#comment-6391 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:13:35 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=625#comment-6391 “mimetic contagion” has your name all over it. just saying.

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/#comment-6389 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:39:55 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=625#comment-6389 I’m still adjusting to Orlandu’s side of the mirror.

]]> http://www.xenosystems.net/gnon-theology-and-time/#comment-6384 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:03:34 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=625#comment-6384 “Satan is mimetic contagion at its most secret power” –René Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

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