Comments on: Ideo-Cannibalism

By: Peter A. Taylor

Peter A. Taylor — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 05:32:00 +0000

“Monopoly on religious violence” is a much better explanation than “attitude towards forgiveness”.

By: spandrell

spandrell — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 05:10:52 +0000

Point is that the Catholic church had a resemblance of rule of law, so local people couldn’t just grab a hag they hated and burn her as a witch. The local church representative i.e. the priest had the monopoly of religious violence.

The fact that Protestants have this in common with Papuans should tell you something about order and hierarchy.

By: Peter A. Taylor

Peter A. Taylor — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 04:39:56 +0000

I suspect it’s more complicated than that. Witch hunts are pretty common in Papua New Guinea and sub-saharan Africa. Are which hunts really more of a Protestant thing than a Catholic thing? Are Catholics not interested in sin, or do they have some psychological techniques to get people to not project as much? Or are witch hunts engaged in more by social dominant groups (e.g. US Progressives) than by minorities (e.g. US Catholics)? Or does it have to do with status anxiety rather than current status?

https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/to-disbelieve-in-witchcraft-is-the-greatest-of-heresies/

By: n

Sun, 16 Feb 2014 02:21:26 +0000

Intersectionality is just a consequence of Moldbug’s thesis on Puritanism.

Notice how certain Christian subcultures (like Catholicism) have a key aspect like forgiveness. If you repent, you are forgiven. Catholicism has an inbuilt social lubricant. Sometimes this social lubricant backfires (like forgiving kiddy-fiddling Priests), but forgiveness mostly works to bring people back together. It is a key aspect of building a community.

This doesn’t happen in Puritanism, nor contemporary American Progressivism. They are obsessed with Sin, and you can never be forgiven. This means there is constant witch hunts.

By: Mark Warburton

Mark Warburton — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:10:17 +0000

@Mark Warburton

@rasputin

@scarlach

Sure. Maybe this time not straight after I’ve put myself through the mill at the gym. I’ll make sure Exvatica comes along too.

UPDATE – I’m actually staying. The head of centre really doesn’t want me to go…. he’s put me forward for some research work – and even though my grades wern’t as high as the others, there are 2 scholarship positions for 4 people…… so we’ll see what happens in the near future. The teachers have been fine with me – I can’t fault them that.

By: Rasputin

Rasputin — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:48:26 +0000

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow coalition… just a monstrous ideological mulato.

Another drink sometime maybe?

By: Mark Warburton

Mark Warburton — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:56:09 +0000

Nick, can you do a chaos patch on book recommendations? I’ve got a whole load of stuff during my studies that might be useful for some.

By: vimothy

vimothy — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 23:21:21 +0000

Suum cuique.

By: Mark Warburton

Mark Warburton — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:27:56 +0000

I know, I know. Even people IRL found it odd…. but It’s actually less about them eating me alive for ‘being myself’ (they know nothing about the neo-reactionaries – they don’t dare come this close to the darkness), and more about being around them (which makes me depressed and borderline psychotic). It’s just very frustating and isolating. I’ve done very well at wearing a mask, but you do it too long and you just become part emasculated, part gym-bound fury.

By: Vxxc

Vxxc — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:08:06 +0000

THIS