Comments on: On Chaos

By: Karl F. Boetel

Karl F. Boetel — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 02:44:50 +0000

What would Carlyle do?

By: Artxell Knaphni

Artxell Knaphni — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 02:39:09 +0000

@ Different T

Que? Oh, yw. lol

By: Different T

Different T — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:01:47 +0000

Thank you.

By: laofmoonster

laofmoonster — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:08:35 +0000

Entropy of content promotes competition; entropy of infrastructure promotes decay. But the distinction is not always clear: one system’s content is another system’s infrastructure. Just hope that creative destruction points upward and not down.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 17:12:29 +0000

“… what’s now the critique of (populist) democracy?” — Structurally defective principles of entropy dissipation (in a society that can vote away — in reality, vote to diffuse — consequences).

I’m reluctant to accept that the “telos of order” has been dropped. Moldbug describes spontaneous order as the highest type of order, and spontaneous order is a dynamic relation to chaos.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 16:13:25 +0000

A maximally order seeking political philosophy practically complements Neocameralism as it obviates the main critique of this model: its inability to tolerate and readily dissipate internal sociopolitical discord (civil war by other means). Of course, realizing Neocameralism as sometimes envisioned, where peoples migrate to the Landeshoheit of desire, would mitigate the problem — but, in practice, this is unworkable. In light of your tentative revaluation of order’s virtuousness, let us ask: If chaos + maximum dissipation is good, what’s now the critique of (populist) democracy? And since (populist) democracy (with no nannying technoelite) is overly destructive, what’s now the principled critique of mediaocracy — this is, mediaocracy, as such, not its leftwing incarnate (assuming the two can be disentangled)? More philosophically, can one drop the order telos and still claim to be a Moldbugian neoreactionary? This needs some meditation..

By: Handle

Handle — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 00:42:36 +0000

The Indian’s tell us that the Phoenix can rise
From the smoldering ashes that once were my eyes
And watch beautiful colours from black and from grey
Be formed into wings and take me away
Where evil is darkness and goodness is light
And love is the lightning that cuts through the night
And strikes only once in a dark place in time
And forms a gold stairway that all of us climb.

By: Peter A. Taylor

Peter A. Taylor — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:42:46 +0000

“Reaction will work out its contradictions and everybody is going to be very upset. But from their salty tears a phoenix will rise.”

This is beautiful. But now I have Don McLean’s “Chain Lightning” stuck in my head.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 17:42:24 +0000

yeah then USG told them to name names and they opened the books next

By: Piano

Piano — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 16:52:49 +0000

Link?