Comments on: Radish does Irreligion

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:36:25 +0000

Yes Unamusement and Radish are clearly the same person. Hell you didn’t mean any inside info to infer this. But MM is very very different.

By: vinteuil

vinteuil — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:27:47 +0000

I’ve long thought that MM, Unamused, & Karl F. Boetel were all the same guy.

But Contemplationist assures us that he’s an entirely different person.

(Sorry for the ambiguity, there)

Hmmm….

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:19:52 +0000

Jim’s Leprechaun religion would do just fine. So long as it is old, incensy, and very VERY hard to game.

By: an inanimate aluminum tube

an inanimate aluminum tube — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:27:38 +0000

So what religion should we join?

By: Lesser Bull

Lesser Bull — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 01:18:48 +0000

Guys, unless you show you are third-level initiates into the Grand Masters of NRx, Ima not gonna believe you. Produce your phenotypes for inspection.

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:51:58 +0000

Memes can be killed by competing memes, or they can kill themselves (by evolving to be even more morbid and maladaptive). I’d like to think, perhaps a conceit, that #Nrx is working on both fronts.

The short game is #AAA: trying to get prog memes evolve faster to bring progressivism’s inherent and embarrassing incoherency and maladaptivness to the bright light of day, whereupon it’s legitimacy could crumble to dust in an instant.

The long game: creating an Oppositional Pole of Social Status in which basic assumptions, and even the resultant psychology, of progressivism are held in contempt. You thought it was cool to be prog, that it would make you rich, that it would get you laid. Ha ha, here’s what all the REALLY COOL guys are doing… maybe you should be more like them, eh?

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:37:15 +0000

I second Contemplationist’s assurance. Same page. Different dudes.

By: blankmisgivings

blankmisgivings — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:59:01 +0000

Seems more like windbaggery to me. Juxtapose the sophomoric musings of charlatans like Christopher Hitchins and Sam Harris with various ‘secular’ genocides and terrors with the plaintive rhetoric of the French anti-enlightenment. Problems of world history sorted? Leftists melt like the witch of the west?
A brief alternative take on this ‘material': Taine’s reference to the ‘French national market’ in Radish’s last citation is indicative – perhaps ‘secular’ violence (French, Bolshevik, Maoist) is ‘national market’ violence? A violent path to ‘catch up’ in the face of capital-national competition, lashing out at patrimonial structures like the church that represent barriers to the cherished ‘modernity’ and at the ground level represent a threat to industrial and military re-organization for international competition?
Some nations (GB, Japan) manage to make this ‘transition’ relatively (stress on this word) non genocidally, other, later comers do not; the USA is exempted by its already non patrimonial status. Religion and ideology are epiphenomenal to this story.

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:43:48 +0000

I can assure you he’s an entirely different person.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:52:22 +0000

I don’t think so either. That’s why I phrased the speculation as I did. But I definitely get the same “vibe” from reading both MM and Radish, and it’s a vibe that I almost never get anywhere else.