Write Wing This Week – Issue No. 14 – 22 Jul 2023
Schizocosm Edition
Welcome, frens and fremen, to this week’s spicy melange of metaphysics, malinformation, and malign creations hatched from the unclean womb of the mother of abominations that is Substack’s write wing.
The digest begins by diving into the philosophical deep end in A Schism Starts Time, and from there we swim into waters that are colder but no less deep to wake ourselves up with a good old-fashioned Future Shock. Next we survey the week’s political theory in Revolt of the Robot Tax Slaves. Some current events are highlighted in The Hot Take Machine. Works by and about the gentler sex are given their own space in The Lady’s Room. Scientism beats up on nerds, when they deserve it ... and celebrates those who deserve that, instead. As always, we finish with some news from Russia, several of the week’s interesting Podcasts, and finally exit with some escapism by way of the PVLPKVLTVS.
So dump some heaping spoonfuls of coffee into your French press, settle in, get cozy, and let’s get on with the links (and the softcore porn, courtesy of master fantasist Boris Vallejo).
A Schism Starts Time
What do Plato, Plutarch, Pythagoras, the mathematician Wolfgang Smith, and the metareligionist Christopher Langan have in common? Probably a lot but as Contemplations on the Tree of Woe explains, their Convergent Cosmogony is big one. It turns out that all of them seem to agree that the ground of reality is chaos, or equivalently nothingness ... which then, via Murray Gell-Man’s ‘totalitarian principle’ which states that all that which is not forbidden is compulsory, leads directly to the birth of order – the actualized, the absolute ... in other words, God. From these two fundamental ingredients the cosmos is built. You’ve absolutely got to read the whole thing, for which Woe takes home this week’s Iron Ring Award:
The Eucatastrophologist Duncan Reyburn describes The paranoid style of American precrime. We must transcend leftard schizotemporality! The fragmentation of time into a blizzard of timeline notifications leaves us unable to experience such basic qualities as flow and duration. Memory and identity dissolve, and cause and effect can no longer be discerned. Thus the Dickean precrime in which soccer moms are convicted in the kangaroo court of public opinion for being genocidal fascists should they suggest that Y chromosomes maketh the man: to say something that might lead to massacres becomes, in the schizotemporal psyche, the same thing as filling a mass grave yourself. This is very good stuff, and gets an honourable mention:
At The Library of Celaeno the Librarian of Celaeno compares dogs, wolves, and coyotes in The Coyotes Are Not What They Seem. Something something hybrid vigour, the strengths of both, weaknesses of neither. The librarian seems to have a thing for half-wild canids, judging by his previous praise of the noble dingo, and it is a thing that, as a dog person, I share. We memetic barbarians prowling in the shadows in the forest beyond the longhouse could do worse than to emulate the trickster deity. The Librarian also has some thoughts on Artists and Musicians and the differences between them – is the former pretentious? The latter a sell-out? – in the context of what he aims to accomplish with his rapidly growing blog. Oh and on that note, you can give him money if you want.
The Resavager Barbaric Disciple has some thoughts on Norse Pantheon Madness. The Nordic pantheon is by far the most popular among neopagans, but everything we know about it has been passed down to us by Christians whose relationship to the old gods was ambivalent at best. How far can any of that be trusted? And in any case, the thread of tradition has been irrevocably cut, so we cannot RETVRN. Also "powerfuk ancestors", if a typo, is a glorious one.
At A Ghost in the Machine Daniel D asks, Can We Count Ourselves Happy? Count no man happy until you know his end, advised Solon by way of Herodotus. But we can’t know the end ... especially when the world is as mutable as it is. But it helps to ground ourselves in fundamental truths: God exists, Evil exists, but God is good.
Morgoth opposes Napoleon vs The Internet. The Ogre of France's emotional helplessness before Josephine breaks the chad/simp dichotomy, and this points to a weakness in meme thinking – it’s simplicity and lack of conceptual depth – that we would do well to keep in mind.
L.P. Koch LucTalks Absolute Progressivism turns us into historical idiots, incapable of learning from history because everything before the Current Year is a priori inferior, ignorant, and insane.
Chapter 26 of Lorenzo Warby ’s series Worshipping the Future is up at Helen Dale’s Not On Your Team, But Always Fair: A crusading clerisy: II. This is a continuation of last week’s theme, in which he explores the religious nature of post-enlightenment progressivism, points out the many structural similarities in its memeplex to Christianity that mark it is a rather obvious Christian heresy optimized for the network age, and makes some rather chilling comparisons between the way in which the miasma has captured our own institutions, and Christianity’s subversion of Rome at the beginning of the Christian era. As always, Lorenzo’s analysis is trenchant and tight, and well deserving of an honourable mention.
Kenaz Filan writes some Notes from the end of time On Temperance. Temperance is the chief virtue for a reason – without self-control none of the others can manifest. It’s no accident that tempering steel, temperance, and temperament have the same etymological root.
Future Shock
Charles Haywood has a lengthy, thoughtful review of The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger up at The Worthy House. The novel’s prescient themes of man unmade, nature destroyed, and society dismembered by our embrace of technology are a challenge for Haywood’s techno-optimism. Does technology inevitably strip the world of nobility and adventure, turning dashing cavalrymen into comfortable, placid bugmen?
N. Dexia of À Rebours examines Charles Haywood’s post-liberal political philosophy Foundationalism in A Right-Wing Political System for the Future? If you aren’t familiar with Haywood’s thought, this is a good primer (though of course you should also read Haywood’s original essay). The first of Foundationalism’s Twelve Pillars is Space, as in the endless void that we must conquer in the name of the Imperium of Man. It gets better from there.
From the The Tomb of Morgthorak Morgthorak the Undead has a heartfelt Thank you to those who answered his call for help (do the undead have hearts? If so, do they feel?). Next the unliving lich expresses his distaste for that which moves, yet lives not: Why I hate robots and drones! And yes, he gets the irony.
At Soaring Twenties Zack Grafman has some thoughts as The Creator Economy Enters Stage 2. How do we use artistic brotherhoods to solve the creative intermittency problem of audience cultivation faced by obligate hobbyists who must occasionally take a prolonged hiatus from their artistic work?
motheRucker asks Where Does Biomilq Come From, Mommy? And moreover, she wonders
Am I the only one who senses this entire scheme was born of some backroom bet between billionaires to see if they can get young girls who cut off their breasts to buy Frankenmilk born of their own discarded mammary cells when it comes time to feed their infants of indeterminate gender?
You’d best start believing in manmade horrors beyond your comprehension, because you’re already living among them.
At Becoming Noble Johann Kurtz flies to The Distant Sun to take a glimpse inside the communities you are barred from. What do Scientology and aerial access communities have to teach us about barriers to entry and ownership of space?
Revolt of the Robot Tax Slaves
At Anarchonomicon Kulak has a short take: The Income Tax is Chattel Slavery. This is just obviously true. Less than five decades after the black slaves were freed, the entire American populace was enslaved by the Creature From Jeckyll Island, and we have laboured for that foul leech ever since. Kulak suggests that you keep repeating those words as a mantra, until they sink in to the mass consciousness, and accrue emotional power. Who knows what might happen then? So repeat after me:
The Income Tax is Chattel Slavery.
And make sure to read the whole of this short and punchy honourable mention:
“Blessed are the NEETs, for they will inherit the earth.” At Vagabond, a primer on The Way Of The NEET from (who else?) NEETOCRACY . You know who doesn’t pay income tax? NEETs.
Architect of The Techno-Canton Nelson R. Elliott says that Symbols Aren’t Culture. You don’t want to be all hat, no cattle ... but maybe that hat can inspire you to live up to the ideal of the cowboy. You know who also doesn’t pay income tax?
At What Katy Did Katy Barnett has some thoughts on Feedback loops in the context of Australia’s recent robodebt scandal. What do you do when the unaccountable, faceless, incompetent bureaucrats deploy an unaccountable, faceless, incompetently written algorithm that incorrectly demands that you pay up for a non-existent debt? Katy’s professional opinion is that reality tests need to be re-imposed, stat, perhaps by enabling government officials to be sued for criminal negligence.
At Letters from Fiddler's Greene Dave Greene lays out a guideline for online discourse within the dissident right in 20 Rules for "Frens". The fractious tribes of Far-Right EthnoNationalists are a disparate and contentious bunch prone to internecine warfare (or really, let’s be real here: womanly mean-girl drama-milking bitch-fests), and under constant threat of infiltration by Fed agents provocateurs, leftist pied pipers, and grifters. A code laying out minimal belief sets on which we can all agree, together with guidelines for honourable conduct, isn’t a bad idea at all. Great stuff here, and Dave gets an honourable mention. Read the whole thing:
Speaking of rules, at Rules for Reactionaries Fabius Minarchus thinks that unless you enjoy grovelling Populism is the Way.
At Seeking the Hidden Thing Kruptos continues his Deep Dive into Jacques Ellul's "Autopsy of Revolution" with Part 4: The State Is the Enemy. Revolutions require managerial expertise for the organizational efficacy necessary to succeed, and success inevitably means consolidation of power over the administrative state. Thus, every revolt against the tyranny state inevitably succeeds only in making the state stronger, like a Chinese finger trap that grows tighter the more one struggles against it. Yet, to destroy the state would, at this point, be the same as to destroy society. Then again, you know who makes you pay income tax? That’s right, the state.
The H2F Man Grant Smith thinks the American military might have been Checkmated by Progress. No, not that cool kind of progress that puts humans in orbit. The lame kind that puts morons in high office. The reality inverters have captured every institution, including the military, and the only way to win the game at this point is to flip the table.
Chris Bray of Tell Me How This Ends tells us about The Continental White Manspreading Narrative that American colonial literature has always pretended the white man belonged in America which … isn't true.
At The Circulation of Elites The Evolved Psyche writes that THE TROUBLE WITH TURCHIN is that, as a representative of the managerial technocracy, his perspective is inherently blind to the biological underpinnings of human behavior, which then points to mechanical social engineering solutions: reduce elite production, slow down the wealth pump, and Bob's your uncle, historical crisis averted. However, McConkey thinks that the seesaw of personality phenotype incidence within the population (similar to predator/prey cycles in ecology) is a key driver of historical cycles, and that ignoring this makes such social engineering future, or even counterproductive. Maybe collapse is a good thing?
Chris Waldburger thinks that it is time for Caesar as The American Republic Enters Roman-Style Foreign Corruption Phase. Certainly the depravity of the Biden administration is the stuff of a low-rent, debased Caligula.
Imperium Press says that you need to choose: Innovation or Conservatism? Darwin, IP argues, was the reactionary's reactionary: natural selection comes down to Chesterton's Fence and the Lindy Rule. It’s an interesting argument. Oh, and he's writing a book: The Cultured Thug's Handbook. The title alone has me sold.
At The Neo-Ciceronian Times Theophilus Chilton considers Biblical Hospitality and Immigration. Progs love to quote the "lo, ye were strangers in Egypt, so treateth ye the stranger with hospitality" passages in the Old Testament, but they always seem to miss that Biblical hospitality - and all hospitality in the ancient world - imposed obligations on the guests … and that guests who abused their host's hospitality had a tendency to end up as bloody smears on the floor. Read the whole of this honourable mention:
At Brogues Britannicus Samuel Chapman spins a yarn about the Dictatrix. "What if a dictatorship existed, but used no traditional male means of power?" Sounds familiar….
The Hot Take Machine
At Karlstack Christopher Brunet breaks a big story in the econ world. Yale University vows to 'geolocate' most EJMR users. Seems that some econ profs have published a paper in an economics journal de-anonymizing users on a popular anonymous economics forum, because the forum users were being mean. Antifa tactics are clearly relevant to advancing the dismal science. And here's PART 2, hours after part 1 came out, covering the leak of the paper 2 days before publication. Busy week for Chris. Excellent, original journalism from Chris here, for which he gets an honourable mention.
Dudley Newright has two compilations of poasted shit for us this week at the New Right Poast. In #78. Racist horse he covers mid starlets, rising and falling Petersons, Mike Pence ended, liminal spaces, dongless dolls, and based gym teachers, while #79. Mmm, ideology so good features playing TF2 with the Taliban, gay dad infanticide, male voice volume privilege, Zizek NPC roleplay, and Martian demonic space energy. Is the infamous Lord Miles chilling over tea and video games with his Taliban bros, or is it all over? Also if you think the Apollo program was hoaxed, you have to turn in your white man card.
Yuri Bezmenov tells us How To Play Like a Champion (Part 6) - Carlos Alcaraz Dethrones Novak Djokovic. And while discussing tennis rankings takes the opportunity to mention that How To Subvert Subversion is now ranked number 10 in humor. Congrats, Yuri. Always nice seeing one of our guys climbing the rankings.
The Lady’s Room
At Classical Ideals Megha Lillywhite wonders What Mrs. Darling can Teach us about How to Grow Up. That would be the woman from Peter Pan. But wait, I thought the whole point was not growing up?
Meet the New Feminist Hate, Same as the Old Feminist Hate: Janice Fiamengo points out that the outrage from the radfems over trans violence against women is a bit rich, considering they have supported the same type of action in the past on many occasions. The ladies doth protest too much about being hoist on their own Marcusian petards.
Millennial Woes writes about Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi and Delusions of Candour. Mahdawi’s lesbian feminist lifestyle seems to have ruined her life, rendering her barren and unlovable ... but to admit this would be to repudiate the very core of her identity, and so she weaves ever more elaborate webs of cope to avoid confronting the tragic emptiness of her sad little life. You could feel bad for her if she wasn’t doing her best to trap younger women in the same sterilizing ideology.
At How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov , a primer on sexual demoralization: How To Have Sex and the City with an Entourage. I’d actually never heard of Entourage, which is basically Sex and the City for bros.
At Extremely Domestic Peachy Keenan announces The Saint Genesius Fellowship as an alternative to the MacArthur Genius Grant. Think the Passage Prize on steroids … or at least a lot of slonked eggs, we don't quite have the money for gear (yet).
Scientism
eugyppius of a plague chronicle has an announcement to make: I am writing a book. The working title is Pandemicism, and no, it will not be a mere lazy compilation of blog posts, but rather a deeper exploration of the themes eugyppius has been exploring from the beginning, such as the distributed tyranny of the administrative state that has mired us in a civilizational swamp of obviously ridiculous yet seemingly irreversible policies. Later in the week eugyppius goes In Search of Wave Zero. COVID-19 was circulating well before people started getting sick in Wuhan (ask me how I know), so where did it really start?
At Grey Goose Chronicles Stone Age Herbalist relates the tale of A Mummified Modern Murder - The Case of the Persian Princess. This is the first time I've heard of a murder victim being used to fake a mummy. Dark stuff.
Emil O. W. Kirkegaard says a Eulogy for Richard Lynn (1930-2023), a name that any student of human biodiversity will surely know. Lynn was a great man, and a brave one. Big F.
At Science Is Not The Answer William M Briggs starts the week observing that Climate The Science Causes Blindness. I'm old enough to remember when scientists would roll their eyes at pseudoscientists for using the Gish Gallop to dazzle their audiences with nonsense faster than skeptics could challenge it. Climate The Scientists saw that tactic and thought it looked useful.
Briggs wades into the deep end in an attempt at Reconciling Mike Flynn & Fr Ripperger On Evolution: Creation or Completion of New Essences? Personally, I rather like his suggestion that the essences of organisms (and everything else in the natural world) were created instantaneously within the realm of forms, and remain there in a latent state until called forth into the world via physical causality. It's a neat way of squaring the circle between creation and evolution. This was a hard one to classify, and could easily have ended up in metaphysics section; it should be read alongside Tree of Woe’s Iron Ring Award-winning piece from this week, as well as last week’s excellent Genesis: History Book or Faerie Tale? from The Saxon Cross. And of course, you should read all of this very fine Honourable Mention as well:
Briggs next proffers a Spenglerian blackpill in Blish & Spengler On The End Science. Briefly, Spengler predicted that science would degenerate into The Science, an occultist mockery in which all innovation serves as no more than an increasingly elaborate descent into obscurantism and fantasy. He wasn’t wrong. The blackpill is that Spengler didn’t think this could be reversed.
Finally, Briggs Reviewed: The Great Awakening Vs The Great Reset by Alexander Dugin. Overall he liked it, although of course the book is much too short – more of a pamphlet really – to do justice to Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory. I read it myself a few months ago and found it quite rousing.
Russia
In Know Your Enemy at Man's World Bronze Age Pervert explains how it be to those conservatives who oppose Russia and support the war but take this perverse position in good faith. Putler is a corrupt autocrat gangster, sure, and the Soviets did many bad things. But the Soviets never tried to replace nations in their own countries with brown people, and Putin is the only leader pushing back against the cabal of demon trannies wearing the West like a skinsuit.
At The Slavland Chronicles Rolo Slavskiy watches nervously as Shoigu's Purge of Patriots Intensifies. Rolo has another successful prediction, although he's not particularly thrilled about it: Russian patriot Strelkov Was Arrested Half An Hour Ago. Rolo suspects that this may mean the Kremlin is prepared to capitulate. Guess we'll see.
Podcasts
Isaac Simpson of The Carousel talks about Building the Network Trailer Park with Paul McNiel. Some interesting thoughts here on what network states might look like, how to make DAOs functional, and so on.
In case you haven’t read the already seminal essay Complex Systems Won't Survive the Competence Crisis that took the dissident sphere by storm a month ago, Morgoth gives an overview of The Competency Crisis.
At Political Ponerology Harrison Koehli informs us about an interview with Michael Rectenwald on Political Ponerology conducted by the Epoch Times. Harrison also has an interview with Dr. @J.D. HALTIGAN on his own MindMatters podcast: Cold-blooded Kindness: The Longhouse Mentality and Psychopathology. Haltigan is in the thick of the woke convent, and he’s been taking notes.
Astral of Astral Flight Simulation interviews Ryan Dawson about Epstein, “conspiracies,” Ted K, and the nature of blackmail/money laundering in the American government.
PVLPKVLTVS
The Bizarchives has an important announcement to make: The Bizarchives Issue 5 has Arrived!
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We started this digest with A Schism Starts Time. Continuing that theme, Billionaire Psycho returns to his open creative writing course with Storytelling 106: Transitions. Mastering a change in location or time within a story is essential to maintaining its pacing, and the way in which this is done has much to do with the framework that emerges from the story’s scope and focus.
By the pricking of my thumbs, something slender this way comes from The Lake of Lerna. Yakubian Ape continues his history of Internet horror with Creepypasta al Dente: Tall, Dark, and Faceless. Everything you wanted to know and wished you didn't about Slenderman.
At Doctor Hammer 's Anvil, a long (very long) Book Series Review: Undying Mercenaries. Of the entire 19-book series … which Doc apparently found rather mediocre.
Katy Barnett The Hidden People Chapter 20 - Sweet honeycomb:
“So-o-o, what can we do to get Henny back?” Simon put his chin in his hands, at the breakfast table. “Can we go to this other place or realm or whatever? I want to get us all home as quickly as possible.”
“As I have already told you, the King has written to the Queen.” Annurin looked at Simon warily. “The problem is this, brother. If we go on to their land without permission, ‘tis a declaration of war. And your other brother is on their land. We cannot get him without a fight. We are standing on the edge of a knife, and I fear we fall into war—”
At Frank Theodat 's Pulp, Pipe, & Poetry, a science fiction tale from Brady Putzke , The Archivist:
I am the Archivist. I live among the stacks. Discs, codices, leather volumes, papyri, paintings, drawings, sculptures, artifacts of every shape and kind. I am the keeper of my people’s history. I watch over the inheritance that makes us who we are, even if no one cares any longer.
Theophilus Chilton of The Neo-Ciceronian Times has a rare sci-fi short in Thick and Juicy:
The two deep space vessels sat silently in the airless void of space, facing each other discreetly. Neither ship moved as their respective crews sized each other up across the range of the electromagnetic spectrum, the 50,000 kilometers that separated them doing nothing to hide their secrets. First contact was always a little boring, at least in the initial stages, and Captain Lactantius MacReady of the Galactic Confederation of Sentients was treating this instance no differently. He yawned and studied his fingernails."
I lol’d at the ending.
That’s all for this week! Thanks for reading! As always, if you’re still looking for more to read, feel free to check out my archive – and I do mean free, because it’s all in front of the paywall. Some of my most popular essays are collected here. A special thank you to the perfecti of the Martian legions who have stepped up to become supporters of this blog, despite my laziness in not actually writing anything of my own this week. You’re what makes all of this possible, and that isn’t just me trying to shift the blame. If you’ve been enjoying my writing, and would like to liberate your heavy spirit from the dense gravitational pull of your guilty conscience by joining the elite in orbit around Barsoom on Deimos Station, our doors are always open:
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Once again, deep thanks for doing this. It's an immense amount of work every week, and most useful.
Many thanks once again for the encomium, and for the *interesting* art ;)