κρυπτός
Flying the flag of the Sons of Liberty everywhere the regime rules. I am Kruptos: cryptic. The deepest truths can be known, but not spoken. 🇳🇱🇨🇦🇺🇸
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1. I am going to be deleting my Twitter account sometime later today, I think. I would rather not just simply disappear. It has been an interesting year and I have learned a lot,...
1. The truth is you can’t. And it is almost certainly happening. “Our” propaganda vs. “their” propaganda. One of the things that reading Ellul’s “Propaganda” will teach you is th...
1. This is illustrative of the way that propaganda works. People think propaganda is about lies, when mostly it’s about attention and framing. A short thread to explain the basic c...
1. Good discussion. I share Charles’ basic opinion of “no enemies to the right” and that the left must be completely defeated. I found the discussion of the essence of left and ri...
1. A thread of the idea of being “white.” To me it has always struck me as an odd concept. I grew up in a Dutch immigrant community which straddles the Canada and US border. We wer...
1. The problem isn’t that we have administrators per se, but that little of what they do is dependent upon their own personal competency. Instead, everything is dependent upon syst...
1. Until a few years ago, I might have agreed. We have to interiorize how much the political landscape has changed since 2008ish. Other than community outreach efforts, most “act...
1. One of the problems the right has in nurturing its own radicals and crazies is that it has no where to nurture them safely out of the public eye. On the left, radicals like the...
1. All left ideologies going back to classical liberalism itself are revolutionary and utopian at heart. The whole of the enlightenment IS the culture war writ large. Whether it i...
1. This is essentially correct. Politically, one of the things Americans need to grapple with is the degree to which “American” along with the notion of “nationalism” are largely...
1. A common theme among open free market liberals (let’s stop calling them “conservatives” please) is that rising standards of living bring greater political freedom. This is an i...
1. An excellent defense of the pre-modern notion of just war, and just violence. Again, it is a cogent and defensible position, one I find unsatisfactory in the end because it does...