Speaking of bad takes, Uncle Yarv is in rare form today. highlighting, again, his one BIG intellectual mistake, this time in spades:
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Since I don't have time to write up a review on substack, maybe a classic tweet thread? 1/
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Since I don't have time to write up a review on substack, maybe a classic tweet thread? 1/
The BIG mistake of Yarvin is the forgivable generational error, where thinkers assume that the dynamics they witnessed when younger are the same dynamics playing out today. In particular you can see this in Yarvin's attitude towards the ruling (progressive) class. 2/
Yarvin seems to believe that this is Brown in 1991. Progressives are mature enjoyers of environmentalism, fine wine, professionalism, and wear their politics like a fashion statement on the way to founding highly productive Silicone Valley companies. 3/
This of course hasn't been true for like 15 years. Modern millennial progressives are emotional wrecks, unprofessional and incapable of enjoying things that don't directly flatter their sadistic political urges, which in turn have devoured all of their other interests 4/
To continued Yarvin's elf/hobbit analogy. Millennial progressives are less like Nordic "Dark Elves" (more different elves) and more like the Warhammer's "Dark Eldar", totally corrupted elves twisted to the point of becoming pure agents of sadism with little nobility remaining. 5/
Sure the hobbits main problem is that they can't HOLD power. In a world where there are only Elves/Dark Elves/hobbits, the hobbit's goal can only be to give power to the party that hasn't been twisted into an effigy of Demonic Sadism. 6/
But here is where our problems (and Yarvin's) begin, there aren't a lot of non-Dark Elves available at the moment. The Hobbits have two immediate needs, first they need to distinguish Elves from Dark Elves, second they need to encourage more non-Dark Elves to exist. 7/
Yarvin's most recent thesis is that the best way to accomplish these goals is to play nice with the Elves (suffering their torments) hoping that an insurgency of non-Dark Elves will fix the others and show them the errors of their ways. This is impossible. 8/
The central problem is that the Elf/Dark Elf distinction is:
1. physically indistinguishably small.
2. Spiritually incalculably large.
Dark Elves are not Elves with a little dirt on them (as Yarvin imagines), they are spiritually corrupted, yet their are no outward signs. 9/
1. physically indistinguishably small.
2. Spiritually incalculably large.
Dark Elves are not Elves with a little dirt on them (as Yarvin imagines), they are spiritually corrupted, yet their are no outward signs. 9/
The Dark Elves (Millennial progressives) have no future, and (a few cases aside) there is no hope in the Hobbits' saving them. They have no prospects, they have no children, and they don't have any worthiness to rule as a Brahman caste (What they were raised for) 10/
I don't need to demonstrate that the Millennials are corrupted. They don't have refined spiritual beliefs, they don't eat good food, they don't appreciate high culture. There is no reason to follow these people unless you like them tormenting you. Yet Yarvin doesn't see. 11/
The Hobbits goal is to fine new Elves. Again the problem is (when they aren't wearing their spikey BDSM gear for pride) Dark Elves and Elves look identical. There is also nothing the Hobbits can do to "Make more elves", unfortunately. 12/
Really, the ball is in the court of Elves at this stage. Though I can offer this advice for both Elves and Hobbits in their task of distinguishing the two. Corruption is as corruption does. What makes a Dark elf Dark is his spiritual attitudes, not his language/appearance 13/
If upon seeing the Hobbits fight back against their tormentors and score a minor win, your attitude is "Man we have to capture some Hobbits and torture them for their impudence!" then you are indeed a Dark Elf going down a corrupted path. It's not within my power to save you 14/
The idea that we can placate the Dark Elves by flattering them with silence simply puts off the moment where the Elf/Dark Elf distinction is laid bare. Really at this stage I would prefer all of the cards to be on the table. 15/
That being said this reveals the deeper truth. The problem with Elves (the ruling class) is SPIRITUAL not MANAGERIAL, and managerial approaches only obscure the deeper problem. The problem of BELIEF. 16/
There is no way around the question of greater spiritual reality. Any solution will come in the form of religion and a new priest caste to carry this faith. Can this be derived from the old stock elites? Hard to say. But we aren't bean-counting our way out of this folks 17/17
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