Christopher Lasch’s Angry Ghost
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In a dying culture, narcissism embodies the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment.
Thank you so much! Yeah, I’m getting more and more interested in what “writing behind a profile” does to us and how it generates new kinds of conformity at the precise moment we’re compelled to think we’re “expressing our truest selves.”
August 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Thank you so much! Yeah, I’m getting more and more interested in what “writing behind a profile” does to us and how it generates new kinds of conformity at the precise moment we’re compelled to think we’re “expressing our truest selves.”
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The Right Libertarian => Populist Anger that things are getting worse => More right libertarian policies => More misguided anger that things are getting worse => Emergence of Anarcho Capitalism opportunities to accelerate disintegration => People get angrier death spiral seems inescapable.
March 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The Right Libertarian => Populist Anger that things are getting worse => More right libertarian policies => More misguided anger that things are getting worse => Emergence of Anarcho Capitalism opportunities to accelerate disintegration => People get angrier death spiral seems inescapable.
ACAB sentiment, after all, has right-wing and libertarian variants as well as progressive ones. It’s just a matter of who gets labelled “the police.”
March 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
ACAB sentiment, after all, has right-wing and libertarian variants as well as progressive ones. It’s just a matter of who gets labelled “the police.”
Your book project sounds great. I think you’re really onto something with the way gen-AI “feeds back” the dead past (the archival traces it’s ingested) to us on a way that makes us misrecognise them as both novelties and timeless truths.
March 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Your book project sounds great. I think you’re really onto something with the way gen-AI “feeds back” the dead past (the archival traces it’s ingested) to us on a way that makes us misrecognise them as both novelties and timeless truths.
Are you familiar with the work of Michael F. Miller?
March 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Are you familiar with the work of Michael F. Miller?
New collective certainties must be projected backwards in order for the moral coding system to maintain its sense of coherence. What we believe now must merge and overwrite whatever it was we believed then.
March 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
New collective certainties must be projected backwards in order for the moral coding system to maintain its sense of coherence. What we believe now must merge and overwrite whatever it was we believed then.
The sense of what the opposition represents (absolute evil) remains stable over time, but the question of who or what are instances of it is in continual, real-time flux. This is the coding system’s disciplinary power.
March 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The sense of what the opposition represents (absolute evil) remains stable over time, but the question of who or what are instances of it is in continual, real-time flux. This is the coding system’s disciplinary power.