Thanks for that. I’m sure Moldbug can write clearly and concisely, and one day he will. Apparently he spent the previous epic post conclusively proving a hypothesis (that Richard Dawkins is the kind of atheist who is a cultural Christian) that Dawkins has stated outright repeatedly. Well done.
It is not clear from the first thousand words if he comes up with evidence of actual ideological descent, as compared to the hypothesis of exploration of a similar attitudinal conceptspace: being able to say “see? that’s just like Calvin! A bit!” is not actually proof-level evidence of a link. (The error is of a similar kind to straw postmodernists mapping out the hermeneutics of Moby Dick and seeing World War II described therein. Ideological attitudes repeat in history, because humans are cognitively much the same; similarities are useful in forming predictions, but don’t constitute the firm evidence of descent that Moldbug claims here.)
Is there a glossary to the jargon he uses in this post (M.41, M.42)?
Is there a glossary to the jargon he uses in this post (M.41, M.42)?
Without looking at the post… I’d say that M.41 is the dark, troubled and uncertain time that we live in, and M.42 is prophesized to be the Time of Ending itself, when either the God-Emperor will return in His full glory to lead mankind anew, or the Imperium will be torn apart by Chaos and the ravening xenos, never to be rebuilt. So there.
Edit: I looked at the post, but I still prefer the WH40k interpretation, since it suits them neo-reactionaries better!
Thanks for that. I’m sure Moldbug can write clearly and concisely, and one day he will. Apparently he spent the previous epic post conclusively proving a hypothesis (that Richard Dawkins is the kind of atheist who is a cultural Christian) that Dawkins has stated outright repeatedly. Well done.
It is not clear from the first thousand words if he comes up with evidence of actual ideological descent, as compared to the hypothesis of exploration of a similar attitudinal conceptspace: being able to say “see? that’s just like Calvin! A bit!” is not actually proof-level evidence of a link. (The error is of a similar kind to straw postmodernists mapping out the hermeneutics of Moby Dick and seeing World War II described therein. Ideological attitudes repeat in history, because humans are cognitively much the same; similarities are useful in forming predictions, but don’t constitute the firm evidence of descent that Moldbug claims here.)
Is there a glossary to the jargon he uses in this post (M.41, M.42)?
Without looking at the post… I’d say that M.41 is the dark, troubled and uncertain time that we live in, and M.42 is prophesized to be the Time of Ending itself, when either the God-Emperor will return in His full glory to lead mankind anew, or the Imperium will be torn apart by Chaos and the ravening xenos, never to be rebuilt. So there.
Edit: I looked at the post, but I still prefer the WH40k interpretation, since it suits them neo-reactionaries better!