I just find fashy mysticism so tiresome. Intellectually bankrupt but not really on the line for that, if only because it's all so handwavey and stupid that no one could ever take it that seriously to begin with. It's all just a bit pathetic. - ThreadSky

lastpositivist.bsky.social • 38 days ago

I just find fashy mysticism so tiresome. Intellectually bankrupt but not really on the line for that, if only because it's all so handwavey and stupid that no one could ever take it that seriously to begin with. It's all just a bit pathetic.

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like, take a look at this IM-1776 article on annexing Greenland: they view it as their duty to seize Greenland and make it theirs

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omaromalleykhan.bsky.social•38 days ago

But but the architecture or the trains or something equally untrue

williameburns.bsky.social•38 days ago

Not the main point here, but aren't there quite a few institutions that predate the French Revolution? Not just the Catholic church but the Orthodox and many Protestant churches as well, numerous monarchies, etc.

lastpositivist.bsky.social•38 days ago

Never let facts get in the way

etvpod.bsky.social•38 days ago

"A hard people then, and rich perhaps, from the resources they could exploit there, or through the domination of advanced technology in a land free from pinching regulation and a parasitic governing class." I can't not hear this in Andrew Ryan's voice.

doom2.zip•38 days ago

To me the contrast between how exciting it thinks it is and how boring it actually is ends up being the thing

drsvg.bsky.social•38 days ago

It doesn't help that so much of their super important ideas come from a range of very obvious 19th century grifters (and other weirdos like Mme Blavatsky and Savitri Devi). Doesn't make it any less dangerous, but some of it does feel like building a religion out of a weird 2000s copypasta

jpober.bsky.social•38 days ago

At least when Asimov built a fashy religion out of copypasta, he was honest about it.

drsvg.bsky.social•38 days ago

Seriously considering turning the Reddit Navy Seal copypasta into a religion but on reflection that's just like 50% of today's masculinity grifters so I may need to up my game

jpober.bsky.social•38 days ago

The Star Trek Shitposting group on Facebook (one of the 2 or 3 reasons to keep it) has been my proving ground for copypasta. They are so good at it that the Lower Decks writers made Easter Eggs for the copypasta

elfstrogen.bsky.social•38 days ago

It’s bad writing because they didn’t go the Joss Whedon way of throwing a joke here or there this is why Bugs Bunny will forever clown on the nazis

thedavis.bsky.social•38 days ago

cringe

cseelig.bsky.social•38 days ago

"conditioned by the cold climate" So, sarapalingenesis then.

aelkus.bsky.social•38 days ago

nothing has changed much in 200-300 years in terms of the writing style

gvfortunato.bsky.social•38 days ago

We need Greenland to create the Fremen! This is the incel bene gesserit

pieist.xenoplasm.com•38 days ago

I think the Inuit are the Fremen and the Incels will be the Harkonnens.

pieist.xenoplasm.com•38 days ago

In terms of manifest destiny it really is more 1930s Germany than American Frontier. Even if you look closely, a bit of Teutonic Viking energy. All it needs is some talismanic equivalent of the Ark of the Covenant to go after.

sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social•38 days ago

"Western men" 😆 😅 😂

philosobobby.bsky.social•38 days ago

It’s a childish understanding of spiritual depth. But they can’t tell that it’s immature for the same reason that they have these dumb handwavey mystical views in the first place, namely, believing that they’re required to systematically ignore what’s going on inside themselves.

philosobobby.bsky.social•38 days ago

Notice that in spite of the reference to “Western men”- and it’s alway men - the *external environment* is the entire focus here, both the silly appeal to climate and the thought about the absence of rules and regulations.

stevenppeterson.bsky.social•38 days ago

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