How dawkins got pwnd by mencius moldbug 37,941 words. Atavisionary mencius moldbug, unqualified reservations 2007. An open letter to openminded progressives is the first systematic introduction moldbug produced, and remains the most comprehensive selfcontained exposition of moldbugs thought. Yarvin is the most prominent figure of what has been called the dark enlightenment, one thread of modern reactionary thought. Support mencius moldbug by purchasing the kindle ebook. An open letter to openminded progressives kindle edition by. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Professor dawkins is a great scientist and one of my favorite writers. An open letter to openminded progressives quotes by mencius. An open letter to open minded progressives chapter 9. In this he tries to explain his point using a theoretical world in which nigerian workers coming to america are banned from using the citizens drinking fountains a common symbol from. Moldbug is a rationalist constructivist at heart he repeatedly refers to social problems as a matter of engineering.
Moldbug argues that order and hierarchy are civilizing, meaning that they contribute to the institutions that develop everything positive ab. I read this a few years ago in pdf form, but i bought the book so id be able to highlight all the juicy material. Curtis guy yarvin born june 25, 1973, also known by the pen name mencius moldbug, is an american farright blogger. On the dark enlightenment, and of curtis yarvin mencius moldbug written by charles my project here is to analyze, in the detail required for all necessary understanding, the thought of curtis yarvin, who wrote under the pseudonym mencius moldbug. Plague of dead sharks, by alan dugan my new comments policy jaroslav hasek and the kernelmonitor. Richard dawkins recently wrote a book called the god delusion. Github keithanyanopenlettertoopenmindedprogressives. Ive now read everything by savant mencius moldbug and 97 percent of what he says makes perfect sense. The point is less to offer up neoreactionary texts with the intent of persuading you of particular premises though that is still an intent but to provide an introduction to the neoreactionary mode of thought. With respect to robert pearsons answer, no, you should not take mencius moldbug seriously. A discussion of the neoreactionary book an open letter to openminded progressives by mencius moldbug. Neomonarchist blogger denies hes chatting with steve. A gentle introduction to unqualified reservations ebook.
An open letter to openminded progressives part 1 part 2. I took the liberty of creating a more easy to use index of moldbug s blog here. Having ostensibly secured himself a reasonable amount of discretionary income in the dotcom boom, he took a sabbatical to read some books, old and new. The return of the reactionary part ii voegelinview. Robin hanson, associate professor of economics at george mason university, who is blogging at overcoming bias, and mencius moldbug, who is blogging at unqualified reservations, unqualifiedreservations. If you are an openminded progressive, you are probably not a catholic.
Mencius moldbug an open letter to open minded progressives ch. Perhaps it can serve as a sort of introduction to this strange blog, unqualified reservations. Here are links to mencius moldbugs series an open letter to openminded progressives. A kind of facetious thomas hobbes or carl schmitt for the wikipedia generation. If you are an open minded progressive, you are probably not a catholic. Mencius moldbug, author of an open letter to openminded progressives, on librarything.
He may not have the name recognition of a milo yiannopoulos, but mencius moldbug is arguably just as important a figure in the emergence of the selfdescribed altright moldbug the pen name. Smiths reasoning was that trump represented perhaps the. An open letter to openminded progressives part 1 posted by mencius moldbug at 12. Then you get the worst of all governments the revolutionary government. He may contribute to unqualified reservations again sometime in the future. Moldbuggery an organized collection of mencius moldbugs writings, the foundation of neoreaction. April 22nd, 2007 was moldbugs debut on, publishing his formalist manifesto, to be republished as the first article on unqualified reservations a day later. Moldbugs gentle introduction the dark enlightenment. An open letter to open minded progressives mencius moldbug.
An open letter to openminded progressives github pages. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Hes certainly an interesting thinker, but hes rather obscure and doesnt have any obvious connection to less wrong, so im wondering where this overlap in readership came from. Mencius moldbug couldnt think of a better way to demonstrate the profound and utter phoniness, the shameless and thoroughly criminal hypocrisy, of the american obsession with civil liberties, than to visit his friendly local library and request a copy of liberty under the soviets 1927 available nowhere online, apparently by roger n. Fossetti gave a good summary of unqualified reservations, moldbugs blog, if you are looking for relative brevity. Ive seen several people on less wrong recommend mencius moldbugs writings, and ive been curious about how he became so popular here. This is from quite early in the book while im introducing my three main characters of eliezer yudkowsky, mencius moldbug, and. A theory of the ruling underclass is flawed, but in an interesting way. A fantastic intellectual trip, taking the reader through the underworld of ideas that have shaped our current crisis of identity in the us and the west.
Introduction to moldbuggery has the moldbug reading list. Some readers, especially those with technical backgrounds, may prefer the closely related volume a gentle introduction to unqualified reservations, which develops. Here are links to mencius moldbug s series a gentle introduction to unqualified reservations. Mencius moldbug has taken up my challenge to explain the immigration invasion. Mencius moldbug unqualified reservations a formalist manifesto the case against democracy. Here are the moldbug posts which originally started outlining the idea. Mencius moldbug is currently considered a single author. Moldbug cryptically hinted that he is going into retirement. An open letter to open minded progressives is the first systematic introduction moldbug produced, and remains the most comprehensive selfcontained exposition of moldbug s thought.
Part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7 part 8 part 9a part 9b. This open letter challenges everything you thought you knew about politics and history. Start with open letter series, then simply go from the beginning. Mencius moldbug is one of the more influential neoreactionaries. When time permits we will reproduce the full text, with internal links. An open letter to openminded progressives by mencius. Menciusthe basic problem with forprofit government is that it is not a stable schelling point for the military. That sort of thing is quite out of style these days and. The soldiers may be convinced by a mob of peasants that the people are the rightful rulers, rather than the monarch. An open letter to openminded progressives by mencius moldbug. Lately ive been experiencing quite a bit of deja vu, and not in the least of a good kind.
Blasphemy, inquisition, indoctrination, and brainwashing still occur from the perspective of the progressive religion. Every time nasa fires off some colossal shoulder of technopork to some random, godforsaken interplanetary destination, it ships one or two hundred custom widgets, each of which is. The jacobite history of the world mencius moldbug may 1, 2008. Imagine writing an open letter to catholics, suggesting ways for them to free their minds from the insidious grip of rome. An open letter to open minded progressives chapter 3. Mencius moldbug unqualified reservations free ebook download as pdf file. Looking through my archives, i see that ive been aware of the dark enlightenment or the neoreactionary nrx movement since at least september 2007, when i slogged through a mencius moldbug post and selected some key quotations from it i read another post by mm in february 2009 and complained about it. Everything else in this pdf was written by mencius moldbug on the specified dates.
Moldbug mentions the cathedral in many of his posts, but i tried to only pick the ones that seem to focus mostly on cladistics. An open letter to openminded progressive a gentle introduction to unqualified reservations how dawkins got pwned a formalist manifesto patchwork. Thereafter ur petered off as yarvin turned his efforts increasingly towards developing a blockchainbased datastorage scheme called urbit. Part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7 part 8 part 9 part 10 part 11 part 12 part part 14. Secular progressivism is the memetic descendent of puritan calvinism. An open letter to open minded progressives part 1 thursday, april 17, 2008 at 12. Elizabeth sandifer 3 years, 11 months ago in preparation for the may launch of our kickstarter for it, were running excerpts of neoreaction a basilisk. The recent bout was inspired by ben smiths piece for buzzfeed in which he struggled to understand how an ayn rand loving libertarian like the technologist peter thiel could end up supporting a statist demagogue like donald trump. An open letter to openminded progressives kindle edition by moldbug, mencius. Open letter an open letter to open minded progressives part 1 date.
I think that his main purpose is to distract people who are nominally right wing or fascist into an ineffective and weak way of thinking, away from pursuing a white homeland for our people. One was personal and turned him into a favorite philosopher of the altright. Altright darling mencius moldbug wanted to destroy. Altogether this canon must be hundreds of thousands of words in length. Here are links to mencius moldbug s series an open letter to open minded progressives. An open letter to openminded progressives mencius moldbug. Like lawrence auster, mencius criticizes liberals which he prefers to call universalists or progressives. Mencius moldbug of the neoreactionary movement is a fraud. At the foresight 2010 conference in palo alto, ca a debate was arranged between dr.