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You realize this is a dream job for a sizable chunk of the population. Immured inside a big concrete cylinder & drip fed worm percocet so you can play Space Shipping Tycoon for 5,000 years in a row. There’s guys out there doing that for free right now
Can any dune book reader explain why anyone would choose to become a navigator in Dune?
In the world of Dune, navigators are barely human anymore. They spend years immersed in highly concentrated spice gas, causing their bodies to mutate severely until they resemble strange fish-like creatures. So, why would anyone accept such a terrible price?
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When I read older books, I'm always struck by how unoptimized they are. Books wandered in their prose, had meandering backstories for side characters, and had strange and illogical plot points. Now, it's like every word in a book has to be razor-focused, hurtling toward the conclusion. There's no room for idle dreaming.
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Modern life as a young person is a continuous humiliation ritual. Constantly supplicating and inquiring and making do. Materially it’s not so bad, but psychically it can be tough.
That’s why all Zoomer e-celebs are some variant on “One Who Humiliates, and is never Humiliated”
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Rudolf Steiner was so correct when he warned that humanity’s “shadowy thoughts” would one day creep over the Earth like a spider’s web: a brood of half-mineral, spider-like creatures, interconnected in a network with “an overwhelming power of intellect.”
“And from the Earth there will spring forth a terrible brood of beings, a brood of automata of an order of existence lying between the mineral and the plant kingdoms and possessed of an overwhelming power of intellect. This swarm will seize upon the Earth, will spread over the Earth like a network of ghastly, spider-like creatures… These spidery creatures will be all interlocked with one another, and in their outward movements they will imitate the thoughts that men have spun out of the shadowy intellect… All the thoughts that lack substance and reality will then be endowed with being.”
- Rudolf Steiner, GA 204 (Dornach, May 13, 1921)
In today’s world (2026), the Internet is that connective web, running through electricity, wires and power, and reaching further into transhumanism, where the web begins to entrap us. AI, which some fear will become a superintelligence (theory of Singularity), a digital god, or even the Antichrist, works through the same things: powered by electricity, the decaying light of sub-nature, bound to sub-earthly forces of darkness.
Perhaps that is the secret of the “World Wide Web.”
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I don’t know if we’ve grasped just how bad it is that public spaces have succumbed to entropy & decay. It’s the death of chance encounters: no more serendipitous connections, no more unplanned journeys. Millions of friends, lovers, & mentors never found, lost to time now. The million-branch tree of a human lifetime pruned to just a few controlled, algorithmic, safe pathways; a series of transitions from indoor scene to car to indoor scene, over and over; a pervasive sense of loneliness that is increasingly hard to shake. This is no way to live
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The collapse of Roman Britain was quicker and more total than virtually anywhere else in the West. A disintegration of urbanism and a complete seizure of internal trade within a generation. There were forty year olds in 400 AD who’d grown up in prosperous and recognisably Roman cities and would have spent their remaining years in wattle and daub huts as the Great Weald encroached gradually on the urban ruins of the South
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New blog poast--Emergency Medicine After Trump--pre 2026 midterms I write on my disappointment with Trump second term, the degradation of politics and discourse...and two IMMODEST urgent proposals...
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The answer I arrived at in some recent research into the 3rd century is that what's missing from this discussion is that it is specifically the Eastern Mediterranean that got into gnosticism.
This is because the eastern Mediterranean of middle and late antiquity had a lot of material prosperity and safety but also a lot of inequality, stagnant social and economic mobility, and anxiety around status, whether the music was about to stop, plus ennui from migration and urbanization caused by the pax romana.
It is the single time and place in history which most resembles our own in terms of what adaptive and maladaptive pathologies were viable. Alexandria was something like mixing a favela with LA.
It's not the terror and brutality of nature that makes people gnostic, or else it would have been the German tribes who thought it up. Gnosticism is fundamentally a disease of failing to thrive in artificial conditions that feel hostile to human nature. Flinching under the hand of a slave master is what gives you the idea of an evil demiurge, not watching lions kill antelope or whatever
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Tell every good child how their various qualities will make them a good parent. Immediately after, ask how many kids they'll have. They'll beam with joy as they start to imagine their future. A fraction of a baby is added to the world. No one else invites them to imagine this.
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I hate birding Halloween, what do you mean you’re a Vermillion Flycatcher?
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Memorization has an unfairly negative reputation. I recently spent a few hours memorizing the names of all the countries in the world and it's such a clear improvement in how well I can understand and reason about other topics. Memorization is scaffolding for more complex ideas
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If you've lost all hope and sense of purpose, well, where did you use it last
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In my experience at least, your political opinions don’t actually prevent women from dating you. You can disagree strongly on specific issues, including issues related to feminism or gender roles, and it’s fine. What a lot of right-wing men are mistaking for political exclusion is actually the deep female drive to reject losers and whiners. Rightism is an institutional loser right now, and that’s largely what they’re reacting to. But that doesn’t mean you have to have a loser mindset. Be a little insane. Hold nothing back. Don’t be preemptively defensive about your views. Be loose and casual and good-humored. Be genuinely confident. Don’t be an obnoxious pedant. Just let your truth flow freely from you without grasping or insecurity. Laugh often and well. Trust in fate/God/wyrd. Relax.
What women absolutely will not tolerate is the impression that you’re waiting on someone’s permission to achieve your goals or state your opinion or assert yourself. In the modern environment, as a rightist, not doing this requires being a little bit insane. So be a little insane. Dance madly through the world. Let go of your need for approval, or your need to make a point, and just be. The animal assurance of your confidence is more important than checking off a list of positions.
And it’s more fun anyway! Just live and feel and be free. Shed the shackles of discourse and rationalism and just dance.
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The singularity happened 250 years ago, anyone who talks about it as a future or present concern are not serious contenders or helpful to the task at hand. It's been the post apocalypse for a long time and your job is not to panic or prepare or survive, but to build civilization from scraps. The dream of liberalism is that every man be a king, and it has been long achieved. This was also the state of man in nature, before civilization. We are at the stage in the cycle where kings begin to unite through marriages and oaths into nations. It's been a world of 9 billion micro-nations, every man is an island. Now some are starting to conquer and some are starting to unite in other ways, and the 9 billion micronations will form into 1 billion slightly less Micro-nations, and so on and so on. Technology and Peter tiel and globalism is not the end times, it's not the antichrist. You're not in the revelation, you are walking in the desert out of Egypt. You haven't even made it out of Egypt yet