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    “Don’t waste your breath decoding the enigma from outside the cave”

    oh good we’re starting with a misconstruction of plato’s cave

    Step 2: Build a frame Step 3: Create meaning through discipline Step 4: Craft your ritual Step 5: Recruit lieutenants Step 6: Be obsessive

    so not only are they max culting it outright, they’re not even bothering with the usual twenty-thrine inner circles bullshit before giving the game up? amazing

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    Literal cringe. This non-figuratively annoys me to the point I involuntarily wince in displeasure.

    Oversimplified edgelord’s guide to building an actual DnD litch/KKK style death cult for the ultimate nefarious purpose of… what? Getting to feel cool for once in your life or whatever? There are less embarrassing ways to boost your self esteem you know?

    I like hooded cloaks, wavy ceremonial daggers and pretend wizard shit as much as the next person but I’ve come to despise all kinds of sincere SEKRIT KLUB type shit from student fraternities to even more nazi possibly student fraternities. It always feels like egomaniacal autofellatio for everyone involved.

    At least wait until you’re old enough to have a midlife crisis, maybe at that point joining masons/shriners/rotaries/lions seems more age-appropriate.

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      Somewhat akin to the e-libertarians who are convinced they will assume the role of dominant survivor slash ruling class once the pesky government collapses and gets out of their way. As if their inability to attain success in the current socioeconomic climate had anything to do with outside forces limiting their potential. The rolling of my eyes is intense enough to attain gravitational coefficient.

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        “don’t worry, when everything falls we can just order some cheap computers and wifi gear off of amazon and have it delivered! I read a blog on how we can build our own ISP, it’ll be awesome”

        (and that’s about when my headache starts)

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    ah, Urbit is that kind of hallucinogenic suicide cult

    a reminder that this isn’t the first time Tlon and the Urbit community have incubated a suicide cult

    I’m tempted to post this “fanzine” (fan of what? flavor-aid?) to the orange site to see how the cult responds to their pamphlets getting too much attention, but I’m fairly sure the post will get killed by the mods there within minutes

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          @kuna I can’t really take Curtis seriously, but he did make ONE good point (in private email): the entire spectrum of political discourse today, from anarchists through communists to nazis, is built atop the wreckage of the Ancien Regime, which no longer exists: we’re all children of the century of revolutions (the 17th-18th). Ofc. that’s before he goes off the rails and tries to drag us all kicking and screaming back to the Divine Right of Kings …

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            nope, in fact I’m pretty sure Yarvin never concretely defines the term. Graydon in the linked thread or our own @dgerard@awful.systems may have more quotes from Yarvin trying to describe the thing, but for now I’ve decided that the antiversity is a university for ants

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            nuh. the idea is that the Antiversity will be the command and control structure of the reactionary society just as the University is the command and control structure of the Cathedral society.

            now you might think “that’s not what universities do at all”, but you would be correct

            Hoare thinks Urbit was intended to be the Antiversity, the communications network for the fash uprising. I can see how Yarvin might have thought that.

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              has he confused the entire university for the football games my university kept spending all their research grants and alumni donations on? cause the cathedral being nothing but the jocks who shoved Yarvin into a locker makes way too much sense