New essay on the Eros Aristocracy: "young people don't go out anymore" because they are efficiently sorted out. I analyze accelerationism and internet amplification of youthful Eros, pure sociality, looksmaxxing and cosmetic monoculture, rise of party schools, age-gap hysteria.

"Your face, your race, the way that you talk"

"Love of humanity"

Nietzsche's message to Effective Altruists

It's very hard to do with reason what others do by instinct. There are rational operators on the left, to be sure, but their big advantage is the conformity & stubborn certainty of their many useful idiots. The right has smarter people, but smart people are much smaller in number and harder to mobilize. And many even at the top have a suicidal self-doubt that could only come from "thinking things over" — as we saw with the cancellation of the Hegseth livestream.

Turns out most of the people who screeched "we were supposed to have flying cars" will call them a useless toy once we do. Their complaints were not a lament for wasted progress, but a way for resentful nobodies to feel "above it all." And now their complaints must adapt.

No coincidence that the Nietzsche-obsessed David Bowie was the rock star who could keep his dignity and create interesting work until the day he died. These geriatric pseudo-rebellious dorks are left-wing for the same reason they're talentless: their shallow, juvenile souls.

Only in times of rapid change does decentralization outperform centralization. In a world without AGI/SI, the worst kind of centralized actors reconsolidate power — the Antichrist scenario Peter Thiel describes. But SI can free humanity from the crabs in a bucket of "mere life."

Both the lower IQ and highest IQ whites are right-wing, which tends to be attributed to the fact that midwit left-wing propaganda goes over the heads of the former and is seen through by the latter. There’s truth to this, but it overemphasizes the intellect. The ideals, the symbolism, the health, the body language of the right are apparent to all, prior to any intellectualization. The “vulgar” Trump supporter knows self-assuredness when he sees it; knows a hero when he sees one. And in fact, so does the midwit — who is then overjoyed to find left-wing propaganda that finally enables him to rationalize the resentment such a sight inspires. In many cases, the vulgar Trump supporter himself is content and self-assured, and ranks well on certain hierarchies despite a lower position on maybe IQ or class. The genius Trump supporter may or may not be on top of many hierarchies, but in some cases, intelligence is the only prominent one where he ranks well, which might inspire the assumption that all political orientation comes down to intellect. There are also instincts to love one's country, love beauty, love freedom, love community, love order, regardless of intelligence. What’s notable, then, about the midwit white left-winger is not their mediocre intelligence, but their narcissism; that there are no hierarchies that reward them except for midwit moralizing, and that that’s something they can’t accept.

One of the great gifts of (good) modern music is that in today's sacred moments it gives a similar kind of captivating busywork to the thoughtless as does prayer, while simultaneously complementing the spiritedness of the more sensitive.

Women don’t care to shame real rapists because they aren't attracted to 80IQ blobs and thus have no motivation to get back at them for not picking her, nor to lower their status to the point they might settle for her. Whereas they DO want revenge/leverage with white frat chads.

Nietzsche on those born to command vs industrialists, and the appeal of socialism

Nietzsche on science, deprivation, pain, and joy. Social media and AI can be understood under this lens.

With the exception of the greatest

Also: social media has demystified women just as much to themselves as to men. They've lost plausible deniability and must confront that ie men are much more romantic than them. It makes them feel guilty and gives them the ick (causing even more guilt), coldness is a way to cope

Everyone has laughed at a sad event before, but it's telling that AOC & Zohran let themselves laugh knowing it's all on camera and everyone knows who they are They know they can get away with it because their supporters hate America and want the event to be a humiliation ritual

This is what Vivek Ramascrawny wants to take from you.

Related — reason is all the more necessary in modernity; most instincts are not well adapted to today's circumstances. But be cautious of reason as "managed decline" in the name of lower instincts.

Nietzsche on Buddhism. Note many modern self-proclaimed "Buddhists" are actually Christian — since both are nihilist — but since they do not recognize that Christianity is nihilistic, they flock to the pop-Buddhism, a branch of Protestantism, that spells it out more.

Derek Suszko on Substack writes up my article with many great additional insights. Well worth a follow. "The effect of technological development has not been to aid egalitarian liberalism in obscuring biology but rather to produce one of the most abrupt and devastating 'rediscoveries of Nature' in human history." "In a state of civilized stasis (i.e. no frontier), validation is the surrogate of biological merit."