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.

Modern art is accelerationist art — in response to mass production, it moved consciously into the numeric, insisting on truth amidst the totalizing rise of kitsch. Clement Greenberg's medium specificity, to "paint cause," adapts Plato on nature and number, what "can be grasped in no other way."

The sentiment is often misunderstood that those who are reluctant to rule are best suited to. The left takes it to mean the coward, the neurotic loser, should rule. The phrase actually means that the rightful ruler is one whose life is so good that he doesn't want to give it up.

Resentful leftists thoroughly erased all common knowledge of classes and kinds of people, in favor of the obvious fiction of “equality.” Leaving just a person's resume to determine whether they are fit to lead. If everyone is supposedly equal, then of course all the work should be done BEFORE getting the job, and overkill of box checking is required, because there’s no other way to distinguish yourself as deserving. What is the benefit of all that experience? All the while, the quick and effortless solution, judgment of a person’s type, is also the more accurate and valuable method. Any important skills can easily be learned on the job. The left wants a system where worth is proven by “experience” rather than genuine talent and virtue. (This goes for politics and for any kind of modern employment.)

Much like many Americans assumed the Prefect system and School Houses were a magical invention of JK Rowling, and not a reality of British schools, many have been duped into thinking the virtue and heroics in King Arthur stories, for example, are magical fantasy ideas rather than a reality throughout history. It’s assumed all leaders must and even SHOULD be sniveling, resentful Obama types, that power corrupts, and that it would be impossible to have rule by the Good and the Great… so much so that when such a rule occurs, the ruler is hated.

Many such cases

Notice how the right promotes ancient philosophers, making it clear we've identified the same problems and solutions for thousands of years But the left has to entirely rebrand their slave morality schtick every election cycle, lest people realize what they really believe

Nietzsche spoke of this

This also extends to musical composition. The psychological and emotional range available to a modern person is too narrow to inspire or justify the melodies of opera, classical, whatever. That's before even taking into account being "bored" of the genres, though they are related

And so ironically it is science that hollowed out the humanities. Nietzsche spoke of this: "in so far as it is founded on belief in the senses it passes for more than that and must continue to do so for a long time to come. It has the eyes and the hands on its side ... this has the effect of fascinating, persuading, convincing an age with fundamentally plebeian tastes - for it instinctively follows the canon of eternal, popular sensualism" Hence the glorification of therapeutic identitarian navel-gazing kitsch "philosophy" "history" and "art."

Art is more than ever the hook to engage or sway the ignorant, and chip away at ossified lib culture; other methods aren't fit to the attention economy, are too corruptible, or both. But of course to @Ozworldart point, those who become aware must then do more than just consume. Thanks @giantgio and @MrPrudentialist for good discussion on my essay Symbol Politics

New essay on Symbol Politics How the symbolic reveals the friend-enemy distinction, how democracy hides it, the fiction of moderate politics, nomos in Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy, Nietzschean reading of Clement Greenberg, art as incorruptible memetic education

Tonight Digital Archipelago is back! me and @MrPrudentialist are joined by @Ozworldart to have a little debate over the question of "chud art" and to review an excellent article by @eenthymeme on symbolism, politics and the world of art, 8:00pm est, link below👇, see you then!

The First Amendment is mostly useless today, and what little "free speech" remains online will be dismantled next time a Democrat wins. “There is no meaningful distinction between the public and the private sector in the United States of America.” - JD Vance

The point of intellect is to reshape and channel the impulse and instinct. When it is purely constructive and self-referential it’s hollow. Clear in art, why intelligence is necessary to a point, but without more is "pretentious"

Darwin said the whole point of everything is just getting baddies, but BAP qualifies the statement: that's only true in a fully owned society. You can imagine the impulse a kid has playing Minecraft or Call of Duty, to create civilization, compete, and go to war… but you may stop playing those games once you’re old enough to truly internalize that they are fake. But imagine a world where those activities are real and have real rewards — sexual conquest is but one of many ambitions. That requires anything else left to win, and we do not have it. (In many ways we do not have sexual conquest anymore either and as such we have Pandafication.) Baudrillard says we have Disneyworld to hide the fact that the rest of the country is just as fake. Video games serve same purpose I think. Really it’s the opposite of what fearmongering child "advocates" say: it’s not that young kids will be violent in real life because they are violent in their games, but that they will be violent in games because they first think like it is real life.

Proposed education policy to supplement BAP Fertility Cult: Women siphoned into visual curation classes, which suit their natural talents & reduce delusions they understand wordy domains like politics. They wont accept return to home ec or MRS degree... maybe this is better.

"Sovereign is he who decides on the beautiful mid" Carl Schmitt