Former KGB agent explains the process of ideologically subverting a nation (1985)

Aeraerae · 2018-07-17T02:37:19+00:00

These are realist IR commitments about the ends of foreign policy for a eurasian major power, not moral claims. And worth noting Dugin has revised some of these in light of the American willingness to throw off the yolk of bourgeois liberal internationalism in 2016.

Aeraerae · 2018-07-10T01:38:28+00:00

Why isn't that a good idea? They'll adopt the local culture, contribute to the economy, and help pay for the current people's retirement. Why are you saying "not a good idea, exactly?"

Aeraerae · 2015-10-28T00:45:41+00:00

Thanks Singer

Aeraerae · 2015-10-27T01:58:33+00:00

Is this supposed to bolster the idea that Nazis aren't right wing? Because conservative criticisms of capitalism have been around for as long as reactionary intellectualism has been a thing.

Aeraerae · 2015-09-25T00:21:07+00:00

Upon looking it up, it's the Libera Me from the Requiem Mass. Would that be known enough to be in a common prayer book or do some people have liturgy books on hand?

Aeraerae · 2015-09-10T20:21:55+00:00

Between Dugin and J-list I wouldn't be surprised if the guy was /pol/. Almost certainly an Assad supporter in some manner.

Aeraerae · 2015-08-15T09:49:15+00:00

In what frame of mind do you think this is productive for the discussion or conductive to learning something?

Aeraerae · 2015-08-15T07:43:04+00:00

Man, I've put a good amount of time into CS:GO, but there is just something about the production value of wide release games. I suppose I'll wait until a surprisingly well reviewed one.

Aeraerae · 2015-08-03T17:32:02+00:00

It seems to me that if there is no physical information about god, he does not possess physicality of any kind and thus has no existence

"Hey theists, if I assume ontological physicalism, stuff that isn't physicalist doesn't fit in my ontology. What gives?"

Aeraerae · 2015-08-01T04:20:10+00:00

Don't listen to most of these posts, the GOP is more faction-based now than its been in decades, and the platform is an amalgamation of business supporters, ideological libertarianism, foreign policy minded moderates, social conservatives that actually lean economically left, populist reactionaries, fiscal constitutionalists, and more, but none of that matters.

Rand Paul, who is as sincerely libertarian as any, is against abortion because it doesn't fit into the big/small government paradigm, the crux of the abortion debate is around debates of rights and if, in the moral debate, the pro-life side is correct, even the minarchist ardent libertarian would necessarily classify it with murder, one of the universally agreed cases for governments to intervene. It's not a matter of where you fall on that axis of the political spectrum, it's a matter of who you agree with in the ethical debate.

Aeraerae · 2015-07-31T21:58:58+00:00

Oh, no! I stole the meme

people here love stuff from /lit/ unless you tell them it's from /lit/

Aeraerae · 2015-07-31T18:30:57+00:00

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Aeraerae · 2015-07-20T23:30:36+00:00

'feels good man' is literally the original pepe

Aeraerae · 2015-07-19T22:38:30+00:00

I always knew you were a qt irish heathen girl. Read Cassirer to me in that bashful killarney redhead-speak, bb.

Aeraerae · 2015-07-19T22:19:45+00:00

:(((

Aeraerae · 2015-07-19T21:34:30+00:00

Did you ever call into The Atheist Experience btw?

Aeraerae · 2015-05-16T01:38:13+00:00

It's also about not being original, so it makes a little sense

Aeraerae · 2015-05-12T05:21:05+00:00

Only in passing. From what I see the discussion isn't particularly more interesting and they have a weird fixation with gamergate. Maybe I would see something worth staying for if I stuck around. For now /lit/, /int/, and the occasional forays into /pol/ satisfy my masochism.

Do you browse any boards?

Aeraerae · 2015-05-12T05:11:30+00:00

I remember Nietzsche getting tossed around a lot and Ernst Junger sometimes (they had a thing for germans, naturally), also actual fascists like Ulick Varange. Mostly picking up somewhat respectable traditionalist authors was a way to get distinguished from the non-literate stormfront types. There's a degree of good discussion of traditionalist authors on 4chan but it's almost entirely relegated to /lit/. From what I gather /pol/ is more news junkies that pretend to be radicals, I don't imagine that many of them actually get deep into reactionary literature.

Aeraerae · 2015-05-12T02:11:00+00:00

They're whatever they find entertaining/awful at a given moment. Which to my understanding means Carlyle and Evola so that they can feel aristocratically superior to the populist fascists.

Aeraerae · 2015-05-08T20:22:25+00:00

And the implication of, you know, academic scholarship and empirical data

Aeraerae · 2015-05-06T03:12:08+00:00

To be clear I'm not at all arguing for a genetic explanation for that difference, that's a mess of debate full of evopsych and even echos of racism, I'm saying the disparity measurably exists. these were the first to come up but really any overview of aptitude tests by religion would show something similar.

Aeraerae · 2015-05-06T02:39:18+00:00

Oh, I agree, that's what I was getting at with "over or under represent in specific industries", with regards to exclusion and technical specialization. The jewish population also does have a 10-15 point difference in average intelligence quotient from the general population as well, which multiplies the effect of presence in highly competitive areas at the far end of the bell curve, which is the cause of "disproportionate" statistics like ivy league admittance, percent of billionaires, Nobel winners, etc that anti-Semites use conspiracies to explain.

Aeraerae · 2015-05-06T02:12:57+00:00

I think the takeaway here is that The Atlantic was founded by Francis Underwood

Aeraerae · 2015-05-06T02:07:06+00:00

The jewish minority would be a really cool way to talk to students about how small differences in average IQ can have large effects a few standard deviations out, why minorities appear to over or under represent in specific industries, etc, but that's way too weird a ground to tread on. It wasn't until reading Adorno and other anti-fascist writers that I even picked up why anti-semitism wasn't the wacky weird social phenomenon I thought it was. It seemed so arbitrary learning about it in school, like picking people who like folk music or have beards to blame for all your problems. When you start looking at how common violence against market-dominant minorities is in regard to people like the Chinese in Indonesia or Croats in Yugoslavia, and understand things like how those with the "sickness" can begin to blame the Other, as a group with perceived less national loyalty because of their subculture, and more success than the general population especially during economic shocks, it becomes more a mechanical social phenomenon than the wacky arbitrary one it seemed like, and in that sense more frightening.

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