Twister
Back in 2012, I looked at the concept of peer-to-peer blogging. It is definitely time to revisitthe environment.Back then, the main threat I was concerned with was state action directed against service...
View ArticleGovernment and Management
This is quite an interesting bit of detail about the Labour Party before this year's election.What strikes me about it is that Miliband was not in any kind of control of his immediate colleagues.In a...
View ArticleBirth of a Religion
The most pertinent objection from outsiders to anyone advocating neoreactionary, formalist beliefs is that, historically, single-person rule as a mechanism for overcoming politics and discord has been...
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Soft Power
On the question of Islamic terrorism in the West, the narrative of the right has been that letting in large numbers of immigrants from Islamic countries is dangerous. The narrative of the left has been...
View ArticleElite Cosmopolitanism
Tweet from Anand Giridharadas @AnandWrites Dec 27Dear @realDonaldTrump,I'm at a Muslim wedding in a Christian church in NYC, and everyone is dancing to salsa.America already is great.That scene may not...
View ArticleOutrage
I repeated on twitter a point I've made before:I consider local stories from far away as none of my business and refuse to consider themIt was a response to bswud talking about the "Clock Boy" story /...
View ArticleArchiving
A couple of casual online conversations:First, journalist Jamie Bartlett banging on on Twitter about blockchain.It became fashionable in 2015 to dismiss bitcoin but get excited about blockchain. I...
View ArticleNeoreaction and Twitter
The ideas that became neoreaction were blogged, but neoreaction as a conscious intellectual movement started on twitter.I'm not at all sure it could have come about in the same way without twitter. My...
View ArticleA Prediction
I wrote a post in 2014 that dealt with the idea that “Cthulhu always swims left”. This catchphrase of Moldbug's has become commonplace in neoreactionary circles, and has even spread beyond. But it has...
View ArticleMore Prediction
Kicking some ideas around as to what the future of US politics looks like, filling in more detail of my previous predictionThe justification for doing this is to test my understanding, not to drive any...
View ArticleGoing for the Throat
To set the scene, this is what I think normal politics looks like:There is a kind of dynamic equilibrium of politics under the Modern Structure. The Cathedral moves left at a controlled pace. It drags...
View ArticleDistinguishing Progressivism and the Left Coalition
A commenter again objects to the idea that "left" and "right" is a useful categorisation of political ideas.On the subject of "left" and "right", there is confusion because I use the terms in two...
View ArticleChecked Power
The latest from cyborg_nomade at antinomiaimediata is a wide-ranging poking at the cracks of the neoreactionary/Moldbuggian concepts of Sovereignty and Responsible Government.As I said on twitter,...
View ArticleUnchecked Power
In my previous post, I explained why Neocameralism is not a division of power in Montesquieu's sense, but rather a special case by which the benefits of power can be divided without dissolving...
View ArticleConstitutions
At last I have set the necessary prerequisites to discuss Urielo / @cyborg_nomade's discussion of constitutions.It is possible I could have been more concise about the prerequisites: what it really...
View ArticleSeparation
No matter how big you grow, you are still vulnerable to a single accident. This includes a single self-inflicted accident.For robustness, growing is helpful but not sufficient. You need to...
View ArticlePersonal and Collective Power
In the context of my writing concerning division of power, I want to make a distinction between personal power and collective power.That is not the same as the distinction between absolute power and...
View ArticlePresident Trump
I have long ago observed that, whatever its effect on government, democracy has great entertainment value. We are certainly being entertained by the last couple of days, and that looks like going on...
View ArticleModelling Failures
Nothing really new here, but pulling a few things together.Start with Joseph K's observation:Between the replication crisis and the Great Poll Failure of 2016, quantitative social science has basically...
View ArticleActually Existing Capitalism
Something that's cropped up a few times with recent discussion of neocameralism as a concept is the role of shareholders in existing firms.Conflicts of interest between principals and agents are one of...
View ArticleDemocracy and Hacking
The New York Times has published a long analysis of the effects of the hacking of Democratic Party organisations and operatives in the 2016 election campaign.The article is obviously trying to appear a...
View ArticleTrophic Cascade
I've been blogging for 13 years, and my first post was about Islam in Europe : I believed then that danger of Islam was exaggerated, by people who I normally agreed with such as Eric RaymondI've...
View ArticleRevisiting the Program
Alrenous has played the Thesis 11 card:Alrenous @Alrenous 2h2 hours ago Finally, if you're really confident in your philosophy, it should move you action. Or why bother?You moved to China. Good...
View Article"End-to-end encryption"
The question of regulating encrypted communication has come up again. I was going to write again about how the politicians don't understand the technologies, and they probably don't, but if they did,...
View ArticleBlog Location and Feed URL changed
Very belated announcement:From 2018, I moved this blog from Google's Blogger to a self-hosted solution. The official location is:https://blog.anomalyuk.party/(It's also available, for no very good...
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