Hidden Hands: How the CIA Created the New Left

Fredric Jameson, "Post-Modernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (1990)

Happy New Years!

Slavoj Zizek on Gramscian Trumpism

A Sea Island Group (NRSC)/ UniParty Perspective on MAGA

Jonah Goldberg interviews Laura Field.  Note how many of the MAGA "intellectuals" are affiliated with Leo Strauss, who also grandfathered the more pro-Israel Neocons (East Coast Straussians).  The Conservative split seems largely one between Athens and Jerusalem.

And this "Oedipal" (not Schizoid) analysis demonstrates precisely why Academics and "professional" (PhD) Intellectuals don't "get" MAGA.  The analysis fails to challenge the "privileges" of the Professional Managerial Class (economics from which their 'surplus' salaries are derived).  For to challenge the excesses of late Capitalism would require constructing a new order, more beneficial to the working class.  And that kind of change is "off the table" in their minds.  "You will own nothing and be happy".  It's to be the gypsy life for us all.

I miss Jonah's mom...  She "got it".  Trump is NOT a "Straussian".  He's an actual businessman/ owner (not a surplus salaried CEO/ PMC employee).

Goldberg in a Conversation with an "East Coast Straussian"

In this conversation, Goldberg clearly does not understand his part in the functional role of the University Discourse (Republican Party) in rationalizing the Master Discourse (President Trump).  He envisions himself as a "gatekeeper of conservatism" against the uneducated Populist masses.

Relativity and the Irrational Nature of Infinite Scaling

"All is number"

-Pythagoras

"Numbers Rule the Universe"

-Pythagoras

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from Google AI:

Isaiah Berlin's concept of incommensurable values argues that fundamental human values (like liberty, justice, equality, mercy) are often incompatible and can't be measured on a single scale, meaning choosing more of one often means less of another (e.g., more liberty, less security). This leads to value pluralism, where no single, universal hierarchy of values exists, making moral choices tragic sacrifices, and necessitating a liberal society that protects freedom (negative liberty) to allow diverse, often conflicting, good lives to flourish.

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from Wikipedia:

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, published by Kurt Gödel in 1931, fundamentally limit what formal mathematical systems can prove, stating that any consistent system powerful enough to do basic arithmetic will contain true statements that cannot be proven within the system itself (First Theorem), and that such a system cannot prove its own consistency (Second Theorem). These theorems revealed that truth and provability are not the same, shattering the dream of a complete, self-contained mathematical foundation by showing there are inherent limits to any axiomatic system.

Decoding Nick Fuentes & the Groyper Cargo Cult

It's so much Easier to indirectly spot one's own faults in 'Others' than the faults in one's self directly.  It's too personal.  It requires an ironic distance.  Nick Fuentes is simply the mirror "white" equivalent to their own woke DEI guilt-pride based Progressive Consumerist Cargo Cult.  The one that see's white people as Colonizers who must renounce Colonialism and ensure that Non-whites get their "fair share" of the Consumerist Cargo.

Late Capitalist Corporate Consumerism IS a Cargo Cult.  The Middle Class Petite Bourgeois Owner/ Producers (Prosumers) are all gone.  We're all surplus salaried corporate bourgeoisie now, awaiting the consumerist paradise wrought by the coming Technological Singularity and "unlimited' consumer choices...

No one will work (hunt/ fish/ farm) anymore.  We'll all just live off the "interest" our ancestors paid, and consume to our hearts content while AI and robots do all the work.  We're all pure Capitalists now...

Narratives: How They Make Meaning and How They Trap Us

Trapped in the Capitalist Discourse.

"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"

That phrase, often attributed to philosopher Slavoj Žižek (and Fredric Jameson), highlights how easier it is to imagine total apocalypse (asteroid, nuclear war) than a fundamental shift away from capitalism, pointing to "capitalist realism" where no alternative seems possible, though Žižek also argues we're already living in the "end of the world" through endless repetition and stagnation, not just disaster.

Victor Davis Hanson: DEI Is The Most ‘Toxic Ideology’ We’ve Ever Experie...

VDH On the Relative Importance of Having a Diverse and Inclusive Consumerist Cargo Cult

Being Able to Make and Do Things is No Longer Important...

Consumer Diversity is the Essential Requisite Quality!