BTW, while the wackier Christian fundamentalists are certainly an example of people in the present horrified by the way we live now, I mainly had in mind people like Moldbug, and the things that he is horrified by.
Mencius Moldbug? Thanks for informing me of his amusing crankery. I remember reading a few comments by him on OB, mainly about how there was really a communist conspiracy to exploit/destroy the US, but didn’t investigate his screeds further.
EDIT: Jeez, it’s not (blatant) crankery, looks like! Updating...
EDIT: Yep, it is. No matter how clear-sighted he might be about some of the world’s problems, his logic is basically a mirror opposite of, say, William Burroughs’.
The same. I’ve read most of his blog, although I don’t follow it assiduously. I find him quite sound, to an extent, on the things he is against; less so on what he is for. There is a certain enlightenment experience to be had from reading him (whether one agrees or not), after which, like the FedEx arrow, certain things are never quite the same again. To then read (to take a random example) something like blogs.plos.org, is to see his Modern Structure poking through here and there, like an enormous mountain range under the ocean, that would otherwise seem to be but a few insignificant islands.
BTW, while the wackier Christian fundamentalists are certainly an example of people in the present horrified by the way we live now, I mainly had in mind people like Moldbug, and the things that he is horrified by.
Just saying.
Mencius Moldbug? Thanks for informing me of his amusing crankery. I remember reading a few comments by him on OB, mainly about how there was really a communist conspiracy to exploit/destroy the US, but didn’t investigate his screeds further.
EDIT: Jeez, it’s not (blatant) crankery, looks like! Updating...
EDIT: Yep, it is. No matter how clear-sighted he might be about some of the world’s problems, his logic is basically a mirror opposite of, say, William Burroughs’.
The same. I’ve read most of his blog, although I don’t follow it assiduously. I find him quite sound, to an extent, on the things he is against; less so on what he is for. There is a certain enlightenment experience to be had from reading him (whether one agrees or not), after which, like the FedEx arrow, certain things are never quite the same again. To then read (to take a random example) something like blogs.plos.org, is to see his Modern Structure poking through here and there, like an enormous mountain range under the ocean, that would otherwise seem to be but a few insignificant islands.