UpWing/DownWing and Etherealization

An Overdue Clarification I should’ve written this weeks ago, to help me outline the direction of my thinking.   This article on Aeon Magazine proposed a new political dichotomy based on (as ever) views of human nature and what kind of future we are prepared for. The new dichotomy: Green (or DownWings) vs Black (or UpWings). [As opposed to more »

Hollow States (two kinds)

I don’t mean to make much of the Upwing/Downwing dichotomy. They can be understood in existing words but those words have a lot of political baggage. Better to use nonsense words if I’m going to imbue new meaning at all. And, frankly/uninterestingly, both “teams” will have plenty of objectively significant events to cherry-pick in the more »

Mencius Moldbug II

In which things become a little hairy.  This post is now my official longest, but it’s mostly Moldbug quotes and the guy wrote up a storm, so I don’t think it properly counts. After his discussion of the American Revolution, Moldbug quickly turns his attention to what many might consider his most caustic positions: to Moldbug, Anthropogenic Climate more »

Mencius Moldbug I

The Ninety Degree Revolution This article on Aeon Magazine proposed a new political dichotomy based on (as ever) views of human nature and what kind of future we are prepared for. The new dichotomy: Green (or DownWings) vs Black (or UpWings). [As opposed to Red/Blue (or Blue/Red if you’re American) Left-Wing/Right-Wing] Of course, the strength more »