A More Perfect Disunion: “Trump’s running mate in 2016 was Mike Pence, an Evangelical Neocon. His current partner is JD Vance, 40, a Catholic equally at home with reactionary rightism and technological futurism. Vance represents the beginning of a new sort of establishment, less comprehensive, more regional and eclectic, and archaeo-traditional in outlook: a faith far closer to the frontier Protestant spirit that characterized America in its origins than the Protestant spirit it came to assume. Perhaps this return can inject new vitality into a religious and political culture that has grown stagnant, moribund, and indeed hostile to the civilizational values that created it. Ironically we might now be witnessing the return of the phenomenon that shaped Protestantism from the very beginning: reformation.”
An “Accident of Birth”: “A Lord is not born by accident; aristocrats are created, on purpose, usually by a long line of previous aristocrats trained in precisely the same way for centuries. There is nothing ‘accidental’ about a Lordship…The return of the king is not a procedural outcome that can be manipulated. It is a matter of Providence when he will return, and we can only prepare ourselves for the blessings of Providence.”
Caesarism in Oswald Spengler’s Philosophy of History: “Since all cultures are bound to fall, Spengler suggested that the West come to terms with its imminent demise, and only through that — the realization of the nature of reality, birth and death — can it achieve an honorable end.”
Decentralized Artificial Intelligence: “Embedded within crypto infrastructure and its general design philosophy are the characteristics that aid in preserving and promoting trust and human autonomy at tremendous scale. Transparency and privacy deployed where appropriate. Open access and censorship resistance. Broad based ownership, deep liquidity, and the ability to fork or clone any network in order to implement new rules. In combination, this constellation of characteristics enable DeAI to compete with the corporate Goliaths and make it hard for any one artificial intelligence or consortium of artificial intelligences to dominate.”
Requiem for the Hoover Dam: “It is fitting that the ferocious genius loci of the Wild West would inspire its own distinctive technological Colossus, the hydroelectric dam. In Man and Technics, Oswald Spengler defines the Faustian spirit as a will to transform the world ‘by the force of its practical energy and the gigantic power of its technical processes.’ Dynamism is the essence of Western technics, which is concerned ‘not with stuffs, but with forces,’ and with the practical conversion of force to ends, and the multiplication of man’s ends.”
Surprise, Surprise: “It took four years for slightly more than half of America to see that our country’s fate was in the hands of villains wrecking the joint.”