R.C. Satoshi

John 10:34
Matthew 6:24
Acts 4:32

[R.C. Satoshi @DeCryptorado]

@Logo_Daedalus Gen-x Trump guy, but Luongo does useful analysis https://t.co/Daqq64w0UT

["D." Fool @FoolOfD]

I'm sympathetic, of course, but there is a tendency to underestimate the United States among your multipolar types. What it lacks in authority and military prowess, it makes up for in its capacity for state capture, information dominance, and the liquidity of its capital markets.

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@Y2K_mindset @donaldp1917 https://t.co/p8PYlMne1F

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@FTX_YoungBoy I've been doing Math Academy for several months and it's been really useful for structured learning. They're working on an abstract algebra course

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@drumm_colin "Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity" - Marshall McLuhan

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@sinklord McLuhan's 'effects precede causes'

[Agent 888 @Agent888488]

“We are really present in everything we perceive”

-Bergson

“On all electric media the sender is sent. That is the message. You are the message. They send you.”

-McLuhan

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@Logo_Daedalus There's a transcript of one of them if you want a taste of the high-level McLuhan discussion https://t.co/MevUQX1Zmd

[wydna @wydna777]

I put up a new Pseudcast episode. A discussion with Edberg touching on the College of Arms, the philosophy of Law, Marx and Savigny, and Heraldry and Rosicrucianism. https://t.co/7Pt2hgy243

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@Logo_Daedalus And we only get the TIPS https://t.co/JqgPi1wVCm

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@Y2K_mindset It's interesting how the Mormon component gets downplayed in all this

[kildall trout @clintonthegeek]

In the 1920s Wyndham Lewis declared himself the solitary “enemy” against the Marxist editors of transitionmagazine by dismantling precisely these sorts of collectivist dialectics. In the editorial of the first issue of his literary magazine The Enemy, he neatly disencumbers himself from the influence of society at large:

“…the nearest big revolutionary settlement lies some distance behind me. I have moved outside. I found it impossible to come to terms with the canons observed in it. Outside I am freer.
“The advantages incident to this removal are many. First, being in solitary schism, with no obligations at the moment towards party or individual colleague, I can resume my opinion of the society I have just left, and its characteristics, which else might remain without serious unpartisan criticism. My observations will contain no social impurities whatever; there will be nobody with whom I shall be dining to-morrow night (of those who come within the scope of my criticism) whose susceptibilities, or whose wife's, I have to consider.”

This is a core distinction against what James calls the Woke Right. The enemy of the collective can’t just ratchet the dialectic.
He then goes on to hint at his ambitious analysis of the forces creating the mass mind which he first wrote about in his Machiavellian book The Art of Being Ruled:

“No abstract “time” or epoch has ever taken it into its abstract head to deconcretise, as this one has, its children. In its progressive prescission of all that is individual, its rage to extinguish the independent life of persons, this abstraction has assumed, for us, a physiognomy, along with its purpose, not possessed by other mere times, mere “epochs, epochs,” coloured and characterised by the individuals within them. Our period is like a person, in short, just as we are less and less like one; the secret of its being is technically expressed in terms of “mass-psychology.” But that name describes the trick of it, without touching on its origins or significance.”

Of course in The Art of Being Ruled, Lewis was far more ambivalent about the fate of the masses swallowed up in the infantile, emotional provocations of the press. In this issue of The Enemy, he takes a far more constructive view in the many essays which would eventually form the bulk of his book Time and Western Man. He looks at how the continuity or ground of perceptual reality is shaped into a repeating, cyclical, single day. He calls this timelessness Romanticism. He notes that, until the 20thcentury, intellectuals spoke against the prevailing currents of their time, whereas mass media allows for the adulation and raising of voices of consensus as intelligentsia.

“All other times have bred criticism, and its wholesome revolts and corrections, in their midst. Bad as sometimes they have been, by this toleration they have shown that they possessed some humility, or in other cases that they were great enough to allow censure. The names we remember in european literature are those of men who satirised and attacked, rather than petted or fawned upon, their contemporaries. Only this time exacts an uncritical hypnotic sleep of all within it. This, as elsewhere I am showing, is the sleep of the machine or, humanly, of the mass. This assumption of a unique pattern, of a universal standard or norm, is in its origin an effect, not of political innovation, but of the technique of science and industry. “Thou shalt have no other Times but me!” our Time appears to fulminate; for, as I have said, we have become so conscious of this obsessing “Time,” that we tend to personalise it. But it is in reality less of a personal-Time than any other, far more of an abstraction. For it is simply a machine.”

As with most of Lewis, the following could be written about today (wanting only in felicity of language):

“A ‘Time’ is in any case always a congeries of the most insignificant people within it. It is the habit of the fashionable majority at the surface to take the credit for things they have never done, and are incapable of even conceiving. It is they who pass themselves off as a mysterious Force, from which, in fact, they slavishly receive all that they possess. To-day they are less in touch than usual with that Force: there seems to be a growing hiatus. The majority are more critically separated from the directive source than is the case in a less complex society. That is no doubt the main reason why they so grossly misrepresent it; why they tend to deteriorate, and why they have no longer, as it seems, the energy to differ, and are apt to approximate to one stale, violent, pattern.”

The culmination of his fight against “the diabolical principle” of bloodlust and thirst for violent revolution by communist artists and their friendly literary critics is his book of that name, first released in The Enemy issue 3:
https://t.co/qBtioSgIJa (PDF download for volume three on right-hand side— The Diabolical Principle starts on page 31).

The Diabolical Principle is an incredible breakdown of how literary magazines in the 1920s were cultivating a taste for mass death by subordinating art to politics. It's absolutely worth reading in full.

Nobody quite dismantles the propagandists affect to impartiality like Lewis—a man who voluntarily alienated himself from everyone he knew in order to criticize the very stage of the world itself. He had a profound effect on McLuhan, who built his own fame out of Lewis technique of self-effacement. He certainly influenced Orwell.
The only reason I can see that nobody reads Lewis is the difficulty of his prose. The difficulty is not owing any obscurantism on Lewis part. Rather, like McLuhan, its because his mastery of his native English exceeds the reading ability of what is encountered in higher education today. “Difficult” texts today are either translated or overly-conceptual. Lewis is neither: he’s just smarter than you.

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@mujaya_ Neel gel is available again

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@Logo_Daedalus Catherine Austin Fitts put out some stablecoin analysis recently https://t.co/h89enB6EPk

[wydna @wydna777]

The Ossian Pseudcast is up, with full notes and a bibliography. About James Macpherson and the Ossian controversy, with discussions of Macpherson's sources, the book of the Dean of Lismore, the textual history of the Iliad's oral transmission etc. https://t.co/pI6wfvhHP9

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@_PeterRyan @drumm_colin might have an answer

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@GENIC0N @pmarca Grok what year was electricity discovered?

[wydna @wydna777]

Me and Ed recorded the intro to new Pseudcast V 2.0 series: Laying the Machinery of Detection Bare: A History of Literary Forgery 1760-1830. This will be a five part series on Macpherson, Chatterton, Ireland, Collier, and Wise. This will be a big series https://t.co/MVxZ7ucGHs

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@Logo_Daedalus https://t.co/19cjZc8vE6

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@cmuratori @htmx_org Few understand the esoteric secrets of XML https://t.co/o9bQoSRg2G