Stuart Zorin

Feel free to reach out if you're interested in: • The cultural anthropology of magic, ritual, sacrifice, religion, etc. • Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellschaft, society vs. culture, culture vs. civilization. • Openly *asymmetric* refittings or reversals of social contract theory. • Eugenics and the wider politics of heredity. • The history and nature of true aristocracy. • Nietzschean "great politics" and the various "dangerous experiments" we should go for. • Transcendental arguments in practical philosophy. • German idealism before it went stale. • The anthropic principle in analytic metaphysics. • The sociology of intellectuals and knowledge. • ASI scenarios: from the meta-existential risk of a homemade demiurge to the benefits of algorithmic gov. • Straussianism and its dangers.

@Bulkington___ Just lock the acc, fren

I will have to leave soon. Will you miss me?

@UbermenschMind This is generally not true for cognitive traits you'd want.

Few understand this but female hypergamy is a form of eugenics in itself. It's basically natural selection, because only the best men (highest status, best looking, etc...) get to pass down their genes. The only reasons why we don't have a "eugenic west" right now are condoms and women being career orientated

"We will destroy a world within ourselves in order to build another, a higher one that reaches the heavens." —'Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

When animool talk, you sit down and listen

I just want to skip ahead a decade, past the civil war, past the removal of women’s rights, past the end of democracy, and install a philosopher king with an army of autists and warriors that transition us to a governance system based on AI & Futarchy so we can be wealthy again.

@UbermenschMind Theoretically, that dial is too big for his wrist

"What's a Cortisol?"

When the girls say "I've been born in the wrong age."

I always get Reza Negarestani and Jason Jorjani mixed up.

@oscillate23 Relatable

William.S. Burroughs ( 1914-1997, writer, painter, occultist ) with his favorite knife.

Anyway, I'll be around Paris soon if any moots want to meet up

There's this girl in Paris who thinks of herself as a muse, facilitating the creation of fine art and inspiring great works of poetry. Frankly, she is just distracting and sidetracking all these creative types

@graveair Starting to understand why you don't pull.

Every conversation, regardless of content must start with “I love you” and end with “I am sorry”

Prune, prune, prune. Ever onward to the axonal age.

@jaiddog33 A veritable iron maiden

every night i coerce myself to sleep by imagine giant metal rods bursting through the ceiling and slamming into my body, obliterating it instantly. if i think hard enough i can actually feel them pushing through my flesh

@xenocosmography @TWarPhilosopher

Through Werner Sombart, may we finally come to understand that expending one's surplus through luxury consumption is yet more productive than production itself. And in war, civilian technology, too, gets a disproportionate boost. Bataille's Dionysius and Adam Smith's invisible Apollo form a closed circuit in the end.

Bataille: “Eroticism opens the way to death.” And: “What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation… bordering on death?” And what is the orgasm itself if not a blissful, momentary lapse of consciousness, a little death, "La petite mort"?

@male_leo_xxvi 🤝

I don't think I can marry a woman who doesn't have the curse of cassandra

@narrenhut You're not missing much

I have more books about the Weimar era than I have books written by women

I have once again moved so it’s time for my quarterly bookpost