Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy Pride Month, peeps)
Ah yeah they absolutely are two branches off the same tree! I've heard the tree is called Alfred Korzybski but I'm not super familiar myself. But yeah I was thinking the other day about how Dune is replete with "tech" in the Scientologist sense. I feel like "not becoming a cult leader" is a pretty low bar, but their parallel evolution is a pretty fascinating case study.
Also as far as Dune discourse is concerned, there is one thing no one talks about that is very important to me, and it is that in Children of Dune Frank Herbert implicitly acknowledges that Irulan is an acronym of "urinal".
IRULAN FLUSHED!!!!!!!! I love it. I wish Herbert had allowed himself to be this silly more often. Imagine a world where Dune had been more like Whipping Star!
Also a speech writer for various Republicans, a Reagan fan obviously and a big boring libertarian muh freedom from ~~taxes~~ government tyranny. His main edge over Ayn Rand is the weird evopsych ecofascist stuff.