Now, before I blow my brains out, should like to point out that the most basic issue at the very center of this work is not biology, race, or technology; it is nihilismOkay then.
[Nihilism] is the bankrupt, philosophical disaster area the West dwells in. I see no "bottom", no limits to stop the freefall in value nothingness. Implicit in nihilism is the collapse of the entire human cause. The ultimate logical conclusion of Western values is the rational self-destruction of the West.I'm really struggling to understand how one comes to this conclusion, and then writes a 1,900 page manifesto about it. The conclusion itself amounts to "why bother?"
As for manifestos of this kind, they should just burn them.Pff. Here is what the guy said:
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No, delete this post. Crazy person is suicidal and writes crazy suicide note. Let's not do this.
If my hypothesis is correct, this work will be repressed. It should not be surprising if justice is not done to the evidence presented here. It should not be unexpected that these arguments will not be given a fair hearing. It is not unreasonable to think that this work will not be judged on its merits.Why prove him right? Do you really think his ideas could be dangerous in anyway? Burning notes like this before publishing, or trying to censor it just makes it just feeds the hype. The guy should be laughed at.
Sorry to the family of the missing and his connections, despite it being apposite yet opposite to his beliefs, sadness is in my words and their loss.
The ultimate consequences can be observed through the
lens of differential interpretations of Sophocles’ Antigone. In
this Greek tragedy, two forms of morality come into conflict.
On one hand, King Creon decrees that Polynices, killed in a
fight for the throne that Creon himself ascended to, should
not be given a proper burial. On the other hand, Polynices’
sister Antigone rejects her duty to the king, and plans to
bury her brother.
For the Greeks, this was a tragedy because both claims to
duty are right: Antigone had an authentic duty to the king,
and she also had an authentic duty to her brother. The
distinctly modern view, however, would assume that
Antigone was right and Creon was wrong.
Antigone’s Greek duty to her king would be reinterpreted as her right or liberty
to act upon her own will, while Creon would be viewed
simply as a tyrant who attempted to violate her rights.
Sophocles’ Antigone is not a tragedy for moderns because two
authentic goods do not come into irreconcilable collision.
From the modern view, Antigone is a story of tyranny, not
tragedy, because Creon would be considered wrong and
Antigone right.
To grasp a radical alternative to modern morality,
consider the ancient Greek Spartans. At the age of seven, a
Spartan boy was permanently removed from his mother’s
home and thereafter raised in a collective educational system
called the Agoge. By encouraging males to break ties with
their family and strengthen ties to their warrior state, the
Spartan regime helped preempt a conflict of interests
between the family and the highest patriarchal authorities.
Among the Spartans, Creon was right and Antigone was
wrong, and the Agoge was designed to preclude the tragic
possibility represented by Antigone.
this is it. this is the event. this is what the internet was born to be. an internet wherein a man can write 500,000 words refuting liberal democracy on scientific grounds, tweet the URL to his 400 closest buddys, and then kills himself IRL. This Is The Dream.Anyway, I'm not surprized Nietzsche had such an effect on a young, intellectual Jew living in his nightmare future. As far as that goes, I don't find much to disagree with in his assessment, except that as Nietzsche himself said, his analysis applied only to the Christian West and not to the rest of the world. I thus feel that he missed out on a large portion of the world's ideas about human potential. Anyway, the one line I really liked was this one:
I trace my ancestry about 13.7 billion years to the so-calledposted by shii at 8:34 PM on September 27, 2010 [2 favorites]
Big Bang. What I am is literally inseparable from the history
of the evolution of particles, galaxies, stars, planets,
chemistry, biology, and finally, cultural-technological
evolution
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And FWIW he was not a Harvard student and and had not affiliation with the college or university.
posted by ericb at 11:59 AM on September 26, 2010 [3 favorites]