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Capitalism Is Not Meritocracy

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Just watched that Yarvin NYT interview. It's clear that it's not NYT trying to contain the radical right by way of Yarvin—it's NYT trying to contain Yarvin by getting out in front of something they've lost control over.

I have my critiques of certain things Yarvin says. (For example this about the CEO/king.) But NYT have lost an important piece of the intelligentsia and they know it. The interviewer can hardly hide his repulsion at Yarvin's ideas. This was not a puff piece. Anyone treating it like that has simply not understood it, and probably not watched it. The only reason they did this interview is because they absolutely had to.


There is no such thing as man in the world. In my life, I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; thanks to Montesquieu, I know even that one can be Persian, but as for man; I declare that I have never met him in my life.

— Joseph de Maistre



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NEW EPISODE — The Outlander — We Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy

https://hearthfireradio.com/watch?v=RRHNWJSE

Albert Camus famously said of Sisyphus, the Greek tyrant forced to toil pointlessly for eternity, that "we must imagine Sisyphus happy". Can you imagine Sisyphus happy? Mike can, and he folds this into a lesson about meaning and purpose in life.


NEW BOOK — Caesarism

The Ultimate Guide to Strongman Politics.

https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/caesarism/

The “strongman” is the political boogeyman of our time. With the rise of figures like Xi, Duterte, Modi, Bukele, and Putin in the 21st century, this boogeyman has taken centre stage in global politics. Ours is the age of the Caesar.

The central argument in Wilhelm Roscher’s Caesarism is the paradox of a ruler who governs monarchically but is legitimised democratically. Drawing on historical examples from Ancient Rome, Greece, and Carthage, as well as from figures like Cromwell and Napoleon, Roscher offers a measured assessment that neither glorifies nor damns Caesarism. As contemporary political discourse increasingly revisits strongman politics, Roscher’s treatment equips readers to discern the multifaceted legacies—both constructive and destructive—that Caesarism has left on the course of history. Caesarism stands as a phenomenon, bridging the ancient and modern.

https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/caesarism/


Capitalism Is Not Meritocracy

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Capitalism Is Not Meritocracy

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Meritocracy of the kind that Silicon Valley elites are pushing is a kind of luxury that we can afford for a time. And we only have enough “civilizational capital” to spend on it in the first place because of the foundation laid by the ethic of “my country right or wrong”.

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"Meritocracy" is the ultimate expression of what Chris Bond called anarchist ("bottom-up") social ontology.

Every system aims at competent and effective institutions. The "meritocrat" says "yes, but you need the most competent individuals for that".

Which is not at all true.




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Capitalism Is Not Meritocracy

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— Be English
— Have a nepotistic endogamous kinship system (tribalism) since forever
— Oh it's the 1600s
— Discover that you can cooperate at scale by expanding "kinship" ("anyone can be us")
— Cooperate at scale
— Take over world
— Anyone can be us
— Mass immigration
— Brilliant political mind: "too many brown folks here now, we need in-group preference"
— Pleb: "you mean a nepotistic endogamous kinship system?"
— Brilliant mind: "no, that's not English"




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Silicon Valley elites have decided that in 2025, woke is out and meritocracy is in. For them, this means capitalism. But is capitalism really the same as meritocracy? Mike shows why it's not, and what real meritocracy actually looks like.

Meritocracy of the kind that Silicon Valley elites are pushing is a kind of luxury that we can afford for a time. And we only have enough “civilizational capital” to spend on it in the first place because of the foundation laid by the ethic of “my country right or wrong”.

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