• @gerikson
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    62 years ago

    This is some unsettling shit (read until the end)

    • David GerardOPMA
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      92 years ago

      It takes on different readings when you don’t realise these are fascists and when you do

      • @kuna
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        • Charlie Stross
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          42 years ago

          @kuna I can’t really take Curtis seriously, but he did make ONE good point (in private email): the entire spectrum of political discourse today, from anarchists through communists to nazis, is built atop the wreckage of the Ancien Regime, which no longer exists: we’re all children of the century of revolutions (the 17th-18th). Ofc. that’s before he goes off the rails and tries to drag us all kicking and screaming back to the Divine Right of Kings …

        • Mike Knell
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          42 years ago

          @kuna Hi, long-time reader, first time poster here. Is the Antiversity the same as the Basilisk?

          • @selfMA
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            112 years ago

            nope, in fact I’m pretty sure Yarvin never concretely defines the term. Graydon in the linked thread or our own @dgerard@awful.systems may have more quotes from Yarvin trying to describe the thing, but for now I’ve decided that the antiversity is a university for ants

            • @future_synthetic
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              52 years ago

              It’s the trade school they send all the drones through after they hatch

          • David GerardOPMA
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            102 years ago

            nuh. the idea is that the Antiversity will be the command and control structure of the reactionary society just as the University is the command and control structure of the Cathedral society.

            now you might think “that’s not what universities do at all”, but you would be correct

            Hoare thinks Urbit was intended to be the Antiversity, the communications network for the fash uprising. I can see how Yarvin might have thought that.

            • @selfMA
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              152 years ago

              has he confused the entire university for the football games my university kept spending all their research grants and alumni donations on? cause the cathedral being nothing but the jocks who shoved Yarvin into a locker makes way too much sense

              • @future_synthetic
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                122 years ago

                Probably stems from the altright concept that universities are indoctrination centers designed to homogenize entire generations to liberal thought.

              • @froztbyte
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                72 years ago

                Headcanon updated: yarvin’s life story is this now

      • @bitofhope
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        62 years ago

        I can’t read in in a way that doesn’t sound at least 7/10 fashy.