• Mike Knell
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    411 months ago

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

    • @selfMA
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      1111 months 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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        511 months ago

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

    • David GerardOPMA
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      1011 months 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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        1511 months 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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          1211 months 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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          711 months ago

          Headcanon updated: yarvin’s life story is this now