Are any of you readers of his substack, Gray Mirror? Or of his previous blog Unqualified Reservations, under his pseudonym? Descriptions like Neo-monarchist and Neocameralist awaken interest, and being described as one of the founders of the Dark Enlightenment make me well-disposed to him.
Not sure even I can follow him down many of his favorite roads, however. Maybe I just need to get used to these ideas. I spent an hour browsing around in his writing tonight.
I started reading Unqualified Reservations years ago, while he was still writing it.
ReplyDeleteHe's good at offering plausible explanations of how we/society came to be in the mess we're in. And he's especially skillful at exposing the human knack for self deception.
I stopped reading him once it became clear that his "solutions" were never going to be plausible.
Isn't that the history of great adventurous thinkers, though? Great on diagnosis, not so good on treatment?
ReplyDeleteI found him unreadable when recommended 20 years ago by one of the crazy evil geniuses in my studies. The recent interview with Tucker Carlson and article on American Revolution (through text to speech) I found really good. Maybe he sounds better than he reads. His predictions are quite vague but sometimes he crashes hard on even larger delusions.
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