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| Gaza and the nomos of the earth, by Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug. He is on fire here. |
| 2023-10-19 |
| It's long, just like all of his best stuff. Go read the whole thing. It's gold. Then, after you're done reading, share it all over. [GrayMirror] “Nomos,” as in Carl Schmitt’s great book Nomos of the Earth, is a Greek word usually translated as “law.” I think it does better as “standard”—the standards of the earth. The difference between a law and a standard is that no power enforces a standard. For example, what we mean by “the Internet” is a standard called TCP/IP. No one forces your computer to speak TCP/IP. There is just no gain in speaking anything different. .... In the Global American Empire (GAE), or in any unipolar order, all conflicts can be categorized as four kinds of dogfight: Dogfights in which America has no dog in the fight. Dogfights in which America has one dog in the fight. Dogfights in which America has two dogs in the fight. Dogfights in which America leaps into the pit itself. This simple theory can help you understand all kinds of international relations. For instance, the current Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict (see more below) is a conflict of type 1. The current war in the Ukraine war is a conflict of type 2. The Vietnam War was a conflict of type 4. It will readily be seen that the Gaza war is a war of type 3. Our type 3 wars are the worst kind, for obvious reasons. At least the type 4 wars end quickly (or used to lol). THE LIVE COAL What happened here? Why do we have two dogs in the same fight? How did we get from the rules-based international order to the nomos of Bad Newz Kennels? Is the purpose of US foreign policy just to generate tank porn and GoPro snuff movies? What is US foreign policy? What—assuming a unipolar order in which America is at least first among equals in economic and military strength—should it be? Where do we need to go? Where are we? How did we get here? How do we go there? |
| Posted by:Ulomorong Croting3271 |
| #2 Follower... Confucius say, "Number Two Sage Digest my rujia for next age And store in a bucket Till Chairman Mao took it, Spill honey in anal stage rage." |
| Posted by: Shirley Q Smith7033 2023-10-19 17:08 |
| #1 Mencius? IIRC, that was the latin tag for Confucius |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2023-10-19 09:09 |