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" This truth is only available to the most advanced atheists and the most advanced Christians. The advanced atheist has purged himself of all traces of folk religion, and understands the world as it is - an infinitely cold universe of protons and electrons, whose fundamental rules are a few lines of mathematics with no concept of humanity. Our galaxy is not even special, let alone our planet. To the advanced Christian, God’s will is just as cold and his justice is just as inexorable, and evil is sent to punish evil. Maistre read the French Revolution as God’s punishment of the decadent liberals who brought it about, and the weak conservatives who failed in their duty to oppose it. Was he wrong? I love my protons and electrons, but I can’t see how he was wrong. " https://graymirror.substack.com/p/you-cant-handle-the-truth

" The temporal coincidence of these two events [the Budapest Gay Pride and the Bezos-Sanchez wedding] suggests that we should mark 28 June 2025 as the day of the cyborgs’ triumph, on both ends of the political spectrum. Now, the true dialectic is - as [Antonio] Negri writes - biopolitical, and the fundamental decision is whether one intervenes to intensify one’s biological determinations or to negate them. More than ever, the political is the personal in the most material sense of the term: buckets of blood; bone shavings; connective, adipose, and epithelial tissue; and tonnes of silicone and Botox undergird both the Mar-a-Lago aesthetic of Venice and the claims of Gay Pride in Budapest. " - Alejandro Zaera-Polo (architect), "Bodas de sangre en Venecia". Published in the 'ABC de Sevilla', 8 July 2025. Translated from the Spanish.

New article: https://telablog.com/children-and-a-shared-vision-of-the-future Excerpts: "... This was in accordance with the ancient belief: man did not belong to himself; he belonged to the family. He was one member in a series, and the series must not stop with him..." "... fertility remains far below any desirable level. The reason, I suspect, is that something more fundamental is missing: a shared grand narrative..." "The most interesting question to me is: What story comes next ?"

Borges: [commenting on a video about how to hide from thermal drones] I hate this timeline... StJohn: It has some definite bad parts. Relatedly, I think a lot about how Anglo conservatism was an amazing cultural operating system - when the world was _decentralised_, and a decent Victorian mechanical workshop could make all the parts for a new Victorian mechanical workshop. Like bees splitting off to make new hives. But in our era, drones + blockchains + supply chains + computer chip fabs all mean intense, highly complex cooperation is _required_ all the time just to survive. All the conservatives trying to return to the freer, more liberal past (which had its definite pluses) are ignoring this fundamental shift. Now we all have to be significantly more collectivistic. Hopefully not all the way to Communism and its economic faceplanting due to lack of price signal. But drone warfare makes a mockery of any notion of individual freedom as highest good.

(Disclaimer: There are no trusted sources on the internet.) It seems Q-Anon / Alex Jones might've been _fundamentally_ correct about the Western elite. Paedophiles, cannibals, vampires. "What is to be done?" This question is now a more fundamental, there-are-monsters-in-the-dark one. Anyone living under the money-printer is living under _that_ moral order. It seems appropriate to frame this apocalyptically, specifically in a Genesis 6:22 way. The choice is now moral. The world is wicked and we must build an arc. I do mean this practically. I don't see a way to raise a family unless you build an arc with others that do as God commands. I also can't stand the idea of not fighting against evil. I'd like a death of the self. Huge pendulum swing. We've gone full self-realization and it's been catastrophic. Time to kill the ego and hear the word of God again. Otherwise, I don't see how we don't get herded, bled, and eaten by vampires.

Q: All previous attempts to create independent digital currencies were made illegal. Why is Bitcoin still legal ? A: They didn't fail because they were made illegal. They failed because they could be made illegal. Satoshi's emphasis in the abstract of his paper is perfect. He solved the double spend problem, which was the last piece in the puzzle that neither Wei Dai nor Nick Szabo nor a teenage Peter Todd could figure out. Solving it removed the need to trust a centralised third party. Listen to Peter Todd's interview with Peter McCormack on What Bitcoin Did. Peter Todd thought the fundamental problem was limiting the issuance of new currency. But Satoshi realised the real problem was more broad - how do we make it expensive to update the ledger (which includes but is not limited to issuing new currency). He did this using proof of work as a mechanism to update the blockchain. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/amzrmu/in_1998_wei_dai_came_up_with_his_ingenious_idea