gonna read this bad boy

thread with excerpts, my commentary

first things first, the table of contents

I can tell this is going to be good

guy was the Moldbug of his day

something to observe is not only the individual steps which power takes, but the pattern they demonstrate in sequence of one another, and what end that pattern builds up

focus too much on the individual steps and you might miss where all the steps together go

this was written in 1938 about the communists, but it feels like it could describe today's race and gender radicals, who have come to power by the same exact means

an exemplary point to keep in mind when thinking about The Great Reset, and perhaps Biden's presidency as a part of that; notice how it is with Biden they are doing all the things they warned Trump would?

one of the darker phases of American history, and one which still harms us today; I worry the government will attempt the same scheme with Bitcoin if and when it goes hyper

lengthy but read this to realize how government operates; disrupting the natural economic ties of private actors in order to supplant those ties with its own, making people dependent on government in place of their private interdependencies

when I rail on the Federal Reserve and central banks, this is why; they are extremely destructive, inimical to all ties between people that ward against our being controlled by a single, central source;lending should be decided by private individuals of their own capital, not gov

once again, a passage that seems appropriate for our own times