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"If it is the will of God that western Faustian Civilization should go on forever, then it would be the first time that God has willed such a thing in human history. It is in the nature of every civilization to believe that it shall last until the end of time, and it is in the nature of every civilization to fail. As they grow decrepit they grow more schizophrenic, less coherent and eventually collapse in on themselves with such thunder that the echoes resound for centuries."

This is one of your best articles Copernican. (Certainly probably my favorite,) (can I call you kelly?) You've written something really compelling, both in meaning and in how you presented it. I envy your verbal intelligence. The only reason I can possibly think this post didn't get bigger was something like the title or something.

I myself put off reading this because I imagined it would be a "here's why castizo futurism is based" shtick. I was ready the entire time to cite your words and critique them, and I couldn't tell you why I made such a strong guess of what this post was about.

Anyways, great post, good job here.

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At the risk of sounding too Leftist and un (Neo) Stoic, let me contend another vital area of lineage awareness - ancestral trauma.

Even between my line where we escaped the Cultural Revolution, and the mother of my children's who was smack in the middle of it, the difference is very obvious. How much greater for those who went through the Black Death and the panic and abandonment of Ethos by many thereby in Europe, and those lines that did not have the latter happen despite being affected by the same disease? Or say the demonisation and disparagement of ancestral ways, instead of a clearer integration and solving problems within, in European pagan compared to Javanese pagan updating to more Axial age paradigms?

Managerialism and Liberalism in general can thereby be seen compassionately as ways to cope with particular lineages unresolved trauma. That's why they in turn never really solve problems. And the more these "solutions" are applied to lines that never needed them even in the short term, the more damage and corruption they spread all over.

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I suspect that the next civilization will develop in a way that is a reaction to the trauma of international managerialism and the dehumanization of materialist religions. We have the opportunity now to radically shape what form that might take.

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Your thoughts reminded me of a popular concept in right wing social media several years ago.

There's a type of person who thrives in middle management and are the main enforcers of this 'regime', the small-soulled bugman. Epitomized by someone like the host of Hot Ones — not particularly cool nor uncool, a blank slate who easily flatters the other in conversation, and always up to date on the latest trends. The bugman concept has been overtaken by the NPC meme, but I don't think these foot soldiers of the managerial class are NPCs, per se.

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The foot soldiers being described as 'bugmen' is probably acceptable. The NPCs are those who remain within the bureaucracy when some one is forced to conform.

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Yes, I was sort of throwing out some scattered brained reactions to your essay. Both memes are valid, I just lament that everyone forgot about the bugman. Have you read any of Weber's critiques of bureaucracy?

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I read a really good one the other day discussing the achilleas heel of cowardly bureaucrats running our system. Trying to remember who wrote it.

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