And also, I didn’t think it had the sureness of aim this author displays in other articles. I kind of feel it’s a bit of work in progress, it could perhaps benefit from a rewrite or some in depth editing.
Particularly the first part, the historic context. I thought it could be leaner, more to the point, the prose not to the usual standard. I found it too prolix and lacking in engagement, like the writer felt he had to touch on it but didn’t relish the idea too much. I confess I skimmed it.
But all in all I enjoyed it, I’d like to read more about this idea, the eunuch caste and power.
Impressive and compelling interpretation of History.
A stimulating read.
However, the stretch is a bit too long between (a) explaining the eunuch in prior epochs, to (b) addressing the contemporary appearance of the eunuch.
That weakens the connection, and there’s still a question of why exactly the eunuch today would fit the same purpose, when elites now are not necessarily protecting their women or daughters from male servants.
For me, the general concept is bang on, how superorganisms breed the types they need, and how those needs arise in the course of their lifespans. What I'd like to see though is a lot more attention to the phenomenon of technologically-induced evolution-domestication, and to the struggle that's ensued between our hunter-gatherer social instincts, more like social primates, and our increasingly more social-insect behavioral instincts surely accruing, and at accelerating rate, via epigenetic evolution. The piece begins with technological determinism, in pointing-out how it was our transition to agriculture that created the conditions for superorganisms like states to develop. (James Scott would add that more specifically, it was grain agriculture).
I think too that, even though it may true that China is weaker now, and hence induced to appear more the hard-nose realist, the current trend and longer-term future is very clear: The society in which a collectivist ant-colony spirit is dominant is the one that will ultimately become the stronger under the modern agro-techno-industrial tech&resource paradigm. The US-West superorganism is now pressured more strongly than ever to fully domesticate its people, and maybe the appearance of the neo-eunuch class is a part of that process, or, all other factors, esp energy&earth resource supply, being equal, it will be eclipsed as the greatest superorganism on the planet. The Chinese had the headstart advantage on this long ago when they transitioned not just to grain agriculture but to irrigated grain (rice) agriculture. The US-West, in order to ensure its power position must be "Sino-fied". Besides making more money for themselves via IR4 tech investments, that is precisely the program of the WEF Great Reset, is it not?
Interesting device for a history lesson, but doesn’t feel terribly relevant. A better explanation for the last 50-100 years is Malthusianism (see Schellenberger), societal destruction by, among others, normalizing the abnormal.
The “performers” derive pleasure from destruction. Like taggers, that’s what they live for; if they can’t build, might as well destroy.
Wow. Just wow. So much of the "pushing to the extremes" of social norms by modern governments and corporations makes sense within the context of this discussion.
Perhaps you shall die tomorrow, or maybe you shall last to the age of 100, but die you will, for the flesh is only here a short time, and then fades away.
You are going to die, and no amount of based nietzschean will-doing shall be of any benefit to you on the other side of the grave.
Seek treasures not in the flesh, for the flesh is corruptible, but seek treasures in the spirit, for the spirit is incorruptible.
Whosoever lives as an animal denies that the spirit is in him, and woe unto him when he loses his body: for he returns to the spirit as a beast of the flesh, and in the spirit, the ways of a beast are of no profit.
A transsexual is a cat, you are a dog, but only the image of God shall return to the spirit unharmed.
Interesting topic, intriguing threads here. Worth pursuing.
And also, I didn’t think it had the sureness of aim this author displays in other articles. I kind of feel it’s a bit of work in progress, it could perhaps benefit from a rewrite or some in depth editing.
Particularly the first part, the historic context. I thought it could be leaner, more to the point, the prose not to the usual standard. I found it too prolix and lacking in engagement, like the writer felt he had to touch on it but didn’t relish the idea too much. I confess I skimmed it.
But all in all I enjoyed it, I’d like to read more about this idea, the eunuch caste and power.
Impressive and compelling interpretation of History.
A stimulating read.
However, the stretch is a bit too long between (a) explaining the eunuch in prior epochs, to (b) addressing the contemporary appearance of the eunuch.
That weakens the connection, and there’s still a question of why exactly the eunuch today would fit the same purpose, when elites now are not necessarily protecting their women or daughters from male servants.
For me, the general concept is bang on, how superorganisms breed the types they need, and how those needs arise in the course of their lifespans. What I'd like to see though is a lot more attention to the phenomenon of technologically-induced evolution-domestication, and to the struggle that's ensued between our hunter-gatherer social instincts, more like social primates, and our increasingly more social-insect behavioral instincts surely accruing, and at accelerating rate, via epigenetic evolution. The piece begins with technological determinism, in pointing-out how it was our transition to agriculture that created the conditions for superorganisms like states to develop. (James Scott would add that more specifically, it was grain agriculture).
I think too that, even though it may true that China is weaker now, and hence induced to appear more the hard-nose realist, the current trend and longer-term future is very clear: The society in which a collectivist ant-colony spirit is dominant is the one that will ultimately become the stronger under the modern agro-techno-industrial tech&resource paradigm. The US-West superorganism is now pressured more strongly than ever to fully domesticate its people, and maybe the appearance of the neo-eunuch class is a part of that process, or, all other factors, esp energy&earth resource supply, being equal, it will be eclipsed as the greatest superorganism on the planet. The Chinese had the headstart advantage on this long ago when they transitioned not just to grain agriculture but to irrigated grain (rice) agriculture. The US-West, in order to ensure its power position must be "Sino-fied". Besides making more money for themselves via IR4 tech investments, that is precisely the program of the WEF Great Reset, is it not?
Interesting device for a history lesson, but doesn’t feel terribly relevant. A better explanation for the last 50-100 years is Malthusianism (see Schellenberger), societal destruction by, among others, normalizing the abnormal.
The “performers” derive pleasure from destruction. Like taggers, that’s what they live for; if they can’t build, might as well destroy.
eUNUCHIVE, the Axis of Madness
Wow. Just wow. So much of the "pushing to the extremes" of social norms by modern governments and corporations makes sense within the context of this discussion.
Excellent article, breathtaking in scope and brilliant analysis, but u overestimate the strength of the status quo.
YOU ARE GOING TO DIE
Perhaps you shall die tomorrow, or maybe you shall last to the age of 100, but die you will, for the flesh is only here a short time, and then fades away.
You are going to die, and no amount of based nietzschean will-doing shall be of any benefit to you on the other side of the grave.
Seek treasures not in the flesh, for the flesh is corruptible, but seek treasures in the spirit, for the spirit is incorruptible.
Whosoever lives as an animal denies that the spirit is in him, and woe unto him when he loses his body: for he returns to the spirit as a beast of the flesh, and in the spirit, the ways of a beast are of no profit.
A transsexual is a cat, you are a dog, but only the image of God shall return to the spirit unharmed.
'Penultimate' - Next to last.