How To Start a Secret Society, handed out by Tlon Corporation at Urbit Summit 2022
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oh good we're starting with a misconstruction of plato's cave
so not only are they max culting it outright, they're not even bothering with the usual twenty-thrine inner circles bullshit before giving the game up? amazing
ah, Urbit is that kind of hallucinogenic suicide cult
a reminder that this isn’t the first time Tlon and the Urbit community have incubated a suicide cult
I’m tempted to post this “fanzine” (fan of what? flavor-aid?) to the orange site to see how the cult responds to their pamphlets getting too much attention, but I’m fairly sure the post will get killed by the mods there within minutes
here you go
fuck yes, and this one wasn’t insta-dead
Literal cringe. This non-figuratively annoys me to the point I involuntarily wince in displeasure.
Oversimplified edgelord's guide to building an actual DnD litch/KKK style death cult for the ultimate nefarious purpose of… what? Getting to feel cool for once in your life or whatever? There are less embarrassing ways to boost your self esteem you know?
I like hooded cloaks, wavy ceremonial daggers and pretend wizard shit as much as the next person but I've come to despise all kinds of sincere SEKRIT KLUB type shit from student fraternities to even more nazi possibly student fraternities. It always feels like egomaniacal autofellatio for everyone involved.
At least wait until you're old enough to have a midlife crisis, maybe at that point joining masons/shriners/rotaries/lions seems more age-appropriate.
Somewhat akin to the e-libertarians who are convinced they will assume the role of dominant survivor slash ruling class once the pesky government collapses and gets out of their way. As if their inability to attain success in the current socioeconomic climate had anything to do with outside forces limiting their potential. The rolling of my eyes is intense enough to attain gravitational coefficient.
"don't worry, when everything falls we can just order some cheap computers and wifi gear off of amazon and have it delivered! I read a blog on how we can build our own ISP, it'll be awesome"
(and that's about when my headache starts)
How to start a cult:
Secret societies on a non-secure network…
This is some unsettling shit (read until the end)
It takes on different readings when you don't realise these are fascists and when you do
I can't read in in a way that doesn't sound at least 7/10 fashy.
@kuna Hi, long-time reader, first time poster here. Is the Antiversity the same as the Basilisk?
nuh. the idea is that the Antiversity will be the command and control structure of the reactionary society just as the University is the command and control structure of the Cathedral society.
now you might think "that's not what universities do at all", but you would be correct
Hoare thinks Urbit was intended to be the Antiversity, the communications network for the fash uprising. I can see how Yarvin might have thought that.
has he confused the entire university for the football games my university kept spending all their research grants and alumni donations on? cause the cathedral being nothing but the jocks who shoved Yarvin into a locker makes way too much sense
Probably stems from the altright concept that universities are indoctrination centers designed to homogenize entire generations to liberal thought.
and no other function
Headcanon updated: yarvin’s life story is this now
nope, in fact I’m pretty sure Yarvin never concretely defines the term. Graydon in the linked thread or our own @[email protected] may have more quotes from Yarvin trying to describe the thing, but for now I’ve decided that the antiversity is a university for ants
It's the trade school they send all the drones through after they hatch
@kuna I can't really take Curtis seriously, but he did make ONE good point (in private email): the entire spectrum of political discourse today, from anarchists through communists to nazis, is built atop the wreckage of the Ancien Regime, which no longer exists: we're all children of the century of revolutions (the 17th-18th). Ofc. that's before he goes off the rails and tries to drag us all kicking and screaming back to the Divine Right of Kings …
"You are luthiers" /headdesk