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not managed to shift the overton window rightward in any significant way this is the case because we have no significant power backing us while leftist movements have backing from the cathedral which gives them legitimacy so long as we lack power all attempts at rightward activism will be a waste of time while there s no denying that trump has done great work and that he has been influential in his own right it s important to understand that he obtained power by cultivating his own virtues as president donald trump can do many great things for america but for america to become great more and more of her subjects need to become worthy if you find it difficult to resist the temptation to act or you have trouble conducting yourself as a passivist should then consult the i ching it doesn t matter what question you ask it the answer it gives will always be a passivist one posted in cathedral divination philosophy reaction tagged divination donald trump i ching moldbug neoreaction philip k dick the man in the high castle 3 comments guest post the michigan plot posted on 02 26 2016 by niall stoker the following is a guest post from a radiated light bulb it s hard to visualize a distributed blind conspiracy a trend pushing throughout a culture waves pouring forth from occulted powers let s take a look at a snapshot of power three events that took place in 1965 all connected but more importantly three events which were attended by people with real influence as you examine the diagrams below understand their scope breadth and variety these people whether guilty outright or by association permeated the fabric of america sure few occupied positions of power outright but still these people had influence they might have been someone s professor radio host journalist or influenced some professional organization the events in question are the planning meeting which sparked the idea for the teach in the first teach in at ann arbor michigan in 1965 and the biggest teach in at berkeley later that year as you can see in the further reading these were coordinated efforts between professors to create the appearance of a grass roots movement further reading from a participant commitment and agency in social movements author s william a gamson source sociological forum vol 6 no 1 mar 1991 pp 27 50 published by springer click to access gamson 20on 20commitment 20and 20agnecy pdf some members of the group agreed to call colleagues at other universities describing what we were doing and asking them to hold a teach in on their campus from this small organizing effort teach ins against the vietnam war were held on more than 50 campuses in the weeks that followed we did nothing to discourage the belief that these arose spontaneously in response to the people s outrage nor was this completely false since it typically takes more than a phone call or two to generate activity of this sort in the absence of a highly conducive climate ann arbor was home base in those days for many of the talented national leaders of students for a democratic society sds in the postmidnight sessions some of them led workshops on such topics as the military industrial complex the cold war u s intervention in the third world and mechanisms for changing u s foreign policy the report of the u s senate sub committee on internal security made much of the fact that among the films shown during the night we included one made by the national liberation front in south vietnam that had been smuggled into the country boundary lines between young faculty sds activists and undergraduates were blurry and difficult to discern as one wandered from one intense discussion to another during the night what can we learn about these collective identity processes from the two cases considered in this paper the teach in depended and built on a preexisting movement identity first there were close relationships among many faculty members and the new left activists who made ann arbor their base when i began teaching at michigan in 1962 it was only a few months after student activists had met at port huron and formulated a statement that became in effect the charter for sds port huron participants began showing up regularly in my classes we had further contact at a movement halfway house within the university the center for research on conflict resolution the center with its journal of conflict resolution extended the peace movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s into the academy i was part of this interdisciplinary peace research movement carrying out my research on the cold war through the center two sds projects the peace research and education project and the education research and action project became a quasi official part of the center s activities with offices there as well new left students and faculty interacted in the hallways and meeting spaces discussing what was happening in the world and what we and others were doing about it furthermore several members of the teach in group had been involved earlier in the civil rights movement some of us had picketed woolworth s in support of the sit in movement in the south and been involved in the testing of antidiscrimination housing ordinances many of the new left students had gone south to participate in voter registration efforts such as mississippi freedom summer posted in cathedral ideology tagged ann arbor berkeley neoreaction teach in 6 comments the black mirror of retribution posted on 02 02 2016 by niall stoker if you must watch anything on tv the bbc series black mirror is the show it s a science fiction anthology series in a similar vein to the twilight zone that raises questions about the implications of new technologies and whether or not new social changes are moving in a desirable direction the show is not for the faint at heart as many episodes can be disturbing in both their themes and subject matter one stand out episode for yours truly was white bear involving a woman named victoria who wakes up with no recollection of who she is and finds herself being hunted down by psychopaths in masks she seeks help from bystanders but they do nothing but silently film her with their cell phones victoria later finds two other people who engage with her like normal human beings they reveal that there was a weird television transmission called the white bear that turned the vast majority of the population into voyeurs who stand idly around and film everything they see it turns out they and victoria were not affected by this broadcast neither were the psychopaths hunting them down taking advantage of the fact that they can now get away with violent crimes without consequence victoria and her new companions make for the white bear transmitter to destroy it when they arrive they wind up facing down some psychopaths who followed them there victoria manages to wrestle a shotgun away from one psychopath only to discover that the gun is fake the walls around her open up to reveal a stage television cameras and an applauding audience victoria s apparent companions and enemies strap her to a chair where a tv show host explains to her who she really is and why this has happened to her the host reveals that victoria had been tried and convicted for the murder of a little girl jemimah sykes whom she and her boyfriend had kidnapped victoria s boyfriend killed jemimah by lighting her on fire while victoria filmed it everything victoria went through up to this point was in retribution for her crime her memory was erased so that she was just as confused and helpless as the little girl she watched her boyfriend murder all of the bystanders she encountered are meant to parallel her own complacence when she filmed jemimah s death the name white bear is a reference to jemimah s teddy bear everything that victoria goes through in the course of her punishment is meant to mirror everything she and her boyfriend put jemimah through but the punishment doesn t end there victoria is wheeled away into a trailer made of plexiglass where the audience can yell obscenities at her and pelt her with fruit they take her to the house where the episode began strap her to a chair and erase her memory of the day s events so that they can administer the same punishment on her the next day this episode of black mirror as you might guess is not meant to be interpreted as an argument for retributive justice but as a critique of it the audience of bystanders filming victoria s torment and pelting her with rotten fruit and insults is meant to illuminate the hypocrisy of the eye for an eye intuition but being the illiberal shitlord that i am i couldn t help but wonder to what extent this punishment depicted in white bear was truly unjust as i watched it i had no trouble believing that something about the punishment was wrong but i doubt most viewers or the episode s writers for that matter would agree with me for the same reasons in the book just and painful graeme newman makes a case for why corporal punishment of criminals is morally permissible using a retributive model of punishment as justification chapter 4 of his book lays out 3 criteria for why a punishment would be considered barbaric and not civilized mutilation excess and violence these are the criteria we shall use in our moral assessment of victoria s punishment we can quickly eliminate mutilation as one of the problems with victoria s punishment as nothing that happens to her as she s punished violates her bodily integrity in any significant way indeed for her to suffer physical injury would defeat the purpose of her punishment since not only does it not fit her crime but it would also break the illusion of her believing that she is being hunted likewise we can eliminate violence in our moral assessment since all of the violence is staged the imposing psychopaths seemingly threatening to kill victoria only serve to instill fear in her and they never actually inflict pain on her one can however make the case that victoria s punishment is excessive newman lays out the model for what he calls the punishment by analogy to the body which in his view inevitably became punishment for the sake of deterrence one example of this punishment by analogy was a punishment for traitors in which the traitor s heart was cut out and held in front of him with the words here is your heart these punishments were performed in front of an audience as well so that they would serve an educative function to the masses victoria s punishment almost fits this model perfectly her punishment is analogous to what she and her boyfriend did to jemimah and at the end she is placed in front of an audience in which the host declares here is a child murderer however there are differences between victoria s punishment and the educative function of the punishments by analogy first and foremost the show host plays up the entertainment value that the audience is deriving from watching victoria s punishment he riles up the crowd and encourages them to treat her with contempt as such victoria s punishment appears to serve a cathartic release instead of an educative function furthermore the fact that victoria s memory is erased at the end of the day so that she can suffer the punishment again reveals that her punishment is meant to entertain the audience more so than it is for her own retribution a criminal who is punished multiple times for the same offense but never remembers the previous times she was punished has only been punished once as far as her personal psychology is concerned presumably when she s finally released victoria isn t going to have any recollection of all of the previous times she was punished except the final day of her punishment the only reason they continue to erase victoria s memory is so that they can entertain new audiences who come to watch her receive her comeuppance the fact that victoria s punishment exists primarily for entertainment reveals a utilitarian component to her punishment that makes it unjust what good does it do for her to endure extended torment for the entertainment of thousands of people a common critique of utilitarianism is that it suggests that it s morally permissible to treat an individual as a mere means tormenting a criminal to entertain the masses seems like a textbook definition of using someone as a mere means at first glance many viewers would be inclined to say that victoria s punishment is a case of retributive justice gone too far but it s specifically utilitarianism rather than retributivism that pushes this punishment too far while it s true that retributive justice conforms to the intuitions that the ideal punishment should fit the crime and serve an educative purpose the retributive intuition also tells us that excessive punishment is not just at all once a punishment goes beyond what a criminal deserves it is no longer just as such i cannot find much at fault with victoria s punishment other than the fact it is a retributive punishment elevated to a spectacle we do not punish criminals because of some kind of utility to be gained from doing so we punish criminals because there is a logic inherent to retribution the logic of retribution dictates that a criminal deserves punishment for their offense against society they deserve nothing more and nothing less it s important to understand the logic of retribution when watching this episode of black mirror it may be obvious to us that something about victoria s punishment is wrong but it may not be obvious why it is wrong it isn t wrong because she suffers a child murderer deserves to suffer the problem is that her suffering extends beyond the scope of retribution and into the realm of entertainment remember this as you watch the episode posted in ethics philosophy 4 comments caligula s council episode 2 a bowl of melons posted on 10 28 2015 by niall stoker ladies and gentlemen goys and goyls dindus and dindettes of all ages 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