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Plus, Jordan Peterson tweets about Political Ponerology

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Bryce Eddy had me on his show again this last week. This time we talked about tonic masculinity and some of the ideas from my series summarizing and translating Lobaczewski’s Logocracy, like elite selection and the justifications for a limited franchise. Here are the links:

• Rumble (video)

• Omny (audio)

When they asked me for a thumbnail, naturally I sent a pic of me at the gun range.

Bryce is a great and gracious host, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! (Hopefully I’ll be able to get a better internet connection sometime soon! Living in the middle of nowhere has its disadvantages.)

[Here’s my previous appearance, which I forgot to link to last year.]

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Just a few day before that, I was very pleased to have this tweet forwarded to me by some friends:

Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson

To the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario: from Political Ponerology, on the development of authoritarian states. Just saying....

It looks like Michael Shellenberger, who sent the excerpt, is reading it. Maybe JBP is, too. I’ve always thought he would appreciate it, seeing as how it deals with the questions he has been wrestling with since the ’80s, and battling head on for the past several years. Ponerology is the best framework from which to understand what is going on today. Without it, I’m afraid, not much can be done—at least not much that will last.

As my fellow Neo-Gonzo

John Carter

put it recently in the Deimos Station:

One of the big advantages of ponerology is that it’s orthogonal to any given political system. The principles can be incorporated into a republic, a monarchy, whatever; it’s more an understanding regarding the kinds of people that should be kept out, since they’ll destroy ANY political system. It’s also a corrective to the idea that a change in system will necessarily improve things.

He followed that up with this, which I include because it relates directly to the subject of the next chapter of Logocracy, on religion’s place in a logocratic state:

There’s a parallel to Langan’s CTMU, in that the CTMU is a metaphysical framework that can be layered on to essentially any given spiritual framework. In the same way that the CTMU could provide a common language by means of which adherents of different mystical traditions can communicate, ponerology if widely applied would result in overall better people being placed into positions of power in essentially any political system, thereby reducing friction between existing systems.

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