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Only two books explain all of modern shitliberalism and shitconservatism
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Date: May 6th, 2025 3:25 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Shitliberalism: "Orientalism" by Edward Said. That's where you get "othering" and a half dozen other noun/verb mashups that now constitute the shitlib lexicon.
Shitconnery: "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco. It explains in detail how to make shitcons believe literally anything, at any given time, using only symbols and esoteric gibberish on Joe Rogan. |
Date: May 6th, 2025 3:27 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Societies in the novel
A wide variety of organizations are listed in Foucault's Pendulum, including the Assassins of Alamut, the Bavarian Illuminati, the Bogomils, the Candomblé, the Cathars, the fictional Cthulhu cult,[11] the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (which in the novel Mr. Garamond includes in his list of "occult" organizations to contact about book ideas), the Elders of Zion, the Freemasons, the Gnostics, Gurdjieffians, the Jesuits, the Knights Templar, Opus Dei, Ordo Templi Orientis, Panta Rei, and the Rosicrucians. |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 3:33 PM Author: Oh you travel? (_) mig has been a member of all of these (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721167&forum_id=2#48908786) |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 3:28 PM Author: metaphysics is fallow based (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721167&forum_id=2#48908766) |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 3:30 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK It's really fucking tragic that no one knew about Isaac Newton's fascination with the Rosicrucians until well after FC was published. Umberto Eco may have even been dead by then. Had he known Newton did that, it would be a totally different book. That's the only thing that sucks about it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721167&forum_id=2#48908779) |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 3:29 PM Author: ..,.,.,,,,.,.,..,.,,,.,..,,.,.,,, I think The Paranoid Style in American Politics is a pretty encompassing description of the modern right. They've always been with us, just rarely in power. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721167&forum_id=2#48908770) |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 3:30 PM Author: 718-662-5970 *one
The letters of St. Paul
Its all there. The seeds of all of it.
Paul created the western world that we live in |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 3:32 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK How about the practice of "confession?" According to Eco, that's what created space for secret societies to exist in the first place. There was no reason for anyone to keep anything "secret" from anyone except the church in the 11th century. People were only keeping "secrets" to the extent they weren't confessing all of their sins to church authorities. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721167&forum_id=2#48908784) |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 3:43 PM Author: 718-662-5970 thats interesting. speaking of the word,
ive read people make the case that "confessions" by augustine is actually the root and source of all western identity. compelling argument.
i still think its paul, but the entire notion of "my interiority is my life" does seem to come from augustine. ancients, or even biblical authors, didnt seem to sit around jotting down their fucking THOUGHTS and FEELINGS about things, much less treat them as more important than great deeds |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 3:48 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK The Templars had a really sophisticated bag of tricks they could play, because even though they had secret rituals, they had also been to the holy land and laid eyes on it. The Pope couldn't say that. This gave the Templars the ability to claim they knew "the truth" about the Pope. They could hint that that was the reason for the secrecy, and make it hard for the Pope to convince regional kings to suppress the Templars. Kings might be more interested in learning the secrets of the Templars than obeying the Pope. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721167&forum_id=2#48908832) |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 3:36 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Foucault’s Pendulum is a book that changed my life. I partly have my brother to thank for that, because he knew how to shut the hell up.
Unfortunately I can’t do the same for you, otherwise this would be a short article. But if you have always wondered whether occult and supernatural conspiracies might have a grain truth to them, then go read it now.
(Spoiler alert: They don’t.)
Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist… Actually, he was more than that. He was an acclaimed professor, philosopher, semiotician, and literary theorist who wrote children’s books, adult novels, academic texts, essays and more. But most of us know him as the guy who wrote In the Name of the Rose, which was turned into a movie starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater.
He also wrote Foucault’s Pendulum, and the reason it had such a strong effect on me was twofold: First off it was because my brother tricked me: he didn’t let me in on the joke behind it. He just told me, read the book.
You see, we shared an interest in historical conspiracies and the “what if?” idea of them possibly being real. We even roleplayed adventures with those kinds of stories as the basis. But being a young teenager, I was probably in danger of falling down the rabbit hole of taking these things a bit too seriously. Maybe he recognized that when he gave me his copy to read.
At first, I was annoyed that many of the passages that started before each chapter were untranslated. I wondered to myself “What am I missing? What hidden meaning is in this text? Where can I get a translation?” I asked my brother if he knew and he just smiled and told me to keep reading, it would all make sense by the end.
And it did. By the end, I realized just how unimportant it all was.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1abcp3m/review_foucaults_pendulum_by_umberto_eco_a/ |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 6:25 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Foucault’s Pendulum gave me an early dose of scepticism that I sorely needed. It familiarized me with concepts that I didn’t even fully understand until later on in life, such as pattern recognition. I began to see just how easy it was to turn anything into a mysterious wonder—the mystical mathematical connections people have made regarding the pyramids of Giza can just as easily be applied to a telephone booth. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721167&forum_id=2#48909289) |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 6:27 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Today, with the internet, we find ourselves bombarded with conspiracies—from classic shadowy threats such as the Templars and Freemasons to new ones we create just in time for the next election. The process of legitimizing false information used to take decades, even centuries. It sometimes took that long for the lies to be repeated and reprinted enough to gain strength. Now it takes only days or weeks as sites reinforce their delusions, referencing each other’s articles in an endless Mobius loop. Or, as Eco himself put it:
“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.” |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 6:19 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK “Hitler’s one genuine obsession was the underground currents. He believed in the theory of the hollow earth, Hohlweltlehre.”
-- Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum" |
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Date: May 6th, 2025 6:20 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK What Foucault’s Pendulum describes—and what all the world’s secret societies have long sought—is the very telluric powers of the earth. This would allow those in control to wield the movements of the planet to their bidding; to raise mountains, provoke droughts, spin hurricanes, aggravate fault lines. If you possessed these powers, the nations of the world would bend to your will, lest you release a terrifying tempest or cataclysm upon them. Not yet absurd enough for you? A character suggests an engine of Hitler’s unlawful knowledge: the Nazi leader was, “perhaps, instructed by some Druid in his hometown.”
https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/the-playful-madness-of-umberto-ecos-foucaults-pendulum |