https://x.com/PeterRQuinones/status/1938436933933482223

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743732&forum_id=2#49053478)

so classy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743732&forum_id=2#49053545)

you can include "the bad" in a way that doesn't elevate yourself like a histrionic insecure faggot. compare:

"he was a smart and thoughtful person and gave me a lot to think about even though our thoughts diverged in many ways"

to

"I have read Zman for a decade, although only infrequently in the past couple years as he had a pretty standard paleocon view that didn't understand the structure of the world"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743732&forum_id=2#49053580)

and idk if you're being intentionally obtuse but i'm not saying that people should trust the consensus is true. what i'm saying is that a self-reflective person that accepts their potential for being wrong could not believe with absolute certainty something unprovable. and certainly not something that they are in the vanishingly small minority on.

if you were a reasonable person engaging in individuation honestly you would concede it's possible your theories are 100% incorrect.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743732&forum_id=2#49054595)

"if you were a reasonable person engaging in individuation honestly you would concede it's possible your theories are 100% incorrect."

and you responded you accept the possibility your theories are incorrect, you did not mean 100% incorrect, but only that you engage in post hoc adjustments to your theories to align with mispredictions but refuse to consider that your theory is wholly incorrect.

this is by definition irrational. thank you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743732&forum_id=2#49054648)

2 hours ago

I find myself mourning not only Z and the end of this blog but also the death of blogs. 5 years ago there were blogs I could go to for my bad thoughts fix. Z’s was the last.Heartiste gave up when his blog was Shoahed by WordPress. Dahlrock retired his. Roosh gave his sites up to live a private life after being censored and becoming a Christian. TDS and AA have been completely demonetized and censored to the point that AA recently threw in the towel. Z was one of the last blogs standing. There is still Moon of Alabama and Sonar21bbut but they don’t have near the scope of Zman and TDS.the other wrong thinkers are being herded to X and Substack to get an audience and make money. At X, ones who notice the JQ are already being demonetized and shadow banned. Once democrats get in Substack will come under attack. Besides every institution eventually becomes converged.In my more pessimistic moments I feel that we are seeing the last flickers of independent thought before total darkness. But the future is always different than we think it will be.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743732&forum_id=2#49053742)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743732&forum_id=2#49053898)

https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=34268

The 14th-century Arab historian and sociologist Ibn Khaldun wrote about this thing he called asabiyyah, which is something like social cohesion or group solidarity. It is the natural desire to cooperate that arises from family and the tribe, which allows for the construction of increasingly complex social structures. The more asabiyyah a society possesses, the more it is able to accomplish. This, Khaldun noted, is also why complex societies inevitably collapse.

...

There are many famous theories as to why human societies rise and fall, but all must contend with this central truth of human society. It can only exist when people are able to trust and cooperate with those outside their kin group. The greater the distance from that kin group, the more it costs to maintain cooperation. The reason empires always fall is they end up including people so distant from one another that they are unable to form any sort of cooperative relationship.

Look around the West and you see two things. One is the cost of the state is spiraling upward as it becomes increasingly incompetent. An unsaid truth of many American cities is they lack a genuine police force. The police are just a state sponsored gang that keeps the less organized gangs in check in order to maintain some safe areas for the elite and the tourist areas. Parts of cities like Baltimore can no longer be included in the concept of “civilized society.”

European cities are struggling with the same issue, but for different reasons. Instead of an unassimilable population from an old economic model, they imported millions of people who are genetically distant from the native population. Many of these people are hostile to other people imported into Europe. This alone has eroded social cohesion, but the efforts to maintain order are also eroding social trust. Every man jailed for speech crimes is a loss of European asabiyyah.

This may explain the sudden lurch in elite opinion in the United States away from unlimited immigration to what may be open hostility to it. Every day the window on the issue seems to move from the long-held position of open borders to what is now called remigration, the return of migrants to their homelands. The State Department has announced it is opening an office of remigration to facilitate this. A year ago, uttering the word “remigration” in many places could get you jailed.

This change is elite driven, which is what matters. Instead of an elite responding to public opinion, it is the elite now trying to drive public opinion. When the CEO of JPMorgan Chase speaks dismissively about immigration, as he recently did on the left-wing cable channel CNBC, something big is happening in the clouds. Conventional wisdom among the elite on immigration has swung to the opposite side. There is a reason for it, and it is not a sense of shame.

This gets back to those old concepts about what makes society possible and how best to measure the prosperity of a society. Decades of mismanagement due to the needs of the American empire have drained the West of its asabiyyah. As a result, the cost of maintaining order in the West is reaching a danger zone. All one has to do is look at the budgets of Western governments and then look at the condition of society. In many places, no government at all would be an improvement.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743732&forum_id=2#49055961)