Date: August 19th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: impressive temple
bad. However, in his book Philosophy and Civilization in the Middle Ages, Maurice DeWulf writes that "the feudal sentiment par excellence ... is the sentiment of the value and dignity of the individual man. The feudal man lived as a free man; he was master in his own house; he sought his end in himself; he was —and this is a scholastic expression,—propter seipsum existens: all feudal obligations were founded upon respect for personality and the given word."
Why the FUCK does Consuela have a whole Substack devoted to complaining about this? Is "he" a woman? I can understand why bitchy menstruating women would be unhappy about men owning everything.
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:33 PM Author: impressive temple
DeWulf goes on to write that feudalism is "a scheme of reciprocal duties, privileges and obligations as between man and man that has never been excelled by any other system that society has developed as its own method of operation."
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:34 PM Author: impressive temple
Why is he even using the term "feudalism" at all if he acknowledges that feudalism was historically a GOOD thing? He's misleading his readers by using that term to imply something negative.
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:41 PM Author: submissive navy pocket flask field
neoliberalism is the ideology and system of market liberalization, i.e. free trade, deregulation, privatization, and the belief that competitive markets maximize efficiency and freedom. Its promise is universal access through market mechanisms.
neoliberal feudalism is the historical mutation of that project once its promises collapse. Markets no longer serve open competition; instead, privatized monopolies, financial platforms, and techno-bureaucratic fiefdoms emerge. Access is gated, rent is extracted, and “freedom” is replaced with dependency on opaque lords (banks, platforms, states).
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: impressive temple
"neoliberal feudalism is the historical mutation of that project once its promises collapse"
So it's just a follow-on effect of neoliberalism. You still haven't described anything feudal about it. You should rename the blog "neoliberalism" since that's all you're describing.
Date: August 19th, 2025 4:07 PM Author: impressive temple
I thought about that. As an analogy I came up with the phrase "Neoliberal Christmas," since I think we all understand Christmas to have positive connotations.
The thing is, if I'm writing about long bitchy rant about "neoliberal Christmas," at some point I'm going to say "wouldn't it be great if we could just celebrate Christmas without the neoliberalism?
There's nothing like that on Neoliberal Feudalism. Nowhere does Consuela say "the Feudal era was a time of unbridled individuality, when no one felt constrained by the state or bullied into consensus beliefs." Nor does Consuela talk about what made feudalism work: the uprightness of men, who through reputation alone secured the favor of other men. What's happening today that's even analogous to that? What does it mean to have a neoliberal "honor code?" He never explains.
Instead it looks like Consuela is one of those mush-brained troglodytes who associates feudalism with slavery, i.e. he's a fucking Marxist
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:34 PM Author: beady-eyed scourge upon the earth gay wizard
I think consuela/goy superstar types have read a fair amount of philosophy actually and it's largely responsible for driving them crazy when it comes to a a particular subset of topics even though usually they're fairly thoughtful/curious
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:36 PM Author: beady-eyed scourge upon the earth gay wizard
No my thesis is that you guys are basically reasonably intelligent normies who got oneshotted by Nietzsche or Hegel or Aurelius whoeverthefuck is your favorite Thinker Guy
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:44 PM Author: beady-eyed scourge upon the earth gay wizard
Which one it is specifically doesn't really matter (although obviously some are connected to such cases more than others), the general mode of craziness you guys exhibit is very specific to people who overdosed on Thinking About Shit.
Some very successful people are like this too, so you can possibly leverage it to your advantage assuming you can somewhat tame the beast when talking to normies. Thiel/Girard is the clearest example of this
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: submissive navy pocket flask field
evola was boring - i couldn't get through "ride the tiger"
nietzsche was incredibly insightful regarding the transvaluation of values from master to slave morality, but i don't really agree with his response to philosophical pessimism
jung would be the best argument you could make here along this line of attack
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:41 PM Author: impressive temple
It's their fixation on philosophers who wrote most recently. Just like shitlibs, Consuela thinks new books contain all the wisdom from the past, plus some new stuff we just discovered recently. He thinks anything written before the 19th century must be inferior to Nietzsche, who lived as recently as 1900.
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: 180 party of the first part giraffe
unless you are an autist from birth and have no chance of joining normal society, the extent of your interaction with literacy should be fine lit like Dostoevsky. interacting with shit like "german existentialism" is just going to ruin your life
Date: August 19th, 2025 2:11 PM Author: submissive navy pocket flask field
you edited your response. my claim was that he didn't read most of the books in his library, which he didn't. i think he says in the documentary he's read maybe 5% of his library
Date: August 19th, 2025 2:05 PM Author: submissive navy pocket flask field
i guess that's one way to curb the craving. CSLG collects first editions of famous literary books. i don't care about this stuff -- i underline and dog-ear all the books i read
Date: August 19th, 2025 5:34 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
i used to do this but now i only buy used hardcover books because i like the look of worn hardcovers without a dust jacket more than leatherbound books. plus i really abuse my books. so now i only buy fancy/vintage editions of stuff i really, really like.
There is Neuroscience supporting Nietzsche's idea of an Apollonian and Dionysian spirit in Art
Theres a division in your senses - taste, touch and smell evolved first whereas sight and hearing came later
Taste and smell show up in the very oldest lifeforms - they touch, absorb, sniff, eat and lick particles of matter and use chemistry to "sense" what they are
These all touch the material world directly... yes, smell is pieces of matter touching your nose
Your eyes and ears don't deal with matter, they deal with energy - they never touch the material world
They evolved later as lifeforms got complex enough to grow small lines of cells to detect heat, then light, then brightness, then movement, and then colours
The older senses are more dominant in animals
Think of Dogs hunched over smelling the floor and the air and licking everything with their big tongues
The neuroscience shows that these wire directly into our limbic systems - which is why touch is so emotional and smells evoke deep memories
Human's are extremely Apollonian
We stand upright, our visual cortex is enormous, we look far off into the distance, and we use mouth noise to send advanced information through sound waves
Mankind's most Apollonian arts all stimulate our "higher senses" and can be enjoyed from a distance:
- looking at a painting
- high sculpture
- reading
- classical music
Our most Dionysian arts are also our most experience based and require touch:
- dancing
- experience of going to a rock concert
- food, taste, experience of flavour
- ritual especially religious, sexual experience
Apollonian arts are more intellectual, but a little frigid - beautiful sounds and sights stimulates your brain with pleasant endorphins and mental awe
Dionysian arts are more messy, but thrilling - felt experiences stimulate your brain with big memorable emotions and nervous excitement
Observation
Liberals offer sloppy but fun Dionysian experiences:
- Sex
- Concerts
- Dance clubs
- "diverse flavours, resturants"
Conservatives offer rich but frigid Apollonian art:
Date: August 19th, 2025 2:06 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
lex tp hosted a book club on zarathustra irl. it was 180.
idk how he resists sperging out on all the midwit takes of amateur philosophers online obsessed with nietzche. it's inspiring because i obviously have a problem simply ignoring people being wrong and stupid on xo.
Date: August 19th, 2025 1:58 PM Author: impressive temple
Consuela is nothing if not egotistic:
"It was Catholicism and the spirit of feudalism that preserved men from the dangers inherent in the immense individualism of the time. With this powerful and penetrating coördinating force men were safe to go about as far as they liked in the line of individuality, whereas today, for example, the unifying force of a common and vital religion being absent and nothing having been offered to take its place, the result of a similar tendency is egotism and anarchy."
Date: August 19th, 2025 2:03 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
i always thought its how neoliberals are creating a system similar to feudalism. which ive always agreed with, i just disagreed with consuelas conspiracy on the mechanics of how its happening. recently ive been softening a bit on that too.
Date: August 19th, 2025 2:08 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
i accepted a more senior role recently and a lot of the "trust me i know these things" lectures i gave you have been turning out to be more about arrogance than being informed. more of what im seeing and the people involved align with your rogues gallery in ways that seem intentionally hidden from the public, including me who until now thought i had complete access.
Date: August 19th, 2025 2:10 PM Author: submissive navy pocket flask field
yeah, the information is intentionally compartmentalized and well hidden. the lower and mid levels really have no idea what the actual purpose is of what they're doing. i'm interested in hearing more about your journey as you experience it
Date: August 19th, 2025 2:13 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
well i was already at a senior level, im just moreso now. not only are things "not adding up", but completely obscured and lied about. as a lawyer i dont think i was wrong to believe i was receiving complete information and filing things accurately.
Date: August 19th, 2025 2:16 PM Author: submissive navy pocket flask field
the level you'll eventually reach, i think, if you keep your eyes open and ascend far enough, is that humanity is simply the equivalent of a slave making ant colony: there are a very small number of intergenerational families at the top who own the money printers worldwide, a global security state apparatus which enforces their bidding, and then the vast masses who are kept in bread & circus nonsense and fighting over race/gender/sexual orientation stuff so the structure does not become unstable. it's strictly need-to-know access and only for the small portion an individual is involved in so that almost no one knows the full structure. that's it, that's the game, and there is basically no real resistance to it anywhere today
Date: August 19th, 2025 3:11 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
dude literally ever poaster agrees with that to some degree, as i said i also did right off the bat. the issue ive always had is about the *specific* mechanics on how it works.
theres a big gap between elites are fucking us and monetary policy is one of their tools (everyone here would agree) and what you think (0% agree).
the reason im softening is because of some of the *specific* actors and *specific* things that are hidden even from lawyers thst keep all sorts of nasty shit confidential.
Date: August 19th, 2025 3:21 PM Author: submissive navy pocket flask field
sure, the fractional reserve banking system fundamentally requires the existence of central banks to bail them out of inevitable bank runs, which are then paid for by the public in the form of debt and inflation - this system is really sick, but it basic setup isn't debatable.
Where my view goes further is in arguing that central banks aren’t simply ‘public utilities’ but are in fact privately owned at the deepest level, with structures deliberately obscured. That ownership is what makes the whole thing not just parasitic but intergenerational and supranational, something operating above states and even above the international organizations that coordinate policy.
It’s a difficult step to take because the mechanics are hidden by design. But as you rise and encounter more of the intentional concealment, hopefully you may start to glimpse pieces of the deeper structure...
Date: August 19th, 2025 4:03 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
im not sure about that. im talking more about how control and influence is not knly obscured but lied about including from senior officers that file things that a firm knows is false and the government agent accepts only because of similar operatives in the government.
i still think your theory is retarded, but im an open minded person. ive been in a lot of "smokey rooms" with important people. but theres some things ive seen recently that make me raise my eyebrows.
Date: August 19th, 2025 2:26 PM Author: impressive temple
Jesus, look at what feudalism led to:
"In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, however, the balance is justly preserved, though it was but an unstable equilibrium, and therefore during this time we find the widest diversity of speculation and freedom of thought which continue unhampered for more than a hundred years. The mystical school of the Abbey of St. Victor in Paris follows one line (perhaps the most nearly right of all though it was submerged by the intellectual force and vivacity of the Scholastics) with Hugh of St. Victor as its greatest exponent. The Franciscans and Dominicans each possessed great schools of philosophy and dogmatic theology, and in addition there were a dozen individual line of speculation, each vitalized by some one personality, daring, original, enthusiastic. This prodigious mental and spiritual activity was largely fostered by the schools, colleges and universities that had suddenly appeared all over Europe. Never was such activity along educational lines. Almost every cathedral had its school, and many of the abbeys as well, as for example, in France alone, Cluny, Citeaux and Bec, St. Martin of Tours, Laon, Chartres, Rheims and Paris. To these schools students poured in from all over the world in numbers mounting to many thousands for such as Paris for example, and the mutual rivalries were intense and sometimes disorderly. Groups of students would choose their own masters and follow them from place to place, even subjecting them to discipline if in their opinion they did not live up to the intellectual mark they had set as their standard. As there was not only one religion and one social system, but one universal language as well, this gathering from all the four quarters of Europe was perfectly possible, and had much to do with the maintenance of that unity which marked society for three centuries."