The Deal¶
NRx repudiates public politics. Turn that around, and it’s the thesis: Politics happens in private.
Specifically — as a political philosophy — NRx advocates the privatization of government. It makes a public case for that, in the abstract, but only for purposes of informational and theoretical optimization. It is not, ever, doing politics in public, but only thinking about it under conditions of minimal intelligence security. Concrete execution of political strategy occurs through private deals.
The currency of such deals was formalized by Mencius Moldbug, as primary (or fungible sovereign) property. It corresponds to the conversion — whether notional or actual — of hard power into business assets. This conversion is what ‘formalism’ means. It’s an important contribution to political philosophy, and political economy, but it’s also a negotiating position.
Cries for (public) Action! will always be with us, at least until things are radically sorted out. They should be ignored. No public action is serious.
The serious thing is the deal, which substitutes for any semblance of revolution, and also for regime perpetuation. Shadow NRx — which acts outside the sphere of public visibility — is a political vulture fund. This blog does not want to know who, or what, it is. Its deep secrecy is the same as its reality. Our concern is restricted to the way it necessarily acts, in compliance with an absolute principle. We ask only: What does the deal have to be like?
In its essence it is this:
Stand down effective capabilities for regime preservation in
exchange for primary property stock. The form thus indicates the relevant principals — holders of
the keys to hard power. What is on offer for them, as NRx
develops in reality (the shadows), is formalization of their
implicit social authority, through the emergence of a new —
ultimate or ‘transcendental’ — commercial medium. The whole of
Neocameral transition is realized through this.
“Turn everything you have into rigorous code, and everything
changes. We can help with the technicalities.”
“Why should I do that?”
“It will be worth it.”
That’s the vulture fund aspect. Hard power capability is systematically under-valued under conditions of Cathedral-demotic degeneracy, since it is squandered on the ever-more inefficient preservation of an insane religious establishment — the Atheo-Oecumenic Ecclesiocracy — and compensated accordingly, from the charred scraps of chronic policy disaster. After dysfunctional domestic social programs, election buying, and Jacobin foreign policy crusades have been paid for, what remains to reward competent governance?
Administrative capability is slaved to the Cathedral, which means to a zealous pursuit of impossible objectives, and thus accelerating waste. As a business opportunity (“We can help with the technicalities”), the attraction of defection grows, therefore, in strict proportion to the triumph of progressivism. This is critical, because the threshold risks of transition are immense, and the deal has to cover them.
"All that complex governance you're doing under increasingly ludicrous circumstances? We want to help you turn it into a business."
— Outsideness (@Outsideness) January 23, 2016
… "You do get that you're basically working as a poorly paid security goon for Jim Jones at the moment?"
— Outsideness (@Outsideness) January 23, 2016
The Cathedral is the Peoples Temple.
ADDED: The Political Omnivore responds (to the twitter precursor).