Ofermōd - by David Chapman - Meaningness
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Building a bridge across postmodern nihilism to nobility
It is about the battle at Maldon, England against Viking invaders, on the Tenth of August in the Year of Our Lord Nine Hundred and Ninety-one. It is about postmodernism, and Gandalf’s showdown with the Balrog at Khazad-Dûm, and the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried. It is about the dysfunction of Harvard University, and adult developmental psychology, and the Great Stagnation. It is about politics: who rules and how. It is a kind of politics you may be unfamiliar with. It is not about left or right, or about elections or policies or interest groups. I don’t think any of that matters much. Not in…
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