Are you familiar with Moldbug's concept of the 'cathedral'? If so I'd be curious how you feel it's different/same from your node of control description
I'm mildly familiar with the Cathedral concept but I haven't read him deeply or closely enough to build on it explicitly or systematically, although you might argue that I'm perhaps indirectly riffing on it (or similar ideas that circulate on Twitter) here.
I've not read UQ, for example, but I have skimmed his more recent SubStack writings on the Cathedral specifically. Obviously, he's a controversial figure, but without any depth of knowledge on his work I simply can't comment on it intelligently to any meaningful degree of detail and I don't like talking out of my ass about stuff I haven't really delved into intensively.
What I do find interesting about the Cathedral model in particular is that AFAICT you can easily bracket it out from the rest of his more controversial work around monarchism and, to me, it's not really an ideological model, but rather, a sociological model of how decentralized consensus emerges (and is policed) in elite cultural institutions in Western liberal democracies and the US in particular.
On those merits my intuition is that this model is, broadly speaking, quite accurate, although my sense is that some left/right synthesis with a Chomskyite consent-manufacturing/corporate ownership model would constitute a fuller picture of how things actually work. I also think the co-ordination mechanisms are now becoming more formalized and overt than perhaps the model would suggest.
It's a little tricky to interpret without the broader context of the first person novel it's excerpted from.
This novel is a first person narrative from the perspective of a (partly) reliable narrator (the white male protagonist of the novel - see the opening section of the quote).
You're right that the subsequent narrative (that follows from this opening section) is told in third-person omniscient perspective, but it's still nested in the protagonist's own re-telling of Jason's personal account of his life story - Jason being the Asian character. The implication being that some of the antagonistic racial framing has been interpolated by the protagonist/narrator.
Damn.
Exceptional as always, ARX.
Thank you brother!
Are you familiar with Moldbug's concept of the 'cathedral'? If so I'd be curious how you feel it's different/same from your node of control description
I'm mildly familiar with the Cathedral concept but I haven't read him deeply or closely enough to build on it explicitly or systematically, although you might argue that I'm perhaps indirectly riffing on it (or similar ideas that circulate on Twitter) here.
I've not read UQ, for example, but I have skimmed his more recent SubStack writings on the Cathedral specifically. Obviously, he's a controversial figure, but without any depth of knowledge on his work I simply can't comment on it intelligently to any meaningful degree of detail and I don't like talking out of my ass about stuff I haven't really delved into intensively.
What I do find interesting about the Cathedral model in particular is that AFAICT you can easily bracket it out from the rest of his more controversial work around monarchism and, to me, it's not really an ideological model, but rather, a sociological model of how decentralized consensus emerges (and is policed) in elite cultural institutions in Western liberal democracies and the US in particular.
On those merits my intuition is that this model is, broadly speaking, quite accurate, although my sense is that some left/right synthesis with a Chomskyite consent-manufacturing/corporate ownership model would constitute a fuller picture of how things actually work. I also think the co-ordination mechanisms are now becoming more formalized and overt than perhaps the model would suggest.
How exactly is that excerpt told through a white male perspective though? It’s in a third-person omniscient perspective.
It's a little tricky to interpret without the broader context of the first person novel it's excerpted from.
This novel is a first person narrative from the perspective of a (partly) reliable narrator (the white male protagonist of the novel - see the opening section of the quote).
You're right that the subsequent narrative (that follows from this opening section) is told in third-person omniscient perspective, but it's still nested in the protagonist's own re-telling of Jason's personal account of his life story - Jason being the Asian character. The implication being that some of the antagonistic racial framing has been interpolated by the protagonist/narrator.