#mencius moldbug

"The UN is trying to replace the European population, and that tech companies are assisting them." is not an accurate summary of Moldbug's thesis. Most political coalitions and policies have a "Bootleggers and Baptists" dynamic. One part of the coalition is doing it for selfish reasons, the other part is doing it for reasons of holiness/righteousness. The righteous give cover for the self-interested, the self-interested give money/power/funds to signal boost the righteous. The "Cathedral" -- which is a political coalition that dominates almost all academic institutions, prestige media outlets, NGO's, the non-gun toting departments of government, and the Democratic Party -- has this "Bootleggers and Baptist" dynamic with regards to immigration. The political schemers understand that brown immigrants overwhelmingly vote Democrat, because the Democrats give them the benefits and status. The votes and political power are then used to fund and empower all the Cathedral institutions. The righteous faction believe that immigration and spending money on the poor is good for all sorts of moral reasons. Why do capitalists go along with it? Because contrary to popular belief, capitalists are disorganized and individually much weaker than the mass of the Cathedral. And they want to be seen as high status good guys. The Cathedral sets out what it means to be a good guy, so they are following along. Jeff Bezos is not strong enough to shift the zeitgeist by himself, if he tried promoting overtly right-wing ideology he would be demonized far, far, worse than he is now (see the demonization of people like William Shockley, the Koch brothers or Donald J Trump). Being seen as a high status good guy is worth a lot more than the difference between $10 billion and $15 billion. The carrot is getting treated as a high-status humanitarian, but there is also a stick. There are a million complicated laws that most capitalists are probably stepping on. You could make a strong case of fraud "using deception to gain something of value" against Mark Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. If these guys don't pay the Danegeld, if they are not seen as good guys through their donations and words, they could easily end up in jail. One additional reason for the capitalists going along with it -- there are something like 100,000 harassment/discrimination/hostile workplace lawsuits every year. Some of these can cost companies hundreds of millions of dollars. In these lawsuits, everything the company does gets counted as a circumstantial evidence in the case. So if the case against Google is, "My manager was an asshole to me and promoted a less qualified man over me because I am a woman," it matters a lot for winning the suit if your company has all these programs promoting women empowerment, versus if the CEO said in an interview "James Damore was basically right." If he says latter, that will be used as evidence against the company in court. This whole thing then spirals -- with everyone afraid of speaking publicly the right-wing view on race/sex issues, the next generation won't even be exposed to the ideas and they will be true believers.

Deep irony of Moldbug is his description of Puritinism as psuedopapism speaking ex cathedra- essentially armed Libertarians to conceive of the MSM-Gov-Academia network in the same way Milton or Dee or Bruno or Wycliffe etc viewed Church governance.