carlyle

Yarvin makes repeated references to Carlyle in multiple pieces, not just the one that's being circulated.

Those calling for his removal from the conference cited this six-year-old blog post about Thomas Carlyle as their only specific complaint.

If CY's writing on Carlyle is relevant, why is noting that SK lobbies for more programmers to integrate Marx and other left-radical writers beyond reproach?

Usually they are real estate deals and private equity firms like Blackstone (BX), Apollo (APO), KKR, Fortress (FIG), Carlyle (CG) etc.

Apple is paying a hefty premium for cool: Beats took a $500m investment from Carlyle in September 2013 that valued the company at more than $1bn.

I think one can draw from Carlyle while still being a good person.

> Thus we may charge Carlyle not only with Hitler, but also with Stalin.

There's only one part in the Carlyle essay where he throws out a hypothesis about slavery, and nowhere does he imply that (1) this is a good thing or (2) that any persons are subhuman.

I think it is possible to cite Carlyle, and to point out that Carlyle made better predictions than the abolitionists, without believing that all black people should be re-enslaved, without believing that chattel slavery is the optimal solution for people with an IQ under 85.

It would be interesting if Y Combinator attempted to convert to an entity that was able to publicly list on a stock exchange and sell shares to the average investor - much like private equity shops Blackstone and Carlyle have done by going public.

When this blew up I tried reading, then skimming the Carlyle essay, couldn't make myself (and I am somewhat interested in learning about political philosophies I'm not yet familiar with, and of course the peculiar institution is a very important thing to those of us in the US).

'If they be inhabited, what a scope for pain and folly; and if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!' Contact is not the only place this allusion occurs in Sagan, who previously quoted Carlyle during a conference on extraterrestrials; Google makes a video of the conference available online.

In that Carlyle essay, he says these, among other things: "Once we get this far, we are almost all the way to Carlyle on slavery.

Whatever else I think about the idea that Carlyle "made better predictions than the abolitionists", I think I can object that the problem doesn't stop at the approving references to Carlyle.

It's really not hard to find attachment points to Carlyle's "Discourse" in multiple places through Yarvin's writing --- the references to Carlyle, the nitpicking over 1850s politics extrapolated to condemnations of the abolition movement, the genetic predisposition stuff.

In other words, I think your comment places an excessive emphasis on the principal and administration per se, sort of like Carlyle’s “great man” theory of history applied to schools.

Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.

Yeah, people who think Moldbug is opaque should try reading a little Carlyle.

We like to think of ourselves as being morally superior to Carlyle.