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The Syntelist
Personal blog · themetasophist.comhistorypoliticsphilosophy
The Syntelist is a personal blog at themetasophist.com about history, politics and philosophy. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for essays such as 'Shall the West Pass Too?' and the 'Introduction to Metasophism', which discuss fallen civilisations and European demographics and social divisions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Charting a way to a society immune from decline
What Hacker News says?
This website appears to be a (not very subtle) collection of dogwhistles masquerading as historiography. From the "Introduction to Metasophism"[1]: > The above proposals may seem sweeping, but we are only getting started. Particularly concerning is European demographics arising from low fertility and deepening social divisions. A society is beginning to divide along ethnic lines is one where any debate will be triba…
Comment linking /chapter/introduction
on “Shall the West Pass Too? Whispers from Fallen Civilisations”Submitted Shall the West Pass Too? Whispers from Fallen Civilisations as a story · 74 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inequality Killed the Roman Republic as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dethroning Finance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Priming People to Take Risk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI and the Probability of Conflict as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Funding the Media in the Internet Age as a story · 1 points
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