Severin Matusek

Participation. The token gives me permission to participate in the project and/or its culture, in whatever way that may be defined.

As others have said, influencing the world today is not about writing new manifestos, but instead, developing new protocols for how we operate and determining how things are produced, how they circulate, and in turn, how reality is materially composed.

It’s actually a pretty good time to be a solo operator in media in general, though — there’s a lot of opportunities to build a business with self-publishing and subscriptions, while audiences have adapted to a media diet built around relatable individuals rather than old institutions. Add on the usual revenue streams of speaking engagements,... See more

Despite its gravitational pull, the story behind decentralization and the rise of crypto was just one island in the new internet archipelago.

Tech people are not interested in appeals to virtue or beauty or tradition, like most conservatives,” the State Department official said. “They are more like right-wing progressives, and for a long time Moldbug was the only person speaking to them this way.”

The skills of infiltrators, obfuscators, traitors, mystics, spies, and all those who can walk in the dark, carrying their own agendas with them, are more prescient than the tactics of an intellectual used to open public debate.