Short bullet point post about things you lowkey need to do to memetically succeed:
- focus on market rather than what is true
- appeal to normies
- be smug, like Eliezer is. With his absolute confidence and no admission of the possibility of being wrong, he plays the role of a cult leader flawlessly
- need to maintain some mystery
- need to choose some ancient tradition that was actually right and we need to retvrn to - from Marxist primitive matriarchal communism, through classical liberalism to Bronze Age
- need to present some enemy and a heroic struggle of the underdog - that's what Moldbug did. the enemy must be simultanoeusly powerful and weak.
- you need to say what is true, but also that whole bunch of paradoxes to fit into the memetic landscape
You can see this as a disclaimer about what's about to come...