Four Political Theories and the Metaphysics of World-Making: A Letter to My Son in College --Douglas Blake Olds (September 5, 2025) [N.B. COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] ABSTRACT Four political theologies, four world-makings. Schmitt’s state of exception says power is born in rupture: the sovereign suspends law and names enemies. Madisonian liberalism wagers on divided powers and consent to restrain the will. Marxism reads history as class struggle and entrusts a vanguard to midwife a classless order. Duginist revanchism rejects both liberalism and Marxism to enthrone mythic identity...
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The Hermeneutics of Iconoclasm in Mid-Modernity: A. Covenant Substrate, Non-transactional Kinesthetics, and the Vectoring Awareness of Atoning Energies and Flows. B. Valorization of Entropic Forms and Feudalizing Mechanisms of Babel. August 29, 2025 [updated November 7, 2025 where noted] Douglas Blake Olds This article was prepared with editorial assistance from ChatGPT under the Lawnmower Rule: the tool remained ministerial rather than agentic and idolatrous. Its author is accountable for every sentence unless specifically attributed to outside sources. "Only describe, don't explain." --Ludwig Wittgenstein "The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.—is sure to be noticed." Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death ABSTRACT Technocracy is advancing a radical, algorithmic configurati...