I prefer Left Landian or Left Alamariuian. I may have read a PDF of Fanged Noumena 10 years ago, but I can't remember. The two people who most inspired me as a teenager were Kevin Philips, former Republican strategist turned Democrat, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Cold Warrior and supporter of the Taliban. Moldbug has been good at marketing, interviews, storytelling and is more famous and successful than Nick Land, but I don't know that his ideas were more foundational or influential on me than Land.

Before all of that, my first political fetish was libertarianism, which is where Moldbug comes from as well. I feel bad about saying non-free market things, because it upsets people who are closest to my personality type, and it gets lonely. A pure free market is sometimes the optimal solution to a problem, but since that is usually impossible, aggressive state intervention can be positive. This isn't a dogmatic belief, but for example, I am in favor of a federal property tax to depopulate coastal urban centers and trillions spent in new housing between Knoxville, Albany, OKC, and Fargo. I suppose it depends on your definition whether or not this counts as "leftist economics."

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