Neoreaction a Basilisk by Philip Sandifer & Sandifer

Author:Philip Sandifer & Sandifer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Hannibal: Killing must feel good to God, too. He does it all the time, and are we not created in his image?

Will Graham: Depends on who you ask.

Hannibal: God's terrific. He dropped a church roof on 34 of his worshipers last Wednesday night in Texas, while they sang a hymn.

Will: Did God feel good about that?

Hannibal: He felt powerful.

This exchange is most obviously interesting in how it navigates a relationship between abstract and material authority. God is simultaneously cast as a genuinely sovereign authority - a Platonic Form that man merely echoes - and as a brutal dictator capriciously executing people to assert his power. It comes wickedly close to satirizing and deconstructing the whole of Moldbug, and undoubtedly does so to Milton’s God. The show does this often, worrying the bone of authority and creation, refracting it over and over again through its Chesapeake Gothic hall of mirrors. Consider, for instance, this revisitation of the exchange two seasons later, this time between Will and an imagined interlocutor:

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