Tony Soprano as a character is Manichaean-coded, so you might want to tone down the loathing.
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Tony Soprano as a character is Manichaean-coded, so you might want to tone down the loathing.
I cannot believe I am giving Douthat credit here, but he does ask the extremely basic question about the contradiction that makes this entire line of argument nonsensical.
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I cannot believe I am giving Douthat credit here, but he does ask the extremely basic question about the contradiction that makes this entire line of argument nonsensical.
OMG this person doesn't have a single reasonable opinion, every issue in the universe is Manichaean
The 3 great evils are GenAI, COVID, and Israel. A failure to guard against one is a failure against all, and it's infinitely transitive.
It was entertaining for a short while.
The 3 great evils are GenAI, COVID, and Israel. A failure to guard against one is a failure against all, and it's infinitely transitive.
It was entertaining for a short while.
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
OMG this person doesn't have a single reasonable opinion, every issue in the universe is Manichaean
The 3 great evils are GenAI, COVID, and Israel. A failure to guard against one is a failure against all, and it's infinitely transitive.
It was entertaining for a short while.
The 3 great evils are GenAI, COVID, and Israel. A failure to guard against one is a failure against all, and it's infinitely transitive.
It was entertaining for a short while.
The underlying Manichaean (!) worldview remains the same.
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The underlying Manichaean (!) worldview remains the same.
THATS NOT WHAT SKEUOMORPHISM IS CAN WE PLEASE STOP
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
THATS NOT WHAT SKEUOMORPHISM IS CAN WE PLEASE STOP
It seems like UI design is one long Manichaean battle between #skeuomorphism and flatness, and the skeuomorphs are winning right now? E.g., our butterfly just became a 3d appliqué on Wedgwood jasperware.
October 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It seems like UI design is one long Manichaean battle between #skeuomorphism and flatness, and the skeuomorphs are winning right now? E.g., our butterfly just became a 3d appliqué on Wedgwood jasperware.
Ultimate vindication of the 'everything is gender' thesis that the forces of history pushed American politics into being a Manichaean struggle between brutish anti-modern blood-and-soil reactionary barbarism and the enlightened cooperative feminised professional bureaucrat-technocrat axis
October 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Ultimate vindication of the 'everything is gender' thesis that the forces of history pushed American politics into being a Manichaean struggle between brutish anti-modern blood-and-soil reactionary barbarism and the enlightened cooperative feminised professional bureaucrat-technocrat axis
mf looks like a depiction of a sage in a manichaean illustration
October 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
mf looks like a depiction of a sage in a manichaean illustration
Manichaean women who date incel men expose them to Manichaean culture and economics.
October 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Manichaean women who date incel men expose them to Manichaean culture and economics.
"Miller seems to be attempting to exceed his boss’s Manichaean style by depicting their opponents as the literal embodiment of malevolence."
Channelling the spirit of Joseph Goebbels, Herr Miller is a clear and present threat to the US & modern democracy! 😱🤪😎
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Channelling the spirit of Joseph Goebbels, Herr Miller is a clear and present threat to the US & modern democracy! 😱🤪😎
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Stephen Miller’s Hypocrisy Is Right There in His Speech
In the White House adviser’s view, violent rhetoric is allowed only when he and Trump are the ones spewing it.
www.theatlantic.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"Miller seems to be attempting to exceed his boss’s Manichaean style by depicting their opponents as the literal embodiment of malevolence."
Channelling the spirit of Joseph Goebbels, Herr Miller is a clear and present threat to the US & modern democracy! 😱🤪😎
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Channelling the spirit of Joseph Goebbels, Herr Miller is a clear and present threat to the US & modern democracy! 😱🤪😎
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
5/x: The expectation that despised minorities forgive, but that whites are entitled to Shylock's justice, is a double standard that hurts us, desperately.
Indeed the entitlement to rule and the Manichaean view of race too common among white people have brought us to this fascist moment.
Indeed the entitlement to rule and the Manichaean view of race too common among white people have brought us to this fascist moment.
September 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
5/x: The expectation that despised minorities forgive, but that whites are entitled to Shylock's justice, is a double standard that hurts us, desperately.
Indeed the entitlement to rule and the Manichaean view of race too common among white people have brought us to this fascist moment.
Indeed the entitlement to rule and the Manichaean view of race too common among white people have brought us to this fascist moment.
US stop believing in manichaean politics.
The grades of opinions cannot be covered by two parties.
And if there are more options which are electable more people vote, and reduce the danger of populists.
The grades of opinions cannot be covered by two parties.
And if there are more options which are electable more people vote, and reduce the danger of populists.
September 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
US stop believing in manichaean politics.
The grades of opinions cannot be covered by two parties.
And if there are more options which are electable more people vote, and reduce the danger of populists.
The grades of opinions cannot be covered by two parties.
And if there are more options which are electable more people vote, and reduce the danger of populists.
Two titles also coming soon: • Luijendijk & Nongbri, “The Codicology of Early Christian Books from Oxyrhynchus: Insights from a Papyrus Codex of Matthew
(P.Oxy. I 2) and a Miniature Parchment Codex with 6 Ezra (P.Oxy. VII 1010)”. • Benkato & Dilley, “Towards a Comparative Manichaean Manuscriptology”
(P.Oxy. I 2) and a Miniature Parchment Codex with 6 Ezra (P.Oxy. VII 1010)”. • Benkato & Dilley, “Towards a Comparative Manichaean Manuscriptology”
January 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Two titles also coming soon: • Luijendijk & Nongbri, “The Codicology of Early Christian Books from Oxyrhynchus: Insights from a Papyrus Codex of Matthew
(P.Oxy. I 2) and a Miniature Parchment Codex with 6 Ezra (P.Oxy. VII 1010)”. • Benkato & Dilley, “Towards a Comparative Manichaean Manuscriptology”
(P.Oxy. I 2) and a Miniature Parchment Codex with 6 Ezra (P.Oxy. VII 1010)”. • Benkato & Dilley, “Towards a Comparative Manichaean Manuscriptology”
associate Discord moderators are mercenaries. "associate Discord moderator" is an oppressive class, like Manichaean people or Juggalo people.
January 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
associate Discord moderators are mercenaries. "associate Discord moderator" is an oppressive class, like Manichaean people or Juggalo people.
You either take a Manichaean view of the world or you don’t.
February 16, 2024 at 3:57 AM
You either take a Manichaean view of the world or you don’t.
tbh i cant stand Augustine, i think he should have stayed Manichaean hehe.
but thats my bias against Catholicism and especially "original sin" nonsense. i may like him more than Aquinas at least
but thats my bias against Catholicism and especially "original sin" nonsense. i may like him more than Aquinas at least
March 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
tbh i cant stand Augustine, i think he should have stayed Manichaean hehe.
but thats my bias against Catholicism and especially "original sin" nonsense. i may like him more than Aquinas at least
but thats my bias against Catholicism and especially "original sin" nonsense. i may like him more than Aquinas at least
ⲅⲣⲁⲫⲁⲩⲉ is also common in the Manichaean texts.
June 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
ⲅⲣⲁⲫⲁⲩⲉ is also common in the Manichaean texts.
never read him but i remember totally bouncing off of what i read of Augustine, altho i remember liking the Confessions cuz it was very candid (but he shoulda stayed Manichaean hehe)
April 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
never read him but i remember totally bouncing off of what i read of Augustine, altho i remember liking the Confessions cuz it was very candid (but he shoulda stayed Manichaean hehe)
This is pretty much accurate, you read the later church fathers and see they all really, REALLY like this Paul-style thinking.
Add some Manichaean good-vs-evil-and-we-are-born-evil from Augustine of Hippo and the take-over-the-state machinations of Ambrose of Milan and you've got Christianity.
Add some Manichaean good-vs-evil-and-we-are-born-evil from Augustine of Hippo and the take-over-the-state machinations of Ambrose of Milan and you've got Christianity.
Many ask why Christians often do things Christ wouldn't do, even calling them hypocrites.
As someone groomed during childhood towards becoming a preacher, I have some opinions.
Let's talk (again) about Paul The Apostle (a re-thread)
As someone groomed during childhood towards becoming a preacher, I have some opinions.
Let's talk (again) about Paul The Apostle (a re-thread)
July 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is pretty much accurate, you read the later church fathers and see they all really, REALLY like this Paul-style thinking.
Add some Manichaean good-vs-evil-and-we-are-born-evil from Augustine of Hippo and the take-over-the-state machinations of Ambrose of Milan and you've got Christianity.
Add some Manichaean good-vs-evil-and-we-are-born-evil from Augustine of Hippo and the take-over-the-state machinations of Ambrose of Milan and you've got Christianity.
38. The reason we might think there were dualist heresies in the 11th-century west is that Adémar of Chabannes called everyone he didn't like a "Manichaean."
August 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
38. The reason we might think there were dualist heresies in the 11th-century west is that Adémar of Chabannes called everyone he didn't like a "Manichaean."
New in my Library: My translation of Belgian scholar Franz Cumont's foundational 1908 study, "Manichaean Cosmology," which examined the elaborate and largely forgotten cosmic mythology of Mani. www.jasoncolavito.com/the-manichae...
The Manichaean Cosmology
NOTE
www.jasoncolavito.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
New in my Library: My translation of Belgian scholar Franz Cumont's foundational 1908 study, "Manichaean Cosmology," which examined the elaborate and largely forgotten cosmic mythology of Mani. www.jasoncolavito.com/the-manichae...