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is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

is a more effective organizing tool than the truth. To believe in nonsense is a clear demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army.

Curtis Yarvin, the self-proclaimed 'neoreactionary' who blogs under the name 'Mencius Moldbug,' attracted a following in 2008 when he published a wordy treatise asserting, among other things, that 'nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth.' When the organizer of a computer science conference canceled Yarvin's appearance following an outcry over his blogging under his nom de web, Bannon took note: Breitbart News decried the act of censorship in an article about the programmer-blogger's dismissal. Moldbug's dense, discursive musings on history 'What's so bad about the Nazis'' he asks in one 2008 post that condemns the Holocaust but questions the moral superiority of the Allies include a belief in the utility of spreading misinformation that now looks like a template for Trump's approach to truth. 'To believe in nonsense is an unforgeable [sic] demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army,' he writes in a May 2008 post.

is a slight generally applied to any sense that happens to differ from our own.

Nonsense.-- Generally applied to any sense that happens to differ from our own.

is not at all the absurd or the opposite of sense, but rather that which gives value to sense and produces it by circulating in the structure.

Nonsense is not at all the absurd or the opposite of sense, but rather that which gives value to sense and produces it by circulating in the structure. Structuralism owes nothing to Albert Camus, but much to Lewis Carroll.' (Deleuze 'desert islands' 2002:175)

has a sort of abstract beauty such that it, as a kind of irresponsible inverted wit, has no moral to preach and no abuse to scourge.

There is a sort of abstract beauty in the irresponsible inverted wit which we call Nonsense, which has no moral to preach and no abuse to scourge. (G.K. Chesterton 'wit' The Illustrated London News, 4 July 1931)

 gives pleasure because it momentarily liberates us from the constraint of the necessary. We laugh when the expected discharges itself harmlessly.

Pleasure in nonsense. How can man take pleasure in nonsense' For wherever in the world there is laughter this is the case... one can say, indeed, that almost everywhere there is happiness there is pleasure in nonsense. The overturning of experience into its opposite, of the purposive into the purposeless, of the necessary into the arbitrary, but in such a way that this event causes no harm and is imagined as occasioned by high spirits, delights us, for it momentarily liberates us from the constraint of the necessary, the purposive and that which corresponds to our experience, which we usually see as our inexorable masters... we play and laugh when the expected (which usually makes us fearful and tense) discharges itself harmlessly. It is the pleasure of the slave at the Saturnalia. (nietzsche 'human all too human' 98)

Nonsense and beauty have close connections. (E. M. Forster)

's appreciation requires a serious interest in life.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. (Gelett Burgess)

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