<![CDATA[Eric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits: Modernity's Rise]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/s/modernitys-risehttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yiLh!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc922ccd8-e1bc-45ee-99e8-5eaf39de73d9_256x256.pngEric Scheske's Outside Modern Limits: Modernity's Risehttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/s/modernitys-riseSubstackTue, 14 Apr 2026 07:42:18 GMT<![CDATA[The Puritanical Plague of Progressive Piety]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-puritanical-plague-of-progressivehttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-puritanical-plague-of-progressiveMon, 24 Feb 2025 12:41:34 GMT

Ah, the elite progressive white people. Those insufferable, self-righteous bastards who've managed to infect the American psyche with their millenarian madness for centuries. It's a flippin’ disease, a gnostic virus that's been festering in our national bloodstream since the first Puritan set his sanctimonious foot on Plymouth Rock.

The Four Horsemen of …

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]]><![CDATA[The Left Hemisphere Ruins Literature]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-left-hemisphere-ruins-literaturehttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-left-hemisphere-ruins-literatureSun, 14 Jul 2024 11:36:24 GMT
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]]><![CDATA[How to Brand Yourself Today]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/how-to-brand-yourself-todayhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/how-to-brand-yourself-todayMon, 27 Feb 2023 00:57:14 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[The Modern Gnostic Wants His Structure to Control ]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-modern-gnostic-wants-his-structurehttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-modern-gnostic-wants-his-structureMon, 20 Feb 2023 12:20:00 GMTThe Reality Spectrum v. The Soviet Reality

💡Synopsis: All gnostic sects erect an evil structure that must be escaped or conquered. Unfortunately, there is no evil structure. As a result, any gnostic “reality” must instead become a competing reality, which will eventually lose, even if it destroys culture and tens of millions of people in the process.

All…

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]]><![CDATA[The Gnostic Hates the Structure]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-gnostic-hates-the-structure-parthttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-gnostic-hates-the-structure-partMon, 20 Feb 2023 00:52:35 GMTBelief in a structure drives the gnostic. Without a structure to defeat, the gnostic has no purpose.

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]]><![CDATA[The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability: Parts IV and V of an Analysis of Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-gnostic-believes-his-paradisehttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-gnostic-believes-his-paradiseMon, 06 Feb 2023 00:57:08 GMT

Alienation is the Marxist bugbear. He sees alienation everywhere because it emanates from the economic substructure and works its way through the socio-political superstructure. Natural economic evolution would eliminate it, but the ruling classes are suppressing the evolution out of self-interest, so a revolution needs to bring about the evolution.

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]]><![CDATA[The Gnostic is a Believer: Part III of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-gnostic-is-a-believer-part-iiihttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-gnostic-is-a-believer-part-iiiMon, 23 Jan 2023 12:12:10 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[The Gnostic Never Blames Himself. Part II of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-gnostic-never-blames-himselfhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-gnostic-never-blames-himselfMon, 09 Jan 2023 12:20:29 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[The Gnostic is Never Satisfied. Part I of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-gnostic-is-never-satisfiedhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-gnostic-is-never-satisfiedMon, 19 Dec 2022 00:37:22 GMT
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]]><![CDATA[These Six Traits Make a Person a Gnostic]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/these-six-traits-make-a-person-ahttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/these-six-traits-make-a-person-aSun, 04 Dec 2022 22:28:20 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[A Dozen Quotes from Prometheus Bound: A Play about Spiritual Disease]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/a-dozen-quotes-from-prometheus-boundhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/a-dozen-quotes-from-prometheus-boundSun, 20 Nov 2022 17:50:11 GMT
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]]><![CDATA[The Tao: The Transcendental Router]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-tao-the-transcendental-routerhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/the-tao-the-transcendental-routerSun, 13 Nov 2022 21:17:58 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Put Gnosticism Back into Our Awareness]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/voegelins-new-science-of-politicshttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/voegelins-new-science-of-politicsSun, 06 Nov 2022 23:50:33 GMT
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]]><![CDATA[Why David Hume is Important]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/why-david-hume-is-importanthttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/why-david-hume-is-importantMon, 24 Oct 2022 00:31:46 GMT

“He exhibited that preoccupied stare of the thoughtful scholar that so commonly impresses the undiscerning as imbecile.”

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]]><![CDATA[Machiavelli Would've Used the N' Word (if It Would've Advanced the Prince)]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/machiavelli-wouldve-used-the-n-wordhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/machiavelli-wouldve-used-the-n-wordThu, 29 Sep 2022 10:17:26 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[Seven Early Symptoms of the Mental Disease “Modernitis”]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/seven-early-symptoms-of-the-mentalhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/seven-early-symptoms-of-the-mentalSat, 17 Sep 2022 09:55:19 GMT

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Your reason isn’t reasonable.

Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it.

And smoke it and smoke it and smoke it, until you smoke rationality out of your head, until a love for the absurd fills your lungs, and until you breathe the fresh air of freedom.

Let me explain.

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]]><![CDATA[When Western Civilization Submitted Itself to a Lobotomy ]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/when-western-civilization-submittedhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/when-western-civilization-submittedSat, 03 Sep 2022 21:37:26 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[Descartes Praised Lycurgus. It’s Our Earliest Glimpse of the Problem with Modernist Thinking]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/descartes-praised-lycurgus-its-ourhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/descartes-praised-lycurgus-its-ourSun, 28 Aug 2022 17:11:17 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[Montaigne: The Godfather of 4Chan? ]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/montaigne-the-godfather-of-4chanhttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/montaigne-the-godfather-of-4chanTue, 09 Aug 2022 00:22:12 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[A Perplexing Group in Medieval Europe Got Strong in the 1300s]]>https://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/a-perplexing-group-in-medieval-europehttps://outsidemodernlimits.com/p/a-perplexing-group-in-medieval-europeTue, 19 Jul 2022 21:25:39 GMT
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“Whatever the eye sees and covets, let the hand grasp it.”

No, that isn’t a passage above the front door of Jeffrey Epstein’s residence on Little Saint James.

It’s a popular saying of a medieval sect known as the “Brethren of the Free Spirit,” which has long been regarded, according to historian Norman Cohn, as “one of th…

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