Salem Witch Trials

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Salem Witch Trials is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 12, 2021 and February 16, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “the Salem Witch Trials, the Red Scare, the Cultural Revolution”; “the Delphic Oracle, the Salem Witch Trials”. It most often appears alongside 1950s, 1950s American consensus, 1990s.

Metadata

• Category: Concepts
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: May 12, 2021
• Last seen: February 16, 2022

Appears In

• Theses On The Current Moment
• Book Review: Sadly, Porn

Related Pages

• • 1950s (1 shared issues)
• • 1950s American consensus (1 shared issues)
• • 1990s (1 shared issues)
• • Abercrombie & Fitch (1 shared issues)
• • atheism (1 shared issues)
• • Athenian democracy (1 shared issues)
• • Athenians (1 shared issues)
• • Athens (1 shared issues)
• • Ayn Rand (1 shared issues)
• • barberpole model of fashion (1 shared issues)
• • Bible (1 shared issues)
• • Blackbeard (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-sadly-porn/comment/5114457
• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
• • https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html
• • https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7057/Who-will-win-the-2024-Democratic-presidential-nomination

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Theses On The Current Moment

May 12, 2021 · Original source

We usually stick to the same stock examples of repression and retaliation against nonconformists - the Salem Witch Trials, the Red Scare, the Cultural Revolution. These are rightly remembered as awful, and reminders of them make good rallying cries.

Book Review: Sadly, Porn

February 16, 2022 · Original source

Because this book is . . . what even is this book? The first page has an eight-page long footnote at the bottom, which covers the Delphic Oracle, the Salem Witch Trials, and the movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, and ends up concluding that you (yes, you) are incapable of having desires. Immediately afterwards, the narrative breaks off for a thirty page cuckold porn story, which sounds like the sort of thing you do in order to discuss later, except that it never does. Then it’s back to more seemingly-crazy assertions and multi-dozen page footnotes. Footnote 35 is half a page of the author screaming at a hypothetical reader who wants fewer footnotes:

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• Book Review: Sadly, Porn
• Concepts: S
• Theses On The Current Moment