Is NRx dead? I hope not. But it seems as of early 2017 or so, there has been a decline in quantity of NRx-related blog content. Such decline parallels what I perceive to the be the overall post-2017 decline of the alt-right, and although NRx and the alt-right are not the same, they are similar… Continue reading Is NRx Dying? No, it’s moving to Twitter (and other thoughts)
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Everyone is a Realist
This from alfanl caught my attention: The only blot on Landry’s internet career was his public accusation that Spandrell was toxic. This was silly. You can’t demand that a gloomy realist becomes a positivist. It’s like demanding that Trump talks like a Harvard man. It’s just not what they do. The day Spandrell’s blog becomes… Continue reading Everyone is a Realist
Activism and the Imperial Mindset
Michael Perilloux of Social Matter discusses the need for an Imperial Mindset: There are many ways to deviate from the correct political mindset, but only one way to do it right. You have to actually think about what it would mean to govern an empire well. If our problem is to restore statecraft and political… Continue reading Activism and the Imperial Mindset
Reactionary Future, MacIntyre, and Communitarianism
This is many months old but deserves mentioning; in his penultimate post, Reactionary Future (RF) retires from bogging, expressing frustration with what he perceives as NRx decaying into just another derivative form of Protestantism/Calvinism in the tradition of Mises, Hume, Adam Smith etc. Here are some pertinent passages: I have become extremely convinced that the… Continue reading Reactionary Future, MacIntyre, and Communitarianism
Gnon’s Wager
‘Gnon insurance’ is a way to profit from the inevitability of techno-commercialism as one of the major constituents of the so-called ‘new world order’. This entails holding shares of companies that are most likely to accede to power under such a system, namely Google, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook, which are the most promising candidates… Continue reading Gnon’s Wager
Summary: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction
Another ‘NRx summary’ article: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction As par for the course, there are mentions of Less Wrong and Eliezer Yudkowsky, who are somehow lumped with NXx for reasons that elude me. Especially as of 2015, the rationalist community is only tenuously, at best, linked with… Continue reading Summary: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction
Tyler Cowen the Neoreactionary?
This article is getting a lot of attention: Tyler Cowen’s Unexpected Neoreactionary Manifesto Tyler’s new book The Complacent Class has themes of NRx, but this is because of ‘shared narratives’ and less to do with Tyler himself being a reactionary. Given that I’ve written about this for months, and that NRx has a sort of… Continue reading Tyler Cowen the Neoreactionary?
Trump and Neocons
Libertarian-leaning pundits are complaining about Trump. Another Four Years Of Pointless War Under The Trump Administration On Military and Spending, It’s Trump Versus Trump Trump Is the Enemy of Neocons, But He’s Not Our Friend Is McCain Hijacking Trump’s Foreign Policy? Trump ran (or at least was perceived) as being anti-neocon, and his voters saw… Continue reading Trump and Neocons
SJW/liberal Cathedral vs. Tehnocommercialism Cathedral
Perhaps there are two ‘cathedrals’–the SJW/liberal one, which we are all familiar with, and a technocommercialist one (Nick Land alluded to something similar year ago, but I don’t remember the post), and the two are at odds with each other. Technocommercialism seeks to secede from the former, a process some call ‘exit’. The latter is… Continue reading SJW/liberal Cathedral vs. Tehnocommercialism Cathedral
Why NRx is Popular on Reddit
Reddit’s users are predominantly millennials, and ideologically, the site tends to have an anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, and contrarian bias, yet NRx and related ‘Dark Enlightenment’ views are surprisingly popular there despite reactionaries generally advocating ‘more power’, not less. When Moldbug in 2016 did an AMA it was very well-received, and judging by the up-votes, many Reddit… Continue reading Why NRx is Popular on Reddit