Neoreaction: The Dark Enlightenment

[Shaggai]

This topic was threadjacking the liberal education thread, so I made this on Agritum's suggestion. What are your views on Neoreaction and related things?

Neoreaction (abbreviated as Nrx, also known as the Dark Enlightenment) is a set of far-right political views, mostly based on rejection of democracy in favor of something resembling monarchy. Many nrx also support patriarchy, and some support eugenics. It covers a pretty wide range, from radical transhumanists to people who simply believe that democracy is a bad idea. We don't have any self-identified nrx on NSG as far as I know, but if there are any lurking around, feel free to post.

Personally, I think that they have very interesting ideas. They tend to pose good questions, even if they get the answers wrong, and the ideas behind their beliefs are useful.

[Ifreann]

Sounds nutty.

[Avenio]

I think they're of the same ideological ken as the anti-vaccination movement. People who have lived in stable Western democracies all their lives and look back at dusty old tyrannies with the sort of fondness that can only come from someone several generations distant from having actually lived under the sort of nasty authoritarian regimes they look up to.

[Mushet]

Upon searching it I've found it has it's own crappy website that has a pretty much blank homepage and each tenet you can click on brings you to a page with a single quote and links to books you can buy on Amazon. You'd think they'd at least have essays. Maybe they're too busy being right wing hipsters

[Land and Freedom]

A recent discovery of mine. It has a degree of support from the Silicon Valley techno-libertarian movement actually. A very weird collection of people and ideas.

http://www.thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbre ... hiavellis/

[Benuty]

This topic was threadjacking the liberal education thread, so I made this on Agritum's suggestion. What are your views on Neoreaction and related things?

Neoreaction (abbreviated as Nrx, also known as the Dark Enlightenment) is a set of far-right political views, mostly based on rejection of democracy in favor of something resembling monarchy. Many nrx also support patriarchy, and some support eugenics. It covers a pretty wide range, from radical transhumanists to people who simply believe that democracy is a bad idea. We don't have any self-identified nrx on NSG as far as I know, but if there are any lurking around, feel free to post.

Personally, I think that they have very interesting ideas. They tend to pose good questions, even if they get the answers wrong, and the ideas behind their beliefs are useful.

So Distruzio?

[Inolena]

Sounds like my ideals if it were to get high on LSD and to rot in a cesspit of reactionary thought.

I'm on with the transhumanism bit. But everything else is disgusting.

[The Rich Port]

Sounds really fucking Un-American.

[Liriena]

I think they're of the same ideological ken as the anti-vaccination movement. People who have lived in stable Western democracies all their lives and look back at dusty old tyrannies with the sort of fondness that can only come from someone several generations distant from having actually lived under the sort of nasty authoritarian regimes they look up to.

Pretty much.

I'm personally more troubled by the people in Latin American countries who actually lived through military dictatorships and occasionally feel nostalgic about them (i.e., the always lovely "This shit didn't happen when Videla was in charge" crowd).

[Benuty]

Also how would it be an enlightenment?

Besides "The Darkening" would have been a much better title .

[Liriena]

Also how would it be an enlightenment?

Well, I suppose the book-burnings would shed a lot of light.

Besides "The Darkening" would have been a much better title .

I like it.

[The Rich Port]

Also how would it be an enlightenment?

Besides "The Darkening" would have been a much better title .

I would have preferred "The Bloody Stoolening"

[Benuty]

Also how would it be an enlightenment?

Well, I suppose the book-burnings would shed a lot of light.

Besides "The Darkening" would have been a much better title .

I like it.

Children grab the books, and run into the fields before they light the bonfire!

[Trotskylvania]

Nothing enlightening about this 3edgy5me crap.

[Benuty]

Nothing enlightening about this 3edgy5me crap.

To them it seems the specter of light still going on dimly within that light bulb of theirs is what keeps them going.

[Inolena]

Also sounds like what fedora wearing hooligans of 4chan would endorse.

[Benuty]

Also sounds like what fedora wearing hooligans of 4chan would endorse.

I wasn't aware Nazi's wore fedoras.

[The Rich Port]

Also sounds like what fedora wearing hooligans of 4chan would endorse.

I wasn't aware Nazi's wore fedoras.

Hipster Nazis.

Cowardly New World.

[Inolena]

Also sounds like what fedora wearing hooligans of 4chan would endorse.

I wasn't aware Nazi's wore fedoras.

Gestapo?

I wasn't aware Nazi's wore fedoras.

Hipster Nazis.

Cowardly New World.

My mind was okay, now I'm like flatwut.

[The Liberated Territories]

It's terrible. All the Hoppean libertarians, neo-fascists, male supremacists, and other and crazies lurk around that part of the blogosphere and should be quarantined for the sake of everybody.

Source: read the fvcking manifesto. You can find it here: http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the ... nick-land/

If the mods are in disfavor, remove it, even though I think it's too nonsensical to be offensive.

Also, they totally misunderstand Hayek.

[Murkwood]

Poltical ideologies shouldn't be based on edginess.

[The Rich Port]

Personally, I think that they have very interesting ideas. They tend to pose good questions, even if they get the answers wrong, and the ideas behind their beliefs are useful.

Please state those questions so we won't need them.

I'm also wondering if other people haven't asked those questions before.

[Benuty]

Poltical ideologies shouldn't be based on edginess.

Yet you are a Neo-Con -__- .....the irony.

[Bontavation]

I have a feeling most people who support eugenics wouldn't agree to be chemically sterilized because the government told them to. Its all rooted in edginess and smugness. These are selfish people who are just arrogant enough to believe that, if society went back to flat-out survival of the fittest, they would be at the top of the heap. Even if they're right about being superior, their philosophy is still immoral. Joseph Stalin was an incredibly smart guy, but just because he was smart doesn't mean he was entitled to be a terrifying dictator.

[The Liberated Territories]

Poltical ideologies shouldn't be based on edginess.

It's so edgy that it created a wormhole in the internet, that sucks all intelligence and sanity that comes near it.