Neoreactionaries

[Verbal Mike]

Ever wish there was a bunch of douchebags actually worse than libertarians/ancaps? Oh boy have I got something for you 

"Exactly what sort of monarchy they'd prefer varies. Some want something closer to theocracy, while Yarvin proposes turning nation states into corporations with the king as chief executive officer and the aristocracy as shareholders."

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook

[Cain]

Hah, do we have a treat for you!  We have our own little neoreactionary by the name of Brother Nihil, who has been hanging around the past few months, defending the Greek Golden Dawn neonazis and similar.

[Telarus]

Aw snap, beat me to it. 

[Verbal Mike]

Oh wow, darn, I should have known I could never out-wierd PDCOM.
Is he at all funny or only horrormirth "funny"?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

He's pretty horrifyingly unfunny.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Oh wow, darn, I should have known I could never out-wierd PDCOM.
Is he at all funny or only horrormirth "funny"?

He's "funny" in that he continually shows up preaching his weird mix of woo and Nazism, and is continually butthurt when we all make fun of him. 

I find him entertaining, in the same manner as I find our engineer entertaining.  Though our engineer doesn't think that lockstep fascism is "true freedom".

Essentially, Brother Nihil is what happens to hipsters when they reach the Ann Coulter Limit.

[Verbal Mike]

I really hope all libertarians and "an"caps will turn to neoreactionism before too long. It'll be way funner that way.

[Cain]

A good number of them are already there.  Hans Herman Hoppe, for example.

[Cain]

Bump.  Charles Stross has a bit up on his blog about the neoreactionaries article, which is of interest since he himself used to converse with Mencius Moldbug (one of the more prominent neoreactionaries) back in the day on Usenet, and they occasionally pop up in each other's comment sections.

In the right corner of the ring, Neo-reactionaries like Mencius Moldbug (blog here) and Michael Anissimov are effectively libertarians who have thrown up their hands in disgust and concluded that the modern age -- by which they mean everything since the Enlightenment -- is corrupting, degrading, and on a highway to hell, and the appropriate political solution to the problem is to go back to aristocracy as an organizing principle, or even the divine right of kings. (Techcrunch describe them as Geeks for Monarchy. I think they're full of shit (possibly because I live in a monarchy), and so does Scott Alexander, who has written a magisterial Anti-Reactionary FAQ in which he pulls the legs off the fascist reactionary insect, the better to anatomize it.)

He examines this in the context of the Revolutionary Communist Party in the UK, which is interesting in its own right.

Mencius himself references the Techcrunch article in his latest blog entry, which I haven't fully read, mostly because MM is a longwinded bore.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Bump.  Charles Stross has a bit up on his blog about the neoreactionaries article, which is of interest since he himself used to converse with Mencius Moldbug (one of the more prominent neoreactionaries) back in the day on Usenet, and they occasionally pop up in each other's comment sections.

In the right corner of the ring, Neo-reactionaries like Mencius Moldbug (blog here) and Michael Anissimov are effectively libertarians who have thrown up their hands in disgust and concluded that the modern age -- by which they mean everything since the Enlightenment -- is corrupting, degrading, and on a highway to hell, and the appropriate political solution to the problem is to go back to aristocracy as an organizing principle, or even the divine right of kings. (Techcrunch describe them as Geeks for Monarchy. I think they're full of shit (possibly because I live in a monarchy), and so does Scott Alexander, who has written a magisterial Anti-Reactionary FAQ in which he pulls the legs off the fascist reactionary insect, the better to anatomize it.)

He examines this in the context of the Revolutionary Communist Party in the UK, which is interesting in its own right.

Mencius himself references the Techcrunch article in his latest blog entry, which I haven't fully read, mostly because MM is a longwinded bore.

Neoreactionaries seem to make about as much sense as Christian Scientists.

Less, really.

I mean, is their point just to be totally crazy so that people can laugh at them? Because they're succeeding.

[Cain]

I think they've realised their libertarian ideals are not popular in democracy and so, instead of figuring out ways to sell them to the public, or modify them, they've decided instead, libertarianism requires a dictator-CEO and a board of aristocratic directors, to do away with democracy entirely.

[Telarus]

I think they've realised their libertarian ideals are not popular in democracy and so, instead of figuring out ways to sell them to the public, or modify them, they've decided instead, libertarianism requires a dictator-CEO and a board of aristocratic directors, to do away with democracy entirely.

I agree, with an added dose of "Fuck those people, I got mine."

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think they've realised their libertarian ideals are not popular in democracy and so, instead of figuring out ways to sell them to the public, or modify them, they've decided instead, libertarianism requires a dictator-CEO and a board of aristocratic directors, to do away with democracy entirely.

In order to be truly free, we first must do away with freedom?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think they've realised their libertarian ideals are not popular in democracy and so, instead of figuring out ways to sell them to the public, or modify them, they've decided instead, libertarianism requires a dictator-CEO and a board of aristocratic directors, to do away with democracy entirely.

In order to be truly free, we first must do away with freedom?

Brother Nihil has said precisely that.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think they've realised their libertarian ideals are not popular in democracy and so, instead of figuring out ways to sell them to the public, or modify them, they've decided instead, libertarianism requires a dictator-CEO and a board of aristocratic directors, to do away with democracy entirely.

In order to be truly free, we first must do away with freedom?

Brother Nihil has said precisely that.

Wow. Stupidity or mental illness? It can be so hard to figure out which.