Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries

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Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries

Post by Ad Orientem » Mon Nov 25, 2013 12:37 pm

Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But there’s a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolution.

Neoreactionaries believe that while technology and capitalism have advanced humanity over the past couple centuries, democracy has actually done more harm than good. They propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy.

You may have seen them crop-up on tech hangouts like Hacker News and Less Wrong, having cryptic conversations about “Moldbug”? and “the Cathedral.”? And though neoreactionaries aren’t exactly rampant in the tech industry, PayPal founder Peter Thiel has voiced similar ideas, and Pax Dickinson, the former CTO of Business Insider, says he’s been influenced by neoreactionary thought. It may be a small, minority world view, but it’s one that I think shines some light on the psyche of contemporary tech culture.

Enough has been written on neoreaction already to fill at least a couple of books, so if you prefer to go straight to the source, just pop a Modafinil and skip to the “Neoreaction Reading List”? at the end of this post. For everyone else, I’ll do my best to summarize neoreactionary thought and why it might matter.
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http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/
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Post by Benko » Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:04 pm

"It’s not hard to see why this ideology would catch-on with white male geeks. It tells them that they are the natural rulers of the world, but that they are simultaneously being oppressed by a secret religious order."

Now why in the world would straight white males feel anyone has anything against them?
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Post by moda0306 » Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:24 pm

Benko wrote: "It’s not hard to see why this ideology would catch-on with white male geeks. It tells them that they are the natural rulers of the world, but that they are simultaneously being oppressed by a secret religious order."

Now why in the world would straight white males feel anyone has anything against them?
Probably for the same reason everyone tends to point to all the reasons their victimized and uses them as a foundation for complaining about things they can't control in life rather than taking responsibility and controlling the things they can... whether these are women, men, white, black, young, old, rich, poor, American, Iraqi, liberal, conservative, etc.
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Post by Libertarian666 » Mon Nov 25, 2013 3:15 pm

Benko wrote: "It’s not hard to see why this ideology would catch-on with white male geeks. It tells them that they are the natural rulers of the world, but that they are simultaneously being oppressed by a secret religious order."

Now why in the world would straight white males feel anyone has anything against them?
Here's one explanation for that, assuming you are not being sarcastic:
http://www.amazon.com/Men-Strike-Boycot ... 1594036756
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Post by ns2 » Mon Nov 25, 2013 5:35 pm

moda0306 wrote: Probably for the same reason everyone tends to point to all the reasons their victimized and uses them as a foundation for complaining about things they can't control in life rather than taking responsibility and controlling the things they can... whether these are women, men, white, black, young, old, rich, poor, American, Iraqi, liberal, conservative, etc.
We live on a planet where bacteria are at the top of the food chain so I think it is not surprising that humans have a tendency to see themselves as victims. Probably part of our evolutionary condition.
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Post by Ad Orientem » Mon Nov 25, 2013 5:44 pm

ns2 wrote: We live on a planet where bacteria are at the top of the food chain so I think it is not surprising that humans have a tendency to see themselves as victims.
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Post by Kriegsspiel » Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:40 am

More than a century after the last Czar and Czarina were assassinated in the wake of the Bolshevik revolution, a collection of Europe’s noble families gathered to celebrate Russia’s first royal wedding since the days of the imperial monarchy. The groom was Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov, 40, a descendant of the Russian imperial throne, and his Italian partner was Rebecca Bettarini, 39. link
I'm wildly ignorant of royalty, but I rank them slightly above Harry & Megan and below William and Katherine.

Rebecca Bettarini is a weird name. Should have been something more Italiany, like Francesca.
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Post by whatchamacallit » Sat Oct 09, 2021 10:01 am

Thanks for article. Interesting read.
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