i think he assumes you're a libertarian
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @schakalsynthetc
I think he thinks nrx is just rebranded libertarianism... and a lot of nrx is former libertarian so I can see why one would make that mistake
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Replying to @0x49fa98 @schakalsynthetc
NRx is libertarianism that bites the bullet and recognizes that all of their arguments aren't essentially about liberty at all, they're about security - so in a sense it's a very, very pure libertarianism, but that is what allows it to stop being libertarianism
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that's why we don't care very much about free markets or free labor flows or weed
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @0x49fa98
I think I make a point of saying "classical liberal" instead of "libertarian" in recognition of that. if anything NRx is more like classical liberalism for people who *have* noticed libertarianism is kind of dumb.
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and yeah a lot of arguments aren't about monomaniacal commitment to some abstract "liberty" at all but about securing the political conditions in which some cultural element valuable in itself can exist. obviously "meritocracy" is about *merit*
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NRx absolutely rejects "meritocracy" - which was a lie to begin with If you're looking for merit it's vitally important to look at a man's ancestors in combination with his "merit" because ancestry is predictive
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but "ancestry is predictive" is still a long way from "ancestry *intrinsically* matters". you're *not* saying the legitimate heir to the throne is the legitimate heir and if he happens to be a complete incompetent and all-around-embarrassment, well, tough shit, he's the king.
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no, that's probably what you still don't get. you're confusing "intrinsically" with "independently" - ancestry doesn't matter intrinsically (it matters, if at all, due to its correlates) but it does matter independently (once you set up a hereditary system, that's that)
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no, I get the distinction, I'm just suggesting that when you say "i*if at all*; due to its correlates" you're already making a secularizing and modernizing move. the idea the legitimacy of the succession itself is what matters above all isn't eo ipso crazy or stupid
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Memetic evolution hits upon correct ideas by accident - that men didn't always understand the practical reasons for their traditions doesn't argue against those traditions Why traditions are to be protected only matters to individual men - the tradition is the coordination point
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the possibility that there is in fact no such thing as a correct idea or a practical reason doesn't argue against the tradition either.
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