Reactionary FAQ is 3 parts Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell [3 Mar 2013] Addendum To "Enormous Nutshell" [where he still misses a key element that I've been meaning to write up but haven't done yet] [7 Jun 2019] Anti-Reactionary FAQ [20 Oct 2013]
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Replying to @TEDxHamster @_oumuamua and
The Anti-Reactionary FAQ is such a huge task - anything that NRx incorporates is going to be something where NRx writers have spotted holes in the consensus - how do you then turn around and say the conventional wisdom is right when no one has even tried defending it?
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Replying to @TEDxHamster @_oumuamua and
Conventional wisdom doesn't really have defenses against all challenges - it's conventional wisdom, it doesn't need them. What it does have individual arguments against the old consensus which are then forgotten when the old consensus is discarded. 1/2
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @_oumuamua and
Moldbug's huge stunning revelation to everyone was that you can go back and check those arguments (thanks to google books) and see which side had the right of them in the terms that the parties agreed were the terms of the dispute. 2/3 (one more added)
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @_oumuamua and
The NRx body of thought are the ones where hindsight shows the losing side had the right of it. Scott trying on his own to come up with new arguments against the old arguments was taking on a monumental task - without realizing it he set out to out-do great historical thinkers.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @_oumuamua and
Titanic figures X and Y have a dispute - at the time X is thought to have won; with hindsight both X and Y would agree that Y won. To make an anti-Reaction FAQ you not only have to make a better argument than Y - you have to make a better argument for conventional wisdom than X!
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For that kind of thing go to unqualified reservations; Moldbug analyzed and selected an amazing amount of primary source material on all kinds of historical questions. If you prefer a video introduction to get a taste before you jump:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GW-YMa68o4 …
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Replying to @TEDxHamster @_oumuamua and
The American Revolutionary War is a good one because the conventional narrative makes little sense. Example; Washington spent the winter in Valley Forge when the British Army under the command of a Whig general was wintering in Philadelphia; kinda weird - huh?pic.twitter.com/LjRkCbsowG
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