I don't think I'd describe myself as a reactionary. I agree with many of the diagnoses but few of the proposed solutions
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my most recent professed ideology was ancap where a lot of solutions I like in theory but have concluded are utterly unworkable
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the major shift being from thinking tribalism and tribal conflict were problems that needed to be wiped out, now think this...
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...is impossible, most people will always think that way, and they must be accommodated or at least managed
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a good solution needs to have healthy prosocial norms for tribalists along with robust analytical tools for rationalists
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plus virulence plus aesthetics plus absence of insane death spirals (this one is really hard, felled fascism and communism...
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...and will likely claim liberal democracy in time). I am not sure what that looks like yet, but I hope to
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that is sort of what I am getting at with the liberalism-attacking-liberalism. the culture of the last couple centuries has...
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...developed very powerful methods of critique, but in the past few decades has turned them on itself
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hasn't liberalism's strength & weakness been self-critique? We'd have to become navel-gazers or barbarians to avoid it.
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there's a difference between course-correction and suicide. we'll be wiped out by barbarians if we don't fix it
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I see lots of attempts at course correction, which looks to the observer like infighting.
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