The great weakness of all reactionary ideologies is that there are more admissible solutions to the (often accurate) abstract societal models they induce from history and want to admit. So they are forced to arbitrarily limit the solutions to those already traced by history.
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For example, my gervais principle analysis strikes many lefties as marxist in spirit (correct) and they draw "overthrow the sociopaths" as the lesson, while I ignore that conclusion and gleefully explore possibility space of sociopath designs, accepting their existence as a given
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Otoh, it's also popular with reactionaries with monarchist etc sensibilities who take the analysis as validation of "powerful sociopaths ought to rule" but then I run with the opposite conclusion that slacking and mediocrity are great ways to counterprogram sociopath ambition
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In each case, where I part ways with reactionaries is in allowing that the future will always admit more technically correct solutions to the model than you might ideologically want to, based on getting functionally fixed in historical examples
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Reactionary is a word that I havent really understood except that it means something derogatory. What does it *really* mean?
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Me too. You are presumably reacting to something. What are you reacting to? Is my response to this tweet reactionary behavior? The opposite could be "actionary" where you just take actions that are not in response to anything.
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