sure and I just happen to think that the narratives presented by reactionaries are ahistorical and ignore important dynamics (although they are more coherent than what mainstream liberalism offers soooo...)
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"more coherent" is key. it's too much to expect any ideology to correspond to all the objective facts of history, economics and society.
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sure but not all overlooked facts are created equal the majority of neoreactionaries arrive at command economy with trad characteristics as the solution. As an idea that has big big big problemshttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/ …
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Is that where they arrive? Haven't read the full canon, but it doesn't sound like what Land and Moldbug were aiming for.
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Moldbug has shifted towards advocating a command economyhttps://twitter.com/mutual_ayyde/status/1234311184343429120?s=20 …
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This looks like a call for autarky, not a command economy.
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sure he hasn't said that outright but the fact hes gone from small gov libertarianism to this is telling of general trajectory and fact he's praised companies being run like monarchies in places like his interview with justin murphy points towards command economies
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he is pro-leviathan, a friend of mine described him as a "very pessimistic libertarian." but it still seems one of his major endorsements of monarchy is that they are more likely to leave you and your property alone than 'demotic' govts - no?
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yes but I'd argue thats just cover for his actual beliefs so libertarians wouldn't react in disgust monarchies weren't small govt cuz they wanted to be, they were small govt cuz technology sucked and enforcement was expensive
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look at places like Russia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia which are all the closest places on earth to nrx reality id argue. All have pretty significant involvement in peoples lives (in russia its parastate stuff cuz governance is a mess)
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That's a pretty good critique. One response - in Russia the relevant comparison is the experience of Soviet totalitarianism and disastrous flirtation with democracy, compared to which the status quo is pretty good.
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eh the transition from socialism to capitalism was completely fucked up (you basically had state run monopolistic firms being given to party insiders/westerners with contacts preserving the monopoly but without the veneer of egalitarianism) other countries did it better
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Gee, maybe if there had been a strong and virtuous sovereign things would have gone differently.
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