If anyone here has ever encountered Knight Of The Grail on DIF and wondered what planet he had flown from, this is it.



A quick summary of the ideas contained by the Neoreactionary Movement follows:

Political authoritarianism
This can be a desire to return to monarchy or aristocracy and/or an admiration of fascism. In every case, it is a rejection of egalitarianism. It is often accompanied with ethnic nationalism but often couched in terms of "scientific" racism. Certainly the idea that ethnic uniformity is good for the economy/country is espoused.

Hostility to feminism and/or multiculturalism
Initial overtures of "justice for dads" however reasonable initially, are just a vehicle for more "scientific" arguments why equal rights for women are somehow "unfair". This argument sometimes degenerates into explanations of "pick up artist" jargon and full blown misogyny.

Austrian School of economics and Anarcho-capitalism
The claim that one is "Libertarian" sits oddly with the aforementioned political authoritarianism and anti egalitarianism but it is because the claim could not be farther from the truth. Even though they may claim to be libertarian, they are really just advocates of old fashioned "are there no workhouses" social Darwinism.

Traditionalist Catholicism and Christian Fundamentalism
Having been banned from the American Catholic Answers Forum I can honestly say that this is true sometimes. It's the Catholic idea of fundamentalist Christianity and very often they are recent converts from such branches of Protestantism. This is not to say that there are no atheists among the neoreactionaris.

A few notable Neoreactionaries

Peter Thiel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Political_activities
Billionaire German-American venture capitalist, he wrote “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
He was inspired by Ayn Rand (of course) and supports research into transhumanism. He is co-author of the book The Diversity Myth: 'Multiculturalism' and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford. and is listed as a member of the Steering Committee of The Bilderberg Group.

Nick Land
The British ex-philosophy lecturer who coined the term Dark Enlightenment and seems to be arguing in favour of accelerationism (i.e. allowing capitalism to cause a calamity) along with transhumanism and massive depopulation.
bam-pow-oof.tumblr.com/post/37857338807/...plete-series-by-nick

Mencius Moldbug
A blogger with a rather obvious pen-name. His real name is Curtis Yarvin
The latest entry in his blog is entitled "Noam Chomsky killed Aaron Swartz"
unqualified-reservations.blogspot.it/201...ed-aaron-swartz.html

So there you have it: Planet WTF has been discovered and it is moving through our internet system ever closer, with each new narcissistic authority addicted fuckwit that decides to orbit it.

Well, at least now I know where the memos and memes are coming from.

Most important of all is the doomer attitude he has, if you bundle that in with the above you have someone who is dangerously fruitcake tbpfh.

Well both the "End of Days" amongst the Theonomists and the Accelerationism of Nick Land are both looking forward to the whole World "to be swept away" and replaced by their glorious vision, so KOTG fits right in.

It all comes down to narcissism and misanthropy. I.e. love of self and hatred of others.

But KOTG is just one of the more conspicuous version that was encountered.

This school of thought (or hate, rather) is a minority but not voiceless. In fact, like most hate-fuelled minorities, it is a very loud one. Moreover, they are not without influence. Thiel in particular has quite a lot of clout and his site Cato Unbound is a forum promoting Neoreactionism and was set up with the partnership of the Cato Institute.(specifically Jason Kuznicki).

Contributers are: : Peter Thiel, Tom G. Palmer, Bryan Caplan, Matthew Yglesias, Richard Thaler, John Cochrane, Robin Hanson, James C. Scott, William Easterly, Jonathan Zittrain, Lawrence Lessig, Charles Murray, and Michael Huemer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Unbound

Very interesting mikey, i love the way they wrap this shit up in pseudo intellectualism as if to validate it.

Tbph I have 'issues' with feminism, I suspect they aren't of the same root as this crew though

Which feminism?

mikey mikey wrote:
Quite.

Maybe KOTG is Nick Land. He claimed to be a philosopher & was always banging on about the enlightenment.

First class wanker.