The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries
12th June 2022
Current Affairs cries wolf.
Author Elizabeth Sandifer explains the dangerous ideas of the far-right neoreactionaries, who have ties to Silicon Valley and a hostility toward democracy.
Dangerous ideas! Far-right! Neoreactionaries! Ties to Silicon Valley! Hostility toward democracy
OH NO WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
Or maybe not. Proglodytes have this problem with agency: Just as they behave as if non-white people are too feckless to run their own lives without well-educated rich white leftists to tell them what to do, they behave as if ideas can cause cancer – just being in the wrong place at the wrong time can make you contract Long Trumpism or worse. This attitude is why progressives are often characterized as the New Puritans: You’ve got to be saved from yourselves because by yourselves you’re too weak/stupid/evil to do the Right Thing, so your Betters need to force you into it (For Your Own Good, of course).
Hence there is always a bull market for these sorts of hand-wringing pearl-clutching articles in the Narrative Media. If you’re looking for a side job and can stomach it, write up a few and send them to the New Yorker, you might get lucky.