DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Neoreactionaries believe that while technology and capitalism have advanced humanity over the past couple centuries, democracy has actually done more harm than good. They propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy.

Oh, noes! We’re a movement!

Enough has been written on neoreaction already to fill at least a couple of books, so if you prefer to go straight to the source, just pop a Modafinil and skip to the “Neoreaction Reading List” at the end of this post. For everyone else, I’ll do my best to summarize neoreactionary thought and why it might matter.

Set phasers for ‘strawman’….

“Reactionary” originally meant someone who opposed the French Revolution, and today the term generally refers to those who would like to return to some pre-existing state of affairs.

In other words, most Eco-nazis, public transit aficionados, urban density proponents, paleo-diet mavens, back-to-the-land hippies, ‘family farm’ activists, opponents of ‘sprawl’, AlGore, and illegal immigrants who would like to stay where they are but have it be Mexico again. Lot of Democrats there. But I don’t thing those are who he has in mind….

Neoreactionaries believe “The Cathedral,” is a meta-institution that consists largely of Harvard and other Ivy League schools, The New York Times and various civil servants. Anissimov calls it a “self-organizing consensus.” Sometimes the term is used synonymously with political correctness. The fundamental idea is that the Cathedral regulates our discussions enforces a set of norms as to what sorts of ideas are acceptable and how we view history — it controls the Overton window, in other words.

What I call the Crust, which I think is a more useful term since it more readily captures its relationship to the bulk of the population.

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