"Technological rationality allows for an “objective” method of return to the “proper” structures of power that precede modernity’s enfeebling democracy (e.g: monarchy, aristocracy) without any material turn away from capitalist science and industry."

"Technological rationality allows for an “objective” method of return to the “proper” structures of power that precede modernity’s enfeebling democracy (e.g: monarchy, aristocracy) without any material turn away from capitalist science and industry." (https://thenewinquiry.com/black-sun-rising/)

posted on January 07, 2021 06:53 PM by u/Consistent_Actuator

u/DELETED 18 points at 1610046741.000000

I first heard about neoreaction through the bizarre “MAKE ERIC SCHMIDT CEO AMERICA” petition that was organized by some ex-OWS person IIRC. It was so bizarre I thought it must have been a shitpost at first. Does anyone remember what I’m talking about?

EDIT: Was thinking of [Justine Tunney] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Tunney) (Guardian article). What a weird story.

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u/jaherafi 34 points at 1610045761.000000

The proper rational prosperous structures of power that led to genocides and 2 World Wars

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u/N0_B1g_De4l 32 points at 1610057090.000000

And also, you know, all the shit they hate about the modern world. That's what I don't get about these people. Like, we already tried this shit, and it *fucking lost*. Reactionaries crow about the instability of Western democracy, but guess what? There are surviving Western democracies and there aren't surviving monarchies.

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u/Welpmart 12 points at 1610058317.000000

Well, we have constitutional democracies. Denmark and the UK come to mind. But all of them have been forced to retreat from much of their power (and imho should be abolished entirely).

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u/musicmage4114 14 points at 1610079881.000000

What confuses me even more is that they somehow seem to be under the impression that our current oligarchy/plutocracy isn’t already the aristocracy they seek to (re-)establish.

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u/N0_B1g_De4l 7 points at 1610080325.000000

Well, they're not in charge, so obviously it isn't working correctly. Monarchies were run by introverted nerds, right?

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u/musicmage4114 13 points at 1610080510.000000

It’s a shame they dismiss anything outside of “the West” out of hand. Ancient China definitely had its fair share of introverted nerds running things at various points.

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u/Arilou_skiff 2 points at 1610273868.000000

That is probably the worst of all takes tbh. Aristocracy is literally the government of extroverted jocks!

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u/Cyclamate 8 points at 1610132437.000000

Bender’s Hohlwelt-theorie argued that the Earth was a vault within an endless field of matter. The sun was somewhere in the middle of this vault, and the stars in the sky were the lights of cities from the other side.

“An infinite universe is a Jewish abstraction,” wrote Bender. “A finite, rounded universe is a thoroughly Aryan conception.”

Damn, Terry Pratchett’s first draft was wild

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u/Consistent_Actuator 5 points at 1610132556.000000

Teutons all the way down, apparently

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