Anarchy in the NRx¶
Arthur R. Harrison (@AvengingRedHand) makes the incisive observation: “Well the thing is NRx is a specific kind of post-libertarianism, or it was. Now it seems to be just a name for reaction post-Moldbug.” There could be people who don’t see that as degeneration. In fact, it seems there are.
Reactotwitter is lurching into sheer delirium (as *ahem* forecast). To begin with, it seems no longer to concur on what it begins with:
Evola outranks Moldbug. The accomplishments and credentials of the former are far higher.
— Michael Anissimov (@MikeAnissimov) February 17, 2014
(Not in my army.)
It’s time to choose your own tradition and slap an NRx sticker on it. Is anyone envisaging any limits to this:
@Outsideness @MikeAnissimov Whose ideas have more specifically influenced NRx? At this point, it's whoever influences its writers.
— Bryce Laliberte (@AnarchoPapist) February 18, 2014
@AnarchoPapist @MikeAnissimov Since there are no entry controls, this is a formula for complete intellectual anarchy. (OK, Mad Max it is.)
— Outsideness (@Outsideness) February 18, 2014
@Outsideness Moldbug isn't here. Neoreaction is a free for all of our own making.
— Michael Anissimov (@MikeAnissimov) February 18, 2014
So NRx is a formless anarchy telling the world how to put itself in order? Actually, I think this is probably right, and theoretically interesting, but it clearly needs thinking about. How can there imaginably be an ‘entryism’ threat when command control is a teeming chaos? What does this example of radical disorder suggest?
Here’s the NRx anarcho-chaos already pouring through the pipe:
@MikeAnissimov @AnarchoPapist @Outsideness I respect Moldbug, but he is one of many. We all have our voice – we can and should add our ideas
— Anti Democracy Blog (@antidemblog) February 18, 2014
Everyone has a voice, and we respect that … oh wait …
[Some intriguing hints elsewhere on twitter that Urbit might eventually sort this shrieking insanity out.]
ADDED: Occam’s Razor puts things in sensible perspective.