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J.L. Mackey's avatar

I’m new to RW thought; this was a good intro into it

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Astral's avatar

Glad you think so. This is intended for an audience familiar with the terms in name only or even less than that

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Hobbit Tanistry's avatar

NrX tech bros - managerial technocracy... fie!

Feudalism without humanity is not a RETVRN.

Cut flower ethics are not a RETVRN.

The beast devours the whore.

Peter Thiel has been attending Bilderberg for the last 10 years.

The Intellectual Dark Web is adjacent to Jeffery Epstein.

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Astral's avatar

I’m explicitly explaining here why these things are not a return.

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Ronin über dem Nebelmeer's avatar

Bravo! I felt like someone re-uniting with a war veteran 50 years later after reading that. I'm at heart a trade hawk paleo-con from the Ross Perot/Pat Buchanan era but I've followed nrx after Romney's defeat (UR, Spandrell, Social Matter). I spread the nrx gospel wherever I can with Auron MacIntyre and Charlamagne copypasta on normie-con platforms like FB, Gab, Gettr, etc.

I see the following basic principles in keeping the phalanx in formation:

The Neoreactionary Trichotomy - ceasefire between tech bros, trads and ethno-nats - recognize each other's beliefs and goals. Hans Hermann Hoppe exhorts an-caps and trads to form an alliance - an-cap patchwork governance allows trads to form trad communities, which in turn produces honest, moral, stable citizens that make an-capistan functional. Similar concept is "Gnon" - ceasefire between believers and non-believers of the right

Meme magic - As Camille Paglia once said, "religion spreads mainly through memorable mantras" and so internet/social media is a target-rich environment of our age - Each wing of trichotomy must be adept at meme magic against the Cathedral, dancing just on the borderline between samizdat and the ban hammer.

Finally, my attitude is giving daily fire support to any homies on the right when the left swarms. I don't care about Johnny vs. Amber or pop-culture stuff but when the woke mob marches on a battlefield, no matter how minor (movies, comic books, gaming, etc), it's an opportunity to humiliate and demoralize the enemy (I check in on channels like the Quartering, Tim Pool, Critical Drinker, etc. for such updates). The Cathedral may try to shut the doors to the halls of power but it cannot stop erosion of legitimacy from a thousand little cuts.

I take inspiration from this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OA2dmipFbo

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