skeptical_lurker comments on "NRx" vs. "Prog" Assumptions: Locating the Sources of Disagreement Between Neoreactionaries and Progressives (Part 1) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 05 September 2014 01:51:50PM *  4 points [-]

Compared to neoreaction, libertarianism and liberalism are virtually twins, as children of the Enlightenment.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 05 September 2014 02:06:28PM 4 points [-]

I've heard it said that neoreaction is libertarianism meeting reality. This seems paradoxical, but under certain monarchys the state actually was smaller and interfered with people's lives less.

Comment author: Lumifer 05 September 2014 02:36:39PM 4 points [-]

I've heard it said that neoreaction is libertarianism meeting reality.

Well, that's the Moldbug's explanation for his evolution from libertarianism to neoreaction.

Comment author: David_Gerard 06 September 2014 10:05:25PM *  2 points [-]

Got a link on hand? (I don't disbelieve you, I was wondering how he worded it.)

Comment author: James_Ernest 07 September 2014 01:28:26AM 5 points [-]

This is his explanation at its most explicit:

www.unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-mises-to-carlyle-my-sick-journey.html

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