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Lumifer comments on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 November 2014 04:05:45AM 4 points [-]

I think that NRx can be disaggregated into two relatively independent parts -- the critique of the current Western political arrangements and the normative this-should-be-so part. It may make sense to discuss them separately.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 20 November 2014 04:46:27AM *  0 points [-]

The problem with that is doing so implicitly encourages those who espouse the this-should-be-so parts every time they are reinforced by seeing the other bits discussed. I REALLY wish there were a way around this, because criticism of democracy and trying to figure out ways around its bad points is a very interesting subject.

Comment author: Lumifer 20 November 2014 06:39:16AM *  2 points [-]

First, I don't see implicit encouragement as a problem. You're thinking in supply-the-enemy-tribe-with-attention terms which aren't particularly useful.

Second, the critical part of NRx doesn't like much more than just democracy. Cathedral is vast and its filaments burrow deep...