1) First off, it recognizes that the original reaction failed and was utterly destroyed (an observation not original to me). In turn, it implies that the current task is not to preserve an existing civilization but to aid in the birth of a new one.

2) It recognizes the diversity of the movement, that it contains not only paleo-reactionaries like myself, but trans-libertarians, futurists, and the like whose motivations may be different but whose goals and strategies are similar, especially with regards to the problem of the Cathedral.

3) Most importantly, it pays homage to Sith Lord Moldbug, who doesn’t use the term himself but was my first introduction to the Dark Enlightenment and is widely acknowledged as the one who (re)discovered the key reactionary insights, such as the corruption of democracy and the degenerative ratchet. That is, we’re not just reactionaries in continuity with the original reactionaries, but reactionaries by way of MM.

“You have a farm and a house. I have a horse and a whip. I will kill you and leave.”

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Why do you seek to build a H\house and a garden plot?

Let the effete end stage of the armies of parliament defend their villas and fields.

Anyway, whilst your remarks on this topic have been debonair (and easy to miss), they’ve been invaluable from my perspective. I suspect my solution will follow you at least in this — neoreaction insofar as it exists micro-publicly should be an emergent phenomenon, best stripped out of blogrolls as an explicit category.