http://home.earthlink.net/~peter.a.taylor/moldbug.htm#appB

As Neo-Reaction is the actual anti-body to Prog Antigens, and Dark Enlightenment the diagnostic moment of clarity the usual methods aren’t working. Hence they proceed to naked threats immediately.

I have been interested to learn about progressive enforcers. Their function is necessary.

I maintain that they are wrong in this instance. To make an analogy that may not be good, there is Cpython, Jython and PyPy. PyPy is more self-contained: Python implemented in Python. PyPy people and PyPy developers are, unsurprisingly, often found together on the Internet, where C and Java implementations are not mandated.

Progressive enforcers seem to think that PyPy people are a creation of PyPy developers on the Internet. This is incorrect; and so they take an inordinate interest in idiosyncrasies of an arbitrary, voluble PyPy person.

Quentin Tarantino is a Prog antigen. He opened a space of lurid gangsterism, bursting at the seams with chat and pop culture, animated by the endless ramifications of status-centric hipsterism. Tarantino’s culture has real and imaginary axes; progress in the real direction signals intelligence, although to blur this distinction is counter-signalling. Twenty years after “Pulp Fiction”, Tarantino’s aesthetic propels itself into the future, carrying the hopes of progressives.

Andrei Tarkovsky is an antibody. So are Bresson, Kieslowski, Renoir and other artists of cinema. In “Sculpting in Time”, Tarkovsky says,

I shall conclude this chapter by revealing the clandestine aim of the book: my hope is that those readers whom I manage to convince, if not entirely then at least in part, may become my kindred spirits, if only in recognition of the fact that I have no secrets from them.

Tarkovsky is an artist, a PyPy developer, and Tarantino a toxin. He says,

I see it as my duty to stimulate reflection on what is essentially human and eternal in each individual soul, and which all too often a person will pass by, even though his fate lies in his hands. He is too busy chasing after phantoms.

The intrusion of progressive enforcers reminds me of having been compelled to socialise with someone who is different, yet fails to realise how much so. He is tedious because one’s natural and amiable way to converse seems to insult him.

Progressive enforcers are like this. They think it’s their business to use “methods” on people they don’t comprehend. They mistake interests for influences, discourse for dicta. Why not accept that in every society, a few people do not chase phantoms, and let that be the point of departure for cooperation? Dialogue is a method that can work.