Comments on: Rectification of Names http://www.xenosystems.net/rectification-of-names/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Alex http://www.xenosystems.net/rectification-of-names/#comment-8315 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 18:03:38 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=757#comment-8315 Lady laid low.

]]> By: John Hannon http://www.xenosystems.net/rectification-of-names/#comment-8241 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:34:10 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=757#comment-8241 That in its broad, general sense, progress is so universally taken to be good and desirable is precisely what makes it so difficult to oppose. Never mind that political attempts to implement it fail and have unintended consequences – its allure remains irresistible. (“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett)
It might therefore be better for neoreactionaries to find a more focused term than “progressive” in order to delineate the malign aspect of progress more specifically.

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/rectification-of-names/#comment-8203 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 01:39:08 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=757#comment-8203 Greer: “The surrogate God that western civilization embraced, tentatively in the 19th century and with increasing conviction and passion in the 20th, was progress. In our time, certainly, the omnipotence and infinite benevolence of progress have become the core doctrines of a civil religion as broadly and unthinkingly embraced, and as central to contemporary notions of meaning and value, as Christianity was before the Age of Reason.”
— discuss.

]]> By: John Hannon http://www.xenosystems.net/rectification-of-names/#comment-8202 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:57:52 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=757#comment-8202 Cathedral is fine – “progressive” not so much. Opposing the progressive impulse implies that neoreactionaries are regressive: connotations of backward, primitive – retarded even.
Maybe “crusader” would be a more useful term.

]]> By: Lesser Bull http://www.xenosystems.net/rectification-of-names/#comment-8122 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 23:13:51 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=757#comment-8122 Mascots? Say rather icons and lay orders.

]]> By: Mike http://www.xenosystems.net/rectification-of-names/#comment-8115 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:42:56 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=757#comment-8115 Indeed. I think that we also need to elaborate on the structure/hierarchy of the cathedral, just to flesh out the religious connotations.

I think it looks something like this:

1) Cathedral “priests” or “clerics”. These are your regular inner-party, academics, journalists and other consent-manufacturers, etc. Your regular left and moderates.

2) “Ultra-cathedralists” – people who attack the cathedral for not being sufficiently cathedral-like. (Think of Savonarola.) This is the radical left.

3) Cathedral “followers” or “laity”: Hipsters, bobos, SWPLs, or whatever you want to call them.

4) Cathedral auxiliaries or “mascots” – these are the victim groups who provide the numbers at the ballot box. Blacks, women, “workers”, etc.

That’s more or less in order of precedence, incidentally.

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