To mark the dawn of the new Aeon, the Reactionary Koans of Master Samo Burja have been scrupulously collected by Nick B. Steves. The path to Dark Enlightenment has never been more exactly (or obscurely) illuminated.
My own favorite:
I walked to Master Moldbug but the road was too long. I visited master Jim and he hit me with a stick.
Provided by Survivingbabel (on this thread):
the Demiurge is other people
Does this blog even exist? Only as a malignant intelligence operation, it seems.
[The revelation begins December 11th, 2013 at 3:13 am]
Drop the purple pill and venture into the labyrinth of Gnostic-political conspiracy, where entire micro-social networks are conjured into simulated existence for dread purposes yet undisclosed. If you are reading this, you are almost certainly a fake being, or unit of disinformation supplied with an internal delusion of identity and agency (to complete the camouflage). The plot is so much more all-encompassing than you could possibly have imagined …
Islam asks the important questions (via):
“My question is whether I am permitted to allow one of the mujahideen access to my anus, if my intentions are honorable, and the purpose is to train for Jihad by widening my anus.”
The sheik praised Allah and said: “In principle, sodomy is forbidden. However, Jihad is more important. It is the pinnacle of Islam. If sodomy is the only way to reach this pinnacle of Islam, then there is no harm in it.
Allahpundit estimates:
Odds that this is a prank played on the credulous host by some viewer, possibly the MEMRI guys themselves, who simply couldn’t resist: 40 percent. Odds that it’s a legit query, proof that the mujahedeen’s willingness to sacrifice for jihad has taken on painful new dimensions: 40 percent. Odds that the guy posing the question is the world’s dumbest would-be terrorist, whose “recruiter” is really, really eager to start “training” him: 20 percent.
Peter A. Taylor (here), proposed more as a bumper sticker:
I read Lovecraft — and I vote.
There are hints of a theme here:
From a TC piece comment by ‘Bah': “Neoreactionaries should really move to North Korea, it’s much closer to what they want for the world.”
David Brin: “Some of you know the experiment to which he refers. North and South Korea.”
Charlie Stross (in his own comment thread): “The reason I think the reactionaries are full of shit is because we have a modern-day poster child for the hereditary king of a nation that embodies all their declared virtues: Kim Jong-Un.”
(Moldbug responds to this ‘analysis’. Much more by others on the TC thread.)
If anyone finds the variant of Neoreaction espoused here indistinguishable from Juche, I’m just going to suck it up.
“The thing is, now that I have been made aware of the phenomenon, I see it everywhere …”
Klint Finley at Tech Crunch suspects something is going on:
Incidentally, Thiel’s Founders Fund is one of the investors in Srinivasan’s company Counsyl. The co-founder of Yarvin’s startup Tlon was one of the first recipients of the Thiel Fellowship. Anissimov was the media director of the Thiel-backed Machine Intelligence Institute (formerly known as the Singularity Institute). It’s enough to make a conspiracy theorist’s head spin, but I’m not actually suggesting that there’s a conspiracy here. I don’t think Peter Thiel is part of some neoreactionary master plot — I don’t even necessarily think he’s a neoreactionary. But you can see that a certain set of ideas are spreading through out the startup scene. Neoreactionary ideas overlap heavily with pickup artistry, seasteading and scientific racism (more on that later), and this larger “caveman cult” has an impact on tech culture, from work environments to the social atmosphere at conferences.
[You might know Yarvin by another name]
No one’s exactly saying it’s a fiendish plot …
ADDED: Scharlach is following developments (here, and here). More from Amos & Gromar, and Anarchopapist.
Bryce Laliberte tweeted a link to this bizarre Atlantic article by Richard Florida, which has me trawling down for the ‘idiots’ tag. It can’t be assumed that writers choose their own headlines, but it’s entitled The Paradox of Diverse Communities, and proceeds to ‘argue':
Their simulations of more than 20 million virtual “neighborhoods” demonstrate a troubling paradox: that community and diversity may be fundamentally incompatible goals. As the authors explain, integration “provides opportunities for intergroup contact that are necessary to promote respect for diversity, but may prevent the formation of dense interpersonal networks that are necessary to promote sense of community.” […] These findings are sobering. Because homophily and proximity are so ingrained in the way humans interact, the models demonstrated that it was impossible to simultaneously foster diversity and cohesion “in all reasonably likely worlds.” In fact, the trends are so strong that no effective social policy could combat them, according to [Zachary] Neal. As he put it in a statement, “In essence, when it comes to neighborhood desegregation and social cohesion, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
What does it say about the state of the contemporary liberal mind that truism and paradox are no longer distinguishable concepts?
