http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/05/ol4-dr-johnsons-hypothesis.html

Essentially, this is the same thing as “politically correct” or “in bed with the fashion sheep / mainstream media”.

I’m out. I was never at Vogon Senior Service level. I do glean from say SOFREP blog and elsewhere that none of we trigger pullers want anything to do with it, certainly not regular all in forces.

And also the sneaky special silent types are quite on the ground and involved. This in itself doesn’t mean much, if there’s conflict *usually* they’re around if even tangential to our interests.

I see what you mean about it changing the world order. At least theirs. Mind you AF-PAK and MENA can be as creative about their own destruction as they like.

I think you’re describing liberalism, with good government meaning government effective in promoting liberal ends or a certain liberal order. Democracy fails to deliver the goods, so to speak, so non-democratic government is necessary.

This is quite different from many of the disparate groups that fall under the heading “neo-reaction” such as the nationalists, fascists, theocrats, etc. who differ completely in terms of both means and ends. I’m not sure how sensible it is to group all these together.

Furthermore, this liberalism clearly has more in common with prominent elements of the current order, such as Mayor Bloomberg of New York and his administration, than it does with certain elements classed under “neo-reaction”, such as ethno-nationalists or traditionalist Catholics.

I think authoritarian liberalism, or non-democratic liberalism, or just Classical Liberalism/libertarianism seems more accurate.

Mr Kerry told Pakistan’s Geo television: “The military was asked to intervene by millions and millions of people, all of whom were afraid of a descendance into chaos, into violence.”

“And the military did not take over, to the best of our judgment – so far. To run the country, there’s a civilian government. In effect, they were restoring democracy,” he added.

Does this restoration blow a hole in your Ninja Obama theory (or is Kerry just not in on the Plan)? It would have been amusing if someone had asked him when the fear of “descendance” might abate – presumably after a few more years of democratically-approved culls.

Neoreaction accepts reality. Reality is not anthropocentric and it has rules. Accepting these is accepting order. Within the scope of human events it is not absolute, it just places an emphasis on order. Order is something that happens now.

A utopian fantasy about the future justifies any means in the present. A group focused on order uses means that conserve order in the present, they may be creative but they don’t do crazy things.