Comments on: The Start of a Reaction

By: J Katz

J Katz — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 22:08:10 +0000

This is spot on. The public scandal that was the turning point for myself was the Mozilla fiasco. A year ago I was basically a dogma-abiding progressive feminist, thoroughly indoctrinated in the school of oppression studies.

So there is hope! I love hearing about how others crossed over to “the dark side”. I’m trying to fight the good fight in progressive la-la land and I haven’t had too many disappointments yet – although I do try to pick my battles wisely.

By: richard

richard — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:58:36 +0000

A lucid entry! I think it also explains why, although intrigued by MM and NL and others I will never be a neo-reactionary; it has something to do with experiences of higher education at a crucial age for the formation of one’s world view. If I had been brought up on nonsensical Judith Butler inspired social constructivism at, e.g Brown (MM) in the late 1980’s I can well imagine running into the arms of Mises, DeMaistre and Carlyle as a reaction. Fortunately, my academic experiences were shaped by a British ‘materialist’ left that was non-moralistic, and coolly ‘objective’ in ways the American post-modern academic “left” has never been. I suspect in fact that many neoreactionaries have subtly absorbed some of the intellectual errors of that 1980’s and 90’s American academic discourse in their own tendency to over-rate ‘ideas’ as causally relevant to the functioning of social systems and in their rather dull inversion of the system of values and anti-values propagated by the American academic left.

By: Mark Yuray

Mark Yuray — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:05:03 +0000

A great point. Could be another Rule for Reactionaries: “tug, tug, tug at the loose threads of the fabric of lies.”

Excellent writing as always.