Neoreaction needs a theory of time, and so since I’m bringing up the topic, it seems only fair that I also proffer one.  I’ll be presenting it in three installments, each one including both theoretical and historical meditations. If neoreaction is to have a theory of time capable of challenging the progressive one, then the theory must have a substantially different structure.  It cannot have a conclusion; there is no promised land at the end of history.  It also has to reconcile two competing ideas: (1) that the future is going to be much like the past, and (2) that […]

Conservatism does not care about the past.  Well that’s a very odd thing to say.  Individual conservatives certainly care deeply about the past, what their forebears did, how things have always been done, and so forth.  But conservatism itself does not care. Let’s first consider an obvious objection.  Conservative thinkers have long lauded the wisdom of the ages embodied in tradition and been wary of innovation precisely because it attempts to substitute for long experience what people in the mere present think best.  Better to endure some hardships preserving the old ways than to cast aside their unrecognized, and so […]