{"id":1222,"date":"2014-04-27T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2014-04-27T14:01:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T14:01:43","slug":"im-disappointed-in-the-neoreactionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/2014\/04\/27\/im-disappointed-in-the-neoreactionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m disappointed in the neoreactionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the kerfuffle of my Anti-Racialist Q & A<\/a>, I was waiting for a fierce response. \u00a0After all, these guys dig through vast amounts of arcane literature, write long essays and pride themselves on being afraid of nothing. \u00a0So, I confess I was a bit nervous and was waiting for a big, serious argument: deep criticism, hard arguments about points, the stink of cordite in the air… \u00a0Something to really cut my teeth on.<\/p>\n

Instead, well, see for yourself:<\/p>\n

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@ThePrussian1<\/a> For the record, your section on slavery was one of the worst and most pathetic sections of your entire tedious "FAQ."<\/p>\n

— Karl F. Boetel (@RadishMag) April 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Geez. \u00a0It’s like almost like talking to PZ Myers.<\/p>\n

Seriously, that’s it? \u00a0That’s the full extent of your arsenal?<\/p>\n

To be fair, there seem to be some neoreactionaries, ones that incline to more of the transhumanist\/monarchist axis who seem to have the stones for a serious argument & some of them seem to be preparing such (I am thinking of More Right <\/a>and Outside In<\/a> at the moment; I suspect John Derbyshire<\/a>, who is a talented writer, could probably give a bit more ginger).<\/p>\n

But for the rest of these chaps, it seems like neoreactionary racialists think they’re like this:<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"teutonic-knights\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Whereas they’re really a bit more like this:<\/a><\/p>\n

\"python_sir_robin_2_small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I mean, seriously. \u00a0Guys, I have read Julius Evola, you know. \u00a0When he describes how a scared law is imposed by a Mannerbund<\/em>\u00a0onto the formless chaos of human relations (examples being the Spartans, the Knights Teutonic who founded Prussia etc.), when he writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

[Nations] establishment occurred through conquests and aggregative and formative processes that presuppose the continuity of a power, of a principle of sovereignty and of authority, as well as the bond of a group of men sharing the same idea <\/i>and loyalty, pursuing the same goal, and obeying the same inner law reflected in a specific political and social ideal. Such is the generating principle and the basis of every great nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How does that\u00a0not<\/em> apply to the ANC or the CNDP?<\/p>\n

Hello? \u00a0Anyone?<\/p>\n

That said, while I am disappointed in the neoreactionaries, my contempt for the liberal mainstream has been deepened immeasurably. \u00a0Seriously, you guys are being cut up and humiliated by\u00a0this<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I do have a bit of compassion for the racialists though. \u00a0After all, we live in society where all sorts of racialist bilge is fine as long as it’s on the left, where a filmmaker can defend fascist murders <\/a>of all stripes<\/a> and promulgate wild financial conspiracy theories, and be embraced and praised up and down the Western world, where an academic shilling<\/a> for the Khmer<\/a> Rouge<\/a> and Slobodan Milosevi<\/a>c is feted with every honour, and where a spokeswoman for the President of the United States can praise the greatest mass murder of the twentieth century<\/a> –<\/p>\n

Well, with all of that, it’s not unreasonable for them to conclude,\u00a0why not<\/em> go in for a defence of slavery, an attack on democracy, a little light Hitler apologia? \u00a0Why is it that\u00a0this\u00a0<\/em>particular strain of murderous nonsense doesn’t get a pass when all the others do?<\/p>\n

And they’re right about that. \u00a0That’s something the mainstream\u00a0\u00a0cannot answer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately for them, they weren’t just dealing with the mainstream. \u00a0They ran into me.<\/p>\n

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