- Joined
- May 16, 2016
As far as I can tell, most NRX people are either Silicon Valley people or edgy pseudo-intellectual teenage boys, both of whom are so uber-libertarian they become authoritarian in some retarded Ouroboros of failure.
It started out as part of the "techno-libertarian" political atmosphere of Silicon Valley in the 90's and early 2000's, which was one shot of Ayn Rand-style libertarianism and two shots of techno-utopianism garnished with New Left hippie idealism (Google "the Califronian Ideology"). Over time, some particularly unhinged tech industry people shifted further to the right, and concluded that the world should be run by businessmen because they obviously are Better Than You, and that democracy (or "demotism" as they call it, which is word they made up to make democracy sound like a Bad Thing) was a sham that prevented them from taking their rightful place as rulers (PayPal founder Peter Thiel infamously declared that he "no longer believe(s) that freedom and democracy are compatible", which is really rich for someone who has donated shitloads of money to the Republican Party).
After years of intellectual inbreeding, we got the Dark Enlightenment, who write lunatic drivel about "human biodiversity" (a euphemism for eugenics and racism) and worship a giant crab demon called GNON. These are the hangers-on, the high school kids who scored really high on their SATs and got picked on incessantly.
When you get down to it, it's corporate conservatism taken to its logical conclusion.
It started out as part of the "techno-libertarian" political atmosphere of Silicon Valley in the 90's and early 2000's, which was one shot of Ayn Rand-style libertarianism and two shots of techno-utopianism garnished with New Left hippie idealism (Google "the Califronian Ideology"). Over time, some particularly unhinged tech industry people shifted further to the right, and concluded that the world should be run by businessmen because they obviously are Better Than You, and that democracy (or "demotism" as they call it, which is word they made up to make democracy sound like a Bad Thing) was a sham that prevented them from taking their rightful place as rulers (PayPal founder Peter Thiel infamously declared that he "no longer believe(s) that freedom and democracy are compatible", which is really rich for someone who has donated shitloads of money to the Republican Party).
After years of intellectual inbreeding, we got the Dark Enlightenment, who write lunatic drivel about "human biodiversity" (a euphemism for eugenics and racism) and worship a giant crab demon called GNON. These are the hangers-on, the high school kids who scored really high on their SATs and got picked on incessantly.
When you get down to it, it's corporate conservatism taken to its logical conclusion.