I miss this lil nigga like you wouln't believe

he's the only blogger where i'd be genuinely excited when there was a new post. I read some other blogs but it's just not as interesting. I know a lot of people hate Moldbug for his style as well as content, but I loved the dramatic Carlyle-aping mixed with 2000s internet culture, it was just intriguing and funny to someone who had only been exposed to progressive boilerplate and a handful of old books that I interpreted through a wholly modern lens.

the entire neoreaction thing was hugely entertaining while it lasted even if a lot of it is just nonsense and amateurs speculating, they're just random guys but they made actual arguments and ideas. There was a sense of total intellectual freedom for a while and rediscovering of a past that has been ignored by academia. The contrast between that kind of exploring of ideas and what I encountered in university and most people id meet irl is just unreal. To borrow an nrx concept university literally feels like a church in some departments, like you're not there to actually explore ideas, you're there to carve out a niche in which you basically do theological work on holy doctrines.

I dont think they were actually right, I dont think a neo-monarchy is going to solve anything(or is even possible really), and their take on history is too simplistic for me. The stuff about progressives is all spot on though, and some of the concepts related to how social signalling functions were also good. They at the very least broke the dominant paradigm, that was so dominant outside extreme fringe groups that barely do any intellectual work that you couldn't even really see that it was there. Moldbug has a post about that, he uses a metaphor of an egg being the world. They offered at least an alternative, even if it was flawed, it is right about many contentious things compared to the progressive mainstream, or marxists and co.

Nick Land I feel should be considered a separate but related sphere of thought because he is just too different from the main nrx guys, many of whom ive forgotten about at this point. Land is approaching the issue from a place of very abstract philosophy, whereas Moldbug has simple views on most things that he carries to surprising conclusions, and the religious guys are 100% larping, and functionally have materialist type worldviews.

It is incredible to me how compartmentalized human belief is, you can have people that radically question everything in one sphere, and then are the most unthinking dogmatics in another, and they literally cannot bring themselves to question these ideas, usually because there are strong social taboos against them, sometimes because the ideas are inherently unpleasant.

Idk if they moved into private correspondance or the scene just died, but the few of them that still post do so as kind of individual pillars now, there isn't the fertile discussion and interrelation of ideas that there once was, like their worldviews have somewhat fossilized.

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moldbug is a genius

he read the hadiths

he wanted basic human rights for men with patrician tastes. the person that comes as close to hims is lil B the based god in his fight to normalize feet lovers

Not a bad comparison. Of course, Gramsci and Moldbug are almost total opposites in every facet of their worldviews, but they both loved to dissect society into its constituent institutional and class components. I feel closer to understanding the rat race of humanity after having read both of them. Not a lot of people have their analytical approach to society, especially not modern sociologists, and I wish I could read more author that tackled similar topics like they did.

At least Quasimodo was tall and not Sardinian

I only arrived on the whole NRx scene in about 2017, but for a time a lot of the energy going towards neoreaction seemed to be being hoovered up by the alt right. Now that the alt right has self-destructed there has been a real revival in interest in moldbug over the past half year or so

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What’s up with Marxists hating jazz?

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Moldbug?