Shit, I’ve got a .txt file open right now with a Frankenstein’s monster of a long comment intended to attack the neo-reactionary ideology with regards to issues of structural power and social dominance… epistemology and the biases/rationalizations caused by privilege (building on a “cheap shot” about your pals all being straight white tech-minded guys, having at least modest economic security, living in modern liberal democracies and communicating freely in a de facto libertarian-socialist network)… the way historical narratives are formed and how they relate to social psychology/self-image/intergroup relations (re: all conservative talk of a Relatively-Golden-Age)...
I would be highly interested in reading such a post, either here at LW or somewhere else. You shouldn’t worry too much about it becoming too long or its style being unsatisfactory; these are complicated issues, and getting some editorial commentary from other users would also help.
I do agree that More Right itself won’t help much wrt. non-right-wing political commentary. Really, we need to start embracing friendly, benign factionalization and create a network, ‘planet’ or blogroll of political/rationalist venues inspired by other political ideologies. As you say, even just the inferential distances among differing worldviews and ideologies make a centralized treatment quite hopeless. And that’s before taking all kinds of legitimate controversies into account, which mean that the ‘network’ approach will probably be trusted to a greater extent by potential users.
I would be highly interested in reading such a post, either here at LW or somewhere else. You shouldn’t worry too much about it becoming too long or its style being unsatisfactory; these are complicated issues, and getting some editorial commentary from other users would also help.
I do agree that More Right itself won’t help much wrt. non-right-wing political commentary. Really, we need to start embracing friendly, benign factionalization and create a network, ‘planet’ or blogroll of political/rationalist venues inspired by other political ideologies. As you say, even just the inferential distances among differing worldviews and ideologies make a centralized treatment quite hopeless. And that’s before taking all kinds of legitimate controversies into account, which mean that the ‘network’ approach will probably be trusted to a greater extent by potential users.