Perhaps of some interest to the Moldbug enthusiasts here is the Examining Idealism series recently written by James_G on his blog.
Part 1. No real need to read this if you recall most of what you read on Unqualified Reservations, still a good and not too long overview.
Part 2. Some neuroscience speculation and research—into leftism and rightism (mind-killer warning, especially for people who self-identify as right wing).
Part 3. Agency fiction, mind projection fallacy, TDT, morality, religion and how they relate to Idealism.
Beyond moral anti-realism. Argues for Hedonic Utilitarianism and develops the concept of eminent self. Cute doodles on ways to think about morality (example). Good criticism of his ideas by “O” in the comment section.
Yes, yes, I’ve often heard that Fear is the essential conservative emotion, but I think that “conservative sentiment” and “right-wing sentiment” are very different things in this regard. Because a commited leftist/liberal (in Moldbug’s description), one who even bases their identity on “Egalitarianism” and “Fairness” and “Justice” and such abstractions, might at the same time be driven by fear a lot, be averse to change, etc. It’s just that a belief in the goodness of “Progress” is piggy-backed on top of those leftist abstractions in Western tradition. But one does not in fact imply the other at all.
Case in point: Orwell was very leftist yet very culturally and emotionally conservative, and Glenn Beck is right-wing but definitely gushes about how great “progress” (with social innovation and upheaval) would be, if only the Left released their monopoly on it.
“Progressivism is not about Progress”, as Hanson would put it. And Neo-Reaction is not the extreme branch of conservatism.
Perhaps of some interest to the Moldbug enthusiasts here is the Examining Idealism series recently written by James_G on his blog.
Part 1. No real need to read this if you recall most of what you read on Unqualified Reservations, still a good and not too long overview.
Part 2. Some neuroscience speculation and research—into leftism and rightism (mind-killer warning, especially for people who self-identify as right wing).
Part 3. Agency fiction, mind projection fallacy, TDT, morality, religion and how they relate to Idealism.
Beyond moral anti-realism. Argues for Hedonic Utilitarianism and develops the concept of eminent self. Cute doodles on ways to think about morality (example). Good criticism of his ideas by “O” in the comment section.
Yes, yes, I’ve often heard that Fear is the essential conservative emotion, but I think that “conservative sentiment” and “right-wing sentiment” are very different things in this regard. Because a commited leftist/liberal (in Moldbug’s description), one who even bases their identity on “Egalitarianism” and “Fairness” and “Justice” and such abstractions, might at the same time be driven by fear a lot, be averse to change, etc. It’s just that a belief in the goodness of “Progress” is piggy-backed on top of those leftist abstractions in Western tradition. But one does not in fact imply the other at all.
Case in point: Orwell was very leftist yet very culturally and emotionally conservative, and Glenn Beck is right-wing but definitely gushes about how great “progress” (with social innovation and upheaval) would be, if only the Left released their monopoly on it.
“Progressivism is not about Progress”, as Hanson would put it. And Neo-Reaction is not the extreme branch of conservatism.