You mention the Enlightenment, (although it’s a strange Enlightenment that includes both Marx and Rand), so I guess that you are intending a contrast with neoreaction. But your template fits NRx just as well: things have gotten disordered somehow, the intellectual reformer believes etc. They disagree on why things have gotten disordered and on what the cure is.
For NRxers, it is because we have fallen away from the wisdom of the past when Men knew better. The cure is to re-establish the wisdom of the past, for Man Now to live as Man did Then.
For Korzybski, it is because we have always muddled through things with inadequate forms of thought — to borrow your words, “evolved as kludges with conflicting and ill-fitting components”. But (says K) increasing scientific knowledge, technological power and density of life have made this untenable. If Man Now continues to live as Man did Then, we will destroy ourselves. The cure is to use that knowledge to discover (not deduce) how Man can think better, and so live better, and establish the wisdom of the future.
You mention the Enlightenment, (although it’s a strange Enlightenment that includes both Marx and Rand), so I guess that you are intending a contrast with neoreaction. But your template fits NRx just as well: things have gotten disordered somehow, the intellectual reformer believes etc. They disagree on why things have gotten disordered and on what the cure is.
For NRxers, it is because we have fallen away from the wisdom of the past when Men knew better. The cure is to re-establish the wisdom of the past, for Man Now to live as Man did Then.
For Korzybski, it is because we have always muddled through things with inadequate forms of thought — to borrow your words, “evolved as kludges with conflicting and ill-fitting components”. But (says K) increasing scientific knowledge, technological power and density of life have made this untenable. If Man Now continues to live as Man did Then, we will destroy ourselves. The cure is to use that knowledge to discover (not deduce) how Man can think better, and so live better, and establish the wisdom of the future.