Making an argument critical of democracy or some aspect of personal freedom =/= making a “reactionary” argument. The missing ingridient is, IMO, following up on that criticism with a suggestion that the related policy systems were better in such-and-such authoritarian/feudal society. I can’t recall Yvain ever suggesting that!
(E.g. he appears to think that a too-democratic country would be bad, but that the current Western arrangement of joint rule by corporate oligarchy and Cathedral elite is pretty decent, ceteris paribus. I can’t say I disagree.)
Making an argument critical of democracy or some aspect of personal freedom =/= making a “reactionary” argument. The missing ingridient is, IMO, following up on that criticism with a suggestion that the related policy systems were better in such-and-such authoritarian/feudal society. I can’t recall Yvain ever suggesting that!
(E.g. he appears to think that a too-democratic country would be bad, but that the current Western arrangement of joint rule by corporate oligarchy and Cathedral elite is pretty decent, ceteris paribus. I can’t say I disagree.)