I don’t think most nrxers do believe this, and one who did certainly would be a hypocrite to accuse a mod of abusing their power—if there is no morality but the will to power, then how could a mod, or anyone else, abuse their power?
if there is no morality but the will to power, then how could a mod, or anyone else, abuse their power?
Accusations of abuse would simply be a move in the power struggle. Nothing is true, all is a lie.
I don’t think most nrxers do believe this
I am extrapolating outrageously, of course. Or, to continue in this vein, those that don’t believe this are merely fellow-travellers and wannabe nrxs, beta foot-soldiers to be exploited by Those Who Know the truths that lesser beings fear, hide from, and hide from themselves the fact that they are hiding.
Accusations of abuse would simply be a move in the power struggle.
That’s always true, though, isn’t it? Most political conflicts are to some extent power struggles.
Nothing is true, all is a lie.
Or maybe an accusation of ‘abuse’ only becomes true ex-post-facto, as the pre-existing power structure is successfully overturned in some way. Since ‘power’ is often complex and has a multi-level structure, this must always be seen as a definite possibility.
Is it actually a tenet of neoreaction that “there is no morality but the will to power”? That doesn’t appear to me to be the position Eugine has espoused.
(There’s certainly some commonality in sentiment between NRx and Nietzsche, but that’s not the same question.)
[EDITED to add:] No, wait, I’m an idiot; skeptical_lurker wasn’t in fact saying or presuming that NRx as such embodies any such idea, and in fact sayx explicitly that most don’t. Excuse me.
I don’t think most nrxers do believe this, and one who did certainly would be a hypocrite to accuse a mod of abusing their power—if there is no morality but the will to power, then how could a mod, or anyone else, abuse their power?
Accusations of abuse would simply be a move in the power struggle. Nothing is true, all is a lie.
I am extrapolating outrageously, of course. Or, to continue in this vein, those that don’t believe this are merely fellow-travellers and wannabe nrxs, beta foot-soldiers to be exploited by Those Who Know the truths that lesser beings fear, hide from, and hide from themselves the fact that they are hiding.
That’s always true, though, isn’t it? Most political conflicts are to some extent power struggles.
Or maybe an accusation of ‘abuse’ only becomes true ex-post-facto, as the pre-existing power structure is successfully overturned in some way. Since ‘power’ is often complex and has a multi-level structure, this must always be seen as a definite possibility.
Is it actually a tenet of neoreaction that “there is no morality but the will to power”? That doesn’t appear to me to be the position Eugine has espoused.
(There’s certainly some commonality in sentiment between NRx and Nietzsche, but that’s not the same question.)
[EDITED to add:] No, wait, I’m an idiot; skeptical_lurker wasn’t in fact saying or presuming that NRx as such embodies any such idea, and in fact sayx explicitly that most don’t. Excuse me.