The Name of Love
Far Right Nutjob
Below, I've linked to a blog post written by Dave Donovan aka The Distributist, a Catholic with NRx sympathies. I highly recommend you check out this twelve-part essay, as well as his organization here.
So, to summarize this essay: Dave introduces the ideas of one Curtis Yavin, aka Mencius Moldbug, the infamous NRx blogger. Moldbug's ideas are very unique and deserve a lot more academic attention than I see they're getting.
To summarize: Moldbug believes that most societies (barring totalitarian ones like North Korea) live under something he calls "the Cathedral," a reigning consensus among societal elites: intellectuals, journalists and other information disseminators, NGO members, corporate boardrooms, and politicians. This is not a malign conspiracy, but a healthy and natural way of organizing society. The problem is that our current Cathedral is actively malign and in many ways irrational. It is out of touch with what is true, good, and beautiful, and as a result, it's leading our civilization towards collapse. This civilizational entropy too is a natural part of the life cycles of human societies. Our current decay is being masked by technological and scientific progress, by the consumeristic culture, and by constant propaganda about "progress" perpetrated by both the Left and the Right. The solution to the problem is to create an alternative cathedral, a right-wing counter-culture, through peaceful means that will allow us to seamlessly replace the current Cathedral when it goes belly-up.
For the full picture, here's the link.
So, to summarize this essay: Dave introduces the ideas of one Curtis Yavin, aka Mencius Moldbug, the infamous NRx blogger. Moldbug's ideas are very unique and deserve a lot more academic attention than I see they're getting.
To summarize: Moldbug believes that most societies (barring totalitarian ones like North Korea) live under something he calls "the Cathedral," a reigning consensus among societal elites: intellectuals, journalists and other information disseminators, NGO members, corporate boardrooms, and politicians. This is not a malign conspiracy, but a healthy and natural way of organizing society. The problem is that our current Cathedral is actively malign and in many ways irrational. It is out of touch with what is true, good, and beautiful, and as a result, it's leading our civilization towards collapse. This civilizational entropy too is a natural part of the life cycles of human societies. Our current decay is being masked by technological and scientific progress, by the consumeristic culture, and by constant propaganda about "progress" perpetrated by both the Left and the Right. The solution to the problem is to create an alternative cathedral, a right-wing counter-culture, through peaceful means that will allow us to seamlessly replace the current Cathedral when it goes belly-up.
For the full picture, here's the link.