funny, I just started reading Moldbug's blog for the first time tonight OP
it was interesting. I'd already considered myself a "political reactionary" I suppose, but I found the over-arching historical narrative he provides in "open letter to open-minded progressives" a little hard to picture and discordant with my internal perspective, which I suppose is the expected effect, and makes sense given that regardless of how I perceive myself, I'd still have been inundated with "progressivism" my whole life - but alongside that there was a lot of pretty insightful stuff
I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with the narrative of "progress" moving in generally one direction, whether it comes from a progressive or reactionary perspective. there have been so many changes and variations even in the past few centuries, with strong general strends, but while I'm pessimistic about many sociopolitical/zeitgeist changes I'm not sure that most or all coalesce with each other either in causality or some other underlying theme. Moldbug is likely simplfying for convenience, but I have a bit of an aversion to holistic, explanatory historical narratives
His most appealing characteristic to me, something that I came to cherish independently a while ago, is his open-mindedness and relative lack of ideological prejudice and histrionics. Even as a Jew he is not averse to seriously grappling with anti-semitic belief systems, which I find admirable. I'm glad I've come to a similar position where, as a homo, I don't feel particularly threatened offended or "put off" value systems which condemn homosexual behaviour or by criticism of homosexuality/homosexuals
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