From SlateStarCodex: ‘Anti-Reactionary FAQ‘
The transhumanist case for the world getting better within the ideals generally promoted by progressivism, including democracy, human rights, multiculturalism, and secularism.
‘Neoreaction is a political ideology supporting a return to traditional ideas of government and society, especially traditional monarchy and an ethno-nationalist state. It sees itself opposed to modern ideas like democracy, human rights, multiculturalism, and secularism.’
Apparently, disagreement means reaction or neo-reaction within the framework presented (with empirical claims, crime stats, and charts). In other words, it’s monarchists, ethno-nationalists, and utopian universal-type reactionaries all the way down.
These doomsayers distort/ignore statistics which show progress is being made, tilting at the windmills of Crown, Church, and any other ‘anti-democratic’ ideal State that would challenge such idealism/rationalism/utopianism.
Apparently, this has been going on for a while:
“For things will never be perfect, until human beings are perfect – which I don’t expect them to be for quite a number of years!”
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