It's insane i made this green 'miniblog' and named it 'notebook' but i don't use it for notes. it's also egregious that i originally intended for this notebook to help me out of procrastinating (by writing smaller posts) but I continue to do so anyway. So here are my first notes on neo-reaction.
Also i'm expanding that rule i wrote in the exposition. I'm allowed to sperg for 1,500 words before I have to post to Status.
And yeah i'm putting off that one other thing i told you i was going to write. "It's okay to punch alternative people" is 800 words and unfinished. Maybe next month?
WHAT IS NEO-REACTION? NRX? DARK ENLIGHTENMENT? Corey Pein, with the self-awareness and diligence of any good journalist, describes them for us in a very emotionally captive way:
[T]he usual teeth-gnashing white supremacists who haunt the web while also leaving room for a more socially acceptable assortment of "men’s rights” advocates, gun nuts, transhumanist libertarians, disillusioned Occupiers and well-credentialed Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
If you can see the text for what it is then congratulations you're not retarded. I really do just want Blade Runner but without all those goddamn asian people cluttering the street with their markets, and I really do get all my political opinions from a billionaire jew named "moldbug."
Neoreaction is hard to understand because most people don't want to understand it. They'll push the most boring ass strawman of the neoreactionaries, moralfag about it, and then pretend that they spread awareness about some super secret esoteric knowledge that (((they))) don't want you knowing about! If neoreaction is presented anywhere, 99% it's purely to discredit it and bash it as a le heckin ebil fascist trump ideology rather than engage with their ideas and writing. They're literally all indistinguishable from Corey Pein's hitpiece written over a decade ago. NEVER CHANGE, LEFTIES!
If you do want to seriously understand neoreaction without the retardation of journalists or the baggage of reading Moldberg, then seek Scott Alexander's essays on the topic, I've heard they're quite good. Of the million words moldberg wrote in his time at UR, lolberals only seem to care about the parts where he says a CEO should rule the world..
Whatever. Appealing to the lowest common denominator always gets you in these kind of situations. End democracy NOW.
Sorry about the mess. I will provide a TRUE, non-bullshit answer for you.
The Neoreactionaries (NRx), or the Dark Enlightenment, were an informal community of bloggers (the 'blogosphere') whose core thinkers were Curtis Yarvin (pen name Mencius Moldbug) and Nick Land. Moldberg is a San Francisco tech tranny who wrote a blog called 'Unqualified Reservations' (UR) throughout 2007-2014, which is foundational to Neoreactionary thought. Nick Land is an edgy philosopher from Warwick who did some weird shit in the 90s. Land's essay on the oeuvre of Moldberg, 'The Dark Enlightenment,' gave it a name. Broadly, they opposed egalitarianism, leftism, lolberalism, universalism, and the Enlightenment. Moldberg conceives of power in the United States being held by a decentralized network of institutions including the press and universities, who push these gay ideologies due to their Darwinian utility or something like that. He calls this structure 'the Cathedral.' Land and Moldberg advocated for exit and TOTAL TECH OLIGARCH VICTORY as a solution.
The NRx blogosphere largely dissolved around the late 2010s, as did the alt-right. Their remnants are varied.. today, Moldberg blogs under his real name at Gray Mirror. Some of the ideas espoused by the neoreactionaries, particularly the CEO dictator thing, have gained a following among influential evil rich people.
As for Nick Land, he's now a full-time twitter sperg where he spouts utterly intelligent takes such as 'trans women are the jews of gender.' Spandrell and Jim are still writing, and Nydwracu trooned out. I had to break the news of the latter to some guy, who I assume was a neoreactionary ten years ago, and he tweeted this afterwards lmao.
If you want the full picture, read Spandrell's post-mortem on Neoreaction. tl;dr IT WAS NEVER A 'MOVEMENT' MOM
I originally heard of the NRx sometime in late 2024. It must've been mentioned in some mentiswave video. Whatever. I got the gist of 'the Cathedral' from someone, the greatest piece of agitprop every produced by the NRx, and I suppose that's what everyone else starts with.
This map of the Dark Enlightenment appeared in a Jewbersoy video, which I've now learned was made by neoreactionary Scharlach. Scharlach's map, which appears to consider the Neoreactionary Trike of theonomists, ethnats and techno-commercialists, is kind of all over the place and it might be better described as a map of the online right in the 2010s rather than just the NRx. Most of the core NRx blogospheroids are in the top-left corner of this map: I recognize Spandrell, Nydwracu, Moldberg, Isegoria, Foseti, Deconstructing Leftism, Nigg Land, Jim et al... the rest of these names are just tangentially related to the NRx, as far as I know. Also, I am aware of this updated version Scharlach made, but it still suffers from the same problems.
I mean like, VDARE, American Renaissance and Occidental Dissent are more of alt-right sites than neoreactionary ones. And then for some reason Hoppe, Less Wrong and Auster are included. Yeah I know the alt-right, neoreaction and rationalism overlap, but this map is misleading. While retreading some webpages on this topic I found a blogger named 'ESR' who more or less echoes my sentiments here, although he seems to think this was an epic PSYOP by nigg land to make the Neo-reactionaries look far more numerous than they actually were.
It’s in his [Nick Land's] interest to make the movement look as big and various as he can manage, and I think this map is partly in the nature of a successful con job or dezinformatsiya.
I don't know, maybe Scharlach was just a retard who couldn't tell the difference between a 21st century wignat and a capitalist.
But he wasn't. Scharlach seems like a fine writer, see his blog. Maybe I just misunderstood that map. It's obvious that it is a bit biased towards his taste in bloggers, as demonstrated by that very familiar blogroll... he doesn't even group them all under 'neo-reaction' himself. And to ESR's credit, Nick Land did include an absurd amount of writers in his blogroll at xenosystems.net, writers that I know his ass didn't read. If ESR is correct about his little theory, then Corey Pein sure as heck fell for it.

They really have everyone into this NRx stuff, don't they?
"ALTERNATIVE" is a new-age,


