Neoreactionaryism

The Dark Enlightenment also known as Neoreactionarism (shortened to: DE and NRx respectively) is a broadly culturally far right, and usually somewhere on the economic right and civically varied (but prominently "post-libertarian") ideology. NRx originates from the writing of a couple right-wing bloggers from the mid 2000's.

Neoreactionarism opposes democracy,  egalitarianism and the common consensus that the progress of history leads to liberty and enlightenment and the abolition of absolutism in favor of democracy and/or constitutional monarchy, considering itself the antithesis of  Enlightenment. It is in favor of the re-adoption of systems of governance such as Absolute Monarchy or other systems such as  Cameralism or  Neocameralism.

NRx is often associated " Race-Realism", but despite what mainstream sources make an impression of, this is not the main focus of the ideology.

NRx has also been described as Neo-fascist by journalists and commentators.

History
WIP

Beliefs
The Neoreactionary movement's ideological foundations consist of multiple ideas that are discussed between the NRx movement's members but may or may not be shared between them.

These include but are not limited to:

Post-Libertarianism
Post-Libertarianism is a school of thought stemming from Libertarianism that for maintaining individual liberty the enforcement of law and order is an unconditional good, meaning that the Post-Libertarian fully embraces the state as a social institution and as such seizes to be aligned with Libertarianism. While not being libertarian, post-libertarianism still maintains a lot of libertarian ideas such as an affinity towards free markets, skepticism towards state control of information and anti-interventionism.

Formalism
Formalism is the belief that actual power and recognised power (especially in the form of ownership) should align as closely as possible. The belief in formalism makes the Neoreactionary movement especially skeptical of democratic forms of government, favouring forms of government based on ownership.

[[File:Neocam.png]] Neocameralism
Neocameralism is a form of government proposed by Mencius Moldbug and developed by others as a replacement for representative democracy. Neocameralism is a form of government organised around the profit incentive. As such the Neocameralist system is a system of nigh-absolute rule in which the Monarch-C.E.O. (which Moldbug calls a Delegate, based on the corporate title used by colonial-era Quakers) is accountable to a group of shareholders.

Neoreactionary Neologisms
The Neoreactionary movement came up with a lot of neologisms to describe various concepts. Neologisms are perhaps the most influential thing to come out of the movement, appearing in political discourse outside of the movement.

The Neologisms include:


 * The Cathedral - "The Cathedral" within the context of Neoreactionary discourse is a term used to refer to a society's intellectual elite meaning a class of people who are able to decide what the average person thinks is true or false, right or wrong and important or unimportant.

Historically this role was fulfilled by religious institutions hence the usage of the term "cathedral", this is intentionally contrasted with the institutions that fulfill the role of the cathedral in the modern age that being Schools, Universities, the Media and the Entertainment industry who largely market themselves as "Secular". It is worth to note that the Cathedral (in it's modern incarnation) is not a formal institution that people just belong to but rather an informal network of leaders of the before-aforementioned institutions that happen to agree on most important matters (Harvard, The New York Times, Disney and The Guardian rarely disagree for example)


 * Redpill - Within the context of Neoreactionary discourse a "Redpill" is any realisation or experience that disconnects an individual from the established cathedral. The term is a reference to the popular film trilogy The Matrix.

The concept of the Redpill is THE most influential term to come out of the NRx movement, being practically ubiqutous within political discourse on both the left, right, centre and beyond. The term "Redpill" spawned many off-shoots generally named after the specific realisation the redpill provides (including terms Blackpill (Pessimism), Whitepill (Optimism), Greenpill (parnamormalism) and more) and also the combination with the term "Based" forming "Based and Redpilled". The various pills have also expanded into apolitical contexts, especially on dating (examples of dating-specific pills being the Purplepill and the Dogpill) and fitness (example of a fitness-specific pills including the Onionpill).

A variation on the term "Redpill" to have actually come out of the NRx movement is the term Clearpill which is the concept that the best way to come out to political conclusions is to separate yourself from current political factions you have an emotional attachment to and think about policies and systems in an outside context.


 * The Iron Polygon - The Iron Polygon is an extension of the concept of the Iron Triangle.

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 * Red and Blue Empire also called the Red and Blue Governments - The concepts of the Red and Blue Government, clipped to RedGov and BlueGov is a specific power analysis of U.S. politics, it's the notion that the United States is not under the control of a single government, but rather of two each with their own internal and foreign policies.

Those two Empires being the Military and Police-based Red Empire represented in the U.S. congress by the Republican Party and the Blue Empire based around every other part of the iron polygon represented by the Democratic Party.

Personality
NRx isn't an outspoken person and will generally prefer to hang out on the internet. He does not generally have a positive attitude towards things and can be portrayed as rather apathetic.

How to Draw
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 * 1) Draw a black ball with eyes.
 * 2) Draw a gold Trinity Knot.
 * 3) Draw a circle around it.
 * 4) Above and Below the circle draw 2 lines of increasing length from it.

Friends

 * [[File:Neocam.png]] Neocameralism - My son and predilect system
 * [[File:Austrobert.png]] Austrolibertarianism - My dad who taught me economics

Outer Party

 * [[File:demcr.png]] Democratism [[File: conserv.png]] Republicanism - Manipulated by the inner party
 * [[File:Necon.png]] Neoconservatism - The army of the inner party

Inner Party

 * [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] Neoliberalism - Master of the inner party
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy - Bait and switch tactic
 * [[File:Reactsoc.png]] Reactionary Socialism - Socialist and Catholic, but is anti-enlightenment. This one confuses me

The Cathedral

 * [[File:Soc.png]] Socialism - The brain of the cathedral
 * [[File:Prog.png]] Progressivism - The voice of the cathedral
 * [[File:Catheo.png]] Catholic Theocracy - Literally lives in a cathedral.

Literature
The following works are all written by Mencius Moldbug and can be found on his blog called "Unqualified Reservations."

Shorter Works

 * A Formalist Manifesto
 * Technology, Communism and the Brown Scare
 * Sam Altman is not a Blithering Idiot

Longer Works

 * An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives
 * A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations
 * How Dawkins got Pwned
 * Moldbug on Carlyle
 * Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century

Websites
These websites provide resources on Neoreactionary thought.


 * Unqualified Reservations
 * The Dark Enlightenment
 * Gray Mirror
 * The American Mind
 * Atavisionary
 * Xenosystems

Videos
A couple of online creators have took it upon itself to either explain Neoreactionary in video format or interview moldbug, this is a list of such attempts.


 * Mulling over Moldbug by Charlemagne
 * A Gentle Introduction to Mencius Moldbug by The Distributist
 * Power In the United States by Charlemagne
 * Meditations on Moldbug by Anamnesis
 * Curtis Yarvin Live at the Based Deleuze Release Party in LA (Mencius Moldbug) by Justin Murphy
 * An Introduction to The Dark Enlightenment Philosophy by UBERSOY

Online Communities
These are communities focused on Neoreactionary thought.


 * r/DarkEnlightenment
 * r/TheDailyMoldbug
 * r/DebateDE
 * r/TrollsOfDE