#reactionary

[eternal-echoes]

#Jeremy Wayne Tate #quotes #modernism #traditionalism #reactionary

[liberalsarecool]

Low IQ voters need low IQ distractions and culture wars for the cultureless. #GOP101

#reactionary #regressive #petty

[themaninthegreenshirt]

"A people that forgets its ancestors will care little for its descendants."

G.K. Chesterton

#g.k. chesterton #gk chesterton #quotes #politics #philosophy #writers #reactionary #history #heritage

[le-dernier-soupir]

#Japan #Aesthetics #Vintage #Reactionary

[tuurverheydepoetryandprose]

The influence of Twitter on online culture made me angry, the influence of TikTok on online culture kinda scares me. The amount of misinformation, censorship, media illiteracy, secular puritanism, revisionism, moral dogmatism… it just horrifies me.

Twitter made online culture into a sphere of perpetually pointless discourse, filled to the brim with pedantry, cynicism, performative outrage, gleeful abuse, bad faith arguments etc. It’s a world where everyone is an intellectual, an activist and a critic, no matter how incurious, inaccurate and demonstrably absurd their arguments.

TikTok is creating a world where everyone feels themselves to be historians, educators, politicians, community leaders, moral guides, experts etc. Like that woman who says the Roman Empire didn’t exist said: “some people just know more than you.” (Or something similar)

‘Just know’ is critical here: lots of TikTok influencers just confidently presume to know things without doing any real research, fact-checking and due diligence. They just act as if they are experts and will say whatever without citing anything. More than anything, they act as if their words and intuitions hold universal moral weight.

This is inevitably leading us to a path where the worst impulses of people who love attention and love to feel right no matter the cost are steering discourse standards for young people.

The result is this kind of secular dogmatism, puritanism and moral absolutism. What is problematic is immoral, what is uncomfortable is abusive, all authoritative information is untrue… People propagating all kinds of misinformation and historical revisionism, people spreading the attitude that all “problematic” media should be wiped from existence, that any expression that doesn’t meet their criteria doesn’t have a right to exist publicly, that morality is not concerned with actual interpersonal behaviour but with personal taste, preference and media consumption instead… At the centre of it is the bane of much online media “analysis”, the attitude that ‘I am the universal I. My taste corresponds with the bounds of what should exist and what shouldn’t. If I can’t relate to it, it’s irrelevant, if I dislike it, it must be morally reprehensible and should be erased.’

This will lead to more alienation, fragmentation and polarisation, but that’s not all. A lot of these misguided attitudes come clad in the language of progressive values and radical politics, but deliberately or not, they are smoothing the path for reactionary gain. People forget that reactionary ideas and attitudes don’t always have to come with explicitly right-wing conservative, neoliberal signifiers, they can just as easily be clad in the language of socialism or revolutionary values as well (just look at the Sovjet-Union or modern day China).

I do sincerely hope that the online left does something to counter this because this trend will make it incredibly easy for the right-wing to enflame the culture war and turn offline people against social progressivism and/or for red-brown goons and reactionary “socialists” to infiltrate the online left and increasingly make it more conservative and more culturally restrictive.

This finger-wagging, prudish and proudly ignorant version of progressivism will not protect anyone from anything. It will just open up online communities to more harassment, thought-policing, gatekeeping, public shaming and open the door for many cynical and unscrupulous people to gain prominence and violently enforce cultural conformity.

#Twitter #TikTok #social media #media literacy #misinformation #online #online culture #conservative #socialist #radical #reactionary #social media culture #media consumption

[athousandgateaux]

It is reactive forces that express themselves in opposition, the will to nothingness that expresses itself in the labour of the negative. The dialectic is the natural ideology of ressentiment and bad conscience. It is thought in the perspective of nihilism and from the standpoint of reactive forces. It is a fundamentally Christian way of thinking, from one end to the other; powerless to create new ways of thinking and feeling. The death of God is a grand, noisy, dialectical event; but an event which happens in the din of reactive forces and the fumes of nihilism.

--Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, pg. 159

#deleuze #nietzsche #nihilism #dialectics #ressentiment #bad conscience #reaction #reactive #reactionary #christianity #why all marxists are reactionary #socialism as the secular form of christianity

[jesusdeadbeatdaughter]

#reactionary #red scare pod #dasha nekrasova #my best friend sends me screenshots of dashas posts since i left insta

[blackswaneuroparedux]

A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a  conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing  circumstances of the present.

Sir Roger Scruton  

#scruton #roger scruton #quote #philosopher #conservatism #reactionary #past #society #toryism #femme #beauty #carla bruni

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

I notice when left wing people use the term "millionaire car salesman" to describe a hypothetical small town reactionary businessman. Usually, they use this term with derision and fear. Especially that one post about how FEMA is failing because the rightwing militias are able to provide mutual aid to the people after disasters. They also use this occasionally on twitter.

I always find it funny because whenever I hear that term I think of Cobra Commander because he was a used car salesman originally. That is his origin, a used car salesman who got radicalized when he lost his war vet brother in a car wreck and he lost his business because of the recession. He then went on to found a bunch of pyramid schemes and then used the money from that to found Cobra.

Like when they get mad about a "millionaire car salesman" they are describing Cobra Commander. I don't know if they are aware of it when they say that. I just find it funny tbh.

#cobra commander #used car salesman #millionaire car salesman #left wing discourse #left wing people #lol #discourse #reactionary

[iisthepopeoffools]

Conservatives, radfems, wokescolds/tenderqueers, identitarians of the left and right, reactionaries, state socialists, utilitarians, pacifists, and centrists are all united in politics that seek safety and/or stability above all else. It is understandable that such politics appear in tumultuous and precarious times but they serve at best as an anaesthetic and at worst as a stumbling block. Only a politics that embraces life, danger, daring, that is Promethean and earthly at the same time, can lead us to a better future.

#conservatism #radfem #wokescold #tenderqueer #identity politics #reactionary #state socialism #centrism #pacifism #utilitarianism #promethean #life-affirming #nietzsche

[eternal-echoes]

We need Catholic doctors, Catholic nurses, Catholic lawyers, Catholic teachers, Catholic scientists, and Catholic artists. Not everyone is called to create an insulated homesteading environment away from modernism.

Catholics can't fight secularism by running away from it.

#Catholic #Christianity #text #reactionary #modernism

[dartvongrell]

#gaslit #wake up #hellsing #dracula #alucard #meme #response #reactionary

[themaninthegreenshirt]

"Plainly many thought they were alone in some reactionary minority. They had been led to think that they were voices muttering to themselves in the wilderness. Well, you are not. There are more of you out there than you realise - very many more, perhaps even a majority."

George MacDonald Fraser

#George MacDonald Fraser #writer #lit #flashman #politics #reactionary #quotes

[le-dernier-soupir]

#Vintage #Europe #Aesthetics #Reactionary #War

[virovac]

I do worry about counter-reactionary stuff sometimes

Like opposing something just because conservatives want the opposite

It leads to stuff like an article criticizing opposition of "crossdressing child beauty pageants" when ALL child beauty pageants should be opposed in a sane world.

#reactionary #counter reactionary

[thehours2002]

am i problematic for not putting an abortion content warning for something on my syllabus

#it just feels like doing that would be reafironary #reactionary