Paige McLoughlin's Reviews > Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right

Ran into some neo-reactionary accelerationist creeps on Twitter today reminded me of this book I read a couple of times. They had all the markers references to Mencius Molburg sporting the Nietzsche and Schopenhauer references, striking the pose of brooding pessimistic world-weary romantics longing for the void and wanting to take everyone else with them. You know, right-wing creeps pretending to be intellectuals. I don't know they want to put on a scary facade because they read Machiavelli's line about being feared is more reliable than being loved in politics. I get the pessimism angle it looks really cool to some to pretend to be a really nihilistic soul in a dark world that just knows too much. I mean Goths and vampire stories are a thing. The pessimism pose is alluring and bad boy politics adds to the danger. I get it. But it's as dumb as the Maga fools they think they are orchestrating for their dark enlightenment. Jesus Christ, they think they are Ann Rice characters for the techno singularity. get over yourselves. God these people suck but they are more like Dunning-Kruger Zombies who let thus spake Zarathustra go to their heads. Slow on the pick-up like Zombies rather than Aristocratic vampires of their conceits but there are too damn many of them.
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April 1, 2020 – Started Reading
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