As humans are bony fishes, and the Cathedral the heretical spawn of Cromwell’s puritans, the neoreaction is the heretical spawn of Libertarianism and anarcho capitalism. Consider for example the blog title Anarcho Papist.

The Dark Enlightenment is libertarians mugged by reality, a libertarian who realizes that the eighteenth century was right about women, and Bull Conner right about blacks..

An anarcho capitalist favors a free market in law and defense agencies, defense agencies that are in many cases the private property of individuals and small groups. A neoreactionary is an anarcho capitalist who thinks that a monopoly defense agency that is the private property of one man (monarchy) or a cartel of defense agencies that are the private property of a few men (feudalism) is not so bad after all. Hence, throne conservatism.

He concludes that, progressivism being an official religion, therefore an official religion is unavoidable. He suspects that most people need religion to persuade them to act sensibly, hence, whether Atheist or Christian, he endorses altar conservatism. (Or in the case of Israel, Temple Judaism.)

Thus libertarianism mutates into throne and altar conservatism, as puritanism mutated into militant atheism.

Now if Bull Conner was right about blacks, one might conclude that the Cathedral’s evil consists primarily in suppressing the Caucasian race, giving rise to an ethno-nationalist neoreaction

If the eighteenth century right about women, then perhaps the Cathedral’s evil consists primarily in destroying marriage (which goes all the way back to Cromwell’s puritans) and in suppressing men, especially beta males, (which goes all the way back to the Victorian Society for Suppression of Vice, themselves descended from Cromwell’s puritans), giving rise to a neoreaction that appreciates the wisdom of game, itself descended largely from the libertine strand of libertarianism, giving rise to a Patriarchal Neoreaction. Atheist Patriarchal neoreactionaries profoundly appreciate the wisdom of Saint Paul, while theonomist reactionaries find Saint Paul a bit scary, and are apt, like Bruce Charleton, to hide him in the basement behind the water heater while Talmudically reinterpreting him away.

If the Cathedral’s evil consists primarily in being anti capitalist, in creating the regulatory state where successful businesses operate by social consensus with personnel on the revolving door between regulators and regulated, as exemplified by politician bureaucrat businessmen such as Jon Corzine and politician businessmen such as George Soros, if its evil consists of preventing the technological singularity, of ending scientific and technological progress, then you get the Techno-Commercial Reaction. (Reaction, not neoreaction, nothing neoreactionary about it. They are fans of good old fashioned manchesterism, which is libertarianism as it was before it entered the demonic alliance with the anti slavery puritans and other non Anglicans.)

If the Cathedral’s evil consists primarily in heresy, in suppressing non heretical Christianity, on coercing all Christian churches to follow in its heresy, then you get the Theonomist Reaction, which looks backwards to what Christianity used to be before they made concessions to the heretical spawn of the Puritans and Calvinists. Theonomists would like a state church, but where as I am keen on the Church of England, from the restoration to 1820 or so, which presided over the greatest flowering of science, technology, capitalism, and empire in the history of mankind, they tend to prefer older and less heretical churches, or newer and more prosocial churches, or, like Bruce Charlton, both, judging official churches more on their virtue or Biblical correctness, rather than their effect in promoting the worldly success of the nation that they teach and inspire.

These divisions of the Dark Enlightenment, the reaction, and the neoreaction, are less important that they seem, for if you are one, you are apt to be something of each of the others.

In particular, I want to get to the technological singularity (techno commerical reactionary), which makes me object to dysgenics, hence ethno nationalist neoreactionary, I am a darwinist, hence a partriarchal neoreactionary, I admire the success of England under the restoration Church of England, an official state church which was much better than today’s official progressivism, hence at least somewhat sympathetic to the Theonomist Reaction.

It is looking less and less likely that progressivism can make it to the technological singularity before lapsing into a dark age. I suspect that later historians will set the turning point towards a dark age, the end of the scientific age, as 1972.

If a white, patriarchal, theocratic, capitalist, throne and altar society gave us the scientific and industrial revolution, perhaps that is what it takes to get to the technological singularity.

Tags: capitalism, decline of the west, religion, technological and scientific stagnation, The Dark Enlightenment