The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Elon Musk is also implicated in the Epstein controversy 0143
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Elon Musk has finally revealed the game. He is getting desperate and sloppy. Elon Musk consults Curtis Yarvin about the America Party being the party of monarch rule over America.nytimes.comElon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin, Right-Wing Thinker, on Third Party 2137
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025“It is yet another enemy of the Enlightenment who have arisen to oppose this movement of conscience and knowledge. I think of ideologies of hate that want to separate people in reason of their origin, their gender, their religion, who in doing so attack the pillars of Republican reason and thought.” 011
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025“To the liberty of men, the Dark Enlightenment opposes the force of reality. To equality of birth, the hierarchy of status. To universal brotherhood, the reign of war and predation. This ideological project is real, and through men and women, it intends to rule.” 121
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025“Nowadays, there is a new project, born in the United States, but which will, I don’t doubt it, plant seeds here in France and Europe—the explicit project of the Dark Enlightenment. These want to erase the legacy of three centuries at least of human progress.” 120
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025“There is a current zeitgeist where hatred expresses itself, with antisemitic rage and the furor of algorithms. Through the Freemasonry, it is, at bottom, the project of revolution and emancipation of which you are, with others, the guardians, that is targeted.” 110
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025In a speech to the Masonic Great Lodge of France, Emmanuel Macron calls out "the Dark Enlightenment" as an enemy.x.comÉlysée on X: "EN DIRECT | Discours du Président @EmmanuelMacron à la Grande Loge de France. https://t.co/NrNNB20QZF" / XEN DIRECT | Discours du Président @EmmanuelMacron à la Grande Loge de France. https://t.co/NrNNB20QZF 193
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Until DOGE is reformed, Elon is not gone, even if he’s not physically present in the US Governmentnytimes.comOpinion | ‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State 132
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Moderator: “All right, perhaps we can get into closing statements. I think they've allotted five to 10. Perhaps it was eight minutes. Mr. Yarvin, if you'd like to start your closing remarks.” 000
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “Again, those things are mutually supportive of each other, and it is possible both to stand up for and defend values of academic freedom, intellectual freedom, and also to put yourself on a path of reform and renewal, we can defend by renovating. And that is, I believe, the path that we're on.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “And the answer to that question is yes, and the reason for that answer is because we are very clear about core values. Those are values of Veritas. They are also values of pluralism.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “But I think the important question here more broadly, to bring us back to our original resolution is whether or not this university in particular, is in a place where it can do work that is for the good of our society.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “Yes, should science take a look at itself and consider how it's doing its work? Yes, I think all those things are the case, but sciences generally have established very high standards for their work and maintain a commitment to testing and evaluating what they're doing.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “Scientists do work according to a set of norms for inquiry that they that are high standard is short of it, and they hold each other to very high standard. They do put each other under intense competitive pressures. Is it possible that bureaucratic pressures also affect the how science unfolds?” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Allen: “There's a lot there. I'm not going to respond to the whole picture. I think that's not what our resolution is about. But I will say a few things. I mean, for starters, science is a hard enterprise, and science is also a bureaucratic enterprise. Both of those things are true simultaneously.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Moderator, to Allen: “Sure your thoughts Professor Allen, whether or not what he said is factually or historically correct if there's something structurally wrong which is producing what he claims to be the case about professors and academic elites of that sort.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “It's involving the most powerful ideas, and in a way, the most pernicious ideas. And I can't help but relate that to professors Allen's belief that positive liberty, in other words, power, is an essential goal of human nature.” 110
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “And I look at the basically Professor Allen was talking about the legacy of devastation that these policies have left over the last 50 years. They were all approved by the best social scientists of the time. I see the same effect where the system is not evolving the best and truest ideas.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “You know, who benefits from expansion of NATO to the east? Well, I don't know who benefits, but I know a lot of people have died. How's that working out for you? Ukraine? You know, when I look at the social policies and of the 1960s which were supported by almost all academics.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “Peter Dazsak is like, Fine. We'll shut it down. We'll start a new org, different name should be fine. Actually, these people seem profoundly unaccountable. And if you look at the processes that gave them power, and really the power to create COVID, they seem very corrupt, and I see many things.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “You know, the people who really, honestly, right now, should be in jail for what they do, and instead, they have suffered little or no harm. Equa Health Alliance, which basically ran, you know, the research program. Or Peter dazak was disbarred, or, you know, they can't get grants anymore.” 110
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “to be a good scientist today, to be an effective pi in the system, you have to be an empire builder. It's not me, right? Right? And so what we have is this generation of very effective bureaucrats. The Fauci is the route barracks, you know, Peter Daszak.” 110
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “direction of, if you'll excuse my Latin, you know, monotas and like, and that money is not, it's not corporate, you know, bribery or whatever. It's just the fact that everyone in science, and this is, by the way, the reason that I personally dropped out of science is that…” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “Basically, world, what I see is the gain of function. Research, like so many other research programs, has a built in bureaucratic advantage, because it generates funding. And there are so many directions and research and public policy where it is not the direction of Veritas that wins is…” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “recreated the 1918 flu, which hasn't gotten out and hurt us yet, but very well might. And so, you know, when I look at this, I'm like, wow, you know, if the professors aren't in charge, even electing Donald Trump doesn't seem to stop the gain of function.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “So let's go and reinvent the 1918 flu. Actually, I forget the name that something very disturbing happened in the supposedly anti academic Trump administration, which is, I think the deputy head of NIAID on the infectious diseases Institute is actually the gain of function guy who…” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “You were not a team player. You were trying to deny grants to all of your friends. You were saying, don't work on this. And they're basically saying, look, but I have this beautiful research that I'm doing, and it's explained by this idea that sort of the 1918 flu should be a problem.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “Now, what did you learn? Anything? No, you didn't, right? And actually, what you find is that what you're evolving for in the basically the system of grant funded science is science that gets more grants and so gain of function. Imagine being a biologist who's against gain of function research.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “There was actually nothing to be gained from gain of function research, we found that actually nothing was gained at all from this research when COVID was created. You know, they're like, we're going to predict these emergencies of viruses. Okay, you predicted it. It happened.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “Within virology, there were actually there were the Robert caliphs of virology did exist before COVID, and there were actually people who very bravely stood up and said, No, you should not be doing gain of function research.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “When I look at the way that expertise has worked in the 20th century, ever since public policy started being dictated by ideas at Harvard. What I see is actually very different from that. And again, I'm going to use virology as an example.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “And they're like, look, wow, it works like this. The fittest ideas in that, you know, Bucha like, condition of 19th century science are simply the truest ideas you were evolving, you were selecting for Veritas.“ 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “And those systems work well when the survival, when the definition of fittest is actually the definition that you want. And the essential problem, when you have scientists kind of puttering around in their laboratories, you know, breeding beans with other beans.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Y: “And the marketplace of ideas when it works well, is essentially a Darwinian system in which good ideas, you know, I don't like using the word that starts with the D, but in which you have a variety of ideas, like mutations in a Darwinian system, and it's the survival of the fittest.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Yarvin: “It seems like we've, I feel like this debate has been a success because we've honed in on what I would say is the most important point, which is essentially the functioning of the marketplace of ideas.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “together when we build the right structures for pulling them together.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “the work that comes out of it is developed in competitive and adversarial structures of engagement. So at any rate, that was a mouthful, I realize. But you know, in general, professors are not in charge, but expertise and ordinary knowledge, the knowledge of common people, can work well…” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “We do actually need the clarity about values that come from the perspective of ordinary people, we also need trained expertise. We also need to ensure that the pathway to participating in that world of trained expertise is broadly open, and that is a competitive pathway, and that…” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “And then, in Aristotle's account, the monarchs or those who do bring that train expertise society can generate these things differently in a variety of different ways. But the point is, we need all of it.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “They also bring clarity about their desire to play a role and for what reasons they have for flourishing. The oligarchy category, in the ancient sense, brings clarity about the honor and privileges and rights and things like that.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “So again, when he's talking about his different regime types, partly the different regime types also put different kinds of knowledge offerings on the shared table of society. So the people bring things in particular. They bring clarity about values for society.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “I think the best way of understanding what our goal should be is actually to go back to Aristotle, who gave us a beautiful account of the different kinds of knowledge and expertise that people bring to bear.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “But I know who can deny that expertise brings with it a certain kind of power. But again, it's a very specific kind of power. And the question is, how does it sit in relationship to other kinds of power there?“ 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “Discovery, the Project Discovery always benefits from adversary structures, adversarial structures and competitive structures. And so yes, there is always room for the enterprise of science to improve itself. And no, the professors are certainly not in charge.” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “hard questions that are rarely given to certain conclusions. So in that regard, actually, pluralism is something that helps advance the cause of Veritas. Respecting pluralism and protecting pluralism is beneficial to the project of discovery.“ 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025A: “To protect freedom is to generate diversity of thoughts. James Madison said that old idea. Others have said it as well. And so to protect freedom and is to generate precisely what you need in order to pursue Veritas, namely the conflict of ideas required for competitive consideration of…” 100
The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Allen: “Well, we know for a fact professors aren't in charge. Obviously. But anyway, I'll come back to that in a second, but I want to go back to very beginning of that set of remarks, when Mr. Gargan suggested that pluralism and Veritas are in conflict with each other, that's not the case.” 120
