Kind of interesting these guys like to imagine themselves as purely rational and unemotional, but then also go big into the teachings of people like Evola, orthodoxy and tradition - tendencies that explicitly reject rationality in favor of spirituality and esotericism (emotional reactions to aesthetics)
One of the most glaring examples is the :up-yours-woke-moralists: fandom, that uses the usual :reddit-logo: buzzwords like "logic and reason" to stan for their woo-peddling chaos dragon battling daddy figure.
There people obviously came of age and developed their ideologies during the new atheist movement, where you had to extol the primary virtues of logic and rationality and they were seen as the primary good.
They have grown up and realized that was a negative project (not a constructive one they could participate in and find meaning in, form solidarity or advance their interests) so they have swapped to whatever woo religion appeals to their reactionary impulses, but they haven’t fully purged themselves of their new atheist value system.
Kind of funny, since the new atheists were puritan evangelists for atheists - a value system they couldn’t purge from their Christianity
Kind of interesting these guys like to imagine themselves as purely rational and unemotional, but then also go big into the teachings of people like Evola, orthodoxy and tradition - tendencies that explicitly reject rationality in favor of spirituality and esotericism (emotional reactions to aesthetics)
One of the most glaring examples is the :up-yours-woke-moralists: fandom, that uses the usual :reddit-logo: buzzwords like "logic and reason" to stan for their woo-peddling chaos dragon battling daddy figure.
There people obviously came of age and developed their ideologies during the new atheist movement, where you had to extol the primary virtues of logic and rationality and they were seen as the primary good.
They have grown up and realized that was a negative project (not a constructive one they could participate in and find meaning in, form solidarity or advance their interests) so they have swapped to whatever woo religion appeals to their reactionary impulses, but they haven’t fully purged themselves of their new atheist value system.
Kind of funny, since the new atheists were puritan evangelists for atheists - a value system they couldn’t purge from their Christianity
:pain:
It's pretty funny that they're all (even most of the NRx types) unaware Right-Hegelians but doing the dialectic in the dumbest possible ways.