XENOSYSTEMS

178 PÁGINAS

PAGINA 178 REVISADA

If reality is harsh and strange, that’s why.

EXTROPIA – ENTROPÍA

La reacción forja, o excava, un pacto oculto entre el futuro y el pasado, oponiéndose ambos al presente, en
concierto, y diferenciándose así del progresismo (que une el presente y el futuro contra el pasado), y del
conservadurismo (que une el pasado y el presente contra el futuro). Su vínculo con el tiempo como exterioridad lo
lleva cada vez más allá del momento y de su decadencia, hacia un horizonte gemelo de lejanía anterior y posterior.
Es una sombra fuera del tiempo. SHADOW OUT OF TIME LIBRO DE LOVECRAFT (REACTION
REPETITION AND TIME)

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FLAVORS OF REACTION – 19 FEB

Once it is accepted that the right can never agree about anything, the opportunity arises to luxuriate in the delights
of diversity. Libertarianism already rivaled Trotskyism as a source of almost incomprehensibly compact
dissensus, but the New Reaction looks set to take internecine micro-factionalism into previously unimagined
territories. We might as well enjoy it.
From crypto-fascists, theonomists, and romantic royalists, to jaded classical liberals and hard-core
constitutionalists, the reaction contains an entire ideological cosmos within itself. Hostility to coercive
egalitarianism and a sense that Western civilization is going to hell will probably suffice to get you into the club.
Agreeing on anything much beyond that? Forget it.
There’s one dimension of reactionary diversity that strikes Outside in as particularly consequential (insofar as
anything out here in the frozen wastes has consequences): the articulation of reaction and politics. Specifically: is
the reaction an alternative politics, or a lucid (= cynically realistic) anti-politics? Is democracy bad politics, or
simply politics, elaborated towards the limit of its inherently poisonous potential?
Outside in sides emphatically with the anti-political ‘camp’. Our cause is depoliticization (or catallaxy, negatively
apprehended). The tradition of spontaneous order is our heritage. The New Reaction warns that the tide is against
us. Intelligence will be required, in abundance, if we are to swim the other way, and we agree with the
theonomists at least in this: if it is drawn from non-human sources, so much the better. Markets, machines, and
monsters might inspire us. Rulers of any kind? Not so much.