It is about this time of the week that the activities in the reactosphere are summarized up. This week’s best quote came from the comments there. I agree that we cannot go back. This would lead to despair, if it was not for faith. For God can and will call us back. To sanity, and then repentance, then reformation, then righteousness in the nation.

“Reasserting patriarchy requires only one thing: Power, which none of those supposed millions actually have.”

How? How does power migrate into the hands of someone who would use it this way? Moldbug recognized this key question, and spent a lot of time dancing around it. The great virtue of NRx is the recognition that liberal democracy comes with modernity as a package deal, and you cannot address one without the other. The great weakness of NRx is coming up with a plausible future regime where power would be used to undo modernity.

I am frankly concerned that Man cannot undo what has been done. Once a great crime has been committed, it cannot be uncommitted. Once the French Revolution destroyed the ancien regime, there was no way to get it back. De Maistre recognized this. Now that it is possible for people to live an atomized way, no one will be able to forget this kind of life. It is like being a drug addict. Millennials would rather die than give this up. History has indeed come to an end, and we find ourselves the damned in Hell.

This world need Christ. for we will otherwise build our own personal Hell, and suffer within it, through this life and the next.