Scott, good progressive that he is, assures us that with the rise of democracy, war has diminished. He gets this bizarre conclusion in two ways:Â By starting the clock at Zhang Xianzhong, after which violence diminished, and by starting the clock at World War II, after which violence diminished. But Zhang Xianzhong was a radical …
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The anti-anti reactionary FAQ: Sluts
Scott, good progressive that he is, is horrified by the fact that reactionaries use the word “sluts†and feels that reactionaries are being illogical and inconsistent to endorse different standards for different genders. Which argument, like all his arguments, presupposes that men and women are exactly alike and everyone knows this and believes it.  So …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 4, Ever leftwards movement
In his anti reactionary FAQ Scott argues that ever leftwards movement is not a bunch of conspiracies run by Harvard and the State Department, but rather a natural response to prosperity and power. We are richer and safer, so can afford a little decadence, perhaps a lot of decadence. This fails to explain the ever …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 3, Freedom and Monarchy.
In his anti reactionary FAQ Scott tells us how terribly repressive Queen Elizabeth was, failing to compare actually observable dissent in her time with actually observable dissent in our time: Likewise, Elizabeth and the other monarchs in her line were never shy about killing anyone who spoke out against them. Henry VIII, Elizabeth’s father, passed …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 2, Crime.
A major reactionary argument is that since the early eighteenth century, since the reign of throne and altar, war, state political repression, state violence against respectable citizens, underclass crime, and minority crime have all risen enormously, that the overclass and underclass are attacking the productive, and the attack has been escalating. Scott’s anti reactionary FAQ …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 1, Terror and mass murder
In this post, I address Scott’s anti reactionary FAQ on terrors and mass murders. In other posts I will address economic growth, sex, freedom, art, and other issues. The anti reactionary FAQ is big, and has a lot of points, most of which I will deal with in separate posts. Reactionaries say that democracy leads …