82: Scott Alexander & Slate Star Codex, with David Gerard and Elizabeth Sandifer
I Don't Speak German
The Neo-Reactionary Subculture
The neo reactionaries were also part of the same barrier barrier transhumanist subculture, which is more broadly just Silicon Valley startup culture. I had a lot of these quasi fascist bloggers who were writing with fabulous logo rear, but really, really badly, like even worse. These people more or less fell into queersants around late 2015 early 2016, which is when they're less intellectual descendants, the alt right started coming to prominence. The book to read on this is Elizabeth's book neo reaction a basilisk, which is a fantastic book and I'm not just saying that because my name is in first sentence.
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