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If you're new to the NRx tranny jewish techbro monarchy shill ideology then this post will be my own personal guide to unwrapping neoreaction (with many useful links!). Just be warned, I'm new too, but I've been reading up on it for the better part of a year and I think I know enough to help you..
Xhis will and has been updated (05/20/26). You learn new things everyday.
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Why neoreaction?
National socialist larp is a massive cope and is best taken in small anarcho-fascistic doses, such as in my posts on the green blog. /nsg/ and GTV flyers got me into questioning reality too but they're really not that tasteful, half of it is just provocation and homoerotic vice signaling.
NRx blogging autism was infinitely more substantive than the generic rightist baboonery you see on /pol/ today. Even if you aren't planning on becoming a neoreactionary, every right-winger and conservative should learn about it, and can learn from it.
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What is neoreaction?
Neoreaction, The Dark Enlightenment, and NRx (all synonyms) generally refers to the ideas, politics, and philozophie of a community of bloggers that were most active around 2012-2016. They opposed democracy, progressivism, universalism, populism, the Enlightenment, and some other nonsense I'm sure you also hate passionately.
It was not a 'movement', like how Groypers or antifa constitute political movements, as they did not hope to influence policymakers through activism or whatever, and nor did they push for the masses to adopt their ideas. I mean, it's kind of antithetical to the whole 'democracy sucks' thing. They were theorists, not organizers or homosexual mexican pundits. So, please don't mistake Neoreaction for something it isn't.
The core thinkers of the Dark Enlightenment were Curtis Yarvin (pen name Mencius Moldbug) and Nick Land (also known as NIGG Land), who laid the critical groundwork for neoreaction. Neoreaction was an attempt at an intellectual framework for rightists. They did a pretty good job.
Curtis Yarvin is an autistic tranny jew who wrote a blog called Unqualified Reservations (UR) in the 2000s, under the aforementioned pen name Mencius Moldbug (however, it is advised to call him 'Moldberg' as a nod to his jewish tendencies). On UR, he developed the very basis for what would become Neoreactionary thought, explaining his concepts of the Cathedral, guided popular sovereignty, the press-controlled state, among others..
In 2012, the edgelord Nick Land wrote an essay on the oevre of Moldberg entitled The Dark Enlightenment, which really propped up the ideas and community of bloggers that became the 'NRx.'
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OMG so cool. Where do I start?
Start with Moldberg..
but READING IS FOR RETARDS, so DON'T DO IT! Moldberg and his UR posts are a pain to read, especially if you have very little clue of what you're getting into, and my layman's summary above won't help you with that.
I can personally tolerate Moldberg's essays, in fact I think they're a treat sometimes, but seriously he's a fag and can't be trusted to convince an open minded progressive of literally anything. It is better to listen to other reactionaries explain Moldberg's ideas for him, lest you visit UR and immediately be disgusted by Moldberg's weird prose and horrifically named concepts and obscurantist metaphors or whatever the cool kids say.
Do you really have the attention span to deal with that? No nigga. So don't bother. Youtube is the best answer for everything.
(we will use invidious redirect links here.)
The Distributist has a great hour-long introduction, reckoning inane 'progress,' or entropy, as the essential mode of Leftoid organization and production in soyciety:
A Gentle Introduction to Mencius Moldbug
The Yarvin for Normies Series by tc'ss is also rerry good:
Yarvin for Normies: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Monarchy
Yarvin for Normies: Two American Empires
Charlemagne has produced the unequivocal anthology of Moldberg's works with relevant commentary. 'Mulling Over Moldbug' is REQUIRED VIEWING! He also has stuff covering Spandrell (a close third for the pioneers of Neoreaction), Carlyle (a 19th century philosopher who hugely influenced Moldberg), Italian Elite Theory (critical to the neoreactionary worldview!), and Nigg Land.
https://redirect.invidious.io/@Charlemagne_III
...an extra here
Auron Macintyre has a lot of stuff on Neoreaction, but i never bothered with him because he sounds annoying, whereas Charlemagne has a cute voice.
https://redirect.invidious.io/channel/UC7BRAd6W3wx1ySm7VjhIBbg
Here's a useful playlist Auron made
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.. Uutube is a fun way to start, but then it's time to read theory.
Moldberg's blog (I would recommend the open letter first):
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/
Nick Land's seminal essay:
https://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/
UR has an appropriate reading list here:
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/primer
Free Northerner's reading list:
https://freenortherner.com/dark-enlightenment-reading-list/
Neoreactionary Canon on github (made by Michael Anissimov or Bryce Laliberte (or both), I see conflicting authorship on different copies of this text):
https://keithanyan.github.io/NeoreactionaryCanon.epub/NeoreactionaryCanon.pdf
Neoreactionary Canon on the Hestia Society:
This guy Parker Banks has really, really good audiobooks of Land and Moldberg's seminal works, so you can read but not really read:
https://redirect.invidious.io/@pbanks
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..after the seminal MOLDBERG works and Nick Land's essay, you may tend to the lesser-known Neoreactionary bloggers/blog posts, which are good reads nonetheless.
To clarify, there are two sects of Neoreaction split between the Land and Moldberg side of things. Moldberg never branded his ideas as 'neoreactionary' or 'dark enlightenment.' Neoreactionary was a name given to them and 'The Dark Enlightenment' was of course articulated by Land. Moldbug described his ideas as 'Formalism', and I don't think he was very involved in the Neoreactionary blogging community beyond being in everyone's blogroll (like, he wouldn't leave comments on Spandrell's blog like Nick Land would). He primarily wrote UR from 2007-2011, and 'The Dark Enlightenment' (the name for a certain milieu of bloggers) was coined in 2012, and would be elaborated on further by others like Spandrell and AnomalyUK.
The lines get a bit blurred here, as many blogs back then had overlapping readership, and again it was a community of theorist-bloggers, not a concrete political movement or organization with political goals sketched on a chalkboard.
(I guess this is what Scharlach might've choked on when he made his map of the Dark Enlightenment, but Hoppe? Eliezer Yudkowsky? it's like he's a progressive trying to slander rationalism and libertarianism)
core NRx autists:
Nick Land's blog, Xenosystems [internet archive] [fragments anthology] - insanely prestigious philosophaggotry.
Nydwracu (all his shit is taken down) [internet archive] [archive.ph] [alt] - Thedes, fnords, linguistics, naming the nameless and maybe some tranime autism
Spandrell - Bioleninism, the Trichotomy, and IQ Shredders
Foseti - elaboration on Moldberg and Land
Handleshaus [archive.is]
Poseidon Awoke - Is NRx right-bhramin signaling?
James A. Donald - aka Jim. haven't read him yet but apparently he may have been involved in the creation of fucking bitcoin, because that's normal.
Bryce Laliberte [archive.is] - RIP. Wrote What is Neoreaction?
Hestia Society [archive.is] - Neoreactionary network forum, or something along those lines
AnomalyUK - still blogs, kinda
Free Northerner - Christian reactionary. There are lots of extra links to reactionary bloggers in his blogroll here.
Radish Magazine - mag run by a guy named Karl F. Boetel, iirc. Was very involved in the NRx, made those horrific MTG cards of neoreactionaries
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I can't name everyone, so I'll outsource the rest of this to other people. But what I have listed here is already 90% of the picture.
Trying to (Actually) Map out the Dark Enlightenment
https://neorxn.com/reactionaries/
..if you ever come across a deleted or empty blog anywhere about this neoreaction stuff (which is common), please consult archive.is or archive.ph.
for example, nydwracu.wordpress.com is nuked. so, just put it in your browser like this:
https://archive.is/nydwracu.wordpress.com
This way you can get an index of all articles, and the site isn't slow like the wayback machine.