(04-17-2022, 05:51 AM)Chud Wrote: A quintessential Norwood trait, particularly pronounced in SomethingAwful alumni and "Weird Twitter" goons, is the tendency to look down on (or up to) groups of people that are vanishingly small, extinct, or based on screenplay cliches. Some examples of this include:
[*]Dunking on "Euphoric Atheists" / "Fedoras"; "Hipsters" post-2010; "Epic Gamers" post-2014
[*]One group that falls in with the rest of these but not explicitly stated would be Libertarians. For a time during the 2000s and early 2010s it seems like there was a big revival in libertarian thought, and of a number of different varieties: standard rw big business libertarians; normie 'socially liberal, fiscally conservative' libertarians; left-leaning chomsky types; minarchists; and maybe even some more right-wing Hoppe fans. I guess I'd also add in 'classical liberals' here, because in common (normie) discourse it's sort of a distinction without a difference. The most common of these types which also expressed the 'euphoric atheist' and 'fedora' attributes quickly fell out of favor on the left and the right and became major punching bags for a number of reasons. On the left, it became untenable to hold onto the 'No Sacred Cows' position as they made sacred cows out of faggots, tr00ns, and racial minorities. I think that what did libertarianism in on the right was a sort of religious revival. Whether that be TradCaths and Orthobros or the retvrn pagan types, none of them had any love for the fedora tipping, atheist libertarians.
Among liberal and conservative normies alike, libertarians have became a thoughtless punching bag that both sides can come together and agree are retarded. You'll hear Democrats bemoan the libertarian streak in the Republican party for why they can't give more money to illegals and blacks. You'll also hear '
nationalist conservative' figures like Sohrab Ahmari and Adrian Vermuele blame the Libertarian-Conservative alliance in the GOP for why we have so much degeneracy today, and for why the fertility rate is so low. The hatred of libertarians and blaming them for the world's problems are a total relic of the past. Even when there was a rise in people professing to be libertarians online, such people never had much political power. A real return to libertarianism, or a kind of Randian objectivism, would mean an actual push for a deregulation of businesses, freedom of association, and a total repeal of any and all affirmative action programs throughout the West. As far as any of those things go, there hasn't been strong representation for such plans in
decades. As time goes on, I am also disliking the pushback libertarians received more and more because I think
some of them (the more rw, based kind) were actually correct about a lot. The Randian individualism and moral egotism they espoused seems preferable to the Longhouse-Worshipping Tradcaths calling for some kind of populist, multiracial movement. I'll take Sargon (or even Molyneux) over someone like GoodTweetman and Yoram Hazony any day.