SEA CHANGE We have seen, since 1990, the slow accumulation of scientific evidenc

SEA CHANGE

We have seen, since 1990, the slow accumulation of scientific evidence that undermines the progressive fantasy. Overturning environment, equality, diversity, and returning to particularism, tribalism, and breeding.

A few months ago The left’s intellectual leadership openly started discussing the impossibility of their project. A lament. They cannot overcome the majority moral objection to free riding.

Since 2000 we have seen the slow development of a reactionary language. And a reactionary philosophy that incrementally gains momentum.

Since 2010 we have seen the rapid accumulation of mainstream intellectual work, that while immaturely domain specific, follows the trend of overturning the progressive dogma originating in our universities as an alternative to the failure of socialism in economics and marxism in cultural morality, and therefore politics.

I was one of the early movers in libertarianism, correcting the failure of Rothbardian ethics to find purchase in the public conscience by implementing what we have learned in science over this period as the basis for propertarian ethics. But others seek various forms of justification by multiple yet unsuccessful means.

We are all participants in this transition. But it is difficult or impossible to know whether we are the greeks looking back at the end of their greatness or the english looking forward to their accidental empire.

Each academic revels in his own innovation. His horse-blinders help delude him. Obscuring the fact that we all sense the same change but have not yet come to consensus on it:

The end of the enlightenment project, the end of the marxist project, the end of the progressive project, the end of european dominance, and the end of democracy as a credible political model at scale.

The end of the dominance of our world view in world affairs. A world view that never was very useful. Our success was science, technology, accounting and credit. Not our political system. Our political system was a temporary luxury made possible by our technological advancement over other societies – most importantly the african, ottoman, and american indian. An advantage we have mitigated by our civil, world war.

Whether we achieve anything with this knowledge is open to question. History offers encouraging and discouraging examples.

More later.