Gee’s Reviews > A Critique of Democracy: A Guide for Neoreactionaries > Status Update

Neoreactionary writers are all familiar with the libertarian perspective and many of them are former libertarians. Thus, there is a general understanding of the “natural order” arguments of Hoppe and the free market arguments of Mises. “Natural order” or the “Organic State” are terms sometimes used by political authoritarians, like monarchists, to appeal to a system they see as more in line with natural human tendenc

The purpose of monarchy in today's context would be to decrease the size of government while increasing its authority. Increasing the power of government is probably the only way to make it smaller. This is a key realization that sets the libertarian apart from the neoreactionary.

It's time for us to view voting as a behavior with a cost, a cost that doesn't pay for itself very well in terms of anything tangible. Hardly anything can be expected from a decision process that merely aggregates the votes of a great number of people.

The Enlightenment was an experiment. Some parts of that experiment did well, like the Scientific Method, others not so well, like democratic government. We are so immersed in democratic mythology, however, that we can barely imagine what life would be like without it. We've been inculcated to believe that democracy underlies everything good about the world

The superficial implication of Gini coefficient statistics is that countries with high inequality are “bad”, and those with low inequality are “good”. This should be rejected outright. Economic growth necessarily produces inequality, and a uniform income growth rate across the entire population is not economically feasible.

It is well known that there is a strong correlation between national average IQ and GDP, with an observed correlation coefficient of 0.73. What is not as widely known is that the population fraction with IQ greater than or equal to some threshold IQ, probably about 108, predicts the GDP of a country even more closely than average IQ alone.

6) Democracy is a self-reinforcing memeplex that seeks its own survival. 7) The unquestioning advocacy of democracy in the West is similar to a religion. 8) Political history is a cycle between benevolent rulers, democracy, anarchy, and tyranny. 9) Democracy is anti-civilizational and threatens the prosperity of Western countries.