Wait - but what is a reactionary?

 All ideology is reactionary in the end, the implicit agreement when taking on an ideological sigil is that you would defend a system which bore it, and the self-interest of every ideology leads them to strive for total control- none remain peaceful and isolated forever. What we find often in leftist literature, if viewed with a critical eye, is a denunciation of “reactionary” policy despite being one. This hypocrisy is not unusual for ideologues and should not be unexpected, but it is a good example nonetheless, one which sometimes makes people very upset and that’s always fun.

Despite the right’s more open adoption of the label, leftist reactionaries have always existed in the form of luddic undercurrents. We see them pop up time and again in the form of movements like the fence-smashers of the Ottmoor in response to the Inclosure Acts (sic), which by way of their connection to the industrial revolution draw obvious and stark comparison to modern conceptions. And following, time and again, we see the state mercilessly and brutally clamp down on its opposition- we see it malign them time and again (after all, it has all the incentive in the world to malign opponents and exactly none to truthfully convey their grievances) and via the alchemy of capitalist realism a populace is pacified.

The repeated criticism that the left poses towards these leftist reactionary movements is the same as that given to rightist reactionary movement, as it is impossible for them to draw a distinction from their perspective - they are labeled genocidal wholesale, deemed radical extremists for challenging the notion that history is a constant inevitable march unto liberalism, and destroyed utterly in the public consciousness due to the actions of straw-men. I say to them: you too are haunted by the specter of Whig History, the tech-prim divide is a sham!

Of course the state claims that they are immovable! I too claim infallibility at every opportunity, I too claim to be perfect and untouchable and never miss, but everybody knows them for the jokes they are - were it only so clear to you that western propaganda, too, is ultimately comedic. What reason have they (actors on behalf of the State) for ever making any claim other than that they are (A) inevitable and (B) eternal? What reason have they for allowing others to claim the same? None! And so, historically, they have cracked down every time, only allowing through works that masked their subversion in the “Reactionary” language of their times - read Max Stirner, marvel at his enmity towards the Huns, and realize that they are allegory for the Holy Romans.

And so, it is only natural that what little information is available on the subversive ideologies of transhumanism and primitivism leads people to believe that they are incompatible- they are led to believe that the state preceded technology, not the other way around. The industrial revolution and its derivatives have no monopoly on the idea of innovation, and to believe so is to buy into the fundamental lies of Whig History.

The claim that a return to pre-industrial life (the abolishment of industry) necessitates mass death is based on a lie- it is the machinic subsuming of all under the system of capitalism, it is the belief that industrialization and creation are the exact same process- the industrialization of medicine is what invented Medicine, and all else is snake oil and lies - the industrialization of education is what invented Education, and all else is inferior and savage - the industrialization of governance is what invented Government, and all else is anarchic and inefficient - the industrialization of family is what invented Family, and all else is either socialist nonsense or barbaric ravings - on and on and on and on. The cold hard fact is that Singularity will and would have been achieved with or without capitalism, that acceleration is independent from this specific system, and that the claims of genocide are a projection from those who value the luxuries provided by an industrial system over the continued habitability of the Earth. As it turns out, a wheelchair is not so complicated a machine that it is impossible to develop without liberal democracy and a global spanning economic system predicated on children being buried alive in cobalt mines.

Artificial intelligence is the result of an accumulation of data, and we have been conned into thinking that only Google can possibly create it through their patented methods, which themselves can only be propped up via the wholesale theft of our personal data. Even as they make billions yearly off of your knowledge, itself the product of your labor, you yourself are incredibly limited in your ability to transfer data. Life-ruining jail sentences and fines follow those citizens who dare transmit the wrong information in the wrong protocols, and the legal routes to information have been privatized and converted itself into an industrial scheme- people are mechanically pumped for more and more money, more and more of which must be taken in loan from either the state itself or other private vulture operations that themselves pay tithe unto them.

And to any crying “but free education!” I say Read Foucault, a prison is still a prison even if you put your foot down and insist that a taxation scheme would be more effective than the current grift.