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Neoreaction / Network State and Technocratic Centrism
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. No axis places them within three points of each other. They diverge by eight points or more on CU, SC, ID, CH.
Axis by axis
| Axis | NRx, accelerationism | Technocratic Centrism | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +09 | +05 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | −02 | 10 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +07 | +01 | 6 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| SC · Scale of decision | −06 | +08 | 14 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +04 | −04 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +04 | −08 | 12 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →
The evidence behind the widest gaps
A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.
NRx, accelerationism · CU +08
Coded +8: explicit rejection of egalitarianism as a political premise.
- Programme textMoldbug's writing treats democratic equality as an ideological inheritance to be discarded.
Technocratic Centrism · CU −02
Coded −2: procedurally liberal without a substantive cultural programme.
- ScholarshipRights adjudication is delegated to courts rather than legislated as a programme.
NRx, accelerationism · SC −06
Coded −6: anti-centralist and anti-democratic simultaneously.
- ScholarshipCompeting micro-states and exit rather than voice is the organising proposal — a combination with no twentieth-century analogue.
Technocratic Centrism · SC +08
Coded +8: authority pooled above the nation state by treaty.
- Documented act or statuteMonetary policy for twenty countries is set by a single body insulated from any national electorate.
What this comparison does not establish
Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.
Neoreaction / Network State
2007– · Online, Silicon Valley
Democracy treated as an inefficient technology; government reconceived as a corporation with a competent executive and exit rather than voice.
Technocratic Centrism
1990– · EU institutions, IFIs
Rule-bound, expert-designed policy insulated from short-term electoral pressure.
Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.
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