This conversation with Prof. Burrows was excellent—clarifying, timely, and urgently needed. I’ve been writing on this same terrain, and just published a longform essay analyzing how thinkers like Yarvin and Land move from diagnosis to despair, and from clarity to something much more seductive—and dangerous.
My piece is called The Reactionary Temptation: Real Problems, False Enemies, No Future. It argues that NRx succeeds emotionally, not just intellectually—by naming real pain and then redirecting it toward myth, silence, or collapse.
If it’s of interest, I’d be honored if you took a look:
This conversation with Prof. Burrows was excellent—clarifying, timely, and urgently needed. I’ve been writing on this same terrain, and just published a longform essay analyzing how thinkers like Yarvin and Land move from diagnosis to despair, and from clarity to something much more seductive—and dangerous.
My piece is called The Reactionary Temptation: Real Problems, False Enemies, No Future. It argues that NRx succeeds emotionally, not just intellectually—by naming real pain and then redirecting it toward myth, silence, or collapse.
If it’s of interest, I’d be honored if you took a look:
https://eliaswinter.substack.com/p/the-reactionary-temptation-real-problems
—Elias Winter
thanks so much, Elias, will check out the piece for sure!