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empiricism implies that we cannot trust our brains. it eventually leads to reductionism (IMO) which implies everything can be (objectively) be boiled down to numbers as a final truth. its a very toxic and very new idea. when numbers become truth it has no other option but to turn society away from God (an atheist society is weak and foundationless) if you are really interested more about my viewpoints on this heres some reading that explains some of it better than i ever could:

https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysical-Foundations-Modern-Science/dp/0486425517


https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Society-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394703901

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Superstition-Refutation-New-Atheism/dp/1587314525

https://www.amazon.com/Libido-Dominandi-Liberation-Political-Control/dp/1587314657 (this one is slightly less relevant but does go into how often empirical science's end goal is looking at humans as machines and how that is dehumanizing and controlling)

https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Against-Modern-World-Julius/dp/089281506X

https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Slavery-Collected-Kaczynski-k/dp/1932595805/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=11DZHECERPHPBMFXWJKR

I currently have the following books open:

Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks - Dave Holderread

Everyday Saints and Other Stories - Archimandrite Tikhon

Revolt Against The Modern World - Julius Evola

A conservative/reactionary reading list:

Jean Bodin - Six Books of the Commonwealth (1576)

Robert Filmer - Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings (1680)

Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Joseph de Maistre - Considerations on France (1797) and Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and other Human Institutions (1809)

Thomas Carlyle - The French Revolution: A History (1837) and On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History (1841)

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil (1886) and Genealogy of Morals (1887)

Oswald Spengler - Decline of the West (1918)

Ernst Jünger - Storm of Steel (1920)

Jose Ortega y Gassett - Revolt of the Masses (1929)

Julius Evola - Revolt Against the Modern World (1934) and Men Among the Ruins (1953)

Bertrand de Jouvenal - On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth (1949)

Leo Strauss - Natural Right and History (1953)

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn - The Menace of the Herd (1943) and Liberty or Equality (1952)

Reactionary Thought

Chartism – Thomas Carlyle
Latter-Day Pamphlets – Thomas Carlyle

The Bow of Ulysses – James Anthony Froude
Popular Government – Henry Summers Maine

Shooting Niagara – Carlyle
The Occasional Discourse – Carlyle
On Heroes, Hero Worship & the Heroic in History – Carlyle

The Handbook of Traditional Living – Raido
Men Among the Ruins – Julius Evola
Ride the Tiger – Julius Evola
Revolt Against the Modern World – Julius Evola

Reflections of a Russian Statesman – Konstantin Pobedonostsev
Popular Government – Henry Maine
Patriarcha (the Natural Power of Kings) – Sir Robert Filmer
Decline of the West – Oswald Spengler
Hour of Decision – Oswald Spengler
On Power – Jouvenel
Against Democracy and Equality – Tomislav Sunic
New Culture, New Right – Michael O’Meara
Why We Fight – Guillaume Faye
The Rising Tide of Color – Lothrop Stoddard
Liberty or Equality – Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Democracy: The God that Failed – Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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Economics

Economics in One Lesson – Henry Hazlitt
Basic Economics – Thomas Sowell
That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen – Frederic Bastiat***
Man, Economy, and State – Murray Rothbard
Human Action – Ludwig von Mises

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I agree with everything you said except that postmodernism and neo-marxism are intrinsically tied together. And I think Peterson recognized this himself. Subjectivism is true, and it helps the Right far more than it helps the Left. In times of crisis, it's the strong men on the Right who could impose their will to power upon the world. Prior to the Western Enlightenment, the world was ruled by Machiavellian Ubermensch. The Enlightenment introduced the idea of objectivism to push an egalitarian narrative, but it's false from the very start. It was the Enlightenment that led to Atheism and Communism.

Postmodernism was reactionary towards communism from the Left. Fascism was reactionary towards communism from the Right. Both are anti-modernist in a way that calls on the baser impulses. /pol/ meme magic is basically a right wing postmodernist movement that masquerades itself as fascist. Kek represents the primordial chaos, which opposes the illusion of order promoted by objectivism. Emptiness -> Form -> Emptiness.

Postmodernism isn't inherently Leftist, even though it was invented by the Leftists. It's probably more effectively used by the Right as a way to restore Monarchy and Feudalism. Because if the world is really a fight for dominance and power, it's obvious which side will win. The Alt Right loves postmodernism. Every time the Leftists try to invoke slave moralities to gain pity, the Alt Right agrees and amplifies, "good, we will crush you." Communist revolution isn't the only way to Revolt Against the Modern World. Objectivism isn't truth, it's modernist ideology. Both the Alt Right and the Postmodern Left reveal dark hidden truths that the modernists refuse to acknowledge, but perhaps at the cost of throwing the world into destruction.

The modernists want to prevent this destruction at all costs. The Leftists naively believe that the world automatically become a progressive utopia after the destruction. The Traditionalists prepare themselves to be reborn from the ruins. Modernists cannot win in the end, because the are too attached to the status quo, but the reality of civilization is cyclical change. I think the best we can hope for is to accelerate through postmodernism until it becomes Traditionalist or Capitalist-futurist and hope that it doesn't lead to too much ethnocentric blood baths along the way... similar to the thoughts of Nick Land.

For works reflecting traditionalist conservative attitudes, I'd recommend "Ideas Have Consequences" by Richard Weaver and "The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis. Also, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a pretty good critique of utopian ideology and in my opinion it's far more applicable to current society than Orwell's 1984 in its criticism of mindless consumerism and social conditioning.

For far-right perspectives I'd recommend anything by Julius Evola, especially Revolt Against the Modern World. A lot of the modern right's rhetoric about the decline of western society and to some extent its nihilism can be traced back to Evola's work, so he is essential reading if you really want to know more about the modern far right or alt right. As a warning, though, his extreme traditionalism will probably be off-putting.

As for U.K. relevant...hmm...I can at least recommend a great British conservative in Sir Roger Scruton. His "How to Be a Conservative" offers an outline of true conservative ideology and its applications as well as criticism of materialism, which is in my opinion essential to conservatism.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/089281506X/

$23.72

easy choice

The modern world is a fun topic in philosophy. Stephen Kotkin called modernity a geopolitical necessity rather than simply cultural evolution.

Philosophize This podcast on the problems of modernity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svp959mvhn0

Some philosophers who argued against modernity:

Rene Guenon: https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Modern-World-Collected-Guenon-ebook/dp/B075DCWKBP

If you're feeling controversial Julius Evola: https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Against-Modern-World-Julius/dp/089281506X

I recently came across Augusto Del Noce (haven't read him yet): https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Modernity-Augusto-Del-Noce-ebook/dp/B00QMWI2C8/?tag=firstthings20-20