Fenster at Uncouth Reflections sent some attention my way. As always, I'm grateful for the notice. It's especially gratifying because the previous incarnation of the blog, 2 Blowhards, had some interviews that led me to consider traditionalism seriously for the first time.
As for updating the blog, I've been slacking for a couple of reasons. The first is that fatherhood demands that I spend more energy on finding a more lucrative position--the sticker shock from buying diapers is giving me PTSD. The second is that I'm in a fallow period, which, knowing myself, is entirely predictable.
Fenster's point is that the Internet has opened the public conversation to those outside of the liberal arts tradition. Scientists and engineers are contributing to political thought, and the flavor of their contribution is, as they say, "on the spectrum." He provides a few examples of the leading lights of neoreaction speaking in an Asperger-y way.
For clarification: The relevant point buried in my piece was this: "Ability to understand does not equal ability to manage." The thinkers who call government and society an "engineering problem" and decide to "invent an ideology" suffer from hubris of the most clichéd variety.
This is a fundamental difference: either one believes that everything--everything--can be analyzed, categorized and fitted as a facet on the latticework of human life, or one doesn't. One is more realistic than the other; one is a safer bet than the other.
