just a cheap shot

“The basic idea of formalism is just that the main problem in human affairs is violence. The goal is to design a way for humans to interact, on a planet of remarkably limited size, without violence.

Especially organized violence. Next to organized human-on-human violence, a good formalist believes, all other problems - Poverty, Global Warming, Moral Decay, etc, etc, etc - are basically insignificant.”

-Mencius Moldbug, “A formalist manifesto”

“To be a reactionary is not to say we must reinstall the exact political structure of the fourteenth century tomorrow, although that would surely be an improvement on what we have now.”

-Mencius Moldbug, “Patchwork: A positive vision (part 1)”

“When I surveyed perceptions of violence in an Internet questionnaire, people guessed that 20th-century England was about 14 percent more violent than 14th-century England.  In fact it was 95 percent less violent.”

-Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (p. 61)