Editing Neoreactionaryism (section)

=== [[File:Reservation.png]] Reservationism ===

'''Reservationism''' is an epistemology proposed by Moldbug to promote an use of reason which is neither reducing or transcending it. It aims to counter "automatisms", tendencies for people to follow one or more overly specific cases of reason and apply them to everything subconsciously, and wrongly so. The most common types identified are:
*'''Popularists''', who assume that reason stems from how fashionable ideas are, the most common being the truest. They tend to support [[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy|democracy]] and [[File:Pop.png]] [[Populism|populism]]. They are considered to be the most annoying.
*'''Literalists''', who claim that reason originates from how immemorial ideas are, the most ancient being the truest. They tend to support [[File:Theocrat.png]] [[Theocracy_(Disambiguation)|fundamentalism]] and [[File:Trad.png]] [[Traditionalism|traditionalism]]. They are considered to be the most stupid.
*'''Algorithmists''', who posit that reason comes from how mathematizable ideas are, the most formulaic being the truest. They tend to support [[File:Scientocracy_Small.png]] [[Scientocracy|scientific policy]] and [[File:Algor.png]] [[Cyberocracy|algocracy]]. They are considered to be the most pernicious.
*'''Officialists''', who state that reason comes from how official ideas are, the most propagandized being the truest. They tend to support [[File:Mediastocracy flair.png]] [[Mediacracy|state media]] and [[File:PolState.png]] [[Police_Statism|censorship]]. They are considered to be the most dangerous.
As said above, NRxers notice that people can often follow several automatisms at once, depending on the social context they live in. For example, someone living in a deeply religious uniform community is likely to be both a popularist and a literalist, assuming that the overwhelmingly widespread, perennial beliefs around them are true, or alternatively, a person existing within a highly technical and partisan city is predisposed to follow simultaneously algorithmist and officialist ideas at once, convinced of the virtue of governmental experts in their procedures. Moldbug affirms that all combinations can and do exist in the world, with varying degrees of repartition and intensity.