But, that aside! I've read his articles and to some degree they indicate great attention to certain details which I can't seem to find anywhere else in the Romanian-speaking space. So props to him.

As for the Reacțiunea folks, there's precisely three possible paths for them. Either they become irrelevant after a while, like most such projects do; or they become big enough to become "the Matrix"; or they get absorbed into "the Matrix", like most other popular publications tend to do.

Or they continue to be a marginal affair, just like this here blog.

I happen to think (but am too lazy to sit to demonstrate at length) that the default mode of humanity is feudalism. People are by their nature unequal (or "diverse", if we were to employ an Imperial symbol), and hierarchy arises from these inequalities, i.e. they give birth to certain structures which are defined within the hierarchy and a set of environmental constraints. In practice, people in the past used to fight over plots of land -- sure, they still do, but that's beside the point; not even a decade ago, folks still believed that this generation would not get to see war --, because that's where you would grow food or harvest some other resources, or in any case, it held some value.

Nowadays land still holds value, but there's a whole bunch of other things that do, and the variety ("diversity"!) and the complexity arising between those things is bound to fuck the average man even more than "back in the day". The abundance of yore encouraged various socialisms which are either shifting towards autocracy (see the recent move by Ciolacu et al.) or are on the way to being wiped altogether. Let's wait another year or two (or maybe a couple of months?), you'll see what I mean. If this is what you mean by fascism, then I agree.

On the other hand, while I find your jumping beans metaphor entirely fit for this discussion, I'm in the tribe of those who believe that this larva has long turned into a moth and set herself on a course towards the proverbial fire. Best case, she dies of cold on the way, but either way, the unstoppable thing which you at some point called entropy, is going to get the poor animal killed. Then nature will take its course, as some other beings will consume its corpse and thrive. And if what's going on around us is any guide, I think I have an idea how this is going to play out. There's at least two possible ways ahead, and neither of them will make us happier, except maybe through a shitton of drugs.

That doesn't mean, though, that one can't push for a fascism more to one's liking. The wiser activist sees figures like Trump or Georgescu not as messiahs that are in themselves good or will do what they promised; but rather as tools to destabilize the system and open up a chance for change to occur. Which is why it's still painful when the system successfully defends itself and eliminates that chance for the time being.

Do you know about jumping beans? They're not just something invented in cartoons, they're real. Basically you have this larva that takes up residence inside a bean while it develops. The jumping is a fascinating solution to a simple problem: if the bean stays too long in direct sunlight, the larva will overheat. Thus, the larva has the reflex that when too much light hits the bean (the walls are somewhat transluscent), it will trash inside the bean and send it flying in a random direction, hence the jumping.

The fascinating bit is that even though the larva has no idea where the sun is or where the shadows are, nor can it control the direction of the jump at all, nevertheless this stochastic strategy works perfectly. If you timelapse a collection of jumping beans, you will see them closely follow the shadows exactly like in those timelapse videos of cats moving with the rays of the sun. In fact this type of stochastic strategy is used all throughout nature, including for bacteria trying to navigate to a food source even when they have no complex sensors or locomotion systems onboard.

I believe revolutions, and all meaningful political change in fact, ultimately work the same way. Nobody can predict the outcome of a revolution. It can indeed fail or backfire. They are a roll of the die. Nevertheless, if you don't roll the die you will surely get more of the same. It's better, I think, to keep rolling the die until you hit a better state (a fascism more to your liking). Then stop.

It sure worked for EU accession votes, after all.