> You may have seen them crop-up on tech hangouts like Hacker News
I hang out on HN fairly often and haven't seen a single royalist.
I hang out on HN fairly often and haven't seen a single royalist.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6729736
So they exist. Not sure how widespread it is, but I would also imagine that it's a larger group than would be apparent simply because most folks don't want to out themselves as "anti-democratic" the most ultimate of sins.
"I've settled on parvumianism (to coin a neologisim): in favor of small political units in which the appropriate political mechanism can be chosen and meaningfully consented to."
I think you are right though that it would be incorrect to label anyone as anything unless they explicitly stated as such.
I'm fairly agnostic about the best way to organize politically, beyond coming to the conclusion that if a government is to meaningfully derive its powers from the consent of the governed, then, depending on how strong a culture there is, there can't be very many governed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5965530
Other than that, I agree that HN just looks like a healthy mix of democrats, (crypto-)libertarians, and an occasional conservative.
Kind of put a different light on the whole thing.
http://www.urbit.org/2013/08/22/Chapter-6-security.html
About two-thirds of the way down, you can actually see Yarvin transform into Moldbug and start pontificating on how humans communicating on a network should work, and never mind the observable evidence of how they actually have behaved whenever each of the conditions he describes have obtained.