Ancapitards are Aspy SJWs

Recently an ancapitard was commenting on my blog. I had thought that ancapism (anarcho-capitalism) died out back in 2015, replaced by the alt-right and other ideologies, but apparently a few ancapitards still lurk in dark corners of the interweb, blabbering about universally preferable behavior and argumentation ethics and other nonsense that I thought only existed as throwback memes. (No, I'm not appealing to novelty. I'm just pointing out that ideologies have life-cycles and ancapism is a dying ideology.)

I've already refuted anarcho-capitalism completely (here), so there's no point revisiting that. But I thought it would be interesting to compare ancapism to other ideological movements, in terms of memetics and psychology. So, that's what I'm going to do.

In advance, I should say that not all ancapitards are as bad as the caricature I'm going to present. However, the caricature is generally true. For some, it doesn't go far enough.

Okay, let's begin. What are these strange and elusive creatures, the ancapitards?

• They are almost all men. The few exceptions are women who combine borderline autism with narcissism, and enter male spaces to get the deluge of attention that they crave.
• They are aspy and nerdy. They are detail obsessed and most have some weird techno-hobby or sci-fi fandom in addition to ancapism.
• They are self-righteous. They proclaim their moral and intellectual superiority at every opportunity.
• They are irl losers. This is not a universal trait, but it is a common trait of people who become infected with ideologies.

What do these creatures do? They go on the internet and fight for ancapism, of course. What motivates them to do this? Well, like all ideologies, ancapism gives its members a claim to moral and intellectual superiority. Ancapitards use their ideology as a way to claim moral and intellectual status at the expense of others. (Competition for moral and intellectual status is a zero sum game.)

In that way, they are no different from SJWs or the members of any other ideology. Every ideology offers its members a low-cost claim to moral and intellectual superiority. If you believe in the ideology then you are better than everyone else. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to sacrifice anything. You just have to believe and profess your belief, and that makes you better than almost everyone else, or at least all non-believers. That is the appeal of ideologies. They do not make it easier to understand the world, or make you better at acting in the world. They just give you a claim to moral and intellectual superiority on the grounds that you have superior beliefs.

For ideologies to work, it is important that they reject the status quo. That way, their members can rage against the status quo (verbally, in a safe way, of course) and claim virtue for doing so. The members can claim that they are engaged in a brave and noble struggle by simply rejecting the status quo. It also allows the ideology to claim that it would bring about a paradise on Earth if only everyone believed in it. The struggle is justified by the imaginary utopia, and the claims to virtue are justified by the struggle.

See how it works? It's not surprising that ideologies keep popping up and propagating. They have psychological appeal and they motivate people to propagate the ideology. They are as addictive as smoking and probably as unhealthy.

(Don't @ me about smoking being good for you, plz. For the record, I occasionally smoke.)

Now, what makes ancapism different from other ideologies?

Ancapism has complex arguments that are difficult to master. That's why ancapism appeals to aspy, nerdy guys. SJWism, by contrast, relies on appeals to empathy, compassion and victimhood. Not only can ancapitards claim intellectual superiority over outsiders, they can also compete for in-group status by trying to master complex webs of logical and illogical reasoning. Debate as a competitive game appeals to guys more than girls, and to asps more than elves. Complex arguments also function as a defense, because in a pinch they can just say "You don't understand argumentation ethics" (which will inevitably be true, because why would anyone bother to understand all of their retarded bullshit?). This is somewhat analogous to how leftists (typically male leftists) use postmodernism to confuse their opponents.

Ancapitards differ from other ideologitards in ways that are explained by their aspiness and maleness. For example, they will argue endlessly and tediously, even after they lose an argument. SJWs, by contrast, will typically block you immediately if you argue with them. SJWs are incapable of debate. Ancapitards love to debate, but they are incapable of rational debate. Instead of trying to understand what you are saying, they will just look for contradictions or errors in what you say. Often they think they see an error or contradiction simply because you disagree with them. It's frustrating arguing with them, because they simply ignore your points and repeat their mantras ad nauseam.

There are a few other minor differences, but they aren't that important. Ancapism has a different moral system, in which freedom/consent is the core value. That appeals more to men than to women, because men tend to be more interested in legal and economic freedom than women. Women are interested in sexual freedom, but we already have a high level of sexual freedom in the West, so ancapism doesn't offer much to women. Another minor difference is that the ancap utopia has room for nerdy techno-fantasies. Ancaps believe that their utopia will be full of cool new technologies, like warp drive spaceships.

To put it simply, ancapitards are aspy SJWs. They are just as self-righteous and divorced from reality, but they are nerdy aspy guys, rather than artsy elfy girls.