Free Northerner has been going meta on “Alt-Right” and relatedtopics for a while now. He delivers a data rich answer to What is the Alt-Right? Nick Land asks the exact same question, but sees it purely as a populist (and therefore heterodox) movement:
Neoreaction, as I understand it, predicted the emergence of the Alt-Right as an inevitable outcome of Cathedral over-reach, and didn’t remotely like what it saw. Kick a dog enough and you end up with a bad-tempered dog. Acknowledging the fact doesn’t mean you support kicking dogs — or bad-tempered dogs. Maybe you’d be happy to see the dog-kicker get bitten (me too). That, however, is as far as it goes.
Ryan Landry, who pays attention to these things (and may someday be paid good money for it), tells us what actually happened…
The Rick Wilson: Arbiter of Matterers in the (So-Called) Course of Humanity
Mr. Rick Wilson lost his head on national television and talked about the altright as if it were a bunch of Nazis that “masturbate to anime”. First, Rick, I think the kids masturbate to hentai, but let us not split hairs since you lost your cool on national television and signal boosted a bunch of “nazis” in your words. Second, you idiot, you made people google “altright”, and what they found was most likely not a bunch of nazis who masturbate to anime. It was guys like Richard Spencer, who keeps it classy and respectable.
Plus a lot more.
Mark Citadel (with whom Anthony and Antony and I spoke last Friday for an up-coming AtT episode–great guy!) touches on the alt-right/NRx cleavage Have You Failed the Entry Exam? He skewers some particularly egregious NatSoc Buffoonery™ that stained the carpet of a Millennial Woes hangout. Some of my best friends might be fashists, but only ironically. Mark Citadel wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ on magisterial tone alone.
I haven’t given much attention to the passing of David Bowie, mostly because I didn’t think it was that important. To the extent that it is, and what we may learn from his history on earth, Joseph Pearce has a nice requiem: Fame, Fashion & Fascism: The Many Masks of David Bowie.
“NGO” stands for “non government organization”, but if an organization is actually non governmental, for example McDonalds, no one calls it an NGO. In practice, “NGO” means “US State Department Front Organization”. This is an open secret, as for example when they advertise for employees, they are apt to describe the openings as government employment.
The reason that they call themselves non governmental is that they actively campaign in US politics and foreign politics, which is illegal or embarrassing for the US government to openly do.
The religion of Massachusetts wound up conquering the US, and eventually the world, in large part because Virginia took religious freedom seriously, while Harvard and Massachusetts was unyieldingly and fanatically determined to extirpate it with fire and steel and still are unyieldingly and fanatically determined to extirpate it with fire and steel. When crazies and fanatics go up against moderate, compromising, and cynical cosmopolitans, the moderate and cynical cosmopolitans tend to get trampled.
Arthur, the Esoteric Trad, wonders Are Cities Culture Killers?—an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ in its own right. Cities certainly seem to be that way today. Why? I doubt that this rôle stems from anything in the inherent nature of cities. In fact, cities should, in principle, be more orderly than their hinterlands. But good principles have a taken a back seat these last couple centuries. Continue reading This Week in Reaction (2015/12/27)
Theodor W Adorno (right) and Max Horkheimer (left) engage secret world domination handshake
Dividual* continues to impress with: Copying is everything. Picking up the teleofunction them from Darwinian Reactionary’s seminal article on the subject, he applies the principle to replication. Which is really, really important once you think about it.
[*Usage note: I now take the “Divduals” blog name to be a singular possessive. New people must tolerate the indignity of mangled names.]
Also, in an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀, Dividual has an excellent Group Dynamics based explanation of the decline of the West. Groups can cohere naturally based on a huge variety of traits, provided the in-group has an out-group.
Mark Citadel finds lessons in the profound disillusionment of Adorno and Horkheimer after WW2: The Despairing Marxist .
Warg Franklin pops in over at The Future Primaeval with comments on a seductive enemy of the truth: Reasonableism. Good article and hilarious video… an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Also there, Mark Yuray returns with something that’s needed saying for very long time: Mannerbund 101. I trust you all remember Mark Yuray, he disappeared from the internet, but not from the private gardens. He’s back with a vengeance in this ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀ winner. Just RTWT.
Incredible week here in the Reactosphere®. Editorial note: This account of a Belgian couple’s adventure through the DRC is rapidly become an inadvertent #NRx Classic. I knew Moldbug was popular in France… we’ll see how he plays in Belgium.
Mark Citadel has a go at Setting Things Right as to what defines Genuine Reaction®. It’s not about policies as it is a way of thinking (and feeling) about culture and civilization in this ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀:
By contrast to [conservatism], the Reactionary opposes radical change based upon history as a whole. His politics is not local, it is cosmic, in the sense that he reacts to a change in epoch rather than a change in individual governmental structure or leadership. A la Guénon and Evola, the world in the eyes of he who is gifted with sight represents a cleaved reality, broken in two by the ravages of the ‘Enlightenment’. If the Fall is symbolic of man’s disconnection from the innocence of God, then the Enlightenment is symbolic of man’s disconnection from the wisdom of God, and the reverence He is owed. The system that has come to be known as the World of Tradition, representing the largely unchanged underlying assumptions of human life prior to the end of the last epoch, has moved beyond view over the horizon line in the rear view mirror.
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