The DC Area Reactionary Club Thingy met for the first time or or around the evening of Saturday, June 1, 2013 at an unspecified Smokers’ Bar in (or around) Washington DC. Some of them smoked. More of them drank.
Attendees:
- Handle, USG insider
- Foseti, USG insider-er
UnamusedRadishKarl Friedrich Bötel, Editor-in-Chief, &c. of Radish Magazine and President, &c. of The Carlyle Club for Young Reactionaries (Students Against a Democratic Society)- ASCII Lifeform (aka Loper-os.org)
- ASCII Lifeform’s lovely wife Debra
- Rob Sherwood, occasional commentator at Foseti’s, and webmaster of The Mencken Society… or maybe it was The Mencken Club (or maybe it was the VIP club [NSFW, NSFH, NSF Anywhere] I forget)
- Nick B. Steves, yours truly, Stenographer of The Reaction® (when and only when Foseti is too drunk to take notes)
Minutes:
Conclusion:
A good time was had by all… Conviviality is good… AND …
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I’m glad this actually happened. Derbyshire talks fondly of his dinner clubs, and if our inchoate movement never evolves beyond a proliferation of neoreactionary dinner clubs, I’ll consider that a success. (Naturally, I have higher hopes, but . . .)
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The crow flies at midnight. The ferret is wriggly. Over and out.
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Will the minutes be available in a legible format? Perhaps via email?
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Hi Francis,
No real minutes were taken, but by my brief notes include
Most of us discussed how we got here; here being how we fell into such a reactionary disposition. There were many paths, but a stop at Moldbug was on each of them.
Handle mentioned the Blue Empire vs. Red Empire and how the war between them is contained but hot. In Afghanistan, Blue Empire workers were killed for failing to coordinate with the Red Empire (which still has more guns). We wondered, however, how Red is the Red Empire… it seems very Blue from the outside (“US Navy: A Force for Good.”)
We talked about Eisenhower’s amazing rise through the ranks and how the West Point class of 1915 had a remarkable number of generals in it. Was Eisenhower a communist? Could communists gotten any better traction in USG if he hadn’t been?
Handle thinks The Last Psychiatrist is a woman. Most of us thought he was strange, but that he was a he, even if perhaps with multiple personality disorder.
Handle thinks Heartiste is trolling Marginal Revolution under an assumed name which I forgot to write down.
Why is Harvard cool with something that Heritage will fire you for? Pretty interesting question. Perhaps there is more intellectual diversity in Harvard than there can be in Heritage. But shouldn’t it be the other way around? Not really.
“White in Philly” got some coverage.
We talked about the collective hallucinations of the USSR from the perspective of one of our body who was actually there around the time that those hallucinations stopped. What, if anything, will go differently in the US once our (eerily similar) collective hallucinations stop?
Handle talked about multizionism. He thinks we should all be multizionists. I think most of us agree. So when evaluating a policy, Karl B. suggested, we should always ask, “Is it good for the multi-Jews?” (Or something like that, it was pretty funny, and probably better worded.)
Handle talked about his new website and what to do with it. It sounded to us like he wanted to make a forum thing out of it for different “rooms” of The Reaction®
We considered how relevant the futurist/technologist/singularitarian branch of the Reaction. All of us seemed to agree that it was pretty heavy on Fi and a bit weak on Sci, but that the Singularitarians would make great pets.
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I guess car-bombs aren’t really a Cathedral thing (being sort of prole) — but you guys are really tempting fate.
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Oh, and I forgot to mention that Handle mentioned (yes, he talked alot) that Bitcoin is not at all on USG’s radar. I think that is very good news.
ASCII Lifeform mentioned that he has read the bitcoin code and design, that it is very professionally designed, and that its much bally-hooed “anonymity is only accidental”.
Also the preternaturally polite KFB (when not being interrupted by others who were less than preternaturally polite) gave us the story of how a small town rural Canadian boy rises to run the largest union of Students Against a Democratic Society in the whole wide world. Coen Bros. docu-drama, starring Zachary Quinto as KFB, due to be released six weeks after The Reaction®
@NickL: Tempting fate from The Cathedral… or from the Singularitarians?
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Actually, I said I know the last psychiatrist (“Alone”) is a woman and that I was surprised that anybody thought otherwise. But everyone else did – which is definitely worthy of a last psychiatrist essay. What is it about her tone and writing style that makes everybody think this way? Is it just because she says she drinks a lot and is writing a book about pornography (would a man write that book) Hint: When an intelligent woman definitively transcends the various female hive-minds – she’ll sound like a man to our broken brains.
Oh, I suppose you’ll want me to support this with evidence. Oh, all right.
Circumstantial: Take a look at some of her last few post titles, “The Dove Sketches Beauty Scam”, “Don’t hate her because she’s successful”, “No self-respecting woman would go out without make up”, “Amy Schumer Offers you a look into your soul.”
Are these the topics a man chooses? Can you really read “Funeral” and not see she’s writing about herself?
Not good enough? Ok, let’s do the Hunger Games:
Still not convinced? How about luxury branding I insist this has women-image areas of focus that mean it could not have been written by a man whose brain wouldn’t remember those images for 10 seconds. The talk about pantyhose, high heels, and focus on wedding rings just corroborates the thesis.
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They might be topics a man chooses, if he wishes to show the corrosiveness of modern culture on the souls of women. Perhaps he or she thinks a) fix the women and the men will adapt; or b) the men are already too far gone to be saved.
I do find his (or her) writing to be profoundly revealing of the soul of a woman… For many decades everyone believed Histoire d’O was written by a man… so maybe you’re right. The women in that… erm… “novel”… were the only believable characters… the men were cardboard. It was (to me) obviously written by a woman.
I’ll admit the circumstantial case is strong… and I’m warming up to the psychological analysis… Tho’ I still maintain multiple personality disorder could be as parsimonious an explanation!
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Interesting. I just assumed that The Last Psychiatrist was female, or at least I read the post on Echo and Narcissus in a female voice: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/10/the_story_of_narcissus.html Could also be a group blog.
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Open invitation? I’m in Burke.
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small town rural Canadian boy
Ooh, really?
Actually, I said I know the last psychiatrist (“Alone”) is a woman and that I was surprised that anybody thought otherwise.
I’m surprised that you’re surprised. Women are hardly ever that prolifically and uniquely interesting (this is not a reflexive slap against women but a genuine observation).
Still not convinced? How about luxury branding I insist this has women-image areas of focus that mean it could not have been written by a man whose brain wouldn’t remember those images for 10 seconds. The talk about pantyhose, high heels, and focus on wedding rings just corroborates the thesis.
You make a good case; it’s just that I do think an insightful, experienced man could have learned to understand these things from a “female” perspective.
They might be topics a man chooses, if he wishes to show the corrosiveness of modern culture on the souls of women.
Exactly.
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small town rural Canadian boy
Ooh, really?
Well, from where else besides Canada do you think Karl Friedrich Bötel would get “preternaturally good manners”?
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Let’s say I’m a young(ish) DC resident and alt-rightist interested in going to one of these meetings? With whom should I get in contact?
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@PMC
contact: handle -at- multizionism -dot- com
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Sherwood here – it’s The Mencken Club that I’m affiliated with. We had one person come to our conference one year thinking it was the Mencken Society. He was a fun guy (buy the book he published – http://www.amazon.com/Notes-Democracy-H-L-Mencken/dp/0977378810/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370569405&sr=8-1&keywords=mencken+notes+on+democracy), but he was disappointed not to be talking with a bunch of Mencken nerds for the weekend.
To my knowledge, no one has come to any of our conferences thinking we were a strip club 🙂
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So you’re all not a bunch of Mencken nerds? Thanks for the clarification.
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Not Mencken nerds or strippers.
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Professors aren’t bureaucrats. The main agents of the Cathedral in academia are bureaucrats, followed by professors in certain areas (all the ‘studies’ and sociology, mostly); everywhere else, you at least won’t get marked down for disagreeing unless you run straight into a white blood cell of memetic immunity — which basically means that you can be anything but a Randian or a race realist. (I never had any problem bringing up HBD in college as long as it wasn’t related to race. I cited hbdchick in a paper once and got an A. I’ve even cited myself a few times…)
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A shame there isn’t one for Baltimore. We’d have to meet in Ellicott City, probably.
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It is possible that TLP has changed hands and / or has become a group blog (ex. contributor Pastabagel has written a couple of articles) but the older articles that focused on psychiatry and less on its extension to pop culture were definitely written by a man. Either way, focusing too much on TLP’s identity would be falling into the very trap he often warns about so it seems to me we may stop here.
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she also says “when i was six i wanted to be in playboy” and often refers to herself as she etc
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