This Week in Reaction

Anomalyuk speaks a great deal of sense on behalf of the Unimportance of Policy:

I do not hold it at all likely that a newly-installed reactionary regime will immediately establish a state exactly according to my particular vision. So be it. A reactionary ruler has a precious attribute that no non-reactionary ruler can have: his legitimacy is independent of his policy.

I think it was Bl. John Lennon himself who said (something to the effect), “Imagine legitimacy independent of policy… It’s easy if you try.” Our Inuit friend continues:

One of the great problems of democracy is that those in power… largely achieve it by associating themselves with specific policies, and are therefore subject to overwhelming incentive to hold those same policies regardless of evidence. The shift of power from politicians to academics was intended to solve this problem, but it only resulted in turning academics into politicians, their academic positions tied to the policies they support, and no more able to recant an error than an elected representative.

Actually, the problem is made, at least slightly, and often very much, worse by the fact that the academic is in a stronger position to manufacture consent than the mere politician. Oh, for the days of the Spoils System, where at least the Graft & Corruption was Graft & Corruption you could believe in!

Sunshine Mary is a one woman, permanent, guerilla war on feminism. Mr. Sunshine, whoever he is, has found himself a keeper. (I have too, of course, but she doesn’t blog.)

Foseti and then Jim on moral progress, or rather its antonym: “moral progress”.

New guy Alban Johnson, blogging at Oblige Nobility has contributed to the Reaction a few posts dealing with strategies to restore genuine traditional morality vis-à-vis the more pharisaic variety regnant in these latter days. From his latest:

I’ve chosen the neologism “remoralization” to stand for the urgently-needed program of reviving the morals that made Western civilization exceptional. Remoralization, as a movement, includes the offensive strategy of demoralizing the GLIC morality (Globalism/ Liberal Imperialism/ Collectivism). It also requires the creative dissemination of reinterpreted traditional morals through the use of myth, story, symbol, and ritual.

Yep. We gotta get us some of dat…

Mrs. Steves and I attended the NYC area Orthosphere meetup last night and had a great time, tho’ alas we did yet again fail to solve at least a few of the world’s problems. Too much beer perhaps. If you’ve got ants in your pants and just can’t wait to get to the Big Mega Reactin’ Crackin’ Heads Stage, you can do a lot worse than attend reactionary meetups in your own Tri-State Area. If one doesn’t exist, man up (or woman up) and start one. “Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” (Proverbs 27:17).

That’s it for now… til next “week”… The Reactivity Place, Over and Out.