The Last Couple Weeks in Reaction

Isegoria helpfully publishes the full text of UW, Madison Graduate TA Jason Morgan’s email of protest. George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” I prefer to think of it as a Reactionary® Act, but the point is otherwise well put. Jason Morgan responded how any normal, well-socialized, non-racist, non-homophobic lover of Japanese history would respond to the insulting, overbearing, and ham-handed attempts at brainwashing to which he was subjected. Hey Indoctrinators, psst… If you really, REALLY don’t want people to be racist, stop being brain-dead, power obsessed morons who prove the racists right all the time. Jason Morgan, you probably didn’t want to be a hero or a martyr. You probably don’t consider yourself reactionary, and probably don’t actually hate blacks, gays, gender-queers, and midgets. But please, at least, do your soul some good and never apologize for noticing the emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes.

My dear friend, Karl Friedrich Bötel now swears he will no longer “even try” to put out Radish once a week. So now you know: the next issue of Radish will never be late again. But you can be sure it will be good. This week the editors at Radish tackle the scourge, crusade, icon, and penis envy all melted together in a gelatinous mass of prion infested bovine brain matter that is feminism.

Thankfully, Foseti has not been as inactive as me. His disgust at what I’d call the treason of consent manufacture in late liberal democracies seem rather well placed. Why can’t these people get honest jobs like pornographers, ad men, or cigarette executives?

More civilized banter about Bruce Charlton’s “No True Scotsman Christian” fallacy. Charlton’s main contention is that Leftism is inherently anti-Christian, which is true only for a very particular and contentious definition of “Christian”—one which he and I would probably agree on, but one which I feel fails to capture what most people mean when they say Christian, which is merely a baptized person (tare or wheat) in the church. Leftism is (uniquely in my opinion) a Christian heresy, just like Manicheism, Donatism, Pelagianism, Arianism were heresies. Leftism just happens to be a much stronger variant. But it is a heresy.

Foseti muses on the Why Now? of neoreaction. I’d prefer to first answer the question: “What Now?” I.e., is there actually something going on here at all? I think there might be, but it could be that I’m just paying better attention…

Finally, the Scribe of the Reaction hits it out of the park with his review of Paul Reid’s Churchill bio “The Last Lion”. We get why FDR ceded half the world to the Soviets. He was a freakin’ crypto-commie himself. But why did Churchill go along with it? Even to ask is a crucial blow to the mainstream Cathedral narrative. (Foseti’s book reviews in general are, I am convinced, more insightful on average than reading books, and a heckuva lot shorter. If there is a shortcut to erudition, it leads through Foseti’s book reviews.)

Business is picking up over at a new private bulletin board: neoreaction.org. Contact me if you’d like to be nominated.

 
I managed to tweet a few good things…

Here’s me on the so-called Government so-called Shutdown:

How is closing down non-essential services such as Nat'l Parks & NASA & computing NFP actually add up to ANY SORT of "Government Shutdown"?

— Nick B. Steves (@Nick_B_Steves) October 1, 2013

@Nick_B_Steves The "Government Shutdown" is having a REAL effect: Colleagues of mine may have their Sandy Hook 1/2-Marathon cancelled.

— Nick B. Steves (@Nick_B_Steves) October 1, 2013

 

And here’s me utterly failing to be surprised at the paucity of dead bodies during the Spanish Inquistion:

@SamoBurja "No one ever expects the Collectivization of Agriculture" didn't do as well in focus groups.

— Nick B. Steves (@Nick_B_Steves) October 1, 2013

 

Of course, there are twitterers who tweet more often and more betterer than me… Go there if you must but be warned it’s a whole lotta Cheetos with a few juicy bits of steak for which you have to scratch around.

Nick Land has been a very busy beaver (in spite of his recent Twitter appearance as @Outsideness) and has posted too much for me to point to. But his wry misreading of Elysium was especially refreshing. Looks like we’ve finally found an acceptable candidate for 2016.

Nydwracu takes a break from Wesley Morganston’s tireless, epoch-making work at Theden, to deliver a tightly reasoned sermonette on justice and what it isn’t. (Did I mention that if you’re not reading Theden, you’re not paying attention? Well, it’s true.)

Friend of This Blog, Bryce Laliberte, is back to his blogging ways, after the recent release of… his book.

Go buy it! Three bucks. C’mon, that’s not even a decent glass of Scotch! Look for a review here soon… (That’s the second book review I owe.)

Jim on fractional reserve banking not being the actual problem. Jim applauding Australia for at least maintaining the option to remain white. Jim on Putin and Greenpeace. (Hint: Jesuitical NGOs do not yet have the right to proselytize on Russian soil or in Russian waters.) Jim makes measurable predictions about the “Shutdown” and Obamacare. We shall see. The shutdown hasn’t gone nearly far enough, but it’s proceeding better than I thought. BTW, Jim is awesome.

My wife got me a 24 oz. Bud Light for my birthday last month. (THAT’S why I took the month of Sept off… right…) What can I say, I like cheap gifts (because I’m the one paying for them anyway), and I had never actually tasted Bud Light, and all those commercials made it look so appealing. It was actually not absolutely disgusting, which is my only memory of drinking Coors Light a decade or so ago. It basically tasted like mild barley water. Next B-day, I shall have to give Bryce’s favorite: PBR a try…

Welp, that’s about all I got time for… keep the faith, keep on reactin’…

Til next “week”… The Reactivity Place, Over and Out.