This Week in Reaction

How can an educated, thirty-something careerist woman, living with her boyfriend, be out to destroy feminism? By making him sandwiches. Never underestimate the Power of the Sandwich.

Frost says:

Men do not engage in suicide-as-a-cry-for-help because male cries for help are unseemly. We do not ask for help, becasue we are the stoic, self-sacrificing sex. A depressed man’s instinct is to withdraw from society, to hide his inadequacy, and as a last resort – to free the tribe from the burden of supporting him. Men are expendable, and there’s no room on the Y-chromosome line for free-riders.

You know what they say: A single suicide is a tragedy, but an entire generation of young males with no future—that’s a statistic. (And not one that bodes well for society at large.)

If you’re going to get attacked or held hostage in a mall, make sure the mall isn’t in Kenya. Also from Isegoria: Consulting is a pretty good gig, if you can get it.

Whether or not America is a Communist Country, there is no disputing America was a Country with Communists—who got pretty much everything they wanted, even if sometimes not quite as fast as they wanted it.

Also from Handle, filed under: Improving the Lives of the Poor by Unexamined Assumptions, he offers what I can only describe as magisterial treatment of the “problem” of social immobility from the Reality-Based perspective.

On the Faustian Bargain that has been made with improving virtuality, bound only by Moore’s Law, Iglesias points out yet another side benefit of Internet Porn: It’s cleaning up urban centers.

Scharlach’s got a good essay up on Moral and Technological Progress. They are not the same things, tho’ early progressives pretty much believed they were, and agitated accordingly. Interesting to see how today’s proggies possess no qualms with Memetic patricide. You don’t get status points for being Technologicaller Than Thou. So “Moral Progress” is all we’re left with today. Well that’s Progress for ya.

Laliberte asks, “Subvert or Exit“? Can a get the subversion here, and the exit in a bag to go? Subversion probably works better than most of us can possibly imagine, and we would do well to be doing all we can in that domain. But exit, whether in place or abroad, needs to stay in our back pocket.

Bryce also presents a powerful argument for the naturalness, not to mention net social benefit, of segregation. Common sense be rayciss.

Jim on the implausibility of any “Law of the Land”:

Ever since Reagan decreed unlimited free healthcare for the poor and illegals, we have had socialism without a central plan. It works very badly.

As expected in the late stages of terminal Collective Solipsism: Fiat Every (cotton-pickin) Thing. Brock Landers’ Son also updates us on the Blue Empire’s de-fanging of the Red.

The Debt Ceiling “Crisis” now with 40% more snark.

Anissimov presents smart answers to the ten most common objections to Reaction®.

America is a Communist Country. Free Northerner does the math. Pointing out that the so-named Communist and Socialist parties in America are tiny is about like pointing out the Trinitarian and Hypostatic Union parties had little influence in 13th Century Italian politics.

Chuck writes about the latest Brown Scare. As far as I know, the name “Brown Scare” came into existence less than a month ago. Did Moldbug really do that? [Apparently “brown scare” dates at least as early as 1987. But we can still give Moldbug the credit for (re)popularizing the concept, and so giving a name to that thing to which at least 50% of the Cathedrals ministrations are principally directed.]

Bonald, over at the Orthosphere, decides to ignore the Holy Father’s (perfectly fallible and probably wrong) advice and go on obsessing over the loss of Patriarchy.

Speaking of the Orthosphere, our local NYC-area branch will have its next meetup next Wednesday, October 16. The topic will be “the Manosphere”. Expect fireworks. More details when known.

LA-based culture critic, anonymous no more, and former (? recovering?? doubling-down??!!) socialist, Nicholas Pell, has got some stuff up at Taki’s. His reportage on Pax Dickinson’s “defenestration” was top notch. He’s the best, most articulate and honest vegan I know. Pell publishes the his own zine (literally, it’s named after him).

Via VXXC: If you are a man who cannot afford your ex-wife’s maintenance, then you’re dead when you are legally dead whether you’re actually dead or not.

As always, please keep reading and following Theden. It’s smart, succinct, interesting, and practical.

Til next week (or whenever)… The Reactivity Place, Over and Out.