Wow. It’s been quite a week!
Much has been made about ABC News 20/20 plans to run a show on “The Manosphere” last Friday. The linked article is almost completely wrong where it says anything substantive at all—the failure to do so being perhaps the more egregious error. It seems so shallow a treatment of manospherean ideas that it is really hard to imagine ABC producers having enough information to fill even two minutes, much less 42. I hope they gave up on the topic because they feared the message however much slathered with Deceive, Obfuscate, and Inveigle, would be dangerous to the general public. I suspect the real reason is that they just had zero show, or maybe negative show. Heartiste’s thoughts here. Bryce’s thoughts here. Judgy Bitch’s thorough fisking here, Dr. Illusion’s comments and large set of additional links here. Matt Forney’s fisking of the ABC article here and his report of ABC’s shenanigans with him here.
Astute commentary, in addition to my own simple thoughts, on Scott Alexander’s long-winded, substantive, but not entirely well-aimed rebuttal to Reaction are now available from Foseti, Bryce, Jim part 1 and part 2.
Bryce, who wrote the book on Neoreaction was not thrilled to find himself lumped in with the likes of me and Dennis Mangan in Nick Land’s mental box called: Paleoreaction, which one might guess to be sort of an opposite of the Neo-flavored (but you’d be wrong). Land responds generously as usual.
Son of Brock Landers has got two (this reposted at The Den with NSFW visual aid) smart posts up about gayness. See also the latest way to chase “risk-free” yields and some thoughts about the Saudis and the good ol’ Petro-Dollar.
Isegoria posts a brilliant mashup of scum and villainy from various movie classics.
Nick Szabo came out of hiding a few months ago to put up a nice high-level post on political relationships. [Hey, it’s this week for me!]
Nydwracu asks about priority research areas. Nick Land says that’s a good question. More Right’s Konkvistador points out that Anissimov asked a similar question a while ago.
Foseti is always good. But he’s at his best when reviewing books. Here’s the Good, the Bad, and the Creationist about Paul Collier’s Exodus.
On an administrative note, I’ve added Ita Scripta Est to my blogroll in a couple places. Not sure he’d be pleased, but hey, it’s a free world… for now. He’s interesting, articulate, not a slave to fashion, and quite thoroughgoing in his traditionalism.
As always, you can probably catch me saying stupid stuff on the Twitter @Nick_B_Steves.
That’s about all I got time fer…
Keep on Reactin’.
Til next week… The Reactivity Place, Over and Out.
Hey man, coming to DC anytime soon?
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Nothing planned… yet.
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Well, you know you and yours have an open invitation to stay at Handle’s Haus. But if you bring all of yours, I may have to inflate an air mattress or two in the basement.
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Air mattresses!! My kids would never wanna leave. We’ve been talking about doin a family trip to DC cuz all the “free” stuff… tho’ we’d like to schedule it when the “government” is not “shutdown”. I’ll drop a line by email.
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Did you really get banned from Mark Shea’s after only two well-thought-out, articulate comments? That is hilarious.
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Samson, Yes. There are some thoughts Mark Shea does not want to think, and saying them with moderation and erudition only makes them more dangerous… apparently.
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It’s strange. I used to read Mark Shea fairly often; he has piece or two of rhetoric that I think are brilliant, like his Two Phases of History model of moral-legal change (the stages are: “What could it hurt?” and “How Were We Supposed to Know?”, respectively), but he’s kind of a woman at heart.
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