This Week in Reaction

Fine piece from “Emil Deils” at Theden: Why the Right Keeps Losing and What to do About it. Now who the heck is Emil Deils? (And, by the way, keep reading and supporting Theden. It’s The Reaction®’s best kept secret.)

Malcolm Pollack reports how female under-representation in programming has become a national crisis. The only females whom I considered peers in programming have been both few and French. It’s not a big enough sample to draw any clear conclusions, but I don’t get the impression that affirmative action for girls is big in France. That couldn’t hurt.

More superb thoughts from Donal Graeme on the intersection of godly masculinity and game.

Nick Land has a fantastic, and for him brief, round-up of 2013. And encouraging, if somewhat occult, words for 2014.

Land and his bevy of perspicacious commentators tackle the Landian thesis that Neoraction is a species of low-church Über-Protestantism—figuring, according to him, prominently in its long term adaptive behavior. This derives, I suppose, from the post-libertarian path toward Neoreaction. Since libertarians are low-church Über-Protestants, post-libertarian neoreactionaries are lower-churchier and Über-ier. That makes sense to me, so far as it goes. But it is far from clear whether post-libertarian neoreaction is an evolutionary development in the Über-Protestant clade or some sort of mass conversion to a completely different branch. It is one of the dirtier and best kept secrets within Neoreaction that not a few smitten by it have found themselves mysteriously interested in Catholic and/or Orthodox branches of Christianity.

Neoreaction: 80% More Dangerous Than Previously Believed.

Don’t miss Karl F. Bötel’s [not quite] comprehensive, nay magisterial (I find I use that word alot) recap of the oodles and oodles of anti-progress made in 2013. [Snap, he’s only through June 2013 at the time of this posting. It was a busy first six months… and an even busier next six.]

Amos & Gromar explore whether the existence of the Cathedral may be proved by its effects alone. As a matter of fact you can. They also propose a Second Law of Female Journalism. I dunno about that one. Not enough data. But even if the polyamory focus is detectable over a wider female journalist population, it seems that it would be at most a corollary to Sailer’s (“First”) Law.

Legendary tweeter, Viking Manx, aka. E. H. Looney, aka. Gaelic Norseman, has begun blogging. Well “tumbler”-ing. Not sure if that’s the same thing. And with a totally not too pornographic avatar. So I am reasonably well pleased.

Think it’s “inappropriate” for men to be shaming sluts women waiting too long to marry? Well, Sunshine Mary is doing something (the hell) about it. Women: Shame your own, or the men’ll have to do it for ya.

Henry Dampier, apparent newcomer to the neoreactionary blogosphere, has a good book review up on Last’s What to Expect When No One’s Expecting. In the end: death.

Jim heaps well deserved, dessicated scorn upon the heads of the climate change researchers activists who got stuck in Antarctic ice. Nature or Nature’s God or Both sure have a sense of humor.

Francis St. Pol popped up his head with a gem of a post on the Neoreactionary dialectic.

The synthesis of the Neoreaction is that we need hierarchy, not just to create superstimuli, but also to master them. To not be destroyed by them. They are dangerous. An adult gives a child books rather than heroin. Or, if they do, the result is unsurprisingly vicious. And our world frequently gives heroin-class superstimuli to children, literal and metaphorical (e.g. democracy : power :: porn : sex). Resulting in unacceptable Intelligence Corruption. The downward spiral is just slow suicide. Do people have the right to suicide? Not inside my hierarchy they don’t.

QUESTION: What is the most arcane, most disputed, most maligned part of the Neoreactionary Narrative? (I mean, except for all the others.) That’s right: The Cathedral—whether it exists and, if so, what it is… exactly. Well, Bryce has kicked off the new year by starting to answer the question with a Comprehensive Introduction to the Cathedral (Part 1 of ????). It promises to be a 20,000 word condensation of 200,000 of Moldbug’s words. Won’t quite fit on a Snapple lid, but we’re getting there… One of many highlights:

That “religion” and “superstitiously ineffective” are identified with each other is only a modernist prejudice. You need only remind yourself that, if Catholicism is true, the reverence of the Host is not a vain exercise. So much the same it goes for the modern world; if Progressivism is true, the reverence of the demos [or the electoral franchise or equivalent group outcomes (NBS)] is not a vain exercise.

Whiskey pays attention to TV so you don’t have to.

All right, kiddos. Welcome to 2014! We’re so glad you made it!!

There’s a bazillion things out there to read and commentate on, but nothing is more important your family and their future. So take care of that first. If you don’t have a wife, get one and tame her, and make lotsa babies because that’s the best shot you’ve got at making the future better.

Til next week… Keep on Reactin’! The Reactivity Place, Over and Out.