This Week in Reaction

Saddam Hussein’s Whirling Aluminum Tubes puts a particularly perspicacious spin on what two corners of the Reactionary Trichotomy® have always known. If you do not have or cannot afford a Thede, one will be appointed for you. The comment section there is exceptionally exeptional. This is what spawned the intemperate outburst which led to my post yesterday. The natural (and preternatural) cleavages of reaction have been noted from before day one, and none of this is a surprise. Holding these disattractive forces together is what makes us strong (as well as entertaining).

SoBL has been on bit of a roll lately digesting the wider Miriam Weeks/Belle Knox story so you don’t have to:

The data bit on the escort review site mentions that it gets 350,000 visitors a day, is mostly men between the ages 35 and 55 and men with a median income of $80,000 annually. Guys who make money are the type who would research their hookers. The steady theme is looking for sex without the emotional commitment, the love experience but without the baggage, and escorts who are well read, can cook and are sensual and feminine lure the johns in repeatedly. Men are looking for all around women who won’t be high maintenance harpies who change on a whim. This is news to the media.

Whatever happened to the “world’s oldest profession” schtick? I wish I could take some hope in the media discovering timeless, if unpleasant, truths, but my bet is the media will find a way to explain this news in a manner which is neat, plausible, and wrong.

Why are hookers working on their culinary skills and receiving compliments for being engaging listeners? Modern women lack cooking skills and just blabber on with no pause to stop and listen to their men. That complaint is common from men…. Besides the romanticized experiences of these few johns in the article, the other thousands if not millions of men using escorts are looking for someone who will be attentive to them if only for an hour. On advertisements they call it the king treatment because no one wants to advertise the 1950s housewife treatment your grandmother gave your grandpa. Grandpa walks in the door from a long day of work, gripes about work that your grandmother did not care at all about, and eats a meal cooked for him with his favorite drink in hand. Cooking a meal was a sign of love or care. Your grandmother did not have to, but she did it. How many women today are doing that?

For the record, my wife is doing pretty much that. Tho’, to be honest, I don’t gripe about my work much. I gripe about other things. That reminds me: Man I gotta get more boobs on this blog. It drives the traffic through the roof!

Free Northerner has five (not two) questions for Christian singles. Good ones. See also Young women should go for young men who are willing to wait until marriage:

If a woman is serious about it, she can find one. It may mean choosing a young man who’s not as hot as the one’s demanding immediate sex, who’s a bit nerdy or socially awkward, but them’s the breaks.

If young women would rather fornicate and hope for a relationship born in sin than choose a less attractive young man willing to wait, that’s their choice, but they should stop complaining about there being no option but spreading their legs.

I do think she should be willing to look past a one-off failure—more willing, at least, than a chaste young man should be willing to overlook a female’s one-off failure. Basic advice to my sons: a potential mate’s N_wife must not exceed N_yours/2. Basic advice for daughters: a potential man’s N_husband must not exceed 2 N_yours + 1.

Jim shines some light into Ukrainian corners that Foggy Bottom and it’s worldwide propaganda machine would prefer to be kept dark. Related. See also the trouble with “gay marriage” and more Warmism as gnostic religion.

LaidNYC is burying his shingle and expecting to hang up a new one somewhere. I think he’s heading in a positive direction.

As you may know, Mike Anissimov now has an active plan to plant an intentional traditionalist reactionary community in Idaho (chosen for a variety of pretty good reasons). I say more power to him and all those who can (and can qualify to) join. Such a community differs more in degree than kind from Dampier’s real-life Carlyle Clubs proposal. The graphic to the left is discussed here and here.

(not exactly “this week” but…) Neocameralism back in the news! Nick Land has claimed that Neoreaction is (and only is) Neocameralism. Bryce goes meta all over that. For sufficiently small, discretized values of “Neocameralism”, we may all be Neocameralists. Problem solved? There are so many lines of fracture within The Reaction® that I’m tempted to say our lines of fracture are our greatest strength. Gromar’s thoughts. See also.

Here’s more from Bryce on the subject. And Anomaluk’s lucid observations.

Ash Milton continues to produce high quality output: Building Tribe and some follow-up thoughts. Who is this guy?

Henry Dampier is the most criminally underfollowed blogger in the Reactosphere. Among his many talents, his careful observations on the moral decay of the elite American classes and the devastating results it has on the broader social order are perhaps his most singular and valuable. This week he takes a wrecking ball to the pathology of leap-frogging loyalties prevalent in US elites, and explains how that smoke & mirrors act may already be imploding.

That’s all I got time fer. Gonna start posting this on Thursdays so people will be able to waste more time at work. Keep on reactin’… TRP, Over. And. Out!