This Week in Reaction

White Nationalism is in the news. Here is Jim’s magisterial¹ take on it. Briefly, “National socialism kills people not because it is nationalist, but because it is socialist.” See also, Neovictorian’s worthy view on the matter.

Gromar announces a new aggregator: Reaction Times. (As if “RT” didn’t stand for enough things already.) This is maintained by Certified Aggregation Professional Free Northerner and brought to you by (reader-supported) HS³.

The Aimless One also has a nice piece up on Social Justice (nice being defined as something I agree with); he as also started to archive examples of proggies coming to torturous conclusions in order to preserve “their priors”, aka. Cognitive Dissonance. Go make your suggestions. (Should be like shooting fish in a barrel for the first 5000 examples or so.)

Bryce is coming to DC-area and NYC. Personally, I would have restricted “open invites” to closed lists. Bryce is brave boy. See also, an anti-modern (and therefore correct) ontology of society and a principled defense of racism. (Well, it annoys all the right people.)

[Not exactly this week, but…] La Wik discusses the Infinite Monkey Theorem:

In fact there is less than a one in a trillion chance of success that such a universe full of monkeys [where every atom in the observable universe was a monkey typing on a keyboard] could type any particular document a mere 79 characters long.

And the works of Shakespeare are quite a bit longer than that. There’s a point here to be made about the entropy levels between Shakespeare and a universe packed with typing monkeys, but I’m not quite sure how to phrase it. They’re quite different.

Via Isegoria: Good parenting are not created equal. (Like just about everything else.) Speaking of Freakonomics Radio, they did have the poor taste to point out men are actually different from women. None of it is any surprise to reactionaries of course. But it is positively annoying to listen to these people—grown men I assume—bow and kiss the ashtoreths so many times in one episode just to get their (quite modest) point across.

This was good. If God were dead, we would have to revive him.

Via Land, Ace of Spades notices how power works:

The left has laid down the rule that their political rights shall never been infringed by an economic penalty, because McCarthyism. While they meanwhile demand the exact same sort of McCarthyism for everyone else.

That is of course how it always works. The problem lies not in the nature of power, nor in the equity of its distribution, but in the psychological qualities (i.e., the absence of quality) in those holding it. Once a critical mass of people are no longer bewitched by incantations of perpetually-aggrieved class, its legitimacy will vanish in a second. That does not mean, of course, that they don’t still have all the money and the guns.

We need a new elite; not a dead one.

Ita Scripta Est pulls back a thick curtain here:

Bourgeois legislatures demanded domesticity, because after all, violence of a certain kind is bad for business. Thus for Sorel it was necessary to place a rightly ordered “violence” within the context of theology—which is to say he was a good student of Joesph De Maistre.

Here is a fisking of Pope Bergoglio’s apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium in parts one, two, three, and four. (via Laura Wood.) You know, I don’t think the Catholic Church rejects communism because it violates particular doctrines so much as it is simply stupid. Alas! Catholics are guaranteed neither impeccable nor intelligent earthly guardians, but I am hoping for a relatively short pontificate.

So that’s all I got time fer… Keep reading Theden and keep on reactin’! And go over and check out the aggregator. Could be your one-stop shop for all things reactionarial. Til next week… TRP… over and out.

 
 
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¹ I know, I know. I keep using that word, but I don’t know what else to call it. I do not know of any topic on which Jim does not speak for The Reaction®.