This Week in Reaction

Via Radix Journal, Jack Donovan visits a group of men exiting in place. (HT Butch Legolas) Not exactly my cup of tea. But, hey, one of the things that Reaction® is about is everyone not having the same cup of tea.

Hooray! The second volume of Dark Matter Journal is up. Not only does this mean we have a new edition, but also that Dark Matter will not be a one-hit wonder (like Buffalo Springfield).

Brandon Bruce wants to say We’re All Francoists Now. Perhaps we are, but we are not merely Francoists.

This was good: The Legionnaire’s Gay Pride, Signaling, and Fetishes.

Reactionary poet E. Anthony Gray has got a gig over at (friend of this blog and not quite purged) J. Arthur Bloom’s Mitrailleuse. Who knew? Anyway he’s got a very thoughtful (mostly prose) piece up: The Priest in the Civil Religion.

Well, looky here, a whole new Neoreactionary (or should I say Menciist?) blog: Atavisionary. Cool name. He has a nice piece up this week: It just Didn’t Happen. The “it” being reproduction. Sadly, it seems to be not happening more and more these days.

Kantbot has his own ideas about what neoreaction should be. He is not so much incorrect as prolix.

Filed under wailing and gnashing of teeth and Reflexive Russophobia at NRO, we find a breathless report on Dugin’s Evil Theology (His Eurasianism is a Satanic cult):

This [Satanic Cult] is the ideology behind the Putin regime’s “Eurasian Union” project. It is to this dark program, which threatens not only the prospects for freedom in Ukraine and Russia, but the peace of the world, that former Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych tried to sell “his” country. It is against this program that the courageous protesters in the Maidan took their stand and—with scandalously little help from the West—somehow miraculously prevailed. It is on behalf of this program that the Putin regime has created a bloodbath in eastern Ukraine, which, following Dugin, it now terms “New Russia.” It is on behalf of this program that Dugin, with massive support from the Russian government, has organized a fascist international of European fringe parties, and on behalf of this program that the Quislings leading those parties are willing to betray their nations to Kremlin domination.

As if it were any of our business. Note by “scandalously little help” author Zubrin implies that US State Department should have done far more than merely conspire with the arguably fascist Maidan “protestors” (surprisingly well-armed, non-sign-carrying, uniformed and English-speaking) to overthrow the democratically elected Yanukovich. In fairness, Dugin does look pretty Rasputin-esque. Perhaps out of fear of arousing Hell’s demons, NRO didn’t include a picture of the so 8-pointed Star of Chaos. I thought it was pretty cool lookin’.

At Social Matter…

Laliberte pens The Brahmin Religion of Progress.

Bennett’s Conservatives Don’t Understand Social Technology delivers:

Social Matter’s first law: Social technology has a tendency to lag behind material conditions.

Which is no doubt true. But I have my doubts (in the comments there) that creating more deformed social technologies is going to be much of an answer.

Glanton responds, intentionally or otherwise, with Conservatism and Complexity. This is a thoughtful meditation on what like to call “Deep Heritage”. Glanton debunks the twin Epic Myths of Progress and Decline and presents conservatism as a “social technology”—an amalgam of inherited wisdom—that ought serve to inform and steer man in his development of other sorts of technology.

Dampier delivers his regularly-scheduled profound commentary on modern maladies: The Death Taboo That Stifles Life:

A well-ordered garden is more beautiful than a field of weeds infested by snakes. Liberalism in its terminal stage has elected to drown the garden in Miracle-Gro, putting more of it on the nettles and less of it on the roses, in the name of equality of all plants, while proclaiming tree-trimming to be cruelty.

And to finish up the week, Laliberte wonders, To What Extent Can Our Tolerance Stretch? Farther than it should, at any rate.

At Theden…

Colin Liddell presents The Social Vacuum of Progressive Hegemony.

The great flaw of Washington and its allies in recent years has been a tendency to start things without finishing them. There are two sides to this: again, a drastic decline in political pragmatism combined with a fall in moral worth. The West is now driven to destabilize or depose the natural power elites of various Third World states, often for short-term corporate interests but also often because they simply offend the moral scruples of Brahmins.

Wes Morganston tells us about Eric Cantor’s Anti-Semitic Loss. I didn’t even know he was Jewish. (My Jewdar is months overdue for maintenance.)

Aaron Jacob (with an assist from John Durant) reports on U.S. Patent and Trade Office Cancels ‘Disparaging’ Redskins Trademark

See? The boys at Theden read the news so you don’t have to. (Actually am somehwat serious about that… don’t read the news. Leave it for the Trained Professionals at Theden. The news will drive you crazy. Before you know you won’t be able to stop talking about how evil Obama is…)

All I got for this week. Read the aggregator. It drags a wide net in the neoreactionary, reactionary, and dark enlightenment waters. Who knows? You might just get to see a giant squid up close! Donate (not to me, Silly). Keep on Reactin’. TRP… Over and Out!