This Week in Reaction

Bonald notices a few things missing from the Vatican’s 25,000 word Instrumentum Laboris for the upcoming Synod of Bishops on “The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization. Well, what good is evangelization if you cannot be nice about it?

SoBL notes that Of Course Common Core Does Not Educate Kids. Instead, “Common Core is about social indoctrination and passing the dumber and dumber students through system.” Well, what else could it possibly be about? See also: Blank Slatism + Race Hustlers Force School Anarcho-tyranny, and Sex Realism Vs. Mad Men. Lander’s son writes a spirited defense of NCAA Coaches being the top-paid public employees. Also, I missed this from last week: Confessions of an Open Office Inmate. And by “Open Office”, I don’t think he means the free Apache software package…

Nick Land helpfully defines Capitalism for us. See also some perspicacious commentary on Conservatism and Parasitism.

Wesley was playing around in his garage with Visio and decided to build this:

(via Land.) See also Land’s notes. The true nature of power within the Cathedral is more byzantine than Byzantium by several orders of magnitude, but this chart at least gets the players on the scorecard.

Jim describes The Illusion of Government. The question is not whether your government is an illusion, but whether the illusion is real or not. Also a brief word on Dysgenic Fertility.

With some turbo-charging from Erik von Kuhnelt-Leddihn, inter alia, Malcolm Pollack puts together a very nice summary piece on Liberty or Equality: Choose one. Also from Pollack, the difference between Determinism & Predictability.

I’d sure like to get Malcolm in the same room with Matt Briggs who noted this week that Probabilities Aren’t Decisions. (Since they’re both New Yorkers that may have already happened.) Also, this one from Briggs was gem in the annals of memetic evolution: From Paganism To Christianity To Deism To Malleism. In that order. Yep.

E. Anthony Gray (@RiverC) is proves himself far more than a poet with a really fine piece over at The Mitrailleuse: Exit/No Exit. Gray navigates a moderate, yet profoundly reactionary position on the question:

Exit must be rationalized in relation to other principles, or it becomes insane. The former position (of Exit as foreign idea) is primarily treating exit as a form of groupthink – groupthink is notoriously opaque and useless to members outside of the group. Indeed, even higher versions of this kind of base parroting in the form of traditional mythos and ideals are often incompatible with other systems. The safest position is to regard all foreign objects with suspicion and maintain a clear distinction of identity between them and similar—possibly identical—objects that are not foreign.

Who knows but whether the reactionaries might be the True and Eternal Moderates?

Ash Milton on treats us to Ideological Backfire. His contribution to the short story genre in The Marital Bed: A Modern Horror Story is unsettling, but I think that was the intent. Speaking of artistic, I forgot to mention it last week, but Milton has put up an excellent bit of poetry in The Land Remained.

Bruce Charlton offers a pair of cheery posts on the burgeoning dysgenic apocalypse: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Revolution, and Coming Soon: The Giga-Death War of the Mutants. I certainly hope he is wrong (and hope he hopes he’s wrong). Either way, read Dr. Charlton with at least a strong buzz… as a precaution.

New International Outlook has some pointed questions for traditional reactionaries in Anti-Humanism and Neoreaction.

Esoteric Trad has a novel idea to help Africa out: Colonialism. It worked quite well for a while, but it may have been a victim of its own success, i.e., in helping the native populations grow faster than the colonials’.

Scharlach writes in with some honest questions regarding Michael White’s Why Your Race Isn’t Genetic. Whether he gets an honest reply may depend on how honest Dr. White was being in the original article.

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At Social Matter…

Monday, Laliberte The Law of Gnon:

Can a society which has turned its back on the causes of its success last? Of course progressivists would suggest Progress is the cause of the West’s success, without inferring that our increases in Progress have only been afforded by exponential increases in material productivity. An agrarian society such as 11th century England has no use for tolerance or multiculturalism; for the majority, Gnon commanded one to work 12 hours a day in order to avoid starving. Progress is a privilege for those of such abundance that the understanding of poverty is completely precluded.

Tuesday, Bishop wonders Whither Intellectual Conservatism? Or more precisely: “Whither Conservative Political Theory?” I think it perhaps can exist, but only as a means to an end of political theory itself.

Wednesday, Glanton: Principles and Policy Reform.

In fact, the rule-by-policy model itself is one of our problems, especially given the scale and the social complexity of the United States that we’re asking our policies to rule.

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And an even more fundamental issue is the rulers themselves. Washington D.C. is an abomination and a monster. Incestuous and insular. It’s a political machine so massive and so unresponsive to the vast majority of the nation that it governs, it doesn’t matter much what policies it’s officially espousing.

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So let’s say you really did hit on something with this whole non-aggression principle. Or any other such big idea. Let’s say it really is the slickest new way to restore sanity to American jurisprudence. You trust that wretched hive of scum and villainy to oversee the rollout?

Dampier delivers The Religion of Atheists, which is often mistaken for Official Jeffersonian Religious Tolerance.

Missing is our regularly scheduled Friday Social Matter missive from Laliberte…

At Theden, Aaron Jacob suggests in Redneck Authenticity and Its Ironic Enemies, “Huey Long and FDR should have fought each other to the death for the Presidency in 1936.” I agree: Better the socialist you know than the neoliberal you don’t know.

Late breaking… HBD Chick has some very well-researched words about asabiyyah, and us reactionary guys’ misuse of it. Well, we needed something to call that thing which is so lacking. And besides, it sounds so… Herbertian!

Have a nice weekend. Keep on Reactin’! TRP. Over and Out!