This Week in Reaction

Hi everyone. Sorry for being away. A trusted friend pointed out to me that the ol’ Week in Reaction acts as a social adhesive. This inspired me to carry on. Expect regular (<gulp>weekly</gulp>) updates, business obligations permitting. Well… where are we?

Pax Dickinson has a blog and is looking for work. Those two are two great tastes that don’t always go that well together. But we wish Pax the best. (Show of hands, how many knew the dude could write that well? Just sayin’.) In a world where Victim Status is most often given away for free, Pax earned his. And his refusal to cash in on it is proof enough of that. Thus far he’s put up Moral Panics & the Death of Fun, The Rise of The Grey Tribe, and Three Modern Grassroots Rebellions. Pax holds out some hope that the latest one might actually win:

The Red rebellion [Tea Party] focused its ire on government, and the Blue rebellion [OWS] went after the banking establishment. Those foes were more than capable to withstand, absorb, and eventually co-opt the movements against them. The Grey rebellion [#GamerGate] however, is aimed at Blue Tribe journalism enterprises that support themselves via advertisers who seek Grey dollars. These enterprises are absolutely vulnerable to a Grey attack on their sources of funding, as the wounded yelps from Gawker’s direction may indicate.

I’ll drink to that!

And here you thought the #NRx Paranoia Button only went to 11… Konk decided to slap us upside the face with a 10 kg Atlantic cod the other day:

#NRx thinks it is so clever, but it would only take one moderately smart leftist to have an interest in us and he could easily manipulate.

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Konkvistador (@asilentsky) October 25, 2014

I could become a leftist tommorow, I'd just have to choose. And how would you guys notice if I didn't want you to?

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Konkvistador (@asilentsky) October 25, 2014

Well maybe. I twitlongered some of the discussion, if only to make it more readable. Land, who’s never met a paranoia he didn’t like, just happened to have a spare open can of gasoline with which to quench the flame.

Mark Yuray delivers the most complete (to-date) work on reactionary institution design in Rules for Reactionaries. BTW, Yuray has been doing some great work over the last few months. His series in parts one, two, and three (thus far) articulating a traditionalist worldview have been superb.

It’s official: Phalanx is a thing—looking for supremely well-qualified men to, inter alia:

• Go to church.
• Shoot guns, go hunting.
• Train martial arts.
• Get stronger.
• Wing each other and support Patriarchy in our relationships.
• Go camping.
• Study practical skills like coding, fixing stuff.
• Study history and old books.

Look for a chapter near you. If one isn't near you, start one. Talk to Nyan Sandwich to find out how.

Also over at More Right, Altheron makes a rare appearance with Social Technology & Anarcho-Tyranny. This is just a gem of a piece:

We use the term “technology” when we discover a process that lets you get more output for less investment, whether you’re trying to produce gallons of oil or terabytes of storage. We need a term for this kind of institutional metis—a way to get more social good for every social sacrifice you have to make – and “social technology” fits the bill. Along with the more conventional sort of technology, it has led to most of the good things that we enjoy today.

Technology is about positive sums. Period. This is what makes “Social Technology” social technology.

Filed under unforced errors: Phalanx appears to be giving the heebie-jeebies to certain sworn (yet publicly delicate) enemies of Silicon Valley neofascist (and “entitled” (sic)) shitlords. With enemies like Graydon2, who needs allies? In honor of Hallowe’en, Nick Land makes some merry at his expense.

Land also wonders whether the useful concept of thede might be losing a bit of its punch, not least because tends to attract the “wrong sort” of people. Nydrwracu, the original inventor-upper of thede, says, “Hmm, maybe you’re right,” and suggests phyle as a #NRxArcana-worthy. So long as I get to keep eltheding (assuming that’s a real transitive verb) the progs, I’ll be okay.

Anomaly UK explains the neoreactionary trichotomy—both its history and the current synthesis of the trialectic.

Two gems from Jim on sex realism: First, The Reason that Women Need to be Subordinated for Successful Reproduction. And in Why Women Ruin Everything, Jim notes:

A woman is like a badly behaved dog, a dog that will take his master for a walk, rather than the master taking the dog for a walk, but the dog is much happier when walked by his master, rather than walking his master, much happier with a firm master.

Of course, NAWALT; but if they aren’t… then don’t BLT. Also from Jim this week: additional thoughts on #Gamergate, Gawker, and the meaning of Life. These following an avalanche of prior wisdom here and here.

…Over at Social Matter…

Bryce Laliberte starts off the week by asking Can Anything Be Apolitical Anymore? A Digression on #GamerGate. Every unsigned non-zero real number still has a sign.

Henry Dampier offers Subtracting Electioneering from the American Right in his usual Tuesday space. He offers this word of admonition:

It’s common on the political fringes to see lazy people proclaim that historical forces will shift events in their favor, but it always becomes clear to me that ‘historical forces’ are actually moved by the strenuous efforts of a handful of hard-working people, rather than being a spontaneous eruption that requires no focused human will.

We’re all tempted by wishful thinking. Just be sure to not treat it like some sort of virtue. And wash your hands when you’re done.

Bishop proposes more quantifiable objectives in Moving Beyond Hit-and-Run Warfare: How #GamerGate Can Actually Win. My thinking here is that a few select game journalists & commentators left permanently unhirable to occupy any journalistic soapbox would be a major win. But even that will require years of sustained, focused effort rabble-rousing.

Glanton pens A Primer on Who/Whom Morality, in which he conducts a fascinating experiment in which mirror opposite social science observations may both be construed to serve a progressive narrative. Heads, progressivism wins; tails, progressivism wins:

The reason why contradictions flourish like this in modern progressivism is that the modern progressive critique, as I mentioned above, doesn’t operate on logical principles. It’s essentially a series of slurs and ad hominems and conceptual kludges that are used to advance an agenda rather than to flesh out a coherent understanding of the universe. And so the best way to understand or predict that critique is to check the logic at the door. You simply have to ask yourself, “Who does the progressive consider to be the good guy in this situation?” and “Who does the progressive consider to be the bad guy in this situation?” The specific language of the critique flows almost exclusively from those assessments.

Finally, Ash Milton builds on Sonja Sonnerström’s excellent Global Warming & Ecological Fundamentalism with a Friday post on Ecological Realism.

…and from Theden…

After a late summer slumber, Theden has been ablaze with activity of late: Allmain reports on the Texas woman that wants to build a 6 foot vagina because… ya know… she wants to “help women”. Also the the hatchet-wielding man who went after NYPD officers, got shot dead for it, and in which his conversion to Islam played absolutely no role (because, ya know, it never does).

Trolling is not an actual crime yet in the States, but it is in England, especially when you troll the wrong kind of people.

Wesley Morganston has a magisterial piece in The Long Slow Collapse: What Whig History Can’t Explain. Progress and sudden collapse aren’t the only two options. A long slow inexorable decline into institutional and moral senescence is in many ways the most frightening of all ways to go.

Ryan Landry tells us why Why the Media’s Ukraine Narrative Fell Apart. Russia is a strong horse, whether Soros likes it or not.

Allmain was back with coverage of former NFL pro Chris Kluwe’s intemperate boosterism of #AntiGamerGate (ooh, what a tuff guy), and some personal and non-misogynistic reflections of games and gaming.

Landry rounds out the week with What Presidential Pardons Reveal—especially the ones you probably didn’t hear about.

…Elsewhere…

Over at his own place, Henry Dampier has a heart-to-heart talk with the religious traditionalist branches of neo-reaction in Is Neoreaction Traditionalist? The answer is: not really, but maybe sort of… metatraditionalist? He also sits down to school techno-commercialists in Is Techno-Commerce Enough? No. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t crucial for anti-entropic civilization building. Is a lecture to the Ethno-nationalists in our midst in the offing? If the pattern holds, I’d guess so. In between the aforementioned, M. Dampier as some based thoughts on #NRx and capital, and delivers a great review of Marohn’s A World Class Transportation System. Wherein salted earth left behind by the monster Demotism comes into full view:

The main reason why American living spaces have come to seem so anti-human is that they’re not designed towards the goal of creating productive and aesthetically pleasing places for human habitation. Rather, they’re designed by politically connected bureaucrats to spend enormous amounts of money to no economically rational end.

Butch Legolas has written pretty much the #NRX definitive teasing apart of Leftism vs. Liberalism.

Filed Under The New Kid in Town: Valkarie Politics has hung his shingle. A nice first essay: You’re Not Cool: Anti-Populism and Edginess.

Speaking of anti-anti-natalism, and not exactly this week. Rorschach Romanov has also started a blog Platonic Noir while I was away. He is a consistent source of affective and penetrating philosophical musing.

There are so many things to do and see around here, I can hardly keep track of them all. By all means, keep your finger on The Aggregator, peruse /duck/, follow Theden, and make Social Matter a daily visit.

And if you’re xy-chromosomed (and have no wish to hide it) aspire to Phalanx.

OK. That’s all I got time fer… Til next week… Keep on Reactin’. TRP. Over. And. Out!!