Some of Last Week in Reaction

[Ed. As I bleated several times, I fell quite ill on Thanksgiving and didn’t get competent to think or type again until Sunday. My apologies to all the good stuff that got missed, but the sphere pumps out worthwhile stuff faster than I can keep up with anyway. Trying to complete this late delivery will only delay the next by at least an equal amount. Here’s part of what was supposed to be posted last Friday. -nbs]

By now, you’ve all heard of Pax Dickinson’s new Indiegogo campaign to fund Expose Corruption in Media. I unequivocally and monetarily support this effort, and so should you. Go donate, and then come back. I’ll wait…

In this week’s breaking news…

On Monday within hours, apparently, of the campaign’s launch, the ad hominems were flying thick as hasty pudding. That first paragraph says all you need to know. Pax is pissing off the Right People™. (If you haven’t yet, go donate!)

On Tuesday, we got a reasonably fair piece from Eric Markowitz at Vocativ on the subject. Then Pax held an AMA on reddit on Tuesday night and I think it went pretty well. (AMA: Ask Me Anything… I did not know that until like five minutes ago.) And on Wednesday, here is Jordan Bloom’s interview with Pax at the Daily Caller and favorable comments.

Well, what else?

Jim delivered a massive post on Religio, which covers both the necessity of established religion and approximately how to do it correctly.

Spandrell had some corrective remarks for Jim regarding Shintoism which grew into this vast post. Extremely edifying. He concludes:

While my proposal is about replacing a positively harmful religion which afflicts the West today. In the end the Japanese didn’t need a religion, and the vacuum continues to this day. But Westerners clearly can’t function without theology, so if we want to do away with Social Justice, we’re gonna need to replace it with something.

Something good though. Certainly not Shinto.

Also from Spandrell, Public Architecture Done Right.

Also from Jim, Ferguson on Fire. World to Follow. I certainly hope he’s wrong.

SOCIAL MATTER

In round 6,472 of “Iowa, Idaho, Whatever”, Bryce Laliberte rubs the Grey Lady’s nose in it in Let Them Eat Grape Salad. What does “Grape Salad” even mean?

Henry Dampier Thanksgiving: A Racist Holiday for Bad People.

DAMPIER

Henry Dampier throws some astute commentary at The Middle Class Campus Rape Craze. There really does not seem to be anything left of higher education worth redeeming. Not even at pennies on the dollar. In striving to create Strong & Empowered Women™, the proponents of coeducation have only managed to create a couple generations of weak and ruined girls. In the endless stream of scapegoats for the endless stream of failure, “Rape” Culture is only the most recent to bear the Sins of the Institution. It isn’t going to fix anything.

Dampier announces a book, which arose out of this trio of posts on the Neoreactionary Trichotomy. Looking forward to it.

Henry has a dialogue with a rather red-pilled Australian author Edwin Dyga in Restoration Watch: Australia Edition.

Review of Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War.

State-Sanctioned Riots

…AND MORE AND MORE FEET

Butch Leghorn over at Posiedon Awoke has an interesting equation to make: Multiculturalism is Balkanization. I’d say it is the very worst form of it at least. Genuine autonomous control over regions is often implied by Balkanization, wherein one may at least hope to have a nice lawn. For a while.

Watson (the irradiated one) says “Revolution… Meh” with Thailand as a backdrop and Junta leader General Prayut’s thus far rather… erm… adult handling of the dispute. Watson notes: “What the true emperor must demonstrate is that any violent or non-violent conflict will end in total loss for the peasants.” All the more so for the well-educated middle class. A lot of key neoreactionary ideas in this one. Not least, a formalist distinction between ruler and ruled, and, in light of King Bhumibol’s massive private wealth, the possibility of Thailand as a model for successful private monarchy.

A thick slab of theory here from the ever perspicacious Alrenous: Steel Anarchism . And an equally serious response from Butch (op. cit.): Aristocratic Egalitarianism.

Reactionary Tree has put up a couple of really good posts in the last couple weeks: Defining Post-Libertarianism and With Nationalism and Secession for All.

I liked Atavisionary’s Institutional Capture & the Eugenic Monarchy.

Sister Sarah is doing some of the best work in neoreactionary theory right now (or ever), and being lady of the right sort, doesn’t toot her own horn nearly enough. So I’ll toot it for her: Sacredness As Practiced by Religious Entrepreneurs: Rape, Riots, and Economic Efficiency is brilliant work. Instant canon. Like practically everything she writes. Also, has a book. Go buy it.

That’s all I had time for (but for some editing and burning must adds) by Wednesday evening of last week. Apologies too all the criminally underfollowed whom I failed again to link here. My newfound health feels like a drug right now. Hopefully, I’ll do better this Friday. Til then, keep on Reactin’, support ExposeCorruption.org… TRP, Over and out!!