This Week in Reaction (2015/05/01)

Baltimore mother in last ditch attempt to keep son from becoming Full Dindu.

I guess Baltimore happened this week. Kakistocracy has full coverage with Baltimora and You Only Had to Listen. Also Swords and Shields is a meditation on the broader implications of imputed, versus actual, agency. Mr. Roach says, “Here We Go Again”. Real Gary VII has drone footage, a video of a black man with actual agency, and wonders why No Curfew For The Cathedral?

It is a few minutes before midnight in Baltimore. Why aren’t media being arrested for violating the curfew?

The answer, of course, is that the mass media is using the state of emergency to enforce The Narrative.

Even our Shanghai correspondent notices. Admittedly, this present unrest pales in comparison with that which erupted in the summers of 1967 and ’68. But the ostensible “just causes” for it are, in proportion even lighter. In fact, the only reasonable explanation one can find for it at all is direct media baiting of outbursts, as if to re-enact, via sacrament the mysteries of some chiliastic faith. It’s racist to notice the truth, even more racist to expect it, and unconscionably racist to advocate for this, the most humane and benevolent solution of all: Formalization… of the status of people who cannot provide for or govern themselves.

Related: a Tsunami. But will it be in brown or in a more universalist red?

So let’s see… what else?

Welp. Antidem opines on The Scourge of Westeros, and how, in some situations, a failure to choose that which is best among morally indifferent options, can lead to unimaginably bad consequences. May none of us be so villainously unlucky. And then Follow The Lady, an autobiographical story about some of the secondary goods which may obtained from not quite so high trust society:

So what have I learned from my experiences?

I’ve learned that trust either flows in both directions, or it isn’t trust – it’s just being a mark.

I’ve learned that trust should be like the money on the dealer’s table – hard to earn and easy to lose.

I’ve learned that nobody is an easier mark than someone who thinks they’re going to get something for nothing.

I’ve learned that only fools play rigged games, or play them at all without knowing for sure whether or not they are rigged.

I’ve learned that appearances are not only deceiving, but they are often meant to deceive; designed intentionally to deceive.

Northerner Kipples. Reactionaries love Kipling, and not merely because it rhymes. He also takes napalm to Cracked’s (hilariously unfunny) Gay “Marriage” Article. Which is better than it deserved, I suppose.

Over at The Mitrailleuse, E. Antony Gray has a deep and lengthy meditation on Responsibility in the Moral Imagination. He proves it’s very hard work to not be hyper-rationalistic. But well worth the effort.

Mark Citadel outlines and comments on Some of Reaction’s Big Problems.

Brigg’s asks How Come The Leftward, Lurching Drift? Neoreaction would add: Why is the drift so supremely well coordinated? And why does the pace of it increase? Moreover why is pointing out these transparently obvious facts prima facie grounds to be treated as if one is wearing a tin-foil hat? “Cthulu swims slowly, but he only swims left.” Also coverage of the Crisis: Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm (And Temperature Fiddling). And This Week in Doom. Everyone’s favorite Drinker of Baby-Blood takes note.

I continue to be impressed by @ne0colonial‘s bulleted list format. Deceptively simple. There’s a lot of condensed thought there. Become Worthy was particularly timely. Also Whither the less capable? Or the capable but too expensive.

Empedocles tells us Why The “No True Scotsman” Fallacy Isn’t a Fallacy (And Why It Matters). This is one of the best things I read this week: Napalm to the modernist mental framework.

Donovan goes a little meta on himself at The Sigma Point. This bit:

Oh, and because I’m on a roll with throwing stuff out there, I’ll let this slip as well: I finally figured out the final answer to “What is Neoreaction?”. The only problem? It ties too much in with a bunch of work I’ve done under my real name, so discussing it here would put up too many dots that could potentially be connected. C’est la vie, am I right?

Reminds me not a little of Fermat‘s “cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.” Also from Donovan: Friday Frags—It’s Spring, Dude Drugs, Enough With the Butthurt Sportzball Jibes Edition.

The Idaho Royalist returns in fine form with a great essay: Oskar Groening and the Hypocrisy of Our Political Discourse. The hypocrisy being principally evident in pairing the inhuman lengths Denazification will go, with the (near) non-existence of the term: “Decommiefication”. Update: “Debolshievization” it is.

Skyagusta does some deep thinking about the essential characteristics of Southern culture and the existential threats it faces in Prognosticating Our Long Term Future. He is a deep, and extremely well-read, thinker that deserves to be on anyone’s reactionary reading list.

As it happened [in the Civil War & Reconstruction], Southern society (no longer a distinct civilization) was forcibly tethered to American society, for better or worse, via which Leftism began to be administered intravenously. For us, this muddies the waters in that it’s difficult to discern whether Leftist tendencies which exist in the South today are organic developments which would survive severance from USG, or if their source is extraneous and shallow. I think it safe to say that while the source of most of the modern manifestations of Southern Leftism is foreign, some of these tendencies now have a strong hold on Southern culture which will prove problematic in a post-USG scenario.

Secession is necessary, but will by no means be sufficient.

And speaking of Skyagusta, he unmasks (or remasks ?) as Jeff Simmons over at Theden with “Antiquated Views”: The Confederacy and Progressive Triumphalism, which is a thoroughgoing and well-earned thrashing of Brian Buetler’s steaming pile of ivory tower holiness signaling over at TNR.

Also at The Den, the final two installments of Cool A/C Bro, Albert Morgan’s “Observations of an Overeducated A/C Man”: “The Gamer” and “The EMT”. Lost generations appeared, and eventually died out, after The Great War and WWII. But what sociopolitical or economic disaster may be blamed for Millennials?

This Week at Social Matter…

A slow week over at the Flagship Publication of the Neoreaction. Laliberte’s absence is felt there most of all. Henry Dampier arrives in his usual Tuesday slot with a smart piece on Libertarians and Power Vacuums—and the more general problem of getting really good at being against certain policies or structures, but not having much of a plan about what to replace them with. Abhorent vacuums can cause more problems than merely bad policies.

On Thursday, John Glanton has some timely questions and commentary on the state and crisis of law enforcement in America. This has been a persistent bone of contention between more law & order reactionaries and our right libertarian partners. Glanton strikes I think a good balance:

My take on the issue is that hardline anti-cop attitudes, even of the more sophisticated variety, overstate the point. The one fundamental political reality that I believe in is that there will always be an “us” and a “them.” (Your “us” and my “us” might not perfectly align, admittedly.) And I also happen to believe that some of us, perhaps many of us, are on the force, that they joined for more or less honorable reasons, and that they’re incapacitated from doing their work because America as a whole cannot or will not square with a lot of the ugly truths that necessitate that work in the first place. In this analysis, the police don’t differ all that much from public school teachers. Yes, there are any number of bad apples in that bunch. But not all of them are, and many of them have become so because of the impossible tasks our society at large has given to them to accomplish.

Rounding out the week, Henry James is back again, this time with The Anti-Fascist Psychodrama. The “Brown Scare” it seems continues to be a good business model. It’s always 1939 somewhere in the world. Strengthen that thin red line that lies between our collective paradise and the jackbooted (white, cis-het, Christian, patriarchal) thugs standing on the necks of the oppressed forever.

This Week in Henry Dampier…

On Saturday, Henry has American Mayors Caught In Lies and the truths that dare not be told.

In Pale Priests, Dark Fighters, M. Dampier points out how “radical clerics”, elites aligned with thuggish castes, were legitimate targets for the US Military in Iraq, but a class of people whose existence is officially denied here in the states. Meanwhile amid a chorus of yelling “Staahp”,…

Conservatives hope to persuade, or perhaps merely to survive without being bothered, when they should be concerning themselves with counter-revolution in the territories in which it might be feasible, while ceding entirely those that can’t be.

Trying to “still win” may well mean the death of us all. And speaking of still-trying-to-win… Should ‘Campus Christians’ Man Up? As they are urged by “Top Conservatives”?? The answer is: David French isn’t even asking the right question. Related: J. Arthur Bloom talks about America’s checkered history with religous pluralism.

On Tuesday, Henry has a suggestion: Fire the Cops, Raise a Militia. Interesting that the term appears in our constitution meaning “responsible white people”. Today, of course, it means “crazy racist white people”.

Next, he looks at How the State Disrupts Fertility for Political Gain. It is a colossal conspiracy—as usual without conscious conspirators—of corporate, governmental, and cultural masters. If only the Jews were this clever:

Just in terms of what’s socially acceptable for the better quarter of Americans — it’s embarrassing to even think about having children before the early to mid-30s, like admitting to being a bumpkin who loves monster truck rallies. To have more than two children is to appear to be like you belong in a trailer park. The fashion is to be suicidal, hard-working, pill-popping, and eager to divorce.

But do it… for you!!

All of which results in the IQ / demographic / Civilization… shredder. How long can it go on? Henry thinks not long: Why the Postwar Life Pattern Will Be a Blip in History.

And Henry rounds out the week discussing the Federal Terror Against Local Peace.

There’s a tendency in the way that American professors teach history that tends to regard ‘people power’ and popular movements as wonderful things — rather than precisely the sorts of movements which have bathed both Europe and Asia in the blood of tens of millions since the 18th century. Popular movements tend to create enormous destruction and chaos. Historians may rationalize after the fact that it was all in the service of something better, but careful analysis usually finds that revolutions are not, by and large, good things.

This Week in 28 Sherman

On Sunday, Son of Brock Landers thinks aloud on the impact he could have with a money losing proposition like Maxim. It is supremely plausible. So, Money Bags, stop trying to buy politicians and buy the votes—i.e., the media—instead.

Superfluous picture of Jaclyn Smith

In Space for Rioters Starts Young, SoBL recognizes where he’s seen this idea before.

Next Neoreaction’s most criminally underappreciated blogger shows some appreciation for his regular reads. Also some a few financial blogs worth reading.

SoBL takes note of the Middle East turning towards China and makes an apology (of sorts) for Tumblr.

Thursday brings sports news: Golf Caught Up With Tiger. And on Friday, just what moment of the Roman Empire is USG’s at?

This Week… Elsewhere

Mitchell Laurel had a suprisingly slow week this week. I trust he enjoying some well-earned R&R. Here’s his prediction of Greece turning toward Russia is coming true, much to the chagrin of the schoolmarms that run USG and EU.

Bonald has been on a tear of late, in diverse matters. Whatever points remain in contention between whatever Bonald purports to be politically speaking (Integralist?) and neoreaction are now largely lost to me. He ruminates this week On being a tribal Christian.

A want to talk about my loyalty now, rather than my faith. The truth of the Catholic faith is, of course, a claim of objective epistemic superiority. But that’s not what I’m talking about. I don’t love my people for being right. I just love them. I wasn’t reasoned into it, and can’t be reasoned out. I’m sure that if I got into a debate with a Jew over the proposition that my people are nothing but criminals, I’d lose badly. So much the worse for his moral system; my loyalty to my people is not something I’m willing to reconsider.

And yes, as a matter of fact it is possible to be more Catholic than the Pope, and Bonald is it. Also To the US bishops (of 1979) on “racism”; a plea for clarity. My, my the USCCB was awfully progressive. I wonder where they got those ideas? And an extended quote from Chesterton: “we have abolished their parents”. And then this: Bonald argues it’s Time to split up the sciences, i.e., between the science sciences and the… erm… not so science ones.

Speaking of the Orthosphere, Kristor is sounding mighty formalist-sounding in The Righteousness of the Senate versus the Sanity of the King. It is excellent:

But only lately have I realized that where the nation is understood as the property of the King – as, indeed, effectually (by a logical, and thus physical extension) his very body – and likewise its subsidiary estates the property of his nobles, this incentive is naturally in effect. Taxes then are personal revenues of the sovereign, and his laws and expenditures are investments in the social capital that generates them. The sovereign, then, is naturally inclined to act in the interest of the general welfare of his subjects.

RTWT!

Sonic Harm (née Charmer, née The Hedgehog) parses a curious Chattering Class verbal tick. Clearly, they don’t make Chattering Classes like they used to. Also, in Sportzball coverage: Chris (take my whitey-blaming both ways) Rock on the missing (but not missing) black player.

CWNY relates the history of South Africa to that of the wider West in One Man, One Vote is the Path to Hell.

The Afrikaners fell, because they abandoned one race, one nation, one faith for one man, one vote. We too are under the same death sentence. Democratic nations have no moral essence, because they only value human beings in the aggregate. True nations are aristocracies of the spirit where men and women are valued according to how well they live up to the spiritual ethos of their nation. One man, one vote is not a spiritual ethos; it is a doctrinal declaration of a satanic people determined to make war on everything white and Christian.

Alfin’s The Dangerous Child is very interesting reading. This week he begins a series on Rites of Passage.

Ted Colt reports on his visit to the New Members Class at Megachurch USA. Ugh.

Peppermint returns with You were born just in time to watch the world burn. Sure, it’s collapse porn. But with a purpose. At least I think so…

Aryan Skynet has a nice Interview with B.W. Rabbit, a non-retarded person who blogs at Xenophobe.net and whom I’ve linked in the past. He’s apparently an #Orcbrand insider, which apparently means something that has as yet escaped me.

Filed under Drama News, an important reminder to all that Dante’s The Right Drama exists purely for the entertainment of #NRx audiences. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

Well that’s all I had time fer. Til next week, be excellent to each other… and keep on reactin’! TRP… over and out!!