Jim has a discouraging report: Libertarians support ethnic cleansing of whites. But we all saw this coming. Contending for the soul of libertarianism is contending for the soul of liberalism is contending for the soul of The Enlightenment. He also notes, in passing, that the Anti slavery people were evil from the beginning. And Jim points us to Greg Hood’s Based. Hood is enjoying seeing left-liberals dangling over the abyss of transracial and transsexual equivalency:
This is one of those rare moments where politically correct orthodoxy is still undetermined and progressives are well aware anything they say now could cost them a job later. The predominant narrative on social networking among goodthinkers is that sex, er, “gender” is simply a “state of mind” and not a real biological category, while race is a genetic matter that is imprinted at birth. Naturally, this is more or less the opposite of what they’ve been trying to tell us for the last few years.
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[F]or progressives, being on the “wrong” side of this now may be like having voted for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. Worst of all, none of the brave independent thinkers rebelling against social norms have been told what the “right” side is yet, and so they remain paralyzed with fear and indecision.
A seam in the egalitarianist narrative has been torn assunder by leftist friendly fire—”one of the more spectacular own goals in recent memory” as Hood describes it. The longer it stays open, the better.
A big more on #Strangeloopgate: Allum Bokhari continues to do the Lord’s Work over at Breitbart with a second analysis piece on L’affaire Moldbug.
And the Boston Globe is a bit slow on the up-take The right to be stupid. Curtis Yarvin is set beside Tim Hunt as “silly” but unfortunate victims. The two have far more in common than either does with former Business Week Moscow bureau chief Alex Beam, who plays fast and loose with the facts to mash these two heroes together. Nevertheless, credit where credit is due: a vote for platform is a vote for platform.
Spandrell thinks Public speech is a bad idea. This is certainly true for folks operating under real names, not trolls. And who is doing that? “Reasonable” people, left and right, who believe “reason” governs public discourse. And for whom the jaws of social justice will, of course, never be satisfied. Also Recent News from the Summer of 1793.
Nydwracu posts a long excerpt on Linguistic identity in Vanikoro.
Nick Land notes that there are some things even Democracy Can’t Do. Like make unicorns fart rainbows, or create infinite demand for labor. He also takes note of some apposite quotes from Ol’ Cappy.
A bit of perspicacious commentary here by Brookes in A Slice of 1850s Boston. Free love was not only not new in the 1960s; it was positively old fashioned, and just as maladaptive. Also, apparently if you’re good enough at Professional Begging, you won’t be homeless.
Moar reposts over at The Future Primaeval. Harold Lee’s The Tragedy of (Yagami) Light.
E. Antony Gray treads on some very disturbing subject matter in A Heart of Darkness. As well, the eponymous A Spy in The House of God.
Nick Land has some appreciation for the great, now late, Christopher Lee. Also Dollywood dot Two.
Neocolonial has some great structured arguments going on with Better Men than I. It’s really about how to do immigration right. It can be done. It used to be done right. But not anymore. How do you get back to that? Also Better Men Than I, part deux wherein he gets around examining trait distributions under conditions of elite inflow (“IQ Pump”).
Next Neocolonial has The value of Place—literally, the economic value of a place—which contrasts freehold and flowhold models of land stewardship.
Idaho Royalist brings us Rhodesia, the South Carolina Shootings, and Deliberate Misunderstandings. As usual, he brings it to us with a snappy historical overview.
Next Mr. Royalist extends the discussion to the other Sub-Saharan Could’ve Been: South Africa. Much is supremely well put. Like this:
The American idea that anyone can be a member of a nation is an idea that is unique only to America; to force that concept on people who have historic and biological identities, such as the English, the Boers/Afrikaners, the Zulu, the Matabele or what have you, and nations and entities founded on those identities, is to force tragedy, misunderstanding and death upon those people.
And:
South Africa remains a painful reality today, a broken dream to countless millions who got caught up in the progressive politics of unscrupulous and vile men like Jimmy Carter, or the subversive leftism of the USSR, itself a fading entity by the mid-1980’s. To progressive liberals, however, it’s one of their most prized scalps. They got to destroy something they absolutely hated, regardless of the consequences, and got to install a terrorist and criminal organization (the African National Congress) which still retains the seat of power today.
Choose your moral skirt-clutching carefully.
Donovan Greene talks about Powertalk. He covers much ground here, much of which I had not been aware. Donovan applauds the value that neoreaction has put upon “Straight Talk” and the “basedness” that it entails. But there are limits. Even basedness can be hijacked. On Sunday, Powertalk in Action, starring Tywin Lannister. For this pair of posts, Donovan earns an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀
Also from Donovan the obligatory Friday Frags—Moar-Gervais-Principle-Bone-Saws-French-Advisory-on-American-Womyn Edition.
From Isegoria, Facial Feminization sounds painful. Also, the very magical marketplace of higher education. Related: it is the very definition of a Cargo Cult to causation backwards.
If officials in the FDA were elected by political machines of the Tammany Hall era, then as Free Northerner puts it, the probably couldn’t be more Nakedly Corrupt than they are today under the current appointment rules. Also some poetry: What the Bullet Sang—darkly enlightened.
HBD Chick has got a data rich feast on the causes (and not quite) of northwestern European success in carts before horses.
This week at Social Matter
The Neoreaction appears to have gone down the shore this summer. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. A slow week, therefore, at Social Matter. But good stuff as always…
Ryan Landry kicks off the week with The Empire’s Man in Brooklyn. This is the story of Brooklynite Mikheil Saakashvili, a man at once utterly foreign to Americans and yet strangely familiar. And what that tells us about the nature of American power.
If one is confused why such an oddball is given such [posh] treatment by the US, look at his early life profile on La Wik. He is a Cathedral-groomed goon. He buddied up with the current president of Ukraine (Poroshenko) while an undergraduate student in newly “free” Ukraine in 1992. He was a humans rights officer, and then received a Muskie Fellowship through the State Department to study at Columbia Law School and George Washington Law School. He even worked at the United Nations. Saakashvili is a decades-long asset cultivated by the USG system. This is just a much more expensive and foreign version of the American university system sucking in red state whites to mold and shape before returning them home as proper Cathedral foot soldiers.
Georgia, Georgia: What’s the difference? After having won last week, Landry earns an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀ for his efforts.
Henry Dampier talks about America’s Long-Lived Leveling Culture. He traces the history of Americans’ love affair with fairness and its more and less well-adapted manifestations. Hard to excerpt. It’s solid gold from beginning to end.
This week in 28 Sherman
In news that’s too awful to be covered, SoBL looks at Fat Stats… Who is Lying? If the prog narrative has suddenly become “the average woman in America (today) weighs the same as the average man in 1960”, then why have they been lying about it for 50 years? Distinguishing between matador and cape gets pretty tricky.
Next he points to New Eastern Outlook essay in Soros the Puppet Master, asking “How is Soros not dead yet?” Indeed.
Coverage of sportzball coverers.
Another awesome photo from WWI. Definitely a place one may long for, but never be able to go.
This week in Crass. Us
Crass.us watches the news so you don’t have to. When we put a holy person like Harriot Tubman on our cash, it does not make our money holier. It makes the holy person seem more money-ish.
Speaking of post titles of Biblical proportions, Crass.us finds UCal profs caught blurting out raw microaggressions: “Land of opportunity!” “Everyone can succeed… if they work hard enough!” This lunacy has been put to an end. Well you know: a microagression and a microagression there and pretty soon we’re talking milliagressions. In other news, Goldman Sachs is muscling in on the payday lending racket. I don’t think GS has thought the Online Payday Loan and Check-Cashing Model through very well. Also, won’t repeat the title, but an an interesting exposition on the hard-K sound.
Jim Crow is making a comeback. I’d say it’s about time, if it weren’t merely a product of feverished imaginations of the NYT editorial staff. This is prog memetics in the act of happening, folks. Please pay attention.
This was interesting: remarkable univocality of right-wing journo on the SC shooting. Preternatural really. Crass.us is genuinely shocked and horrified by the shooting. As are we all.
Filed Under Hmmm-…-Maybe: The drug legalization debate focuses on the most vulnerable. Instead, drug policy should enhance the effectiveness of our superstars..
And finally this: A note to my readers. If indeed it a good-bye, my dear Crass.us, it seems as tho’ we hardly knew ye.
This week… Elsewhere
Mark Citadel continues to put out great stuff. He takes stock of Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option for cultural conservatives. Cultural secessionism is a species of exit, and fits hand in glove with the hacker culture that #NRx promotes. And then this: Power Dynamics in Relation to Patriarchy was absolutely fantastic:
Patriarchy is inevitable in the absence of Modern ideology or environmentally-determined primitivism (both of which come to a horseshoe-head in matriarchal ‘lunar’ modes of society). Due to the elemental preferences and leanings of both sexes, they will, if unhindered, settle into some kind of Patriarchy. This is not due to a hidden cabal of men conspiring against female interests, but rather the natural safeguards that keep human society functional, that balance the unique aspects of each sex into a working whole. The Feminist ideologues can call this gender privilege and misogynistic prejudice all they like, but even they can never shake the puppet strings of their innermost spirit. For every hammer blow to Patriarchy that they gleefully swing, they are not destroying a conspiracy, but destroying the foundation of human civilization.
For this work Citadel earns the ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀, second place only to Bonald’s outstanding piece below.
Evolutionist X tests the limits of WordPress post title length in If you’re not my enemy, then you’re my friend, right? The white misperception of racial crossing, and has some astute observations on critical whiteness that extend to the general problem of entryism. He notes:
Whites often fail at being racially inclusive, but they generally believe that they should be.
That sounds a whole lot like…
Some religions are very open to converts; Christianity in particular. Christians have trouble understanding that other religions might not be open to converts; other people might not want them.
I think every group has a sweet spot for openness that is particular to itself. Most European groups have run far past it. See also: In 6th Grade, I Prayed Every Day for God to Turn me into a Mexican.
Evolutionist X is quickly becoming my best new read. (Tho’ I could do with a dialdown on the knee-jerk-anti-clericalostat.) Here is a new (to me) examination of A Zombie-Free Uncanny Valley. Also Reality is a Social Construct and some notes on Cargo Cults.
And then this: The “Other” is but a Foil for the Self. Evolutionist X begins by noting that that virtually everyone on earth is a stranger, yet many people seem to be quite concerned about the well-being of them:
There are three reasons to be skeptical of just about any conversation that hinges heavily on professed interest in the well-being of strangers:
1. Low information: We aren’t there; we aren’t on the ground; we don’t know these people and what they’re really going through. We’re getting our information second or third or more-hand. There is always a good chance that we are completely wrong.
2. No negative impact from being wrong: If I advocate for a water-conservation strategy for California that turns out to be totally wrong, Californians will suffer, not me. If I advocate a bad foreign policy position, foreigners will suffer, not me. If I advocate for laws that harm people or businesses in Indiana, I remain unharmed.
3. People don’t really care about strangers: Most people care deeply about their close friends and family, their pets, and some groups they identify with, like “Harley riders,” “Linux users,” or Muslims. They don’t actually care that much about strangers. The average American, for example, spends more money feeding cats than feeding starving children in Africa.
Yay cats! Hard to believe that Evolutionist X wasn’t even on my radar screen two weeks ago. Here he is this week earning an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀.
Over at The Kakistocracy, Porter gives a whole new meaning to the word Leviathan. Also this was a thoroughly enjoyable rant: Bitch, I’m Porter. With an awesome punchline:
There is a deep human yearning to remain well within the herd’s periphery. And those who confuse fashion with rebellion are the most comically susceptible. Not one in a hundred liberals realize they are not actually plucky upstarts, but rather the most tedious regime conformists. Every one of them loping along the Overton trajectory. While those of us chewing cud from an ever receding vantage point don’t even try to keep pace.
Mr. Roach takes note of the fact that The Internet Can Enable and Encourage Lone Wolf Crazies. Indeed there is a certain anti-social nature to dissident movements, in general.
Real Gary has a Mad as Hell and not going to take it anymore themed letter from the Louisville Police Union Local to the folks who keep tugging on the strings of public policy.
CWNY brings us his weekly missive: Hold to the Vision. He has some interesting, and I think accurate, observations about midwesterners.
Briggs asks What is Cause Like? And also answers. He passes on Vatican Leaks. Oh, Simplicio! Then he steps up to Crisis Magazine to lament the leak and then a few thoughts upon release of the official encyclical.
Bonald takes a slightly, if wryly, more sanguine view of it.
When one starts reading and quoting stuff like this, one is not long for Protestantism.
Kristor has a good short post here in which we find, “That government is least which governs best.” Also at The Orthosphere, Professor Bertonneau produces a very weighty but interesting Sketch of the Ecology of Knowledge. The flora of language plays a starring rôle, with an assist from Bertonneau’s own personal history.
Donal Graeme talks about Patriarchy and Fatherhood.
I know you’ve all been on pins-n-needles awaiting the this week’s winner of the ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀. It goes to Bonald, who at Throne and Altar, has a big piece up: What the Church needs/How to keep your child Catholic. He promotes a much more visceral sort of Catholicism than is widely practiced. “What the Church lacks,” he says, “is tribalism, or, more specifically, the us-versus-them mentality.” Moar:
Here’s what it comes down to. If the Kasperites, the MSM, the “Founding Fathers”, and the sodomites are right, then the priest-killing Jacobins and Bolsheviks were basically right. That proposition should be psychologically intolerable to anyone who truly identifies with Catholicism. The idea of siding with the Church’s persecutors, to admit that Voltaire, Garibaldi, and Lenin were actually right all along, should be so hateful to a Catholic that he dismisses arguments for it out of hand.
But isn’t tribalism inferior to holiness? Isn’t loving a people inferior to loving the Triune God? To this, I say that grace perfects nature rather than overriding it.
It’s just awesome. RTWT. Congratulations, Bonald! We recommend investing that award in municipal bonds. He also has a stream of thoughts on Spokane (rhymes with “pro man”).
Sonic raises snark to a rarified form of art here in Millenials! Also Doubly (at least) Unprincipled Antifascism.
Dalrock announces a New book by F. Roger Devlin: Sexual Utopia in Power: The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization. That’s bound to be good.
Dang! J. Arthur Boom made The Guardian, nominating Jeannette Rankin for the US Sawbuck.
In a stunning shakeup of #Orcbrand, B. W. Rabbit announces his own allegiance to #Elfbrand and issues The Elfbrand Manifesto.
This week I learned (TWIL) there is a nifty on-line graphing calculator at FooPlot. Mighty useful… for work and pleasure.
That’s all I had time fer. Actually more than I had time fer. Enjoy the summer break. Stuff’s abrewin’. Til next week… TRP, over and out!!
I wondered myself if WordPress would reject the title for being too long. I suspect it shows my over-long association with academia. Thanks for the links.
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You honor me with yet another acknowledgement. Thank you once again, Nick.
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