This Week in Reaction (2015/07/05)

A species of Exit

Exit Week this past week in this This Week in Reaction®. After last week’s news of anathemas upon Confederate Symbols, and open embrace of homogamous ones, this should hardly have come as a surprise.

Neocolonial works on Building a Ladder from the cognitive super-elite down to where normal people live, so that all within an institution (such as society) may benefit from their potential.

• I’ll reiterate that point as it is not necessarily clear: Communications within an organisation that are beyond the IQ gap [~20 pts] of the individuals involved are risky and potentially counter-productive due to misunderstandings.

• Such communications need to be mediated to be effective.

I find I spend most of my time in that mediator role. Also People, Place & Potential Difference.

Speaking of building a ladder,how about a Monastery divided up by how long you’re willing to stay isolated from the outside world. That is the gist of Watson’s Dear Kulak Anathem and the Antiversity.

And speaking of exit, Reactionary Tree says it’s Time for Secession. This one is also very good.

I recall the moment when I became dispossessed (the Trayvon Martin incident). You stop caring about Constitutional fetishism, the size of government, what George Soros is up to, or Obama’s birth certificate, and other concerns that Conservakin typically have. Instead, you start caring about more important things like survival of your peoples.

In order to do so, we must seek an exit.

It is imperative that we stop thinking of sovereignty and the rule of law in such stark black & white, asked & answered, terms. We are well into the Brezhnevian Sclerosis—an era of thriving gray markets, for sovereignty along with much else. Build, exit, build an exit, and repeat. For his outstanding contribution here, Reactionary Tree wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀. Congratulations!

Let’s see… what else?

Nydrwacu goes digging, finds a Whole Lotta Maoist Love in The Harvard Crimson on the Khmer Rouge, 1973–1976. Therein, we find an America very clearly at war with itself. This is a fantastic bit of research with “Where are They Now?”-style notes interleaved. For his efforts and for the central part the Harvard Love Affair with the Khmer Rouge plays in the neoreactionary narrative, Nyd earns an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

Spandrell notes Computers be racist. Google certainly seemed to act like the missed (off by a little) categorization was ferreal. Also lulzy was this comment.

Jim takes note: Greece runs out of other people’s money. Also, NY Governor Cuomo shocked (SHOCKED!!) that women will do anything for an alpha male thug.

Free Northerner has some wise words about Cultural Genocide. This is a much more accurate phrase I think than the ubiquitous “White Genocide” to describe what Cultural Marxists are trying to do to European peoples. Also a data-rich post on Jim Crow.

Atavisionary pops in for a quick discussion on the Daily Absurdity of watching Cathedral approved TV.

Richard Brookes takes up the Reductio ad absurdum of welfare, wherein not loaning money to people unlikely to pay you back is unmasked for the great injustice that it obviously is.

Mark Citadel is fed up and says It is Time to Kill Conservatism.

Here is the lesson: you cannot win within a closed system that does not allow for anti-Liberal policies to stand for any grand length of time. No, sodomite marriage isn’t in the Constitution, and of course the Founding Fathers would have considered its proponents clinically insane, as would the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment used to justify this recent decision. But that doesn’t matter! The document is ‘living and breathing’ precisely because it is a Liberal document. Conservatives can try to sanctify it as an unalterable religious text all they like, but the fact remains that it is the beginning of all problems concerning Liberalism in America today. It is, regardless of how much Conservatives revere it, as much a Liberal document as a Jean-Paul Marat article.

He goes on to list five positive suggestions for reactionaries to undermine mainstream conservative politics and thereby the liberal politics the former persist in sustaining. Citadel has a beautiful quote from Dávila, “Today’s conservatives are nothing more than liberals who have been ill-treated by democracy.” Indeed. Often a bridesmaid, never a bride… until today: For his outstanding efforts here: Mark Citadel wins the ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀

Also from Mark A Candid Interview with Aleksandr Dugin.

Filed under Almost-Missed-This-Because-Blogspot-Doesn’t-Send-Emails… Social Pathologist has some research notes on the issue of Disgust.

And speaking of good folks Down Undeh, Sydney Trads show their support for the American South’s cultural history in Antipodean Reflections on America’s 4th July Celebrations, 2015 and Announcing Campaign to “Save Southern Heritage”. They also catch the Dalai Lama in some insufficiently progressive remarks on immigration.

Donovan has moar Friday Frags—Still-Not-Done-Talking-About-Prohibition-How-Bout-Them-Black-Church-Fires Edition.

CWNY brings us The Final Outrage.

This Week at Social Matter

Ryan Landry brings us Progressive Performance Artists. Wherever power flows to those who control The Narrative best, those capable of playing the roles will be rewarded, and Landry goes down the list: from Susan B. Anthony on down to Rachel Dolezal, who, he notes,

exemplifies this progressive performance perfectly. She takes it to the logical conclusion. The white, fair-haired girl who identifies with the cause, but unfortunately does not look the part. Like any good actress, she puts on her costume, gets her hair and makeup done, and mouths the words, not written by herself, but by academics years ago. She speaks the script, goes through the same struggle with fake death threats (ask Sarkeesian), and every single day is
committed to the performance. The act is her life and her life an act.

Spoilers abound in David Grant’s Review Of Mad Max: Fury Road. He finds much to like about it, and little of the supposed feminist agitprop, but he finds it presents a challenge to those who subscribe to the notion: The only morality is civilization. Perhaps barbarism is a road into civilization just as much at is out of it.

Henry Dampier shows up a rare day late but never a dollar short with Accounting, Economics, and Capitalism. Turns out capitalism has not so much been tried and found wanting as it has been found politically inexpedient and therefore left untried.

The main difference between speculation under a more disciplined monetary system and speculation combined with too-big-to-fail accounting is that in the former, when speculators err, they run out of cash to speculate with, and poor speculators get culled from the market. With too-big-to-fail, bad speculators get rewarded commensurately with their failures, and their errors then cause further coordination failures. This goes beyond just big banks, but also extends to cities like Detroit, Camden, Newark, and Baltimore — essentially defunct municipalities where rational large-scale production can no longer occur.

And… Anatoly Karlin of The Unz Review joins Surviving Babel and me on Ascending the Tower for part 1 of Episode VII “This Kaleidoscope Of Truths”.

This Week in 28 Sherman

Son of Brock Landers begins the week on his home blog with a follow-on to his Social Matter piece showing how Passing is Always Opportunistic. Those who don’t need to “pass” usually wind up with the short end of that opportunity stick.

Steve Sailer is fond of noting the product of integration has been placing mixed race kids in roles or spots that blacks might think belong to blacks. A problem with the push for mixed marriages and interracial romance has been that Denzel’s wife would be cast as black in 1990, but in 2015, she can be anything, hurting black actresses. There is only so much to go around when you’re part of a minority group collecting tributes from sectors per government decreee. Rachel Dolezal probably will not inspire others in the race racket, and blacks and other groups might be a little more careful with screening in the future to keep the government bennies in the family. American Indians are incredibly strict with casino money; others may start to follow their lead.

The Dolezal story already seems to have been memory-holed. The mainstream media doesn’t want to touch this with a ten foot pole. But certain kinds of privilege are not going to go away. Why is it perfectly predictable that Martine Rothblatt is the highest paid “female” CEO in America? Why are “Black” leaders more often than not surprisingly fair skinned? Why do American Indian tribes have to check their “members” so thoroughly? Media minds do not want to know.

Tuesday SoBL brings us American Hyperinflation Talk. He’s not seeing it, but the mere fact the some of the forces are there means something really bad is brewing. Meanwhile, enjoy the strong Dollar, if you’re lucky enough to have a few.

Next up Back to the Future and Nature vs. Nurture. In 1985, nurture could overcome even time-line paradoxes, or at least everyone wished to believe it. SoBL muses about what the story would have to look like today.

Finally, another WW1 pic: Creeping Bombardment and a brief discussion of “shell shock”. Wars to end all wars always sound great on paper.

This Week in Evolutionist X

Evolutionist X asks Why do economists fail at basic math? Suggesting that world GDP would go up simply by letting everyone freely move to the wealthiest nations is not so much a failure at math as it is a failure to list all of one’s assumptions.

On Tuesday, she notes Politics are Coming and they are Going to be Awful. Politics is to power as porn is to sex.

A humorous, quazi-autobiographical post here: Pavlov Explains Lingerie.

More autobiography with Microaggressions and Isolation. Evolutionist X tries to salvage microaggressions as being something to be mildly and rationally concerned about. If we were talking centigressions or even milliagressions, then maybe she’d have a point. But microagressions seem to me to be precisely tantamount to habitually taking hair-trigger offense and things where no hostility was intended—a pathology the fault for which I’d lay entirely on the fragile psyche of the one taking offense.

Evolutionist X is short but very much on point here: That time Germany literally infected Russia with Memes. She asks for some reader help with Criminality–a WIP. And finally: Is Acne an Auto-Immune Disorder?

This Week… Elsewhere

This was interesting over at FPR: 30 More Years of Rootless Professors—extended commentary on (and exerpt from) Eric Zencey’s 1985 Chronicle essay “The Rootless Professors”. Local beers, bacon, and broccoli have over these years become quite a trend. Local people still have not.

Oriental Neoreactionary has some coverage of the 13th annual Gay Pride parade… in Turkey. I’d say LOL, but the tireless efforts of the Western media and “non-governmental” organizations has made it an “issue” even there.

Briggs discusses 128 Million Bigots (Including Your Mother): Gmarriage By The Numbers, and what the future likely holds for them. Then he has a monumental piece here: Notes On Our War. Never Give Up! Never Surrender! I disagree a little bit with his conclusions “Flee or Fight”, but it is a superb piece. I think we have a third option: Exit and Build. For his efforts here, Dr. Briggs wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

Briggs also points out If The Constitution Is A Living Document, It Can Die. Indeed and this is to be expected. “The constitution that may be written is not the True Constitution.”

Apropos of Independence Day, Real Gary has a wonderful video up of The Stars and Stripes Forever?.

Over at The Orthosphere, Bruce Charlton links to this big, thought-provoking piece The Benedict Option. Is “Junior Ganymede” reading #NRx notes?

Kristor has some encouraging words for with eyes of faith: In the World but Orthogonal to It. And then in this ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀, Kristor is prophetic: “Break sex and you break man.”.

Bonald wonders: Is there a vocation to bachelorhood? Not if it’s an alterable state, it’s not. Excellent post.

In the game of Who Whom, crucial to know who’s Who

Porter considers the diverse cast of those currently Sharing the Trough of Anglophone largesse. He highlights a particularly amusing anecdote in which Whose Lives the Matter Moar comes to the fore. Also, notes on A Greek Tragedy.

Greg Cochrane has some cautionary words on Inbreeding, which will, in this age of Universal #TrueLoveWins, certainly be ignored.

Donal Graeme’s A Pinch of Incense shows why mere silence will never be enough for our cultural masters.

Sunshine Thiry has a nice reminisce and a lesson in Life-long marriage is a gift you give your children.

Grerp has a sad note of some troubles in her personal life. Prayers and practical advice for her and here family are greatly appreciated.

Free Northerner points us to a promising new reactionary blog: No Quarter Asked/No Quarter Given. His article this week on Tradition as Emergent Optimization of Society is certainly worth a read.

Crassus, after some fits and starts, seems to have re-emerged here as a one stop shop for news. He finds The tech world is acting like it is a big mystery why the person in charge of booking Jesse Jackson for an ill-fated press conference got fired. Here are South Asian hermaphrodite wedding crashers and Crowdsourcing the Presidential election. A follow-up on the Reddit + Jessie Jackson Story.

Apparently there are right and wrong ways to go poop (or pee if yer a girl). Picture rich: “Usually, unbelievably beautiful women… are not funny.” Twitter proves Michael Eisner’s point.. Finally, Crassus has a change of heart on the US Constitution Point of U.S. Constitution (vs Sharia, Draconian Constitution, Torah): to grant as many freedoms as possible. Default assumption is that anything not covered by Constitution or delegated to states is a guaranteed right

That’s all I had time fer, folks! Keep on reactin’! And whilst yer reactin’, enjoy your summer, Northern Hemispherites. Til next week, TRP Over and out!!