This Week in Reaction (2015/07/19)

Warg Franklin tells the story of Anarchism+ (yeah, do the math! LOL) in Social Justice, Ideological Hijackings, and Ideological Security.

Instead of laughing at anarchists for the irony of creating a totalitarian system for themselves, we should be alarmed and take note; a community of people absolutely opposed to oppression and authority and violations of individual rights wound up oppressing each other with arbitrary authority leading to the destruction of the usefulness of their community.

It’s funny. But if SJW preening then takeover can happen in /r/anarchism, then it can (and almost always does) happen anywhere. And the operative questions are: how and why and what the HECK can we do to prevent it?

The ideological hijacking of a community in this way will almost always be harmful to the original purpose of the community. So regardless of one’s opinions of the correctness of whatever ideas are involved, if a community is has some real purpose, it has an interest in effective ideological security.

Warg goes on to list some features of SJW hijacking, and some helpful suggestions for institutions to guard against it. You may not be interested in social justice… but rest assured social justice is interested in you! As usual, based Warg is excellent: An ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀. RTWT!

Nick Land, borrowing Steve Sailer, has some interesting remarks on one of the possible reasons for America’s stubborn red-blue tribal divide. Speaking of tribes, it isn’t clear that Land has found one, but he’s found some that his tribe isn’t.

This one from Land was very important: Hell-Baked.

The logical consequence of Social Darwinism is that everything of value has been built in Hell.

For small values of “Hell”, I think this is true. For those who are saved, this earth will be the only “Hell” they ever know. Similarly, for those who are damned, this earth will be the only “Heaven” they ever know. Earth and cosmos is a bloody where redemption takes place—the making of all things new. Or where the process fails, as the case might be. Either way, an entity’s presence at this front is painful, possibly excruciating, to the extent he is designed to perceive it. Nevertheless this so-called “hell” produced Bach and Chartres. And a million other things to make the occasionally bloody journey more pleasant. For this seminal observation, Nick Land wins this week the ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀. Not sure how many RMBs that turns out to be.

The summer has presumably provided Donovan Greene some extra reading time. This is his third book review in approximately as many weeks: Sanne Wijker’s The Long Way Home. He seems to have enjoyed this “thrilling adventure novel”, “an exciting story that was great fun to read”. Available here. Also Friday Frags—Give-em-an-Embassy-They-Take-yer-Whole-Culture-Link-to-MEEE-Feminism-Means-Save-Me-from-Myself-Don’t-You-Even-Dare-Save-Me-from-Myself edition.

Sydney Trads have a nice quote from George Orwell in which he notes the meaninglessness of the epithet “fascist”. In 1944.

Jim was quite busy this week. You knew that because you read him before me, right? He makes note of Greece to receive yet another bailout, but this one is more of the payday lending variety. Here Jim watches Reality TV so you don’t have to. Even with editing, the innate and large (and sometimes humorous) differences between men and woman are crystal clear in “Survivor Amazon” (whatever that is… sounds muggy).

Jim has, more than the rest of us, really written the book on institutional entryism. Mostly from memory of his own experiences. Here he adds some meat to Based Warg’s fantastic post this week with Social Justice is highly lucrative. As he narrates in his inimitable dead-pan:

There was an earthquake in Haiti, which flattened a lot of buildings and destroyed a lot of infrastructure. This led to a lot of aid, which one might expect to rebuild a lot of buildings and infrastructure. Which has conspicuously failed to happen. Very little of the money even reached corrupt Haitian bureaucrats, let alone manifested in bricks and mortar, let alone benefited the supposed beneficiaries. Corrupt Haitian bureaucrats have been complaining about this for some time.

LOL… So if altruism has become so ineffective that even corrupt Haitian bureaucrats can’t make a living off it, you know it’s bad. Jim continues:

Now if the effective altruism movement was actually interested in altruism being effective, one might expect it to be asking questions about the near total lack of aid funded rebuilding in Haiti, and the fact that the aids epidemic in India and subsaharan Africa is neither heterosexual nor homosexual, but rather caused by needle reuse by aid funded organizations. Foreign aid is the main cause of aids.

But instead, very conveniently, the Effective Altruism movement seems to be forgetting about altruism actually being effective, just as reddit anarchism forgot about anarchism.

Video games+; Atheism+, Anarchism+, Effective Altruism+. Mind the +. Wherever worthy cause X does everything except X, refuses to even measure X, all the while insisting X is the most important gosh-darn thing on earth, and gimme some muney, you can be certain a hostile ideological takeover has occurred. Learn from it. For this fantastic bit of analysis, as well as his superb narration, Jim earns an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀

Finally this week, Jim has a brief mediation on Going home, with an assist from Porter. It means a lot when your young and when your old. So if you’re in-between, don’t forget about it.

Antidem comes out with a big one, autobiographical: The Wit And Wisdom Of Psycho Dish. It has a happier ending than you’re prepared for. Also: I Don’t Care About Black People. Which is expressly not a declaration of hatred.

So long as you care enough to stay away… Atavisionary has Maps of Detroit. They show the “color of crime” in all its swarthy glory.

CWNY’s weekly missive: The Cure for Racistaphobia.

This racistaphobia is not just a disease of white Southerners or even just of American whites. It is a disease that has infected every white man, woman, and child in every white nation. And the disease has only infected white people; no person of color ever contracts racistaphobia. One of the peculiarities of the disease is that the man suffering from it generally doesn’t even know he has it. The disease sinks into the spine and heart and makes a man unable to stand upright and feel normal human sentiments, but still it remains undetected because the disease protects itself by making spinelessness and heartlessness seem normal to the man who has racistaphobia.

And then this anecdote.

A few years back I saw a back issue from the 1970s of a neopagan, white nationalist magazine. After some black riot somewhere, the magazine’s editors had predicted that white people were beginning to wake up. Fast forward to our present day, and the same type of white nationalists are saying the same thing: “White people are beginning to wake up.” But of course white people aren’t beginning to wake up. It is 40 years later and white people are still racistaphobic.

Demotic appeal is pozzed. By design. Of course, it feels good. That’s why it works. Don’t trust it.

And speaking of cures for the irrational fear of being labeled a racist: How about denying there is any such thing as racism? Bonald goes full red-pill with this one: “No such thing as racism” as a Copernican revolution for anthropology. It is simply fantastic work. Epoch-making. Instant classic:

When I say “there’s no such thing as racism”, it’s a shorthand, like Mencius Moldbug’s candidate for the “Red Pill”, “America is a communist country”. Moldbug immediately admitted that there are possible meanings of his statement that are false, and similarly “there’s no such thing as racism” has meanings that are false. However, what people usually mean when they affirm the existence of something called “racism” is also false, and realizing this jolts one’s perspective, rather like realizing that America is in some sense a communist country.

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So here’s the Copernican insight: White people are just like aboriginal savages, and Christianity is just like any other religion. Of course, this must be qualified. They have their idiosyncrasies, just as it’s certainly not true that the universe is exactly homogeneous. However, sameness should be our starting point. Now, one often sees that the tribes anthropologists study have ingroup-outgroup consciousness, distinct gender roles, regulation of female sexuality, religiously inspired taboos, discouragement of out-marriage, mythically-grounded tribal pride, territoriality, and so forth. Anthropologists have no trouble identifying the psychological and social functions these things serve. It is unsurprising that many tribes evolve to manifest them, and that these tribes should try to preserve such adaptive features. Yet, when social scientists see the same things in white Christian societies, they attribute it to “hatred of the Other”, i.e. “racism”, “sexism”, and “intolerance”. This hatred is a psychological force which only white Christians are presumed to feel, making them oddly unique among the peoples of the Earth. This uniqueness is not explained, and given that social science is mostly done in historically white Christian societies, a perspective effect is certainly plausible.

It’s official, Progressive black magic will no longer work on Catholic Integralists. “Racist = Poopyhead. Prove me wrong!” “No, you Poopyhead” -> WIN! For his efforts here, Bonald wins the coveted ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀. Two more fine pieces from him: The moral critique of democracy in The Dark Knight and Warrior babes: Must men lie even about what we find sexually attractive?. The dude is just a machine.

Over at The Orthosphere, Bonald looks under the hood at The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion. Strange how a people with such non-western intellectual foundations can make such fantastic westerners.

Also at Orthosphere, Kristor says there are only Thirty Steps from Honest Uncertainty to Christian Faith. Only. At least it’s finite.

Free Northerner points out that a world where No One Will Help You (except the putative government) is exactly the endgame for which left-liberals have been playing. So… Congratulations! And then this: Hail the Donald! It strikes the perfect Neoreactionary balance in seven (7) well-put reasons. For running this gauntlet Free Northerner wins another ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀. RTWT!

Here is what Matt Briggs told Newsday about Pope Francis when they asked. Also, commentary on the Baby-Body-Parts-gate: Planned Parenthood Kills And Sells Victims’ Body Parts. Evil Doc Says Yum. Planned Parenthood has been caught red-handed in so much crap over the last decade or two that the only way they could still be in business is they must be very close friends with the Emperor. Or you’d at least think that, if you didn’t know the USA was a Democracy and doesn’t have an Emperor. Silly you.

Briggs also suggests: Take Burnham’s Test To See If You’re A Liberal: Suicide of the West at 50. Very worthwhile exercise. Clearly James Burnham was a true prophet. And that’s why almost no one has even heard of him.

And here is our own “Statistician to the Stars” coming on The Federalist: Climate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality.

Filed under Communism is as American as Apple Pie, Nydwracu takes a look at Twentieth-century Americanism, with excerpts from, and commentary on, Peggy Dennis’ The Autobiography of an American Communist. Moar here: A Communist in Mecca—that’d be Moscow, not actual Mecca. And still moar: The life of the expatriate, or “missionary” in the vernacular.

This Week at Social Matter

On Sunday, Ryan Landry begins the week with a typically solid piece, here telling the story of They Stripped Marriage Of Its Sacredness To Sell Gay Marriage.

As in, to swing. l’m talkin’ about wife-swappin’.

The media created a false debate “marriage or no” to paint a battle between the evil bigots and righteous crusaders. No one mentioned the civil union approach. That solution was junked quickly, tipping the real target for using gays: religion. The Supreme Court even mentioned granting dignity in the ruling, which is comical considered how smeared marriage has become. If marriage is an oppressive institution for women, why push gays into it? If it is old and archaic, why do gays want it? Humpty Dumpty leftism strikes again! Marriage is awesome right now for this tiny group!

But only after being made irrelevant for nearly everyone else.

Monday, David Grant defends Plato and Noble Lies. A myth is not a lie.

One thing Plato absolutely did not advocate is constant manipulation of the populace through politics and propaganda. On the contrary, this foundation myth for the ideal city is a one-and-done sort of affair: the citizens believe it and act on it and don’t need any additional persuasion to defend their city from external or internal threats. There is no Ministry of Truth in the ideal city of the Republic.

Anything that comes from a Ministry of Truth… now that would be a lie.

Mark Citadel, whom I hope is becoming a regular at Social Matter, takes the wordpress editor on Wednesday with Racial Kryptonite. This is when social pathologies have a naturally disparate impact, except no one is allowed to notice it, because noticing is racist. Therefore no one removes the pathology, and one people group can go on outdying the other ones.

Finally, SB’s a my Ascending The Tower chat with Clark Hat got posted: Episode VIII – “A Monopoly Service Provider”.

This Week in 28 Sherman

At his home blog, Landers puts up another in his fantastic Weimerica series, an Hypothesis on Spreading Deviancy. Basically: bleeding from the head…

A sexually deviant behavior is by definition a behavior that is not normal. It deviates from the norm. Being abnormal, especially in the bedroom would be a hit to one’s status. In order to secure your spot in the status range of your desired class, you better have great measures for all other status inputs. To be openly deviant, one must have a great status aggregate to sustain the status hit by coming out as gay, trans*, an S&M enthusiast, etc.

Basically, deviancy is a peacock’s plumage. Deviancy gets normalized by those rich enough and powerful enough to avoid its obviously detrimental consequences:

The high status person then can serve as a symbol for others to emulate, and for the behavior to translate down, a person must have enough status for lower status people to want to emulate. The New York Times did this with 50 Shades of Grey several years ago. Note that big city metro housewives couldn’t get enough of it, ahem, higher status ladies love it, so you should too. Universities help spread the acceptance, and if one looks at opinion polls, college educated voters support gay issues far more than those who avoided college. The college educated set supports it, the media will blast, and college credentialed citizens are high status.

Academia, media, hmm? Where have we seen these actors before?? Now that we have the formula, SoBL suggests social conservatives use this pattern to get out in front on the propaganda war regarding poly, which has already started. It’s not a permanent fix, but it certainly could delay it. Like health-care reform. This really is one of the very best and most complete articulations of this theory I’ve seen. For his efforts here SoBL wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

SoBL has A Note on Synthetic Marijuana, and what it can and probably can’t do.

Filed under file baked into the cake, SoBL finds that City Girls Aren’t Carrie Bradshaw, They’re Elaine. Not terribly good news for the gene pool:

What we criticize now for being a widespread dating type and social life failure was already widespread enough to be represented in a character on television 25 years ago. People had to identify Elaine as a type, consider her funny yet also sympathetic. Sex and the City did poison a generation of women who watched it, but the type was already there in Elaine. Elaine is a better fit too because she is cute/pretty but presented in a normal attractive woman way, not the glam crap that SaTC did with the leads. In all honesty, women probably started carrying water bottles around with them in cities due to Elaine.

So… Thanks, Seinfeld. Agreed though, Julia Louis-Dreyfus did age well. She’s probably more attractive now than when she was on Seinfeld. Another woman that improved (rather drastically by appearances) with age has been Tina Fey. She is, I think, one of very few truly funny women as well.

A perfect storm of Prog talking points and the unutterably light shades of Black Achievement meet in Progressive Media Bingo + Misty Copeland.

And… some amazing shots of the WW1 War in the Air.

This Week in World Crass

Crassus begins the week quite wary of Greeks bearing gifts. California has gladly accepted its own Trojan horse in the form its Helots.

Speaking of Helots, Mayor Cook of El Paso Cooks the books on safety of wild west city filled with illegal immigrants.

In WWT news, bionic warriors real thing now, so long as you count transgendered soldiers. Dalrock notes that this decision was completely As Expected.

From the political scene, Hillary Clinton says to straw man of Trump: “Basta! Enough!” Best we can hope may be for Clinton to ‘debate’ one of those Trump piñatas

You know when people say, “I don’t mean to be rude, but…” This is like that: “I’m not singling out Mr. D’Souza to pick on him,” Judge Berman said. Quoth Newsweek (Good Lord, is there anything Crassus doesn’t read?):

The psychiatrists D’Souza was first ordered to see found no signs of depression, but U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman overruled their findings and ordered D’Souza see a new psychological counselor weekly.

Next up, Camille Paglia: Hillary is Dowager Empress of Chappaqua. I’m actually worried Hillary’s failures of 2008 were no fluke. Can we imagine a more incompetent president than Obama? Oh yes: Yes We Can! Moar Hillary news: Pathology behind Hillary repeating phrase, “grandmother glow”: alcoholism, hard livin’, frontotemporal dementia, & plastic surgery. America is, I think, not quite ready for a woman president. Neither was it ready for a mulatto. But America gets what it deserves, not what it’s ready for. Yet moar Hillary.

And tho’ democratic politics is, of course, pozzed, Donald Trump is rustling all the right jimmies:

Who makes effigies of their political rivals? ISIS… and Americans who hate Trump.

What if, World Crass asks, a fictional great moral teacher turns out to be fictionally found to disagree somewhat with his former fictional self? Too bad we can’t dig up Atticus Finch’s corpse and put it on trial! If moral dick swinging were horses, beggars would ride.

Some interesting parallels here: Reassurances about a good deal with a rogue nuclear state sounded hollow in ’94. Not that anyone should give too much of darn about Iran… or the Norks for that matter.

You’ll never guess Obama’s priority amid Chattanooga terror: avoid appearing aggressive to Islamists. Well it’s good for a man to have priorities. The NYT carries a fair amount of water for El Presidente: New York Times buries Chattanooga Jihad lede, in stark contrast with what it did with Anders Behring Brevik coverage.

Writer for Mother Jones: “Market for baby parts is ethical.” Like selling baby parts, selling albino limbs carries a death sentence nearly everywhere. And, filed under “Now that we’ve won…”: Lesbian Atheist Sen. Tammy Baldwin: “1st Amendment only for use inside churches and synagogues”.

Here is another epic fail of telescopic philanthropy.

Rounding out this week in World Crass, we find Liberal kale bingers admit “brain fog.” WorldCrass.com visitors would have guessed this, but it gets interesting. That’s right: Kale! “Why haven’t the hippies of Marin found themselves a real witch doctor?” Wellness… be racist!

This Week in Evolutionist X

Evolutionist X digs up some great stats on crime, it’s colors as well as generational effects, to show Rupert Murdoch is a Lying Liar. And also not a Jew. Well, not all liars are Jews.

She also says she is Sick of False Empathy:

False empathy is claiming empathy with people one has never met/has no connection with, for the purpose of harming/denying empathy to someone right in front of oneself, someone with whom you ought to have some sort of connection.

With which the Canon agrees:

Dickens had a term for nonempathic altruism. He called it telescopic philanthropy. Who is Peter Singer? Mrs. Jellyby, with tenure. #NRx

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Moldbuggery (@moldbuggery) July 07, 2015

Here is note on the irrepressible Germanness of the tale of Rumpelstiltskin.

Next Evolutionist X explains the Law of the Conservation of Caring:

I hypothesize that humans have only so many shits to give.

LOL. As a Catholic, I’d describe it more as it is impossible to perform, and the faithful are not obligated to perform, all possible goods. But yeah, about the same thing. Also the ethics and the math of population replacement. I think a couple variables may be missing.

And finally: The Good Side of Clannishness. Hooray for “Sweet Spots”!

This Week… Elsewhere

By way of Real Gary, from the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police After Action Review of Riots:

The unrest and riots that occurred in Baltimore were preventable. The injuries suffered by more than 200 police officers, both those from within the Baltimore Police Department and outside agencies, could have been avoided or at least minimized. The injuries sustained by civilians who were assaulted, as well as the destruction of private and public property, also could have been avoided.

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Before and during the riots, Police Commissioner Batts and his top commanders adopted a passive stance that put the image of themselves and City Hall ahead of the safety of its citizens and public servants. This tentative posture allowed the destruction of personal property and needless injury to first responders.

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The overwhelming sentiment of officers is that the Baltimore Police Department’s response to the riots was lacking in many areas. Decisions implemented by top commanders of the Baltimore Police Department left officers in harm’s way, making them vulnerable and susceptible to attack. The majority of officers we spoke to felt the Baltimore Police Department did not give them the necessary support to do their jobs effectively. Finally, our After Action Review shows that steps to prepare officers for future unrest have still not been implemented.

Gary also notices some market failures eerily reminenscent of an “Evil Empire” we once knew. Has the USSA started running out of other people’s money?

While much of the world celebrated (or cursing) Obergefell v. Hodges last month, a much more important SCOTUS decision had been made a day earlier. The polysyllabic, too technical-sounding-for ordinary-citizens-to-care-about-much-less-understand Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project will have consequences far more reaching than the “gay marriage” decision. And “just don’t have one” will not be an option. Mr. Roach has the rundown. Also Corporal Klinger’s Army. Yes. That’s happening. As well, this was a very apt juxtaposition.

Reactionary Tree has news of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s apparent change of heart toward white farmers. Good luck with that, Mr. President.

Porter gives his own version of The Talk.

Vernon T. Waldrip (Skyagusta) checks in from his extended hiatus to drop an excerpt from a sermon by Thornwell on Our Great Conflict and True Progress. From 1850 no less.

Related: The Stalinists Take South Carolina, or Why I Love Berlin.

Chris Gale has some astute commentary on The broken credential bubble. Required reading for millennials, their younger siblings, and their parents.

Cheshire Ocelot finally finds a version of Confucius’ Analects he doesn’t like. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t find great worth in the work… just get a different translation.

Sunshine Mary Thiry finds some good reasons to think and act locally in The plus side of “the decline” and hopeful signs in local agrarianism.

Dalrock examines a couple Headlines vs Reality. Data rich. It appears news headlines tell us far more about the psychology and biases of editors than they do about the news.

Filed under Hey here’s a New Blog: Anathematizedtruth (geesh, all the real sound pseudos were taken) writes at
No Quarter Asked/No Quarter Given. This week he kicks off a pretty based-looking series: The Practice of Reaction, Part I: Intro. He links me. So he’s either smart or an ass-kisser (or both).

Also under New Blogs: I present West Coast Reactionaries (#WCRx). It’s a group blog. This week, Adam Wallace gives us his take on the Jewish Question. He articulates a moderate and perfectly rational anti-semitism. Like we said on the podcast, “Only need to gas some of the Jews.” Also: Why I Won’t Jump on the Neo-Pagan Bandwagon.

Filed under New Blogs—How to Impersonate an Entryist Edition: some dude with the unreal sounding pseudonymn “Kill to Party” showed up on the radar screen during a routine sweep for gratuitious, unauthorized use of twitter hashtag #NRx. After this ignominious start, it turns out he’s got a blog. And his post this week: Closer to God: The Dark Enlightenment and Conservative Philosophy isn’t too shabby.

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