Jim has commentary on the remarkably moderate Trump plan to stop (nonwhite) immigration.
Trump’s plan relies on the cooperation of the courts, who will surely not cooperate. Australia found it necessary to bypass the courts and use direct military power, and use what are officially regional processing centres run by “civilian contractors” but are in fact prison camps run by the military (yes, those civilian contractors).
The Trump plan resembles the various anti immigration initiatives of the Australian labor party, which failed because of hostility and forcible resistance by government employees, and fraud and defiance by the courts.
Presidents cannot do $#!& unless they are prepared to use the military, as the Australian government finally did. And the US military has become so PC in its upper ranks that it is far from clear that it would obey such orders.
Also from Jim: It begins. The “it” being very much like the Camp of Saints.
[Added] Filed under Woops I Almost Forgot NIO Because His WP Blog Doesn’t Do Notifications Properly… DeJouvenal’s On Power has been all the rage these last couple weeks within the NRx Community. NIO has a couple of posts up that seem to be related to that study: The Topology of Power and Hierarchical Oppression versus Horizontal Oppression. From the former:
[T}he history of European feudal regimes is marked by the decrease in stature and importance of the lords and barons, a gradual process which De Jouvenel demonstrates in admirable detail. In conjunction with this development has been the increase of a moneyed middle class that has arisen as the result of capitalistic tendencies in European populations. This process was typical of one which occurs in complex systems in that it was gradual, and then sudden. The French revolution marked the epoch of the era of democracy as a result of the monarchy no longer being able to control the forces of equality which it had been fostering as a means to undermine the nobles and lords which stood in the way of it and greater power and the resources of the nation. The revolution swept away the old order, but the new order was left with the mechanisms of power which the monarchy had gradually gained for itself. Having now all the gains of the central power, but now without any organised resistance to further growth, the democratic regime was and is still able to extract further and further resources from the state in the form of conscription, taxation, inflation and other various forms of action which both punish any non-central power centers and rewards and increases the power of the central power system.
All of which, explains just about all of political history down to the present day. Fantastic work. Read both. For these contributions to serious NRx theory, NIO wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Neocolonial has more on frontiers: Maintaining Them. Because they sure do have a lot of positive social effects.
Alrenous pens a reply to David Grants reply to his reply to Grant’s original. Nice to see this conversation going on. I tend to think of neoreaction as starting with primordial anarchism. But hopefully not ending there.
With his inimitable flair, Nick Land surveys current events. Also this sorta thing leads me to believe that some atheists have a richer spiritual life than me. Also this week a bit of a hardon for Elon Musk. There are far worse things to get excited about.
Nydwracu reimagines the history of the discipline of psychology in The principle of accuracy, and things pretty much turn out the same way. Hope that didn’t spoil it for ye.
Atavisionary finds Cathedral Censorship in Action: Colin Flaherty banned from Youtube. Two things: 1) Yes, the tentacles of the Cathedral like Google (that runs Youtube) very much want black dysfunction hushed up. Moreoever, they own this territory. So according to formalist principles, Youtube and twitter and every university in America has “the right” to shut down this conversation if they so choose it. If we don’t like what the Cathedral is doing: Build. Something. Better. (And we are.) 2) Colin Flaherty is back with a new account. So, even though Youtube would love to
Reactionary Tree makes a splash at The Right Stuff wondering Who Opened the Borders? A very resource-rich article. For his enormous efforts here Reactionary Tree wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Antidem was busy this week. Drawing upon his highly literary background here is a “Psycho Dish himself”-sponsored post: A Poor Player’s Hour On The Stage. Also guess whose article got published at Amren? Antidem’s I Don’t Care About Black People.
CWNY asks Who Will Defend Christian Europe? A snippet:
I object to using the term “humanist” to describe liberals. They are not liberal humanists – there is nothing human about them – they are inhumane monstrosities. Do Christian Europeans hate? Of course we do — we hate because we love much. We don’t hate Uncle Remus, but we do hate militant black savages who prey on white people. We don’t hate Florence Nightingale, but we do hate Lady Macbeth and all those feminist harpies that have followed in her train. And we don’t hate homosexuals, we feel sorry for them, that is, until they become militant, and then we do indeed hate them. When I was growing up, I didn’t even know what a homosexual was until my late teens. And when I heard about their existence, I felt sorry for them. They would never know the feeling a man gets when that one special silken gown enters his life. Of course feminism has killed the silken-gown femininity, so maybe modern heterosexual men will never know that feeling either.
This Week in Social Matter
Ryan Landry has the week kicker-offer: Trump Is A Demon Of The Establishment’s Design. The left-liberal establishment created Trump, or at least created the financialization game at which Trump has been winning for several decades. This bit was especially full of insight:
Todd Marinovich was a child bred and trained from his infancy to be the perfect NFL quarterback. It worked as his size and skill turned him into one briefly, but it failed. Why? All of those careful decisions and choices created a player so capable, so focused and impervious to stress that he could abuse drugs, drink and still play at a sharp, professional level. The progressive system has created a perfect little election process for their puppet leaders to rise and defeat the false opposition which never brings up taboo, yet critical issues. It increasingly became disconnected from the electorate.
Natural selection is a bitch.
On Monday, David Grant is back to another of his great history lessons with: Losing Battles And Losing Elections. Grant takes us on a tour of ancient battle, in which group cohesion was the key to survival. Turn and run, get slaughtered. Hang together, get slaughtered a lot less. Modern machine-based warfare has made some of these ancient tactics obsolete. But human psychology is not so quick to change. Democratic politics is not only war by other means, but a way of ensuring that war will never end. Semper reformanda, semper iracundiam.
Henry Dampier talks this week about How ‘Permanent Minority’ Rhetoric Backfires. “Talking about immigration” is all well and good, he says. Necessary, in fact. But far from sufficient from curing the West of this recurring impetus to elect a new people.
This Week in Henry Dampier
Henry finds Liberals Horrified by Co-Ed. Not the concept of it, mind you, but the net effects:
Rather like civil rights and integration were supposed to bring equality between the races—but they devastated dozens of formerly thriving American cities instead—co-education has degraded countless institutions. The same educational institutions dominated by the left at every level have come to be condemned by that same left as honeycombed with wreckers: white male rapists who are ruining the grand integration project with their schemes.
This Week in 28 Sherman
Son of Brock Landers, Ryan Landry is getting some well-deserved R & R.
This Week in Evolutionist X
Evolutionist X begins with a Part 2 to her bullying post last week: Race, Crime, and the Police. It is only about bullying in the grandest sense: Who? Whom? She really channels Radish in this article: Fact-filled, chart-filled. And astute commentary throughout.
Everyone lies. All the damn time. Most lies are completely inconsequential, of course, but lying about who is murdering whom seems like the kind of lie that could result in real consequences: people dying. But even to mention the truth in public carries serious consequences: ostracization, loss of job, harassment, banning, etc. Only low-class losers care about crime against whites; rich people, of course, have no such petty concerns. Maybe because they can live in million dollar neighborhoods where the gates/ferry rides “keep out the riff-raff”.
Whose lies are believed? Whose are not?
Conclusions: The police and whites who worry about getting killed (or get killed) are low-status. Blacks and wealthy whites who proclaim how much they love blacks are high-status.
For her efforts on this, Evolutionist X wins the ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀—the first Y-chromosome lacker ever to do so. Congratulations! (Not that anyone actually has chromosomes on the internet, of course.)
This was interesting: Pygmies: Among the world’s most isolated peoples, or archaic hominin admixture? And while we’re on the subject: Are the Pygmies Retarded? Evolutionist X says, “Not really.”
Astute commentary here: The Candy Crush Career Track. There are better and worse ways to be addicted to pointless reward mechanisms. Among them Candy Crush is one of the better ones, generally costing a lot less money and time, and far less likely to waste the entirety of one’s most productive years.
Evolutionist X asks Remember when Liberals gave a shit about the Environment? Apparently the Sierra Club has decided that “an equitable path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants” is an essential element of:
“To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.”
That’s mission creep. And it’s unavoidable. The social justice egregore inheres to leftist institutions. To kill it you need right institutions. To do that, you may need a right egregore. We’re working on it.
Here she looks at some science on The Insidious Approach of Death. The good news is, people age at different rates. The bad news is, people all age.
Finally, Evolutionist X looks at the strange case of Somali Autism.
This Week in World Crass
Crassus points out how rapidly our taboo words have changed: Black linguist and alleged ‘white nationalist’ writer come to same conclusion on racial slurs.
File under living up to stereotype: Special Assistant to the President shot at her boyfriend when he wouldn’t give his cellphone passwords.
In international news, America asks hostile/backwards foreign countries to fight America’s gay marriage culture war. American foreign policy today may be modeled as Protestant mission societies of the 19th century with little loss of accuracy.
Another reason to like the guy: Donald Trump is fodder for Latino superstition. Chupacabra has been replaced.
Filed under You’re Welcome: Unarmed U.S. Marines in France more vigilant about Islamist terror than French security apparatus.
Hillary may be quite far from a brilliant strategist, but she’s more competent than Bernie Sanders: Hillary Clinton’s isolation room for Black Lives Matter protesters.
Finally, not only does Crassus read the NYT so you don’t have to; he goes meta on it in News That’s S**t to Print: NYT publishes raft of left-wing propaganda to counterbalance heroic American servicemen in France. Lolling at that “All the News that’s Shit to Print”. Not a new construction (about 1500 previous uses according to Le Goog), but new to me.
This Week… Elsewhere
Cane Caldo has some salient thoughts on why conservatives lose all battles culture war: Clash of the Nomenklaturas.
Matt Briggs pulls up yet another study in Parenthood is Too Gosh-Darn Dangerous: Is Young Fatherhood Causally Related To Midlife Mortality? Wee P-values Say Yes! And here he is on The Stream talking about sex: No, Half of British Youths Aren’t “Bisexual”. Biological sex that is. And how it’s essential to human nature.
Here, Briggs takes on a peer-reviewed article in Science: Trenberth Is Wrong About Global Warming: The PDO Is An Effect, Not A Cause. And he turns from merely bad science to… Naomi Klein, who just skips over the science formalities to get right to the dessert of moral handwringing. Also This Week in Doom—dead babies edition.
Kristor has been a lot of thinking about societies, cultures, and their cults lately. This week we have The Inevitable War of Incompatible Cults and Can Diverse Christian Sects Coexist Peacefully?
Also at The Orthosphere, Alan Roebuck finds some C.S. Lewis commentary on Trump.
Porter, astute commentary as always, describes The Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time. Featuring the rather eye-poppingly lovely girls of the University of Alabama’s ΑΦ. Also A “Catastrophe”, an imagined one, laid next to an actual one that our cultural masters failed to predict.
Filed under Great Minds Think Alike: Porter pens Hormesis on a Pale Horse, introducing the concept of “Social Hormesis” (okay well there are a whopping 45 google results at the time of this writing). Before I had a chance to read that however, I applied the concept in a slightly different (but certainly related) context on The Ask here. For bringing this meme to life, and generally just being an awesome writer, Porter wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
West Coast Reactionary, John Lawrence has a nice meditation on racial or ethnic nationalism and how not to do it: Blending In And Rising Above. Adam Wallace takes exception to some of Lawrence’s points with Popular Traditionalism? This discussion deserves more attention as it gets to the heart of what the alternative right is and what it may hope to do. Suffice it to say, I disagree a little bit with both of them. If you know me well, you can probably guess where and why.
Also at West Coast Reactionaries, Alfred Miller hurls a barrage of imprecations at the Worst Generation in Down with the PBS generation!
Pretty nice black-n-white movie review here from Kill to Party: Beta Anxiety and the Vampiric Alpha in Dracula (1931).
Sunshine Thiry does some back of the envelope calculations in Are you smarter than a primitive Stone Aged woman? The girls that Free Northerner wrote about last week would certainly not have passed.
Over at Thumotic, Frost has An Honest Review of Mike Cernovich’s Gorilla Mindset.
Ace has the obligatory vid (Dio this time!!) and some sound advice on sexual relations: “Between the velvet lies, there’s a Truth as hard as steel…”.
Real Gary has an illustration of Diversity as the old bait and switch. You want real intellectual diversity, so let me sell you this racial, sexual preference, or chromosomal diversity instead. Because, after all, isn’t all diversity really the same thing deep down inside?
Filed under Looking on the Bright Side, Laudato Si and the Feverish Summer praises the timeliness and anti-modernism of the Pope’s latest encyclical.
This Eva Brann lady, of St. John’s College (MD, Great Books), continues to be extremely impressive over at Imaginitive Conservertive. This week she brings us an extensive review with commentary on 20th century philosophy in Mental Imagery. This sentence struck me particularly as one the smooth stones David may have picked up before running at Goliath:
For my part, no theory is plausible which, yielding to mere logical squeamishness, fails to begin by honoring and to end by grounding what we naturally say and believe.
A failure of talk about human experience to comport with the same is prima facie evidence of bullshit—pardon me, I meant stercore taurum.
They have Did Religious Fanaticism Cause the Civil War?—a review of Thomas Fleming’s A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. And finally a nice meditation on the Overton Window (without explicitly mentioning it) in Agreeing to Disagree.
That’s all I had time for, folks. Sorry this is so late. Keep on Reactin’! ‘Til next week, TRP… Over and Out!
Better late than never. Thanks for the award–I’m glad you liked the post.
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