This Week in Reaction (2015/09/06)

Well, some Jew, claiming to speak for whites, named Jesse Benn penned this bit of indigestible fnord salad about how whites are evil in manifold, alluded to, but otherwise unspecified, ways. Nick Land has the tersest response:

Just to be clear: Speaking as a self-appointed representative for people you feel free to disassociate from at will is as annoying as hell. It’s hard for me to believe Benn is too stupid to see that, which leaves the malignant devious evil option.

If the West sees another mass outbreak of antisemitism, a plaintive “Why?” is going to look laughable. Benn’s ilk are why.

Amen!

Benn’s execrability was early week news. Then NIO dropped this Atlantic story on a private channel. William Bradford had the audacity to identify a cadre of tenured legal professors he dubbed CLOACA (contemptuous Critics of Law Of Armed Conflict in Academia, also a biological orifice) as internal enemies. He did so in this 185 page (776 footnote) article in the scholarly National Security Law Journal: “Trahison des Professeurs: The Critical Law of Armed Conflict Academy as an Islamist Fifth Column”. Therein he characterizes, in painstaking detail, what we have come to call The Cathedral:

Dogmatists patrolling an ideological fence around a zone of “decent opinion” create a hostile environment for scholars to undertake honest and searching inquiries regarding questions to which answers are already divined. If a CLOACA consensus deems coercive interrogation torture, targeted killing murder, and U.S. leaders war criminals, how can less-senior scholars, let alone the untenured, resist these diktats? If endowed chairs are the rewards for preaching CLOACA dogma regarding permissible methods and means of killing, capturing, detaining, interrogating, and prosecuting Islamists, and if academic purgatory awaits apostates who support U.S. policies, the inference that debate is closed and views contrary to the CLOACA consensus are errant and illegal is easy for outsiders to draw.

It’s impossible for mere excerpts to do this article justice. For this direct moral and intellectual attack against high ranking Cathedral Clerics, Dr. Bradford received renewed scrutiny of his resume, which led to his resignation from West Point. If you cannot read all of the Law Review article, read section II entitled “Etiology of a Fifth Column: Why CLOACA Attacks American Political Will on Behalf of Islamists”. It is a very well documented portrayal of everything neoreaction posits about the nature of power in liberal democracies. Professor Bradford also appears to have an, as yet, unpublished paper deliciously entitled Alea Iacta Est: The U.S. Coup of 2017. Unfortunately, we are left only with an abstract that wonders, inter alia:

If complete subordination of the military to civilian government is preferable to military intervention in the U.S., what constraints and limitations on government must civilian governors accept as the price of military abstention, and how else but by military intervention are those constraints and limitations to enforced?

His purge from West Point was no doubt a foregone conclusion, but how many more like him remain there, quietly and patiently instructing the next generation of American flag officers?

Jim went to mass and drew some lessons from the experience. I go to church for the sacraments. I wish I could go for reasons other than that. I’m constrained to believe disordered people can provide valid sacraments on the basis of their ontology alone. I’m not constrained to believe they will provide good advice for life and public order, except insofar as they teach what the Church has always and everywhere taught. And sadly that’s pretty rare these days.

Empedocles delivers part two of his series Restoring a Virtue-Based Ethics for the 21st Century—The Revival of Teleology: Functions as Selected Effects. This is very very good work.

So this is the function of the social emotions, to produce behavior that is beneficial in our relationships with other people. But what’s more is that the social emotions are designed to resist the appetites. In the soldier example above, the fear the individual felt was resisted by the concern for the good opinion of his squadmates. Our long history as social animals has shown that our relationships with others is often (though not always) more important that the immediate satisfaction of our appetites and emotions. Nature has given us the social emotions in order allow us to restrain the emotions and appetites in social situations where it is beneficial to do so.

And so this is the way to square Plato and Hume. Virtue is indeed the controlling of the appetites and emotions, but it is not the reason that does the controlling. Hume is right that reason alone can not produce or prevent a behavior. But he ignores the necessity to control our appetites in order for virtue to flourish. What controls the appetites in the case of social virtues is not reason but the social emotions which are designed to control the appetites and emotions in order to produce mutually-beneficial cooperative effects on others.

Because it would be unseemly to award Empedocles a Best of #NRx victory for each one of these valuable contributions to reactionary theory, he has to settle this week for an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀. (That still ain’t too shabby!)

Neocolonial has some extremely solid bullet points on Order Force. That thing you need for social cohesion that isn’t the police and military and which happens to not be permissible in the current order.

Sometimes… it’s hard to tell when Nick Land is simply highlighting the probability and potentiality for disruptive catastrophes from when he’s actively rooting for them. So far as I know, he’s never raised his hand to cause one though. Also a “review” (of sorts) of Terminator: Genisys.

This looks to be very enjoyable and worthwhile: Alfred Miller of West Coast Reactionaries has started a Woodworking Journal.

Another medium-sized (I guess) poem from #NRx Poet Laureate E. Anthony Gray: The Song of Winnowing, i.e., of souls. And also a vision: The Court’s Witness. Even darker.

Nydwracu borrows a term from Scott Alexander and goes on a big think piece of his own: Ambijectivity and objectivity. His conclusion, is a deusy:

In progressivism we find a single standard capable of total universality, a framework for judgment under which it makes sense to ‘objectively’ compare Beyonce to Burzum, or even to Donald Trump. The same thing can happen on the right: the meaning of ‘problematic’ there is not ‘*ist/*phobic’ but ‘godless’ or ‘degenerate’. Quality is morality, morality is thedishness, and thedishness is quality. Every act of media consumption or avoidance becomes a ritual reaffirmation of identity and moral superiority.

Proving, once again, the most famous thing that Chesterton never said. For his contributions to reactionary theory, Nyd wins another ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀.

Speaking of theory, Alrenous dropped a huge bit of it this week in a series on Morality. In three parts so far: Subjectivity and Objectivity, Psychological Egoism , and Value Reification. All of which appear to set the groundwork for more that is to come (and is in fact already published, but after the cut off for “last week”).

Mark Citadel takes a nuanced exception: Enjoy the Decline? Not Quite. Traditionalists don’t so much enjoy the decline as find ourselves avenged by it.

The ever-increasing entropy of our society makes for ever-more inane contradictions, self-parodies, and farcical stereotypes. Why might these bring us joy? Because they are like the scent of death from the opposing side of the battlefield, and now we know the torturers of man gasp their last. The decline carries us all with it, but our enemy’s death is theirs and theirs alone. To this we are only interested observers captivated by a spectacle, a pantomime. It is this which might bring us crude joy in the closing edge of the Iron Age.

Social Pathologist Slumlord has a Picture du jour that paints at least a thousand words… probably 10 thousand.

Speaking of Sinn Féin, Spandrell notes Nationalism isn’t about nations. At least, not anymore apparently. Then he takes a look on the bright side of the Syrian Refugee Crisis: At least they’re not subsaharan Africans!

Free Northerner has an interesting, and definitely new to me, idea about our present thedal lines: The Norman Hypothesis.

It is possible the roots of modern political differences are genetic in origin, extending past the American civil war, before the Glorious revolution, and back the conflict between the Norse Normans and the Teutonic Anglo-Saxons. Even more speculatively, could this go deeper to a genetic legacy from the split of the Germanic peoples or even the corded ware/battle axe culture era.

Also Northerner on the woes that never materialized from getting linked by Cosmo. Just not a very interested readership I guess. Divorce risk? Who could possibly care about that?!

Cambria Will Not Yield delivers his weekly epistle: On Bended Knee.

The revolutionary nature of the American experiment in democracy becomes crystal clear when we see how all the various branches of the revolutionary tribunal respond to black atrocities. It is that response which highlights the first principle of the revolution – ‘Some are more equal than others,’ namely, the black savages, because they are completely untainted by anything that stinks of the sins of the antique Europeans.

This Week in Social Matter

No Sunday article this week, so David Grant kicks off the week on Monday with another of his now patented trips through ancient history: Sparta’s Attempt At Balancing Innovation And Tradition.

Tuesday, Henry delivers Equality and the Wars On Poverty, Terrorism, and Drugs. He recounts the manifold ways in which maintaining the fiction of equality while simultaneously maintaining a genuinely liberal form of life is getting ever harder. Liberalism is white peoples’ values. Equality or freedom, choose one or get neither.

On Wednesday, Anthony DeMarco’s (who still is Surviving Babel in the predicate sense) and my conversation with Hestia Tetrarchs Warg Franklin and Anton Silensky aired: Ascending The Tower – Episode IX – “Learning to Think Well”. Wherein we explore ideas of Moldbug’s Antiversity. Franklin and Silensky do most of the talking, and do it well. It is I think one of the clearest portraits that has been painted in public of #NRx ideas since the formalization of neoreaction under the auspices of Hestia Society in May. Do listen. It’s a little long, but it’s very deep.

This Week in Henry Dampier

Henry is really all the way back with Training a Bureaucratic Population. Unassuming title? Check. Tight, matter-of-fact sentences? Check. Laser-guided destruction of every prog shibboleth of the last 150 years? BTFO!

What’s important about developing a bureaucrat is creating the correct emotional temperament. It doesn’t have much to do with cultivating excellence, because the presence of excellence tends to be disruptive to any bureaucratic setting, as excellence tends to be unpredictable and challenging to account for. Adult bureaucrats tend to complain a lot about ‘stress,’ in part because they have been trained from an early age to respond to distress resulting from verbal disapproval by authorities and peers. This takes a lot of repetitive operant conditioning, which is one of the top reasons why school curricula tend to be so repetitive and pointless on the surface. The purpose isn’t to create good calculators or a labor force aware of trigonometry, but to create a mass of people who are docile, predictable, and easily frightened into compliance.

The long term consequence of this has been an overproduction in clerk-like personalities. Because the state mandates that everyone go through clerk training, you wind up with a homogenous population marked by the character traits that have been historically associated with clerks — bad physical health, obedience to authority, intense respect for arbitrary rules, a weak aesthetic sensibility, an obsession with official approval, and androgyny.

How can one man get so much right in so little space? Practice, practice, practice, I guess. RTWT! The selection committee had an excruciating time choosing an over all winner this week, but Henry gets the nod for this one: ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀.

On Tuesday, Monsieur Dampier brings us Humane, Egalitarian Terror, which ain’t too shabby either. Herein, he documents the fact that Egalitarian International Pathological Altruism makes perfect sense on its own perfectly horrifying terms.

Next up with an assist from the late great Larry Auster: The European ‘Refugee Crisis’ Is Funny. Funny ha ha? Or funny like the cannibals eating the clown? Drink enough of your own bathwater, and this is what happens:

What started as a noble dream of universal elevation has turned into a funny spectacle of aging Europeans dreaming of having their adult diapers changed by dutiful Syrians, who will contribute to the market economy —and the state social security system that lives off of it—in a way that they were never able to do in their home countries.

Good luck, Europe! If it helps, I hear Kenya is quite beautiful this time of year.

On Thursday, Dampier talks about John Brown and #BlackLivesMatter. Basically it pays to be a terrorist, if you have friends in high places.

This is also one of the weaknesses in a cultural system which enshrines absolute free speech in law and custom — which, it should be said, the American state has always been capable of banning speech that it doesn’t like during wartime, especially during the Revolutionary, Civil, and World wars. So it’s silly to make an appeal to tradition or law in saying that the state has its hands tied with respect to the restriction of speech dangerous to public order.

Silly? Perhaps. Effective? No doubt. We are, by pretense, a nation of laws and not of men. As such, it is of crucial significance Who decides to justify the enforcement of which laws against Whom.

And then on Friday (Friday??!!) another tour de force: The Nation-State Undermines Itself.

Identitarians and other nationalists tend to argue that the total state which began flexing its authority in the 18th century can be restored to its former glory by eliminating the complicating influences of foreigners and people of other religions. While there’s nothing all that wrong with such a proposal — deporting and importing foreigners has been a political tool for millennia used in all political systems for various purposes — it also ignores the long term, multi-generational effects of the usurpation of civil life by states and the consequences of that.

He goes on to recount the generational effects, mostly irreversible, that the modern fascist state has had. Chronic kinglessness had us eating through the seed corn long ago. Today, we’re sowing civilizational ground with salt.

States will tend to put up the pretense that they expect to survive as independent institutions up until the moment that the tanks roll up to the capitol building — and so the nation-state is in ‘Baghdad Bob’ mode, particularly in the West. ‘Baghdad Bob’ believed that the Republican guards were pushing back the Americans because he needed to believe it, and because his job was to transmit that authentic belief in falsehood.

Henry not only takes the cake with his bureaucracy conditioning piece, but takes home an additional ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀ to boot.

Then over the weekend, he’s got a big excerpt of Reihan Salam about the melting pot—or rather the complete lack of one.

Did I mention Henry Dampier is back? He is very very back!

This Week in 28 Sherman

Son of Brock Landers is also back. With a couple of scalps, I hear. He kicks off the week with The Maturation of Roosh.

The fun has been watching him grow from writing “how to get laid” to “the gender situation is awful” to “we need to make a stand and build something better”.

On Tuesday, while assuring us the Financial Apocalypse is not quite yet, he does note that the FED And Media Are Out Of Sync. An intramural spat of sorts. The FED needs the media to carry its water, but the media carries whatever water it damn well pleases.

The media needs a materially comfortable population to keep the consumer machine going and democratic facade alive. If the West is fragmenting like this with Medicare facing insolvency in 2030 and Social Security reducing benefits automaticlaly in 2033, what happens when those numbers get 2020s dates? This will happen with the next recession because we have had crap for jobs and wage growth. When the money glue cannot keep the multicultural gollem together, what happens to these already strained racial and ethnic relations? Are white Millenials going to pull the plug on gramma in order to pay for Demarcus’ 3rd kids’ after school program and his SSI for “anxiety”? Are “on the fence”, apolitical Boomers going to keep buying the progressive pupu platter, staying quiet and paying for some Buffalo Bill’s reassignment surgeries to feel pretty when the system they paid into for decades cuts their benefits by 25%? No.

For his excellent analysis of the polygon power structure, SoBL wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀ for this article.

In Jeb Bush = Rachel Dolezal = Shaun King, SoBL discusses the hitherto unknown (to me) “14 year freshness rule”. Jeb has many other problems too. Thankfully, his lack of freshness dominates and therefore he has zero chance.

He continues to observe the centennial of WW1 in a picture rich article: Scale Is Incomprehensible.

Finally, filed under Wow I Can’t Believe No One Noticed THAT Yet, SoBL, who listens to popular music so you don’t have to, is looking for a finder’s fee in When’s the “Ex’s and Oh’s” Lawsuit?

This Week in World Crass

Now why didn’t I hear about this on NPR: High-paid officer at EPA so bored by climate change that he turns to criminal side projects?

Filed under Well, Good For Them… Not on the side of the angels: Satanic Temple champions Planned Parenthood by waterboarding women with milk. Truly, enthusiastic support for child sacrifice is to be preferred over milquetoasty “safe, legal, rare” rhetoric. I doubt Satan is very pleased with people having a modicum of courage for their convictions.

Trumps criticism of Jeb Bush seems rather deliberate: Political pundit Niccolo Machiavelli on low-energy heads of state.

Nice graphic here: Europe is the greatest argument for the Great Wall of Trump. Walls have never been more popular, and the technology to build them has never been cheaper.

Crassus has the story of Kim Davis’ courage in the face of judicial caprice: Pour encourager les autres! County clerk who disagrees with same-sex marriage is entrapped and jailed.

Filed under this could come in handy: The liars’ tells of our leaders: Clinton bit his lip; Jeb blinks uncontrollably.

This Week in Evolutionist X

Evolutionist XX starts the week off by asking: Is Disgust Real? It is, of course. And one of the chief faults of modernity, is making disgust an enemy of rational thought in moral calculations.

More on the topic with Disgust part 3: Disney explains Disgust. This has been a pretty good series thus far. Disgust evolved not only to protect us from disease vectors, but to protect us (females mostly, but all of us eventually) from unsuitable gametes…

Women complain about men’s unreasonable beauty standards, but it’s the women who rate 80% of men unattractive. Men, by contrast, rate most women as around “average” attractiveness.

As I noted a few days ago, this is all most likely because women have actually evolved to find male sexuality disgusting. A woman only needs 1-4 men in her life, not thousands, so any men other than her chosen few are little more than threats.

This is as good a place as any to point again to Slumlord’s thoughts on the centrality of overcoming disgust for successful marriage and family life. Women should be perfectly disgusted with male sexuality, except for that of one male, her husband. That will make both of them supremely happy. If she loses disgust for male sexuality in general, she’ll be a whore; if only for a few select masculine brutes, an alpha widow; if for all men entirely, a monstrous frigid bitch. There is a tiny sweet spot for women… and it lies smack dab in the middle of traditional western religious culture. Tear down this fence, as we have, and tear down Western Civilizaiton.

Evolutionist X takes a broad look at Family, Nation, and History. Data plus nostalgia with an admixture of feels. I especially liked the decade-specific Billboard chart data. Also, sad to hear about the de-evolution of the American Girls franchise.

Here she reviews her predictions from 10 years ago and makes predictions for 10 years hence. A little unquantifiable on some, but we shall see. And then another review: Decoding Neanderthals on PBS (Nova). I saw that myself. On Netflix. Enjoyed it.

Finally this week, Evolutionist X has Some Notable Nigerians. There actually were a few.

This Week… Elsewhere

Kristor: “Having come into existence from nothing turns out to be an inherent aspect of contingent being“. This seems utterly inescapable to me.

Bonald reports that a Focus on the fashionable is not just a “Catholic pious BS thing”. Clearly Bonald has got to get out more. Not only is not a merely a “Catholic pious BS thing”, it’s hardly a “Catholic pious BS thing” at all. In fact, as a former evangelical, I was shocked to find it in the Catholic Church. In the Church’s favor, I find that Catholics do it so badly that it cannot possibly long survive.

And then… this: Ironies of democratic alienation.

The point of democracy was to remove the alienation of authority. No more separation of ruler and subject. The polis belongs to everybody, and everybody is responsible for it. There’s no one to point to and say “He’s in charge. He’s responsible.” Today, this promise of democracy is fulfilled to an even greater degree through bureaucracy. We are ruled by rules, and no one in particular is responsible for these rules. This obviously hasn’t worked for curing alienation.

Authority is visible power, responsible power (in the sense that there is a clear person in charge who is to blame), the agency of the state made manifest, made one will among many. Eliminate authority, and power must remain, but it must be invisible, which means it must be irresponsible.

For this contribution to reactionary theory, Bonald wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀.

Also from Bonald: Kim Davis disproves liberal theory. This is precisely correct. Kim Davis is not poster-child/martyr for freedom of religion, so much as living proof that such a thing cannot exist.

With a boost from Taleb, Chris Gale pens an astute warning to those who are tempted to understand too much in the social sciences Psychiatry and skin in the game.

[T]he parallel I’m considering is being a clinician who works with evidence based statisticians. Someone who writes guidelines, reviews, does clinical trials… and still works in a clinical setting. For most people who I see clinically would never get into a trial. They have too many co-morbidities. They mistrust the system, at times with good cause.

Those who do get into any clinical trial are not the same as the people who end up in a doctor’s consulting room. nor in an acute ward against their will. The population: in technical terms, the sampling frame, is different. And what you conclude in the trial may or may not apply in the clinic.

Like the old saying goes: “The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.” For his outstanding contribution here, Chris Gale wins his first (I think) ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀. Congratulations!

Also some good news from University of Tennessee: The gender-neutral pronoun suggestion has been nixed. Gale says: Good start. Now sack them. Indeed, in an institution built to resist left entryism, that is exactly what would happen. Unfortunately, no such institution is known to exist in the western world.

Cane Caldo on The War Conservatives Never Knew They Lost, or the war to defend a potemkin village built by our enemies, i.e., the war that ended with the War to End All Wars, i.e., the war that has never been fought in the lives of those now living.

Sunshine Thiry asks: Why are modern women so anxious? Good question. A money quote:

One woman who had recently completed her PhD and had her third child was talking about the constant sensation of anxiety she lives with and how she’s tired of being told to go to therapy. “The last thing I need is another thing on the calendar,” she’d said. “I just want them to give me drugs.” Most of the other working mothers there nodded in agreement.

Donal Graeme gets confirmation from A Second Opinion: Yes, things really are that bad.

Dalrock shows just how hard it is to drive Victorian-era lies out of the psychosocial vocabulary, even of inveterate antifeminist Robert Stacy McCain in Don’t play hard to get. More here. I think Dalrock, as he usually does, gets it exactly right: Women are no more moral than men. (Arguably, less so, but that’s a(whole)nother post.) It’s just that their favorite brand of promiscuity has lately gotten some good press.

Interesting essay over at Imaginative Conservative: When Books Die, All at Once. It would appear that illiteracy today is like dying of thirst at sea.

What could be worse than universities mandating gender-neutral pronouns? Merely suggesting them, and then punishing people for not taking the suggestion. After all, why should the university, by the force of general rules, take away from its mandarin the delicious pleasure achieved by personally marking down her own troglodyte, hate-filled students, so desperately in want of personal correction. No coercion here. No, not at all. Here is Briggs on The Stream with a Global Warming Update: Obama Seeks to Still the Glaciers of Alaska.

Briggs also takes a pox on both their houses approach: Frequenstism Is Entirely Ad Hoc; And So Are Priors. Use The Third Way Instead. As well: The Week In Doom: If You Like Your Religion, You Can Keep Your Religion.

Al Fin has some great recommendations for the enrichment of Dangerous Kids (of Dangerous Parents) in Learning to Fly, Navy Seal Training, SCUBA Training.

Over at the Kakistocracy, Porter has Just Your Standard Deviation in which the virtues of having relatively small measures of deviation from the mean all else equal are praised. Future Tech Today recounts the great technological strides made in Venezuela to do what many hitherto thought impossible by our chattering classes: repel unarmed invaders.

Also from Porter, a masterful bit of analysis and commentary on our clerical caste: They are the Law.

The Constitution may not say what we assure it intends, but we can feel the emanations.

And it is from those dank shafts of disingenuousness that raw dominion is mined. Borne at crotch level, this tattered document is wielded as a magical talisman. Lowly lumpenproles wait sullenly every supreme court session to learn what will be the latest of their founding traditions to be defenestrated.

In view of Dr. Bradford’s indictment of the legal professoriate that I spent a lot of time reading this week, it is not just the SCOTUS to blame here. But an entire culture in which, by attempting to be a nation of laws not men, divorced power and authority and thereby received the worst abuses of both. Louis XIV would blush at the power wielded by by nameless, faceless bureaucrats. To say nothing of Anthony Kennedy. More on Ms. Davis’ defenestration here.

Porter was simply on a tear this week, offering here some commentary on the “European “Refugee “crisis”””… Submitting to Subhi.

Everyone by now knows of Vienna’s fallen gates. What Suleiman the Magnificent could not achieve by force of arms in the 16th century, his descendants now complete by force of altruism. Imagine the fury of Europe’s past invaders to learn that all conquest required was columns of filthy screaming men and pregnant women.

Eva Brann returns to Imaginative Conservative with another monumental essay: “Plato’s Theory of Ideas”—so-called. Also a nice quote from Forrest McDonald: Is History Subjective? McDonald was one of my main sources for my undergraduate senior thesis in history. In the ’80s.

A 1769 woodcut of Pope Night celebrations in Colonial Boston

J. Arthur Bloom asks Did Catholicism become ‘compatible with the American experiment’ before or after the pope-burning stopped? It’s actually worse than that I think: Catholicism only became tolerable when a denatured version of it emerged. Also in Mitrailleuse News, James Miller has an article in Taki’s: Higher Learning at an All-Time Low. Animal House was apparently just a prelude. If politicians want to make higher education more affordable, the law of supply and demand admits of only one solution: Drain the Swamp! And that will mean spend less government money, not more. Ideally $0.00. Actually… ideally -$100 billion. Charge these blood suckers for existing.

Peppermint has a superb meditation on Nation and Nationalism.

Over at Mansized Target, Roman Dmowski has an observation on Europe’s Refugee Crisis.

There is something like cause and effect in this world. And here the cause is the West, its leaders, and their infantile pretensions of liberation and democracy. The effect is chaos, terrorism, refugee crises, Islamist democracy, street fighting in Hungary, and dead kids washing up on European beaches.

Ideas have consequences: They produce actions that have consequences.

Kill to Party seems to have this schtick where he “reviews” old movies in the light of reactionary social theory. It is a very good schtick! Here he mashes up 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the Nature of Evolution.

Henry Harpending makes a rare appearance to tell us Greg Cochran is back home after his surgery. It appears all is well, but Harpending is having a few medical problems of his own.

Sorry this is late folks… and oh my, looky there, I’m buried under this week’s new (and excellent) stuff already. I shall endeavor to catch up. Til next week… Keep on Reactin’! TRP, over and out!!