This Week in Reaction (2015/09/13)

The Original Tacoma Narrows Bridge; an important piece of infrastructure July 1 thru Nov 7, 1940.

Our top story this week appears to be Mr. Anon’s hyperventilation at Daily Kos: Donald Trump and Neoreaction: Why what he represents must be buried permanently. Sorry, Mr. Anon, you are no Nikita Khrushchev. So good luck with that. While 98% of neoreactionary support for The Donald is purely ironic in nature, we gladly accept the false blame for all of the things that progressives deem evil. #Gamergate, GMOs, cancelling Firefly. That was us, too!

The mixed publicity for #NRx is given a superbly crafted sendup by Dante: DAILY KOS WRITER GETS SOMETHING RIGHT ENTIRELY BY ACCIDENT, IS STILL RETARDED.

I was meeting with Warg this past weekend and I brought up the TWiR. He called it “an important piece of infrastructure”. That’s probably the nicest thing anyone’s said about this blog in a while. So here, reactionaries and alt-right-curious of all stripes, is your weekly Important Piece of Infrasctructure…

NIO says Rule by Protocol, whether by separation of powers via constitutional law or peer-to-peer cryptographic authentication, doesn’t work. It’s one of his hobby-horses, but he’s absolutely correct on this point. Along the way we are treated to some excellent passages from Moldbug, Machiavelli, and Kuehnelt-Leddihn. NIO spins some good paragraphs of his own. Like:

It is one of the major tragedies, if not the major tragedy of Anglo-American political thought that the role of the leader has been so maligned and belittled that it has either been deemed disposable or subject to protocol. The only fitting comparison would be if it was deemed that Michelangelo, Vermeer, Constable or any other artistic genius (or genius in any field for that matter) were optional and that a simple referral to a vote or survey of individuals could create a masterpiece.

The truth of the matter is that leadership is an art, and rest on judgement and individual brilliance. Those that operate on the belief that leadership can be passed to protocol implicitly reject this, and operate on the basis that anyone can wield power, and everyone should.

More from NIO on the topic: Lies and Reaction. For the contribution to neoreactionary theory in this pair of posts, he wins the ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀.

Future Primaeval was active this week. Warg Franklin finds “Principles” Considered Harmful. All of them. Well… Most of them. But not most of the time. The real principle behind his distrust of principles seems to be overreliance upon them:

[B]e suspicious of any idea that seeks to replace judgement. The world is a complex place, and if simple formulae were enough to navigate it, we wouldn’t need brains.

Also, filed under How Hard Is It To Have A Dang Follow Button, I missed Harold Lee’s article over there from a couple weeks ago: Of culture wars and Mongol hordes; Of immigrants and kings.

Neovictorian says The Failure of the “Social Sciences” is the Failure of Progressivism. Ironically, not all areas of psychological research are subject to consistent replication failures… the areas that everyone ignores because they don’t give progressive answers. Neovic quotes his 3 year younger self:

One hundred years ago Robert A. Heinlein was about to turn five and people of a wide variety of political and philosophical views, from Freud to H. G. Wells to Woodrow Wilson, believed that economics, psychology and sociology were taking their first firm steps toward becoming true sciences, where national and world economies would be managed in steady prosperity without booms and busts, criminals and the mentally ill would be reformed or healed through drugs and therapy, and populations would be managed toward happiness through education, advertising and techniques like mass hypnosis and official propaganda. Eventually, all of these efforts would be put on a firm base of physics and neuroscience and mathematical statistics, with formulas fed into computing devices and the right answers for societal management coming out.

Social Science as Branch of Physics has not so much been tried and found useless as it has been found difficult and left untried. And unfunded. Shilling for leftist projects however has been found very profitable indeed.

Jim likes the Trump candidacy for one reason: It forces our cultural masters to occasionally tell the truth about the shame nature of democracy. And here is Jim noticing the differences between Bill and Hillary.

Also from Jim: Diversity means defection—even when you have people of equal ability. Phenotypic diversity is the wrong kind of diversity. What you need is diversity of expertise within a broad framework of phenotypic and cultural homogeneity. That’s the kind of diversity that put men on the moon. Diverse white men putting white men on the moon.

And then this: A lost military technology.

It seems obvious to me that a soldier being led by a member of the ruling class who is soaking up the bullets from in front is a lot more likely to be loyal and brave than a soldier sent into battle by distant rulers safely in Washington who despise him as a sexist homophobic racist murderer, that a soldier who sees a his commander, a member of the ruling classes, fighting right in front of him, is reflexively likely to fight.

And yet most within the ruling class did exactly that. Why?

Presumably they got social status, which could be cashed in for wealth and power. This however requires that we award social status for activities that are actually constructive and support society and order, and that we then allow social status to be cashed in. Which means we have to make sure that social status is not awarded for superior holiness – we have to hang Greenpeace from the yardarm when they engage in piracy on the high seas, and send William Wilberforce to west indies as a slave to cut sugarcane in punishment for apostasy.

Jim wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀ for this thought-provoking post.

Speaking of Diversity, Sydney Trads have up a big opinion piece: So, ‘Diversity is Strength’, is it? Um. No. They seem to think.

Obviously, this diversity is strength nonsense is pushed only on the gullible, because only the gullible believe obvious nonsense to be true. No people with a healthy sense of self-respect and pride in its own unique identity would believe such a dangerously suicidal falsehood. Korean society is certainly not weak for being largely homogenous; such homogeneity can provide the social capital necessary for economic solidarity, and an
argument could be made that such solidarity might have had a positive impact on Korea’s ability to weather the 2009 global financial crisis. The Koreans are no fools.

Koreans not named Ban Ki Moon at least.

Mark Citadel has a big post up on The Guiding Voice of the Old Right in which the modernism inherent to most new right political movements is highlighted and critiqued. And towards the end of the week, Mark has a fantastic review of the obscure Romanian Corneliu Zelea Codreanu’s For My Legionaries.

Filed under Sometimes It Takes a Mischling (I kid, I hope he knows that), Antidem is back with Crown Of Creation: An Analysis Of The Coen Brothers’ “A Serious Man”.

Shylock Holmes considers policy in an age of heart-wrenching viral photos in Of the Personal and Statistical:

I suspect that the particularist temptation is to wave [the Roman capitulation to the Goths in 376] away as a largely abstract and irrelevant example. It doesn’t resonate emotionally, that’s for sure.

But the human catastrophe that resulted from the destruction of the Western Roman Empire was a tragedy that affected Europe for the next thousand years.

If you’re waving that away, which one of us is sounding like Stalin now?

To be unmoved by the picture of the dead Syrian boy is to be a monster. But to be moved by it toward some ill-conceived and ill-considered “solution” is likely to have even more monstrous, even if less acute, consequences. There is room to be a monster of neither sort.

One Irradiated Watson drops part one of his three (I’m told) part series Private Cities: Centralized and Decentralized. Repeatability is extremely rare in the social sciences, but occasionally you can get control groups. Gurgaon and Faridabad, India are one such experiment. A lot of really good stuff here. E.g., straight talk on “corruption”, which is more often than not a progressive weasel word:

No one would call a thief corrupt, nor would one call a Chieftain corrupt even if they might display the same behavior. In first case there is no expectation of morality and in the second the behavior is consistent with the powers of their station. In either case there are no such expectations for “uncorrupted” conduct. It may be rational and sane for a Chieftain to accept the employ by a wealthier civic body. So can a baron be corrupt? The answer is only if he is part of a larger political structure and only if that structure attempts to impose a set of standards. Corruption then is a matter of formalized expectations within a larger system.

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Sadly we are left only with Western studies on corruption, which I would hazard underestimate the ways in which Western countries have systemized and formalized corruption. You might not have to pay a bribe to get something built in America but you may *want* to donate to someone’s campaign. Again defining corruption falls into pitfalls because its definition is based on the theory of legitimacy and a standard of the “normal” functioning of the state. Just because one is de jure uncorrupted doesn’t mean there isn’t de facto corruption.

Ultimately, according to Watson, it comes down to whether the corrupt official is a stationary bandit, who is motivated to “tax” his “victims” at a low enough rate so as not to interfere with their on-going wealth generation; or a roving bandit, who’s just trying to get all he can as quick as he can. But of course they’re bandits, of course they’re “corrupt”. What kinds of corruption work for the common good and what kinds don’t? That’s the real question. For his efforts thus far, Watson wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀. [Part II is already up but not in this fiscal TWiR week. (Shhh.) I’ll link to it (and maybe part 3) next week.]

Franz Boaz has been dubbed the Father of American Anthropology (without irony apparently)

Reactionary Tree has decided to do a series on Culture of Critique, beginning with The Decline of Darwinism. It good bit of history and analysis. Documentation of the influence of “tribal partisans” within anthropology, a field dominated by Marxists practically from its inception, is especially strong. His reception of an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀ nomination comes as no surprise.

Nick Land points with some approval at hidden gem by a curious observer from January. Yuray left a comment there at the time. I could swear I’d seen this post, but find no link from me to it. Until now. Also from Land: Pan-Secessionism.

More installments in Alrenous’ Morality series: 3—Value Reification and 4—Ethitropism, Property, and Cooperation.

E. Anthony Gray pens a short poem Pandora’s Spirits.

Nydwracu has some thoughts on Two equilibria:

[A] structure can either be nice enough that few oppose it (by, for example, allowing and incentivizing its enemies to recant) or brutal enough that no one can coordinate against it.

The middle is unstable. And any upset to the balance only goes one way, i.e., ratcheting toward repression.

Free Northerner counts the ways we’re Swimming Left, or at least some of them. They are ultimately too numerous to count. You know how to neocons it’s always 1939. Well, to shrill liberals it’s always 1932, and Hitler is always just about to take power: The Brown Scare. Progressivism must always be David. But the putrid pile of dead Goliaths is getting too large to ignore.

I’d suggest that Slumlord is overreacting with Cucks and C..nts, but it might just make him more angry. He’s definitely got some valid points there. But I’m not buying the overall tenor though. We must be careful to distinguish between mild, natural European racial consciousness and genuine hatred. Using naughty words does not, by itself, rise to the level of the latter.

CWNY’s weekly offering: Ganelon’s Treachery Returns.

In Dante’s Inferno only the Devil himself is placed lower in hell than Ganelon. But now Europe is governed by a whole host of Ganelons.

This Week in Social Matter

Ryan Landry returns, scalps in hand, to his Sunday TWiR Week-Kicker-Offer position with Orban’s Defiance. Hungary’s prime minister is turning out far less For Sale to the International Elite than expected. After their huge win in 2010, Orban and his party Fidesz took aim at several branches of Polygon control. Not only did they crack down on media “freedoms”, but importantly have

…taken aim at foreign NGOs and paid off the IMF loan early that Hungary accepted prior to his recent premiership. Expelling NGOs is a new approach Russia started and that others, like Hungary and India, are following. Orban’s government is aware of the undermining influence that NGOs supply a host nation.

While originally a product of it, Orban now stands as a rejection of the globalist mission. Speaking out publicly against this wretched policy and weakness of Western elites is important not just in fact, but in symbolism and source…. This is a head of state pointing out the bankruptcy of the West.

Good news, of course. And yet another indicator that the grip western elites have held in the post-WW2 world is slipping. The question remains, however, whether such policies will work north and west of the Hajnal Line. If not yet, then when?

David Grant makes the next installment of his grand lessons of history with The Spartan Empire.

Mark Christiansen returns to Social Matter with a bracing, rhetorical piece: Absolution. You don’t bear the blame for drowned children. Others do:

Every journalist who incited their audiences to wars in lands they knew nothing about.

Every talking head whose propaganda convinced the ignorant that Arab and African Muslims would welcome White “crusaders” with open arms.

Every think tank scholar who enticed us to enter stable countries and set liberal democracy upon them.

Every preacher who told wrong-headed Christians that these wars would further their Lord’s return.

Every political cuckold who loyally furthered the interests of foreign lobbies ahead of those of their own states.

Every academic who worships at the demonic altar of Social Progress and works to extend its reign across the world.

In his Thursday column, Henry Dampier throws in the towel on moderation and suggests the time has come to just Ban White Men From College. Oh, if only.

This Week in Henry Dampier

Henry Dampier begins the week by lifting a long passage from the late and great Lawrence Auster in Worship of the Other. He concludes with a few sharp remarks of his own:

Faith in the ability of rational argumentation to move minds is radically misplaced when it’s applied to the masses in a mass political system. It’s insane to think that this new wave of religious belief can be suppressed with logical appeals, because the enthusiasm is illogical and immune to rational persuasion. It would be comforting if there was a rationalistic evil conspiratorial agenda behind it, because then you’d at least be dealing with sane but evil people who might be persuaded out of their political positions.

Once you identify progressivism as a religion—not “like a religion”, not has religious aspects, but an honest to god religion religion—you realize just how short rational arguments from the right, tho’ we have the better of them, will ultimately fall. How can you can argue a person out of his religion if he was never argued into it in the first place? This is a problem for the Affective Domain.

Next he talks about the Jobs the Educated Won’t Do, which is a fair point actually. What interests Dampier is why. And for that we turn to Horace Mann’s inane, but neverthelss canonical, thoughts on education in a republic ruled by the people, which Henry succinctly summarizes:

So, to make popular democracy feasible, the common people needed an education similar to that given to the sovereigns of Europe in matters of state.

LAUGH TRACK

Why do cargo cults persist long after the cargo stops coming? Somebody’s making some money on the deal.

Did I mention Dampier’s been reading a lot of Larry Auster? Well, he drops some other choice Auster quotes here in Revenge of the Rest Against the West.

On Wednesday, Henry tells The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf How to Stop Conservative Demagoguery. Take away their voice and kick those morons right the hell outa here:

The most direct way to both make the United States more conservative, overall, in its governance while also ending the demagoguery is to put a stop to the tyranny of the popular vote. Without the popular vote, popular political entertainers will lose much of their ability to interfere with the political process. It will also formalize the existing arrangement of the state — which diverges dramatically away from the civics-class arrangement that people tend to believe exists, in error. Ending the popular vote will also give Washington more flexibility to keep society progressing to a glorious future. A good second step would be to kick the most recalcitrant states out of the union. Reconstruction was tried; Reconstruction failed. A smaller, leaner, more progressive United States will emerge, while the rest will be able to regress at their own pace.

Next we have: The Global South Marches On the Global North. Henry doesn’t see this as an elite conspiracy. It’s much worse than that…

If, your whole life, you have been raised to believe that your highest and most sacred mission is to shower money, attention, and resources on the third world, it’s not terribly likely that it’ll be possible to persuade you out of it. This is more frightening than the conspiratorial vision of elite behavior, which tends to interpret self-destruction as part of a hidden plot instead of dreamlike self-annihilation. Rational evil can be dealt with in rational terms, through argument and persuasion. Holy insanity can only be opposed directly or survived by hunkering down.

For his excellent contribution to and encapsulation of neoreactionary thought, Mr. Dampier win a coveted ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀.

On Friday, Henry is on Alexander Hamilton On Immigration As Trojan Horse. Which shows that there once was rational public debate on the topic of immigration. Ah, those were the days!

Finally on Saturday, we are treated to Popular Government Is Active Government.

When the better course of action is to do nothing, people reigning over a popular government will almost never take that option. Inactivity would take them out of the public eye, and give an opportunity to other ambitious people within the political system to displace them. Bad law piles upon bad law while useless public projects pile up to flatter the reputations of demagogues and faceless state bureaucracies.

…said like that’s a good thing, apparently.

I remember when “demagogue” was a term of opprobrium. Nowadays, it seems almost no one even knows what it means. “Education” is a gift that keeps on giving. Because it purports to solve an unsolvable problem: How to make everyone above average. Hence, there’s no amount of good money after bad, the throwing away of which cannot be justified… because “the children”… and because “well, at least we’re trying”.

As the Revolution ages, many of its old policies, much like its physical representations on Earth, need new coats of paint and renovations to maintain the pretense that this time, they’ll get it right. The failures of public education transform into new redemptive pushes through new slogans and testing regimes along with new infusions of treasure. The opposition gins up enthusiasm by resisting the new push while rarely questioning the larger systemic failure. The Revolution finds nothing to revolt against except itself, and in the process, it lays waste to everything around it.

Henry wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀ for this one as well. He’s just producing super stuff right now!

This Week in 28 Sherman

On Monday, SoBL is out of the gates quickly with a two-fer. First up he has a Silver Bullet for the “Migrant Crisis”. Supply meets demand: Send ’em to China.

Second, SoBL talks about the #NRORevolt, which was also big news this week. I sort of ignored it, because I can’t stand those irresponsible poseurs. But SoBL was paying attention. “‘Jump”, ‘How high?’ and you are the false opposition.” This article is a rant, but it is a very good rant.

And how quick have all of you [NRO] been to jump on the hicks, skinheads, and other insults the Left throws at flyover America? To paraphrase Tyler Durden in Fight Club.

Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not… fuck with us.

Do the interests of the elite [NRO] align with the population it supposedly represents? This is why immigration is so critical. This is simple population replacement and importation of completely different peoples, religions, thedes, tribes, etc. This isn’t simple, send enough people to college and you’ll brainwash everyone to 1970s Alan Alda.

Filed under Not Actually Joking, SoBL has a Video Game Idea: Immigration Invasion.

Finally another pic from WW1: August Von Mackensen.

This Week in Kakistocracy

Deeply thoughtful, deeply critical, everything Porter writes is pretty darn good. And he posts often. That’s moar than enough to qualify for his own “This Week in…” section. And so… it exists. He begins the week looking at the contradictions inherent to an Empire just past Peak Freshness in Transmission Not Received:

By any honest evaluation, modern Europe-derived people appear to be the most weak, gullible, groveling, and maladaptive beings conceivable. Prone to the most extravagant cultural whimsies along with mortal displays of moral preening, it seems we’re less suited for Earth’s competitive environment than fish on wheels. Which is impossible given that we are here to complain about it at all.

Every tribe still screaming is a living testament to its own evolutionary fitness. History is littered with those less so. Our ancestors, along with whatever creatures preceded them, were extraordinarily cunning and resilient in outlasting the countless species and civilizations that now watch this scrum from the grave. It can not be overstated how demonstrably successful at adapting and thriving we have been.

And yet our countries lie spread like $2 whores, while we wimper and scrape before the same antagonists who rely on us for their very sustenance. Our competitive advantages are incalculable, and yet it is our numbers, confidence, and territory in recession, as theirs blossom like fungus after the rain.

Did I mention he could write? I’d quibble with his assertion that memetic transmission from horizontal to vertical. If at all so, that’s only because it shifted from vertical to horizontal long ago. But over all, this essay is a compelling indictment of our current moral malaise.

Speaking of the “Refugee “Crisis””, the demographic makeup of the hordes seems… erm… a bit off: Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Hurl Feces.

Apparently Apple, Inc., had some really really important news last week. Porter paid attention so you didn’t have too: This is a Big Deal:

What’s so interesting about Apple is that in relation to total revenues and profits it is essentially a telephone manufacturer. And such contrivances are commoditized very quickly. But Apple is not remotely priced as a commodity concern (which, in fairness, it isn’t entirely). Though to retain its elevated market multiple, Apple executives are obliged to manufacture something far more valuable than mere circuit boards: lust.

The fallacy of the excluded middle goes under the scalpel in A Logical Conclusion:

A man of not far past vintage could reasonably have wanted blacks treated with dignity while simultaneously wishing for America to retain its European culture and demographics. He would have certainly considered himself open-minded and liberal for his altruism. Today he would be considered a neo-nazi. That is because liberalism denudes the mind of its necessary capacity for making judgements along a gradient. If we say 1, we are not required to say 100. If we swim a pool, there is no compulsion to swim the ocean. If we shake hands, we are not obliged to anal sex. Adults understand this implicitly. Liberals and children do not.

This Week in World Crass

Crassus finds that The New York Times is confused: All your evangelical base are belong to… Trump?!

With his eyes on the continuing European invasion, he finds Surrendering land and wealth to Sunni insurgents, EU leaders are guilty of ‘misbehavior before the enemy’. But it isn’t actually a legal military charge in Europe, so I guess they’ll be OK.

Filed under This Week in White Privilege, Crassus has a Stuffy-looking white guy masquerades as Asian in order to get his poetry noticed:

If one read only liberal publications and never left one’s house, one might assume white privilege might be significant social capital in the stuffiest, most buttoned-up groups. Perhaps stamp collectors, country club members, poets, and people with names like Michael Derrick Hudson recognize and reward each other’s white privilege. But it turns out that stuffiest of stuffy-looking white guys—Michael Derrick Hudson himself! —felt the need to present himself as an Asian named Yi-Fen Chou in order to get his poetry noticed this year.

I wonder if this Hudson is embarrassed. He shouldn’t be. He’s revealed a lie at black heart of the empire. Lord bless you, Hudson-san!

The hyper-scrupulous mind is a spiritual disorder in Catholic circles. Liberals have that disorder in spades here: Liberals have a politically correct, scientifically dubious message for extraterrestrials. “We’re so sorry aliens. We told you humans were sexually dimorphic, we mean 58-morphic.” Countenancing such silliness is an almost certain way to subvert the human achievement necessary to one day discover and communicate with alien species anyway.

This Week… Elsewhere

This piece on the inimitable Dr. Johnson: The Man of Letters Behind the Dictionary was educational and interesting. Also Humanism: A Primer and Washington’s Farewell Address to the Continental Army. Here was brief snippet from Russell Kirk in 1955 about Attaining Ascendancy over the Minds of Men.

Also at Imaginative Conservative, Testing Technology’s Conservatism deserves more attention than I can spare right now.

Esoteric Trad has part two of his Primer on Defending yourself. Also, this was short but good: Love vs Pragmatism. “If you’ve never missed her cooking you’ve never actually missed her.”

Then with an assist from Ed West, Esoteric Trad goes on to talk about Christian guilt and the rise of individualism.

Briggs takes on sliding SAT scores in The Expansion Team Syndrome: SAT Scores & Science. This is an absolutely sickening development: Rhode Island Mandates HPV Vaccine, Tells Parents, “We’re The Government And Can Do What We Like”. Glad I homeschool. Also glad I don’t live in Rhode Island. Here is Briggs’ article over on The Stream: Sins of The Synod: Behind The Scenes at The Synod on The Family.

Filed under You lost Me At “Militant”… Lawrence Krauss Wants All Scientists To Be Militant Atheists. And no week would be complete without This Week in Doom.

Bonald wonders Did the pope just slyly criticize the Kasperites? Almost surely not intentionally. But the pope’s words, when they happen to be true and insightful, should be used against the Church’s own internal enemies as early and often as possible. Also: African bishops better than Western bishops even on immigration! This is not surprising. Emigration represents a brain-drain for Africa. African bishops, not being doltish Western bishops and being rightly concerned for the actual interests of Africans, actually grasp this. If you love Africans, make them stay there.

Then over at The Orthosphere, Bonald talks about Trying to cure stupid. It’s a real gem!

Probably the best measure that a dystopia has come to pass is that readers start having trouble understanding why the author disapproved of his imagined society; we’re not far enough gone for readers to stop finding the future in Brave New World unattractive, but [Michael Young’s The Rise of the Meritocracy] has come to be regarded by most as something to which we should aspire. After all, isn’t having the most able people in the top positions a good thing? Michael Young was a socialist who, like Hillaire Belloc, had the insight that egalitarian programs might have extremely inegalitarian results.

You won’t believe what happens next! RTWT! Bonald earns another honorable mention as ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Runner-up☀.

And A quick note from Kristor: Collapse: It’s What Man Does. Civilization feeds off it, which is why it is to be welcomed.

Short and sweet from Cane Caldo: What’s Open After Midnight? “Ain’t nothing open after midnight but legs.” ♫Daddies, don’t let yer daughters grow up to be pornstars.♬ Cane isn’t gonna. Neither am I.

Roman Dmowski tells us How Not to Remember 9/11—by forgetting how its perpetrators took advantage of Western liberalism to pull it off.

Filed under Well It Was New To Me: Do not miss Those Who Can See’s Why Re-Colonization? Commonweal Orientation. Magisterial, as always.

Over at 80 Proof Oinomancy, Ace draws inspiration from a cool Queensrÿche video: “Can you realize your dream’s alive? You can be the guide but…”—a psalm to boyishness as distinguished from childishness.

A new contributor over at West Coast Reactionaries is Hotherus who pens Choosing Christianity’s Fate. Over all it’s a pretty intelligent critique, tho’ I am not sanguine about anyone being able to “design” the right religion for days we live in. He seems to like medieval Catholicsm, yet recommends changes to the Christian faith that only seem possible in a liberal world where doctrine doesn’t matter and people are free to do their own thing, which is precisely what killed medieval Catholicism. If I didn’t know better, I’d say this Hotherus character is someone I know.

The Oriental Neoreactionary asks Can Cthulhu Swim in Turkey? Quite fast apparently.

Real Gary has some practical suggestions for a European State of Emergency. Europe is being invaded. By a largely, if not entirely hostile force, consisting mostly of fighting age men rather than women and children. But Europe’s defense must be up for Europeans to decide. Also some video: The Poles are Getting Fed Up—the wrong kind of white people… if yer a prog.

Training Dangerous Children starts early.

“Underthrow the state” is an interesting concept I read about at A Thousand Nations: The Paradox of Revolution.

That’s all, folks! Type at you next week. Keep on Reactin’! TRP… Over and Out!!