Sydney Trads have up the 2015 Symposium of the Sydney Traditionalist Forum. I haven’t read it all, but it appears to be fantastic. It has contributions from well-known American conservatives Paul Gottfried and Thomas Bertonneau, as well as our own Aussie Neoreactionary Alastair Hermann who dropped a lot of Menciism in The Abbott Aberration, an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀:
[U]nder democracy, a pause in societal decay is the best possible outcome. The failure of Abbott to provide anything more than a pause in the continuing decline of Western civilisation is a perfect illustration of our core contentions. Under democracy, the ‘outer party’ — the Liberals in Australia — exist purely to give the populace time and space to accept the degradation of their culture as and when it again becomes possible. It is as though democracy sets in motion a ponderous cultural decay that is connected to reality by a spring, resistance to which simply builds up the tension required to overcome that resistance. Thus, even the pause that Abbott has brought about serves the left; it sets a new resistance mark for the right, and empowers the left to drive further degradation of civilisation.
In other news…
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Esoteric Trad has started a podcast: Mists of Albion. Cool name! Also thoughts on universal molly coddling in Millennials and Technology.
Jim finds black-hatted, transphobic shitlord Putin successfully stabilizing Syria. Oh, the humanity!
Dividuals is pretty good even drunk. Or maybe that’s because drunk.
Social Pathologist joins a chorus of praise for Dampier’s staked out position on White Nationalism. There may have been a chorus of boos somewhere else, but if so, I haven’t heard it. Because I’ve ignored it.
Over at Migration Period, Seth Long has some perspective to add to Columbus Day. Also a reminder The world changes; sometimes, our theories about the world need to change with it. Or not every conflict in history is well analogized by Roots.
Also from Seth, one man’s molehill is another’s mountain in Reference Points, wherein averages and large numbers fail to convey the lived experience of practically anyone.
“Antagonism between the feudal system and the capitalist system was at the origin of the Reformation.” That is Luciano Pellicani, by way of Nick Land, who has much more quoted from him.
Alrenous targets proofs of his pet heresies to the little people: Contra Black Holes, Peasant Walk. I’m not sure the little people are getting it tho’.
Aaron Jacob has a fine article The Mitrailleuse: Social class in America: the inequality we ignore.
[T]he educated class is culturally unlike the urban minorities in places like Chicago and Austin, and, more to the point, it makes use of material conditions–gainful employment, home ownership, stable location, etc.–that the uneducated, of any race, urban or rural, do not enjoy in the same proportion. It wields greater social capital as well as economic capital, and both are dependent on social networks which members of the uneducated classes tend not to belong to. This means that, as happily egalitarian as the gentry might be, gentrification doesn’t somehow induct poor Blacks into their ranks.
E. Antony Gray presents Seven Canticles For Prudence, including the superb line “… the free is he who pays.” Also: Twelve Types.
Mark Citadel shares some of his intellectual biography in Errors of the 8th Crusade .
Free Northerner has an open letter to Pagan Reactionaries. A lot of the more egregious anti-Christian signaling strikes me as being a (supremely ironic) instance of Alt-Right Donatism. Also a bit of poetry: Philip Burne-Jones’ The Vampire.
Cambria Will Not Yield contemplates When Babylon Is Dust. Eloquent and affecting as always:
It’s not a question of which do I love more – my family or Europe. I love my family in and through Europe; I can’t separate the two loves. A nation, like a man, has a soul. Millions upon millions of individual men and women lived and died in that nation and left their spiritual mark, for good or ill, upon their nation. At the mystical core of Europe, after thousands of years of turmoil and strife, is Jesus Christ, true God and true man. That is why I can’t separate my love of Europe from the love of my family. We cannot live outside His love.
This Week in Social Matter
Ryan Landry kicks the week of with Uncle Sam’s Progressive Pu-Pu Platter—from American universities straight to the digestive tract of the world. But ya gotta eat all of it, or you won’t get free stuff and cheap loans to fund your corrupt muppet government. For his taxonomic efforts here, Ryan wins an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
David Grant has Scientific Cosmology in which the difference between science and Science™ is explained. And it wouldn’t be a Grant article without a jaunt down ancient history lane, on which he provides excellent guidance. Science™ is shown to come up short as a competing metanarrative to a sampling of ancient cosmologies.
Next, Ryan joins Anthony and me for AtT Episode XI – “Find the Black Tom Brady”.
This Week in Henry Dampier
Henry Dampier starts off the week with an addendum of sorts to his jimmy-rustling White Nationalism article: The European Cuddle Pile. After the fall of the Axis powers and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century, Europe has gone to desperate lengths to find something around which to unite. They seem to have settled on dangerously short-sighted good feelings, which are a kilometer wide but only an inch deep.
What we’re approaching are the limits to peace. Peace means compromise and the promotion of odious regimes for far longer than they might be able to survive otherwise. Excessive cooperation rather than the grasping for advantage has made it so that the entire Western bloc has lashed itself together, so that when one of them falls, they all fall. When one of them makes a spectacular error, they all suffer (best demonstrated by Germany’s mass importation of Middle Eastern indigents within an open border zone).
Next Henry announces his Changing Direction. Fewer articles, more in-depth, more research, less ideological. Sounds good to me. If Henry writes it, we’ll read it. And you’ll hear about it here… in the This Week in Reaction!
Also, Reactionary Expat created a recorded an excellent response to Henry’s article on White Nationalism. Henry clarifies his points further here. Rarely have such incendiary topics generated so much light and so little heat. These two should be nominated for an LCD Award™.
This Week in 28 Sherman
Grerp joins Ryan Landry for his-n-her reviews of The Morning After. Grerp goes first:
I remember thinking in college, as Roiphe does in this book, that the world must have somehow turned upside down or else I’d fallen through the rabbit hole. It didn’t make sense to me to encourage young, inexperienced people to engage in risky behavior and then be outraged when there were unhappy consequences. I didn’t understand why suddenly our heroes were all supposed to be victims. I didn’t come from a culture that hated white men, despised Christians, or held up people as moral authorities just because they’d been abused. It seemed crazy. I couldn’t wait to get out of this environment, frankly. I was so tired of people telling what I had to think to be a good person.
And now, 22 years later, all of us have to stew in this same cauldron of garbage, only now it’s mainstream and you can’t avoid it by shunning academia. It’s like a cult you can only escape by working at home, filtering all of your content and making up pseudonyms and false personas because otherwise, if you dissent, these crazy evangelical soviet nutjobs will track you down and destroy your life.
I will say this about the book—and it’s something I never expected to come out of my keyboard—The Morning After made me nostalgic for the days of print porn. There is a whole chapter on Catharine MacKinnon and her religious crusade (and collusion with the Religious Right) against porn. It sounds so quaint in retrospect, having to buy magazines in person at the store, kind of like having to milk your own cow and churn the milk to get butter to put on your bread.
And here’re Ryan’s thoughts on How “The Morning After” Described 2015… in 1993. I let him talk:
This book shows you that despite “right wing” wins in elections, the entire culture moved in a direction to absorb the worst of university feminism. The official right wing lost every step of the way. Roiphe is there, in 1993, explaining privilege, explaining the stupidity of consent rules for sex (seriously, the rules are 25 years old), and even fake rapes. The slide of sexual harassment as true blue harassment with job threats to defining it down to random comments not even said directly to you is a tragedy. She writes how a girl accused a student of rape and was eventually caught in the lie. The young woman built a narrative of victimhood for years at “Take Back The Night” vigils and women’s groups. After years of lying, she had to apologize in the school paper. Jackie at UVa accused a frat of ritualistic gang rape that turned into a national story, was busted for the lie and still no apology.
For this excellent piece, Ryan wins ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀.
Here is An Obama Inspired Warning for Hillary. Remarkable POTUS aging is a common phenomenon. Reagan alone seems to have somewhat immune. Hillary simply cannot afford to age the way presidents usually do.
Wednesday, SoBL suggests a Proper Mix of Elite Universities in Film in approximately four equal parts.
Finally in This Week in WW1 Pics: Zeppelin Raids—a primordial version of The Blitz.
This Week in Kakistocracy
Here is Porter liveblogging the Democratic presidential candidates’ debate. Better him than me.
Next he expounds upon the little known Eighth Habit of Highly Effective People, which is make sure other people’s problems stay that way.
Immigration is the Blue Star Ointment of demotic politics. There’s nothing, “left” or “right”, that it cannot cure.
We are repeatedly advised that xenophobia is a moral infraction. Which makes it quite disappointing I’m sure that history’s least xenophobic people are not here to boast of their virtue. For if still alive, there is no doubt they would parrot the litany of benefits that accrue exclusively to Western countries sans borders. And if no benefits of mass migration immediately spring to mind, it just means you haven’t been looking hard enough. Because while your limbic system may scream at the sight of a dozen snarling Somalis alighting next door, your rational mind should be assuaged by several prestigious policy papers that clearly outline immigration’s myriad benefits.
Economics used to mean “right ordering of a household”. Now it just means “right ordering of model parameters so you get the answer you’re looking for”.
This Week… Elsewhere
Filed under The-1980s-Called-They-Want-Their-Causation-Back: Enjoy Coffee? You Could Be A Psychopath. Or, Time For A Two-Year Moratorium Of Questionnaire Science. Brigg’s follows unscientific science so you don’t have to! Over at The Stream: Scientists Claim Zapping Brains With Magnets Can Treat Belief In God. 28.5% less bothered by immigration numbers? You don’t say! Gotta love that sciency scienceness. Also: This Week in Doom—All Your Pronouns Are Belong to Us Edition.
Filed under There-Really-Are-Monsters-WHERE???, Evolutionist X talks about potential Adulterations in the Feed. If someone (or some thing) was trying to make Western humans better pets, they really couldn’t be doing a better job.
Also from Evolutionist X, this was pretty good: Different interest groups don’t bargain over the budget, they just add to it. She documents the inexorable trend of increased government spending relative to GDP and explores possible reasons. My guess: All of them.
I always look at people funny when they complain that proposed government program X or Y is socialist. “We’re already socialist,” I tell them. When government spending is 25% of the entire nation’s GDP (and I’m not sure if that even includes Social Security,) you are already living in a socialist country.
And we’re way over 25% by now.
HBD Chick notices some parallels between today’s European migrant crisis and a past one that’s pretty much gone down the memory hole.
Sunshine Thiry rightly divides the word of truth (Eph. 5:22-23) with Start with respecting him in public. That “fake it until you make it” stratagem applies to aspiring women as well.
Brett Stevens is concerned about Our STEM obsession. Many on the right, having cultivated an well-placed distrust of humanities and liberal arts as a seed bed for the progressive agenda, focus solely on STEM fields. Not only does this cedes culturally productive territory to progressives, it also presumes that STEM fields may somehow be immune to leftward drift. They aren’t. Another defense of Columbus Day (from prog barbarians). Here Bret frames “diversity” as the democratization of race. I think that shoe fits.
Also this was good: Scapegoats prevent victory. Unless they’re real actual goats, in which case you cannot really blame them. As I often say, playing the victim is a losing proposition, even when you really are the victim.
Dalrock firing on all cylinders here: Punishing with her presence:
When women complain to my wife that their husbands never want to spend time with them she gently asks them if when they are around their husband they are pleasant and nice to be around. The response she receives varies from viewing my wife as a traitor to women, to shock that they had never considered this themselves.
Carlos Esteban notes Y Lenin tenía razón. Well, not about everything.
Over at Imaginative Conservative, Bruce Frohnen asks How British Is American Culture? Does English Dissenter count as “British”? Joseph Pearce has Recommended Reading for the Catacombs.
Bonald reports on The Beeb reporting on Sexist monkeys. It’s not just for apes anymore. LOL. Also, a gentle reminder: Don’t have sex with the students.
I enjoy sexual harassment workshops. It’s nice to be reminded that I’m surrounded by beautiful but forbidden young women. It’s also nice to hear about what an awesome figure of authority and power I am. Frankly, this is something I would never have suspected from my actual interactions with students. Sexual harassment workshops make university life feel so much more dramatic.
Puritan morality is almost unrecognizable after 400 years of evolution. But it’s good to know that it still aligns with traditional Christian teachings in a few out-of-the-way places. Even if for all the wrong reasons.
Kristor has brief and well-constructed thoughts on The Argument from Imperfection.
Donal Graeme is very on point here: Good Guys Don’t Exist. He documents the raw deal that guys who want to be good are likely to get these days. “Who wants to pay full price for a used car?”
[I]f you care about male chastity and want to encourage it, you need to restore female chastity society-wide. In the end, I believe it to be an absolute prerequisite.
Interesting bit from Cane Caldo on the supposed purity of the pre-constantinian church: leveller-style churches are More Like Them Than You Realize. And it’s not something we should be aspiring to.
Thrasymachus has a nice meditation on America, the Land of the “Free”—specifically the impact on American history and culture of having a less dense place to go when you didn’t like your neighbors. And what not having quite so much of that nowadays might portend.
This week in Getting Fed Up: Elderly Estonians, the Bulgarian policeman Valkan Hambarliev, even the Dutch.
Open warfare and/or revolution is coming to Europe. It is now inevitable. Only the timing, scale, and level of violence remain to be seen. Whatever happens, no one makes war like Europeans. It only takes one side to start a war, and that war has been started by the Islamic invasion of Europe. The choice for Europeans is quite simple: fight back or get wiped out.
War is democracy… by other means.
Filed under Why Can’t They Have a Follow By Email Widget?!! I missed this last week: Those Who Can See, as always, magisterial, here with a post on the European “Migrant” “”Crisis””: Crashing the Gates: A Crash Course. HT Malcolm Pollack, who also doesn’t have a “Follow-by-email” button.
Speaking of Malcolm (whom I cannot yet follow by email), he has a superb post, A Functioning Nation: System Requirements. He’s like the Neocolonial of the Northern Hemisphere. This was an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀:
To borrow another term from software development, it is becoming clearer and clearer that the American constitutional system simply does not “scale well”. An operating system that worked nicely for a nation of a few millions of self-reliant European Christians occupying a sparsely populated parcel of fertile territory is now looking increasingly brittle and “buggy” at continental, polylingual, and pan-ethnic scale.
If we are able to think clearly and dispassionately about this, we should not expect to find a political solution to what is at bottom a mismatch between our operating system and the hardware we’re now trying to run it on. The nation has simply gotten too big, too heterogeneous, too fractured and fissile in every way, for this increasingly centralized Federal government — indeed, perhaps, for any centralized government — to manage. It is no longer a matter of which side wins this or that election; we must understand that the problem is at a deeper level.
Amen to that.
Well that’s all for this week. Reach out to local reactionaries in your area. Meet up with them. It’s a start. Get better together. Don’t forget to add “Follow-by-email” widgets, e’eryone! Keep on reactin’! Til next week, TRP… Over and out!!
Thank you for the links and insightful comments. Myself and other authors will be developing these ideas further. They are unpopular — for now — but as the various arms of the State fail and the consequences of its delusional programs manifest, there is more interest in getting off this train to apocalypse.
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Thanks for the link. I’ll need to go through these next week. I’ve been snowed under.
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Re: The Briggs article – so it seems that Science!™ claims they can make you tolerant and irreligious – all they have to do is to cause you severe brain damage.
Oh.
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