Warg Franklin pops in over at The Future Primaeval with comments on a seductive enemy of the truth: Reasonableism. Good article and hilarious video… an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Also there, Mark Yuray returns with something that’s needed saying for very long time: Mannerbund 101. I trust you all remember Mark Yuray, he disappeared from the internet, but not from the private gardens. He’s back with a vengeance in this ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀ winner. Just RTWT.
Nick Land discovers Lynch Law—a version of dread populism he might be able to warm up to in due time. Also, with some heavy borrowing from a lucid Victor Davis Hanson, Land’s missing Obama already.
Those who supported Obama are never going to be taken seriously about anything, ever again. They’re done. (That’s what Trump demonstrates.)
I wish that were true. I hope it is true. But no one ever went broke underestimating the attention span of the American people. By no means do I wish to imply The Trumpening is not significant. It certainly is:
Does anybody seriously doubt that the media establishment understands, he’s running against us?
Jim thinks Trump has a good chance so long as refrains from doing “something considerably crazier even than the crazy stuff we have recently seen to stop him”. That sounds about right. Tho’ the idea of crazier stuff to stop sounds rather delicious as well.
Also from Jim, some thoughts on James Deen rape and porn (ambiguity by lack of commas apparently intentional). He includes this wise observation for no extra charge:
The safe words and boundary negotiations are not an indication that all is well, but rather an indication that something is terribly wrong.
Speaking of Trump, Mark Citadel issues An “Official” Statement on his candidacy. About as “official” as it gets around here at any rate. Trump is dividing the nation, says Citadel, and “that’s exactly how we want it.”
Social Pathologist, Slumlord, has a review of Houellebecq’s Submission.
For the literate moron, this book is about the Islamic take over of France. For the Puritan, its about the puerile expression of Sex. For the feminist it is about misogyny. But for the Christian reactionary, this book is deep.
Really deep.
The book sounds excellent. The review definitely is an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Over at Sydney Trads, Marxist historian Eugene Genovese gets a lot right in The Southern Tradition:
“Opposition to fascism and resistance to ideological holy wars flow from southern conservatives’ hostility to the centralization of political and economic power and from their preference for community decisionmaking [sic]. But they know that real communities, in contradistinction to those projected by utopian imaginations, must be creatures of the historical evolution of shared experience and faith.”
We’ve met Genovese before over at Skyagusta’s excellent Losing the Creek.
Those Who Can See answers Why We Culturally Profile. Data packed, as always, and, as always, magisterial. Muslims are a bad fit for Western Cultures and so am I. But all my grandparents were at least born in Christian nations. This was an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Filed under… Just because prevailing narratives prevail doesn’t make them false, Alrenous admits Left/Right Really is Communist/Capitalist.
Alrenous also seems to have discovered flavours of Christian mysticism and takes a stand strongly against gnosticism. More on that here. Avoiding gnosticism is commendable. Doing so by rushing straight off into pelagianism not so much.
I strongly doubt any true faith would be found in such close proximity to such a terrible error.
Doubt it not, ye of little faith! The very worst errors are, almost by definition, the things closest to the truth.
Did I mention Alrenous was a busy beaver this week? He has a highly philosophical response to Right Scholar’s award winning post on “Mystical Bodies”. Perhaps too philosophical. I don’t think anyone purports to “grasp” the Logos (the 2nd Person of the Holy Trinity) “as it truly is”. For we all see (at best) “in a glass, darkly”.
Speaking of beavers, Reactionary Ferret wonders whether refugees will Take the Money and Run.
Free Northerner has an actually good reason to End Gun Violence. Of course, guns don’t commit suicide; people do.
And then he has this brief but important reminder on Order, Chaos, and Regimentation. Order arises from purpose. No purpose, no order.
Just because something is lined up nicely in a row or is heavily controlled does not mean it’s ordered. In fact, it is likely means it is regimented chaos. Chaos requires regimentation, order does not. In fact, order may look disorganized to the casual observer who doesn’t know better.
For his efforts here, Free Northerner earns another ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Dividuals is at or near a crisis point: Reconsidering epistemological scepticism. This is the Good Kind of Crisis™ in my estimation.
Ferret has got a hardon for the Return of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Ferret-sized, but still.
Esoteric Trad has a review of sorts… This Week in The Mind of Esoteric Trad:
Of course the other alternative is to become your own stakeholders and do it fresh someplace. Underdeveloped areas are out there and making effective use of modern tech to be anti-fragile seems an idea worth pursuing as well. America succeeded because white men were able to become their own stakeholders. South America is what it is because of their inability to do this. History is always worth considering.
And by “other alternative” he means… the only alternative.
CWNY has wishes for a Merry Christmas, with a warning from long experience:
Unfortunately that one parish was a reflection of organized Christianity’s response to abortion. If you don’t fight an evil, you will become part of the evil. It is easy to condemn men like Paul Hill and Richard Dear for being violent and mentally unstable, but how is it possible to act alone, as such men do, and not be unstable? They need the support of those people who claim to be Christian in order to stay militant and sane.
This Week at Social Matter
Ryan Landry continues on the theme of politics and malinvestment with The Media Will Hide The Decline. You remember when we had to pay out $750 billion for “shovel ready” projects? Precious little of that went toward shovels. Besides, bridges and tunnels don’t vote. And if they did, they certainly wouldn’t vote for democrats.
Anthony DeMarco and I and a diverse cast of guests show up in various states of preparedness in Ascending The Tower – Deleted Scenes 0.2.
Speaking of podcasts, Ryan drops his third (but who’s counting) Weimerica Weekly—antibiotic-resistant STD &c. Edition.
This Week in 28 Sherman
Over on his home blog, Ryan Landry’s Monday article is on Paris 11/13/15 Politicization. Paris? San Bernadino?? The story advocacy will be the same:
This is the soulless behavior of those obsessed with politics and point scoring. It also revealed the stupidity of journalism as none of those liberal journalists listened to the police scanner like an investigative journalist would have. That is not their function, as their function is pushing court propaganda. Twitter master troll “@Ricky_Vaughn99” put them to shame by listening, relaying information and tweeting the shooter’s name as the progressives metaphorically masturbated to the idea of white male shooters. The shooters also happen to be Muslims. This caused the progressive line to immediately shift from har har white men to gun control now! Forget mourning.
And the Ezra (((((Klein)))))s of the world will be free to err with impugnity, careers intact.
This Week in Boomers Doing Chrismas Movies… National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Ryan love-love-loves this movie. I thought this was interesting:
Two things that timestamp this ’80s that really stand out but in different ways are the home decor for Casa Griswold and the SWAT team raid at the end. The home design and decor is incredibly ’80s with more boxed room design and no open floor plan, and the window treatments and wallpaper are so busy and loud. This is contrasted nicely with the ’80s sleek and chic look of the DINK neighbors, so all aspects of suburban, ’80s home decorating are covered here. The SWAT raid at the end of the film is meant to be ludicrous. It was. Now SWAT raids on unsuspecting suburbanites are normal. Truly sad when the ridiculous is now completely normal and expected.
The 80s: When suburban SWAT raids were funny!
Finally, This Week in WW1 Pics: Serbs Reject Germans.
This Week in Kakistocracy
Just another day in men getting bit by insufficiently newsworthy dogs: A Victim without Skittles. Porter helpfully provides some details into this superpower of his:
A person who shares my children’s DNA once remarked on the incongruity of maintaining perceptible joie de vivre alongside a “fathomless pessimism.” Well we’ve got only a short time here to enjoy, and who wants to waste it in some optimistic opium dream?
Next he contemplates Solace from the Sun. It is a rather cold comfort that the sun will continue to shine when what you have loved now lost is gone. Philosophy, a love of wisdom, is only a consolation if it gives us the wisdom and skill to contend successfully for that which may actually be saved.
Speaking of suns going dim, This is a Grave Moment for France. Porter notes:
[T]he notion that a modern western state would align its policies with the interests of the people it nominally represents is now so quaint I think it was probably last mentioned in an episode of Little House on the Prairie. And I hardly think François is familiar with the series.
And finally, this Week in Climate Grift: “Global EBT”.
This Week in Evolutionist X
Evolutionist X kicks off the week being nosy about her neighbors’ bad trash habits. Rightfully so, of course. And, of course, it’s about a whole lot more than dirty neighbors attracting rats to the ‘hood…
Most whites are in direct competition–for jobs, popularity, and mates–with other whites. Lower class (and some middle class) whites are also in competition with blacks and Hispanic immigrants. High class whites are not.
When low class whites complain about black behavior, it sounds to high class whites like defection–or as we more commonly put it, racism. When high class whites say so, this sounds like defection to the low class whites–especially when they believe the blacks defected on them first.
Advanced civilization is stable cooperative equilibrium. Getting there is the hard part. She has more thoughts on that topic: How to decrease defection and encourage cooperation?
An interesting way of looking at the Taxation = Theft question.
It was about time to get this Indonesian Mystery Solved. Crime rates depend not only upon country of origin but of socio-economic class within the country of origin. Among other other things.
Speaking of rodents, “Chinchillas are probably the cutest of the rodents”. But nature has not prepared them well for domestic life. And there’s an analogy there….
This Week… Elsewhere
Over at Imaginative Conservative, Oscar Wilde’s beautiful Apologia. Also this was an interesting bit: The Challenge: How C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy Came Into Being. Also Pat Buchanan answers the lately askable question: Should We Keep Muslims Out of America? He seems to think yes.
Real Gary has a very lulz-worthy meme here: Most Refugees Aren’t Terrorists…. Also full coverage of President Trump’s Statement On Preventing Muslim Immigration. (ISWYDT.) And the obligatory fisking of NYT.
Briggs was at it again this week over at The Stream: Climate Circus, Climate Clowns at #COP21.
Also example #2,417 of How to Lie with Trendlines. They lasciviously advertise cause, where most of the time rather correlation is the best they can do. (If the correlation were not weak, there’d be little reason to draw trend lines.)
JM Smith finds a fitting Chanukah story in the… well… I wouldn’t say War on Christmas—let’s call it “Mop Up Operations” on Christmas.
Chris Gale brings us This Week in Psychosis—the literal medical condition, not the figurative one of modern society.
Brett Stevens follows up Jim’s magisterial “genocide” article with some additional thoughts:
Trust level and signaling are inversely proportional. The more trust you have, the less signaling you have; the less trust you have, the more signaling takes its place. In a high trust environment, like an ethnically-homogenous, religiously unified and culturally-ruled society, you do not signal anything because it is known. Your positions are those that are healthy, and those are agreed on not because they are popular but because they are right and have worked for aeons for that civilization.
Also Brett is loving what Trump is doing to mainstream politics. I’ve seen enough vaguely rightist populist politics to be skeptical of any real long-term change. But it is at least fun while it lasts. And always virtuous to have some hope for the future.
You don’t have to be a Yuuge™ fan of Trump to notice that people are getting their panties in a wad over him in very funny way.
Ace suggests it’s not so much a Rationalization Hamster as a Rationalization Steed, and put it to productive use. Hamsters sure are cute, doe.
Alf argues the primacy of real human connection in Denken in stammen (Thinking in Tribes). Good stuff.
Ons ego wil alsmaar meer en het resultaat is een geatomiseerde samenleving: mensen zijn een beetje deel van alles maar daadwerkelijk deel van niks. We hebben geen stam meer. Het antwoord? Snijd al het overbodige uit je leven weg. Zeg vaker nee. Denk lokaal. Beter een goede buur dan een verre vriend. Denk in stammen.
Carlos Esteban holds down the Iberian fort this week. He has thoughts on Igualdad.
Rounding out This Week in International Reaction, Oriental Reactionary has An Open Letter to Turkey.
Giovanni Alighieri is quite excellent here: What people forget about Hitler. Especially when they compare Trump to him. And most especially the moral and social degeneracy of the Weimar Era that gave him such a boost.
Thrasymachus takes a closer look at Bruce Charlton’s assertion that we aren’t well adapted for self-arranged marriage.
Greg Cochran opines on Internal Contradictions—i.e., between having a girl brain trapped in a man’s body and there being no such thing as a “girl brain”. Not as much a problem for progs as one might think though:
They’re perfectly capable of believing in incompatible theories – there’s no logical contradiction if you never logic in the first place.
It’s still Monday in my time zone. This edition is hereby declared… On Time! Keep on Reactin’! Til next week… TRP, Over and Out!!
Hey, it’s Monday! Congratulations.🙂
[Ed. I know… I won’t let it go to my head.]
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Thanks for the mention. Yes, I’m cautiously optimistic about Trump, but the fact is that he has done a great deal already by breaking the taboo barrier and revealing the Republicans for the captive opposition they are.
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Did not expect this article to be shared. Thanks.
[Ed. For the benefit of all my Dutch readers!!]
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