The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2016/08/21)

Chimps in Gombe Stream Nat’l Park, Tanzania

Last week’s TWiR is up at Social Matter. No major theme of the week, but that doesn’t mean the reactionary little gray cells were not at work. The most noteworthy articles, according to The Committee, were as follows…

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Honorable Mentions:

Ryan Landry: One Man, One Vote, One Time. Lays out the who-whom of unfettered immigration. Big Business and Big Government not only collude to suppress wages on the working class, being the giant brain sucking squid on the face of the world presents the Empire with certain advantages as well.

Titus Cincinnatus: When We Talk About Tradition, What Do We Really Mean? A very helpful smack-down on “good ol’ days” thinking so prevalent on the Right, which mistakes the accidents of soul-killing modernity with the essence of it. A frame of mind, which plays into the hands of the Left, in which modern benefits such as oral hygiene or antibiotics accrue falsely to modernist philosophy.

Fritz Pendleton: Gini And The Economic Altar. Newcomer Pendleton takes on the politicization of social science, with special opprobrium reserved for economics. The baldly ideological Gini metric of “inequality” is shown to be utterly divorced from any measure of human flourishing.

Billy Pratt: Baby Did A Bad, Bad Thing. Pratt brings his astute cultural analysis to Social Matter, outlining the outrageously bad deal that modern society is trying sell to men.

Evolutionist X: In the Shadow of Man, part 2: War. Mrs. X deftly links the violence of African decolonization which Goodall recounts in the early chapters of her 1971 book with the Gombe Chimpanzee War, which came right on the heels of that book’s release and so disturbed her.

Christopher Morrissey: The Social Message of Social Media. A mashup of the thought of Marshall McLuhan with some astute commentary from Roger Scruton on the social effects of recent technology and post-modern cultural attitudes.

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… And the Winner Is:

Dr. Richard Cocks: Feminism, Children and the Future. A comprehensive treatment of the fertility crisis, mainstream blindness to it, its social implications, and its most likely causes. Suitable for normies.