The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2016/09/04)

Finally got the TWiR post up over at Social Matter. It ended up being a Jewier week than usual… Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The “Official” Committee’s selections were as follows,,,

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Honorable Mentions:

Harold Lee: Seizing the means of home production. Suitable for normies, motivates and justifies the traditional single-external-income household.

Sarah Perry: The Origin of Authenticity in the Breakdown of the Illusion of the Real. A deep psycho-social analysis of “authenticity”, real and imagined.

Billy Pratt: The Narrative of Heartbreak and “Big” (1988). Patented Prattian mashup of quazi-autobiographical experiences of Breakup (“becoming perfect strangers again”) with the loss experienced by Josh and Susan at then end of that classic movie.

James A. Donald: A white woman’s chance of getting married. Jim runs through marriage data to calculate the chances of getting married by age. Liberally peppered with wry Jimian commentary throughout.

Ryan Landry: Weimerica Weekly—Episode 39: Wedding Pageants. First podcast to ever make this list. It’s just. That. Good.

Evolutionist X: LoL at “anti-racists” who move to all white neighborhoods “for the schools”. A monumental look at the reams of data that contradict all the standard SWPL shibboleths about education. So now you can call them racists with confidence.

Adam T. C. Wallace: They Care Not for Freedom. A supremely well-crafted note on the reality of the culture war we are in: Stop expecting the enemy to play by ostensible “rules”. The rules are only there to bop you on the head.

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… And the Winner Is:

Titus Cincinnatus: There is Nothing Social about Socialism. Starting with Confucius’ advocacy of the rectification of names: correct language → healthy souls → healthy society, Titus carries the principle to savagely beat down “socialism” and the entire space of progressive ideas that go under the name.