The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2016/12/25)

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. The selections of the Editorial Committee were as follows…

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Honorable Mentions:

Anomaly UK: Democracy and Hacking. A solid perspective on whether the Russians were behind the DNC hack, and how utterly ordinary it is for nations to try to influence elections in others… As if America were guiltless.

Quincy T. Latham: False Consciousness isn’t Cuckoldry. Solid primer on both topics, especially false consciousness. The bottom line on race cucking whites is that it’s not so much false consciousness as par for the white course.

Mark Citadel: Through The Eye Of The Nadir. Part prophecy, part pep-talk. Citadel foresees dark times ahead, but Nature (and Nature’s God) will not be opposed forever.

Shylock Holmes: On Power and Coordination. We all know that a coordinated minority always rules over an uncoordinated majority. Holmes looks at how this is pulled off. With great difficulty, of course, and a healthy dose of game theoretic social equilibria.

James A. Donald: The Cathedral defined. Redefining the concept of “The Cathedral” for noobs, Jim is at his entertaining best. He sees it as a competition for religious status with no systemic checks. Reasserting social checks against the clerical caste is seen as necessary and (very nearly at least) sufficient for restoration.

Ryan Landry: The Progressive Twilight Zone. Nice bit of research here. Landry reports the DSM-V will reclassify Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) as an adult (as well as childhood) disorder. He discusses the potentially profound implications for this for dissident, by otherwise psychologically healthy, adults.

David Grant: The Role Of ‘Spaces’ In The Progressive Worldview. Grant considers the space part of “safe spaces” instead of the safety part, seeing in the concept of space as a fundamental part of the way progressives think and act. In a way, ‘spaces’ are an artifact of divided power, which may be strategically useful for the restoration, but must be understood if we are to understand the enemy.

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The Silver Circle:

Arthur Gordian: Book Review: James Burnham’s Suicide Of The West. Rare the a book review scores so highly, but Gordian gives a panoramic view of Burnham’s thought, and his importance as a giant upon whom much of neoreaction has been built.

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… And the Winner Is:

Lawrence Murray: Planting America: State-Sponsored Demographic Change and the Precedent of Ulster. A long, historically rich, and socially literate tract on the strong parallels between the current elite push for Amerikaner demographic replacement and the formal strategy employed by the British in Northern Ireland.