Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. Actually had it up at around 3am this morning. Then, while I slept, the web host decided to revert everything to 12-15 hours earlier. I reconstructed the post from the RSS email. Painful. But faster than trying to rewrite the half of it that didn’t show up in version history from memory. Hopefully that won’t happen again. Leading the news this week: Obama’s Spy-gate and Trump’s inexplicable neocon turn. But the greatest articles had nothing to do with any of that. We take our history slow… and our political theory even slower. There was a veritable cornucopia of extremely high quality articles. The Committee even had to strike a couple from the list, as it grew so long. The best of the best were as follows…
Honorable Mentions:
Vincent Hanna: Path to the Dark Reformation Part C: The (Black) God Delusion. A vast, sweeping tour of rightist critiques on modernity, framing the Modern Structure as a dark and perverse mirror of the late medieval Catholic Church.
Titus Q. Cincinnatus: Cicero’s “On Old Age” and Modernity’s Obsession with Newness. A re-reading of Cicero with a view of the particular deformations of the modern age and how these parallel those of Rome in Cicero’s day; i.e., an Empire, in retrospect, just at its civilizational apex.
James A. Donald: Allying with far to destroy near. Jim looks behind Trump’s airstrikes in Syria as a launching off point to delve into and critique fundamentally antisocial leftist psychology.
Ryan Landry: The Pentagon Is Making The CIA And State Department Obsolete. An exposé of the US Military’s slow, deliberate growth in capabilities extraordinary to traditional war-making—capabilities demanded by its civilian bosses in the Department of State (Blue Empire) which in many cases obviate the official involvement of formal diplomats and the Blue Empire goons in CIA.
Fritz Pendleton: The Inglorious Revolution And The End Of Absolutism In England . Probably a Silver Circle or Best of the Week in almost any other week, Pendleton cuts through the Whig History and the Whigs, and shows the pure Machiavellian power grab by Parliament that was the so-called “glorious” revolution of 1688.
Porter: The Dead Run Toward. Speculation on why the United States alone runs toward random gunfire, say in the Middle East, when most other countries seem much more secure in their self-interest.
Evolutionist X: Why Are There So Many Lizard People–and how do we GET RID OF THEM? Mrs. X considers the sort of people that put social betterment projects ahead of actual, ya know, human betterment. Examples pro and con abound.
K. R. Bolton: Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Ideology And The Making Of Modern Taiwan. A superb historical analysis of the Chinese Nationalists and why and how the US State Department pretty much threw them under the Maoist bus.
The Silver Circle:
Mark Citadel: Relativism, Obligations & Values. A concise but brilliant article that outlines the difference between moral values and obligations, and why the inability of modernist ideologies to make that distinction is a huge part of the problem.
Lawrence Glarus: The Real History Of The San Francisco State University Student Strikes From 1968-1969 (Part 2). This epoch-making slow history series recounts further details of the inner dynamics of rebellious tools: Featured are paradigmatic examples of the old Mutt-n-Jeff Two-Step, and the Rebellious Tool screams out in pain while he strikes you.
… And the Winner Is:
Quincy T. Latham: Tribalism: A Model. A magisterial and canon-worthy analysis of tribalism, the extent to which it may be genetic, and its potential adaptiveness for individual versus group fitness.
Vote up evolutionist X. I am addling Lizard People to my list of descriptors, for those members of the cathedral that want our prisons pretty and to make us better.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Congratulations to all the winners. It is an honor to be among you.
LikeLike