Comments on: Progress with a Capital-P

By: The Proper Size of ‘Us’ | One Irradiated Watson

The Proper Size of ‘Us’ | One Irradiated Watson — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:16:55 +0000

[…] “Full stop. The reason why right-Brahmins (at least in intelligence), i.e. neoreactionaries, are so susceptible to liberal signalling as accurately indicating the state of the country is that neoreactionaries too often become stuck in the mud and mire of Tumblr, Tindr, nonsense from Vox, Gawker, WaPo, NYT, Slate, Salon, etc. Because that’s what’s read. Meanwhile, large swathes of the population live as they’ve always lived, the seeming triumph of social Progressivism to the contrary.” – See more at: http://www.socialmatter.net/2014/06/10/progress-capital-p/#sthash.5Sz6k7bP.dpuf […]

By: Jake-the-Rake

Jake-the-Rake — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:05:59 +0000

You gotta Gramsci ‘em back. Describe a progressive utopia and then talk about the days when kids had fathers, doors weren’t locked, shops and eateries weren’t franchises, black music wasn’t murderous-back-beat hostile, your neighborhood could only take so much diversity, but at the same time outsiders had an opportunity to make themselves local institutions (like Giorgia, the plump Romanian girl who works real hard and real well at Bruno’s cafe, with her sassy responses to the Italian come-ons).

Remind them of the time when deals were sealed with a spit-in-the-palm handshake… and verbal agreements were worth the tablets they were engraved upon. When natural capitalistic competition (between haberdasheries on Main Street, soda shops, etc.) wasn’t so murderous… and the owners worked in them. Remind them of the golden age of cousins, aunts, uncles, big family dinners, a large middle class… Those hoary times when someone fainting on the street would be succored. When there were affordable doctors who would take house calls. When the supermarket wasn’t bigger than an airport and the hamburger place didn’t have its own radio station.
There will be no reaction without a rebellion against Corporate America.

By: JPOutlook

JPOutlook — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 01:45:02 +0000

You might also think about it this way, Mr. Bennett – Progressivism is paganism (i.e. moving away from God), and that paganism is worship of power. That is power in the short-term. So, from the other side, worshipping God, and specifically our monotheist practice, is less about power and more about truth. We need the power that a king brings, even more than the pagans do!

J.P.O.

By: Lightning Round – 2014/06/11 | Free Northerner

Lightning Round – 2014/06/11 | Free Northerner — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 05:01:46 +0000

[…] The chaos theory of signalling. Related: The Potemkin Village of progress. […]

By: Progress with a Capital-P | Reaction Times

Progress with a Capital-P | Reaction Times — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:01:30 +0000

[…] Source: Social Matter […]