But this often applies more broadly, which was the point of the article. The Cathedral *often* sucks up all the best talent and forces people to signal progressivism to stay in good graces. The rest are spat out and marginalized.

Cretins as in … ? Rural folks? Laborers? Politicians with badly fitting suits that show up on MSNBC as “opposition”? All said groups?

The other line of argumentation is status: Hi-status never justifies itself to low-status. If people don’t like the name, fuck em.

To describe your enemy’s apparatus as a ‘cathedral’ is surely to set yourself up as anti-religious in a way you really don’t want. I would say it is a vital aspect of intelligent modern reactionary thought, that even if we can’t now take seriously a lot of (Christian) religious doctrine, we do still recognize it encodes deep truths necessary for building a workable society, tried and tested over a long period. If you say you want to ‘pull down the cathedral’, you align yourself with the fatuous Marxist vandals currently throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

To put it more viscerally: cathedrals are beautiful and awe-inspiring. You don’t want to portray your enemy as the builder of cathedrals, and yourself as the disaffected teenager spray-painting graffiti on the walls.

I think I could live with guys doing cocktail party bullshit, so long as they actually did something with their lives. I’m more upset about talent fully going to waste than anything. IQ without ambition/other virtues really sucks. I’ve seen it a lot. It’s definitely unfortunate. Moving forward with ‘wrong’ ideas requires a certain iconoclasm coupled with social skills, because otherwise you’re not let into the right circles in the first place. And that combo is very rare, which slows done much-needed paradigm-shifts.

I definitely had to Google Wyatt and Billy.

The third point is probably what I should write about for next week. I banged this piece out in like half an hour because I was rushed.

1. Link to definitions for the words “thede”, “cathedral”, and “neoreaction” to make the piece more accessible.

2. Consider using an list for those (1), (2), etc. things.

3. Further expand upon the strategic implications for your thought. Like I would mention that neoreaction should therefore strive to reject being a subculture, purge low-status individuals (or compel them to hide their low status), and demand all members present an image of being normal productive upstanding citizens. One of the things I told a lot of people at the beginning of Occupy (even though nobody really listened) is let’s wear suits to protests! The same point applies here. Signalling as a subculture thede of misfits and degenerates means people won’t take you seriously.

1. NRx has a steep intellectual requirement.

2. Far Left welcomes the dysfunctional and dumb. Everything is relative and therefore all voices are relevant. Dumb are useful for mass movements (meat in the room)

In my high school, there were the Bright nerds, and the Dumb nerds. Both outcast groups, but there was a distinction between the two. The Bright nerds were incapable of fitting in completely due to their intelligence, and kept to themselves. They were usually the children of successful but less attractive + more introverted parents.

This was a special group, because everyone knew they were smart which awards some respect (it’s true). They were also saved from much abuse by have segregated advanced placement courses, ones where the louder and more violent average students spent their time.

But the Dumb nerds were usually not attractive or intelligent, came from poorer backgrounds, and were forced into classes with “normal” kids.

Of course the group interacted, but there was a divide

Anyways, my obvious next point is that NRx is full of the Bright nerds, and very few Dumb ones.

On the other hand, the Far Left will take anybody. It’s part of their doctrine.

Compare the attendees at next month’s H.L. Mencken conference to OWS and you’ll see the distinction.

If we could end bullying, or segregate on some other level to protect the Dumb nerds, the Left would be hurting in 20 years when they have no disaffected young folks to recruit. This is where vanilla conservative values of “bullying is part of life be a man” are short-sighted.