Social Matter

Social Matter first began as an idea to streamline operations and slow down the frenetic pace of single-user-blogs to a once-a-week-post stride. The point was to develop quality content and to be a flagship for something. Something big. Something that’s happening in the outer right–an intellectual resurgence which is catching the attention of the mainstream left and right and filtering into influential publications. And papers. And social media. The theory is elitism, the result is key influencers gradually declining to hang themselves and others with the rope of progressivism.

It’s been an extraordinary year with a total of 171 pieces. We’ve decided to provide a brief summary of some of the best posts to hit the site so far.

On November 7, Bjørn Vosskriger entered the scene with what can only be called–as cliche as it may sound–an instant classic on gentrification. The piece, called “Gentrification as Total War or “Triumph of the Williamsburg”“, was a superb chronicling of gentrification from a more strategic frame, which Vosskriger placed squarely in the context of 20th century Great American City life, in order to answer the question: how have blacks been weaponized against whites as a form of terror? What are the countermeasures to be deployed? Truly a tour de force work, and one which will be cited for, I’m confident, years to come.

Back in October, John Glanton seized on the #GamerGate controversy and marked Social Matter as one of the ‘right’ publications which ‘got it,’ which understood the dynamics of the burgeoning movement without patronizing but also without kowtowing–the appropriate mixture of praise and fatherly advice. Many will reference this article as their red pill moment, namely for how it acted as an quick-course antidote to the media’s never-ending thede-poisoning of the right and outer right.

Henry Dampier came out and said it: America is a nation of bastards. The problem? As he writes, “Contemporary divorce law has placed legal authority in the hands of wives, and taken it out of the hands of their husbands. All married households are legally female-headed households, especially when considered in the context of how family courts typically operate.” Middle class culture has been decimated, and family life is on the rocks, creating anti-social effects which erode state and societal stability. The solution is rule by fathers. The solution is patriarchy.

Why do non-liberals seem to be stupid and crazy? Hadley Bennett offered an answer. Once liberalism captures high-status mechanisms, progressivism memetically dominates because of mimicry. Rather than being some sort of innate function of ideology dictating intelligence, up-and-coming elites adopt elite values, and resistance is met with swift exclusion and punishment. Progressivism eats alive the best for their talent and spits out the rest, leaving outside movements in the cold to work with fragmented, fringe, unstable psychologies and a tendency toward lower intelligence. This only serves to reinforce the Cathedral. This is also rapidly changing.

The review wouldn’t be complete without a return to origins. Social Matter’s first post started off with a bang. Bryce Laliberte interviewed former New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade regarding his recent work A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History. While it was hard to tease out political answers from a reluctant Wade, the book itself will mark a Kuhnian shift, which will strongly influence Science and public opinion. Laliberte provided a more exhaustive review of the work here.

Laliberte further identified the Social Justice Industrial Complex, which kicked off a week of exploratory work on how the SJIC menace has crept into the superstructure, not as a result of a  cabal of schemers in a backroom, but owing to impersonal, social forces tied together by evolutionary logic. A small series of conspiracies in isolation resulting in an noxious, aggregate effect.

Other notable posts:

The Future is Rotherham – Bryce Laliberte

Why Pat Robertson Was Right About Feminists And Why Housewives Are Still The Best – Hadley Bennett

Moving Beyond Hit-And-Run Warfare: How #GamerGate Can Actually Win – Hadley Bennett

Become Worthy: The Path of the Right – Ash Milton 

Why the Left Despises Skilled Labor – Henry Dampier

On Pandering – John Glanton

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Cheers to a stellar 2015. We hope all our dear readers keep on reading and invite others to join. We’re looking to expand the magazine this year and bring in some incredible new additions. Tides are shifting rapidly. Scalise is just the beginning. Stay tuned. Can we count on y’all?

–Bryce Laliberte, Hadley Bennett