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Yearly Archive: 2015

Friday

6

February 2015

20

COMMENTS

Don’t Get Too Bearish On America

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There’s a certain current of thought, which runs across parts of both the Left and Right, that enjoys proclaiming the Death Of America. Its proponents often come from contradictory and conflicting backgrounds. Anarcho-communists and anarcho-capitalists; nationalists and libertarians; opponents of Western imperialism and proponents of Chinese, Russian, and Islamic imperialism. The general thesis is usually fairly similar: the things that made America great – capitalist power, superpower status, oppression of the Third World, religious values, or what have you –  are disappearing. Massive debt, geopolitical shifts, and/or demographic transformation will cause America to shrink its global reach even as it […]

Thursday

5

February 2015

7

COMMENTS

Islamobolshevism: Arise, Ye Wretched Of The Earth

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A member loyal to the ISIL waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa

Let me start off with a short biography. Bernhard Falk used to be a regular physics student. Smart, tough, determined. At university (where else?), he became a radical communist through fellow students and joined the terrorist “Anti-Imperialist Cells”. Several years later, he was tried for attempted murder and several bombings. In jail, he converted to Islam (European prisons are full of Muslims) and started calling himself Muntasir bi-llah. Now he’s an important figure in the German Salafi scene. After discussing this matter with a friend of mine, he said: “If you want a picture of Islamization, imagine leftist hipsters who […]

Wednesday

4

February 2015

21

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Gender Studies With Dr. Frankenstein

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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” The schoolteacher of the near future asks her students. “A Man? A Woman? Intersex? What about Otherkin?” Any flesh can be conformed to your will with the right application of psychiatric drugs, hormones, amputations, and transplants. Of course, a body aligned with a malformed spirit would be just as malformed. “I’m pre-op trans-racial,” said a white, teenage boy with a backwards hat propped on his buzzed head, slouching in saggy jeans as he waits in an affirmative-action office. After the Human Centipede Act of 2017, all poly-morphic-coprofages had their identity transition […]

Tuesday

3

February 2015

4

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White Devils

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It’s common sense that white men are the greatest source of evil in the world today. The only way to expunge this evil is to join in the chorus proclaiming the race-guilt of the white man for the evils of slavery, capitalism, science, and technology. To the extent that white men enjoy a high station in this world is the extent to which the world itself must be brought to justice. Any house you see that has a proud white man deserves to be struck down. Whether it’s a home or a corporate office doesn’t matter. If it is headed by […]

Monday

2

February 2015

10

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Ascending the Tower – Episode 2 Part I: Modernity is virtual reality

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http://socialmatter.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ATT_Episode_II_Pt_1.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week, we’re joined by AntiDem for a discussion on modernity for part 1 of Episode 2 of Ascending the Tower. Brought to you by Surviving Babel and Nick B. Steves, Ascending the Tower is a podcast distributed by Social Matter and represents the latest project of the Hestia Society. Please leave feedback in the comments, and if you’d like to get in touch with Surviving Babel, you can find him at: survivingbabel@gmail.com   Related show links:  Opening Song –  https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/988193/classical-majestic-symphonic-choirs-theme-soundtrack-017 Closing Song – : https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/558286/deepecho

Monday

2

February 2015

28

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The Clash of Civilizations in 2015: The West, Russia and Islam

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In 1992, the late conservative political scientist Samuel P. Huntington delivered a lecture on the developing ‘clash of civilizations,’ his vision of a post-Cold War world order characterized by large-scale cultural conflict in place of the previous global ideological conflicts between the various political “-isms” produced by Western modernity — capitalism, communism and fascism. Developing his thoughts into a book in 1996, Huntington provided the following breakdown of world civilizations: Huntington himself offered some explanations for why civilizations clash in the typically modern, Harvard style of over-explaining fairly banal concepts, i.e. civilization is profoundly felt, profound differences cause conflict, etc. — […]

Friday

30

January 2015

1

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Saudi Deals and Secularist Delusions

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France is famous for its staunchly secular political order. Unlike Britain with its state church or Germany with its Church tax, the French state declares itself free of religious influence. Yet in an apparent contradiction, French laïcité routinely makes higher demands of religious minorities. The French constitution’s claim that its Republic is both indivisible and secular extends to cultural norms as well as political ones. This makes France a fine example of one of the core neoreactionary principles: there is always a church – a force which determines which ideas and habits are respectable. No amount of secularism can obscure the fact […]

Thursday

29

January 2015

6

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Meritocracy and Gameability

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I don’t know any of this for a fact, but I would imagine that, if you were to administer a spelling bee to a given middle-school classroom, there would be a fairly significant correlation between success at the bee and overall writing ability. I’d further imagine that this correlation begins to fall apart the closer you get to a country-wide scale, like the Scripps National Spelling Bee. (Perhaps I’m being ungenerous there, but I don’t see too many future Hemingways in that crowd.) The reason I’d wager that these propositions are true is that good spelling is wrapped up with […]

Wednesday

28

January 2015

14

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Forbidden to Forbid: Word-Craft of the Culture War

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Language transcends rationality. There is little logic to the human condition, yet plenty of emotion, errors, and discord. So we have language, a malleable band of symbols we manipulate to survive. Our lexicon bears the record of countless conquests and revolutions beginning in primeval obscurity when the Indo-European culture advanced West. Human events are embedded in our words like chunks of sediment in fossilized rock. Little fragments of the eccentric kings, strident Norsemen, Roman slang, and Muslim invaders all echo out of the continuously arguing mouths of English speakers. Both Runes and Latin were mystical technologies. The spell of language […]

Tuesday

27

January 2015

10

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“The Happening” Won’t Fix Your Problems

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Everyone knows someone who is convinced that a society-wide catastrophe would be the first necessary step to a general improvement in the political situation, at least in their opinion. Such a belief makes some intuitive sense on the individual level — it is said that addicts need to hit ‘rock bottom’ before they reform themselves. What is unfortunately more common, on the historical level, is that nations, countries, and societies tend to make the same mistakes repetitively, until they are annihilated by some combination of competitors, natural catastrophes, and other competitors. On the biological level, we are aware of the […]