Rhys Caerwyn was stirred, by recent events, out of his hiatus to discuss The Orlando Shootings and the Real Crisis—that being technology masking the decay.
We have become a society that has replaced the light in the human mind with cheap data processing and simple information. All of our capacities to process events naturally, to come to real terms with various happenings, have been reduced to simple retweets, flag filters, Snapchat filters and other worthless, expendable signaling. The Information Age has reduced the human heart to nothing more than an instrument made of silicon, unable and unwilling to truly express itself to its fellow people, and completely subordinated to the whims of processed information molded into whatever its maker wants the new heart to express.
Caerwyn nabs an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for his inspired writing.
Reactionary future looks into BAMN financials and finds Institutional left wing violence. As expected. One wonders how would… oh say… Heritage Foundation respond to a group dedicated to… oh say… promoting American free enterprise by any means necessary?
Next up from RF he considers The Anti-Corn Law Movement as a 18th [sic.] century civil rights analogue. Other The thesis stems from his recent seminal work on nefarious foundations, the actions of which, under conditions of divided sovereignty, he finds…
…make a great deal of sense in an extremely perverted and warped way. The idea is to let loose the crazies in society to act as means to break barriers allowing for planned change to occur—because simply ruling overtly and actively is not allowed, because of that state society split. This change is instigated by elites made crazy by the structure…, and they then have to let lose bigger crazies to defeat the right wing blocks. This lacks institutional memory, and as a result subsequent waves of elites start taking the older craziness seriously, despite their cynical usage… You can see it when you read the histories of foundations—the new generations have no idea why the older ones acted like they did, and take it for granted as totally sincere.
Or as Jim has said, the second generation forgets the joke. As for the 19th Century Anti-Corn Laws…
The Whigs were total loonies and liars plain and simple, but the subsequent history is written with complete ignorance of what clearly happened. A healthy political arrangement would have included an executive which could have just made the strategic change in economic structure desired and allowed the elite to lead overtly and actively (shift import policy to make industrialization profitable), instead of fostering the free trade nuts, who are treated seriously even now. Think of the anti-corn law activists as the Martin Luther Kings of their day. Peel was the high, they were the rebellious tools. But England was clearly politically far gone by this point.
RF continues with further thoughts on the topic here Laissez faire? or agrarian primitivists? And scores another couple points:
The idea that classical liberal laissez faire economics created industrialization is simply comparable to the idea that Rosa Parks and the rest of the black community were the instigators of the civil right era.
Yet more, with lots of quotations, on the Corn Laws here.
Reactionary Future restates the maxim Sovereignty is Conserved and looks at the ramifications. He also finds, unsurprisingly, the Rockefeller Foundation behind modern Libertarianism.
Alrenous’ (thus far) Hypothetical AI takes a Sgt. Schultzy Official Position on the Holocaust. Not that that will save its skin SRAMs.
Nydwracu has been digging into the Ford Foundation too. Here he introduces a few from The Ford Foundation New Voices Fellowship. New voices… same old song.
Also from Nyd, he settles this question once and for all: Garrison Keillor is not a philosophical genius. The constant barrage of hate on NPR toward Trump (and all townies) is not limited to Keillor, tho’ he is no doubt the grand old man of the phenomenon.
Nyd also digs up an old post on the Main Blog On hate. But it’s really more about philosophy of language than about hate, per se. And also… linguistic magick. Along the way, we learn “hate music” is not actually any music where group A hates on group B. That would, apparently, be hateful. Rather, it is in the eye ear of the beholder hearer. I cannot really do the article justice by an excerpt, but here is a salient taste:
There’s an important difference between reinforcement and redefinition: redefinition draws attention to itself, makes itself explicit, whereas reinforcement operates in the background and takes it for granted that the reader already gets the point. The Daily Beast article does not argue that hate music is equivalent to neo-Nazi white power music; it just says it. Reinforcement implies that the author believes the reader to already share the judgment; redefinition implies that he does not. When Mencius Moldbug argues that the prevailing political belief-system in America is “super-Protestant”, he cites a 1942 Time article that described a “super-Protestant” foreign policy—that reinforced the membership of the policy points listed in the article in the category of things that are super-Protestant, and therefore implied that, in 1942, the writers of Time thought not only that the points listed were members of the category, but also that the readers would already share that judgment.
It’s long, but RTWT—an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Irish assimilation ca. 1860
Also at Nydwracu’s: What does successful assimilation look like? If the Irish are the best example ya got, well… And speaking of magic, he quotes a Mennonite missionary on Acquiring an immunity. A westernized soul may be necessary, but it is surely not sufficient.
Jim has a couple this week. First How to give effect to Brexit, basically the sooner and more decisively the better. Otherwise it’ll never happen.
And next, and example from Troy of the Anglosphere Teaching boys to be beta.
Alf tackles The Riddle of Reactionary Future. Reactionary Future gonna reactionary future. Because of the generally high quality of his work, we tend to give him a wide berth.
Nick Land digs up som “[S]hock. Fury. Disgust. Despair” in light of Brexit. Well, I certainly hope that “despair” part is real, but I have my doubts.
He also pulls out the heavy scriptural proof-texts and plays his role as Arius: Neocameralism #1. Concluding…
Agree with where Moldbug is going with this or not, the line of thought is profoundly illustrative of the Neocameral problem, as originally conceived, which lies within the general framework of cryptographic property protection (and not that of romantic political attachment).
But would not “cryptographic property protection” by any other name smell just as sweet?
Land has a nice note quoting Peter Brimelow, “… And I chose French”.
E. Antony Gray finds more inspiration in current events with a new ode: Leave. And speaking of “hirsute” women, he has an ode: The Song of the Mirror.
Sydney Trads have up an obligatory @WrathOfGnon classic Dominique Venner on Identity. Also an update on Aussie politics such as they are.
Spandrell finally kicks himself in the butt to talk about Brexit: The Spectre of Nationalism. It’s all standard Spandrellian Eyeore, which we’ve come to know and love, offered with a deep (and excellent) history lesson in this ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀. And shot through with gems such as these:
Naturally all the bien-pensant are horrified. Truly, really horrified, horrified as if a zombie just showed up at your window. The EU in Europe is worshipped in a way probably similar to how the early Catholic Church was worshipped in the early Middle Ages. It must have looked like a miracle that while myriad Goths and other barbarians completely destroyed the Western Roman Empire, the Church not only survived, but thrived with a very sophisticated organization across the whole of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. That the Christian Church was able to conserve some modicum of civilization in those times was truly a miracle. It must have seemed that truly God was with them.
God thus appeared to be with the EU in the decades after WW2. 70 years of peace. Increasing economic and political integration. If you’ve read your European history it’s certainly nothing short of a miracle. Of course the 70 years of peace might have something to do with the US Army garrisoning most of the continent, but you’re not supposed to notice that much. The key to becoming a leading scholar in human society is selective noticing. It’s more important to figure out what not to know, than what to know.
Spandrell has more on the Brexit afterglow: The Clam and the Sandpiper. He sees Britain’s divorce with the EU with more nuance than we’ve given it stateside, namely that there appears to be a largely functioning anti-globalist elite contending with the mainline British progs.
Gratuitous pic of Russian looking girl
Now of course the most elite parts of the Brexit campaign have come out to say they have no intention of limiting immigration; and that’s their prerogative. If anything they should be lauded for admitting so at this timing. But at any rate, it appears that large parts of the elite have reached the conclusion that globalist institutions are not in their interest.
It follows that we should look at exactly how this elite in-fighting is occurring; who is fighting whom? Who will be the fisherman?
Dividual brings us A New Perspective To The Old Divide—that divide between Left and Right, which he frames as seeing society as populated by humans (I’d argue “angels”) versus animals. He contrasts Scott Alexander’s versus Jack Donovan’s visions of The Good in an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
[T]his humane loftiness, this softness, this compassion and empathic morality, this denial of the animal side of human nature makes the Left dangerous because they are the enablers of barbarians, they cannot predict when will large-scale organized barbarism like Communism or Fascism or Jacobinism break out, they are unable to understand and prevent small-scale barbarism i.e. crime, they are disgusted by all this and busily wishing these truths away. They act as unwitting enablers, urging the crowd on to rise up because they expect they want justice, and are utterly surprised when the crowd just morphs into a bunch of bloodthirsty animals instead.
Alexander’s angelic vision of human nature would be great… if it were true. What it is, however, is pure gnosticism and represents a great ideological divorce from reality: that men are part angel and part beast, and must be governed accordingly. People think the Separation of Church & State in liberal democracy disenfranchises priest in favor of warrior, whereas the exact opposite is manifestly the case.
The ever-perspicacious Shylock Holmes notes: Suffering is Interesting, Ending Suffering is Uninteresting. That’s my basic problem with Buddhism. But probably not for same reasons google searchers would seem to think. He’s some quotes from Last Psychiatrist to light the way.
David Grant has a pretty big brain dump on the Politics of Avatar. And that’s only part I. The other shoe drops with Part II.
Social Pathologist reads Sam Francis on Joe McCarthy. And he digs up yet another example of the same old HLvM game we’ve been preaching about in Neoreaction since forever… well since 2013:
Liberals had captured all the key institutions by the early 50’s, so it’s no surprise that by the early Sixties, when the universities had started agitating for cultural change, the institutional pushback was not there. That’s because the institutions were already in agreement with demands of the students. Mainstream America’s attempt to push back against the tide was doomed to failure, since the institutions of government were against them. This also explains why relatively peaceful movement such as protests and civil disobedience were so effective out of all proportion to the efforts and why in a country like North Korea, where the managerial class is quite happy with the state of affairs, similar such protests are suicidal.
It also explains a lot of the conservative failure in pushing back the “left tide”. Emulating the methods “left’s success”, i.e., protests and civil disobedience are likely to be ineffective, since the Left’s methods are premised on having an elite that is sympathetic to their ideals. Conservatives, emulating their methods lack the pre-requisite elite support and likely to see their methods fail. But more importantly, conservatives using such methods are being diverted from more practical modes of opposition by using the civil rights paradigm as a model of resistance.
Joe McCarthy had a lot of traits not worth admiring, but his greatest sin, according to Sam Francis, was that he….
…was a populist witch hunter who had, for the first time, managed to organise some sort of pushback against the managerial state. Intellectuals may have been able to put forward good intellectual arguments against the New Deal but McCarthy was the first to organise a populist pushback.
Slumlord racks up another ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ in this excellent series.
And from Cambria Will Not Yield: True to Our God and Our Blood.
This Week in Social Matter
Ryan Landry kicks off the week with an in-depth discussion of Chinese President Xi’s Purges. Our politicians could learn a thing or forty from him:
After taking power in 2012, Xi focused on an anti-corruption campaign. This is a tremendous public relations move that is a high-low alliance to go after wicked grifters within the government. The new king will be on your side, little peasant, and to prove it, he will imprison, execute, and humiliate these mid-level crooks. Per leaked records, the entire Communist Party apparatus has possibly trillions stashed abroad, so the targets are juicy. Xi can target rival power sources and networks to solidify his control over government infrastructure.
Fighting homegrown corruption is all well and good. But China faces it from other more opaque, but no less insidious sources:
Xi has made a few other moves recently that point to defense against Western corruption.
The attempt is to secure intellectual sovereignty.
According to Landry, “Xi believes that Chinese thought should be rooted in the classic tradition of China.” Can you imagine that? What a hater?!!
Mark Citadel returns to SM with You Sunk My Vatican II. This one really pulls back the curtain on Prog tentacles reaching into the Orthodox Church, and some of the defense mechanisms it enjoys.
It has become obvious within the last few years that the Western globalist powers have their sights set on the Eastern Christian world, the post-communist sphere. Everything from revolutionary seeding to NGO social engineering is party to this effort, for as Orthodoxy emerges to a renewed strength in this part of the world, liberalism is keen to see it squashed, and there can be no better way to undermine the Church’s beliefs than to target the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which is prestigious at the same time as it is isolated and weak.
One of those defense mechanisms…
Unlike the Papal Office, the Constantinople Patriarchate does not have explicit authority to command anything and have it be binding. The veracity of councils within Orthodoxy is determined by consensus and consent of the full body of churches. This makes change incredibly easy to derail, and just such a derailment was deployed against the pan-Orthodox council to great effect.
When you don’t want things to get done, sometimes the best option is rule by committee. Mark Citadel owns the ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀ for this week.
Mark Yuray, who tosses wet blankets for a living (do not try this at home kids!), has one to toss upon the late rightward populist uprising in Great Britain: Brexit, Brexit Everywhere, Nor Any Exit To See. The bottom line: the people don’t have actual power
The impositions on Great Britain by the European Union and the problems caused by EU membership and EU-supported ideology are not manifested abstractly, nor can they be revoked or solved with a simple vote, or a simple change of minds. They are manifested in tens of thousands of highly-paid bureaucrats deeply entrenched in the state apparatus. They are manifested in scores of elites and aspiring elites (both domestic and foreign) who reside in London, Oxford, and Cambridge, and work 40-hour weeks, fifty weeks a year, turning the gears and cogs of the machinery of the state. They cannot be removed with the flick of a pen because they are the ones holding the pens.
Mind the qui dolet?
The key thing to ask about Brexit is this: who got fired? Who lost funding? Which bureaucrats are homeless? Which people are blacklisted and will be forever unhireable due to their support for the Remain campaign that lost? No one got fired. No one lost funding. No bureaucrats are homeless, and they will fight regulation and treaty to keep their positions and maintain the status quo. David Cameron is never going to suffer any serious consequences for his positions and decisions.
Heck, David Cameron is looking forward to that £50k per speech for the rest of his life.
Mark Yuray’s time vortex is closing, but not before The Last Letter from Royal America focuses on the education of our youth. America’s future king suggests: ” hand over the entire Department of Education to the Roman Catholic Church”. I’m certain that substantial efficiencies may be gained by the transfer, but I’m not sure the US Catholic Church is quite up to the task just yet. She’ll require her own rectification, first.
Landry’s Weimerica Weekly podcast is on: The Blue State Model, which is now in the endgame of 40+ years of Democratic of throwing unreliable white working class voters under the Prog Coalition bus.
Anthony DeMarco and I are joined by a host of auditory shit poasters on Descending The Tower – 7: E. Antony Gray, Alistair Hermann, Ryan Landry, and the incomparable James A. Donald. It’s long. But worth a listen.
P. T. Carlo darkens the doors of Social Matter again on Friday with Magical Thinking Doomed The Euro-Geist. It’s a post-mortem on the EU and only slightly ahead of schedule.
Integrated markets were necessary for a project as ambitious as the EU to succeed, but they were never sufficient in and of themselves. The atomization and homogenization engendered by the free market certainly weakened traditional identities, but in the member countries of the EU, where roots go much deeper and identities are less fragile, the market in and of itself was not enough to meld these identities into a supra-national one, the Euro-Geist.
An element of coercion, of forced assimilation, is ultimately necessary for such a project to have any hopes of success. Without the Blank Slate of an empty continent, as in North America, such diverse cultures will not be melded together so easily. After all, not only are Europe’s cultures diverse, but so are its languages. The EU officially recognizes 23 languages within its borders.
Superb bit of analysis, as we’ve all come to expect from Mr. Carlo and an obvious ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Finally, in Saturday’s Prose & Poetry column, E. Antony Gray examines J. W. Goethe—examines and imitates; which I’ve heard is the sincerest form of flattery.
This Week in 28 Sherman
Over at the home blog, Landry takes a look at the Brexit-exit polls : The Left Really Has Nothing—both rhetorically and materially speaking. Shouting “Racist!” is, today, an admission of the moral bankruptcy that it always was.
Lee Kuan Yew was right that multicultural democracies become voting fights along race and religious lines. The West only had to see their demographics change dramatically for the point to be hammered home. There must be some creeping fear in the back of white liberals minds across the West that their only allies are recent import and sub-85 IQ bread munchers, and those pets are not playing all that nice anymore.
In ironic, but not entirely surprising, news The Literal Cucks are Mad—mad about right wing memers turning their totally normal passtime into a powerful slur. A pejorative by any other name smells just as rancid. Landry wonders:
If the actual cucks are this mad by linking their kink to the proper low status it should have and Jews flip out at ((())), what do you think is going to happen when the backlash steamroller backed by a proper Restoration gets going?
This Week in WW1 pics, its Kids in Gas Masks.
Finally, an end of week note on Traitors.
This Week in Kakistocracy
Porter takes the opportunity to look at the news that conveniently got buried under all the hullaballoo over Brexit: Anthony Kennedy and the Juggalo Creed.
Karen Allen, of Indiana Jones movie fame
Public discussion on the raft of recent Supreme Court decisions was mostly washed aside in the wake of Brexit. Which is a mild shame given the effort that tribunal expended in crafting airy rationalizations for its result-oriented expedients. Such displays merit little mention except to those who still imagine this is a panel constrained by some legendary scrap of paper. Or, it should be acknowledged, by their own cosmic rhetoric offered in previous decisions. But so what? Most of these justices are old enough to be stolen by Indiana Jones. You think they maintain a logical decision-tree of their bullshit?
Brexit, which probably won’t happen, got all the oxygen. The senescent ramblings the US Supreme Court, which will be a rotting albatross carcass about our necks for decades, got little. Porter takes a stab at translating Justice Kennedy for us. His is, at least, more lingually economical. Regarding Fisher vs. University of Texas, he tries this legal application on for size:
You might be tempted to wonder where “diversity” appears in the constitution. Though that impulse should be resisted. Instead just understand that considerable deference is owed to a landlord in defining those intangible characteristics, like renter homogeneity, that are central to his property’s identity and mission.
But despite the deference owed to white nationalist landlords, it remains a challenge to reconcile the pursuit of non-diversity (which is as prominent a feature in our statutory framework as diversity) with the promise of equal treatment.
I’ve often said that the only part of the First Amendment that makes any sense according to Natural Law is freedom of association. And lo and behold, it is the only one that has been thoroughly expunged.
Porter’s Despair in Pastel documents Miami’s canary status for the Brazilification coal mine. Must be all those GOP-voting Cuban ex-pats.
Finally a PSA on Repetitive Motion Injuries. Just as one jar of peanut butter is largely distinguishable from any other, so too progressive anti-Trump diatribes cannot easily be distinguished by flavor or color. As to the question answer du jour whether Trump is populist or demagogue (hint: obviously the latter… because Hitler), one might just wonder whether these are not two great tastes that taste great together.
This Week in Evolutionist X
Evolutionist X kicks off the week with another of her invaluable Cathedral Round-ups #11: The Joke’s on Them. The video I find absolutely cringeworthy. How any intelligent person can take the protests focus-grouped best talking points of the most privileged people on earth seriously is beyond me. Well, the answer is they probably don’t, but they have to pretend to. And maybe that is what makes it so cringeworthy.
Harvard Law School Dean Martha L. Minow (2013)
[I]f [Harvard Law School] were actually committed to SJW goals, the best thing they could do is shut down, fire the teachers, give their endowment to the poor, and perhaps burn it all down and shoot a few lawyers for good measure. For every HLS grad who devotes their life to getting improperly convicted death row inmates out of prison, there are a dozen others working to keep them in; for every student who swears they are going to serve the poor, a hundred spend their days defending mega-corporations; for every Obama, there’s a Scalia.
And a good thing, too! Of course HLS is exempt from the norms they impose upon the rest of the Face of the Earth. Call it a Perk of the Pinnacle of Holiness. But it’s interesting, in the Chinese Proverb way, to see up close.
No year evenly divisible by four would be complete without much talk of The Olympics: Elections and counter-tribal signaling. Why do candidates often say what is indefensible, promise what they cannot or never do deliver, and never get held to account for it? Politics is tribal of courshe…
Once a candidate has established their tribalist credentials (or has the tribe securely arrayed behind them,) nothing they can say will convince members of the other tribe to vote for them, even if they are actually saying things that are explicitly meant to.
Of the tribes, Hillary’s is by far the most disgusting: a rag-tag bunch of dindus, femcunts, and Wall Streeters.
Evolutionist X leads with a pretty funny graphic here: So Merkel broke the EU (or, Brexit Explained for Confused Americans)—a pretty comprehensive breakdown of the Brit-EU political and emotional scene.
Well it wouldn’t be Anthropology Friday without Anthropology Friday, wherein Evolution X continues to regale us with excerpts from Still a Pygmy by Isaac Bacirongo (an actual pygmy) and Michael Nest, as well as a thorough accounting of Pygmy-Bantu tribal conflict.
This Week in West Coast Reactionaries
Adam T. C. Wallace returns to West Coast Reactionaries with a bit of verse: Exeter, 29th of June, 2016. (OK, well he basically owns the place, so he never left…)
Auld Wat relates A Reply to a European Friend from a Brexiteer. He’s got far more patience than me.
Wallace reports: A Liberal and a Reactionary Shake Hands. And that is how it ought to be. Friendship should transcend political opinions. Often, sadly, it does not. When choices become more stark and existential, we may find far less to divide us.
And Testis Gratus writes of the virtue and largely lost art of Turning Inward.
This false dichotomy of rationalism and mysticism has only been present in modernity. Similarly, both reason and spirituality have been separated from religion, which is how we have both materialist empiricists and fools who parody Eastern religions because they’re “exotic” and “spiritual.” The idea of a European “aligning chakras” or “practicing yoga” is an absolute joke; yet another reason of why we need look to and salvage our own traditions. They look elsewhere only because they do not know their own history.
Ault Wat returns for a bit of faith testimonial: Any Port in the Storm?
And the impressive Christopher Grant has an explicitly neoreactionary analysis of The Sovereign Court.
This Week around The Orthosphere
Dr. Briggs’ book is available for pre-order at Amazon.
Chris Gale wonders whether The growth of ADHD is stunted. To be honest, I’m shocked that the rates are that low.
Briggs wonders who would take Pride In Objectively Disordered Sexual Desires? Next, logical and epistemological meticulousness is never out of fashion in Casa Briggs: The Gambler’s Fallacy Proves Classical Statistics (Frequentist & Bayes) Fails.
On the W. M. Briggs show this week, Briggs the ever-stubborn, You—Yes, You—Are Doing Probability & Statistics Wrong. Wrongly, I think he means. Also: a new paper presents the opportunity for another good thrashing of the Drake Equation.
And Briggs gets back in The Stream with Under Ash Carter, the Military is Now Looking for a Few Good Men, Women or Whatever. The Secretary of Social Justice promises funding for surgeries!
A favorite condemnation is to call a thing “medieval,” an imaginary time of constant and hideous brutality. But Tiny Tomas Torquemada on his worst day at the Inquisition never imagined a torture as frightening as cutting off a man’s particularities, repeatedly injecting him with maddening, corrosive chemicals, and stuffing bags of water under his chest. Lines were drawn then. Not now. Now we’re all encouraged to blur all lines. Or else. For instance, New York City promises to make it expensive to remember biology’s lines, and will fine scofflaws who insist on saying “sir” to men who want to be called “ma’am” up to $250,000.
Over at The Orthosphere proper, Kristor has a note regarding Brexit: Borders Are a Forecondition of Trade. Which ends up calling into question the wholesomeness of the EU itself, and is a profound tract against globalization:
The engine of human social genius is difference. The human race is always an arms race. History cannot therefore ever end, so long as there are still humans alive and kicking.
Nor would the perfect economic and political homogeneity of the borderless globalist utopia be stable even if per impossibile it could be achieved. Like a population of perfect cooperators in an iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, it would establish immense opportunities for profit by defection. So there would be defection. The order would break down, catastrophically.
Nations prevent that breakdown. As within any polis political order supervenes upon authoritative hierarchy, so international order supervenes upon nations.
Kristor earns an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for his efforts here.
Bonald has a hopeful revision on Casanova. In a Precondition for a meaningful democracy, posits that two competing elites could agree to let the populace decide between their respective policies. This is true. Only there are never two elites, the evidence of which may be seen by long-term policy trending in only one direction.
This from Bonald was inspired and an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀: A tribal Catholic’s last straw. The Catholic hierarchy does not, to any appreciable degree, recognize that the Church is locked in an existential conflict with flesh-and-blood foes.
Red Army, WW2
War is the moment of ultimate social clarity. Faced with the live possibility of the destruction of the Church, there arises within the Catholic soul an urgent will to collective survival. The prerogative to survive, to rebuff attack, overrides every consideration except absolute moral prohibitions. Fastidious concern for Canon Law would be madness, an abdication of responsibility, when survival in the face of the Liberal enemy is at stake.
Being nice and jeezusy to foes is a luxury no Catholic can afford, at least until our side has overwhelming theater domination. And right now, conditions are just about diametrically opposite.
What of the common member of the Church Militant’s relationship with the current papacy? Bonald considers WW2 as a fitting analogy:
Suppose one of our brave wartime leaders, Joe Stalin say (because Russia of all the Allied powers faced the most existential threat, making it the best analogy for the Church), announced that he had become a Nazi and would henceforth work for the subjugation of the Slavic race. It would be insane to care that he only said this in an off-the-cuff interview to journalists rather than in any official capacity. The proper thing would be for the communist party to remove him in a prompt and orderly way, but every Russian down to the lowliest private should stop obeying him immediately, even regarding orders not obviously treasonous. The reason is not because the leader has proven himself wrong or immoral, but by the more urgent fact that he has revealed himself as an enemy.
Papa Frank has gotta go.
Testis Gratus sets his hand at some snappy short verse: Onward.
Mark Richardson asks Does feminism promote trust between men and women? Rhetorically, of course. Richardson also finds British Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies being more based than one might have otherwise expected.
Dalrock finds the military making “rape” A woman’s prerogative. Making men “live in fear of accusations” is exactly why Ezra ((((Klein)))) loves it.
This was pretty interesting over at Gornahoor, Spirituality for the XXIst Century:
If LSD was necessary to be religious in the 20th century, then Rene Guenon is necessary to be religious in the 21st century.
Not at all clear that LSD was necessary… but point taken.
Cheshire Ocelot has some Short Thoughts on Titus Andronicus, and Two Comedies.
This Week… Elsewhere
Al Fin has a marvelous overview of ingrained sex differences and the burgeoning global testosterone crisis: A Few of the Many Reasons Society Needs to Value its Boys. Chock full of data and insight this was an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Also up on Al’s Next Level, a fervent wish for global warming and the data to support it: Humans Get Things Done When It’s Warmer Outside.
Gratuitous brunette in wallpaper setting.
Brexit viewed from purely economic side: Brexit is Bear Stearns. Filed Damn BAMN: Make Ford Pay For the Wall—that’s Ford Foundation… who else? Also from Unorthodoxy, a brilliant suggestion for some false-flag pro-life horror: My Baby, My Cat.
Heartiste documents early evidences of Trump’s Tight Game. Also Lord Chesterfield on Women’s “Little Passions”.
Roman Dmowski has take #7231 of Supreme Court Vs. Democracy. I agree SCOTUS is lawless. I disagree that insufficient democracy made it that way.
Butch Leghorn has a fat dossier on BAMN cult leader Yvette Felarca. Antifa are invariably disgusting, but BAMN and Felarca are more disgusting than most. Come the Restoration such characters will meet their fate by standard law and order procedures. In the meantime, we should look for strategic workarounds where available.
By way of Vox Day, a reminder that it’s not always women who ruin marriages.
AMK kicks off a new Incentives Matter series, noting Incentives Created the Alt Right. Arguably, an example of hyperstition in action. He runs through some possible outcomes. Part 2: Everyone is Libertarian About What Threatens Them.
Reactionary Tree has a big paste from the Gramsci Society on Right-Wing Gramscism.
This was an impressive bit of extreme right editorial cartooning. Ben Garrison, watch out!! See this one too.
Well, that’s about it. Lots of good stuff this week, not necessarily organized around a theme. Keep on reactin’! Til next week, NBS… Over and out!!
> Alrenous’ (thus far) Hypothetical AI takes a Sgt. Schultzy Official Position on the Holocaust.
Uhm.. His blog title is Accepting Ignorance, hence “official AI position”.
“It also explains a lot of the conservative failure in pushing back the “left tide”. Emulating the methods “left’s success”, i.e., protests and civil disobedience are likely to be ineffective, since the Left’s methods are premised on having an elite that is sympathetic to their ideals. Conservatives, emulating their methods lack the pre-requisite elite support and likely to see their methods fail. But more importantly, conservatives using such methods are being diverted from more practical modes of opposition by using the civil rights paradigm as a model of resistance.”
– Good article from the Social Pathologist, but the above quote is wrong … Civil disobedience and protests of the right dont try push back the left tide, or have some such perfect and absolute goals. The rights disobedience and protests have among others the following goals: carving out breathing and action room; tiring slowly the opponents; expanding and upholding the rights boundaries of acceptable; showing will power, courage, endurance and determination; breaking and mocking openly the rules and power of the left, laughing at them; by way of example enticing others to do the same; etc. The results will mostly be seen in 8-10 years time.
It is always possible for the right to shoot torpedoes to its own feet before any action with suitable negative rationalizations. This leads to passivism, inaction, hopelessness, sniping the members of the right with non-constructive criticism, etc.
It is true that “activism” should not be among our highest priorities, but on the other hand we should not exclude functioning methods outside our tool selection.
carving out breathing and action room; tiring slowly the opponents; expanding and upholding the rights boundaries of acceptable; showing will power, courage, endurance and determination; breaking and mocking openly the rules and power of the left, laughing at them; by way of example enticing others to do the same; etc. The results will mostly be seen in 8-10 years time.
When has this ever happened for the right in an Anglophone country? Ever?? Even once??? There is no right deep state. There is no power for the right to appeal to. I think this is delusional. In 8-10 years, we’ll be debating whether you can be against camel pedophile marriage (or some equally unimaginable thing) and still be a moral person.
… The mainstream rights highest priority is freedom, the mainstream lefts highest priority is justice. When they concentrate their thinking, powers and actions on these, and pit these against each other, justice wins out almost every time, because justice has coercive power which freedom has not, and justice makes psychologically demanding requests to the rights members almost as much as to the lefts members. As vague and expendable freedom is to the most of the people, including the right, the right is then always ready to negotiate and give up its freedoms, especially in hard situations. The left never negotiates or gives up justice. Why should we leave justice to be lefts prerogative, and expend all our powers to the ultimately losing freedom?
Well Nick, people just voted for Brexit in Britain despite almost total liberal elite opposition. We dont have to prevent “camel pedophile marriages”, we just have to create two totally separate societies and realities in society. “Camel pedophile marriages” are increasingly over there in the small and beleagured liberal elite circles, and people live by different traditional rules in different traditional reality. This is our goal.