Titus Q. Cincinnatus has taken the incipient neoreaction by storm lately. But to his credit, I don’t think it was intentional. Over at the Neo-Ciceronian Times this week he continues with Things That Have Helped to Destroy America’s Social Cohesion (Part 2) – Generationalism. (ICYMI: Part 1 – The Suburbs.) On the generationalist question, he his spot on:
Mass consumerism encourages social democratisation because it allows the individual to define himself by his things and by his individual social standing (which, as we saw above, depends on the ability to buy the “right” things). As a result, people become self-absorbed attention-seekers. Jerry Springer and Lindsey Lohan would simply not be possible in a genuinely traditional society. Long gone is the sense of worth which comes from finding one’s place in the community and society as a whole, and valuing that worth on the basis of one’s contribution to whole, rather than simply to oneself. Instead, the members of a generation are galvanised to seek out only the approval of their own age group, and that for the purpose of advancing themselves personally in the esteem of their own cohort. Every one else becomes “stupid kids” or “old geezers.”
His British spellingisms are intentional and we’ll try not to hold it against him.
Let’s see… what else?
Alrenous has a quick note: Consciousness is Not PR Agent.
Alf has suitably grumpy Thoughts on the Rio Olympics
Filed under-Missed-This-Last-Week, P. T. Carlo has not, as I originally expected, been sloughing off for summer. Instead, he had an article up over at Katehon, which, alas, I don’t follow closely: The Bloody Spectre Of A Clinton Presidency Looms Over The World Stage. It is, of course, chock full of his usual perceptive commentary on the international political scene.
In contrast, to Trump’s inward looking, Populist-Nationalist synthesis, Clinton offers Americans what is perhaps the most thoroughly pure version of Neo-Liberalism yet put forward on a national political stage. Consisting of both unapologetic support for international capitalist exploitation of labor as well as a virulent dedication to the continued unipolar geopolitical dominance of the United State’s burgeoning Imperium. Its explicit goal is not merely to enable its own citizens to live the good life of uninhibited, rootless hedonism (the American Dream) but also to impose this concept of “the good life” upon the rest of the world.
And yes, per impossibile, it’s even worse than that. But, you’ll hafta RTWT—an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Nick Land finds Taleb saying “journalists try to be judged by other journalists and their community, not by their readers”. Kinda like clerics. Like the really stuffy sort of clerics. Also this Quote Note, from The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893), was pretty good.
Over at Dissident Right, Reactionary Peasant has overview of D.H. Lawrence’s Studies in Classic American Literature that will be of some interest to reactionaries and red-pilled students of American culture. And August Rush has a helpful piece on Right-Wing Intersectionality.
Shylock Holmes says: “OMG, did you hear what Trump said yesterday?” Actually he didn’t say that. But he wonders why almost everybody else does.
This is the placebo test. If you take out the factor you think is really important and get pretty much the same result, it suggests that the factor wasn’t as important as you thought it was.
So why do Australians care about American elections? Well, for the same reason that Australians listen to American music more than Australian music…. Because it’s mostly just entertainment, and the US is the cultural hegemon.
In other words, a substantial amount of the interest in politics seems to fill the role of gossip. Nobody knows their neighbours much any more, so we need to find some common ground of people to share titillating stories about what someone-or-other said the other day.
Sydney Trads have up, as always, some @WrathOfGnon classics. This week Eugene Victor Walters on the Environment was particularly poignant. Also, they have another E. Antony Gray original: “Ode to a Burning Car”. (Tho’ they really should correct the spelling of the old chap’s name.)
Also there, Richard Cocks has a broad sweeping essay: Political Correctness and the Death of Education – Requiem for a Dream.
Avenging Red Hand, who blogs neither often nor often enough, has a wonderful essay On the Spurious Dichotomy of ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’. If man is, by nature, a tool-making animal, then his “artificial” technical contrivances are perfectly natural. (HT: Free Northerner.)
Neovictorian digs into the vault and pulls out a blast from the past: You Don’t Know Jack. I Don’t Know Jack—a meditation on the wisdom and poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. Remember him? He’s never been more relevant.
Reactionary Future has a helpful review and analysis of the obscure Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon by Karl Marx. Also, a short (for him) note on The many Fascisms, in which he finds much to praise.
Lawrence Glarus has a brief essay: Common Core is not what you think. His feature image alone is worth the click over. And what’s true of Common Core is true of mainstream education generally… so don’t bore us with plans to reform Common Core. Jim offers his own irrepressible thoughts.
Great essay here from Free Northerner: there are lots of good reasons to be against porn, but normal women Competing with Porn isn’t one of them.
E. Antony Gray has some more fresh poetry at his home blog. A thought: Water Under the Bridge.
Finally, CWNY discusses The Twilight of the Great God Democracy
Democracy, as it exists in Europe and the United States, has nothing to do with the ancient Anglo-Saxons who chose their leaders by election. It has everything to do with Jacobinism. Both Russian communism and European democracy stem from Jacobinism, which is a rebellion against the Christian God[.]
Amen to that!
This Week in Jim Donald
Jim is concerned about Hillary’s condition. Not really concerned about her per se, but concerned that people might elector despite it.
Some helpful gun advice: Don’t be overly concerned with stopping power
Finally another masterpiece of sex realism from Jim: Why women are sleeping with chads.
It is not that women like being beaten, though some do. What they like is that they could be beaten. To successfully raise children, needs to be a man and a woman forming one household. One household, one captain. If cannot be beaten, not really one household. So women feel insecure.
This Week in Social Matter
Ryan Landry’s Sunday article confirms Social Media Is A Tool Of The State. In the early adoption phase of the internet—the Lone Gunmen Era—it seemed for a while that it was a new wild west, with privacy-obsessed, libertarian hacker-types at the top of the digital food chain. But then came everybody, and with them commoditization, regression to the mean, and technical ignorance and apathy.
The desire for systemic control crept in as the progressives needed to dampen an uncontrolled public platform in their system, which relies on manipulation of public opinion. HR departments implemented social media rules. Being fired for Facebook posts started, being fired for Tweets from years past started, and going anon or pseudo became the trend. Newspaper comment sections began requiring a linked Facebook profile in hopes to get dissidents to self-censor. In a little over five years, Facebook went from a website you could not believe Hollywood would use for a film to the online Stasi for Merkel’s Germany. Germans now get arrested for complaining about their government’s imported dependent-criminals on Facebook. Migrant rapists get suspended sentences if even arrested.
And really, we should not have been surprised. Few states are so utterly beyond the reach of public unrest, as to not take an interest in the potentially subversive opinions of its citizens. And when the State’s very legitimacy rests on public opinion, the temptation is ten-fold. Meanwhile, what has the tech done to the humans?
Connectivity did not bring us together. It forced us together and showed all of our differences. It showed us why the kumbaya spirit is a utopian dream that will never happen. Not just our differences in appearance and customs, but simple reactions to daily events. What formerly would never have even come up between siblings or friends turned into online shouting matches and accumulated anger. Self-censorship started, and suddenly a space with friends and family required it, as well.
Social media became a battleground, not a playground. The dopamine hit via social media may not compare to the conflict hit. In our sanitized modern society, people love meaningless conflict. The fight shows they care, shows I care, ohhh what a rush! What better way to feed that need than a program that provides you hundreds of items to scroll through and fuel your outrage? Twitter sees death threats and rape threats crisscross by the minute. What might have been an online community to share things with and retreat to from a busy or boring day at work became Faceborg. One must assimilate and become part of the approved collective, or one will be shamed and unfriended. Twitter is now a progressive regime organ like any legacy media outlet.
Landry takes home yet another ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for this excellent bit of analysis.
Michael Perilloux returns to makes a very serious contribution to NRx theory: A Theory Of Ideological Inertia In Institutions. He’s obviously much less averse to using the term “ideology” than I am. Mr. Gray helpfully clarifies. Perilloux runs through several examples of organizational success and modes of failure to motivate his inertia theory. He goes on to outline the proper relationship that “ideology” should have with organizational structure, and some features that distinguish good “ideologies” from bad ones. For example,
[T]he actual ideology of an institution tends to more reliably follow from the implicit ideology of its immediate actions rather than from the official proclamations of its leadership. If a coalition comes together with immediate actions that are revolutionary in character, revolutionary elements within the organization will not simply turn off once power is acheived. If a coalition comes together to loot and pillage and serve the immediate family interests of the participants, it will not try to reform once its immediate incentive structure begins to decay.
But if a coalition comes together on the basis of immediately and virtuously living the word of God and building amongst themselves His Kingdom, almost no amount of changing circumstances, external persecution, or smashing-up of the institutional structure can pull it from its path. Mere proclamation that “after we win” some behavior should start is not enough to actually ensure it; the only ideology that is reliably drilled into an organization is that which can’t be neglected because it is needed immediately to interpret the immediate actions.
The After We Win™ Trap strikes me as a pitfall that few (if any) movements avoid. I can’t do this article justice, however, via excerpt. You’ll hafta read all of this winner of the ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀.
Gray, DeMarco, and me are joined by Louis de Bonald for the sequal to our last podcast: Ascending The Tower – Episode XVI, Part 2 – “Useful in the Zombie Apocalypse”.
Titus Cincinnatus makes a smashing debut at Social Matter with a discussion of Church, Männerbund, And Militia. Three great social technologies that taste great together. Despite that fact—if not in fact because of it—the powers of modern society have set traditional social arrangements in their cross-hairs.
There are any number of influences due to the modernism of our world that act to draw people away from community and the positive associative bonds we have with each other. One of these, which I’ve discussed previously, is the set of social phenomena surrounding the creation of suburbia after World War II. Our forms of popular entertainment work toward this end as well – instead of towns and villages coming together to celebrate births, marriages, and deaths with song, dance, and competitions, modern American man sits alone in front of his television or in a darkened movie theater where he’s not allowed to talk to those sitting next to him.A view of a neighborhood in the town of Superior, Colorado, a Denver suburb.
Modern American religion plays into this, as well, with its selfish emphasis on “what church can do for me,” rather than the other way around. This also encourages Americans to “church hop” from assembly to assembly, never integrating into a body of believers, but always flitting about looking for the next new program for their kids.
We ought to reject this modernism as inferior to what we once had.
Cincinnatus earns a nod for an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for his efforts here.
On Wednesday, Landry’s podcast is Weimerica Weekly: Age Play Edition. Which is kind of a new level of outrageous, but also a new level of sad. Chronic Kinglessness strikes again.
And P. T. Carlo is back with a review of Houellebecq’s Submission: Under The Gaze Of The Black Madonna. As Carlo sees it, the novel has almost nothing to do with Islam, much less Islamophobia. Instead, Houellebecq’s is melancholy dirge for the lost soul of Europe.
Although temporarily enraptured and hypnotized by the gaze of the Black Madonna, François is ultimately unable to follow her beckoning call. Not for lack of allure, but due to the fact that the Madonna in whose presence he knelt no longer existed in the soul of the Church that had been built around her. The distinction between the awful spiritual power of the Black Madonna and the Catholics who venerated her could not have been starker.
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Throughout the novel, François continually notes the distinctive, milquetoast form of “Humanitarian” Catholicism he found practiced by the contemporary members of the Church. This stood out to François, especially in regards to the nativist movement led by Marine Le Pen, which remained the only barrier left to the full Islamization of the country. While Le Pen herself was Catholic, François noted, her voters were distinctly secular, since France’s Catholics “care too much about welfare and the Third World” to ever bring themselves to support her candidacy. François again sees this brand of Catholicism at the shrine of the Black Madonna herself.
And Michael Perilloux has with a true life story little known in the states: John Nuttall As Soldier Of Industry. It’s about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (I wonder if they’re still “mounted” on horseback much these days…) basically entrapping a fool into wanting to commit a terrorist act. But it’s more about the fool, and how things really should have gone better for a guy like that (and his wife).
Nuttall and [his wife] Korody were failed by modern liberal society: cut loose from the wisdom and pride of their ancestors, supplied with all the degeneracy they could consume in their vulnerable youth, allowed to fall into despair, funded by the state in their dysfunctional habits, supplied with evil ideology created by liberal globalist dysfunction, encouraged by the police to commit a crime, and wrung through a dysfunctional legal system, which, if this is any salvation, at least had the good sense to end it there.
I would wager that a society with pride and strength and dignity, instead of bland liberal bureaucratic malaise, would never have produced these broken individuals. But the Devil is insidious in his works, so some less wishful way to deal with the fallen is needed.
None of which means people don’t bear the blame for their wrongdoing. But in a healthy society, it shouldn’t require heroic virtue just to live a healthy, normal life. Perilloux goes on to channel Carlyle on how not to fall into service for the Devil in this ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
For Saturday “Prose & Poetry”, Lawrence Glarus presents Chapter IV of The Project.
This Week in 28 Sherman
Over on the home blog, Landry has a Quick Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Program.
An opportunity for all would be best if the forgiveness could also be framed as a way to provide a positive for society rather than just a write off.
Community Service!
Forget debtors prison. Use another piece of the criminal justice system: community service. There are countless government programs, schools and other entities that receive government funds that would gladly take in an extra hand. Think of retirement homes that receive copious federal and state money. They could easily become an entity that records your community service, bringing joy to the lonely, bored or abandoned elderly in the process. Like dogs? Bring a dog to an old folks’ home or maybe a children’s hospital ward and brighten up someone’s day.
This offered with literally zero tongue in cheek. It’s actually a nice idea. And, unlike most of Landry’s policy prescriptions, stands some chance politically.
Next he has a review of “John Wick”: An ’80s Action Film Sanitized for SWPLs. There seems to be something for every one: Wall-to-wall action and violence (check) to get back at the bad guys for killing your dog (check).
And this Week in WW1 Pics: How Bad Can Chlorine Gas Be? FTR: really, really bad.
Finally in a brief note Friday, Landry asks Where to for Conservative Media? Trump win or lose, the GOP is irrevocably altered… but the size of the audience will not have changed. Nor the size of the wallets funding center-right coverage.
This Week in Kakistocracy
Filed under Ten-thousand unemployed Comedians: Porter finds a A Howler in New Jersey. And this one’s not a one-liner. This hits very close to home, literally. Just down the road, in the sleepy and quite tony suburb of Bernards Township, NJ, the planning board had the temerity to reject the plans for a mosque without proving to a metaphysical certainty that they were not mouth-breathing, bitter-clinging bigots. And they’re in trouble now…
Despite the obvious appeal of next door ululations and explosives testing, even the precociously tolerant residents of Bernards found the vision unsettling, and subsequently refused the application.
And that’s when towns get rocked by charges of bigotry.
But bigotry rocking has occurred a dozen times since Hillary last swallowed her tongue. Accusing whites is America’s social ambience. What makes this instance unique is that the plaintiffs are attempting to legally pursue opponents for opposing the mosque with impermissible motives.
The joke here, of course, is that Bernards Township is one of the richest, whitest, and most liberal places on earth in any conceivable universe. But not white, neither rich, nor liberal enough. Rich, light brown liberals are perpetual potential victims; no matter how rich… no matter how light brown.
Porter wonders why Europeans, in deciding whether or not to embrace their vibrant diverse future, refuse take advantage of the ample evidentiary record that diverse ones (and their spokeswhiteys) have created right here in the states.
Finally this week: Guanabara Knocking—a tidy takedown of Cato Institute reductive theorization:
I do wonder if importing thousands of competing Indian economists could cut faculty costs in half while ending employee health care and vacation allotments at George Mason University?
This Week in Evolutionist X
Evolutionist X pens An Open Letter to the People of Germany, which is 100% spot on—the English translation original of it, at any rate.
Her Big Six™ Civilization Series continues with #3: Indus Valley—the most obscure of them, and one that predates “the Chinese by almost a millennium and a half”.
And Anthropology Friday is back with some serious force. Evolutionist X kicks off a series reviewing In the Shadow of Man, by Jane Goodall (1971). Not so much a review as an invitation to participate.
This Week in West Coast Reactionaries
Adam Wallace provides a lot of autobiographical background in Primer, Pt. 13: On Extinction.
Kaiter Enless returns with a very strong essay, The False Dichotomy: Ideas vs. People. At the root of the idea (heh) that ideas must (or even may) be separated from the man is a radical rending of human nature, that the human soul is radically disconnected from it’s environment. I blame Descartes.
[I]f I truly believed that it was perfectly fine to murder men who were weaker than me and subsequently throw their women into a harem for my sexual pleasure, this would doubtless effect the way I behave; and if it effects the way I behave, in what way can one possibly say that it doesn’t effect me “as an individual”?
How, exactly, would you separate such ideas from me as a person? You couldn’t. Those things would be core to the fictional me’s identity in the same way that the Five Pillars are core to the identity of Islamists.
And Testis Gratus is back with musings On Repression… the kind a people does to itself voluntarily, and the kind it doesn’t.
This Week Around The Orthosphere
Poetry continues to abound around the sphere, both original and time tested. Over at Imaginative Conservative, they’ve a bit of the latter sort: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses”. They also have up an essay from Roger Scruton: “The Ring of the Nibelung”: Romantic Nonsense?
I have loved The Ring and learned from it for over fifty years, and, for me, it is quite simply the truth about our world—but the truth expressed in artistic form, by means of music of unquestionable authority and supreme melodic and harmonic power. It is also the nearest an artist has yet come to showing what religion means for those who have lost their faith in the ancestral gods.
Inspired by McLuhan hot versus cool media concepts, Christopher Morrissey discusses The New Cold War: Keeping Globalization Safe for Hot Media.
The paradox of our technologically created cultural experience is therefore a “constant tension” within the media: We need to experience just enough “coolness” so that we are not overwhelmed by “hotness.” This has now become an ongoing engineering problem for the human race. Our technological devices deliver experiences; and yet these devices must be engineered to provide just the right amount of flow that engages the “attention span” of the users.
Also at Imaginative Conservative a meditation on The Political Economy of Starship Troopers. Alexander Salter thinks
Starship Troopers is not fascist. Instead, it is an exploration of certain sociopolitical truths that, if ignored, doom a civilization to self-parody by the hemorrhaging of civic virtue.
Principal among those truths being that authority must be carefully matched to responsibility.
Pat Buchanan wonders Is the 2016 Election Really Rigged? The question, of course, is not “if”, but “how much?” But predicting a rigged election is certainly no more delegitimizing than running an actually rigged election.
Also there, and quite relevant to NRx Theory: Anne Bradstreet & the Puritan Influence on America.
Gabriela Vasileva, Miss Bulgaria 2012
Chris Gale’s Aug 8 Quote of the day focuses on how residential psychiatric facilities have come to resemble prisons… again. Also… Diversity is bad. How bad is it? Saskatoon Muslims? What the heck are Muslims doing in Saskatoon?!!
Riffing off Nick Land (riffing off Daimon Linker), Matt Briggs finds that Equality Motivates The Refugee Crisis. Whether that is by way of true belief or something less sinister—like an active, conscious conspiracy to destroy Western Civilization as quickly as possible—remains an as yet under-explored question. Briggs takes a stab at Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Utopia, Rationalia. I think Briggs goes too far in averring that science has nothing whatsoever to say about morality, but what it does happen to say is probably something Mr. Black Science Man is not going to like. (Tho’ I agree science doesn’t get at final judgements of right and wrong.)
Provocatively, Briggs insists There Is No Scientific Method. Not that can fully justify itself at any rate. And certainly not where scientists have a fervent wish for social or psychological reasons, for some model to be either false or true. If there is a privileged means of knowing it is logic, not empirical science.
Matt Briggs also heads down to The Stream for: Survey Showing Young ‘Overwhelmingly Support LGBT Rights’ is Overwhelmingly Bogus. And finally there: weighing the Evidence for the discovery of Sodom.
Mark Citadel returns to The Orthosphere with a hefty theological treatise Should the West Consider Christ’s Victory? I’m not sure that the West (i.e., the Roman Catholic Church) doesn’t. But this impinges on parts of theology I was only well-schooled at as a Protestant—wherein we did place heavy emphasis on “substitutionary atonement” (I believe was the term of art).
Also there, J. M. Smith discusses the improbability of a genuinely Islamic America—at least from an historical or literary perspective.
Bonald wonders whether Is it possible to praise other civilizations without denigrating the West? “We didn’t build that!” our cultural masters scold. Well, we sure did a helluva job borrowing it.
Dalrock engages in the, rare for him, political commentary: The peasants are revolting—outlining how the policies advocated by our cultural masters, left and center-right, not only drive down working class wages, but foist expensive social pathoogies upon them as well. He is, not rare for him, absolutely correct.
This Week… Elsewhere
Over at Status 451, Simon Penner attempts a nice SJW roast: Defcon Is Problematic. All 100% true. But, alas, 97.2% irrelevant, since playing by rules is what Social Justice Overloards will never do.
Victor Davis Hanson is over at City Journal with Imagine There’s No Border. He shows how moral handwringing over national borders is little more than a passtime for those best positioned to deploy ad hoc borders to insulate themselves from the ensuing chaos their advocacy inevitably invites. Theodore Dalrymple addresses Swimming Poolgate in Cover Clash.
And there’s more on France and terrorism from Dalrymple: Life, Or a Way of Life?.
Also this: Don’t You Know Who I Am? A nice crispy and well-deserved roasting of NYC City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, whose recent twitter outburst revealed more about her personality than her power level.
Get a grip, Madame Speaker. If you want special service, use your direct line to Polly Trottenberg. If you want to show off on Twitter, two can play that game.
This was interesting at Status 451: Too Late for the Pebbles to Vote, Part 1. It’s very verbose, so read fast. But down around this part, she starts dealing with Scott Alexander’s idea of social cancer.
If you find yourself breaking the rules — or, worse, your rules, your personal ethics — for someone on a regular basis, consider whether that charming friend of yours is inviting you to be part of their tumor.
And what if the tumor is almost all that is left of society? And there’s more and moar on that.
Butch Leghorn has a detailed discussion of the Technologies of Cooperation.
You’ve heard of the Dark Enlightenment. This guy seems to be taking a step further back to the Dark Reformation.
Unorthodoxy uncovers Socialism via Central Bank. Also a couple of good articles on Trump. Trump Goads Cathedral Into Cage Match—exposing media biases to an unprecedented level; and also how Trump Will Specialize the Presidency. And this Trump “incites” violence the same way that Christians or Kurds or people celebrating Bastille Day incite ISIS jihadists.. About right.
Greg Cochran tells the story of Vioxx, and the story of Big Pharma. Also from Cochran, a brief meditation on Genetics and HR—specifically how the most rudimentary basics of human differences are studiously ignored in hiring decisions.
Obviously (you’d think) companies would like to hire effectively – although you have to wonder if they really care, considering the lackwits they employ in HR.
Anti-Puritan AMK has ready Chapter 3 of (what appears is going to be a book) Neocameral Future: The Totalitarianism of Technology and the Low Fecundity Trap. It’s pretty interesting. Like, for example, here:
Premarital sex, being prohibited by polygraph, forces the members to either leave the group or conform to the higher equilibrium level and get married. Since no one can cheat the polygraph reliably it serves as is a bar to entry for unserious people. Minor cheating of the device is no issue, the mere threat acts as deterrence. This is exactly how Scientology enforces monogamy among its Sea Organization members with near complete and total reliability. Only they use an even cruder device called an E-meter. The result is that nearly all young teenage Sea Org members get married.Gratuitous pic of Nina Agdal riding bike
As we already know, the absence of sexual rewards for less attractive men reduces their willingness to contribute to society. A single man is less productive than a married one and earns less money.
Also there: a particularly adroit Aphorism.
Cheshire Ocelot has a public service question: Why Do You Not Study the Odes? It is a literate and impassioned apology for… well… literacy, at least among those who ostensibly wish to save it.
If you don’t belong to a literature club it’s not immediately obvious how literature will “enlarge your fellowship,” but consider how often, in conversations with friends and co-workers, people will talk about or at least make reference to sports, current events, and entertainment. Obviously, one can’t easily work The Divine Comedy into these day-to-day conversations, and forcing it would be socially awkward, but I at least have found one friend who can understand these things to some extent, and this shared experience has strengthened our friendship in a small but noticeable way. For what it’s worth, I’ve also found that several people find an ability to reference high culture charming, even if they can’t do it themselves, though of course reactions vary from person to person and situation to situation.
I find it difficult to explain how literature can “express your grievances;” it’s likely something you either get or you don’t. I have found, though, that reference to poetry helps me better understand my own emotions, and memorised lines are often on my mind when thinking about how I feel about something.
Of course, we at Social Matter hope you do join (or start) a Literature Club of some sort. And The Committee awards Mr. Ocelot an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for this fine essay.
Lawrence Murray writes the authoritative guide to Esoteric Kekism, or Kek as a Bodhisattva of Racial Enlightenment.
Well, that’s all folks. Keep on reactin’! Til next week, NBS… Over and out!!
Corrected!
(… the frustration of having a single typographical error multiply by template repetition …)
I hope E. Antony Gray will forgive us our sins!
Wasn’t quite sure how to drop that hint… But you picked it up admirably!!
No worries. We’re no drama-princesses here. In future if there’s ever any issue with anything, just let us know. We shall deal with things as Men.
Wow, thanks again!
>If there is a privileged means of knowing, it is logic, not empirical science.
This seems potentially problematic to me /hornrimglasses
Privileging the empirical (used in a general sense here) gives due deference to god and his emanations, such as the particular plane we find ourselves in, which is so much greater than we are, in which we are constituent, and of which it would be impossible to ever fully ‘encapsulate’ systematically by a mind inside and of it.
So often it is precisely a preoccupation with systematic pseudologia, unmoored from reality, which naively ‘calculate’ for them what goodthink and badthink are, that constitute dysfunctional beliefs and maladaptive memetic mutations.
privileging *where it arises*.
Logic leads to metaphysical certainty. If you think experimental observations and inference outweighs it, then I don’t quite know what to say. Except, “No”, that is.
Experimentation no, inference yes (or the capacities invoked by it), or as the ancient Greeks called it: Eikos.
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See also ([url=http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/retroduction]1[/URL] [URL=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_reasoning]2[/URL] [URL=https://patristicsandphilosophy.wordpress.com/tag/eikos-argument/]3[/URL][URL=http://individual.utoronto.ca/ecolak/EBM/evidence_and_eikos/frameset_evidence_and_eikos.htm].1[/URL] [URL=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning]4[/URL][url=http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/abduction].1[/URL] [URL=http://dhspriory.org/thomas/PostAnalytica.htm]5[/URL] [URL=https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/spinoza/benedict/understanding/index.html]6[/URL] [URL=https://archive.org/details/discourseonthink00heid]7[/URL] [URL=http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/GaussianModel/JaynesProbabilityTheory.pdf]8[/URL] [url=http://cpor.org/af/Taleb_Antifragile.pdf]9[/URL] [URL=http://cnqzu.com/library/Philosophy/neoreaction/Alasdair%20MacIntyre/Alasdair_MacIntyre%20-%20Whos_%20Justice_Which_Rationality_(1989).pdf]10[/URL]
I furnished a reply for you nick but it seems to have disappeared in the buffer. I’d hate if all that work collecting links went poof because of a spam filter.
Thanks for mentioning that. Comment approved.
More great eye candy NBS.
Oh and a very insightful round up of the week.
I try to keep it PG.