This Week: Hillary’s Alt-Right Speech fed the Trolls. Probably not a good idea for her side… or the mainstream GOP. A Major Breakthrough? Time will tell. Says Unorthodoxy:
Progressives control the entire government, most of the media and almost all schools and universities. Almost everything you see and hear on TV, in movies, from politicians, or in class from K through college, is progressive propaganda. They control so much of the country that they are now reduced to attacking anonymous online “trolls” who question and challenge these rulers and their lies.
And according to Porter:
On the surface it would seem a suspect strategy to introduce millions of increasingly disaffected middle-class whites to the only movement that holds them above utter contempt. But generals always fight the last war, and Clinton knows the political weapon that has reliably won them all.
Lawrence Murray adds:
[W]hat ultimately had me in stitches—other than an undercover shitlord pepe-bombing the speech—was Clinton’s appeal to sports multiculturalism. She made reference to the diversity of the American contingent sent to the Olympic Games in Brazil as part of her case against the AltCe-Right. These athletes were said to represent all of us, which is true in a convoluted and transitive way. Because members of US ethnic groups were present at the Olympics, the team supposedly represented an American nation. But the American nation spoken of by cuckservatives and liberals doesn’t actually exist, as it has no shared heritage, history, and culture. It’s just the Weimerica Shopping Center. Come for the jobs, if you can’t find one get the gibs, and then stay for the diabetes.
Let’s see… what else?
My good buddy Nick Pell was over at Taki’s with Morrissey’s Greatest Hits:
Morrissey is an oddball, for sure, but he’s also a working-class Mancunian. Prior to becoming a mononym (so chosen because he’d never heard of a singer who used only their surname), he was Steven Patrick Morrissey, the son of Irish immigrants to the United Kingdom. He grew up in council housing and developed an early obsession with Coronation Street, as well as British kitchen-sink realism in cinema.
He’s the wrong kind of white people. And rich enough to not need to comply:
When he says, “Obviously to get on Top of the Pops these days, one has to be, by law, black,” he’s not being “fascist,” he’s just saying what most of the displaced British working class think and even whisper among themselves if they think no one is watching.
Mark Citadel has a review of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. He finds much to like:
The tale of longing and heartache between the Master and Margarita is so expertly blended into the backdrop of the novel’s dark humor that it runs to its end with a seamless charm, and the vivid descriptions of Jerusalem during the Pilate segments are dreamlike, portraying Pilate in a sympathetic light which I found refreshing yet authentic. Undoubtedly the highlight of the whole experience is the treatment of Soviet life itself.
That book has been making the rounds for a couple years now, thanks initially to Antidem, who got Count ∅-face hooked. It still sits on my shelf, and I shall have to make time to read it.
Mark Citadel’s commentary in Memetic Warfare: The Chaos Magic of the AltRight was the best bit of analysis post Hillary’s Streisanding of the movement.
Memes are not intended to convince intellectuals of anything, nor are they really a debating tactic per se, but rather they are negation propaganda. They communicate ideas contrary to the prevailing narrative in a memorable way. In some senses, Liberals have been using a similar kind of tool when they shut down the opposition using charges of ‘racism’ and ‘sexism’ etc. but contrary to right wing memes, these appeal less to reality, and more to emotional points of contact or the preset bedrocks of Liberalism itself. Once so-called ‘equality’ has been established as a given, appeals to ‘fairness’, while not developed in any intellectual sense, become effective easy-bake information weapons.
This is serious analysis of the seriousness of unseriousness, occult arts classic, and ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀ winner.
Social Pathologist has another big paste from Sam Francis on Masculinity. Cudos for the hilarious graphic. Saith Francis in Revolution from the Middle:
What is really amazing about American society today is not that there is so much violence and resistance to authority but that there is so little…
Exactly!
A reminder from Alfred Woenselaer (aka. “Alf”): We are at war.
The virus of universalism works so that it explicitly kills your sense of ‘us vs them’. Academic psychology tells us that ‘us vs them’ is a bias to be overcome instead of an evolutionary instinct to distinguish between friend and foe. If you believe there is no enemy you have no need to be alert and you are thus lulled asleep.
The truth is that you have friends and you have enemies. Likely you have more enemies than you think.
True. Also true: You have more friends than you think. So find them. And buy them a beer. Also, score one for the gut: Sometimes people just give themselves away. That video is painful.
And in the lead up to Hillary’s Streisanding of the Alt-Right last Thursday, Alf jots down some thoughts on Neoreaction, Alt-Right and Politics.
Nick Land has a quick take on Visual Pwnage: “For close on half a century they’ve known there’s a picture that will get people to think what they’re told. ‘Journalism’ is about ‘finding’ it.” Probably longer than that. But it’s never been more all about that. Also an important PSA courtesy of Twitter. The best informed journalists seem to understand the difference. (And my how Land’s commentariat has declined.)
Sydney Trads have up some @WrathOfGnon classics: Reactionary Architecture (love the quote), and Low Time Preference.
Neovictorian has some Observations on the Rio Olympics. One mostly: “Blech!”
Alrenous finds it necessary to outsmart mainstream economics. Again. This bit was especially delightful:
Mainstream economics exists to glorify what its paymasters wanted to do anyway. This means it’s their job to not understand how a minimum wage works.
Delightful, and absolutely correct.
Billy Pratt holds a Five Minute Hate for To Kill a Mockingbird in Everything as Sexual Strategy and Ugly Harper Lee. Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism seems to apply to fortuitously-timed novels as well.
Over at Neociceronian Times, Titus Cincinnatus digs into some pretty interesting social theory: Thoughts about Social Inertia.
Cincinnatus also has a tract on The Benefits of a Militia System. Also the philosophical justification for it. Quite good—an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Poet Laureate of The Neoreaction, E. Antony Gray has a thought: Pace.
Seriouslypleasedropit has supremely well-put thoughts marking the death of a close friend: Honor.
Spandrell finds an ancient Chinese account of the Rectification of Names.
When a name is heard and the corresponding object is understood, this is usefulness in names. When they are accumulated and form a pattern, this is beauty in names. When one obtains both their usefulness and beauty, this is called understanding names. Names are the means by which one arranges and accumulates objects. Sentences combine the names of different objects so as to discuss a single idea.Popular Norwegian blogger Emilie Nereng
Persuasion and demonstration use fixed names of objects so as to make clear the proper ways for acting and remaining still.
Also from Spandrell, some shameless self-promotion as a key Alt-Right figure.
On Saturday, Free Northerner has a magisterial treatment of the Black Enlightenment: Jim Crow. It’s packed with facts:
During segregation, blacks had relatively intact families, relatively functional and safe communities, and were seeing strong economic growth. Following desegregation (and the War on Poverty), crime and the resultant incarceration, exploded, the black family collapsed, and economic growth stalled. This collapse was only halted after the welfare reforms and mass incarceration of blacks of the late 80’s and early 90’s.
The conclusion: Jim Crow may have been bad, but not nearly so bad as its absence. Free Northerner scores an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for his efforts here.
Reactionary Future has a major political theory piece this week on Rule of law and Aristotle.
Finally CWNY discusses: The Fear of Racism, which if there were such a thing as social autoimmune disorder, this would be it. Actually there is such a disorder, and it is it.
This Week in Jim Donald
Jim has, dare I say it, a magisterial take on Civilization and Dysgenesis, and it is HLvM all the way down. The basic problem:
[I]f the smart people are the ruling and fertile people, they will proceed to ensure that their smart children get all the top jobs. This will disturb the topmost rulers, who would like to have limitless freedom to appoint obedient people to the good jobs, regardless of ability, and more importantly, regardless of family. […] One drastic solution, popular in China, is to give the top jobs to eunuchs. You want a top job, have to give up your man parts. Note the striking similarity with today’s political correctness, which requires metaphorical castration of males, and prefers literal castration of males.
The solution? Well, there isn’t one until we can get in front of this:
Fertility in our civilization is of course massively dysgenic, because women are artificially placed in the workforce and education, with the most able women being most forcefully helicoptered into courses and jobs far beyond their ability.
Dysgenic… and simultaneously weakened structurally by the over-promotion of women.
Also from Jim, and explanation of why the Natsocs are center left:
When natsocs propose Kristallnacht, they succumb to the secret stash theory of economics, that smashing up Jewish pawnshops and vodka stills will make non Jews rich.
This Week in Social Matter
Ryan Landry’s Sunday Big Think™ Piece concerns The Priest-Warrior Conflict. This is the one that manifests in America’s so-called “Blue” and “Red” empires, but which is a universal problem in an otherwise stable (high-functioning) state where coherent sovereign authority is weak… or, in America’s case, deliberately proscribed.
Before the current regime, there were elements in place that gave the priest class an edge. Mass media was the edge for the new communist priests rising in power, as Edward Bernays pointed out in his book Propaganda. This makes sense; the morning ritual of reading the daily replaced prayers or mass attendance, and the newsreel weeklies in the theater replaced the Sunday sermon.
Landry’s Certified Slow History® example this week is Lord Cromer in Egypt. Cromer did a lot of good for Egypt, indeed much that priests would generally praise, but when the opportunity struck in 1906 to morally signal, Cromer found himself wrong kind of white person. Landry takes home the (almost automatic) ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
This Week in Weimerica Weekly: Episode 38 – Student Loan Crisis. Degeneracy comes in many forms. The worst ones don’t appear, on the surface, to be degenerate at all.
Anton Silensky makes a Social Matter debut Thursday with a magisterial piece The Frankfurt School Was Not The Cause Of Progressivism. It sets out in one place, elegantly and compellingly, what The Neoreaction has been saying for a while: Blaming Jews or the Frankfurt School for our present cultural woes does not explain inter alia Womens’ Suffrage, and is therefore not wrong so much as incomplete. Progressivism is something that White Christians principally did to themselves. Understanding how and why is the first step to fixing it. The committee gives this one an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
And Thom Barghest returns Friday with a great feat of political philosophy ju-jitsu You Say America Is Not A Communist Country. Neo-Liberal America has never been farther from Communist ideals, cries the incredulous Marxist. Barghest says not so fast.
For Saturday Poetry and Prose, Neville A. Graham makes a welcome, prosaic return with Chapter III of Inversion.
This Week in 28 Sherman
Over at 28 Sherman, Landry has a review warning to stay the hell away from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. This ones reboot of Mr. Rogers’ Land of Make Believe. Daniel the puppet tiger is all grown up.
Daniel Tigers’ Neighborhood takes it to a new level with the lessons for the kids not always being the best. Kids learn voting is good! Kids also learn to stomp their feet when mad and odd negotiating skills with parents. The parents, just like in that wretched show Caillou, are horrible beyond belief. They are those parents you give the “WTF” look to at birthday parties and on the playground. Daniel Striped Tiger (the original) grew up to be a fucking SWPL, maybe a STPL, and you want to punch his tiger face for being such a spineless sap.
Landry is an expert on pop culture and an expert on having small kids. Reboots are a double edged sword… or a double-sized pile of poop as the case may be:
All of these reboots are terrible prog memes and storylines that the entertainment industry knows won’t sell so they need to wrap them in a brand to pull in easy viewers and have a baseline audience. Ghostbusters was atrocious, but with the social media marketing tying it to Clinton’s first female president campaign, we get the message. A reboot just means built in audience to subsidize their shit product. Media spreads the new religion via stories as we gather in groups to watch, which is not too different from going to church on Sunday to hear stories as a group.Mr. Rogers with the original Daniel Tiger
Next up: SoBL identifies Israel as the Top Cuck Point. It’s probably a strange confluence of the traditional conservative willingness to flex military muscle, with the only socially acceptable reason to ever do so.
This Week in WW1 Pics: Russian Mapmakers and Gas Mask Goofs.
Finally on Friday, Landry has a few few notes on Hillary’s AltRight Speech. Given that the Left is in charge, especially Hillary’s version of the left, how does one explain this decision?
This is a sign of insecurity. They have to stamp out any resistance, like the harrying of Roosh for his worldwide tour and happy hour last year. The Regime is already running into legitimacy problems, and it’s 2016. I agree with Justin Raimondo that there is “no there there” with the Altright as it is a mash up and decentralized. No institutions and no money. The Koch brothers are not throwing money at it. Only thing it has is being the one relay point for facts and truth in a nation of lies. Its monopoly on truth, which the Left calls hate facts, can keep it going as long as no media outlet decides to go “all truth all the time”.
This Week in Kakistocracy
Porter kicks off the week with a tour of lesser known Government bureacracies—it’s a very very long tour, provided you can keep his beer stein full. He happens upon one ostensibly dedicated to Protecting the Consumers, but that does not quite mean what you think it means…
Interestingly, the CFPB’s name is a bit of a gaffe given how inadvertently close to the truth it sits. That is to say it exists in some measure to protect those who consume society. Though the introduction on its website isn’t quite so explicit, unless you know who “you” and “your” are.
Who… and whom. Porter runs down the list of lending companies penalized by these “protectors” for the economic law of gravity: disparate impact. All government, it is said, begins as a protection racket. So it is fitting if that’s how they all end, with the last golden goose stewing in the pot. Porter earns an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for this one.
Next up: Lessons Behind the Wheel is an unusually uncantankerous meditation on the evolution of private transport. I remain somewhat skeptical of computer-driven cars. In order for the computers not to be held responsible for killing people, they have to be set way more conservative settings than most people will find tolerable—the aggressiveness of an 80-year-old grandma with the reaction times of Flash. Imagine an endless stream of human-driven left-turners passing in front of a computer-driven car whose light has just turned green. Imagine the angry honks coming from humans behind. Thankfully, the computer will be entirely unflustered, but it seems like an all or nothing proposition to me.
Porter tackles the hidden costs of outsourcing and insourcing: The Myopia of Short-Sightedness—which recounts a pattern I’ve seen in my own Fortune 500 employer. The MBAs could not be reached for comment.
Finally, By Order of the Court outlines the French High Court’s ban on local bans of the burkini, and the willingness of French coastal towns to rebel against the court, in sudden outbreak of devotion to the principle of subsidiarity. Burkinis, I guess must be bad for business—insufficient amounts of fine arab tits-n-ass jiggling about. Since I don’t believe in the existence of “fundamental freedoms”, I don’t have a horse in that race. But it seems strange that, given a people pozzed enough generally to believe in them, that they would happen not to extend to the right for women to wear an insufficiently degenerate bathing suit.
This Week in Evolutionist X
Evolutionist X finishes up her series on The Big Six™ Civilizations with
Part 6: The Vigesimal Olmecs. Vigesimal sounds a lot worse than it is: having a base-20 county system. As usual, this installment is chock full of facts and pics of the civilization in question.
And for Anthropology Friday, her review continues of Jane Goodall’s In the Shadow of Man (Part 3/5).
This Week in West Coast Reactionaries
A quiet week over at WCR. But Auld Wat pens some substantial thoughts On Mithraism.
This Week Around The Orthosphere
Paul Gottfried is on Imaginative Conservative with an excellent diatribe: Who Still Speaks for Conservatism? He doesn’t have a lot nice to say about Trump, but his best vitriol is reserved for Trump’s so-called “conservative” haters… pulled straight out of 400° canola oil. It’s all quite good.
Also there: The Violent Assault Upon Imagination is an interesting look at the insanity defense—from Ezra Pound to John Hinckley—and the idiosyncratic take that moderns have on “rationality”.
Also a “Timeless Essay”: Robert Royal’s Who Put the West in Western Civilization?
A civilization is not something we simply inherit or ever finally possess. Each generation, individually and collectively, needs to make a continual effort to appropriate it anew because a civilization is not passed along to us at birth. A civilization is an elaborate structure of ideas and institutions, slowly built up over time by the intelligence and effort of countless individuals working alone and together. If we fail to understand and live out that complexity, which tries to answer to the complexity of human life itself, we can easily fall back to a less human existence. It has happened often in history.Mural: The Arrival of Cortés, Palacio Nacional de Mexico
Obviously, today, this is at risk. And the precious possession of Western Civilization not at risk because it is improperly inherited so much as it is considered a thing not inheritable at all.
Pat Buchanan wonders: Will the Clinton Foundation Scandal Go Away? Also at Imaginative Conservative, a somewhat tepid review of The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism. “Social contract”. And… an analysis of Kipling’s The Law of the Jungle. And everyone knows how The Reactosphere® loves to kipple.
Chris Gale has up another kipple: The Female of the Species. Also a brief, but affecting, bit of verse from Ezra Pound: A poetic lie.
Chris also has data on the disturbing lethality of suicide attempts in Minnesota. Very above average folks up there. Also, what happens when your solutions to the “pathology” of racism makes people more racist? Behold meta-pathology “White fragility”. It’s worse than ever before imagined… please send money.
Matt Briggs has a couple articles in The Stream this week. He is, at last count, their biggest draw. Our New Satanic Moment: A seemingly paradoxical trend of “enlightenment” and brutality.
What are we to make of this new Satanic moment? The previous moments have discouraged belief in a real Satan. The new moment wants us to share the skepticism that Satan is an evil personage. Instead, our new Satan is an enlightened humanist, a good guy, he’s there but not there, an entity more in line with a Masonic Lucifer, a symbolic bringer of light.
Satanism has gotten rather more… deontological. I’m not sure Satan is pleased. Also there, Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them, or when humanitarianism turns metastatic.
Over at Briggsy’s home blog, this is a tale that needs tellin’: The True History Of College Sports Under Title IX.
And Briggs offers some space for another guest post by the irrepressible Ianto Watt on Islam vs. The West vs. Russia. I maintain that he oversells Islam’s relative potency, but he’s right on the money regarding Western weakness.
Gratuitous pic of blond girl.
This was good: Donal Graeme’s Masculine Monday #12. In brief: “Stop apologizing so often”.
Over at The Orthosphere proper, Kristor has a fantastic little essay: The Bloom of Health Is Not Itself Health. Liberty, prospertity, fraternity are not bases of good social order, but the product of it. They are goods that you are unlikely to achieve by setting up social systems to achieve them directly. An ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
A history lesson from J. M. Smith: By the Rivers of Babylon—a history lesson that explains the theological one.
Kristor doesn’t like the name “The Cathedral”. He proposes another in Naming the Enemy: Babel. It’s an excellent effort, but I think that train has left the station. No political theory is complete however, without, a glossary. Translation should be possible.
Mark Richardson finds some divorce porn for women in their 60s. Good luck with that! Also a hearty Well done German identitiarians! Great pic.
Sunshine Thiry has Lessons learned from my first season of turkey-raising, b’cause… why else would you raise turkeys, but to learn lessons from doing it? Oh, and to eat them I suppose.
This Week… Elsewhere
Lawrence Murray has a brilliant expos&eactue; on Soros. There’s a million billion things to hate about the guy, but dedication to Zionism isn’t one of them. Soros is The Protocols without Zion. In other words, he’s a true believer in universalist Anglo-Communism. Israelis, at least those of the law & order sort, have at least as much reason to hate the guy as we do. Lawrence also runs the numbers for What if America was New York City? No doubt it would be bad, but you might be able to get reasonably priced tickets for the symphony.
Giovanni Dannato has a helpful guide on The Importance of Strategy. He’s also looking past a Trump failure in November to The Future of Alt-Right Populism? I’d argue, win or lose, the Alt-Right will never be able to escape its lack of coherent identity; and win or lose, the left still holds all the cards. But Dannato’s conclusion is hard to argue with:
There is of course the possibility that no constructive political solution will be arrived at. We stand at a crossroads. The next few years will decide whether present issues can be resolved within the system or whether conflict will simply escalate. […] There will be an ugly struggle for power no matter who prevails in November.
Well, I’d argue that that’s more than a possibility, but rather a virtual certainty.
This week in City Journal, Dalrymple looks into the eyes the New Psychopathy: “It’s Your Fault I Killed” Self-pity: the last resort of scoundrels and monsters. Also there, Aaron Renn spots The End of Eyes on the Street: On the delegitimizing of social control—which catches the worm of anarcho-tyranny in the act of turning.
And this too: A review of Neil Levine’s The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright. Which is interesting because the famous architect was really more anti-urbanist than not.
AMK really should consider tweeting some of these aphorisms.
Butch Leghorn points out the fundamental problem with the Dems R Real Racists meme:
The idea that DR3 is a ‘conservative’ argument, made by ‘true conservatives’, is laughable. It’s in essence, the purest Marxian Utopianism. It is an attempt to hold the Democrats to the ‘true Marxist’ vision of a classless society, which the Republicans already hold. Complaining that “we can’t get to the classless society because the Democrats are in effect exploiting the class structure”, is really simply blaming the Democrats for not plugging their eyes and ears like the Republicans and chanting the mantra “All men are created equal! All men are created equal! All men are created equal!”Gratuitous pic of girl under Brooklyn Bridge, NYC
If… “Dems R Real Racists”, then… at least they’re not complete idiots.
Butch also took a long hard look at the SJW term: “marginalization” and found the Marxist behind the curtain… and a few other high-sounding meaningless buzzwords. I do take some issue with his focus on IQ as the principal correlate of class. Not that it isn’t correlated. Of course it is. Not that eucivic orders will not slowly raise genotypic and phenotypic IQ over time. Of course they will. The trouble is that (implicit) IQ is already too much correlated with (implicit) class. We have never conferred more status for (implicit) IQ, and correspondingly less for any other type of virtue, for example loyalty, hard work, and martial skill. I think the good of a more intelligent society may be a thing that you can only get by not directly optimizing for it. Time may, perhaps, tell.
Heartiste addresses The Crisis Of Female Porn Addiction (it’s worse than you think).
Here’s the thing: the woman reading Into the Fire on the bus is popping a public lady boner just as assuredly as a man scouring Pornclearinghouse on his iPhag is jutting impudently into the public space. From five feet away, typeset is harder to discern than a streaming PIV video; that’s the only difference between the porn-consuming man and woman and the social norms they are violating.
That’s all folks. Have a great Labor Day… even if you’re not too fond of unions. Keep on reactin’! Til next week, NBS… Over and out!!
Thanks again!
BTW, this must be synchronicity or something:
“Spandrell finds an ancient Chinese account of the Rectification of Names.”
I am literally in the process (as in, have them partially written as drafts) of writing a couple of posts/articles about the rectification of names (though going back to Confucius, not Xun Zi).
Great minds think alike. Even Spandrell’s.
An honor as always. You really do a great job accounting for everything. I don’t know how you keep up with it all.
I wish I could say I had an army of elves taking care of it, but that day has not come.
So…no cookies?
Dedication. Sheer, incredible dedication. Great job as always.