This Week in Reaction (2016/09/11)

The twin towers of the World Trade Center were built the same year that man last walked on the moon, a year in which real wages for American workers were at or near their all-time peak. The towers were not particularly beautiful, yet neither were they Full Soviet Brutalist. The decline in civic aesthetics may have predated, and presaged, the decline of civilization by over a generation. Yet, in 1973 they could be built at a reasonable cost, and men could walk on the moon at all. So then, the 9/11 attacks 15 years ago were not a cause of any decline, so much as a symptom—of moral and social and technological decay—and a fateful omen: Ye who reach for the stars, beware, lest ye forget thy maker and go down in the mud.

Matthew Hennessey shares a thoughtful remembrance of 9/11/2001. Lawrence Murray was even closer to it than I was.

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Let’s see… what else was up this week?

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Well this caused quite a stir: Over at Claremont Review of Books—bastion of Intellectual™ Brand Conservatism—a pseudonymous Publius Decius Mus publishes an all out assault on #NeverTrump Republicans and Movement Conservatism: The Flight 93 Election. It’s a great rant—rather Menciian to be honest. The diagnosis (conservatives are the Washington Generals of Western politics) is spot on, the identification of strategic failure (“Wishing for a tautology to enact itself is not a strategy”) is completely fair. He faults conservatives for not backing words of urgency with acts of urgency. Nick Land highlights this crucial sentence:

One of the paradoxes—there are so many—of conservative thought over the last decade at least is the unwillingness even to entertain the possibility that America and the West are on a trajectory toward something very bad.

The diagnosis is 100% accurate. Where Mr. Decius Mus’ article falls flat, in my view, is in believing that acting radically! and electing Trump now! is any part of a cure. First of all, Donald Trump is not that radical, unless you consider Bill Clinton ca. 1996 radical. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think I am. Secondly, why now? Yes, things are bad. as they were in 2008, and in 1988, and 1958, and 1938. We’re not “about to” go off the cliff. We already have. If so, then over much focus on the promise (dubious at best) of the election a “nationalist” is probably a waste of time. Not completely useless, but certainly less productive than given much needed attention to the more important task: building an organization that can actually fix what’s wrong.

Over in the Dutch Field Office, Alf makes the, surprisingly presumptuous estimate that this will be his “best post”: a thought experiment called The Purple Dome. It is very good, and has lots of pictures. Whether it is best… will be a question left for posterity.

He also wonders: Why Leftism? He actually wants to know. It’s not easy to explain. But he says a lot of smart stuff whilst asking.

Once you know what to look for leftist rhetoric is always the exact same thing: gas lighting, evasive manoeuvres, hypocrisy, cuck behaviour, outright lying and when finally push comes to shove: disappearing. I see the behaviour over and over in many different people. Leftism is a very universal human trait.

Who’s the whom? (Besides Kulaks, I mean…)

Nick Land highlights one of Mr. Bones’ more salient tweets.

I like how Lawrence Glarus is always calling his blog posts “Notes”. Like Dartmouth still calls itself a “College”. How quaint! But we all know Glarus’ “Notes” are really “Blog Posts”… or as I like to call them: “Articles”. His article this week tackles The Problems with Ideology and is a quite welcome antidote.

The term ideology originally meant a “science of ideas”. While I suppose it is not impossible to have a “science of ideas” it would be a very funny science and certainly would not look like any of the modern incarnations of ideology. No! Ideology is the appearance of reason in a gift basket. It is wrapped nicely, pleasing to the eyes, but Wisdom does not come easily, nor can it be gift wrapped and handed to anyone. Ideology is the false prophet, the easy win which misses the deeper truth. It is not for the masses, yet it is demotic. It is a weapon for the intelligentsia and their striver hangers on.

To be honest, it’s hard to characterize this big far-ranging piece. Except it is very good. Like this little gem of an aside:

I don’t see SJWs, per say, as anything new. Their specific phrases and ideas may have new flavors but anti-racism and bespoke sexuality go back to the 60’s at the very least. The further back in time you go the fewer and more elite the people who held these ideas. If the SJWs are anything they are the proles adopting ideas which were cool in elite Salons between a hundred and hundred and sixty years ago. As we see there is a seeming relation between who someone is and what they believe. This is something very apparent to modern observers of the “culture war”. Being a rootless cosmopolitan makes it signal against the kulaks.

Anyway, in fairness to Lawrence, a lot of this article does in fact read like personal notes (e.g., lack of links), but I think he’s sketched a mighty strong outline of the Case Against Ideology in this ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

Also from Glarus: Some English Proverbs. And some old Hebrew ones: Thoughts on Proverbs 4. BTW, I love the King James Version. I grew up with it. I know it’s Protestant, but by today’s standards: just barely.

At The Future Primaeval, Raymond Brannen finds another thing of which politics is upstream: Politics Is Upstream of AI. Whatever AI is. Whether skeptic or true believer, Brannen scores some undeniable points, like:

Mere mathematical correctness will not save an algorithm if it is deemed politically incorrect.

To say nothing of… “Who Programs the Programmers?”

If AI researchers are trying to design algorithms that solve human values, then it seems like they would need to be really, really good at moral and political philosophy to get it right. Instead, they are trapped inside the present-day Overton Window—a filter bubble of high-prestige sources at the mercy of the current political climate. The modern independent thinker is a Philistine who discards all the historical data on human values, which is exactly the opposite of what any potentially high-impact project should be doing.

Brannen earns an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for his efforts here.

Reactionary Future manages to not be unceremoniously grumpy here: Tradition is conserved:

MacIntyre (and this is where he crosses paths with Moldbug) has made a life’s work out of the issue of traditions and the concept of rationality, and his conclusion (and his work in general) has been helpfully labelled “too extreme” so you know it is going to be worth a read. In a nutshell, MacInytre’s assertion is that modern ethics and politics has descended into barbarism, and is in effect the outcome of a secularisation of Voluntarist Christianity (both Protestantism and Jansenist Catholicism).

Titus Cincinnatus explains, in a manner even normies can understand, how Conservatives are Agents of Social Entropy. It’s a physics lesson, with applications in social science:

Conservatism—if we wish a strictly denotative definition—is supposed to be about conserving what we already have. It is supposed to revolve around the maintenance of traditional social and cultural standards and ways of life. A “conservative” understands that the old ways are best, not just because they are old, but because they intrinsically work – which is why they became traditional in the first place. Real conservatives seek to maintain order. They preserve civilisation. They recognise the natural fact of inequality among men. They understand the need for social virtue, not simply political prescription.

Yet, modern conservatives and libertarians do none of this.

And Cincinnatus counts the ways they don’t in this ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀. To be fair to my conservative brethren, no one sets out to be the controlled opposition. It just so happens to be the only kind of opposition that is allowed to exist. Conservative failure is therefore baked into the political cake. The only way to fix it is to trash the cake.

William Scott over at Folkways kicks off what looks like will be a tremendously great series: On the Metaphysics of Meme pt 1. It’s chock full of bon mots like: “The Meme that can be named is not the real meme.” And:

Helena Bonham Carter, who was about half-Jewish, at a young age.

In old folkways we said the Anorexic was demon possessed, and we were both materially and spiritually correct. The Anorexic has lost meaningful discourse with their community. They are solipsistic. We think this should imply self possession, but quite the opposite. For though they live in a world of their own they are living under thought memes they have no jurisdiction over. Possessed body and soul to think acting toward their own destruction is the highest good. This provides a fit metaphor for the memetic possession leaders like Merkel are under. In fact all Prog activism in social reform can be seen in this light. In the face of overwhelming evidence that they are bringing more harm than good, even the destruction of the people they were selected to minister to, they continue to function under the memetic spell of Egalitarianism. Yeah the whole witch doctor’s bag of memes a la Karl Marx Et Al.

RTWT! This was an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

Finally, from Cambria Will Not Yield: But of Thee, O Lord—a semi-fond remembrance of Phyllis Schlafly, who passed away last week, and a broader contemplation of death.

 

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This Week in Jim Donald

Over at Jim’s Blog… He has a theory about Hillary’s illness. Unfortunately, it may not be Parkinsons.

Next Jim believes: There will be war. Or at least there’s supposed to be…

Politics is to defeat your enemies, to drive them before you, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears. If you are not ethnically cleansing Ferguson, and Milwaukee or resisting the ethnic cleansing of Ferguson and Milwaukee, it is not politics. If you are not dumping weeping anchor babies over the border, it is not politics.

And if the other side is engaged in politics, and you are not engaged in politics, you lose.

On the day of the rope not many will need to be hanged:

The dangerous ones are not Havel’s Greengrocer. The dangerous ones are the ones who sincerely and strongly believe one thing, and conspire with other people believing that thing, while pro forma saying they believe a different thing—entryists. You need an organization to watch for entryists in governmental and quasi-governmental jobs (banking, universities, foundations, NGOs, and major media), an inquisition, which takes stern measures against them, but you don’t want to put Havel’s Greengrocer through the inquisition.

Some obviously will need to be hanged, but that needed to be said, and I’m glad Jim said it. It is a sign of insecurity and incompetence to not know who your real enemies are. The Committee honors Jim with the ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀ for his needful (and not terribly) long essay.

Finally, Jim has some lessons, taken from Australia’s recent successful repulsion of third world invasion, on How to remove eleven million illegals.

 

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This Week in Social Matter

Ryan Landry kicks off the week Sunday by noting The Bipartisan War Party Predates the American Empire. While the political center-right and center-left may occasionally disagree on the proper motivations for war, they rarely have trouble agreeing whether to fight one. It’s sort of a foreign policy quid pro quo. This part is key:

America runs on the illusion of the approval of the people, that is, electoral consent of the governed. America also runs an empire and has made moves to protect that empire, as well as feed the needs or desires of its controlling interests. Manufacturing consent and support matters, and so to pull in some unexpected support, the regime press spotlights the social benefits to pull in those progressive voters.

Make love not war only applied to a certain kind of war, viz., wars to stop communism. Today, it’s easy to get progs to back a war. Just ask Hillary Clinton:

These motivations are the silly ones you heard when Egypt experienced massive protests month after month. There would be some Google employee tweeting from Cairo about the need to remove corrupt old forms and give the people their voice. The media would discuss inclusion, equality, etc., to spread the buzzwords and signal that this was okay to support. The most ridiculous of these examples was reportage on the millions of Afghani girls who were able to go to school as a result of the 2001 invasion. That was hyperspecific to appeal to feminists, so maybe the most absurd example was in thinking a liberal democracy could be planted in Iraq.

Hey! War is good for business. (Well, some businesses at any rate.)

Mark Citadel brings us Shia Geopolitics And The Fortress State, which is a masterful lesson from history and how it shaped so much of the current Middle East situation.

Shia Muslim flagellates self to feel the pain of the martyrdom of the Prophet’s Grandson

The Shia see themselves as being perpetually under assault, which has led to a cult of martyrdom among the sect’s practitioners, but has also influenced the geopolitics of the Shia core in Iran. If indeed the sect is under sustained threat from the majority of Muslims (Shi’ites only make up 10% of Muslims with the lion’s share of the other 90% being Sunni) then it necessarily follows that their strategy in the Middle East must be one that is based on tactical, constructive, and defensive maneuvers rather than the use of brute force. The survival of the sect is dependent on the success of Iran’s geopolitics. Where Iran fails, Shi’ites will be killed, their mosques destroyed, and the practice of their faith criminalized. Christians can certainly relate to this reality, as the failure of the Byzantine Empire and the crusaders of Western Europe was the death warrant for Middle Eastern Christianity, a small remnant of which only survives today at the behest of makeshift alliances with minorities and opportunistic dictators.

Selection pressure has been good for (what remains of) Shia Civilization. Citadel recounts many of the ways. And it’s also made them better neighbors too. He thinks they might even be “useful allies in the drive to rid the world of Liberal hegemony”. Whether that is acceptable to “Our Greatest Ally” Israel seems far from certain. This was an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

For Weimerica Weekly, Episode 40, Landry has Pedophiles, Just Like Us! Very disturbing.

Finally, for Saturday’s Poetry & Prose, this week it’s Prose. Lawrence Glarus’ to be exact, with the latest installment of The Project.

 

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This Week in 28 Sherman

Over on the home blog, Landry gets a Call from Nixon Two Months Out. According to Dick:

“You haven’t seen dark until you’ve watched Hitler slow dance with J. Edgar Hoover in a dress.”

I LOL-ed. And there’s much more.

SoBL considers the Full Press On The AltRight One Week on. The Left is trying desperately to control the Alt-Right like it controls the Professional Right… i.e., by being “more moral” than it.

The Left is desperate for a villain. Right now they have neocons as formerly evil as Wolfowitz out endorsing Clinton. They have the very men they labeled icy racist warmongers from the Bush family on down to Rick Wilson on their side. They need to scrounge up a villain to allow their voters to pretend they are righteous underdogs despite having Wall St, billionaires, the war machine, CIA, GOPe, DOJ, State Department, FBI director, universities and the entire media complex on their side.

And this part is absolutely spot on:

Helena Bonham Carter smoking, perhaps theatrically.

This shows a lack of understanding what the AltRight is, which is the decentralized dissidents remaining in America. There is no locking it down because every institution has been 100% progged so the only real dissent is on small blogs, institutions without money and twitter accounts. Why should the AltRight purge anyone when its supposed fringe is a logical answer to the institutionalized anti-white and white genocidal professors, advocates and well funded activists on the Left? If the Left were not dead set on eliminating whitey, there would be no AltRight, so why should they lay down their arms and purge first?

Yeah, Leftists: You purge the Government Media Academic Complex of commies, Stalin apologists, Maoists, socialists, and their sympathizers, and the Alt-Right’ll be happy to purge the Nazis. The reality is, I think, that some, I don’t know who, within the Alt-Right will eventually be attracted to the power vacuum left by collapse of the mainstream right and become good pets. Landry gets the (nearly automatic) ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

This Week in WW1 pics, it’s a Uboat View. A direct hit, if I’m seeing that right.

And for Friday, Landry plays a sad song on the world’s tiniest violin for Burning Man Out.

 

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This Week in Kakistocracy

Porter kicks off the week with an excellent piece: The Jungle is a Choice—the Calais Jungle in this case. And the only reason we’re reading about its brutality at all is that journalists, well-armed with high-quality cameras, were the ones attacked. This time.

You know, we don’t actually have to live like this. Nothing beyond our own fanatical masochism forces us to endure being robbed, raped, assaulted, and parasitized. There is no moral mandate from Earth or heaven that we abase ourselves before feral aliens who despise and harm us. We could live normal lives.

Indeed, the “social technology” we seek was invented thousands of years ago: a wall (metaphorical or otherwise) that separates the “us” from the “them”. More good stuff here:

A bowling ball. Really.

Universalist altruism is a moral luxury, but those who think they can afford it should understand no people do good from the grave. Whether liberal or conservative, everything in the world you cherish requires someone like you alive to defend it. We can continue rolling our heads down the demographic temple steps, though we shouldn’t be surprised when the gods remain impassive to the display.

Amen to that! Another ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.

In Tensions Over Identity Well Contained, Porter has an answer to why tiny Denmark has been so late to the game of Welcoming Wonderful Diversity™.

But the most accurate answer to why Denmark is that the left sees its work largely complete in all major markets, and is now moving down the scale. Iceland and Luxembourg almost certainly have propaganda in progress, and then it’s on to overly-white communities. Extinguishing the latent racism of white families is presumably the terminal endeavor.

Iceland has a smaller population than my county. At what point may we put human varieties on the list of endangered species?

For Friday, some astute commentary on the Airbnb controversy in The Desolation of Discriminations.

Whites in America are as frantic to avoid diversity in private as they are to extol it in public. To think they would beggar themselves to keep blacks away from the outside of their house, while blithely inviting them to stay on the inside has got to be one of history’s most romantic assaults on sensibility.

 

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This Week in Evolutionist X

Evolutionist X kicks off the week with Why Geneticists get touchy about Epigenetics.

Next up: The West has no Idea how to Handle Islam. That they “handle” it at all seems to me to be most of the problem.

Evolutionist X is Bloody Tired of the Classism Inherent in the Election. She has stumbled upon HLvM, which inheres to any system of insecure sovereignty. And indeed, it is quite disgusting.

If you don’t believe me, go stick your head back in the sand and believe whatever you want. Tell yourself that you despise conservatives because they are Bad People and not because they are Low Class and not Good People Like You. And conservatives can tell themselves that they hate liberals because liberals are Bad People who Hate Americans.

Violent hominids need good government, not voice.

And for Anthropology Friday: the final installment of In the Shadow of Man.

 

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This Week in West Coast Reactionaries

Last week, there was, if you recall, quite a dust-up at West Coast Reactionaries (a refined, articulate WCR-style dust-up, mind you) regarding the place (if any) of the “Alt-Right” in Rightist thought and strategy. Adam Wallace draws the threads together in A True Elite and the Alternative Right. Regarding nationalism, in particular, he is spot on:

The Alt. Right is a product of Modern civilisation and largely exists within its paradigms and values; hence, for example, Nationalism is the predominant ideology amid Alt. Righters, an ideology which arose in direct contrast to the remaining visages of Tradition around the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (in England and France particularly). There is a confusion of sorts here, as most of the young men involved with the Alt. Right won’t have an indepth knowledge of political history, and, to them, Nationalism is merely the antithesis of Globalism; a sentiment re-inforced by the contemporary progressive’s paradoxical facilitation of global Capitalism, and, by levelling the playing-field, the progressive’s desire to remove all variables beyond money and material concerns (no races, no religions, no cultures, no countries, etc.). A closer examination regarding Nationalism tells us clearly that, although a concern for one’s own kin and type is totally just and natural, the political implications of Nationalism go beyond rejecting the twin-headed hydra of moral progressivism and international finance, and into accepting levelling and centralising the nation from a political and managerial point of view.

Damn straight there. The Committee awards an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for this one.

Argent considers recent events in light of The Bitter Struggle for the Soul of the Right. On the one hand this is nothing new. Electoral politics always energizes one side more than others: the left side. Thus the right has always been at war with itself; and the left half always (at least in the long run) wins. But seeing it happen before your eyes is an important lesson for every new generation of rightist. The only real answer is an end to electoral politics; anything less is shuffling incentives around for a potential temporary respite.

On Friday, Wallace kicks off what promises to be an excellent series On the Anglo-Saxon, Pt. I: His Origins. Probably more of an Arts & Letters subject.

And Testis Gratus delves into some political theory with The Need for Authoritarianism. It’s going to take at least that.

 

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This Week Around The Orthosphere

Interesting bit here from Chris Gale: Yes, the Goldwater rule exists for a reason. It keeps professional psychiatrists from diagnosing at a distance… but not so much the armchair ones. Also from Chris: The environment strikes back: Adoption is good for you.

Matt Briggs is over at The Stream with With Paris Climate Deal, Obama Again Imagines He’ll Save the World. And another one: Dangerously Daft New Study Calls Ohio Abortion Pill Restrictions Dangerous.

Briggs also invites the Blonde Bombshell (his I think) for a guest post: Why Trump?. Which features, I think, an original meme, which I won’t spoil. (And I happen to know how Briggs feels about “memes”.) He has comments on The Great Spiritual Accompaniment. I object to the “spiritual” part, more than the “journey” part, TBH.

Epistemology rears it’s head again: Just What Is Signal And What Is Noise? It’s a relatively easy problem in communication systems. “Noise” in climate data? Not so obvious.

Donal Graeme suggests one trait that no man can live without: “A capacity for focused, disciplined and effective violence.”

Dalrock asks: Are real men attracted to boisterous, opinionated women? Rhetorically, of course.

This belongs under Arts & Letters, but since it’s at The Orthosphere (proper), I couldn’t very well keep it out of the Orthosphere subsection: Thomas Bertonneau’s scholarly and visually rich essay Romanticism & Traditionalism.

Sliding in just under the closing gate, Cheshire Ocelot has created an extensive and annotated Recommended Reading Page.

 

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This Week in Arts & Letters

Imaginative Conservative has a beautiful bit of poetry from Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover. Also there: a re-republish of a superb Anthony Esolen article from 2004: The Lovely Dragon of Choice: The Freedom Not to Be Free. And this: Why “The Great Music” Is as Important as “The Great Books”.

Chris Gale has a poetic translation Sennin Poem [Ezra] Pounded; another Kipple: The Old Men; and from John Donne The Bait.

Sydney Trads have the obligatory @WrathOfGnon classics: An excellent quotation from Christopher Alexander on Art, one from Lee Kuan Yew on Multicultural Democracy, plus another in honor of Low Time Preference.

Poet Laureate E. Antony Gray has a fresh ode: The Song of the Viols.

Manticore Books recommends Three Good Reads in Sci-Fi largely on the basis of a fourth: Lennart Svensson’s Science Fiction Seen from the Right.

Jon Frost, over at Thumotic, returns after an extended hiatus with a bit of original poetry: The Wood-Pile.

 

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This Week… Elsewhere

Peter Hitchens has a magnficent piece over in the October issue of First Things: The Cold War Is Over. Could this perhaps signal the final exorcism of FT’s neocon demons? Either way, a wonderful read from Hitchens, not “Putin Worship”, but full of respect for the genuinely lovely things in and about Russia. And he can’t resist pointing out the bald-faced hypocrisy in selective principle enforcment by the “International Community”:

Western diplomats, politicians, and media are highly selective about tyranny. Boris Yeltsin’s state was not much superior to Vladimir Putin’s. Yeltsin used tanks to shell his own parliament. He waged a barbaric war in Chechnya. He blatantly rigged his own re-election with the aid of foreign cash. He practically sold the entire country. Russians, accustomed to corruption as a way of life, gasped at its extent under Yeltsin’s rule. Yet he was counted a friend of the West, and went largely uncriticized. Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who locks up many more journalists than does Mr. Putin, who kills his own people when they demonstrate against him, and who has described democracy as a tram which you ride as far as you can get on it before getting off, has for many years enjoyed the warm endorsement of the West. His country’s illegal occupation of northern Cyprus, which has many parallels to Russia’s occupation of Crimea, goes unpunished. Turkey remains a member of NATO, wooed by the E.U.

Lawrence Murray describes the 10 Types of Anti-White Commenters. Anti-Kulak is I think a better characterization:

The kulak hunter, who knows an enemy of progress when she sees one. Lawrence also has a review of Jim Webb’s Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America.

What is sad and disturbing is that 46% of all whites apparently does not hear Trump’s highly racist, misogynist speech as bigoted. What is wrong with them?!

There’s nothing whiter than being Anti-Kulak.

Axel McKibbin contemplates The Impossibility of Escaping Force… in this case the force of human nature.

Over at City Journal, a really fine historical piece on Philanthropy and Black Education: A noble—and poorly understood—American tradition. A bit of unintentional hilarity here and there, for example…

By all accounts, blacks left bondage eager to learn. “They rushed not to the grog-shop but to the schoolroom,” wrote Harriet Beecher Stowe. “They cried for the spelling-book as bread, and pleaded for teachers as a necessity of life.” Booker T. Washington, the educator and former slave, wrote that “few people who were not right in the midst of the scenes can form any exact idea of the intense desire which the people of my race showed for an education.”

“By all accounts”… from approved sources. Still, the sort of self-uplift advocated and implemented by Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute, once popular among white philanthropists, did a great deal of good for African Americans. Until it was more or less cancelled by folks in too much of a hurry.

Also there: Want to protect young kids from social media? Don’t let them use it. And: The Curious Case of Ilhan Omar, a rising Somali-“American” political star from Little Mogadishu, MN, who may have legally married her brother for fraudulent purposes, but that’s totally racist to even ask about.

Speaking of children and social media… Al Fin explains why Why Electronic Gadgets and Dangerous Children Don’t Mix.

A friend sent me a link this week to Albert Jay Nock’s 1936 essay Isaiah’s Job—profound and prophetic exegesis regarding The Remnant. If you think the Mises Institute is nothing but Muh Free Murkets Wankery, you really should take a look. (Or even if not.)

Greg Cochran talks about When things changed. 1964 to be exact.

I don’t know this guy “Adam” or how I discovered his (old-skool) blog: Generative Anthropology in the Public Sphere, but this was pretty good: Anthropomorphics and Reaction:

[T]he conservation of sovereignty also implies that each and every one of us, in his daily tasks, is somewhere in the chain of command issuing from one site of sovereignty or another. We are sovereign over some small portion of those daily tasks, which is why we can resent failures of sovereignty on larger scales. The teacher who exercises sovereignty in the classroom knows whether the students have learned something as a result of his efforts, so he can know what it means for there to be no discernable [sic.] connections between efforts and results. Complaints regarding the insecurity of sovereignty derive from the model of those areas where the complainant exercises some sovereignty of his own. The problem of political thinking is to scale up the self-discipline we practice so as to exercise sovereignty where we can. Or, rather, the problem of political education is showing others how to do so. If reactionary absolutism is right, such efforts at scaling up will make absolute sovereignty, sovereignty derived from the absolute imperative (a function of one’s efforts to see beyond the constraints imposed by one’s desires and resentments), ever more persuasive.

Also there: More Alt-Right Programming which analyzes this Counter Currents piece from Lawrence Murray, who wrote about the Alt-Right back in March, before it got Megafamous.

By way of Knight of Númenor, will there be a planned demolition of the Alt-Right? From some of the stuff I’ve seen, it’s not as outrageous an idea as it might seem. Build your local männerbund, screening out the retards and feds. Related: #RUOK.

Unorthodoxy captures the Cathedral in just one graph. Also a deliciously wicked Idea for a Trump Ad. Probably more suitable for an outside special interest to air it, but… wicked.

Northern Reaction unpacks the invisible backpack of white privilege. Needless to say, there’s not a lot of there there. More effort than was required (50 bullet points!!), but sometimes it is needful to humiliate your interlocutors.

Giovanni Dannato’s take on the JQ may be slightly more philosemitic than my own, but this part was spot on:

The truth is crushing talent is a poor strategy and Euro culture needs to have a successful means of harnessing Jewish potential while reducing their ability to leverage their superior brains into parasitism. Actually every society needs to have incentives for the brightest, whoever they are, not to simply become vampires.

You want your Jews to build your atomic bombs, but not to write and produce your sitcoms.

Roman Dmowski discusses Hillary the Awful and the “Basket of Deplorables”.

 

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Welp… that’s all I had time for. Best wishes to all. Even the haterz. Keep on reactin’! Til next week… NBS, over and out!!