The Righter’s Digest – 10 Jun 2023
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The Righter’s Digest – 10 Jun 2023
Abandonment Cometh Before the Fall
This week’s digest is a little late ... I got a bit behind this week, and it was either post half-completed dreck while bleary-eyed and cottonbrained late last night, or postpone to this morning. Fortunately for me if not for you, as a self-employed writer, my lack of self-discipline means that my self-imposed deadlines are much easier to ignore than the sort that come from editorial offices.
With that said, welcome to your weekly roundup of all the misanthropic malinformation, schizophrenic delusion, treasonous subversion, reactionary table-pounding, and hate-fact-filled rants that have spewed forth from the putrid bowels of SubStack’s loose community of right-wing extremists and sanpaku-eyed conspiracy theorists. This is the good stuff, right here.
This week, our multi-course banquet of basedness is organized thematically. Homo Politicus contains your political analysis and news, followed by ... Before the Fall, which is about exactly what you think it’s about. Abandonment Issues looks at the Great Turning Away, which several people have been observing, and participating in directly, while National Futurism considers what might come next. In I would have lived in peace, but my enemies brought me war, we look at all things military, both the clown show at home and the shit show abroad. Who Controls the Past collects several fascinating historical essays. Cultural commentary is to be found in Cannibal Mouse Utopia. Girlpower is girls talking about girly stuff, and Godbothering is for Sunday. In case this roundup does not satisfy your hunger for roundups, other roundups are collected in Roundupception: the rabbit hole is a bottomless pit. Finally, and as always, this week’s digest finishes with a dessert course of creative fiction in Pulped.
Get the French press filled, and let’s get started.
Homo Politicus
In our circles, it’s common for Singapore to be brought up as an example for how a multicultural society can actually work: ditch the democracy and embrace the race realism. But aside from a few based quotes from Lee Kuan Yew, how much do you really know about the city-state and the autocrat who turned it into a shining jewel of international trade?
has you covered with his deep dive on Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore: A knife-edge path along a broken ridge. It’s remarkable what Yew was able to achieve, especially considering that he started with a dirt-poor jungle island populated by illiterates living in the ruins of Japanese occupation. Yet achieve it he did, and Singapore now has one of the highest GDPs on the planet, a success story for multicultural technoratic modernism ... so long as you ignore the IQ shredder’s anemic birth rate, and the fact that, despite the opulence, Singapore is dead last in self-reported happiness. This essay was thorough, informative, and interesting, and is a strong runner-up for the week’s Iron Ring Award. next jumps across the Pacific in The lack of representation for right wing populists in American democracy: An examination illustrated by the recent voting record of the U.S. Senate. NLF goes through the major bills that have been voted on from 2020 to the present, describing what the dissident populist position on each would be, and then presents a senator-by-senator analysis of voting behaviour. Only 7 of the Republican senators are consistent dissidents. As NLF observes, Caligula’s horse would be preferable to most of them.There certainly aren’t any leaders in the legislatures.
of The Neo-Ciceronian Times points out that this is a real problem because Populism Needs Leaders. Child trannies are deeply unpopular, but this doesn't count for much in unwieldy, oligarchically captured Our Democracies, in which powerful interests are able to capture various factions, play them off against one another, and thereby maintain their power. Populist opposition to this requires autocratic leaders able to inspire the allegiance of the population. This isn't only theoretical for Theophilus: he's seen this work up close in his own church, where a strong pastor broke the back of a family oligarchy that had been running it as a private fief for generations. Of course, the cathedral understands this quite well, which is why they reacted so strongly to Trump, a class traitor who did the unforgiveable: giving the Heartland Helotry an axis about which to polarize. The problem we face is that the regime is extremely good at coopting potential leaders.Remember the Trucker Convoy?
of Anarchonomicon sure does, and to counter regime propaganda that the protest was pointless, he sets the record straight: The Truckers Won. Everything. Far from being a failure, the Freedom Convoy was arguably the most successful protest in world history. Organized in the midst of Canada’s freezing winter, across a logistically daunting several thousand kilometres of ice and snow, they shut down Canada’s capital city for weeks, grabbed the attention of the entire planet, brought down a provincial government, brought down a national party leader, and forced the regime to end pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates not only in Canada, but across the Western world. I can well imagine Macron, for example, looking at Canada with a great deal of anxiety. If the famously mild-mannered, polite, and patient Canadians were doing that, he may have wondered, was that scraping sound he heard coming from the arrondissements the sound of guillotines being sharpened?
Next,
has a Short Take: Public School and the Destruction of the American Child. The education system clearly doesn't work, at least if the purpose is to, you know, educate. Illiteracy, for example, is rampant. However, if the purpose is to break the spirits, sicken the body, and dull the mind, it succeeds fantastically well. Kulak points out that about the only thing you can guarantee by seizing control of people's bodies - which is what the tyranny of schools comes down to - is to mold those bodies. Many systems have used this to turn young adults into little Apollos. So why is our system producing bovine lardbeasts?Reacting to the Syrian “refugee” who stabbed a French baby lying in pram,
argues that the Annecy horror shows the disdain elites have for their own people. Part and parcel of living in a multicultural society. So why is the regime so insistent that our societies all be multicultural? Rhetorical. And insofar as they continue insisting on our urban centres degenerating into intolerable hellscapes, why do we owe that regime any loyalty? Also rhetorical. at The Carousel looks at Elon's Current War from a business perspective. Musk faces a daunting task: he needs revenue, for that he needs advertising money because so far, subscriptions just aren’t cutting it, but his advertising revenue is down because the Censorship Industrial Complex run by BlackRock is more interested in controlling discourse and pushing perversion than it is in selling corn syrup. His provocative behaviour, Simpson suggests, is a negotiating tactic, as is his choice of a WEF ghoul as CEO. Simpson recommends that everyone shell out the $8 a month for Twitter Blue to boost the bird site’s revenues and help Rocket Man out. Yo Elon, here’s the deal: I will absolutely do that if you stop your dumb beef with Substack. I’m tired of my links not showing up, man.The twenty-first chapter of
's incredibly thorough and insightful evopsych analysis of post-progressive regime leftism, Worshipping the Future, is up at 's Not On Your Team, But Always Fair: Creating Social Dysfunction. He writes, "This article can be adumbrated thusly: states have little incentive to service areas that produce no revenue, but such fiscal sinks do provide opportunities for imperial bureaucracies to model their virtue", but this doesn't really do the piece justice. It contains a very interesting argument to the effect that normal distributions in physical robustness and executive function produce a natural sorting effect in socioeconomic class, such that policies that are optimal for high-executive function populations are disastrous for their low-functioning counterparts. This combines with the tendency of modern states to under-police fiscal sinks to produce pockets of ungovernable violent urban hells, which remain ungovernable because they are not worth the trouble to govern. However, they do produce one resource in abundance: luxury beliefs with which the elite can virtue-signal. Lorenzo also has a long-form piece up at him own blog, Lorenzo from Oz: Downward Resilience: Adverse incentives within the medieval Roman state.After an extended silence,
returns with two pieces up for us at Escaping Mass Psychosis this week. In the first he continues an ongoing series with The Socialist Phenomenon 3.1. Socialism isn’t a new thing: abstract the principles underlying the ideology, and you find a recurring pattern through human history, a resentment-fueled underclass seeking to tear down everything higher. The second piece is a new Letter From O’Brian, Americas Soviet Film Industry.At Political Ponerology
celebrates a very special 100th post with Crime and Punishment, a meditation on natural law and psychology in which he overlays Aquinas, Dabrowski, John Lawrence Hill, Iain McGilchrist, Whitehead, and of course Lobaczewski to explore the morally fraught territory between psychological determinism, free will, and crime. On the one hand, there’s no question that our behaviour is strongly influenced by efficient rather than final causation – we are not always as teleological as we’d like to be, and some of us really are no better than talking animals. On the other hand, if every causal vector in a man’s acquired and inherited psychological makeup made his transgression inevitable, you can’t just let him get away with it. This is all undoubtedly relevant to Logocracy - Chapter 19: The Judiciary, which Harrison also posted this week.
... Before the Fall
Sadly, it is still Greatest Sin Month. Which provides plenty of topical fodder for the likes of us.
At The Cat Was Never Found
rolls his eyes at Foolish Pride. This essay will manage to piss off both liberals (because in his younger years Mark gave Nazis a sympathetic hearing), and Nazis (because he rejects their sales pitch). We’re not talking about Internet Nazis here, of the ‘you don’t want to vivisect kids’ genitals so you’re a Nazi’ variety, but no-shit, suspenders-wearing, neck-tattooed, chain-swinging skinheads of the type uninentionally valourized in American History X. Mark thinks the whole notion of ethnic pride is foolish, and indeed that pride itself is foolhardy. It’s perfectly irrelevant what your ancestors did, or your coethnics, or indeed what you yourself have done. You don’t get to rest on your laurels. What matters is what you’re doing, right now, and getting wrapped up in brittle pride is the best way to interrupt that process of actually doing things.Sin is not the opposite of virtue but rather its absence; nevertheless, the cultivation of virtue is a powerful means of driving out sin, and when it comes to the greatest of sins there is no virtue more potent than humility. Over at Seeking the Hidden Thing
has a long and thoughtful meditation on Humility: A Key Virtue of the Post-Liberal Order. Humility, Kruptos explains, doesn’t mean crawling on your belly like some contemptible worm, but rather seeing yourself for what you are, exactly as you are, both good and bad. In other words, being honest about your strengths as well as your weaknesses. Our egalitarian ideals make humility essentially impossible, since we must pretend that we’re no worse, and no better, than anyone else. Our talents are gifts that we have been given, and those gifts come with the responsibility to play our proper roles in the social organism, but without humility we do not live up to those responsibilities, and end up using our gifts to exploit others, rather than lift them up. There are implications to this that go beyond the merely interpersonal, but you’ll need to go behind the paywall to find out what they are. This is one of the best pieces of the week, and a runner-up for the coveted Iron Ring. Honestly, I would have given it to him for this, but already awarded Kruptos an Iron Ring two weeks ago.At Dark Futura,
writes about Intellectual Vanity: The Lost Art Of Admitting Uncertainty. Intellectual humility, Simplicius thinks, is a dying art form. In the endless mud-slinging match of self-aggrandizing social media food fights, people have become loath to admit that they’re wrong, or even that they don’t know something. Picture Reddit Man, confidently pronouncing on a subject about which he knows very little. In the process, discourse has become afflicted by a dogmatic rigor mortis, with partisans of various camps adopting inflexible positions based purely on the fact of those positions being the positions of their camps.What is a Woman? is not about what you think it’s about. The article, I mean, not the movie.
buries the lede in her piece at Not On Your Team, But Always Fair, using the Daily Wire gender theory documentary as a jumping off point to discuss the way in which Christian morality – the overweening concern with the sick and the broken – causes us to pull our rhetorical and satirical punches in a way that never would have occurred to our pagan ancestors, for whom the sick and broken were not objects of concerned pity but targets for scorn and mockery.
Do hawks care about gay rights?
argues that they don't. Rather, the rainbow flag is simply a convenient banner under which to organize the usual imperialism. Republicans are happy to pay lip service to it, despite the queasiness it inspires in their base, because Democrats find that it's incredibly useful for inspiring their own base (and distracting them from the realpolitik that actually underlies hostility to Russia). The fact that Washington is only too happy to do business with countries that have much harsher laws punishing homosexual behavior than Russian anti-gay propaganda regulations is salient, here, although it's worth pointing out that many of these countries - Saudi Arabia for example - have been coming under intense pressure to taste the rainbow.Chant it with me, chant it with
: Perversity Is Our Strength! As Kevin describes, he’s a high-openness xenophile, perfectly at home with diversity ... but he also acknowledges that he’s weird that way, and that most people are not like him. Most people prefer homogeneity to heterogeneity, and heterosexuality to homosexuality. Kevin makes the point that the normalization of perversion does a disservice both to normies and to perverts. The former are deprived of their nice, regular, sensible lives, while the latter are deprived of the ability to escape from straight society by transgressing it. This is an important nuance, which I think is deserving of greater understanding. Dragging the perverts into the limelight is akin to turning on the lights in the night club – it destroys the magic. In just the same way, homogenizing the planet under globohomo airport waiting lounge culture destroys the purpose of airports: if everywhere is like everywhere, there’s no point in going anywhere. I’ll be appearing with Kevin on his False Flag Weekly News next Saturday, by the way.At The Radical American Mind,
makes a similar point in Utilitarianism Vs. Pride: queers have a responsibility to provide normies with the weird insights their outsider perspectives entail, but this also implies a responsibility to remain, well, outsiders. Otherwise they don’t have any insight to share. In other words, please go back into your holes and stop waving dildos in our faces.Humility, writes
at notes from the end of time, is often conflated with shame, but could not be more different. In On Shame, he explains that shame is the inevitable end of overweening pride. Shame is also an incredibly useful social technology, which is why the other side gets so worked up about slut-shaming, fat-shaming, and so on. But, he says, it can also be a useful means of keeping oneself humble. Next, in The Day of Wrath, Kenaz writes of the tension between the saintly heart and the lizard brain. Don’t let your limbic system get hijacked.Speaking of wrath, over at Karlstack
celebrates Pride month by preserving a Twitter history for posterity so no one can forget that This PhD student at Brown University keeps threatening to murder Matt Walsh. Seems the pronouned dude in question sent out multiple, ah, strongly worded Tweets to Matt Walsh and others, of the genre of such explicit fedposting that if any regime critics were to have done the same, FBI agents would be on their doorstep the next day. Imagine if the situation was reversed, etc. It will be interesting to see what, if anything, Brown University does about the situation.Uganda has been in the news recently thanks to their imminent genocide of gay people, by which the lying press means that Uganda doesn’t want pedophiles giving children AIDS up the rear. But is that really all that’s going on?
argues that Uganda Sees Rainbow Flag At The End of A Pot of Gold. Over ten trillion dollars of gold, in fact, which the GAE is using the gay as a fig leaf to make a play for.At Tell Me How This Ends
suggests that maybe you shouldn’t get distracted by a Shiny Object, which is after all “a traditional decoy used by pickpockets”. The regime is utterly incompetent at solving anything that matters – indeed the numerous problems that beset our failing civilization are in large part direct consequences of their interminable meddling – and sure I guess we could have an adult discussion about that but – hey, look! Rainbows! And of course if you’d rather not talk about those things, you’re obviously just ignorant and uneducated, or maybe even a fascist, as he points out in Poles and Holes: Discourse of Cosmopolitans. Finally, Bray adopts the same Infinitely Maximalist approach favoured by our glorious leaders – namely, chanting PRIDE PRIDE PRIDE ad infinitum as the Rainbow Maximizer AI steadily converts the entire solar system into Progress Pride flags.
Abandonment Issues
Do you ever get tired of it all, and want to just walk away? From everything? I know I do. It seems I’m not the only one.
At a plague chronicle
notes that the The bureaucrats & science retards responsible for the last three years of destruction and mass medical experimentation are unrepentant and eager to do the same thing all over again. Of course they are. To admit wrongdoing or even error would be to undermine the very basis of the power of Experts, which is that Experts Are Always Right. He continues this theme with Pandemic Impressions I: The Lie of Aufarbeitung and The Great Silence, subtitled “Widespread complicity in catastrophic pandemic policies prevents their open repudiation. The consequence is a newly erratic and destabilised German politics.” This is the beginning of a poignant and thoughtful retrospection of the COVID uears that I’ve found to be quite remarkable for how closely it has mirrored. The second chapter is also available, Pandemic Impressions II: The Great Turning Inwards and The Great Opting Out, subtitled “Pandemic restrictions have driven people away from the public sphere and the professional world, leaving millions to lead vastly more private, withdrawn lives.” There’s been a noticeable withdrawal of people from public life over the last few years, manifesting in numerous ways: abandoning the office for work-from-home; abandoning the censorship and social risk exposure of parasocial media for the walled gardens of private group chats; abandoning unfulfilling careers in the Machine for a simplified and more human life.eugyppius isn’t the alone in noticing this. Over at Morgoth’s Review,
has posted one of his long, rambling video essays, the first of these in a while, in which he describes The Great Turning Away from his own perspective. ‘Social networking’ hasn’t lived up to its shiny promises, doing far more to isolate and alienate us than it has to bring us together. I don’t think we’re ever going to see a complete abandonment of social media – not absent a cataclysmic civilizational implosion similar to the Bronze Age Collapse, and probably even then – but the love affair with network technologies is pretty clearly over. There’s a vast amount that they can’t do, and I suspect there’s going to be a renewed emphasis on embodied experience and real, human community in the years to come. of Ghost in the Machine is wondering, Are We Too Demoralized to Stand? Like many of us, she finds herself oscillating between the black and white pills: the sense that it’s all ogre, and the feeling that the Sun is about to break through the clouds. And when you’re feeling down, what do you do? Just Throw Some Dopamine At It. Click the link, scroll the feed, press play on the next episode, and just let that little trickle of effortlessly unearned dopamine rewards distract you from the awareness that this is your life, and it’s ending one swipe at a time. of The Intrinsic Perspective thinks its time people come to terms with the obvious and just Stop trying to make a "good" social media site. There’s no such thing, he says: the very architecture of social media as a technology class make ‘good’ social media impossible, because it invariably encourages spiteful controversy-mongering as an attention-grabbing strategy, thereby feeding an inevitable cycle of absurd extremism that just leaves everyone angry and miserable. He thinks this is intrinsic to human psychology when paired with large many-to-many networks, and therefore not something that can be ameliorated by tinkering with algorithms. He’s got a point, you know.
National Futurism
of À Rebours writes about "A nationalist future, courtesy of the folks at Game Designers' Workshop" in Nationalism Redux. The future in question is the one depicted in the old 80s RPG Traveller: 2300 AD, which apparently was itself developed in the context of an epic gaming session rather than emerging from the imagination of a single gene designer or a brainstorming meeting. The result is a world in which the nation-states still exist, but are reaching for the stars, competing with one another to seize interstellar empires while continuing to fight wars on Earth. Very similar, in other words, to the Europe of the 15th through 19th centuries. I've often felt something like this is far more probable than some kind of Star Trek UN. If the Amerindians didn't unify following contact with the European powers, what makes us think we would following first contact with aliens? prophesizes the coming Rage against the machines at Becoming Noble. The statistical magic of "generative" AI is mere mathematical imitation of what human competence can do. Our elites, believing their own marketing brochures, imagine that this technology will give them license to finally excise the troublesomely difficult to control white population entirely, and will double down on mass immigration, and the demoralization and dispossession of their native white populations. It will not work, Kurtz argues, because multi-variable regression is not capable of creatively dealing with unique situations even in principle, no matter how many Markov chains one tries to wrap them in. As the Machine fails, we will be presented with a great opportunity. We must be ready for it.Wouldn't it be wonderful to get paid for doing nothing? Actually no. It would be very, very bad.
pours cold water all over The Beautiful Fantasy of Unconditional Basic Income, which he explains will never be 'unconditional' in the slightest. 'Universal' has been smoothly substituted into UBI in most people's minds, which I'm sure is not accidental. As Morgoth explains, UBI will be just one component of a tech and policy stack - CBDCs, WHO treaties, vaccine mandates, carbon taxes, 15 minute cities, and so on - that, even assembled, will be a fully operational Death Star that none of us really want to live in. The naivety of leftists who think they're opposing power, rather than serving as its useful idiots, is crucial to generating enthusiasm - and defusing opposition - to the UN 2030 Sustainability Goals WEFtopia we're being herded into. Personally, having observed the uniformly deleterious spiritual effects of welfare dependence in a variety of cultural contexts, I'm opposed to UBI on those grounds alone: it would only accelerate the degeneration of humanity into contemptible worms. I also rather suspect that the elites will want something other than mere docility in exchange for their largesse, perhaps the use of our bodies as biological testing platforms. Morgoth is, however, obviously correct that UBI will be used as a social control mechanism.There’s been a lot of talk about UFOs, sorry ‘UAPS’, recently. Is there anything to it?
of the Intrinsic Perspective doesn’t think so, and suggests instead that The UFO craze was created by government nepotism and incompetent journalism. He’s done some digging and it seems like there’s a good chance the entire thing is the result of a recursive circle jerk: a UFO-happy congressman threw some funding to Skinwalker Ranch researchers, which then created the buzz necessary to get the Pentagon’s UFO research program approved, which was then staffed with UFO researchers, who then gained credibility as Pentagon insiders. Is the whole thing just one gigantic game of telephone, with the clickjunkie media playing enabler?Several excellent little pieces at Science Is Not the Answer this week as usual, with
covering broken science, AI, broken science, and insurance. How Do Scientists & Soothsayers Know When They’re Right? Report on Fourth Broken Science Initiative Event. Another way of putting this is, what exactly is the difference between palmistry and time series analysis? In “AI Will Kill Us All!” Say People Programming AI To Kill Us All, Briggs has a look at the various existential risks that Deebly Goncerned Experts have assigned to AI. Many of them are absurd, but enfeeblement – the possibility that over-reliance on AI will make us feebleminded due to atrophy of our cognitive processes, the same way that people get fat and weak when they drive everywhere – seems like the most likely danger, and a very real one. Briggs next suggests that Disinterested Audits Of All Scientific Theories Must Be Mandatory & Routine. That’s what peer review is supposed to do, although in practice there is very little auditing and it tends to be quite intensely interested, a little bit too much to be reliable. As indeed we see with the replication crisis. But then, the whole point of science is to be exploratory, conditional, and tentative, meaning that it will always mostly be wrong: perhaps the problem isn’t that we don’t audit enough, but that we expect it to be correct, and therefore walk around assuming it is. When it isn’t. Following this Briggs explains that Insurance Isn’t Insurance & Why It’s All So Crazy. It’s a betting market, basically, but that only works when there’s something to bet on, and when the outcome is in doubt. Insuring for pre-existing conditions doesn’t work for obvious reasons, which is why applying an insurance model to health care yields terrible results.Briggs finishes the week with a guest post from Jaap Hanekamp, Experts’ Plans To Push European Citizens Into Poverty To Save The Planet. Well, the Malthusians say it’s to save the planet. That their nonsense is so transparently anti-life – the War on Organic Chemistry! – and their proposed remedies so obviously counter-productive and self-serving, is a rather strong tell that the whole narrative is nothing more than a means of justifying what Chris Langan calls parasitic divergence.
I would have lived in peace, but my enemies brought me war.
Things are popping off in Ukraine this week, with the long-promised Ukie offensive finally kicking off, and a dam getting blown which was obviously Putler’s doing. Obviously. How could you doubt this? You aren’t unpatriotic, are you?
At The Slavland Chronicles
covers all of this and more. First he tells us all about how the mercenary army Wagner Pushes Back at Woke Anti-Russian Hate Speech Laws, Calls Out Kremlin Intrigues, Declares Wagner Will Not Obey MoD Orders! Next a deep dive critique of the Kremlin in Russia's Elites Want to Repeat the Mistakes of the 20th Century. There was a friendly fire incident: Wagner Ambushed by Shoigu's MoD, Russian Soldiers Taken Prisoner, Forced to Confess! Wagner’s CEO Prigozhin Demands 200k Men to Form New Army, Accuses Shoigu of Organizing the Active Genocide of the Russian People, Lays Out Ultimatum to MoD, Threatens to March on Moscow! On the subject of who blew the dam, Rolo thinks It Is Too Soon to Say: sure, it screws Crimea, but he doesn’t trust Russia’s MoD at all (you many have noticed), so he doesn’t rule out that elements in the Kremlin might have done this to deliberately sabotage the war effort. Next, Rolo looks at Russia’s own lying media: Russia's #1 TV Personality Vladimir Soloviev is a Kabbalist, Zionist and Hates Russians. He ends the week on a note of cautious optimism for the Russian war effort, observing that despite everything Russia is Holding the Line.Simplicius’ Garden of Knowledge presents a rather different perspective from Slavland Chronicles: both Rolo and
are pro-Russian, but Rolo is far more skeptical that Russia’s government is pro-Russian. This week Simplicius has several updates on the rapidly developing conflict. Simplicius opened with Wild Day in the Wildlands of Ukraine, covering what he considers to be one of the wildest days in the war. Or at least it was until BREAKING: Hell Breaks Loose as Kakhovka Dam Completely Destroyed. Simplicius follows up with a Postmortem Analysis on Kakhovka Dam Breach. Then looking at the Ukie offensive in First Leg of AFU's Offensive Has Begun, a story continuing with Offensive Confirmed: AFU Strikes Hard But Leopards Get Spayed. German Leopard tanks, that is, which apparently got chewed up by Russian defenses, which were much stronger than expected.So while NATO is getting sandbagged in the Pontic steppe, how’s the military doing at home?
At The Tomb of Morgthorak
takes a look at how the GAE Military Purge of White Males Continues. Racial quotas are being used to prevent white men from being commissioned in the officer cadre, something that’s also been happening with pilot recruitment in the Royal Air Force as well. Morgthorak thinks that’s great: let the Empire of Lies fill its ranks with incompetent racial auxiliaries, and white men won’t die in its wars. Me, I’m not so sure. There’s nothing stopping the regime from bringing back the draft, and using that troublesome population of white southerners and heartlanders as cannon fodder for Russian rocket artillery. In A Quick Update unrelated to the military, just as Political Ponerology celebrated its one hundredth post, The Tomb of Morgthorak has just reached its one hundredth subscriber, which Morgthorak is quite happy about. He’s also bullying Linus Torvalds over on Poast, apparently. God’s work, Morgthorak.A couple of great pieces from
at A Ghost in the Machine this week. In A Marxcissist Military he goes beast mode on the drag queen general staff at the Pentagon, who seem to be continuing in the belief that you can spit on the people you want to die in your wars and still have them die in your wars. Unless, of course, the point is to restructure the military in order to turn it into an internally focused police force. Imagine lesbian mulatta commissars with young Martin Sheen face and haircut manning the future Bergen-Belsens, installations that will span tens of miles, as BAP memorably put it. Of course, such an armed force is all but useless on the battlefield.
Who Controls the Past
’s second essay of the week switches gears and goes full schizo in Tinfoil Hat Time. We’ve seen the regime falsify history repeatedly over our lives, from JFK to 9/11 to Trump to COVID-19, and that’s just for starters. Who’s to say this hasn’t been happening throughout history? It obviously has been, so how much of our history is even real? Daniel doesn’t know. Neither do I. Neither does anyone. But Daniel wonders if maybe we aren’t living in The Era of Satanic Deception, with both a falsified history and falsified religion. of Nemets watches Storms Across the Channel in a masterful overview of the prehistory of "The British Isles from the Magdalenians to the Normans". His focus is on the rise and fall of the several cultures and civilizations that have inhabited Britain, from the Western Hunter Gatherers to the Early European Farmers, the first Indo-Europeans, the Celts, the Romans, and the Anglo-Saxons, culminating with the most recent migration wave. Along the way there are numerous fascinating tidbits, such as the reversal of fortune in which the WHGS, who had been displaced by the EEFs, bounced back and made themselves for the time the nobility of a hybrid EEF/WHG culture, or the long rein of a thalassocracy based in the Orkney Islands. This was my favourite read of the week, and takes home the Iron Ring Award. of the Grey Goose Chronicles has a long-standing interest in interactions between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists of the sort described by Nimitiz, and this week he goes to the dark continent to tell "A tale of rock art, cattle-raiding, warrior kingdoms and secret tribes" in The 'Lost Bushmen' of the Drakensberg: The Bantu, The San & The Mountain. What’s that? This history stuff is fascinating? So You Want To Be An Archaeologist? The Herbalist has you covered, answering all your questions as to how you, too, can become a tomb-raiding adventurer. I’m kidding, of course. There’s actually quite a lot of room for citizen scientists to contribute to archaeology. We know a lot less about our buried history than we think we do. continues his series detailing why The U.S. Was Wrong to Enter World War II, with the third instalment describing the role played by the Anglo-American Elite. People you’ve probably heard of, like Cecil Rhodes, and whom you probably haven’t, like ‘Colonel’ Edward Mandell House (an honorary rank conferred on a man who had performed no military service) played pivotal roles behind the scenes, building out secret societies with which they controlled British and American politics with an eye towards re-establishing the British Empire by playing off Russia and Germany against one another. They got their war, but lost the British Empire in the process ... although arguably the GAE is simply a rebranding. of Celestial Circle looks critically at architecture from both a left and right perspective, pointing out that we’re all at least a little bit guilty of The murder of beauty & the worship of ruins. The minimalism and brutalism of modern architecture so beloved of technocracies whether communist or capitalist is spiritually deadening, to be sure. But the backwards-looking preference of conservatism to preserve old buildings in their ‘original’ state – or more often, as untouchable piles of crumbling stone – is pathological in its own way. Why can’t we restore ruins to their original glory, inspired by the spirit they embodied? Imagine the Great Pyramids, clad again in smooth limestone and capped with gold.
Cannibal Mouse Utopia
has a long, in-depth, and mostly spoiler-free review of a TV series up at The Cat Was Never Found which, despite having been made in Le Current Year, he considers to be, dare I say it, based. And to be very honest I did not expect it to be the one that he picked. In A Turning of the Tide, Mark goes very much against the tide and declares that the latest season of X is actually a good show. I won’t say which show, because Mark asked me not to. But I will say that he certainly convinced me to watch it. of Position & Decision tells us “What DreamWorks' Shrek has to teach us about media enclosure and a content culture” in The Swamp & The Monster. It turns out that Shrek is a satire on Mickey the Great and Terrible’s ravenous hunger for franchisable content and consequent tendency to lock up an ever-larger fraction of folklore and, more recently, various ‘cinematic universes’, behind intellectual property laws. It makes sense that it would take a smelly green swamp ogre to resist this. Much in the way that death metal never really went mainstream, one of the most effective ways of maintaining your independence is to make yourself savagely unappealing and absolutely inappropriate for polite society.It’s not like Disney’s cannibal C-suite is the only party in the entertainment world responsible for cultural decay, however. In The Fall of Hamill-lot
of The Lake of Lerna tells the sad story of Mark Hamill, whose irredentist shitlibbery, simping for Ukraine, Trump Derangement Syndrome, and all the rest of it rather undermines whatever objections he had to the desecration of his most titular roll at the hands of the blue-hairs.At How To Subvert Subversion
gives some advice on How To Commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre of June 4, 1989, offering a very personal perspective on his family’s involvement with those events. Next he explains How To Save Private Ryan from the WEF Wehrmacht, using a scene-by-scene walk through of the famous war movie as an extended metaphor for all of the ways in which zillennials have been targeted, crippled, and eliminated by the panoply of psychological, chemical, economic, and biological weapons deployed against them by our rotten regime. Yuri must be watching a lot of movies this week, because he follows up with another review of an old film I haven’t seen, in How To Reimagine Boston from The Departed to The (Woke) Retarded.At Pirate Wires
cringes at the Mostly Peaceful Aztec Empire: “after a video game trailer featuring an aztec warrior goes viral, posters bravely stand up against human sacrifice — and the knee-jerk defense of a uniquely evil society”. Anti-whitism has reached impressive levels of moral decrepitude when literally anything, up to and including display racks for the skulls of children tortured that their tears might please the rain god, are shrugged off so long as it was done by some group white people had a beef with. That said, the game studio got so much pushback that they added a Conquistador play option. It will be interesting to see which proves most popular. at LucTalks hasn’t written anything new, but that’s because he’s been so busy with Podcast Appearances, in particular “Talking about Ernst Jünger and the paranormal on MindMatters, and on hot button topics with the Substack crew”. The Jünger episode is very good. Being a native German speaker and therefore able to read Jünger in the original German, to say nothing of not exactly being your standard right-wing theorycel, Luc has a very interesting perspective on Jünger’s Forest Passage.At What Katy Did
considers The death of the story at the hands of politicization. Katy’s an author herself, and has intersectional Pokemon points she could draw on, but is profoundly disinterested in being pigeonholed as a writer who writes about her identity from the perspective of her identity. By contrast, she finds that there’s an emotional complexity, and a sophistication to the treatment of good and evil, in the plotlines of Asian dramas which is entirely lacking in those produced in the West. The villains have entirely understandable motives for their villainy, rather than the Hollywood trope of doing evil things just to be evil, or the more recent trope of doing evil things because they’re white. I’ve noticed the same thing. Ghost in the Shell, for example – the anime, not the live action abomination, which managed to thoroughly misunderstand the entire point of the series – presents its antagonists as misunderstood or malfunctioning AIs that have gone off the rails in their attempts to perform their, usually quite rational and even praiseworthy, functions.
Girlpower
of Extremely Domestic launched a book this week, but first she asked How to Launch a Book. Not only is her book Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War on shelves now (or at least, on Amazon, where it is rapidly climbing the charts), but she apparently facedoxxed to celebrate the book launch. Brave lady.The West is dying, or already dead, but as we lost children of the post-West pass through the stages of grief into terminal acceptance
of Classical Ideals wants us to take a few minutes to remember What We Owe to the West. It was great while it lasted, and if we’re going to build something great again – and we will – we have to take forward the best of what the West was. Next, Megha asks Is Pretty Privilege real? There are downsides to pulchritude, the poisonous envy of the sisterhood’s less-favoured not least among them. Megha advises that personality really does matter, and working on that will do more for a girl’s attractiveness than being bitchy to others. She’s right, you know.The Reactionary Feminist
reports on the worrying increase in the proportion of surveillance enjoyers and rules enthusiasts in Devour Me, Mummy. It seems that something like a third of Zoomers think the digital longhouse is just swell, in particular approving of the idea of Big Sister watching their every move in the “privacy” of their own homes. Her hypothesis is that a lifetime of institutionalization, starting with day-care before they’ve even mastered language, has led many of them to experience a heavily bureaucratized, tightly micro-managed environment as something more like being swaddled in a mother’s love rather than being smothered by the Devouring Mammy.
Godbothering
At the Manly Saints Project
tells us about Saint Columba The Exile, who visited the land of the Picts and freed an Irish slave girl from a druid by summoning an angel.Which American religion is the most useful for the American right?
continues his game-design inspired investigation of this question at Contemplations on the Tree of Woe in The Right Religious Tradition, Part IV. Previously, he looked at various Christian denominations. This week he examines the American civil religion – that blend of admiration for the Constitution, veneration of the Founding Fathers, and the vague sense that God exists and has imbued America with a divine mission. Of course, there are different sects of the Civil Religion: there’s the prog version (America has to live up to its ideals), the originalist version (America has always and still lives up to its ideals), and the ethno-nationalist or paleoconservative version (America used to live up to its ideals). It really all comes down to whether or not you insist that racism is the greatest possible evil, Tree of Woe argues, and if you do so insist, the American Civil Religion will always converge towards globalist progressivism.In his readings on theology, Tree of Woe has come to an interesting conclusion regarding the identity Of St. Michael the Archangel: that he is a Christophany, the pre-incarnate Christ. Woe argues that making this connection yields a considerably more muscular and militant Christ, Michael of course being the angel of war (I’ve made a similar argument for the cultural utility of my own favourite theory for the true identity of the historical Christ). He also suggests that this would make Satan a more formidable opponent, consistent with the warfare theodicy favoured by the Tree of Woe – a theory of evil that just sounds badass.
Roundupception
at Better Barbarians continues highlighting “The best writing on (and off) Substack: Nature gazes back. AirSpace as the modern aesthetic. Pot and the nightmare of Plato. And more!” in THE REACTIONARY'S ROUNDUP - 4 JUNE 2023. I got an honourable mention (woot!), but you’ll have to click through to find out which essay he selected, as well as to see to whom he awarded this week’s Silver Ring. And I strongly recommend that you do click through, because there’s some excellent stuff in there.As always
of The New Right Poast brings us all the shit that’s (un)fit to poast. In #66. I have like... actual talent, he looks at “White supremacist latinos, dark elf pronatalists, Brooklyn unfunnymen, Far Right Ethno-Nationalists (F.R.E.N.S.), and much more!” The supply of white supremacy is running low, so the left is having to look for Mexicans to do the racism whites don’t want to do, to say nothing of pro-natalists who want to have the babies liberals aren’t having in order to prevent liberals from going extinct, which is ... just like Hitler. In #67. Let them eat football, he covers “Domestic extremism, Dimes Square dominatrices, the death of flirting, girlboss-occupied longhouses, and much more!” As the leading subtitle implies, this is a mention of Peachy Keenan’s new book. Watching Dasha grinningly slap the shit out of a journalist made my day, too. In #68. Nice civilization ya got there. Be a shame if someone...feminized it, the Poast covers “Right wing e-girl drama, historically gay numbers, hot bums, shrek nationalism, and much more!” Just as Groucho Marx would not want to join any club that would have him as a member, right-wing shitposters would not want to date any girl broken and neurotic enough to try to farm their misogynistic incel attention.At Pirate Wires
has look at the week’s tech news. Rocket Man Bad covers “the twitter vibe shift that only lives inside our hearts (is still unfortunately a shift); kind of enormous UFO story; apple's new headset (meh (market agrees)); clown links”. I get the sense Solana doesn’t much like Elon, or approve of his politics, but his point that Elon is certainly setting the tone on the bird site is certainly correct. Apple’s new AR headset is also extremely lame, like an uglier, clunkier version of Google Glass: less cyberpunk mirrorshades than walking around with a MacBook strapped to your forehead. Pirate Wires has a few other updates, as well as a regular White Pill science and technology feature, which are worth checking out.Pulped
As always, we end this week’s digest with creative writing.
Editor
of the Soaring Twenties presents the latest issue of their magazine, Symposium #12, themed around Romance, which includes several essays, a whole collection of short fiction, and even some poetry. You can’t have romance without poetry.At The Obelisk,
covers a forgotten pulp writer in The Northwich Horror - Robert Westall’s Monstrum Loci... Also at The Obelisk, is pleased to announce the availability of an ebook for their supporters, written by The True Father of Fantasy (Free Ebook), The Irish Lord who Inspired Tolkien, Howard and Lovecraft, the one and only Lord Dunsany.In other novel news,
has announced Ashes of the Necropolis - NEW BOOK RELEASE. “It’s a dark fantasy sword and sorcery tale of a mercenary who’s back to fighting strength after grievous injuries, only to find his companions have ventured to a mysterious and forgotten city, Furcht, a place rumoured to hold the secret of eternal life.”And in other novel news,
has posted Chapter 15 of her fantasy novel, The Hidden People.At The Indo-European Friendship Club
provides us with a few lines of verse in "Five million people died in Russia".That’s everything I’ve got for you this week, my friends. In addition to these digests, every week I put out an essay or two of my own, on a wide range of topics: you can find some of my more popular works here.
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About that syrian moslem rapeugee who stabbed french children:
He holds swedish citizenship. He's tallied in our census as a resident of a small deindustrialised town on the West side of Sweden, and is convicted of multiple cases of welfare-fraud.
He is - this will stick in the craw of americans of all nationalities - typical of moslems from the Middle East. A thief, a fraudster, violent, moslem, no respect or consideration for occidentals (or crusaders, infidels and jew-slaves which are very common nicknames of theirs for us european natives), no empathy as we define the term, and absolute sadism towards anyone and anything perceived weak and defenceless.
It doesn't matter that Hassim at work or Mohammed who runs the falafel-kiosk near the school may be nice guys, or that Fatima in your knitting circle always brings baklava: they are not typical. They are not representative.
The violent, criminal, syrian moslem (in this case) is.
I know americans won't believe that. More fool you, then. Look at Sweden, Germany, France, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece. Look at us 1970, and now. That's all you need to do.
Or just ask an actual american - a "redskin" - how that whole mass-migration thing worked out.