Write Wing Righter's Ring – Issue No. 9
It's All Over Man Edition
Welcome, dear readers, to the ninth issue of the Write Wing Righter’s Ring1, bringing you the best of the maliciously creative malinformation that Substack’s loose community of table-pounding reactionaries, para-enlightened schizo-sattvas, and aspiring HOA warlords can produce.
All matters impractical and philosophical are considered in Piercing the Veil Cast by the Black Tongue. Historical accounts are collected in The Past Is Another Country. In It’s All Over Man we look at the sweet release provided by the collapse of Western civilization, and follow that with a couple stories about the tragic passing of a dearly beloved uncle who did his damndest to achieve that collapse in We Live In an (Industrial) Society. Good night, sweet prince. Contributions from political theorycels are taken up in Becoming Worthy. We move on to the big news of the week about you-know-who that everyone’s pretending really matters in Trumped Up. The outrageously sane is considered in None Dare Call It Conspiracy. Nerd stuff and meta-stuff is celebrated in I’m Fucking Gay For the Science. Speaking of being gay, it’s still Pride month, which we celebrate in Bugchasing. The latest news and commentary about the SMO is collected in Sloppy Military Operation. Roundup Recursion is for other roundups, because I really like to be meta. As always, we finish the week’s roundup with a selection of short fiction in Pulped.
Before we get in to the articles, I’ve been meaning to mention
for a while, so I’m opening this week’s roundup by suggesting you subscribe. Those of you who follow me on Notes will probably have seen me sharing his memes around. Every day he offers up a digest of new memes, and it’s become part of my morning routine to click through for a chuckle. Lots of Substackers share memes, but only Patrick focuses on them.Now get that French press brewed, or settle in with some scotch and a cigar depending on what time zone you’re reading this in, and let’s get started.
Piercing the Veil Cast by the Black Tongue
The introductory essay Maya: Lifting the Veil, pt 1 from Marine Corps vet, Blackwater alumnus, and Caribbean diving instructor
made for poignant reading. It's an autobiographical account of apokalypsis, a deeply personal redpilling story of a genre that I think almost everyone reading this blog can relate to. The journey out of nihilistic normiedom is a modern initiatory ritual, and while the path is different for each of us, the ordeal is universally recognizable for all who have been through its flames. Maize also has a long piece for us this week A Tale of Two Nations, “Line go up vs. Tradition”, in which he tells us about his life of self-imposed exile in Club Tropical Excellent. Which sounds pretty great to me, frankly.Here be void dragons. At Praxis of Man
draws the connections between aliens and medieval Monsters on the Margins: The Symbolism of the UFO Phenomenon. He argues that modern UFO tales are really just an updated demonic mythology, and that science fiction is simply the imaginative projection of the same fascination with the mysteries of the uncharted frontier that our ancestors filled in with monstrous beings at the edge of the map. There's something to this, but then again, it's in part thanks to those fantastic tales that our ancestors were inspired to explore and conquer the world. If Star Trek results in Solar Imperium, I'm all for it. of The Cat Was Never Found washes his mouth out with soap for speaking The Black Speech of Mordor. I jest. He only quotes them. Some of us use language as a light, to bridge our souls and illuminate our shared world. Others spew verbiage as a squid squirts ink into the water, as a shroud of confusion. The vacuous pseudo-profundity of post-modernist philosophers (really more misophers, frankly – they do not love wisdom, but hate it) is an old joke, but Mark notes that their language has degenerated: the endless streams of gramatically correct yet meaning-free jabberwocky have been replaced by pithy, thought-stopping cliches like ‘whiteness’ or ‘transphobia’. The Nazgul are devolving into orcs. Use of their Black Speech, Mark argues, blackens the soul – that’s its purpose. So what do we do to ourselves when we use their words, even in jest, even to satirize? Perhaps we should use our own words, pregnant with our own meanings. He’s got a point, you know. I think Mark is definitely onto something here, and this piece gets a solid runner up for the Iron Ring. continues his exposition of Descartes with notes on intellectual and bodily Intuition and those who don't have it. The essence of Descartes’ dualism, Tólma thinks, is not the invention of the separation of mind and body, but the recognition of this separation, and the refusal to cheat by folding one back into the other by means of materialism or idealism. There is mind, and body, and the unity of mind and body – a conceptual trinity that we should try to flow through, as needs and circumstances dictate, rather than getting stuck on any one of them. Desartes’ cogito, Tólma shows, is grounded on an intuitive grasp of thinking and being – of mind and body – but as described in one of Descartes’ philosophical dialogues, not everyone has this intuition. They rely on books, and get nowhere. What accounts for this absence of intuition? Is it a form of sickness? If the pineal gland is the seat of the soul, the point of connection between body and mind – what happens when the body does not have enough energy left over to power the pineal gland? Maybe instead of reading more books these nerds arguing that the soul doesn’t exist should go outside and touch grass.Salutations and Solicitations! At Notes from the end of time,
dips his toes into youtubing, inadvertently facedoxxing himself. But don’t worry, he hasn’t given up writing: continuing on from last week’s theme of wrath, he offers up some thoughts on what happens when wrath goes international in Life During Wartime. Even just War is Hell, but in Hell you can find Enlightenment ... if you know how to look. of the Montana Classical College interviews of Becoming Noble on sophistry, over-socialization, Plato, Kaczynski, and the 'respectability' debate. saw that sad bearded woman crying about how life as a man is so hard because no one will hug her, and draws out the implications for The Faustian Left And The Sisters Of Fate. Liberalism is all about the transcendence of boundaries, the elimination of unchosen bonds, the (if you’ll pardon the phrase) triumph of the will. Previous civilizations recognized the role played by fate - that some things simply cannot be changed. (no not that de Vere, what are you a fascist or something?) explains Why I Stay Home on Friday Nights at No Such Thing. You only get about 30,000 days of life, and those aren’t really all that many. Think carefully about how you want to spend them. writes about Scottish Hospital Food, and uses this as a lens to examine the way in which technocratic managerialism sacrifices everything human and honest in exchange for efficiency. Instead of each hospital having a kitchen staffed with cooks who work at the hospital, they get frozen dinners manufactured in central food production facilities, shipped out to locations across the country. To be fair, he says, the quality has improved in recent years, but he can’t help but contrast the best of what is with the best of what could be – kitchen staff who work a the hospital, preparing meals for patients whose names they know, who care about their work and take pride in it. Not that that ever really happened ... hospital food has always been garbage, even before it was produced rather than cooked.The Resavager
asks Do you want to be loved by The Gods? Performing rituals and such won't do it, he writes. Rather, The Gods (interesting capitalization, not entirely inappropriate) expect us to fight. And to win.A fresh and woeful apple drops from the Contemplations on the Tree of Woe this week as
continues (and completes?) his series on The Right Religious Tradition, Part V. Previous chapters examined the merits and flaws of the various American Christian denominations as well as the American civic religion, from the perspective of which church would be the best bet to win the culture war. Sadly, they all come up short. So, what if we can customize our own faction? Since it is mostly behind the paywall, I shall forebear from saying too much, but I will say that ToW dropped a clue last week. Related, maybe.At Seeking the Hidden Thing
suggests that if we want to defeat progressivism, we have to get used to the idea of Rejecting the Idea of History. What did he mean by this? Think phrases like 'the end of history' or 'the right side of history' - the idea that there's a telos to time, which humans shape. Progressing history, Kruptos explains, isn’t the only way to think of time – you can also think of it as a cyclic return, or as non-repeating re-arrangements of various recognizable archetypes.
The Past Is Another Country
of Nemets compares Warlords vs Bureaucrats using examples from Central Asia and the Spanish Empire. Centralized administrative states are far more effective at filling the treasury and reducing corruption, but they tend to have a softening effect on the nobility, reducing martial virtue and thereby making the state an easier target in the long run.At The Neo-Feudal Review
does a deep dive into the last pagan emperor in Julian the Apostate: A doomed struggle against the birth of a new world (Part 1) and Part 2, subtitled Nietzsche's transvaluation of values and the twilight of the Gods. Julian’s short reign seems like one of those moments at which history stood at a cross-roads ... had things gone a bit differently, we might now regard Christianity as a quirk of late imperial mystery cultism, and pay it no more than historical interest as we went about paying our respects to Zeus and Odin.Remember that scene in Interstellar where the schools are teaching that the Moon landing was a hoax, and sending the protagonist’s daughter to the principal’s office for insisting it wasn’t? It seems that Australian schools are now using some book called Dark Emu as source material. It claims that the Aborigines were an advanced civilization with irrigation agriculture, gleaming metropolises, and interstellar travel via hyperspace (what did you think the Dreamtime was about, hmm?) I exaggerate just a tiny bit but the book’s premise does strike me as a bit absurd.
is a bit more equivocal on that matter, but What Katy Did this week was to use it as a probe of The Noble Savage myth. Why is it that progs feel the need to hold up ‘the indigenous’ (whatever that means) as paragons of virtue and justice? And why is it that they seem to think that portraying them as more advanced than they were somehow valourizes them? Are you supposed to be ashamed of your ancestors because they were primitives? Katy isn’t. Neither am I. I sort of think my Ice Age hunter-gatherer ancestors were probably pretty badass. is doing another Fisted by Foucault book club, this time on Revolution in Bavaria, 1918-1919 (Mitchell, 1965) – Introduction.At the Manly Saints Project
tells us about "the superstar" Blessed Donizetti Tavares de Lima, a Brazilian padre whose miraculous ability to heal with a blessing made him into a figure of mass veneration drawing tens of thousands a day to his remote village ... only to withdraw from the limelight when the Church asked him to do so, lest he become the central figure of a cultic schism and destabilize Brazilian politics. continues his in-depth demolition of liberal sacred cows with the fourth part of his series for supporters in What is a Sensitive Young Man Meant to Make of the History of Apartheid? The grinding collapse of civilization in South Africa is the real Mandela Effect.
It’s All Over Man
It’s happening! Nothing ever happens. We oscillate between the two poles of catastrophism and uniformitarianism, perched on the edges of our seats as we await clown world’s imminent collapse, and yet no matter how absurd it gets, that collapse never seems to come. If something can’t go on, it won’t ... so why does it seem to?
wonders if No Collapse is the real Dystopia. There is a lot of ruin in a nation. My contention is that Western civilization has already collapsed, we just haven’t come to terms with it yet. To be fair, we don’t yet have cannibal rape gangs. Give it time, though.Do you like indoor plumbing? If you do Harold Robsertson at Palladium has bad news for you: Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis. This is one of the best essays I’ve read this week. Robertson starts from the premise that our society is incredibly complex machine, an interdependent system of systems built up over generations by highly competent men selected for their intellect and aptitude. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity – which is really just the latest update on the Affirmative Action policies that ramified out of the Civil Rights coup – is rapidly driving such men out of our institutions, and replacing them with midwits selected on the basis of what colour their genitals are and what they like to do with them. One part I found particularly affecting was Robertson’s description of the emotional consequences for the shrinking cadre of competent white guys:
The combination of a pyramid-shaped org chart and a senior leadership team where white men often make up 80 percent or more of the team means that the imposition of an aggressive KPI sends a message to the layer below them: no white man in middle management will likely ever see a promotion as long as they remain in the organization. This is never expressed verbally. Rather, those overlooked figure it out as they are passed over continually for less competent but more diverse colleagues. The result is demoralization, disengagement, and over time, departure.
I found that highly relatable. In fact, it’s something I’ve written about before.
Robertson’s thesis is that as the talent pool is polluted with the talentless, the complex systems built by the talented will break down. Indeed, this is already happening, as Robertson illustrates with examples drawn from multiple incidents of infrastructural decay, supply chain disruptions, service interruptions, shortages, and avoidable but catastrophic accidents. Our civilization is breaking down around us because the only people capable of maintaining that civilization are being systematically excluded from the very systems that presuppose their involvement. All because suggesting that maybe there are differences between people at individual and group levels makes white women sad.
Robertson’s piece was by far the most interesting one I’ve read this week, and win’s the Iron Ring Award hands down. He’s not on Substack, and probably doesn’t subscribe to this blog, so if anyone knows how to get in touch with him, please let him know. In any case, his essay will be the subject of this Sunday’s Tonic Discussion with the Deimos Brotherhood. The live chat is open to everyone on Deimos Station.
Maintaining our civilization, to say nothing of reversing the decay, will require a properly educated next generation. Unfortunately, among the many complex systems that are breaking down, the education system is right up there at the top of the list. But maybe instead of patching the crumbling schools, which are after all anyhow thoroughly subverted at this point, we should rethink how we educate children entirely. Simon Sarris argues at Palladium that School Is Not Enough. Look at all the great minds through history, and virtually none of them until a generation or so in the past spent more than a handful of years in formal schooling. The majority started working in the real world when they were teenagers, or even younger, and thereby developed both the practical skills as well as the confidence that comes from operating on the world and changing it directly. Confining youth inside the schools as the most precious years of their lives are pointlessly squandered with empty busywork is, frankly, a form of child abuse. And what wonder that so many of them emerge in the twenties or even early thirties as heavily institutionalized as any career convict, with any independence, originality, or entrepreneurial energy long since beaten out of them?
Lives spent trapped in the classroom probably explains a lot of what’s gone wrong with the youth, but that isn’t the whole story. Isaac Wilks at American Affairs examines The Zoomer Question and does his best not to despair. Zoomers have systematically had their agency stripped. Where previous generations were political subjects perfectly capable of organizing themselves – as Wilks illustrates with a memorable tale of a Glaswegian vampire hunt organized by enterprising eight-year-olds – the Zoomer has become a political object organized by others, not an actor but that which is acted upon. They spend every waking moment in the classroom or staring at a screen, in a permanent panopticon. Not that they like this, of course. It’s no way to live, and they suffer from unprecedented anxiety and depression as a result. But whenever they try to do anything, they’re hemmed in by rules, laws, regulations, and social pressure. Sauron’s Eye is ever-present and merciless.
We Live In an (Industrial) Society
On the occasion of the passing of our much missed Uncle Ted,
from Whisper from the trees draws a distinction between preservationists and environmentalists: A wilderness preservationist cannot be a leftist. of Singularity Weekly looks back on Uncle Ted in the wake of news that “The Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski Pulls the Plug. In the subtitle, he writes “The circumstances of his suicide are unclear”, but doesn’t pull on the thread – there’s nothing yet to pull, but I can’t be the only one to wonder if this is another Epstein or McAfee situation. Anyhow. Allen is more interested in the lasting legacy of Kaczynski’s mail-order manifesto, which Singularity prophet Ray Kurzweil and Wired magazine founder Kevin Kelly both more or less agreed was a cogent critique. Allen doesn’t think Kaczynski was necessarily correct about the inevitability of the robot apocalypse, however ... even if Kaczynski (and for that matter Kurzweil) have been essentially correct in their technical extrapolations. Reality is not only a series of if...then statements. Maybe we should think more in terms of a while loop.Becoming Worthy
at Political Ponerology has two pieces for us this week. First is the latest chapter in his ongoing translation of Lobaczewski’s unpublished work Logocracy - Chapter 20: The Science and Education Authority. Lobaczewski’s contention is that education should sit alongside the executive, legislative, and judicial branches as an independent branch of the state. Libertarians might have something to say about that, but keeping schools at arm’s length from politicians isn’t a terrible idea (so long as the schools aren’t themselves infiltrated by Freire enjoyers, as ours have been). Next up, Harrison comments on Harold Robertson’s Palladium essay and sees if he can rehabilitate Social Justice to make it a bit less ... social justice-y. Which starts with looking at the definitions of the words. Words have meanings, after all, and the current usage of ‘social justice’ is very obviously social injustice. As it turns out, Lobaczewski had a few things to say about the dangers of misaligning ability and position. Those of lesser ability who are overpromoted become overwhelmed, and distract themselves from their incompetence by focusing on trivialities and neglecting or even ignoring their primary duties (sound familiar?); those of greater ability who are underpromoted are underwhelmed, and distract themselves by daydreaming ... which leads to accidents (heh ... been there....). Truly just social justice is essential to a properly functioning society.Using the obviously sane, level-headed, and honest Expert on authoritarianism Ruth Ben-Ghiat as an example,
of Tell Me How This Ends explains that True Anti-Authoritarianism Demands Your Absolute and Unquestioning Submission to the State Security Apparatus of the Fatherland. Ignorance is Strength, comrade. of The Neo-Ciceronian Times wants you to Enjoy Your New Low Trust Society! Not enjoying it so much? Want a return to the days of a handshake sealing a deal? Better start organizing locally - reassembling the sociopolitical web that makes humans something other than ionized individuals.Michael McConkey, who goes by
at The Circulation of Elites, has some announcements to make: NEW BOOK, FUTURE SUBSTACK. McConkey has written several books already, most famously The Managerial Class on Trial, and he’s been using his Substack to explore the themes that will serve as the basis for his next book. His latest post is a good, high-level overview of his writing from the last year, which is certainly worth checking out for his insightful commentary on populism, right-wing socialism, managerial social engineering, and biopolitics. at The Radical American Mind thinks that when it comes to Force and Legitimacy, we need to stick to our principles and stay humble (in the sense articulated by @Kruptos last week, of knowing ourselves honestly). If we’re to avoid a hot civil war that tears our civilization to shreds, the elites need to be circulated ... which means that their legitimacy has to be stripped from them, and conferred on those who have become worthy. But how do we this? Grant has some thoughts. at Theory Matters wondered if state sovereignty still exists. As the Brexiteers said, we need to Take Back Control- but what control? Is Britain really in charge of its own destiny just because it left the EU?Did you know that The Guardian is sustained by a billion-British-pound trust? I did not. This is why
is not ashamed of being a freeloader there, despite having read over 1000 of their articles over the last year (poor guy). In any case, given the reach of The Guardian, setting up that trust was a highly effective strategy for influencing the culture ... something our current crop of billionaires might think about. That’s all beside the point to Soldo’s Anatomy of a (S)hitpiece, which dissects a typical piece of anti-Russian propaganda, in this case an article discussing Russian exiles planning the post-Putin regime. At this point, that sounds to me a lot like a LARP.What are we to make of The Ominous New Mood of the American Social Media Censors?
has some thoughts. On the one hand, the establishment is trying to use the courts to preempt Trump's election; on the other, the formal media is trying to reestablish its image as a non-partisan, sober, objective source of information. Meanwhile the online censorship is easing up a bit. Euggypius thinks that all of this means the regime feels more secure in its position, as a result of which it cares less what the plebs think. In COVID-19 news, an Analysis comparing Japanese and German mortality once again finds substantial spike in deaths corresponding to the mass administration of Covid vaccines. No one could have predicted it. And in pointless state intervention news: German Health Minister announces new initiative to combat heat wave deaths by calling old people, reminding them to drink water.We’ll give the final word in this section to
at bad cattitude. In endgame: when the woke hallucination becomes a feedback loop, the bad cat suggests that it’s well past time that we stopped treating marxcissist militants like mature adults, and started talking to them like the tantrum-throwing toddler-brains that they are.Remember Bolsonaro? It hasn’t been that long since his nerve failed him and he fled a country that was ready to go to war in the streets to keep his election from being stolen. New Substacker
at Mostly stupid musings from a mostly stupid guy gives an overview of his on-the-ground perspective on the rise and fall of the Brazilian Trump in A Disguse to Nothing.At A Ghost in the Machine
neologizes a portmanteau with Conformmunism Isn't Cool. Marxcissism is icky, but Conformmumism is lame.A foul stench rises from The Tomb of Morgthorak, as
observes as the Desperate GAE Tries to Con Immigrants into Dying for the Empire. Seems they've given up trying to cajole southern boys into fighting for an empire that hates them, so they're warming up the old Roman promise: service equals citizenship. That worked out well last time.
Trumped Up
tells us how he really feels in Time to Rally Around Fat Orange Retard? Not that he’s made a secret of his views on Trump. Nevertheless, it’s always viscerally satisfying to extend a middle finger to our reptilian overlords. Morgthorak doesn’t think Trump will save us. At this point, sweet release will be found only in collapse.We live in a nation of laws. Or rather, as
of À Rebours clarifies, "A Nation of Laws". In the wake of Trump being indicted on trumped up charges to try and block his play to retake the throne from a criminal network that no longer even bothers to hide its mafia tactics, the scare quotes are mandatory. The gloves are off, now. Dex points out that this is all about power. Friends, enemies. Who, whom. That's the game the other side is playing, and we'd best win it.At Pirate Wires
gives a first-hand account of Trump's arraignment in Miami in SNAPSHOT: Trump's Boomer Tailgate Army Waits. To say nothing of blacks for Trump, Cubanos for Trump, and (apparently) Pansexuals for Trump (although I think that might have been a troll). The Orange Man never bothered showing up to say hi to the crowd, but they seemed like they had a good time anyhow. knows that Science Is Not The Answer … and neither is voting, he observes, as The Regime Makes Its Move: Federal Power Pre-Fortified -- Forever? The absurd indictments of Trump, which everyone can see are absurd, together with the open vote fraud in 2020, show that we are not voting our way out of this. Neither are we going to Constitution our way out. The game is rigged and the enemy ignores the rules when he doesn't simply change them. The board needs to be kicked over … but Trump is not the man to do that.A Vietnam vet goes out every night to play taps, alone.
observes that doing things alone is just a part of Living In America, and as he listened to the old man playing the mournful notes on his trumpet, news came in of Trump being indicted on trumped-up charges. TGC thinks the fix is in for the 2024 election.None Dare Call It Conspiracy
notes that “Tucker Carlson won't go there, so we will”. Where’s there? Well it isn’t JFK’s assassination, UFO phenomena, 9/11 Truth, or COVID conspiracies. Tucker is quite willing to talk about those, now that he’s off the leash ... not that he was all that shy about broaching them before. But there’s one topic he dare not touch: Holocaustianity: Religion or Psychosis? In a world in which we now have tranny Anne Frank impersonators, and aging rock stars being accused on anti-Semitism for performing The Wall, maybe Holocaustianity has gone just a bit overboard? In any case, I’ve gotten more than a little bored with post-war Western Liberalism and its founding mythology. And I know I’m not alone in that. Speaking of not being alone, I’ll be appearing with Kevin on his False Flag Weekly News today – Saturday, June 16th – by the way. He’s been spamming my inbox with links for the stories we’ll be covering, none of which I’ve read yet. Should be fun!I felt like I was going out on a bit of a burning limb when I suggested that the Canadian wildfires were more enemy action than natural disaster. It seems
reached the same conclusion. At Unauthorized Science, he peers through "One window into a multi-faceted attack on humanity" As the Smoke Clears. It seems the Pentagon has been studying forest fires as a weapon since the 70s.
I’m Fucking Gay For the Science
writes about LUIs, “Approved AI” and controlled speech at Authentic Intelligence (AI). A LUI is a Linguistic User Interface, which indeed is probably going to become the default means of interacting with computers … and way better than pawing at touchscreens with our thumbs, as my carpal tunnel readily attests, to say nothing of the way touchscreen interfaces have converted us from active users to passive consumers of information. Svetski also introduces MOT, Midwit Obsolescence Technology, which I kek'd at. The piece gets an honourable mention in the Iron Ring Award runnings just for that. In any case, as useful as LUIs might be, there's a real danger there: that every question we ask of the Talking Library will be carefully curated to tell us only what the curators want us to hear. That's what "AI Safety" is all about. Svetski thinks this is something of an existential risk, if not to the existence of the human species, then to the open Internet and the memetic diversity of the human mind. I agree. Open source LLMs need to be a huge priority moving forward. But that isn't going to be easy.At Escaping Mass Psychosis
looks at “The Travesty of The Australian 'Health' System” which is beset by Corruption At The Highest Levels. In this case, involving a traditional (as opposed to mRNA-based) protein vaccine developed in Australia, which the Australian authorities are doing everything they can to avoid approving.At bad cattitude
is extremely skep-cat-al that “climate change” had anything to do with the Canadian wildfires, and suggests that instead bad policy is ensuring a perpetual sense of burning crisis. That’s certainly true for California, where decades of poor forest management keep generating cataclysmic conflagrations. I’m not sure what the case is in Quebec ... but the fact remains that this is the earliest wildfire season on record, by a lot. Next the ferocious feline leads us through adventures in chart-crime: making climate data look scary. It’s a good guide to a number of manipulative tricks that are used, such as selecting the x or y axes to make historically insignificant variations look alarmingly precipitous, or splicing together datasets obtained with completely different proxies such that systematic differences take on the appearance of abrupt changes. has posted his most recent talk from the ongoing Broken Science Initiative: Briggs's Best Broken Science Blast. Next Briggs explains What The Law Of Large Numbers Really Means. And isn’t it weird, and kind of off-putting, how Academics Fear People.They Study Them & Wish They Could Shut Them Up? The poor things. Won't someone spare a thought for the emotional damage inflicted on Experts when people don't believe them? Finally, in Briggs You Tool! UFOs Are Real & Driven By Top Secret American Pilots, Insists Reader. Briggs just embarrasses himself. It's neither aliens, nor spooks, nor even incompetent spooks pretending to be omnipotent aliens. It's Atlanteans who survived the Ice Age Collapse by burrowing into hyperdimensions, now returning to bless us with spiritual enlightenment as the gates to the higher realms are reopened by the Galactic Alignment. Obviously, Briggs, you tool. of Just Emil Kirkegaard Things is not impressed: Hanania's diversity hypothesis tested and found wanting. Hanania, in typical Hanania fashion, published a trolling essay to the effect that the corrosive effect of immigration on social cohesion is a good thing, because it means the more individualistic people won't support a welfare state. Kirkegaard, in typical Kierkegaard fashion, looks at the actual data, and finds that there's no indication that this is actually the case. Has anyone noticed the welfare state becoming less bloated in the era of mass third world immigration? Kierkegaard also tells us about a new study he published in collaboration with with Ed Dutton using the OKCupid dataset, in which they found that Gentlemen prefer faces, or how life history speed relates to body preferences. If you're a butt man, you're basically a lower primate tbh.At The Fiamengo File
observes an interstellar sex scandal as Astronomers Build a Feminist Black Hole for a Former Star. The sex scandal in question involved Geoff Marcy, a leading figure in astronomy – arguably the father of the new field of exoplanetology – who was forced to step down from his tenured position because he had a habit of putting his hand on girls’ shoulders, in order to provide them with a bit of human connection and reassurance. Yes, really. It’s that lame. That was the big sex scandal that rocked academic astronomy. No coke, no strippers, no casting couches, no torrid affairs, not even so much as a surreptitious blow job. When nerds and Head Girls collide, this is what you get, I suppose. Anyhow, not content with hounding him from his job, the psychotic women who destroyed the brilliant man’s career are now on a crusade to get his name taken off of any new papers his colleagues write, which in addition to violating long-standing norms of authorship, is just incredibly petty. Why young men would even think for a moment of pursuing an academic career is a complete mystery, at this point. Academia is women’s work. Marcy didn’t even say naughty things about Bantus, like James Watson did ... and the fact that Watson could be so easily destroyed by speaking frankly on a subject on which he possesses subject-matter expertise speaks volumes. from shadowrunners has Some general notes on science and scientism for you to consider, which can be summarized as: Fuck Science, it's a fucking racket. Laughlyn quotes Feyerabend quite a bit here, and personally I found Against Method to be an incredibly illuminating read. We pretend that there's this thing called the "scientific method" that sanctifies the pronouncements of academia's labcoat men, but they're basically just making it all up as they go. at Theory Matters plays the Post Doctoral Blues. Mace recently completed his doctorate in political theory, and like a lot of recently-minted PhDs spat out into the over-saturated academic job market, he’s finding it hard to get a position ... worse, insofar as positions are available, all anyone is interested in are the skills he acquired from being a teaching assistant. No one gives a toss about his research skills, or the subject he actually poured himself into over all those years. It’s a common story, one I think that everyone who’s been through graduate school can relate to. There’s something deeply broken about an academic culture that forces its researchers into narrow capillaries of irrelevancy. Maybe we’d have an easier time finding work if we were allowed to work on things that actually matter? And to decide what those things are ourselves? Just a thought.
Bugchasing
You love to see it.
covers The Anti-LGBT Backlash unfolding before our eyes. It isn't just happening because public nausea is finally resulting in regurgitation of the rainbow. As Ignatius explains, to a large degree this has all been driven by ESG, which was only possible because of near-zero interest rates … which are now over. Parents getting an eyeful of curricular perversion thanks to zoom school also plays a role, as does the pragmatic Gen X finally taking over from the Eternal Boomer. I suspect generational turnover is the largest factor. Gen X has been languishing under the fat boomer thumb for its entire existence, and the generation's one uniting characteristic is to loathe everything the Eternal Boomer stands for. As the Boomers die off, the power struggle is going to be between Gen X and the Millennials, with the hearts and minds of the Zoomers being the terrain over which they fight.At a plague chronicle
considers The Meaning of the Rainbow Revolution. He thinks the rainbow has been adopted as a transnational symbol representing the ability of elites to cooperate across the constitutional, administrative, and national boundaries erected to constrain their power, with a key part of their animating ideology being the establishment of positive rights which have proved incredibly useful in routing around the troublesome negative rights that limit their influence. He's certainly onto something. points out the obvious: The USA is Gay, "And it's time to shut up and get used to it or finally get deadly serious." What does conversion therapy look like when applied to an entire country? Can Christian Nationalism pray the gay away? In any case, it's more than a bit embarrassing that today's conservatives (try to) make the case against today's pronoun people by defending yesterday's sodomites. Everyone knows full well that conservatives capitulated to activist pressure to recategorize homosexuality from a mental illness to a “sexual identity”, so why would anyone think the same won't happen with tr00ns?Speaking of trannies,
at Classical Ideals has a few brief thoughts on Mulan and Transing Girls. Mulan isn’t a strong female character. Like every other Hollyweird fantasy, Mulan is a man with tits ... and the only way to make that plausible is to make every male character in Mulan implausibly weak and incompetent. Men with breasts and men without chests are two sides of the same gender transition. explains Why Culture War is Everything, namely that it’s much easier to shout about gay people being under attack than it is to actually solve real problems. of Karlstack exposes a Canadian politician doing a hate hoax in Ottawa's Jussie Smollett Moment. "MPP Joel Harden says that he was "punched in the face" because he was standing up "for queer and trans youth". Evidence shows he actually just scratched his own face."
Sloppy Military Operation
The Slavland Chronicles Zaluzhny Was Right, Zelensky Was Wrong, and Rolo Was Prescient As Always This attack is foundering. Prigozhin Continues Mutiny as Wagner Warlord Offered Ultimatum by Shoigu MoD. He has Bad News For the Blog, namely that Substack's fees are higher than he anticipated; also contained therein is a critique of Substack's purple checks as milquetoast post-libs, which is pretty on point. Commenting on the latest drama between the Russian MoD and mercenary heroes, Rolo thinks that Shoigu's New Anti-PMC Declaration Is Yet Another Deliberate Sabotage of the Not-War Effort. He wasn’t a fan of Putin’s press conference: DISASTROUS: Putin's Presser With State-Sanctioned War Correspondents Left Russia's Patriots With Their Jaws Hanging! And if you’re interested, he’s taken the trouble of posting The Full Transcript From Putin's Meeting with the War Correspondents in English. at Simplicius's Garden of Knowledge has a SITREP 6/11/23: Ukraine Reorients and Makes Breakthroughs on Eastern Axis. Although they seem to be capturing mostly irrelevant hamlets that Russia doesn’t much care about. He has rather more positive thoughts on the press conference, too: Putin Invites Top Russian Correspondents For Candid War Q&A + SitRep Updates. And another SITREP 6/15/23: Kakhovka Powerplay Heats Up as AFU Readies For Round 2.Jim of Jim's Blog comments on Russia’s draft Agreement on Measures to Ensure the Security of the Russian Federation and NATO. His opinion is that Russia has chewed through enough NATO war material that the GAE's stick is essentially broken, this at the same time that its carrot has gone rotten, which has changed the balance of power all around the world: recalcitrant states no longer need fear color revolutions, meaning they have their de facto independence back, meaning globohomo is done. It will take a while yet for this to sink in, though.
Roundup Recursion
has written up our Strange Adventures in Infinite Space at The Cat Was Never Found in the first Deimos Station Report (6.15.23):It’s been 72 hours since our encounter with the strange cosmic entity known as “Slaanesh” and his horde of cybernetic kink-demons. After we finished swabbing the decks of all the sex toys and cenobite blood, the command staff held an impromptu meeting at that infamous hive of scum and villainy, The Deimos Bar & Grille
It’s a good tour of all the fun we’re having over at Deimos, and a nice introduction to several of the interesting authors who have started sharing their own writing with us there (several of whom have featured in the roundups on these pages). Entertaining as hell for the way he takes the sci-fi theme of the forum and just runs with it. He also manages to roast the principles quite hilariously, yours truly included.
has Saturday Commentary and Review #127 up at Fisted by Foucault: “Patrick Deneen's Call For Regime Change, "Betrayal" of the White Working Class Male, AI to "Save Humanity"?, Elon Goes To China, Charles Brenner the "Longevity Skeptic".” has a list of his Recommendations for June 2023, most of which is not from Substack, and much of which will probably be new to you – it certainly was to me. brings you all the shits unfit to poast at the New Right Post. This week, #69. His smile and optimism: gone: "Uncle Ted thirst trap, big tits round asses, mostly peaceful Aztecs, and our gay United States." Also, Vaush is a pederast. And #70. There must be more than this provincial life: “Impoverished janissaries who love the smell of books, bald obese black rainbow shirt-wearing disabled ladies, and e-girl bingo!” Also, Sohrab Ahmari is big mad that the New Right don’t think like Marxists and care about the things he cares about.
Pulped
at The Lake of Lerna has written more than you ever wanted to know about furries and bronies at The Men Who Stare at Horses - Part I.The written word carries the advantage of an infinite budget. The movies you can project into the reader's mind are limited only by the FX capabilities of your own imagination.
continues his crash course in good literature with Storytelling 104: Beautiful Imagery, using examples drawn from the best of fantastic fiction to demonstrate the fine art of talking your way into the eye of a reader's mind. The ceremonies open with the achingly beautiful prose of from his short story, Our Private Kingdom, which is required reading.A short tale of dread from
at The Obelisk: At the Foot of the Stair…:pens an ode to My AI Girlfriend at Semantic Sorcery:Cornhill, London, Sunday the 26th of May, 1782
“Gentlemen,” Hathaway suddenly declared. “Might I enquire whether any members of this august company have yet had the opportunity of viewing the new painting on display at the Royal Academy?”
Eyes rolled.
Lord Rotherby gave a contemptuous snort of disgust and poured himself more brandy.
I’m sick of seeing my AI girlfriend everywhere. It seems like there’s not a single media company left that hasn’t partnered with HarmonyAI. I go to YouTube to look up a chess tutorial and Marie is there reading the advertisements to me.
The Pulp Vitalist
has a new chapter in his Weird Weird West serial: The Legend of Si-Te-Cah:At the front of the train car, a man glanced in my direction. His friend sat three rows behind me on the opposite side. They both wore black derbies and sported black suits to match. They had shadowed me since Denver. At first, I took them to be Pinkertons, but they lacked the brutal pragmatism I had come to identify with the agency. No, these men were from back east, they were softer, and of a much more devious sort
At Grey Goose Chronicles
continues his Ice Age saga with Chapter Two - Humiliation:Humiliation isn’t just the sense that someone is having fun at your expense - real humiliation is taking a lion cub and scraping down it’s claws, until they just have stubs. Breaking the talons of the eagle, or extracting the teeth of the serpent, and then observing them trying to pursue their instincts. Its pathetic. Humiliation is taking a boy on the cusp of manhood and turning his face from that horizon…
The Herbalist’s Ice Age saga is my favourite ongoing creative writing project at the moment. I’m eagerly awaiting the next chapter.
At Soaring Twenties
offers up a sci-fi short in Debt Troopers:Cold nights like this always draw in a crowd; a throng of screeching idiots with their cardboard signs, colored hair, and tattered clothes, standing on the pavement and beaten down by the torrential rain.
Tonight, they came in with a fiery spirit I’ve never seen before. Their eyes sharp black and soulless like the rodents they truly are. Mouths spitting contempt, rage, and disgust as my men rush into the rundown apartment lobby.
Don’t forget to make that student loan payment.
I haven’t seen
write fiction before, but the fairytale The Witch and the Seamstress she’s posted at Classical Ideals is quite promising:has Chapter 16 of The Hidden People: The Pact of Blood and Bone up at What Katy Did:Once upon a time there was a blind seamstress named Neeve. She was beloved by all in her village for her lovely smile that could make you feel that everything would be alright. Her eyes, like grey glass, were pure as a pool of frost.
Jo was carried up the winding, dank stairs, into the stone-flagged courtyard. Beaga buzzed back and forth, and people ran around busily—someone appeared to have cleaned up the mess in the alleyway and Jo felt pity for that person. She could not shuffle fast enough, and they picked her up again, like she was a doll.
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You can thank
for that title; she suggested it in the chat on my Telegram channel. I immediately knew I had to inflict it on the rest of you.
I feel like Mr Kreosote. Stuffed to the point of bursting.
(That's meant as praise, to be sure.)
"Why is it that progs feel the need to hold up ‘the indigenous’ (whatever that means) as paragons of virtue and justice?"
Because they loathe themselves. They don't hate themselves, as hate is an attractive force - you seek out what you hate, to oppose and fight it. Nor do they accept themselves or know themselves, but deny instead. At most, they can experience stimuli and emotion at the pre-pubescent child's level: virtually no introspection or imagined third person position persepctive. This is also why they cannot manage abstract thought. Theoretical, imaginary and hypothetical stories in their minds, yes, but not actual abstract thought as such, stepping from one angle to the next or expanding and narrowing focus, or even following an idea to its logical end once freed of material constraints; instead, they replace all this with a feeling of self-loathing and imaginary theoretical ideals just over the next horizon, shrouded in the mists of 'If Only' and blind to the paradox of combining progressivism with an ideal.
Progress can only ever be measured backwards: are indoor plumbing better than outhouses? Yes. Thus, progress. One cannot measure like this: a toilet which breaks down the bodily waste in its component chemicals, separating and refining and storing them for recycling is oh so much better than a WC, therefore WC is bad.
Yet, that is what the progressive does: creates a wickerman of ideals, climbs into its head, and sets it a-flame.
And then blames the questioner for its failure, all the while loathing itself for failing.
Malal be cursed-praised!
Regarding the error of using the black speech of our victimizers, NoWhiteGuilt wrote: "When you use their verbiage, you legitimize their ideology"