The Great Reaction - Table of Contents

The left experienced as a Great Reaction, a lurch back from the modern to the primitive

0. Great Reaction in Brief

1. Neo-Feudalism is not an Accident


2. Cudgeling My Brain on Freeloading


3. The Paradox that Progressives are the Real Reactionaries
   Socialism liberated the masses into the most oppressive regimes in history


4. Communism Week: The Real Revolution of the Modern Age
   Two revolutions, in physics and the economy


5. All Politics is Reactionary
   But we got the most amazing Great Enrichment in history


6. The Counterrevolutions of the Modern Age
   Communism-socialism and environmentalism for a start


7. The Two Heads of the Forces of Lefty Reaction
   "Activism" and neo-feudalism, for a start


8. The Two Heads of Reaction: How Do We Deal With Them
   Against neo-tribalism of identity politics the nation state; against neo-feudalism the corporation


9. The Great Reaction Also Includes Neo-Sacrifice
   Where I coin the notion of the "Great Reaction"
   


10. Great Reaction: Plus Neo-Guilt
    we are talking about guilt for white privilege and the patriarchy


11. Great Reaction: The Left's Neo-Tyranny
    The tyranny of political force is needed to create the left's better world


12. The Grand Narrative of the Postmodernists
    And a grand narrative to oppose their grand narrative


13. But First, Humans are Tribal
    The capitalist/libertarian world view is not enough, because humans are tribal


14. Whither the Culture War Now?
    We need warriors saying the world is more than masters and slaves, or activists and victims.


15. The Fault, dear Liberals, is in Your Religion
    We don't need no stinkin' religion of "activism"


16. The Power of Nostaglia
    People get all nostalgic when the old order is already breaking up


17. Great Reaction: The Story So Far
    A recitation of all the Neo-isms


18. The Two Paths: for Rich Kids After the Death of God
    
    
19. Great Reaction: Slavery and Scapegoating
    The left takes us back to the slavery of the agricultural age and the scapegoating of the tribe.


20. Rich Kid Protesters are Not the Cry of the Oppressed
    
    
21. What Will it Take to End the Progressive "Great Reaction?"
    When educated-class white women realize they have been had.


22. Egalitarianism is Neo-Meat-Sharing
    Modern wealth is shared every day, so no need for taboos against hoarding.


23. Why Do Millenials Like AOC Believe in Big Government?
    
    
24. Now the Psychologists Come Out Against Traditional Masculinity
    Creatives have no tolerance for Responsibles


25. The Left's Religion of Political Power
    It's the old way of protecting yourself, before the Industrial Revolution.


26. We Must Bring the Past Back to Life
    Because our lefty friends have murdered it
    
    
27. Where Do We Go From Here?
    Our elites have lost the Mandate of Heaven, so can we avoid a Time of Troubles?


28. Great Reaction: Activism is Neo-Knight-Errantry
    What else do you call riding around in search of helpless victims to save?


29. Great Reaction: Reparations is Neo-Vengeance
    Turning back the clock from law to the lex-talionis


30. It is Too Soon for a "Dissident Right"
    First we need to get the left on the back foot and gasping for air.


31. Poor China: It is Stuck Playing Yesterday's Game
    It needs to trade the warrior's sword for the sportman's trophy


32. Government and Politics: Force and Division
    Force is needed to battle an existential peril, not day-to-day healthcare


33. Our Ruling Class's Unjust Sense of Entitlement
    
    
34. Understanding Tlaib: The Culture of Innocence
    It's needed for a truly oppressed minority. But the Muslims in Detroit?


35. Accepting the Fact of Exile in America's Jacobin Terror
    We have to "develop an independent set of religious and social beliefs"


36. Gut Check Time for the Educated Ruling Class
    Whatever the future, the educated ruling class ain't gonna like it


37. Comte's Three Stages vs. My Three Peoples
    Mine is better


38. We Need Better Beliefs, Says ZMan
    But first we need to make politics less lethal


39. Think of Activists as "Activistes"
    Because like an "artiste" an activist is a public performer


40. Two Centuries of the Great Reaction
    It's not surprising that in the autumn of political power some still worship it


41. Is the Left to Blame for All the Hate?
    If you believe in politics, like the left, you believe in "hate"


42. Could Chile's Collapse Happen Here?
    It could, except we Commoners have Donald Trump in our lane


43. Stop Moralizing About Race, Slavery, Empire
    Because we dumped slavery etc, because they do not pay


44. Our Elite's Crimes Against Humanity
    Its solutions for workers, blacks, women and LGBTs were the wrong solutions


45. Three Peoples: What Happens When It All Goes Wrong?
    Depends on whether you are subordinate, responsible, or creative


46. Suppose We Are Approaching the End of the Age of Politics
    and a future that nobody has a clue about


47. Don't Panic! I Say Bring Bernie On!
    Let's face the socialist menace head on


48. Splaining the Democrats for Deplorables Like You and Me
    Free-stuff in the front, Coalition of the Fringes to the back of the bus


49. Great Reaction: The Left's Neo-Knight Errantry
    Activism as a "romance" just like the medieval romances


50. Understanding the Left's Secular Religion
    Lefties believe in combining science with political force


51. Great Reaction: Vengeance in the 1400s
    How the feudal vengeance culture is very like our lefty activist culture


52. Getting Beyond Binary Thinking
    Gentry won't go there until their project has utterly failed


53. On China: "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Asians"
    Because we don't want the CCP to choose war


54. The Sacrificial Hero Ancient and Modern
    How do we "save" the Gentry hero from egoism?
    
    
55. The Domestication of Man
    Experts are domesticated prophets. And other domestications
    
    
56. Deep Sixing the Socialist Idiots
    There has to be a plan
    
    
57. Riots and Mayhem: Be of Good Cheer
    It's a liberal "failure of prophecy, and Nietzsche, Brinton, and Ken Wilber have written
    
    
58. The Only Thing That Politics Knows is Loot and Plunder
    But that's the old way, before the city and capitalism
    
    
59. Dennis Prager Itemizes My Great Reaction
    Victimhood, Demonization, Cause to Believe In, Lies
    


60. Saying the Unsayable on Race and Slavery and Police
    Did you know that a policeless society is also a patriarchal society?
    
    
61. Jews, Antisemitism, and the "Other"
    The importance of the "culture of innocence" in left-wing politics
    


62. Remember, "Activists" Aren't Revolutionaries
    But regime thugs doing what they have been carefully taught
    


63. The Conflict of Interest of the Educated Gentry
    When you force your creative project on the rest of mankind
    


64. Great Reaction -- Script
    
    
65. Message to Lefties: The Age of Politics is Over


66. Hey Liberals and Lefties: The Age of Politics is Over


67. "We Get to Play-act on Your Dime"


68. My "1584 Project"


69. Lefty Ally-ism, and What Real Allies Look Like


70. Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Slavery


71. The End of the Commoner Rebellion
    
    
72. Maybe I Have Been Too Tough on the Lefty "Great Reaction"
    
    
73. Good Luck, Joe. You'll Need It
    
    
74. But Tear Gas and But Hate
    
    
75. The Evil Spirits Will Always Be With Us