Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Government is Protection -- Contents

Government is Protection Against Enemies

1. 9/12 Plus 10

2. Millennials: Government Turns Everything into a War

3. Government's Job is To Protect

4. The Liberal Syllabus of Errors

5. My Bill of Realities

6. The Fundamental Reality of Our Times, Four Ways

7. "Make it like it was"

8. Election 2016: Is It All Over Bar Shouting?

9. President Obama's Divisiveness: What Does He Mean?

10. When Will Democrats Realize That Obama is Killing Them?

11. Trump Night: What You Are Not Allowed to Say

12. It is not "Good Government" Reforms that Wrecked the System

13. Used to be that Men were Fighters and Women were Lovers

14. How to Help an In-denial Liberal

15. Liberals Screw the Pooch on Navy SEAL

16. Maybe the Jihadis Will Help Us Kill Two Birds With One Stone

17. Trump's Paris Climate: Sound and Fury

18. How About Those Millennials!

19. No, Political Power Does Not Effect Beneficial Change

20. If Not Progress, Then What?

21. And Now the Aussies

22. What Do You Think Parades are For, Lefties?

23. Was Trump's "Go Back" Tweet a Blunder?

24. "You Idiot:" Of Course We Were, Are

25. The New York Times' Problem

26. The Left Led the Workers into a Wilderness

27. Cleaning Up Afer Hurricane Lefty

28. Ten Things the Educated Gentry Got Wrong

29. Liberalism Properly Understood

30. History Lesson for Our Nance on "Stormtroopers"

31. The Future of Government: New and Exciting Enemies!

A Vision of the Good Life Better than the Left - Table of Contents

A Manifesto About the Meaning of Life

0. Good Life in Brief

  1. What is the Meaning of Life?
    It is the question in the mind of every human

  2. The German Turn
    The Germans invented everything

  3. The Question of Suffering
    The question of meaning revolves around the differing analyses of suffering

  4. Three Religions for Three Peoples
    Your religion depends on your understanding of suffering

  5. The Hero's Journey in Each of Us
    Modern educated people are called on a creative life journey

  6. The Meaning of Life: Making it Up
    We humans really don't know anything

Commentary

  1. The Dilemma of the Well-born Human

  2. Global Problem #1: Birthing a Religion for the Educated

  3. Searching for a New Religion: Leftism, Feminism, Wokeness, Etc.

  4. Conservatism: What Comes Next

  5. Deep Sixing the Socialist Idiots

  6. What is the Current Moral Revolution All About?
    It's the end of the rule of our current betters

  7. Gorsuch Decision Means Back to the Drawing Board
    First you find a new meaning of life. Then you fix the Supreme Court

  8. The Different Kinds of Hero
    Extending the hero concept to culture and politics

  9. What is the Good Life Better Than the Left -- for Women?
    How to be good/kind/thoughtful without becoming Lady Bountiful

  10. What Does the Modern Sacrificial Hero Look Like?
    Maybe like John Buchan's hero in Sick Heart River

  11. What I Believe

  12. The Mostly Peaceful Hellscape

  13. Taleb on the Sacrificial Hero. But Whatabout Women?

  14. Good Luck, Joe. You'll Need It

  15. But Tear Gas and But Hate

Gray Mirror -- Table of Contents

An Analysis of Curtis Yarvin's Gray Mirror.

1. Ch1: Curtis Yarvin's Gray Mirror Project
It could produce a "third story" to upend the Gentry

Either way, you prop up the regime

You just increase the power of the ruling class

You just make the regime look stronger

How to have a revolution without a butcher's bill

And the System is run by the Cathedral





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

Great Rebellion -- Contents

The Great Rebellion of the Commoners
  1. When the Narrative Stops

  2. The Problem is Not Just Political Correctness

  3. We Are Not In Kansas Any More

  4. What Else Could the FBI Do?

  5. The Fault is Not In Our Elites, But in the World They Made

  6. Our Ruling Class's Unjust Sense of Entitlement

  7. Suppose "Politics is Division" is a Good Thing

  8. Politics Can't Change Anything, Unless...

  9. Thoughts on the Lefty "Successor Ideology"

  10. Why the Age of Revolution is Over

  11. Angelo Codevilla's "Revolution 2020"

  12. Is the Trump Phenomenon a New "Awakening?"

  13. The End of the Commoner Rebellion

  14. Cheating is a Sign You Are Losing

  15. A Week Later, Where Are We?

  16. Commoners and National Politics Since 1960

  17. Showing the Ruling Class the Door

  18. America's One and Only Problem: Our Ruling Class

  19. The "Great Rebellion" of the Ordinary Commoners

  20. Great Rebellion: Dems Have Actually Reversed Conservative Reforms

  21. Great Rebellion: It's All Wind... Or Is It?

  22. Dems in Cloud Cuckoo Land

  23. Implementing a National Liberation from Lefty Colonialism

  24. A Strategic Appreciation of Where We Are

  25. The Worse the Better

  26. The End of Over/Under Politics

  27. Ferguson's "Great Degeneration" and How Things Are Getting Worse

  28. Political Chemistry: Organic and Inorganic

  29. The Next Organic Movement on the Right

  30. The Next Three Years...

  31. Facing Down the Religion of Leftism

  32. Great Rebellion Reaches Canada

Culture of Innocence -- Contents

Small Minorities and the Culture of Innocence
  1. Crossing a Line

  2. Changing the Societal Security Code

  3. Can You Blame Women for Pushing Back Against Hookups?

  4. A Short History of Safe Spaces

  5. Marxists in the Garden of Eden

  6. Bathrooms and Gramsci and Thermidor

  7. A Test of My Culture of Complaint Theory

  8. Yes, Secularists Do Too Have Religion

  9. Understanding Tlaib: The Culture of Innocence
    It's needed for a truly oppressed minority. But the Muslims in Detroit?

  10. Innocence and the Three Peoples
    Only the Subordinates are real innocents

  11. Conspiracy Theory and Cancel Culture
    The things you are not allowed to say

  12. Dying of Despair: What Should We Do About Cultural Decline?
    It helps to have a culture of innocence to stop it

  13. Obamagate: Putting the Racist Bugbear to Rest
    When all criticism is racist, you get to think that the rules don't apply to you

  14. The Emperor's New Clothes and Race

  15. Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the "Other"

  16. Why Does the Left Insist that Race is a Social Construction?

  17. Race, Identity and Innocence
    Blacks and Liberals are small minorities, so

  18. The Intersection of Innocence, Victims, Chastity, and Complaint

  19. We Can't Go Away and Hide in our Little Platoons

Honor -- Table of Contents

Honor in Men and Women

  1. Hypocrisy Week

  2. The Three Principles of Government

  3. The Real Meaning of Honor

  4. The Age of Anti-Heroes and Anti-Modesty

  5. Back to Basics

  6. What About That Mean?

  7. Bergdahl: Obamis Just Don't Understand Honor

  8. Then and Now: "And Mary Pondered These Things in her Heart"

  9. Chelsea Clinton Proves My Two Cultures Theory

  10. Are Women The Big Problem?

  11. The Wages of Women in Leadership

  12. The Pure Theory of Tribalism

  13. A Public Square with a "More Feminine Sensibility"

  14. Melinda Gates Validates My Theory of the Sexes

  15. Which Is Worse: Trump's Insults or The Racist Canard?

  16. Looking at the Good Side of My Culture-of-Insult/Culture-of-Complaint Notion

  17. What is the Good Life Better than the Left -- for Women?

  18. Hamnet and "A More Feminine Sensibility"

  19. Taleb on the Sacrificial Hero. But Whatabout Women?

  20. Nancy Pelosi's Darkest Hour

  21. The Intersection of Politics and Religion