The left experienced as a Great Reaction, a lurch back from the modern to the primitive
0. Great Reaction in Brief
- Neo-Feudalism is not an Accident
- Cudgeling My Brain on Freeloading
- The Paradox that Progressives are the Real Reactionaries
Socialism liberated the masses into the most oppressive regimes in history
- Communism Week: The Real Revolution of the Modern Age
Two revolutions, in physics and the economy
- All Politics is Reactionary
But we got the most amazing Great Enrichment in history
- The Counterrevolutions of the Modern Age
Communism-socialism and environmentalism for a start
- The Two Heads of the Forces of Lefty Reaction
"Activism" and neo-feudalism, for a start
- 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
- The Great Reaction Also Includes Neo-Sacrifice
Where I coin the notion of the "Great Reaction"
- Great Reaction: Plus Neo-Guilt
we are talking about guilt for white privilege and the patriarchy
- Great Reaction: The Left's Neo-Tyranny
The tyranny of political force is needed to create the left's better world
- The Grand Narrative of the Postmodernists
And a grand narrative to oppose their grand narrative
- But First, Humans are Tribal
The capitalist/libertarian world view is not enough, because humans are tribal
- Whither the Culture War Now?
We need warriors saying the world is more than masters and slaves, or activists and victims.
- The Fault, dear Liberals, is in Your Religion
We don't need no stinkin' religion of "activism"
- The Power of Nostaglia
People get all nostalgic when the old order is already breaking up
- Great Reaction: The Story So Far
A recitation of all the Neo-isms
- The Two Paths: for Rich Kids After the Death of God
- Great Reaction: Slavery and Scapegoating
The left takes us back to the slavery of the agricultural age and the scapegoating of the tribe.
- Rich Kid Protesters are Not the Cry of the Oppressed
- What Will it Take to End the Progressive "Great Reaction?"
When educated-class white women realize they have been had.
- Egalitarianism is Neo-Meat-Sharing
Modern wealth is shared every day, so no need for taboos against hoarding.
- Why Do Millenials Like AOC Believe in Big Government?
- Now the Psychologists Come Out Against Traditional Masculinity
Creatives have no tolerance for Responsibles
- The Left's Religion of Political Power
It's the old way of protecting yourself, before the Industrial Revolution.
- We Must Bring the Past Back to Life
Because our lefty friends have murdered it
- Where Do We Go From Here?
Our elites have lost the Mandate of Heaven, so can we avoid a Time of Troubles?
- Great Reaction: Activism is Neo-Knight-Errantry
What else do you call riding around in search of helpless victims to save?
- Great Reaction: Reparations is Neo-Vengeance
Turning back the clock from law to the lex-talionis
- It is Too Soon for a "Dissident Right"
First we need to get the left on the back foot and gasping for air.
- Poor China: It is Stuck Playing Yesterday's Game
It needs to trade the warrior's sword for the sportman's trophy
- Government and Politics: Force and Division
Force is needed to battle an existential peril, not day-to-day healthcare
- Our Ruling Class's Unjust Sense of Entitlement
- Understanding Tlaib: The Culture of Innocence
It's needed for a truly oppressed minority. But the Muslims in Detroit?
- Accepting the Fact of Exile in America's Jacobin Terror
We have to "develop an independent set of religious and social beliefs"
- Gut Check Time for the Educated Ruling Class
Whatever the future, the educated ruling class ain't gonna like it
- Comte's Three Stages vs. My Three Peoples
Mine is better
- We Need Better Beliefs, Says ZMan
But first we need to make politics less lethal
- Think of Activists as "Activistes"
Because like an "artiste" an activist is a public performer
- Two Centuries of the Great Reaction
It's not surprising that in the autumn of political power some still worship it
- Is the Left to Blame for All the Hate?
If you believe in politics, like the left, you believe in "hate"
- Could Chile's Collapse Happen Here?
It could, except we Commoners have Donald Trump in our lane
- Stop Moralizing About Race, Slavery, Empire
Because we dumped slavery etc, because they do not pay
- Our Elite's Crimes Against Humanity
Its solutions for workers, blacks, women and LGBTs were the wrong solutions
- Three Peoples: What Happens When It All Goes Wrong?
Depends on whether you are subordinate, responsible, or creative
- Suppose We Are Approaching the End of the Age of Politics
and a future that nobody has a clue about
- Don't Panic! I Say Bring Bernie On!
Let's face the socialist menace head on
- Splaining the Democrats for Deplorables Like You and Me
Free-stuff in the front, Coalition of the Fringes to the back of the bus
- Great Reaction: The Left's Neo-Knight Errantry
Activism as a "romance" just like the medieval romances
- Understanding the Left's Secular Religion
Lefties believe in combining science with political force
- Great Reaction: Vengeance in the 1400s
How the feudal vengeance culture is very like our lefty activist culture
- Getting Beyond Binary Thinking
Gentry won't go there until their project has utterly failed
- On China: "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Asians"
Because we don't want the CCP to choose war
- The Sacrificial Hero Ancient and Modern
How do we "save" the Gentry hero from egoism?
- The Domestication of Man
Experts are domesticated prophets. And other domestications
- Deep Sixing the Socialist Idiots
There has to be a plan
- Riots and Mayhem: Be of Good Cheer
It's a liberal "failure of prophecy, and Nietzsche, Brinton, and Ken Wilber have written
- The Only Thing That Politics Knows is Loot and Plunder
But that's the old way, before the city and capitalism
- Dennis Prager Itemizes My Great Reaction
Victimhood, Demonization, Cause to Believe In, Lies
- Saying the Unsayable on Race and Slavery and Police
Did you know that a policeless society is also a patriarchal society?
- Jews, Antisemitism, and the "Other"
The importance of the "culture of innocence" in left-wing politics
- Remember, "Activists" Aren't Revolutionaries
But regime thugs doing what they have been carefully taught
- The Conflict of Interest of the Educated Gentry
When you force your creative project on the rest of mankind
- Great Reaction -- Script
- Message to Lefties: The Age of Politics is Over
- Hey Liberals and Lefties: The Age of Politics is Over
- "We Get to Play-act on Your Dime"
- My "1584 Project"
- Lefty Ally-ism, and What Real Allies Look Like
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Slavery
- The End of the Commoner Rebellion
- Maybe I Have Been Too Tough on the Lefty "Great Reaction"
- Good Luck, Joe. You'll Need It
- But Tear Gas and But Hate
- The Evil Spirits Will Always Be With Us