Scott, good progressive that he is, is horrified by the fact that reactionaries use the word “sluts†and feels that reactionaries are being illogical and inconsistent to endorse different standards for different genders. Which argument, like all his arguments, presupposes that men and women are exactly alike and everyone knows this and believes it.  So it is completely unnecessary for him to bother producing any argument for the proposition that …
Category: culture
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 4, Ever leftwards movement
In his anti reactionary FAQ Scott argues that ever leftwards movement is not a bunch of conspiracies run by Harvard and the State Department, but rather a natural response to prosperity and power. We are richer and safer, so can afford a little decadence, perhaps a lot of decadence. This fails to explain the ever more drastic measures applied by the state to move us left, for example population replacement, …
Apostolic Succession
According to some branches of Christianity, notably Roman Catholicism, Jesus ordained his disciples to perform certain sacraments, and they in turn ordained others to perform these sacraments, and only the legitimate successors of the apostles can validly perform these sacraments. Â So supposedly most sacraments are invalid unless performed by a priest, by someone who has been authorized by someone who has been authorized … all the way back to …
The anti-anti reactionary FAQ Part 2, Crime.
A major reactionary argument is that since the early eighteenth century, since the reign of throne and altar, war, state political repression, state violence against respectable citizens, underclass crime, and minority crime have all risen enormously, that the overclass and underclass are attacking the productive, and the attack has been escalating. Scott’s anti reactionary FAQ points out that murder is pretty much the same as ever it was. Quite so. …
In favor of official religion
Official science is, as all reactionaries know, and all progressives deny, a disaster. All progressives also know that official religion is a disaster, despite the fact that progressivism is the official religion. This should make you suspect that official religion is a good thing – unless, of course, it is progressivism. If a meme complex is selected for virulence, if for example if it is transmitted by street corner preaching, …
Stupid U and faking the GPA
Lately universities, especially high status public universities, have been introducing courses in stupid, to accommodate the increasing number of students that have difficulty doing traditional university courses. The students who attend courses in stupid are overwhelmingly female and disproportionately lower class. At the same time, degrees in smart, for example Computer Science, get women and blacks affirmatively actioned into them, and when those students struggle, get quietly and furtively dumbed …
The loyalty oath
Reactionaries are wondering how to gain power – gain power against the existing Cathedral, with its no limit credit card, horde of purchased voters, and an increasingly unhappy but loyal army. I don’t see that as a problem. I see chaos coming. Power will fall into the street, hot, radioactive, dangerous, and desired, to be picked up first by one group, then another, each new pair of hands slippery with …
On Judaism
I have been arguing in the comments with B about Judaism, and in the course of this argument, my position shifted considerably. Judaism was a theocratic national religion, state religion, and ethnic religion, a nation state religion. Just what the doctor ordered, just the kind of thing reactionaries like, just the kind of thing that makes a people strong. Upon the Jews being exiled, the Sadducees lost their power base …
Words and meanings
When the ostensive meaning, the nominal meaning, and the nominal ostensive meaning of a word differ, the word is itself a lie, a lie contained in a single word that makes any sentence containing it a lie. A word primarily means what it is used to refer to, its ostensive meaning. During childhood language acquisition, it means what mothers refer to when speaking to their children. The mother says “look, …
The total absence of a manosphere schism
Lately a bunch of people have been complaining about a schism in the manosphere. Roosh dissed everyone except pick up artists, which upset lots of people. But Roosh’s complaint was that men without lots of experience with lots of women are poor sources of advice about women, which is trivially true. Dalrock is good as a source of truth about women, but Heartiste is better, even if you approve of …