Category Archives: Reaction

Bring It On Home

May 3, 2014 – 2:39 pm

Kevin Spacey: new face of the Dark Enlightenment. Here. (h/t: Nick Land.)

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The Penny Drops

April 30, 2014 – 9:41 pm

It appears as if reality may slowly be impinging upon the consciousness of David Brooks. In today’s column, he laments that the abstract world order he had hoped for seems to be slipping away, yielding to older and more organic forces. We read: “The ”˜category error’ of our experts is to tell us that our […]

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On Reaction

February 19, 2014 – 12:49 am

Julius Evola, from the opening pages of Men Among The Ruins: Recently, various forces have attempted to set up a defense and a resistance in the sociopolitical domain against the extreme forms in which the disorder of our age manifests itself. It is necessary to realize that this is a useless effort, even for the […]

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The Dark Enlightenment Exposed

February 13, 2014 – 10:11 pm

In which blogger Mark Shea is shamelessly pwned by a spectacularly imaginative troll. Here.

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How Can This Be?

February 10, 2014 – 1:28 am

The CBS program 60 Minutes reported tonight, to everyone’s astonishment and dismay, on a recent, and heretofore completely unsuspected, scientific discovery. The context was specific — differences in the effect of the sleeping pill Ambien on men and women — but it appears, shockingly, that the scope of the problem might be far more general, […]

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Be Very Afraid

January 15, 2014 – 6:52 pm

The psychotic, pestiferous torrent of cultural-Marxist sludge excerpted below is, apparently, what a college education in the humanities produces nowadays. This is the moment when you make of your fist the same clench in your teeth, make of your tongue all the textbooks your school was not funded enough to provide you with, make of […]

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Implosion

January 11, 2014 – 2:11 pm

Today we have an interesting piece by Nick Land on John Smart’s novel approach to the Fermi Paradox (see here for more about the Fermi Paradox, if you aren’t familiar with the term): that advanced civilizations, rather than expanding into space, relentlessly turn inward. We read: John M. Smart’s solution to the Fermi Paradox is […]

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Homo Rationalis

December 17, 2013 – 11:34 pm

James Taranto had a very good piece in his daily Best of the Web edition yesterday, but before I could write it up, my pal Mangan beat me to it. So go and find it at his place.

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The Prestige

December 4, 2013 – 12:36 am

“He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted and capable of maintaining itself to the satisfaction of everybody, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, […]

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Ready For Prime Time?

November 24, 2013 – 6:33 pm

There’s a bosky little corner of the blogosphere that is home to an intellectual movement to which I am ideologically sympathetic, and with which I am loosely associated. It is known variously as the Dissident Right, the Dark Enlightenment, or Neoreaction. This seditious cabal been around for years, but only lately has begun to attract […]

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Dark Matter

August 15, 2013 – 9:51 am

If you wish to follow what’s being called the “Dark Enlightenment” — a reactionary center-of-gravity whose core ideas include skepticism of radical egalitarianism and of democracy itself — you should have this blog, and this one, on your reading list.

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