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Nick Land's latest piece at Jacobite Magazine:
"Modernity has a fertility problem. When elevated to the zenith of savage irony, the formulation runs: At the demographic level, modernity selects systematically against modern populations. The people it prefers, it consumes. Without gross exaggeration, this endogenous tendency can be seen as an existential risk to the modern world. It threatens to bring the entire global order crashing down around it."
Monarchist scholar Charles A. Coulombe writes for Jacobite Magazine, giving an in-depth look at the peculiar phenomenon of Jacobitism against the backdrop of the equally strange phenomenon of modernity.
New from Jacobite Magazine: Nick Land makes the case that we cannot exit modernity even with elective communities, because electivity is the very stuff of modernity.
"American history – at the global frontier of atomization – is thickly speckled with elective communities. From the Puritan religious communities of the early colonial period, through to the ‘hippy’ communes of the previous century, and beyond, experiments in communal living under the auspices of radicalized priv...ate conscience have sought to ameliorate atomization in the way most consistent with its historical destiny. Such experiments reliably fail, which helps to crank the process forward, but that is not the main thing. What matters most about all of these co-ops, communes, and cults is the semi-formal contractual option that frames them. From the moment of their initiation – or even their conception – they confirm a sovereign atomization, and its reconstruction of the social world on the model of a menu. Dreher’s much-discussed ‘Benedict Option’ is no exception to this. There is no withdrawal from the course of modernity, ‘back’ into community, that does not reinforce the pattern of dissent, schism, and exit from which atomization continually replenishes its momentum. As private conscience directs itself towards escape from the privatization of conscience, it regenerates that which it flees, ever more deeply within itself. Individuation, considered impersonally, likes it when you run."
http://jacobitemag.com/2017/06/06/atomization/
From Jacobite Magazine:
"Trump exposes one mode in which democracies can only roll over in the era of mass extinction events and resource wars unfolding between self-designated survivor castes and disposables. That Trump’s base is being lined up for retirement and transitional FEMA camps as the coal jobs do not return is no different than what his business partners and sucker clients encountered—Trump’s predatory algorithms seem to wend toward his clients as much as his endle...ssly generated enemies and their pre-emptive immunization. He punishes them for being suckered (who has tasted Trump steaks?). It is not for nothing that all the background patter of getting off the planet and colonizing a hell-planet like Mars is accelerating, even gleeful, goosed by Stephen Hawkings’ latest advice to do it in a century or don’t bother, since by then you’re toast. No, “America,” you’re missing the point. This corporate coup and shift to dictatorship is Trump’s channeling of what is beyond tribal rages and resentment, legit or endemic. The secret sauce here is that Trump—the blanket denier and banisher of all things climate change, deleting websites, defunding agencies, forbidding mention—essentially is channeling a more nameless and bottomless atavism: climate panic."
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Nick Land gives a primer and retrospective on the phenomenon of accelerationism.
"The suspicion has to arrive that if a public conversation about acceleration is beginning, it’s just in time to be too late. The profound institutional crisis that makes the topic ‘hot’ has at its core an implosion of social decision-making capability. Doing anything, at this point, would take too long. So instead, events increasingly just happen. They seem ever more out of control, even to a traumatic extent. Because the basic phenomenon appears to be a brake failure, accelerationism is picked up again."
With the Obama presidency coming to an end, much of the energy that might have been devoted to analyzing his legacy has been diverted by Donald Trump. But how can one make a fair analysis of a polarizing figure in American politics? Speaking for myself, as someone of the left with libertarian tendencies, it's difficult to have much sympathy to the man, however a lot of criticism coming from the GOP is sadly too partisan and unthoughtful. [ 741 more words. ]
A new contributor on a particularly silly slur against the Catholic Church: "If the accusations are true – that the Pope can effect change in the sexual habits of sub-Saharan Africans – why are the countries with the highest infection rates not majority Catholic?"
"It’s hard to think of a situation where holding left-wing beliefs, no matter how left-wing they are, would get someone removed from an an organization that is not itself expressly right-wing.
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The pseudo-dissent that leftists engage in is merely a demand to extend official ideology and praxis. If we’re sitting somewhere around 6 on the Official Ideology Scale, the supposed dissent of the left is just a petition to crank it up to 11."
"In an attempt to call Trump even more racist than everyone else is calling him, Little Bird is painting people with an absurdly gigantic brush. You’re you follow one white nationalist account, you’re a white supremacist by the company’s standards. If you follow three people who have used the #WhiteGenocide hashtag, you’re a white supremacist."
"Other aspects of the Grey Vox would be self-awareness, interactivity and rationalism. Grey Vox would acknowledge their biases, and try to correct them. Grey Vox would cultivate quality comments and be open to revising articles if the comments show a factual error or misleading narrative. Grey Vox would identify not with the positions it took, but by the process used to reach them."
"The conservative advocacy business is rooted in the realm of ideas. It eschews the idea of a national interest, of a patriotic, America-first approach to affairs. Instead, it champions the ideological capitalist man with cosmopolitan values."
"Is there anything less attractive, or arguably less conservative, than appeals to a discrete "conservative philosophy"?"
"The problem for Libertarian Republicans is that in that leaving the GOP would maybe not be a wise choice."
