Amerika

• Multiculturalism is doomed. People want self-determination. (Ramzpaul)

• The Alt Right Goes To War With Milo Yiannopoulos (Outside In)

• The Race-Mixing Imperative (Guillaume Faye, RightOn)

• Google Pushing Their Politically Correct Agenda (Alex Fontana, Alternative Right)

• VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (Slashdot)

• How Jill Stein Became A Symbol For Neo-Nazis (Colin Liddell, Alternative Right)

• What Do Jennifer Rubin and Brett Stephens Have Against “Nativism”?–Oh, Wait… (John Derbyshire, Unz Review)

• Classical liberalism is lunacy (Reactionary Future)

• H. L. Mencken Loved to Cover Political Conventions but Had Little Faith in Voters (Danny Heitman, Humanities)

• Europeans not convinced growing diversity is a good thing (Pew Research)

• Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings)

• Charlotte Riots & the Corrosive Effects of Toxic Progressivism (DiploMad)

• Software As Right-Wing Extremism (Outside In)

  • See also: Accenture Patents a Blockchain-Editing Tool (Slashdot)

The self-hating West described, from an unusual source:

We repeatedly tell stories about a white protagonist who goes on a journey of self-discovery by mingling with exotic brown foreigners and becoming better at said foreigners’ culture than they themselves are. We eat it up in the form of faux-historical epics, splashy science-fiction special effects extravaganzas, and earnest nonfiction projects about writers paid by their publishers to take exotic vacations.

The frustrating thing about being annoyed by the Mighty Whitey trope—and there are a ton of people upset— is that it’s so frequently employed by the well-meaning “good guys.” The whole point of “going native” is that the familiar Western civilization is portrayed as inauthentic, ugly, broken, flawed. The “exotic” foreign civilization is somehow more natural, more primal, more sensual, the way people really ought to live.

…It’s hard to avoid the feeling that this repeated fantasy—of a white person shedding their whiteness, abandoning their home culture, joining the oppressed, and finally taking up arms against all the other, still-racist white people and killing them all—stems from a desire to be absolved of guilt. White guilt, that dreaded emotion that’s been inflicted on countless white Americans through social studies classes, Black History month TV specials, and lectures from left-wing non-white bloggers like myself at this very moment.

• Towards A “Grand Hierarchy Of The Alt-Right” (Colin Liddell, Alternative Right)

• Brexit-In-Name-Only (Bruce Charlton)

• The Collapse of Psychology (Outside In)

  • See also: Poor Scientific Research Is Disproportionately Rewarded (The Economist)

• Dismantling Cuba’s Socialist Success Myth (Vanessa Vallejo, PanAmPost)

• Scalia On A “Runaway Convention” (Malcolm Pollack)

• All anti-Leftists (including Christians) want theocracy – but what kind of theocracy? (Bruce Charlton)

• Do White Lives Matter? (Ramzpaul)

• Blacks and Whites with the Same IQ Still Differ a Lot (The Alternative Hypothesis)

• A First Comment On Perceiving Music (D.A.R.G., Praefuscus Ferrum)

• Flight 1771 (Laura Wood, The Thinking Housewife)

• Rise of Right-Wing Politics Changes Europe (Simon Shuster, Time)

• The Next Left: Demand The Impossible! (Paul Austin Murphy, American Thinker)

• Unrighteous Indignation (James Lawrence, Alternative Right)

Why should humanity get its act together, with a revitalized West leading it? Among other things, because we are making a potentially fatal gamble about alien life:

“If intelligent life has evolved (on Gliese 832c), we should be able to hear it,” he says while hovering over the exoplanet in the animated “U.S.S. Hawking.” “One day we might receive a signal from a planet like this, but we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn’t turn out so well.”

The grim fact is that in all of life, the race is on, and the end result is more like zero-sum than not. Any alien species worth its salt will be patrolling the stars to find potential threats — and eliminate them. This means humanity has only a finite amount of time to get its act together before wandering aliens eliminate us, probably by introducing a pathogen that our science cannot thwart.

• Mandela’s Empire (Albert Brenner, Praag)

• Aronofsky’s Twin Tragedies (Andy Nowicki, Alternative Right)

• Yes, the Fed Really is Monetizing Government Debt (Jeff Deist, Mises Institute)

• Hungary’s ‘zero refugee’ strategy (Lili Bayer, Politico)

• What America Lost as Women Entered the Workforce (Emma Green, The Atlantic)

• American Pravda: The KKK and Mass Racial Killings (Ron Unz, The Unz Review)

• The Most Diverse Cities Are Often The Most Segregated (Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight)

• 63% of white Republicans say Obama has made race relations worse. (Pew Research)

• Forward: The Diverse Are Using BDS to Job Discriminate Against Jewish SJWs (Steve Sailer, The Unz Review)

• A Manifesto Against Blogging (EsotericTrad)

• Voters showing no signs of ‘buyer’s remorse’ over Brexit, top pollster says (The Telegraph)

• “Black Lives Matter” Are 100% White (Kevin Scott, Alternative Right)

• The collapse of academia (Outside In)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq9Gu5N42HQ

The consequence of solipsism: people believe they are action heroes in their own movies, equating trivial acts of self-interest with noble contributions to humanity:

“Our goal now is to ensure that this never happens to another innocent citizen,” Tiffany Crutcher said. “We’re going to break the chains of injustice. We’re going to break the chains of police brutality.”

In that solipsistic world, objecting to the police shooting your brother after he attempted to cuck them is “breaking the chains of injustice.” They might as well call it “ascending to the state of angels” or “being a black American Gandhi.” It is all virtue signaling, concealing self-interest, which will come in a $5-$10 million dollar payout.

• Learning from the mistakes of others (Atavisionary)

• James Burnham & the Managerial Revolution (Dissident Right)

• Compromise Means Accepting What You Don’t Want (Date Jesus)

• Roughly 1-in-30,000,000 police stops of blacks result in unjustified killings (Audacious Epigone)

• Place names – English or Scottish (The Old Inheritance)

• The Red Pill Versus Blue Pill Election (Chateau Heartiste)

• Political Fenriz (Death Metal Underground)

• The God of War (Andrew Stuttaford, Secular Right)

• Linkage: 20 September, 2016 #TheTriggering (Cynical Libertarian Society)

• Ethnic Differences in Sleep, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndromes (Not Politically Correct)

• Buried Forever (Date Jesus)

• Sunlight (Change of Seas)

• 3 Reasons Why You Should Never Let Your Child Watch Sesame Street (Michael Sebastian, Return of Kings)

• Trump Busts Muslim Protection Racket (Ann Coulter)

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