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Setting the Record Straight a Battleaxe to Bullshit SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT A BATTLEAXE TO BULLSHIT Aidan Maclear About There aren’t many reactionaries out there, but it seems like almost every one has his own blog. Rather than add to the growing library of scholarly analysis under the banner of neoreaction, I’m aiming to shoot a different angle. I’m young, I’m busy, and I gave up on an academic career years ago. Imagine us in a shady basement dive, a few drinks in, casually talking shit about politics and life. A lot of my posts will be quick commentary on more meticulous blogs. This is not a “gentle introduction” to reaction. There are plenty of people who can convert a young impressionable intellectual to the dark side. I have nothing but respect for their necessary and useful task. The point of this project is to totally deprogram leftist thinking out of the right-wing brain. I could have easily called this blog ‘The Medieval Mindset’. Don’t read this unless you’ve already taken a good healthy course of red pills. It’ll burn on the way down, but sobriety is a scary drug to be on when you’ve been a drunk for years. If I’m vulgar or crude, it’s because you can’t treat the Kali Yuga like an honorable opponent. You go for the guts. And you need a loud alarm clock to wake someone from an opium dream. One more thing. Read the comments. If I’m ranting about my right-wing extremist items in a pub and a professor happens to walk by and take issue with something I said, or asks for clarification, I’m going to respond to him in a professorial tone. Often with useful elaborations or insights on the original post. 1 Contents Stationary Bandits 2 Patriarchy Masterpost 46 Leftist Hypocrisy and Power 3 Where Hence, Art? 51 Correcting Thots 4 Nationalism 54 The Center 5 Monogamy is not Socialism 56 A Few Minor Reforms 6 Game Advice 56 Mother Government and Father Government 8 Abortion Rhetoric for Normies 58 Love is Bullshit, Arranged Marriage is Good 9 Rape and Sexual Relations 61 Primogeniture 10 Test of Your Game: Human Zoology Edition 64 Disowning the Greeks 11 Book Review: C.A. Bond's Nemesis 69 The Spiritual Physiognomy of African Man 14 Rectification of Names: "Gays" 75 The Centralization Trap 17 Meet Your Future Wife With This One Easy Trick 77 Socialism and Capitalism 20 Mental Illness 82 Sexual Status, for Autistic Libertarians 21 Test of Your Game: Answer Key 83 Bullying Works 22 The Best Reason to Suppress the Gay 86 First Snow 24 Chronicle of King Donald I 87 A Counterpoint to PA 25 Proles, Carpetbaggers, and Reaction 91 Epitaph for an Intrepid Cuck 26 Why I Post Less 92 Why We Have no Wars 27 The Absolute State of Healthcare 94 Crime 28 No Cops 98 Without Comment 30 Final Notes on the WQ 100 We Are Not Rome… 33 John Smith, Autists, BAP and Vae Victis 102 Two Feminisms 34 Blaq Violence and Aidan's Guide to da Streetz 104 Culture Meet Axe: Harry Potter 37 Ideas Never Rule 107 Culture Meet Axe: Game of Thrones 40 Fall of the Empire 109 Sexual Manorialism…? 43 The Last Election 112 Whores and Actors 44 We Lost. Now What? 113 PUA is Unnatural 45 2 Stationary Bandits September 16th, 2018 Jim Donald characterizes monarchy (and government in general) as ‘stationary banditry’. Stationary bandits are preferable to mobile bandits because they behave predictably and have low enough time preference to not kill the goose that lays the golden egg. It’s in the stationary bandit’s best interest for the society he controls to be rich and powerful so that he may profit in turn. It’s clearly a more realistic way of thinking than gnosticism, idealism, immanentizing the eschaton, what have you. In a sense, it’s early Moldbug monarchism, one step removed from libertarianism in recognizing that there is always a state, and one more step is taken to deduce which kind of state is best for a fallen, sinful humanity. Like I said, not totally wrong, and you can do much worse in terms of political philosophy. But I dispute the claim that the King is a mere stationary bandit, because historical feudal kings do not act the way we’d expect stationary bandits to act. Take the enclosure movement in England. Early 1500’s, England’s main export was wool. By far the most profitable thing you could do with your land was to kick the peasants off their farms and use it as a sheep pasture. In which case you only need one shepherd per flock of sheep, and a lot of farmers lose their livelihoods. At the time, a number of defunct or impoverished noble titles were being purchased by wealthy commoners who had made their money in trade or banking, both relatively new as extremely profitable enterprises. These ‘new money’ nobles wanted to kick the peasants off the land, raise sheep, and sell wool. They couldn’t take the land of smallholding yeomen, but they did have a legal right to do so on the ‘commons’, the lord’s land that peasants would share in the farming of. Almost as soon as the practice of ‘enclosing the commons’ began, King Henry VIII and the House of Lords told the new money that they couldn’t kick the peasants off of the land, the new money obeyed, and enclosures didn’t become a problem for 30 years. In other words, the merchant class, on obtaining noble estates, began behaving exactly the way that you would expect stationary bandits to act, maximizing profit at the expense of their subjects, and the long-established nobility sided with tradition and the ancient rhythms of feudal life and put a stop to the practice. 30 years on, when Henry dies, his short-lived son’s foolish regent gives the new nobles a go-ahead on enclosures. Instantly, unemployment and inflation that, while perfectly routine in a modern depression, made the English of the time believe that the Apocalypse had literally come upon them. England, previously, had practically full employment and the ‘valiant beggar’ was nearly unheard of. Now, there are hordes of able- bodied young men who don’t have jobs roaming England and committing crimes. Another example, same King. Henry VIII became concerned that the men of England were wasting their time with effeminate games like bowling, and not training in the longbow skills that made England a military force to be reckoned with. So he decreed that every town should set up an archery range at its own expense, set price controls on longbows so that every man could afford one, and told his people to git gud. Stationary bandits do not arm their populace. Feudal Japan and Imperial China acted like stationary bandits, and they disarmed their subjects. USG acts like a stationary bandit, and it is attempting to disarm its subjects. Imperial Russia acted more like a stationary bandit, and it disarmed its subjects, and displayed hostility to subjects like the Cossacks who refused to disarm. Henry’s England went to personal expense in order to train and arm its commoners. The Mafia didn’t give out tommy guns to storeowners who were under its ‘protection’. But it did give out tommy guns. To who? Its lower ranking members. Well, duh. But hang on a second. 3 Stationary bandit theory works… if we take feudal society writ large as one bandit clan, commoners and all. So now there’s no dichotomy between the bandits and their victims. We just have differing ranks of status inside a gigantic mafia. Like any military organization, there are senior officers and there are grunts, but the reciprocal familial loyalty goes both ways. Not anymore, but it did. Everyone outside the clan and within the nation was either assimilated or destroyed in the warfare that birthed the feudal aristocracy. Now hold up. That’s actually a pretty big discovery. Makes things a lot clearer too, which is what this blog is all about. I don’t know about everyone, but this seems like the best possible government to me. You get the benefits of hierarchy and monarchy, and the communal reciprocal loyalty that romantic nationalism is all about. We even avoid the demotism that taints fascism. And we’re better off than the Greco-Roman and Chinese empires because we maintain the Freehold and a healthy level of individual agency that gets around the centralization brick wall that France ran headlong into. (more on that later). It’s not a thousand-year-empire level of stable perhaps, but what government is? This arrangement certainly lasted a millenium. We also have the Church, which necessarily dirties its hands a bit by working with bandits, but performs the necessary Altar job of keeping our bandit clan moral and sacralizing the obligations and duties that contribute to its internal stability. This is necessarily the weakest link because people can always try to out-holy the church. Which is why the Throne burns people for heresy and the Freehold lynches people who start treating them like they aren’t part of the stationary bandit clan. Talk about checks and balances! America aint got nothin’ on this. So now we see two straightforward but difficult paths for a reactionary to tread. We can internally take over our current stationary bandit clan, restore membership to the people who deserve it, and kill or exile the ones who don’t.
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