I normally consider myself to be rather mild-mannered. I hadn’t been angry in ages, but today, I could feel the ire rise in my gorge like volcanic heartburn after too many bad chimichangas at a Chinese-Mexican restaurant. (more…)
Tag: bureaucracy
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Frank Herbert’s six Dune novels fall into three pairs. Dune (1965) and Dune Messiah (1969) chart the rise and fall of Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides, a man who becomes a superman and the God Emperor of the known universe. Children of Dune (1976) and God Emperor of Dune (1981) narrate the rise and fall of Paul’s son, Leto II, a superman who transforms himself into a monster and rules for 3,500 years. Heretics of Dune (1984)[1] and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)[2] are set 1,500 years after God Emperor and focus on the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood’s struggle with their evil twin, a sisterhood that calls itself the Honored Matres. (more…)
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August 18, 2022 Mark Gullick
Laughter in the Dark: The Legacy of Monday Books
There’s been a profound and disproportionate shift in power away from adult forms of authority to ’empowerment’, the sector buzzword for allowing youngsters to live pretty much as they wish irrespective of the objective damage they are doing to themselves. — “Winston Smith,” Generation F (more…)
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The United Kingdom has two world-famous institutions traditionally close to its heart, like a pair of old and beloved relatives. The first is the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), often referred to as “Auntie.” The second is the National Health Service (NHS), often referred to as “on the brink,” “under increasing pressure,” and “close to collapse.” (more…)
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Young men even in the best of times often have trouble identifying what paths they should pursue in life. It is common to know that you want to achieve something, but not know what that thing exactly is, or how to go about it. As of now, the Global Virus has caused mass economic devastation that makes finding a job, (more…)
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James Burnham died on July 28th, 1987—thirty-one years ago today, and just before the arrival of the current age. Born in a Catholic 1905, he quickly delved into Marxism in his college days. But Kapital couldn’t keep him, and he quit the party in 1940, and the next year wrote his first post-Marxist, and criminally underappreciated book, The Managerial Revolution. (more…)
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Part 4 of 4
Translated with notes by Simona Draghici
IV. Leadership and Ethnic Identity as Basic Concepts of National Socialist Law
1. National Socialism does not think abstractly and stereotypically. It is an enemy of every normativist and functionalist concoction. (more…)
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July 21, 2017 Carl Schmitt
State, Movement, People, Part 3
Part 3 of 4
Translated with notes by Simona Draghici
III. The Binary State Construction of Liberal Democracy and the German State of the Civil Service
1. The new triadic state structure of the twentieth century has long superseded the binary statal constitutional schema of the liberal democracy of the nineteenth century. (more…)
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Translated by Simona Draghici
The Reverend Oratorian Father Laberthonnière, who died in 1932, left behind the voluminous work of a lifetime, which is being edited by his friend Louis Canet. Between 1933 and 1948, six impressive volumes were published. Quite recently, another book of his was added to them, and which is of particular interest to us, namely, a Critique of the Notion of the Sovereignty of the Law.[1] (more…)
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There are two sides to the gigantic racial spoils system that has been erected since WWII.
One side consists of affirmative action, institutionalized (anti-white) discrimination, compulsory tax and wealth transfers, educational and job preferences, hate crime and hate speech laws, (more…)