Articles I Love

Some articles are so good, they cannot be quoted. Rather, they must be read in their entirety. Herein are such articles….
1) How the Left lost all purpose – UnHerd:
https://unherd.com/2019/10/how-the-left-lost-all-purpose/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3
2) Great article here by Roger Scruton, written way back in 2000 would you believe:
https://www.city-journal.org/html/bring-back-stigma-11807.html
3) This one is a great summary of everything we already know: the left blame social media for the rise of nationalist populism despite the fact that the Left dominate social media. When is the penny going to drop that it is the Lefts’ sudden support of unhinged policies – like transgenderism; identity politics; intersectionalism; gender and racial quotas; anti-male; open borders; anti-whiteness; militant feminism etc etc – that has led to a reaction from the Right:
https://unherd.com/2018/10/left-reinforcing-intolerance/?=refinnar
4) The Luxury Belief Class: This is a great article by Rob Henderson that heavily references the work of Thorstein Veblen from the late c19. In essence, the elites like to adopt weird and wonderful ideas and opinions because to hold such beliefs differentiates them from the hoi-polloi:
https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of-the-leisure-class-a-status-update/
5) I realised as recently as 2018, the detrimental impact of women in politics. This article, assesses the negative impact of women in academia:
http://www.unz.com/article/are-women-destroying-academia-probably/
6) Article explaining racial differences by F. Roger Devlin:
https://www.unz.com/article/the-intelligent-persons-guide-to-race-racial-differences/
7) Here is a great article by Ed West pointing out how revolutions are triggered by the middle classes, not the working class:
https://unherd.com/2020/06/why-the-rich-are-revolting/
8) This article explains how children are raised these days has lead directly to their activism. It gave me a huge jolt of recognition of a truth revealed:
https://unherd.com/2020/07/whats-to-blame-for-such-anguished-activism/
9) A description of post-modern Anywheres vs Somewheres
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/02/why-its-fashionable-to-hate-your-own-country/
10) A great article here by Brendan O’Neill exposing the class hatred and hypocrisy of middle class leftists:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/08/owen-jones-vs-the-working-class/
11) Michael Collins talks about the increasing demonisation of the white working class in Britain in recent years
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/23/the-working-class-is-smarter-than-labour-thinks/
12) Frank Furedi describes how the intellectual left disdain democracy
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/30/democracy-besieged/
13) An anonymous author in Takimag describes something he calls ‘Gyno-fascism’ which is the type of authoritarianism implemented by women
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-rise-of-gyno-fascism/
14) This article introduced me to the concept of ‘Purity Spirals’:
https://unherd.com/2020/12/how-knitters-got-knotted-in-a-purity-spiral/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3
15) This article refers to the emergence of an intellectual ‘clerisy’ in the West that see themselves as better qualified to mould the thinking of the other 98%. Here is a quote:
The modern clerisy tend to believe themselves more enlightened than the average person — on attitudes about the family, for example — and seek to impose their own standards through the media, the education system, and various arenas of cultural production. Their judgments about such issues as race relations and “white privilege” can be even more unforgiving than traditional religious teaching on homosexuality, divorce, or birth control.
https://thecritic.co.uk/neofeudalism-and-its-new-legitimisers/
16) An interesting article that argues that mankind’s wars over ideology have always been more vicious than its wars over land/ resources
The hard lesson America is about to learn is one that the Europeans never seemed to learn, despite plenty of opportunities. That is, diversity plus proximity must always end in violence. The internet age has brought every American into close contact with every other American. No one likes what they see in the other camps and increasingly no one thinks they can live near the other camp. The result is predictable
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-ideological-battlefield/
17) This article takes a lot of points I’ve read about in different articles and brings it all together : technocracy; end of democracy; worsening economic outcomes; social credit systems; surveillence and control – it’s all here
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/welcome-to-the-end-of-democracy
18) This article explains how the Russia – Ukraine war will be used as an opportunity to bring about The Great Reset.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/10-signs-war-ukraine-part-great-reset
19) The Globalist plan to destroy the West and then seize control
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/whitney-plan-wreck-america