LOL. And all for show, the vote merely changes the fate of the politicians most junior staffers. Once you’re in the This Town club you’ll always eat lunch in This Town again.

It can be safely said if we completely exchanged Hollywood for DC our situation would improve. The former is after all a business and understands some ground realities. The latter couldn’t make anything above home made amateur TMZ movies on themselves. Perhaps they can be trained to wait tables, but it’s unwise to chance it. I think dishwasher might be safe. I’ve often thought that the current Teleprompter reader on his own merits is at best a metro-sexual maitre d’ in Honolulu.

There is a path dependency here that’s hard to articulate. Also, if you’re trying to extract information from someone, it matters whether that person learned it recently and can remember how he learned it (and what assumptions went into it), or if he learned it too long ago to remember anything but his conclusions.

J.P.O.

I can get behind getting NRxn into the venacular and thank you Nick.

The point of success with the young above by B/L is important. We can discuss path to the dawning of reality as not important/later. Marketing and message and above all success are paramount so Bravo.

I can’t endorse what does not IMO exist, but if people are thinking at last then success.
so Bravo Nick.

Yes, NRx is narcissistic. This has been largely acknowledged since the beginning, and the fact that NRx must be narcissistic is a point in its favor as it is an essential part of its critique against the intellectual and cultural detritus of which it was born.

Power is sooner the master of truth than its servant.

Power is conveyed by a sign insofar as it is believed to.

In not proudly bearing the labels of their intellectual forebears, self-described neoreactionaries give up the power (and honor) of imbuing such historical authorities as Maistre, Evola, Bonald, Bossuet, Filmer, Cortes, Plato, Descartes etc with a small fraction of the immense merit they deserve, for such thinkers saw far more than we mere moderns can even recognize.

By leaving such vanities as sub-culture, narrative, one’s path to reaction etc out, the self-described reactionary implies that the timeless virtue of Reaction is beyond the bounds of his own personal story. You seem to admit that the self-described neoreactionary considers the cosmetic nature of his personal story to imbue the essential perspective of Reaction with power or meaning. If you’re right, then neoreactionaries are are both narcissistic and rather adorable.

King Solomon: There is nothing new under the sun.

Reactionary: Amen.

Neoreactionary: I’m new!!!!!!