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Culture • Metapolitics • History • Jurisprudence

Sydney, NSW, Australia Katılım Temmuz 2024
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Somebody "warns", somebody else "blames" - But who will *explain* that LotF is packed with Christian allegory? the last scene illustrating the arrival of Christ himself to redeem a Fallen world. Modern critics are blinded to the obvious by their literary deconstructive theories.
Jacobin@jacobin

Netflix’s new “Lord of the Flies” insists boys are misunderstood. William Golding thought the problem was humanity itself. 🍿 Full review: jacobin.com/2026/05/lord-f…

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@GreeneMan6 What does a moderate solution to something that is uncompromising and fundamentally toxic, look like?
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I know discourse is dead. But there is a conversation that could be had with the conservative-feminist types (ala “Fairer Disputations”) on how we stop this manifestly observable phenomenon. Because if you want me to embrace a moderate solution, you have to explain what is the moderate answer to these realities.
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Brian Atlas@BrianAtlas

Absolutely vile! 150,000 likes on TikTok. Comments are even worse. Say this about women though? Instant ban. Women get a pass.

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@teo_ess @BooksBonfire and @Obs_Rev both do good work and are worth a follow/purchase. @imperiumpress1 is based in Australia too, although many people assume it is American. They are not large operations. Your summary sounds accurate, just from my knowledge of the GB scene.
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Em_Ess@teo_ess·
You may not be aware, but not only has Australia de-industrialised, offshored its material industries, it also seems to have offshored its best new writing. This is something of a function of the internet (potential readers no longer confined within national borders), but the most important writers in this country are either a) not published by local publishers (either self-pubbed or overseas presses) or b) published by presses here but all the buzz generated, audiences garnered and critical praise rendered occurs beyond these shores. Every smart, engaging Australian writer doesn’t put too much stock in the industry here. And it’s got nothing to do with “muh dum Trent Dalton audience” and everything to do with the degeneration of taste among our cultural gatekeepers, the majority of which, I’m sorry to say, are glorified HR ladies, mumming at being well-read, erudite citizens. This is happening elsewhere, of course, but here it takes on an especially egregious form. I’ve spoken about this before briefly (on @bradkelly's pod, on my own pod, and in an upcoming roundtable hosted by @RussellWalterrr alongside Lewis Woolston, Jack Norman, Ivan Niccolai, Liam Blackford & @JustinIsis1) but perhaps I will elaborate one day…with receipts.
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Sidestream Press@SidestreamPress·
Likewise, we sell directly from our webstore. This allows us to maintain control of all operations, preserve the creative integrity of our content, and of course a larger margin of sales. Supporting publishers directly helps stop the forces of centralisation in the press.
Wylfings Publishing@WylfingsDotCom

In the book industry, like in many others, it is vital to build up the capability to sell independently of tech giants and large corporations who can ”cancel” you at the drop of a hat. As time goes by this becomes increasingly clear. We view this as a core value and are working every day to this end. If you would like to support us or others in this cause, consider buying your books from publishers directly - or from merchants who share these values.

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Wylfings Publishing@WylfingsDotCom·
In the book industry, like in many others, it is vital to build up the capability to sell independently of tech giants and large corporations who can ”cancel” you at the drop of a hat. As time goes by this becomes increasingly clear. We view this as a core value and are working every day to this end. If you would like to support us or others in this cause, consider buying your books from publishers directly - or from merchants who share these values.
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There must be a meaningful alternative to Amazon. The consequences of a virtual monopoly over information are predictable, and have been central to every warning against political tyranny for decades. At the very least, we owe it to the maintenance of civil society.

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Advanced copy of Joshua Hren's (of @WisebloodBooks) latest volume "More Than a Matter of Taste", published by Luminor (@WordOnFire). Hren writes gracefully on "the moral imagination & the spirit of literature." A wonderful read that is highly recommended to our followers.
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We are rediscovering truths via simple social observation, which the ancients knew intuitively, and which were once acknowledged by men of science but soon forgotten by progressive ideologues. A selection of books every reactionary should have on the shelf:
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Dave Greene@GreeneMan6

‘Power and control must always be co-located with the party that is accountable for the security of the future generations. If “girl-dollars” and “girl-time” are primarily for “self-care”, then power must only be purchasable via “boy-dollars” and “boy-time”.’

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@GreeneMan6 Treating two group that are distinguishable by objectively identifiable features differently is not a "double standard". It is, in fact, the application of *two single standards* to their *respective cohorts*. Men are women are, in certain key respects, fundamentally different.
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The same confusion over and over. Ignore context, assume symmetry, forget the telos of the system to being with. The reason why boys who wanted to “make money” in previous eras were not seen as necessarily “materialistic” is that “having money” was (and still is) a key component of being considered “marriageable” as a man, the first step of family formation. On the other hand, for women, the objective of “making more money” is not a critical step in the process of family formation. More often than not, this desire exists to support a lifestyle, many times a lifestyle that prices women out of opportunities to build families further down the line. This psychological difference, paired with society’s need to support families, is the obvious reason for the double standard.
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic

Genuine question because I don’t actually know the answer: when it was boys who wanted to make more money, did researchers call it “materialism,” or did they use a different term?

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Incidentally, this appeared in a dissident right publisher's recent title.
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Conservatives (literally) have no response to this. And militant progressive activists will tell you with a straight face that "Cultural Marxism" is a "canard" & "trope", while shaping the cultural discourse to permanently entrench their worldview.
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There is a subset of dystopian literature that illustrates the inherent value of the tangible and concrete. From 1984's "memory hole" to Fahrenheit 451, the power of the printed word is correctly understood as a threat to entrenched ideological power, because it signifies TRUTH.
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Sivori@sivori

Anthropic is buying millions of rare books, scanning and destroying them because legally destruction is the safest option. This was a plot element in the Vernor Vinge novel, "The Rainbow's End", which I read 20 years ago.

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This point is illustrated in considerable depth from the French perspective by @DrissG5, published by @VaubanBooks. "A Counter History of French Colonialism" (2024) was extensively reviewed in No. 6 of the journal. Copies are still available: sidestream.press/or-no-6-2025
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Rogue Scholar Press@RogueScholarPr

@uTobian @jeffreytucker It is neither necessary nor accurate to frame it as “colonialism.” Aside from sounding like Chomsky (if he wasn’t a pharma shill) it also presumes that Western colonialism sickened its subject peoples when more often it did the opposite, giving them advances and advantages

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Of course the cover uses the flat character aesthetic style. As we pointed out in our review of Matt McManus' book on "postmodern conservatism" (No. 5): the extreme left aestheticises its ideology no less than the right. This is but one small example.
Polity@politybooks

In 1907, a lesbian feminist vegetarian stepped into male history. She was one of nineteen female Finnish politicians, the first women in the world to be elected to the ruling body of any country. These women sparked a chain reaction that would ignite across the globe. More – many, many more – were to follow. Trailblazers is the story of some of the most extraordinary women – from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe – who trailblazed their way into a privileged male-only space: electoral representation. Paula Bartley's new book is out now: politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

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Stoppard was once asked what "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" were about... and he responded saying it was about to make him a lot of money.
The New Criterion@newcriterion

“The question ‘What are Stoppard’s plays about?’ should be answered, in the idiom of the man himself, by asking another question in return. What are they not about?” Read “Stoppard contra Stoppardianism,” by Jonathan Gaisman. newcriterion.com/article/stoppa…

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