#henry dampier

[arcticdementor]

Parents and families are always going to be third banana to a political system that is fundamentally anti-aristocratic, which stands for rule by abstractly determined merit rather than rule by superior families over subordinate families. If the entire point of the state is to supplant traditional sources of authority, to remove legitimacy from the distributed authority of patriarchal rule, it’s misguided to expect the state to support your patriarchal authority. The police officer is supposed to supplant Dad, just as Prime Minister displaces King (minister of ministers being more important than first among fathers). The legal theorist is supposed to supplant the backwards mystic traditions that informed old laws.

Henry Dampier, “About the Decay of Bourgeois Values”

[arcticdementor]

Few people are satisfied by our current moral and legal system. It is widely criticized, yet no one seems to be capable of doing much of anything about it, because returning to the serviceable moral structure of the past is not as simple as flicking a switch, and is not simple to achieve on the individual or familial levels. Moral entropy is as powerful as the regular kind.

Henry Dampier, “About the Decay of Bourgeois Values”

[wrathofgnon]

“Modernity has written more checks than it can cash.” — Henry Dampier

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Maybe We Don't Need to Win, Just Have Our Own Vine and Fig Tree

Maybe We Don’t Need to Win, Just Have Our Own Vine and Fig Tree

A few days ago I made some future references, quick comments and excerpts on others’ posts and ideas that needed fleshing out. The problem is that in the meantime more ideas and posts come down the pike from the many fine bloggers and commenters around the NRx. It’s like drinking from a fire hose, eating an elephant, among other tired cliches.

Then one swallow/bite at a time. Free Northerner gave…

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Henry Dampier and a Better Alternative

Henry Dampier and a Better Alternative

I have been remiss in not including everyone I should have on the blogroll. I’ll be expanding it properly over the next few days. One such is Henry Dampier; this has now been corrected.

Here’s his foundational post:

However, this blog will not be operating on the assumption that increasing the knowledge of the readership will magically halt the degenerative ratchet. We don’t put much truck in the…

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