New Name, New Website: The Traditionalist Mind

Dispatches From the Wasteland is changing its name to The Traditionalist Mind and moving to a new web address: http://traditionalistmind.wordpress.com. Please go there for all past and future entries. Thanks for reading! 

Whitewash? Hogwash...

Cameron Crowe has caused a stir amongst the politically-correct crowd by casting Emma Stone in a role portraying a character of part Hawaiian, Chinese, and Swedish descent. Evidently "Asians and non-Asians alike asked why they didn't pick an Asian actress to play a character who is part-Asian". Once again we see the multiculturalists' real-world accuracy for me, not for thee attitude when it comes to the portrayal of race in popular culture.

The Emperor's New Clothes, Hair, Makeup, and Breasts

The cover of the next issue of Vanity Fair features Bruce Jenner, post- "facial-feminization" surgery, wearing women's clothes, and insisting we now call him Caitlyn. Predictably, upon being greeted with this news, the brainwashed masses online reacted as if Mr. Jenner had just descended from the heavens in a burst of rainbows, mounted on a winged unicorn, and soared down to earth just in time to rescue five hundred orphaned ethnic children and as many puppies from a burning building.

Is the SNP a Jacobite Party?

Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day. It appears some SNP MPs turned up to the Queen’s Speech sporting the White Rose of York, long a Jacobite symbol. I suppose it’s possible they could just be showing their support for God’s Country, but it seems more likely they are indeed making a cheeky reference to the Scottish Stuarts. Whilst I doubt the restoration of the Stuart monarchy is truly high on the list of the SNP’s priorities, my inner High Tory was very pleased to see a nod, however slight, to the legitimate Royal family.

The Pill Causes Women's Brains to Shrink, Study Says

A recently-published article in the Human Brain Mapping journal suggests that the pill, that pernicious pharmaceutical Jacobin, may actually shrink women's brains. Specifically, the study found that the use of oral contraceptives "was associated with significantly lower cortical thickness measurements in the lateral orbitofrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex".

For those of you, like yours truly, so unwise in the ways of science, the lateral orbitofronal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex are areas of the brain "believed to be important for responding to rewards and evaluating internal states/incoming stimuli, respectively."

While more research is clearly needed, a link between the use of oral contraceptives and decreased mental capacity would certainly help explain the alarming popularity of feminism and similarly destructive ideologies amongst Western women today.

The Genocidal Implications of Modern Leftism

Eye-catching title, no? Good, glad I have your attention, though if you are some kind of trans-POC/rainbow-kin social-justice-type that somehow managed to stumble upon this page, I suggest you stop reading now and click 'back', lest ye experience some serious triggering.

I've been mulling over this idea much of late, and I've come to the conclusion that there is an argument to be made that leftism (or progressivism, as it is now wont to call itself) has genocidal implications for Christian, European peoples (or white people, as they are generally known). Bold words, I know, but if you will be so kind as to bear with me through the rest of this essay you will hopefully see that it is not an entirely preposterous proposition.

Baying for Blood: Liberal Outrage and the Internet

You may have read the rumours surrounding writer and director, and all around Nerd Overlord, Joss Whedon's departure from Twitter. Though likely coincidental, Whedon's exit occurred in the midst of some pretty disturbing vitriol from some incredibly upset SJWs over his apparent sexism (and, more bizarrely, racism). That anyone could accuse Joss Whedon, a man whose work consistently reveals nothing short of an obsession with strong, independent women, of being sexist is quite remarkable, but then again a Progressive mind and a strong attachment to reality have ne'er made particularly good bedfellows.

New York Times Alters Headline to Fit Liberal Racial Narrative

Yesterday afternoon a friend brought to my attention an article on the New York Times website that was to be on the front page of today's paper. The piece was titled, "No Sharp Rise in Police Killings, Though Increased Focus May Suggest Otherwise". While this is blindingly obvious to anyone immune to The Narrative, my friend and I were pleasantly surprised that the New York Times would run such an honest piece. Could Baltimore have been the tipping point? Did the liberal leeches on Eighth Avenue actually feel a slight pang of guilt at their constant, racial rabble-rousing? Were they finally accepting the teeniest modicum of accountability for their role in spreading misinformation about Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, and the like? Of course they bloody weren't.

A Few Random Reflections

Race riots on the streets of Baltimore. Fun times. Much like when the Occupy Wall Street cretins were occupying parts of my beloved Gotham, I cannot help but think back to a more civilized and noble age, and dream of a more civilized and noble response to such blatant sedition.

Sorry SJWs, But Sexual Orientation is Not Analogous to Race

While at this point in my life I have become accustomed to the staggering depths of intellectual dishonesty to which leftists will descend to make a point, I am still somewhat shocked by the ease with which so many of them claim that the contemporary drive to undermine the traditional family through the redefinition of ancient institutions and the toleration and normalization of sexual deviancy for LGBTMNOPQRSXYZ "rights" is analogous to blacks' struggle during the American Civil Rights Movement.

Katie Hopkins and the PC Police

Katie Hopkins, British journalist and TV personality, has once again angered the politically correct prats of the UK establishment by daring to take offense at MP Simon Danczuk's vomit-inducing display in Rochdale the other week on what was apparently "National Pakistan Day". Not content with merely accusing Ms. Hopkins of racism, Mr. Danczuk - in true tattletale fashion - actually went and reported the poor woman to the authorities for possibly inciting racial hatred.

Autophilia and the Puer Aeternus: the Twin Pillars of Modern Liberalism

"Conservatism is the negation of ideology: it is a state of mind, a type of character, a way of looking at the civil social order." - Russell Kirk
 
Ideologies can best be understood as secular religions. They are born when a person or people rejects God and Natural Law. As history reveals time and again, a people may divest a ruler of power, but they cannot eradicate power itself. Likewise, the history of ideas shows us that while a person or people may reject God and his laws, they cannot remove their instinctive need for religion. Enter ideology.

Reflections on Tanya Cohen's Thoughts on Free Speech

As I've mentioned before, it's not uncommon that I come across a leftist diatribe somewhere online so ridiculous that it seems like it could have been written by a right-winger having a bit of fun. Sometimes, however, I come across a piece so fundamentally absurd that I'm overcome with the uncomfortable sensation of wanting to both laugh and cry at the same time and the wish to lock myself away in a chapel somewhere saying however many Hail Marys and Our Fathers it takes until a chorus of sword-wielding angels descends from the Heavens to smite leftists everywhere. But I digress.

Some Dávila Quotes on Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy

As usual, Nicolás Gómez Dávila can convey in a sentence almost perfectly an idea that would take me multiple paragraphs to summarize, so here are some of his brilliant insights related to the topic of my latest post:

On Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy

 I am an aristocrat. I love liberty, I hate equality. - John Randolph of Roanoke

Of the many opinions I am wont to offer freely and unsolicited to my politically-inclined friends, the opinion which evokes the strongest reaction is easily my intense distaste for all things democratic. It isn't just the liberals, lefties and neo-cons, either: after stating my preference for feudal forms of government, plenty of libertarians, more mainstream conservatives, and even a disheartening number of paleo-conservatives have all looked at me as if I just suggested that setting fire to orphanages might be a fun way to pass the time.

A Chorus of Caricature

If the early years of the second decade of the twenty-first century are to be remembered by political historians, they should be marked as the period in which the progressive left completed its spectacular descent into a complete and utter state of farce. The left has become a gross parody of itself; countless mainstream left-wing writers (and politicians and talking heads for that matter) peddle narratives and opinions so ridiculous that were a man of sound mind to encounter their screeds out of context he would be convinced he was reading a piece of conservative satire.

Vous êtes Charlie, vraiment?

While a few commentators have pointed out the giant Islamic-shaped, Arabic-speaking elephant in the room regarding the massacre at the Charlie Hedbo, most have kicked into full excuses-making mode. It's a familiar though sickening spectacle. Mohammedans murder innocent people, the Western powers that be and their media mouth pieces pretend to care for two minutes, and then preform painstaking mental acrobatics in order to find fault for the attack in anything other than Islam.