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This column, cribbing from EvKL’s book of a similar title, should be up on Social Matter:

You’re supposed to feel warm inside when you see a big crowd of people demonstrating for ‘unity’ and ‘tolerance’ carrying candles and signs, speaking soothing words of peace. The images are intended to reassure you, just as the mass of the herd reassures animals like deer, gazelle, kangaroos, sheep, and cows that they are safe from predators.

But the herd is as much of a target of predators as it is a form of protection. And humans are not, ultimately, herd animals — we are pack hunters with a sophisticated social structure. The herd is not a form of social organization that is natural to us, even if we make use of herds, even if we sometimes march together in herd-like formations. Herding is a survival mechanism for defenseless creatures, and to see crowds of our fellow-men walking together in the night, decrying violence, it comes to mind that the people marching believe themselves to be largely defenseless.

Head on over to read the whole thing. For those of you who might not know, I write a column on Tuesdays over at Social Matter, and have done so for the better part of the last year. The magazine has been called the ‘flagship publication of neoreaction.’

Thursday is going to be the day during which I post all my book reviews from here on out. I should be able to put out at least one a week.

My review of a book by a reader like you will be going up tomorrow morning.

Given that some of you also buy/rent stuff from Amazon Instant Video, I have half a mind to do more film reviews, and specifically a series of posts about the Shakespeare history plays which have half-decent movies to go with them. I don’t really watch many movies, but there are plenty of classics that are probably worth watching, even if few of the new ones are watchable.

Even though I’ve only been advertising for less than a month, your purchases through my links are on track to pay for a hosting upgrade here along with some other improvements. The priority list goes:

1. Hosting improvements (probably free tier AWS, mostly to learn AWS)
2. A premium theme on a framework I already own (++ looks, ++ performance, ++ ease of customization)
3. A CDN if AWS is insufficient — means more photos and paintings to illustrate posts along with better international performance (Hello Australia!)
4. A Kraken subscription for me & the Hestia Society to compress images.
5. Book cover art / e-typesetting / etc.

If you have books that you would like me to review, please contact me. I prefer .mobi or .epub files, although print and PDF are also acceptable.

I’m also looking for a classics collection to champion that isn’t full of Whig junk like this one.

Additionally, if you have any suggestions for books to review, I’d like to hear them.