Milbank Is Correct Re: True Aristocracy

We need a more truly aristocratic aristocracy (a Platonic-Aristotelian one of honour and virtue not wealth) not a finally complete embourgoisement as prelude to a socialism never likely to come.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) August 3, 2021

A Friend Can Relate to This

This is what I would like to recreate for my descendants with an exclusive, independent community of quality people who are also close to my ethnicity.

Start with 10 families.
5+ children per family.
In 3 generations we are all family.

Build a tribe.https://t.co/zHKsiavZ2Y

— Coach Noah Revoy | 5GW Arms Dealer For The Soul (@NoahRevoy) January 11, 2021

The Cabildo

Thinking that the “Cabildo,” the ancient form of Spanish town government implanted by Spain in America from the earliest days of the Empire and existing with variations to this day, is the oldest continuously functioning representative institution in the Western Hemisphere.

— Rafael de Arízaga (@RafaeldeArizaga) November 19, 2020

Emile Doak Reviews They're Not Listening

My review of @RyanGirdusky & @Harlan's important book up today @amconmag.

Nat'l populism is a necessary corrective to the failures of globalist neoliberalism.

But it must be tempered by the best of the classical, conservative, and Christian tradition.https://t.co/G200T5Mr29

— Emile Doak (@EADoak) September 11, 2020

AmConMag

[N]ational populism needs to be tempered by the best of the classical, conservative, and Christian tradition. The national populist revolution represents a necessary and overdue corrective to the decades of globalist neoliberalism that have plagued Western politics. It moves the political paradigm back towards the realm of limits, solidarity, community, and place. But without the tempering forces of virtue, it may over-swing into the more troubling territory of naked tribalism. In other words, the national populists need the social conservatives. 

Girdusky and Hill, two political consultants, conclude They’re Not Listening on a strikingly apolitical note, echoing shades of Rod Dreher’s “apolitical politics” in The Benedict Option: “If national populists really believe that nations are families rather than the neoliberal premise that they’re marketplaces, then they’re going to have to start acting like it,” they write, “They’re going to have to create physical communities centered around local institutions, faith-based organizations and small businesses.” There’s an irony here: Physical communities are necessarily rooted in a specific, local place, and organizations and businesses develop inherent hierarchies—or, one might say, aristocracies. So perhaps herein lies the synthesis: a national populism, lived out with a healthy respect for the local and the aristocratic. 

Get the scale right and aristocracies won't be wrongly centered on "organizations and business" but on the political community itself. Organizations and businesses in thesmselves have no relation to  political rule. (Different ends.) Aristocracies are discovered within the political community themselves and sanctioned by them.

We Need New Elites

AmConMag: How To Build A New Leadership Class by John A. Burtka IV
A guide to replacing our failed elites.

His analysis, building upon Röpke, Lasch, and Berry is ok.As for his recommendations:

How does this all relate to the goal of building a new leadership class in America? Because of these entrenched social and economic interests—not to mention the challenges posed by the media, higher education, and administrative state—it will be nearly impossible to create a new elite that is as dominant as the progressive ones in power today. That does not mean, however, that there aren’t ways to mitigate their influence, check their power, and redirect their energies towards less pernicious ends.

We can and should build new and parallel educational institutions while simultaneously strengthening small conservative groups and professors at legacy institutions. Trusting the judgement of the American people, politicians should continue to expose the failures of our country’s dominant political class in Washington, D.C, especially in foreign and economic policy. Social media influencers should leverage the power of humor and sarcasm to undermine the opponents of traditional values. To the extent that it’s possible and prudent, financial incentives for American companies should be aligned with national interests, especially as it relates to producing vital military equipment, technology, and medical supplies. And finally, communities can strengthen their defense against the encroachments of big government and big business by deepening their civic, familial and spiritual roots.

Some of his ideas are shared by members of the alt right, such as the use of social media to counter the revolutionaries. I don't think we can rely on capital to create brick-and-mortar institutions, even secondary schools, but it may be worth trying in some places. And while the advice about communities is true, we must first ask whether we have a community or if we need to create one. If we need to create one, then while some members may be more talented and virtuous than others, it is not clear to me that at the local level, promoting some form of aristocracy is always preferable to promoting genuine republicanism. A mixed form of political governance, which the author may not be excluding, is probably the optimum.

Latin Traditionalists Doing Their Thing

Rorate Caeli: Three New Books in English by Roberto de Mattei

Including Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira: Prophet of the Reign of Mary.

Attachment to the aristocracy; maybe some TFP members have the manners appropriate to an aristocrat but what else do they do? How do they compare to Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira as a person?

A Confucian or an Aristotelian might say that someone who is kalos does not need to hector others to reorganize the system so that he is recognized as such; rather he will attract people to him and reform the system that way.

American Aristocracies

Two Aristocracies

800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta

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Magna Cartas united at British Library to celebrate 800th anniversary

Protecting rights of nobles at first, its meaning was then appropriated by the so-called republicans of the 16th and 17th centuries to encompass all Englishmen...







From England to America: Magna Carta and the Supremacy of Law by Russell Kirk

How well known was the story of King Arthur and his knights to the English elites of the 13th century?

Eric Bana to play King Arthur's father in Guy Ritchie's KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE!

I don't think he can top Boorman, even if he is doing a 6-movie series.