Henry Dampier

On the outer right side of history

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Top 10 Referrers To This Blog Since Its Creation

I felt like going through my stats today. Hopefully this will be useful to other writers in our little corner.

  1. Twitter
  2. Freenortherner
  3. Xenosystems
  4. Organic search (not too many Bing users on the Outer Right — search terms include [erotic tips on being a campus whore])
  5. Captain Capitalism (would beat Google if I included his non-US visitors)
  6. reddit
  7. Reaction Times (also run by Free Northerner)
  8. Facebook (which I don’t use)
  9. Redpillreview
  10. Nick B. Steves

This is about what I expected, except that Captain Capitalism can drive more traffic with a single link than anyone else on the list. The manosphere is a larger internet phenomenon than has been more broadly realized. They also have a number of people who are self-sustaining to varying degrees and work full or part time on their projects.

Free Northerner is up there because of his consistent Lightning Round posting. His Reaction Times has also been a daily visit for me, because I can’t be bothered to maintain RSS subscriptions anymore.

Nick Land’s right behind him: Quote Notes and other regular features send readers to and fro through the swampy horrors of the Outer Right.

NBS has provided a lot of the social glue that keeps everything together, and he probably doesn’t get enough recognition for that. I tip my neoreactionary wig to him.

Twitter probably ranks high because I don’t use any of the other social services.

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Introduction to Quick Reactions

Raphael - St. George and the Dragon
St. George – Raphael, 1504

I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this blog. There are already enough people in the neoreactionary community who are writing and tweeting about current events, so I’d rather avoid chewing up my free time duplicating the efforts of other writers. Instead, I’d like to write book reviews, longer researched posts, and eventually a series of books.

Performing research — even secondary research — takes over 10x as long as writing off the cuff, but I’d rather do more of the former, because casual patter and theorizing is already better-covered by more qualified people than me.

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 elevating powers of education ’round these parts. There’s no halting the doom of the West. No combination of books, Youtube videos, blog posts, or sarcastic tweets will, by themselves, make exit — and the possibility of glorious rebirth — possible.

What will make that possible is the cohering of communities off of the internet capable of fending for themselves in the troubled times to come. Escaping doom is the end, and writing is only one of the means towards achieving it.

I hope that my work will be useful to you & those you care about.

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