Closing thoughts and links on this months’ theme.

Readership: All
Theme: Community
Length: 1,000 words
Reading Time: 5 minutes

Intro

This month’s theme of Community touched on many subtopics, including Free Speech, Patriarchy, Teaching, and the Unfaithfulness of a Community.  Many other authors around the sphere also wrote articles on these topics. There were a few responses, but others were by coincidence I believe.

Free Speech

‘Free Speech’ offers maximum value when it is regarded as a form of verbal self-expression, e.g. a confession, debate, discussion, exposition, teaching, testimony, etc., rather than a ‘right’. Free speech has the most liberty and power in small communities — groups of people who will actually care about what you have to say, and who will react and respond.  This feedback loop also provides opportunities to test and refine what is being said, and thereby take advantage of The Law of Sowing and Reaping and The Law of Responsibility.

  1. Σ Frame: Pompous Pontification (2024/8/5)
  2. The Mainframe: How worried should Americans be about the UK’s tightening restrictions on speech? (2024/8/10)
  3. The Babylon Bee: Elon Musk Buys The United Kingdom To Establish Free Speech There (2024/8/10)
  4. The Babylon Bee: 10 Social Media Posts That Will Now Get You Arrested In Britain (2024/8/11)
  5. Σ Frame: When Free Speech is no longer Free… (2024/8/12)
  6. Σ Frame: Freedom, Potential, and Structure (2024/8/13)
  7. Σ Frame: Is ‘Free Speech’ REAL or merely a philosophical construct? (2024/8/14)
  8. Σ Frame: Belief, Cognition, and Faith (2024/8/15)
  9. Σ Frame: Free Speech — Conduct, Purposes, and Standards (2024/8/16)
  10. Lew Rockwell (Karen Kwiatkowski): Why the Feds Fear Free Speech (2024/8/17)
  11. Σ Frame: Free Speech – The Need for Leadership (2024/8/17)
  12. Wintery Knight: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Biden-Harris regime pressured us to censor (2024/8/27)
  13. Wintery Knight: New study: Google’s bias in favor of Democrat Party affects search engine results (2024/8/29)
  14. PA Pundits: Sulky CNN Can’t Take Zuck’s Biden-Censorship Mea Culpa: ‘Election-Season Gift’ To GOP (2024/8/30)
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Patriarchal Community

The demand for various forms of authoritative structures, Patriarchy, and tribalism is slowly growing as a countersignal to the brutal excesses of Feminism / Progressivism / W0k!sm, but many of the proponents don’t know what they’re asking for, and when they do get a taste of Patriarchal normalcy, they balk and chafe and object.

  1. Catacomb Resident: Defending the Covenant (2024/8/4)
  2. Adam Piggott: Women are not Warriors (2024/8/6)
  3. Christianity and Masculinity: Headship is still authority in marriage Part 3 (2024/8/7)
  4. Adam Piggott: Men, protect your women (2024/8/8)
  5. Catacomb Resident: The Practice of Neighboring (2024/8/23)
  6. Adam Piggott: Only Societies that Treat Women as Property Survive (2024/8/28)
  7. Cornerstone: Why Are Fathers Sending Their Daughters to College? (2024/8/28)
  8. Wintery Knight: How the presence and quality of fathers affects belief in God (2024/8/28)
  9. Σ Frame: Jumping through Hoops (2024/8/30)
  10. Adam Piggott: Good People who Live in Evil Societies (2024/8/31)

Of note, Adam Piggott’s writings as of late are taking on a distinctive patriarchal flare.

Teaching

Teaching is a very important and central part of a community.

  1. Σ Frame: What Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Teaches Men (2024/8/2)
  2. Matthew E. Cochran: The Cost of Being Christian at “Christian” Schools (2024/8/6)
  3. Σ Frame: Meritocracy vs. True Upward Mobility (2024/8/19)
  4. Σ Game: Higher Education and Hypergamy (2024/8/19)
  5. PA Pundits: We Teach Kids Only Half The Scientific Method (2024/8/20)
  6. Σ Frame: Poor Teaching Leads to a Difficult Life (2024/8/29)
  7. The Orthosphere (J. M. Smith): Miscellany (2024/8/31)

In sum, a lot of the current teaching does not impart much practical value, while the things that really need to be taught are NOT.

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Vox Day’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy

We also revisited Vox Day’s SSH, and considered how it is NOT (but could be) used as a tool for teaching, building community, and conducting ministry.  This discussion is a culmination of several posts in the previous theme (included here).

  1. Σ Frame (Lexet): Revisiting Vox’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy (2024/4/5)
  2. Σ Frame: Is Vox’s Socio-Sexual Hierarchy Bad for The Manosphere? (2024/6/21)
  3. Catacomb Resident: Men of the Gospel (2024/6/23)
  4. Catacomb Resident: Don’t Join That Cult (2024/6/29)
  5. Σ Frame: Gammas – The Manosphere’s Untouchables (2024/7/26)
  6. Σ Frame: Weaponizing (2024/7/29)
  7. Σ Frame: Provoking a Perfunctory Parapet of Puppets (2024/8/7)
  8. Radix Fidem: His Sacrificial Love (2024/8/9)
  9. Σ Frame: Free Speech – The Need for Leadership (2024/8/17)
  10. Omega Journey: The Sigma Frame Controversy (2024/8/25)

Unfaithful Community

Faithful communities are rare.  Most of the strong communities that do exist are corrupted in some way.

  1. Francis Berger: Reacting to System Manipulation is not Genuine Action (2024/8/9)
  2. Francis Berger: Contemporary Westerners Are Born-Again Sort of Pagans (2024/8/15)
  3. Σ Frame: Doctor$ are Human$ too (2024/8/20)
  4. Σ Frame: Politicizing Evangelicalism (2024/8/22)
  5. Bruce G. Charlton: The current hedonism (2024/8/23)
  6. Σ Frame: Tells of a W0ke Church (2024/8/23)
  7. Σ Frame: Which Churches have Sold Out? (2024/8/24)
  8. Francis Berger: Those in Submission Feel No Need to Submit Anywhere Else (2024/8/26)
  9. Σ Frame: Reminiscing on Our Immoral Culture (2024/8/26)
  10. Crisis Magazine (Michael Hoffman): Mansplaining Ephesians (2024/8/27)
  11. Founding Questions: A Brief History of Churchianity (Sort Of) (2024/8/29)
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Other Perspectives on Community

  1. Σ Frame: Why Are We Consuming Engine Lubricant? (2024/8/9)
  2. Radix Fidem: Boundaries of Identity (2024/8/14)
  3. Radix Fidem: Your Next Move (2024/8/16)
  4. Radix Fidem: Adjusting Myself (2024/8/18)
  5. Adam Piggott: On Worldly Matters (2024/8/19)
  6. Adam Piggott: Individual versus Community (2024/8/21)
  7. Σ Frame: Prosperity Grows where the Money Flows (2024/8/21)
  8. Catacomb Resident: Justice: Restoration versus Punishment (2024/8/26)
  9. Σ Frame: Are immoral women a product of an immoral culture, or vice versa? (2024/8/27)
  10. Aaron Renn: Men Need to Start Paying Less Attention to Women (2024/8/28)
  11. Σ Frame: If Queen Bee isn’t chaste, those girls won’t value purity (2024/8/28)
  12. Catacomb Resident: Why Discourage Marriage? (2024/8/30)

Related

The following posts were cited as relevant to the discussions.