"RSV Wave Underway" screeches the German press, as winter viruses rise unremarkably and in accordance with long-standing seasonal trends Now that the EMA has approved new RSV vaccines, journalists have another virus to stir anxiety about. During the pandemic, journalists discovered a new occupation, one which was particularly appealing for the small effort it required. This occupation consisted of consulting any of the numerous Covid dashboards and weekly virus
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Jay Bhattacharya punks Karl Lauterbach for a bizarrely mistaken rant about John Ioannidis & the German media realise their health minister is an international laughingstock I know that some of you are impatient with my posts about German politics, and particularly my repeated pieces on our retarded Health Minister. I get that this can seem like inside baseball, and that all of you suffer under the very similar idiocies of your own Covid politicians. But,
Don’t conserve institutions that hate you At their founding, the institutions of a civilization were created to serve the needs of its citizens and perpetuate their way of life. These organizations transmit and safeguard the values of the culture from which they arise. As a civilization grows and the scale of its operation increases, the people
The UK Economy: Lots of Problems, Few Solutions - part two The UK Economy – Lots of Problems, Few Solutions Part Two Housing Crisis The property market and its many problems are so complex and layered that many analysts speak of multiple housing crises at once. In the UK, there is a never-ending housing bubble. House prices in Britain have increased by
The New Zealand Vaccination Records Leak: A New Analysis by William Briggs and Some Lesser Thoughts of My Own As everybody in this corner of the internet knows, a New Zealand Te Whatu Ora employee named Barry Young leaked four million vaccination records from New Zealand’s “pay per dose” vaccine program to Steve Kirsch on 8 November. The records pertain to doses administered to individual patients at apothecaries
A Brief Guide To Content Creation I’ve recently had a growing number of people asking me for some tips and pointers on creating content. I thought I’d cobble together some of the tricks of the trade, as it were, that I’ve learned over the years. Naturally, my preferred form is the essay, either
Bavaria in the Snow In a brief Zeit article on winter fashion from 13 October 2023, one reads the following deeply amusing lines: Winter may no longer be cold, but our jackets are getting thicker and thicker. This fashion satisfies our longings for a climate that no longer exists. …. This year saw the highest
Snowy Open Thread: Expiring Unwanted Expensive Covid Vaccine Edition Today, southern Bavaria is covered in snow. No trains are running, the Munich airport is closed, many shops have not opened, and children are enjoying fierce snowball fights before the offices of the plague chronicle. The trees bend under the weight of their white blankets; one of them (thankfully not
The Cyber Threat Intelligence League, Sara-Jayne Terp, and the unbearably idiotic schoolmarms who have been unleashed to censor the internet Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi have continued their reporting on the “Censorship Industrial Complex” with a new piece on an odious organisation called the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League. Their revelations provide fresh details about the early history of the public-private campaign to censor the internet in the
The story of Hoydel Letting go of the ten thousand things It’s one of the strangest folk tales and also one of my favourites. You can find it in Franz Xavier von Schönwerth’s collection, The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales (Penguin, 2015). Anyone who knew the carpenter Hoydel wasn’
Building a Parallel Polity: Sketching Out the Road Ahead I occasionally say on Twitter that conservatives should stop giving to the Republican Party and use the money to build autonomous parallel communities. What does that look like? Let's sketch it out. My regular readers will know that I argue several things at once in regard to the current moment.
Is Karl Lauterbach replacing two-thirds of STIKO, the "independent" German vaccine advisory body, to ensure the approval of shiny new RSV jabs from Pfizer and AstraZeneca? German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is working hard to restructure the entire German public health bureaucracy, according to the lessons our rulers have derived from the Covid pandemic. The purpose of his reforms are hard to work out, and ominously, nobody at the Health Ministry will explain them. A little-known
The competency crisis is upon us Our current managerial elite predicates its rule on the notion of expertise. Americans once believed that “popular will” granted a ruling class legitimacy, but that story has been replaced with one of scientific knowledge and credentials. The modern political formula frames the world as a complex series of interconnected scientific
The Holy Moments Exploring the decline of cinema in four bad movies Autumn is a strange season, especially in America. There is a spirit hanging in the air, slowly dying. The pagan gods of Summer perish and return their power to be interned in the earth until judgment. And the living mark the
Let's Skip the News Boy Let's skip the news boy (I'll go and make some tea) Arabs and Jews boy (too much for me) They get me confused boy (puts me off to sleep) And the thing I hate--Oh Lord! Is staying up late, to watch some debate, on some nation's fate – Genesis, “Blood on
The Incompetent Authoritarianism Of The Irish State On the curiously incompetent Irish State and the Empire's Celtic Problem Readers will no doubt be aware of the recent migrant stabbing spree in Ireland that resulted in fiery but peaceful scenes erupting on the streets of the capital, Dublin. The following day I went in search of ‘‘takes’’ that
The Myth of Jewish High IQ Before all other things, I study power and politics. Keen awareness of elite theory keeps one alert of Schmittian exceptions, which is to say when special allowances are made in one case but not in others. The vexed area of IQ research is one such case. For example, notorious race-denier
Infighting and internal divisions intensify among German climate activists and their patrons in government, as political momentum shifts decisively to the right Political movements derive cohesion from the momentum and energy they command. With the wind at their backs, adherents are willing to overlook their divergent interests and fight for a common cause. As these movements lose momentum and face hardening opposition, they suddenly find themselves rent by infighting and factionalism. Being
Clearpill yourself on Gaza "You just like to see tanks pop their turrets while the driver bakes." Are you an American or European? Do you have feelings about the war in Gaza? Stop. You shouldn’t. You should be totally clear on the question—in the Scientology sense. Your Kantian moral imperative is to
For the right to win, it needs a new formula Every nation is run by an organized minority of its population, a ruling class, and that class always tells a story about why its members should be in charge. It could be the divine right of kings, it could be the mandate of heaven, or it could be popular election
The UK Economy – Lots of Problems, Few Solutions Introduction The United Kingdom’s economy is in very bad condition and has been for some time now. Britain’s economy is marked by low growth, rising debt, low productivity, prolonged high inflation, and a lack of investment. The British government is burdened by debt and has its hands tied
Defending Hate: A Manifesto Against Ugliness “There exist things worthy of disdain, and for every individual across time and space, hatred is a natural response. Why, then, is there a prevailing narrative advocating for the abolition of hate?”
BBC declares "Black women most likely to die in medieval plague" after unnamed "academics at the Museum of London" collect doubtful statistics on 145 medieval skeletons in an uncited unavailable study The internet is presently having a laugh at the BBC for their declaration that “Black women” were “mostly likely to die” in the 14th-century plague. Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at the Museum of London have found. The
Who was responsible for the draft resolution, circulated among the state health ministers of Germany, demanding the vaccination of teenagers contrary to regulatory advice? Some final notes on the 2021 campaign to vaccinate German children and the importance of 28 July. I must make a correction to yesterday’s post on the bizarre campaign to vaccinate German children against the recommendations of regulators and in the absence of all evidence. It is important enough
The bizarre campaign to vaccinate German children against the recommendations of regulators and in the absence of all evidence Whys were German politicians were so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate school children? This was the question at the centre of yesterday’s post. I mean it in a very specific way. I understand this was a time of general vaccine mania, when everybody from local paediatricians to Chancellor
Why were German politicians so eager to vaccinate children, and why are they lying about it now? Here is a riddle: Why were German politicians so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate children? Why did they place public pressure on vaccine regulators to recommend child vaccination? Even a few months ago, I would’ve said this was no great mystery. Before August 2021, everybody still operated on
Ampeldämmerung: Scholz government in crisis after doubtful budgetary manoeuvre to fund Green climate fantasies with unused Covid funds is declared unconstitutional For my entire life, German governments have lit money on fire with great abandon. The pandemic was a particularly insane period of spending. Among the final acts in this spree was a supplementary budget pushed through by Merkel’s government in April 2021, allocating an additional 60 billion Euros for
Whatever Happened To The Midlife Crisis? Pondering over the cultural trope of the midlife crisis It was my birthday this week and I quipped to my other half that I was at the prime age for a midlife crisis and she burst out laughing. I’m not actually having a midlife crisis but if I was
Woke: Collectivist or Individualist? A short debate A while ago reader Charles Pincourt contacted me with some thoughts on the nature of the “Woke” revolution and its challenge to liberalism and civilization. I found that we disagreed in ways that made for an interesting discussion, so we decided to turn the conversation into a
On the curious schemes of various activists, ideologues and politicians to minimise the emission of certain atmospheric gases by restructuring our energy supply and thereby our entire civilisation As the insanity of the pandemic era recedes, I find myself writing more and more about climate politics. Many of my posts on this matter – especially the last one – elicit disagreement from readers who believe that my arguments validate the premises of climate propagandists, who want me to know that
Line Go Up PART 2 How the elites benefit from mass immigration: part 2 Proposition 3 Migrant labour reduces labour costs Immigration is advantageous to those in industry that benefit by importing low-skilled, low-wage labour onto our shores. Immigration increases the size of the workforce and increases the government’s tax base as well. Immigration
Study: Liquid natural gas, the great future hope of Robert Habeck's Green energy policy, causes up to THREE TIMES more emissions than coal Let us review some recent history: In 2021, Germany owed 27% of its total energy supply to natural gas. We imported over 40% of this natural gas from Russia. Then the Ukraine war happened, and by September the gas had slowed to a trickle. To compensate, we increased imports from
The Green Paradox: Why unilateral emissions restrictions may actually increase fossil fuel production and will always fail to do anything about atmospheric CO2 levels Periodically, journalists realise that our climate policies are doing absolutely nothing to reduce CO2 emissions. The latest entry in this amusing genre of reporting comes from N-tv and the Deutsche-Presse Agentur: The planned global production of coal, oil and gas continue to significantly exceed levels required to mitigate climate change.
Why the migrant crisis is a self-inflicted catastrophe for the European political establishment The mass importation of regime clients from the third world, under the pretence of high-minded liberal values, has become a runaway phenomenon threatening the very political order that authored it. Some valued readers objected to my remark in yesterday’s post that the political establishment appears “completely powerless” to stop
Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai, by Mishima Yukio "The approximation of all forms of sex to the trifling, if expensive, escapist pleasure that comes from taking [sleeping] pills may be called the most critical phenomenon of our time." Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai Mishima Yukio For Young Samurai Subscribe On Life After beginning life, people gradually
After a 17-hour meeting to address the escalating migrant crisis, German federal and state politicians produce a 5000-word resolution that promises nothing and offers no meaningful solutions at all On Monday, negotiators from the German federal and state governments met to hammer out a solution to the migration crisis. The states themselves have been overwhelmed by the flood of refugees, whose numbers exceed all available infrastructure and financial resources. The federal government – the worst we have had since 1949
Mechanisms Toward Local Sovereignty Made possible by the abundance of land available, America’s European founding stock sought denominational freedom in the New World. Entire congregations of Christians traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on ships such as the Mayflower to establish colonies that were closely tied to their religious beliefs, as well as the
An Uncanny Valley At The Cenotaph On peculiar unreality of British Political life. The somewhat modestly named “Behavioral Insights Team” carries this passage on their website in which they “face up to the challenges” of climate action: Prioritizing actions. Some behavioral barriers will be tougher to address than others. In one project, we found that encouraging
Why Daylight Saving Time is Stupid The twice-annual clock fiddling ritual is a pointless pain in the ass and it should be abolished everywhere On 29 October, the superstitious annual ritual known as Daylight Saving Time ended in Europe, and for my American readers it will end this coming Sunday, on 5 November. For half or
The European Union walks back its ruinous proposal to mandate minimum energy efficiency standards for buildings, as the political will for climate policies continues to crumble across the West Climatism is slowly dying, and the only remaining question is how long it will yet linger and how much damage it will do before it is gone. Everything that comes out of Brussels is a foul multilayered onion. On the outside is the laughable impossible childish impossible utopian idealism. As
As the German Health Ministry drowns in millions of unwanted vaccine doses, Karl Lauterbach begs Germans to please, please line up for their fifth jab From the erstwhile vaccine propagandists at Der Spiegel, who I think are also tiring of the insipid autumnal vaccination liturgy and its noxious political enablers: Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has again called on people to get a booster vaccination. “Despite the pandemic and awareness campaigns, the importance of the
Live Your Own Truth: Finding Our Way Out of the Dead End of Propaganda, Mimesis and the Idea of Personal Genius to Begin the Process of Birthing a New Culture It is vitally important that we learn how to once again "ground" ourselves. But we cannot do this with reason or science. We cannot do it with universals. The only way out is through. Critical theory. Post-modernism. Politically, these terms spark revulsion in many. They are looked upon as the
Line Go Up How the elites benefit from mass immigration: part one 1 in 6 people in the UK were born overseas. 700,000 Polish-born people are in the country.[1] Between 2001 and 2020, net migration accounted for 60% of the UK’s population growth.[2] Since 2000, the UK has had
The Greatness of Simplicity An addendum by William George Jordan While working on writing “Hard Lessons from Israel’s High-Tech Border Failure” earlier this week, including thinking through its arguments on the value of simple over complex systems, I kept finding my memory niggled by an old speech/essay on simplicity that I recalled
First Nord Stream, now Balticconnector: What is happening to European Baltic gas pipelines? On 26 September 2022, the Nord Stream pipelines bringing Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea were attacked in a series of clandestine bombings. According to Seymour Hersh, the sabotage was planned by the Biden administration in late 2021, and carried out by U.S. Navy divers in collaboration
The Last Days Of The Not My Problem Bros? As the good ship Dissident Right sails ever deeper and more precariously into the uncertain maelstrom of geopolitical tumult, my mind keeps returning to the beginning of the Russia/Ukraine war. As ever, when such happenings happen, factions are formed and friendships broken as everyone gets their takes in and
The Managerial Menace Back in August, the Wall Street Journal ran a long article on the insane spending of American public universities, with special emphasis on their proclivity for expensive building projects. This is an issue very close to my heart. I spent over a decade in American academia, at several different very
Hard Lessons from Israel’s High-Tech Border Failure Thoughts on complex systems, failure cascades, and the international order Over the last two weeks, I have, like everyone else, been closely following Hamas’ horrific attack on Israel and the resulting war. So many others have already done an eloquent job covering it at a general level that I’m
An Idol Crumbles Some reflections on our current unraveling The gyre widens and the vibe shift continues. The world doesn't feel the same as it did in 2019, and never will again. There is a vague scent of apocalypse in the air. The old political formulas don't make sense. And people are starting
Christian Drosten, enduring virologoid villain, demands mass livestock virus testing and scientific truth panels to enhance pandemic preparedness and marginalise people who disagree with him Christian Drosten, the malevolent virologoid at Berlin Charité who achieved international prominence in 2020 as court virus astrologer to the Merkel government, and who acted for years as the public face of hygiene restrictions in the Federal Republic, is one of the great villains of the pandemic. From lockdowns to
Canada in Crisis “ If we consider that housing will continue to increase in cost given the proposed population growth, we know that multiplying the average housing price with the needed houses will give us the lowest estimated price possible. This equals $16,718,704,453,441.30.”
Is Woke Putting the Zionism Away? Before starting, it is worth stating for the record that I am truly neutral in this conflict as I have mentioned many times on my shows and that the only true position is to defend your own people and not the causes of outgroups. I have told people not to
Crazy Munich doctor earns nationwide press coverage with call for Germans to resume indoor masking because "we have a lot of infections right now," even though we don't Clemens Wendtner is an oncologist and head physician at the Munich Schwabing Clinic. Despite his total lack of epidemiological qualifications, he rose to prominence in the pandemic because he ended up treating some of the very first officially recognized Covid infections in Germany. In those early days, he was fond
Dystopian Fiction (2019) Back in 2019, I was traveling back from a conference and stuck in an airport with only my iPad. I started writing a Dystopian Fiction in the “Notes” feature. I had a strong desire to write something that had no plot, no characters, no emotional hook, and no resistance narrative.
The very same Europe that stopped travel over a virus cannot close its borders against the global south, even as the failure to do so threatens the viability of establishment parties and the EU itself Europe has entered its second great migration crisis since 2014. Numbers are now at levels not seen since the aftermath of the Libyan civil war in 2014. Here, from the Italian Institute for International Political Studies, is a graph of migrant arrivals in Italy from January 2010 through September 2023:
State elections in Bavaria and Hessen show the establishment parties to be in decline as political momentum shifts decisively to the right Yesterday was election day in Bavaria and Hessen. Just over 23% of the entire German population had the chance to express their political preferences at the ballot box. The results were not only a slap in the face to the parties of the federal coalition, but also yet another sign
IM-1776: The Edward Luttwak Tapes The paradox of American power I recently had the privilege of interviewing Edward Luttwak for IM-1776 (The Edward Luttwak Tapes). Edward Luttwak is an expert in international relations and military strategy, who first rose to prominence at the age of 26 with the publication of his first book, Coup d’
Nobel Prize awarded to mRNA researchers in effort to "Encourage hesitant people to opt for vaccination in the reassurance that it is safe and effective" On 2 October, the biochemists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, for their contributions to the development of mRNA vaccine technology. In 2005, Karikó and Weissman solved a crucial problem that had bedeviled all prior attempts to develop RNA-based therapies. This problem was
Empire of Dollars 4 How the United States of America maintains control of the global monetary system - part 4: U.S. Treasury bonds It is a mistake to think of the U.S. dollar as just one thing, as in just a unit of currency, because it is not. It is various nodes
Welcome To The New Current Thing My initial thoughts on the new conflict in the Middle East and what will surely become the new Current Thing Well, folks, it’s official — The New Current Thing is finally here. The New Thing arrived on my social media feed in the guise of a mutilated corpse of a
Carnival of the Animals, by Kure Tomofusa "I am, more essentially, criticizing the fact that these anti-discrimination movements are ruled by the delusion called human rights ideology." Carnival of the Animals Kure Tomofusa1 It was from around 1970 that the acts of denunciation of the various organizations of the anti-discrimination movement exemplified by the Buraku2 Liberation League3
On Meritocracy Within the contemporary works of fiction in which the main character becomes a ruler, the most common trope is as follows – The country is run by hereditary nobles. They are greedy, unconcerned with the well-being of their subjects, and incompetent. They look down on commoners and discriminate against them. The
The Aesthetics of Manliness, by Yukio Mishima "Clothing [...] is none other than that which expresses the characteristics of the sex, the characteristics of the aggressive combative male. Clothing is sexual." The Aesthetics of Manliness by Yukio Mishima There was a man who, unable to help being wealthy, had ten suits made every month at a tailor in
Preface to Asia, Europe, Japan, by Ōkawa Shūmei "World history in the true sense of the word is nothing other than the history of the confrontation, antagonism, and unification of East and West." Preface to Asia, Europe, Japan Ōkawa Shūmei1 Subscribed For the past year, I have in more than ten lectures in various places striven solely to
Covid Juice 3.0 hits the shelves in Germany, with interest at such record lows that many doctors have not even bothered to stock it The latest Covid Juice release is for sale in Germany as of today, and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach was first in line. There’s abundant evidence that he’s not a great fan of vaccination; he got his third dose in secret, well after the rest of the vaccinators, and
Renowned idiot Karl Lauterbach shows his vaccine pass to the cameras, reveals once again that his 2022 claim to be quadruple vaccinated is a lie The idiot Health Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Karl Lauterbach, has beclowned himself again, leaking additional evidence that he lied about receiving a second booster in Spring 2022. To recap: By late summer of last, Lauterbach had spent many weeks urging a fourth dose on all and sundry,
Study: With each Covid vaccination, healthcare workers get sicker – applying for progressively more leave and taking more analgesic medication after each dose “Inability to work following COVID-19 vaccination” is a modest paper just published in Public Health (paywalled, but available here as a preprint from last November), analysing data from the ‘CoVacSer’ cohort study, conducted out of Würzburg to monitor the effects of Covid infection and vaccination on healthcare workers. Of 1,
More details on the very strange efforts of the German Health Ministry to hide internal details of the Covid response from a parliamentary investigative committee More details have emerged on the measures of Karl Lauterbach’s Health Ministry to conceal internal details of the pandemic response from the German public.
Dissident Thoughts #1 A new series begins here on my Substack aiming to address cultural and social issues in a more concise and direct way than I deal with monetary issues.
Dissident Thoughts #2 The deconstruction of everything Increasingly, life has lost all structure, purpose and meaning. We look around us and we see chaos. We live in a world that is completely disenchanted. The Frankfurt School believed that if you render everything meaningless then society becomes unworkable. This has been achieved by deconstructing
What is Freedom? We have been told that freedom is the power to exercise our will to make choices without restraint. But for a Christian, freedom is something all together different. What is it? What is “freedom?” In today’s context we often associate the word “freedom” with the ability to exercise our
On Social Conformism It’s been a while, so let me write down my thoughts. This will be a bit different because it’s an attempt at something a little more stream-of-consciousness, the sort of thing I think about driving my car. I wrote this all in one paragraph and then when back
Vaccines and the Midwit Effect, or: Why smart people seem to believe all manner of crazy things, and smarter people seem to believe them even harder Some weeks ago, this Swedish study on the correlation between cognitive ability and readiness to accept Covid vaccination made the rounds. It irritated a lot of people, particularly in these circles, for appearing to support the observation that getting vaccinated is just something that more intelligent people do – and, by
On Bisexuality I often hear from advocates that “bisexuality” is logically consistent. That may or may not be true, but it doesn’t matter for my argument. Bisexuality may be or seem to be logically coherent within itself, but that logic on its own may be baseless and ultimately incoherent. Bisexuality is
In act of divine retribution, equestrian statue of Angela Merkel collapses spontaneously under its own weight Certain natural events – however seemingly insignificant – achieve so perfectly a higher symbolic meaning, that it is hard not to see in them a divine message. Such is the case with the only equestrian statue erected to honour former German chancellor Angela Merkel, which yesterday collapsed spontaneously under its own weight.
Why nobody Cares About The Aliens... Aliens are real, but we live in hyper-reality The Mexican Government showed us pictures of 1000-year-old aliens and nobody cared. Nobody ran through the streets in a panic, nobody rioted, and nobody prepared for war because nobody cared. Nobody cared about the aliens because we’ve seen them before. We’
On Fact-Checkerism and the Mythology of Disinformation Thoughts on what our discourse police are even trying to do and why they are so stupid. Nobody in our corner of the internet could fail to notice the antics of those yapping bouncing frenetic chihuahuas who call themselves fact-checkers. Mostly they work in obscurity, misunderstanding internet jokes, recycling the
American Centers for Disease Control recommend the updated XBB.1.5 jabs to everyone 6 months of age & older because this will "ease ... roll-out" and "improve ... equity" While Europe has now largely confined Covid vaccination to older and vulnerable groups, the American Centers for Disease Control have chosen a different path. Yesterday, they accepted the advice of an advisory panel and recommended the XBB.1.5 jabs to everyone six months and older. They insist that “the
Authoring Caesar: Part Two The imposition of mob rule, the ultimate and end result of democracy, damages individual autonomy. It threatens and often eliminates your natural rights: life, limb, and property. We are at whatever mercy the mob grants us, if any. Every time a legislative body meets, all people are on the butcher’
AfD candidate poised to win head mayorship of Nordhausen (Thuringia); Sahra Wagenknecht announces plans to form her own protest party As the German ruling establishment continues to alienate voters and lose ground, a new kind of politics is taking shape beneath them. Candidates of Alternative für Deutschland continue to win high political office in East Germany. First, it was Robert Sesselmann, who won the office of Landrat in Sonneberg, Thuringia.
Our Current Economic Malaise Debt is out of control. Inflation is out of control and reached double-digit levels in many countries. So, what is going on and how did we get here? There is no easy or simple explanation and there are many push and pull factors stretching as far back as the 2008
Activism, agency, and the escape from mundane domesticity: The curious case of Judith Beadle, 43 year-old mother of two, climate vandal and self-gluing street activist Meet Judith Beadle. She is a dead-eyed 43 year-old Letzte Generation activist from Berlin who first came to the notice of the German public for gluing herself to a Munich street last November. The action won her nearly a month of preventive custody in Munich-Stadlheim, where she reports her vegan
2.5 Years of Upheaval Looking backward, and ahead, with gratitude The Upheaval turned two years old on April 7. I had intended to write a reflection for the occasion, as I did for year one, but ended up missing the anniversary. I felt like there was still something big missing that I had to
Spiegel schoolmarm demands that Germans "act responsibly" and "get their masks back out" so she doesn't feel uncomfortable being the only "oddball" wearing a face diaper in public We’ve encountered Head Girl Science Fan Veronika Hackenbroch here at the plague chronicle once before. She’s a medical writer for Spiegel who defended lockdowns until the very end and is still fighting a halfhearted rearguard action to keep Corona alive. Her latest is a diatribe demanding that Germans
Centrist Caesars, Twitter X And The ADL On the competing visions of liberalism at the heart of Twitter X vs ADL war There’s an interesting exchange in George RR Martin’s Clash of Kings in which Varys, the scheming eunuch, and Tyrion ruminate over the ethereal nature of Power. The question fundamentally is where Power actually
Creative Destruction Reviewing Neil Howe’s “The Fourth Turning Is Here” “The old American republic is collapsing. And a new American republic, as yet unrecognizable, is under construction.” The opening line of historian Neil Howe’s The Fourth Turning Is Here (2023) jumps to the point. It also foreshadows the odd dualistic
German health authorities plead to parliamentary committee that they have yet to evaluate adverse vaccine events because there are too many of them The major German political parties will never investigate the pandemic response, because they are all complicit in it. Across the entire political landscape of the Federal Republic, the right-populist Alternative für Deutschland stands alone in its critical stance towards lockdowns and mass vaccination, and only in the state parliament of
CORONATION STREET AND THE “REALITY” OF THE AVERAGE CONSUMER TV SOAPS AND THE “REALITY” OF THE AVERAGE CONSUMER. It is an obvious point to say that this sphere is a niche. We do not represent the majority opinion nor have the power to do so. To further state that the majority of the public is not capable of such
Prophets of Doom and the Sensible Centre I recently attended this year’s Witan and was able to procure an advance copy of Neema Parvini’s “Prophets of Doom” (hereafter Prophets). This is the much anticipated second volume of Parvini’s projected sensible centrist trilogy. It aims to counter the regime by creating a rival, coherent canon
The evil of banality On the consequences of unseeing our inheritance “A peculiar characteristic of our times is the combination of significant scenes with insignificant actors. … Yet one must concede the zeitgeist an infallible hand in picking out [so many trivial men]—if we consider it in just one of its possible aspects, that
Green Party mask fanatic predicts that a "Covid Fall" awaits us, calls upon Germans to resume masking They will try to bring back masking, but it’s not going to happen. From Spiegel: Case statistics are rising, and some experts fear a Covid Fall.1 Now the health policy spokesman for the Green Party in the Bundestag, Janosch Dahmen, recommends a return to masking … “In order to
THE STONE AGE MINDSET Over the last few weeks, I have been exploring Orkney. It is a cluster of small islands that are located an hour north of mainland Scotland by ferry. One of its most striking features is that it is home to several Neolithic tombs, stone circles and domestic complexes. These monuments
Blue Eyes, Red Heart "One gang will rule this city!" Ancient wisdom shines through in modern places, not least the 1979 cheese classic The Warriors which superimposes the plot of Xenophon’s Anabasis onto a near-future New York City dominated by gangs but ruled by a corrupt police force. The movie opens with the
East Germany and the Failure of Liberal Democracy As AfD becomes the dominant party of the former DDR, East Germans find themselves slandered as antidemocratic by a ruling establishment that has systematically excluded and subjugated them As with Covid infection statistics, so with political preferences: You can easily identify the former DDR on a map of support for
Dispatch: The Mug Shot Apotheosis of an Antihero “History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.” —Ian Fleming The Mug Shot Last Thursday Donald Trump was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on felony charges, marking his fourth indictment of the year. A former
The Witan Conference: A Meeting Of Fine Gentlemen My thoughts on materializing in real world at The Witan Conference I’ve been unusually quiet online this week because I was away attending the recent ‘‘The Witan’’ conference in England at the weekend. I had originally intended to merely be a face in the crowd to get a grasp
ON WOMEN On Women is a title I read too often and dread to read no less. The Dissident Right spends thousands of hours tormenting itself over the place of women in both the movement and the world that the movement seeks to birth. Members of multiple Christian denominations, Nietzschean vitalists, and
Virus understander and former Drosten associate Isabella Eckerle insists that Covid "is not finished with us" in ridiculous self-contradictory plea for everyone to stay worried Perpetual Covid hystericist and former Christian Drosten associate Isabella Eckerle has condescended to put on her virus suit and grant an interview to Der Spiegel, in service of warning that “The virus is not yet finished with us.” For one, there’s the scary new variant. No, not EG.5
Two German childcare centres in Nordrhein-Westfalen issue child sexuality manifestos, waxing poetic about the benefits of masturbation and outlining rules for child sexual play A few of you have asked about reports of “sexual exploration rooms” in German childcare centres, where young children are encouraged to masturbate and touch each other. While I have no doubt the field of child sexual pedagogy is unusually depraved, I suspected the reports were exaggerated or lacking important
Dark Winter is tedious bioterror fanfiction written to inspire public fear of the smallpox virus and plead for the continued relevancy of its eradicators In which eugyppius reads another pandemic wargame so you don't have to. “Eugyppius,” said critics of the plague chronicle, “everybody knows the SPARS pandemic is a dumb exercise in public health communication. Of course there are no lockdowns in there, even though many have claimed otherwise for a very long
Book Review: The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini “This volume should be a healthy part of every Sensible Centrist’s Library.”
Atlanta college with not a single documented SARS-2 infection imposes mask mandates and other "Covid-19 safety protocols" in a two-week campaign to crush the curve Also open thread. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (h/t the invaluable Prof. Freedom): Two week[s] after classes began, Morris Brown College is once again requiring students and employees to wear face masks on campus. The small, private Atlanta college announced the mask mandate Sunday in a letter to faculty,
The Great White Psycho A quick take on the media feeding frenzy over Lucy Letby and Great White Defendants The British media is currently in frenzy mode over the jailing of Lucy Letby, a nurse who Sky News tells us will ‘‘Die in jail after receiving 14 whole life sentences’’. Letby has been found
Eris vaccine marketing hits Germany, complete with panic about a nonexistent August "Covid wave" ripped from British and American headlines We will not be free of the virus until we are free of the vaccinators. The leftist taz newspaper on 17 August: New German Wave: The new Covid variant Eris has arrived in Germany. Concerns about a new wave are growing – but the country is not well prepared. The pandemic
Living within the Machine: the Problem of Deism I talk a lot about the effects of technology, the technical system and the way of thinking called technique, but they are sustained by a way of seeing the universe that we might broadly call: "Deism" After a day of spreadsheets, emails, reports and meetings, Brandon was glad the day
Bundeswehr plane dumps 200,000 litres of jet fuel into the atmosphere on two failed and unnecessary attempts to fly Germany's foremost Green politician to Australia Notorious air travel opponent and current Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was set to return various sticks from a Leipzig museum to the Kaurna Aborigines. Last Sunday, Germany’s ridiculous Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock departed for a week-long tour of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. The purposes of the trip
The Deconstruction Of Radio 2 And Easy Listening On the purging of all things comfy from Radio 2 The Sunday drive and the country dog walk I enjoy with my good lady have recently taken a turn toward the postmodern philosophy lecture in our futile endeavor to find a comfy radio station to listen to during the drive.
On the self-inflicted political crisis of the German ruling establishment, and why banning Alternative für Deutschland will deepen their failures For the soft authoritarian regimes of the post-liberal West, political repression is both a considerable risk and a very limited resource. Some responded to yesterday’s post with the argument that banning Alternative für Deutschland is the best thing for the German political establishment. They see this as a power
The prejudice against prejudice On reclaiming language and speaking the truth Every object of knowledge demands a method of knowledge proper to it. In other words, the way to understand anything is to take every object of study on its own terms. Accept the given as it gives itself and allow it to exist
German media and political establishment ponder whether to ban the political preferences of a fifth of the population free, text Since 19 June, polls have consistently placed support for the right-populist party Alternative für Deutschland at 20% or higher, making them the second most popular party in Germany – slightly ahead of government-leading SPD, and behind the CDU/CSU. Last week, Thomas Haldenwang, the head of the Federal Office
The Particularism of Joseph Schumpeter Re-reading Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy,[i] I’ve been struck by how insightful it is on many counts, not least his essentially elitist view of society inherited from Pareto and, related, his view that much of human thinking is non-rational and downstream of instincts, which is to
Three questions for Richard Hanania "It is sad to let them trap you in so little a box." Richard Hanania used to suck—he tells us so himself. This is the hardest kind of post to write. And if I do say so myself—not having anything to hide, since I never tried to protect
Piers Morgan And The Manufacturing Of Opinion What can Jacques Ellul's ideas about vertical and horizontal propaganda tell us about online discourse? I’m currently reading Propaganda a book by Jacques Ellul who readers may be more familiar with from his well-known work The Technological Society (which I haven’t read). I will probably have more to
The obliteration of subjectivity On the destruction of inwardness in noiseworld In his 1958 essay Individuality and Modernity, the ever-astute Richard Weaver observes that much of our happiness is dependent upon our ability to maintain a delicate tension between our inner lives and the outer world. He assumes that our attention is, or at
TOLKIEN AND THE FIGHT AGAINST ENTROPY The Lord of the Rings wrestles with the problem of entropy. Its heroes battle against the ever-increasing power of darkness. The walls of the keep crumble, the nations are in decline and the will of the warrior is shaken. Evil stretches its long fingers into many places. Only one course
The China Convergence Yes, the West is becoming more like China. Here is the real reason why. I do believe this is the longest thing I’ve ever written, but also the most important. Read with a stiff drink. – N.S. Lyons Differences and tensions between the United States and China have never
OPPENHEIMER’S MADNESS Recently I watched Oppenheimer. So, apparently, has the World. Such is the suggestion of the media at least. Oppenheimer has unleashed an explosion (my apologies) of commentary. It is understandable. The picture is dense, sophisticated, and slick. Compared to the slop we are usually fed, a film of substance is
20 Rules for "Frens" A guideline for online discourse (Based on a popular tweet thread I wrote last year, I am expanding my points about what it means to be a “Fren” for the benefit of those looking to build and foster community in the dissident space) It’s a common observation that the
A Plague Of Hagues Responding to William Hague's Age of Migration article analysis and long form, free, text It’s difficult not to give yourself over entirely to despair and despondency in these times. I wasn’t planning to write about immigration. I have another, more culturally orientated article I was working on. The
Man, Woman, and the Interregnum Tyrans In what I call the postmodern interregnum tyrans, there is an ever expanding and unhealthy conflict between the sexes. This gulf must be closed and if it is unnaturally prevented from doing so it will bring continuous disaster. Men and women need each other in proper balance, to regulate their
Ruminations By A Vegetable Patch Contrasting the split between the organic and inorganic life unfolding before us I sit wearily down on the rickety stool I’ve appropriated for the purpose of viewing my vegetable patch. I gaze over the raised bed construction and the rows of flourishing vegetables knowing that precious little will have
Teeny-Bopper Revolutionaries: Part 5 of a Deep Dive into Jacques Ellul's "Autopsy of Revolution" You need the organizational skills of the managers to turn a revolt into a revolution. But the process of institutionalizing the revolution at the same time domesticates it. We see a similar scene unfold again and again these days. Earnest, pink haired youths gluing themselves to priceless works of art
High Noon: The Warriors and The Merchants In my forthcoming book, The Prophets of Doom, a recurring feature of the analysis – which, in fact, goes hand-in-glove with analysis derived from elite theory as per The Populist Delusion – is the notion that there are four broad social types who may rule. Oswald Spengler called them the Four Estates,
The Modern State vs. Authority As I understand from listening to a conversation about it, the book The Ancient City describes moves by the ancient Roman city against the paterfamilias: the head of the family and his authority over his home. But I am not going to try to tackle the ancient world and will
The Invisible Revolution A review of America's Cultural Revolution, by Chris Rufo “The urgent task for the political Right is to correctly understand the contours of the current revolution and create a strategy for defeating it on real political grounds: revolution against revolution, institution against institution, negation against negation. This new counter-revolution will
In Memoriam V.H.C. Hearts and Spines. Sometimes I can't ignore it and my heart shrinks. This isn’t my country. It’s not the same. So many faces from childhood—resting in deserts and fields and under weeping trees. Long gone to that great beyond. What have I done with the pieces they
THE INTERNET IS DOOMED An old ballad speaks of John Barleycorn, grown, reaped, and sown. He is an inoffensive chap, pale and wan with a little beard. Spoken of fondly, he must eventually be killed to be of use. His body is made to grain and, to stretch this personification to its most grotesque,
Empire of Dollars 3 How the United States maintains control of the global monetary system - part 3: The liquidity of the U.S. dollar 3. The liquidity of the U.S. dollar Liquidity refers to the ease, accessibility, speed and efficiency that a currency can be bought and sold without causing a significant
The paranoid style of American precrime On the necessity of transcending leftard schizotemporality In Storm of Steel, his vividly gripping account of his experiences as an officer in the Great War, Ernst Jünger writes about a fellow soldier named Eisen, a plump little man who was always shivering in the trenches. To fight the cold, he
Destroying Europe: The Final Stage free, text Remember the story of multiple blind men describing the part of the elephant they are feeling? Medieval Europe was: * European * White * Christian * “Anarchistic” politically (my own emphasis with “Medieval Anarchy”), that is, politically de-centralized * Capitalist * Rationalist * Scientific * ...and more! However you want to think about it the "powers
Leftism's Not Dead My final retrospective on Professor McManus I don't like to revisit old dialogues. Nevertheless, something about my recent interaction with online leftist Matt McManus stuck in my craw, and I found myself revisiting some of our previous talking points. Perhaps it’s because Professor McManus is one of the few
The metaphysics and politics of coffee My coffee has gone cold and so now I must contemplate the entire universe Every time you make yourself a cup of coffee, maybe while standing nearly lifeless (or half dead) in front of that coffee pot on a particularly dismal Monday morning, it is not difficult to take it
The Paradox of Tony Blair: The Schmittian Liberalism of Divine Right Carl Schmitt 101 is rooted in an insight by Thomas Hobbes who wrote: ‘It is men and arms, not words and promises, that make the force and power of the laws.’ From this Schmitt derives many of his core principles: all power is decisionist; neutrality is a myth; the essence
THE OCEANGATE TITAN IN RETROSPECT. There are, no doubt, as many idiotic opinion pieces regarding the events surrounding the Oceangate Titan as idiotic journalists draw breath. Every inch of the incident, and the ensuing scandal, has been analyzed with the sort of dauntless crudity only the media can summon. Minutae has been picked over and
Indiana Jones And The Lost Enchantment On the curious indifference being shown to the butchering of a childhood classic I realise I shouldn’t take the bait, but I decided to write something about the fact an Indiana Jones movie “dropped” and nobody cared. This is the point when people might roll their eyes or view
Scyldings Nashville I arrived in Nashville on the Friday and was met at the airport by fellow speaker Mike of Pol, who was very funny and gracious to me and I was treated like a beloved guest by him the entire time. Soon we were chatting up a storm about our lives
The Change Merchants Why rule by nerds leads to perpetual chaos Over the years, various labels have emerged to describe the type or class of people who tend to run societies in the postmodern West: the “professional managerial class” or the “managerial elite,” the “creative class” or the “laptop class.” Or, as I’
Too Heavy For Superman... On the increasing load diversity is placing upon mighty shoulders analysis and long form, free, text The oddball alternative rock band The Flaming Lips have a bittersweet song in their somewhat neglected canon called Waiting For Superman. The song depicts the masses once again in need of saving and once
Hunting the white stag On the inevitability of hierarchies In the first of his Arthurian Romances, Chrétien de Troyes tells a rather odd story. At least, it is odd by modern standards; and modern standards should not necessarily be trusted. The story goes that a bunch of men, led by King Arthur, go out
Empire of Dollars 2 How the United States maintains control of the global monetary system - part 2: An overview of the benefits of the dollar system to the United States 2. An overview of the benefits of the dollar system to the United States Debt, Consumption and Sustainability Currently, the U.S. runs
The Faustian Left And The Sisters Of Fate Fate, Destiny and a Confused Bearded Lady This past week Fate as a concept has been on my mind quite a lot. I began considering Fate when I happened to come across a video of a female-to-male transexual who was crying because — now complete with a beard — she never knew
THE ( NOT SO ) YELLOW PERIL A specter hangs over the East. Tyranny, Despotism, immorality, degeneracy, disregard for the sanctity of life, and a burning desire to conquer and sweep away all that is good in the world. Only one thing stands between us and them: figuring out who ‘they’ actually are. We seem to think
THE DOOMED HISTORY OF BRITISH REVOLUTION Britons, and the English in particular – are not a revolutionary bunch, it’s not in our nature. Whenever the topic comes up, this vague point seems to be raised. It’s something in our culture, or simply in the water perhaps. We just get on with it and make things
The Beautiful Fantasy of Unconditional Basic Income On the new realities faced by the pro UBI lobby and how it fits into the grand scheme of things Liberal progressives with a socialistic streak have long held, deep in their hearts, a wonderful dream. They surveyed the societal landscape of the modern West, America in particular, and were
Dharma and Adharma “Do the needful.”
Remove Your Children From the Clutches of Our Enemies Marshall Fritz was right. Marshall Fritz founded the Alliance for the separation of School and State in 1994 well before many were ready for such a radical approach to the problem of regime schooling. I remember being with him in a private meeting as he tried to persuade an important
Putting the Woke Away For the past couple of years, I have talked a lot about containment as a key strategy of power. I defined and outlined what that entails in an article called ‘On Containment’. We used to talk about this as ‘Back to Fresh Prince’, but since I started this substack, as
Empire of Dollars How the United States maintains control of the global monetary system - part 1: Introduction and overview 1. Introduction The United States is the dominant superpower in the world today, a position it has held since the end of World War II. The United States’ gross domestic product (GDP) is
Baudrillard's Kipper and the Great Reset The long and winding road from authentic kippers to the Great Reset Long-time followers may recall that I like to consider myself something of an old salty sea dog and a man of the salty brine. I have a life-long fixation and love for the sea and being an Englishmen
A new theory of constitutional cynicism "Once they do not rule, laws do not sleep. Laws die." Kynikos: Why do we believe in the law? In this country, our country—in the United States in 2023, I tell you, there is no law, nor even order—only mere capricious force. In such a state of society,
Metamodernism A quick peak under the mask of the will to oscillate Charlie Kaufman’s 2008 film Synecdoche, New York is possibly the quintessential postmodern film. It makes use of all the stuff we intuitively associate with postmodernism: irony, deconstruction, pastiche, relativism, and, of course, the rejection of big stories as
DeSantis Puts The Woke Away free, text Why does Elon Musk shill for DeSantis? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1662193436684951556 Musk and his ilk want unlimited, unrestricted business with whomever they want and as many immigrants as they want to import for cheap labor. During Trump’s campaign, he always talked about the economy, trade,
Liberal Subversion There is liberalism in many of us, and many see this as harmless or even good, but it is insidious. It tears at our core instincts, and leads us to destruction. We must tear this away from ourselves if we wish our civilization to survive. Our liberal paradigm seems harmless,
Liberalism vs. Democracy: Which is the more entropic force? Mike from Imperium Press is one person whose articles I read without fail: he’s always interesting, seldom wrong, and more often than not I agree with him. You should subscribe to him. However, recently, he wrote a piece with which I disagree, or at least which is at odds
Dune, The Butlerian Jihad: Review and Analysis analysis and long form, free, text “Humans tried to develop intelligent machines as secondary reflex systems, turning over primary decisions to mechanical servants. Gradually, though, the creators did not leave enough to do for themselves; they began to feel alienated, dehumanized, and even manipulated. Eventually, humans became little more than
The psychopolitics of mimicry On the destruction of the human being and the plague of identities Recently, a TikTokker showed how limb lengthening surgery made it possible for him to go from being five feet five inches tall to six feet tall. Mary Harrington perceptively and hilariously suggests that the TikTokker in question is
Conspiratorial realism A rather rough speculation on why conspiracy theories might turn out to be true It is remarkable that very young children, without ever being taught, will realise that absolutely nothing in the world explains itself. This is what’s behind that infamous why phase. Kids will ask why until grownups,
TUCKER CARLSON: A CLASH OF HIGH VS. MIDDLE Tucker Carlson stayed on my feed far longer than I expected. As a Fox News anchor, he should have been the archetype of right-wing containment. Indeed, for many decades this had been his function. Tucker’s place within the regime was to be the token Republican; the plea for a
The Twitter Coup Guest Contributor: Black Horse free, text I asked Black Horse, frequent contributor to my show Radical Liberation, to update his analysis of the Twitter deal in light of Elon Musk negotiating a buyout of Twitter with the Board. We discussed this originally in The Twitter Takeover. Note that the deal
OVERSEAS INTERVENTIONS BY THE US: PART 3 Nicaragua Nicaragua is a country whose relations with the U.S. stretch back many years. The United States occupied Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933. During World War II, Nicaragua offered a second line of defense for the Panama Canal, protecting American control of the isthmus and shipping by allowing the
The Boomer Cruise: Day of the Pillow A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of traditionalism. All the powers of GloboHomo have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and President, Managers and intelligentsia, French Radicals and German police spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as regressive by
Overseas Interventions by the United States: part three Nicaragua and Argentina Nicaragua Nicaragua is a country whose relations with the U.S. stretch back many years. The United States occupied Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933. During World War II, Nicaragua offered a second line of defence for the Panama Canal, protecting American control of the isthmus and shipping
Official Endorsement for President Concrete Block 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 25, 2023 ALPENA, MICHIGAN – These years of upheaval are trying times for our nation, and painfully uncertain for American families. In this moment what America most needs is steady, unwavering leadership. Which is why I am pleased to transmit the official announcement of
MUSK, TWITTER, AND YOU. This is an evolving story, and so in an effort to not date the below too much – we shall focus on some wider context, rather than the exact events unfolding. But it remains to be established that – subsequently to buying a significant stake in Twitter and refusing to be integrated
Those Who Walk Away from Hogwarts How Professor McManus defeated House Slytherin The Fall of House Slytherin Perhaps it's a Millennial defect in my soul, but I have an odd inclination to explain political ideas with references to Harry Potter. Actually, I am not particularly fond of the books, but it's indisputable that they have captured
Destroying Differences As I explained on Lambster last weekend, “What the Right and Christians Must Learn from Each Other”, egalitarians hold a view of man as alienated from God and each other through our differences. This tragic alienation can only be resolved by losing our differences and being reabsorbed. …tragic alienation will
Lazy Jack An exegesis of a folk tale Consider your life as a question. How will you, as this live hermeneutical forcefield, as this mode of perception irregularly used by strangers, be an answer to this world that questions you; and how will you allow the world to answer the question of
HOLY MOUNTAINS AND THE AMERICAN DISEASE I recently took a month’s long trip to Canada. It was a trip I had always wanted to take since I was a boy; to leave the old world and venture to the bastion of freedom that was the Americas. What I had always imagined was more the frontier
LONGING FOR THE FRONTIER The Walking Dead TV series has finally come to an end. For eleven years the post-apocalyptic show has graced our screens. In that time, it has gained a major following. The fifth season premiere was watched by 17.3 million people. Spin-off shows have been spawned, while there are new
GPT-4 invalidates the Turing test "You never anthropomorphize your Apple Watch, even if it can beat you at chess." Neighbors these days often ask me about “AI.” What does the ChatGPT phenomenon mean? Will it take over the world? If not—what will it do? Neighbor: there is no “AI.” There are large language models
God's been sacked A memo to all staff “I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1889). To all staff, To curb rumours, we want to bring to your attention a matter of some importance. As you are already
Of Course NPR and the BBC are State Media More accurately: they're Party-State media… Yesterday National Public Radio (NPR) announced that it is leaving Twitter, after the platform “falsely labeled” it as “state-affiliated media.” This is the “the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries,” the indignant NPR huffed. Twitter CEO Elon
Upheaval Interview: Matthew B. Crawford A dialogue on embodied reality, self-governance, and technocracy with the mechanic-philosopher Matthew B. Crawford is a philosopher. Actually he’s more like a modern Renaissance man: a self-taught auto-mechanic and one-time custom motorcycle shop owner, a repentant former D.C. think tanker, a best-selling author with an undergraduate education in
UNDERSTANDING THE 13/50 A common misconception surrounds the 13/50 statistic, which is unfair to the African American minority within the United States. Aggregate data does not support the claim that 50% of all crimes in America are committed by highly melanated individuals. As seen in the figure provided, Blacks are not callously
Mulvaney And The Terrible Elephant Man Elephant Man (1980) is a biographical drama directed by avant-garde filmmaker David Lynch. It’s based on the real life of Joseph “John” Merrick, a man living in Victorian England suffering from a rare medical condition called neurofibromatosis type 1. The condition caused abnormal growths and deformities all over his
Interregnum There is a space of time that between two definitive points, called the indefinite. It is the difference between “the” and “a/an”. A nation could be any nation, while the nation is an identifiable entity. No one cares about a king, a president, a Prime Minister, a pope, or
JOIN THE CIRCULATION OF ELITES: A REVIEW OF FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICS Disclaimer: The reviewer received a free registration in the course in return for a commitment to write this review. Many people hate their boss. Yes, he has formal authority as the guy who hires and fires and perhaps even assigns how many hours you work. That only rankles all the
The question concerning AI Thinking about inhuman pseudo-intelligence with Martin Heidegger “We look into the danger and see the growth of the saving power. Through this we are not yet saved. But we are summoned to hope in the growing light of the saving power. How can this happen? Here and now and in
Wagner Day "I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men." Wilhelm Richard Wagner Wagner
PUTIN IS UPENDING THE TABLE Much is afoot in international markets, this much is obvious. Between existing inflationary pressures to supply chains, fiat currency printing, and financial market troubles in regional markets (notably China’s property sector, and Turkish currency devaluation), there would already be a bumpy few years in our collective economic future. Then
Digging craters to catch the rain A brief guide to thinking in four directions “In the form in which it comes, a thought is a sign with many meanings, requiring interpretation or, more precisely, an arbitrary narrowing and restriction before it finally becomes clear. It arises in me—where from? How? I don’t know. It
MOVIE REVIEW: IMPERIUM (2016) J.K Rowling has done something again and the left is mad. This time, her intellectual property has been licensed out by a video game company, which has gone on to release HOGWARTS: LEGACY. This game takes on what the task of simulating what it might be like to live
Bitvana or the bitcaust "It's all money. Always has been." Nobody has any respect these days. But I feel that since I was writing about the game theory of hyperbitcoinization in 2006, folks should have some respect for my opinions. At least on that subject. Ya know. But now it’s 2023 and everyone
THE 1913 FEDERAL RESERVE ACT The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States of America. It issues the U.S. dollar, which happens to be the world reserve currency. The Federal Reserve is the most powerful institution in the world today, arguably the most powerful ever: this is because it has total
QUESTING FOR IMPERIUM Man is hungry by nature. Whether it be for adventure, experience (of a sort), control, understanding, or ownership, he wishes to know what is beyond the next hill – metaphorical or literal. He wishes for growth, in himself and his holdings. He wishes to be able to answer the question with
THE REALITY OF REPARATIONS Well, there is not much to say. It’s finally happened. I remembered conversations had with people coming on a decade ago now on the topic of ludicrously effeminate liberals screeching at the top of their lungs for reparations on Youtube. The white man, in their world, was the primordial
How the United States Gained Control of the Global Monetary System: part three Stage 3 - The 1971 Nixon Shock free, text Stage 3 1971 Nixon Shock Summary of Key Points * The fiat dollar is born * Removing the link to gold allows for infinite expansion of the money supply and money creation no longer has any restraints With the Federal Reserve system now
The zombification of therapy On chatbot psychologists for unworlded selves Recently, as large language models have improved—meaning that they have become more deceptive—there’s been a bit of a push to use AI chatbots to take on the role of the therapist. This amounts to replacing the therapist with a philosophical zombie:
WOES VERSUS SARGON: LIVING WITHIN THEIR STORY Millennial Woes has returned to Twitter from exile and on his second day is stirring up debate on right-wing Twitter, setting his sights on Carl Benjamin. Carl is the edge of the dissident right closest to the acceptable array of opinions of the Overton window, so much so that even
Chimpanzee Power Politics A couple of months ago, I produced a video entitled ‘Chimpanzee Power Politics’. It focussed on the pioneering work of the primatologist Frans de Waal. In his book Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes, de Waal analyzed the behavior of a group of Chimps housed at Burgers Zoo in
A RATIONALIST’S ARGUMENT FOR IRRATIONALISM “Some men have been rational for short periods- this is the sum total of the appearance of Reason in History. But they have never made history, as it is irrational.” (Yockey, 2022) I don’t believe that I am the first young man to become enraptured by the ideas of
How the United States Gained Control of the Global Monetary System: part two Stage 2 - The 1944 Bretton Woods Conference free, text Stage 2 1944 Bretton Woods Conference Summary of Key Points * The U.S. dollar becomes the world reserve currency. * In the aftermath of World War II, American power is now formalised in the eyes of the world and the United
Through The Upper Country Pierre d’Iberville And The Hudson Bay Expedition Editors Note: Canada, it’s early history and it’s people, was shaped by the twofold struggles between it’s people and the hostile environment, and between it’s peoples for dominance. The story of Pierre d’Iberville is a great window
How the United States Gained Control of the Global Monetary System: part one Introduction; Stage 1 - The 1913 Federal Reserve Act Introduction In this series I will attempt to explain how the United States gained control of the global monetary system, at least as this humble author sees it. The monetary system is, at its core, a dollar-based, central bank controlled, fiat
Dr. John Rae Fur Trader, Explorer, & Canadian The Canadian psyche is deeply informed by a primal awareness of the harsh land in which we live. As an early exploration of this, Today, The Red Ensign presents the story of Dr. John Rae, a Scottish-Canadian Explorer & business man who thrived in the vast Canadian
Overseas Interventions by the United States: part two Chile, Philippines and Iran Part two of this series will deal with the United States’ interventions in Chile, the Philippines and Iran. A variety of influences, state and non-state, are at work and on display in these operations. America’s exploits in Chile and Iran were seen as textbook, covert
Exodus An appeal It is current year plus eight. Thousands around the world have lost their faith in the existing and persisting order. The desire for stability has expired in all but spirit, but will remain lost in these conquered lands. Chaos is all which remains, with a choice of two
ROCKWELL’S AMERICA Few people could point to a more renowned American artist than Norman Rockwell. His works stretch across the 20th century highlighting the ideals of contemporary America. Exploring the themes of masculine virtues, literature, Presidents, Civil Rights, American liberties, and Space Exploration. Rockwell’s brush has told the story with vividity,
Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal Pioneer, Aristocrat, Canadian free, text The Red Ensign is a publication dedicated to Anglo-Canadian people, their history, and to all that they could be again. For both of these purposes we frequently publish pieces reviewing the lives of the great men of Canada’s history, highlighting the elements of their
Overseas Interventions by the United States: part one Introduction; Guatemala and Indonesia Introduction In this series I will examine America’s numerous overseas interventions, the reasons, and the purpose for their involvement in these foreign countries and how these interventions have destabilised those respective countries to one degree or another. This series also explores how the American empire
The Red Ensign Canada: A People, not a Post-National State Welcome to The Red Ensign; a publication dedicated to highlighting the achievements, and advancing the future of the Anglo-Canadian people. This Substack is the production of a small team of Canadians dedicated to preserving a posterity for future generations of Canadians, and to
THE BULLSHIT HAS TO BE GOOD Recently my fellow countrymen and I have had the displeasure of reading about the wilful removal of Christian Krogh’s painting “Leif Erikson Discovering America.” The painting of Erikson proudly pointing at the coastline of an unknown land was prominently featured at the entrance of the old National Gallery. However,
Fridge Theory Of Politics Lessons from Elite Theory Introduction It is a common pastime in these online circles to bemoan the loss of a civilization that was. Whether it is the glory days of the 1950's economic boom, the patchwork-tapestry of culture and innovation that was the European renaissance, or even the Roman empire
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LONDON I returned to London at the end of 2021 after an extensive period living and working in East Asia, in many respects I now wish I hadn’t. Hindsight is 20-20, as they say. If I had known then what I know now I would have taken a different course
Doom Further thoughts on the war on reality The nominalist revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.1 If so many people hadn’t succumbed to a fringe philosophical development in the middle ages, the world would look very different. If nominalism had not sprung up,
The Temptations of Carl Schmitt A long look at the man of the moment in a totalizing age of strife “Today will be very instructive for those still clinging to the idea of returning to norms and sacred institutions,” tweeted one popular young right-wing commentator shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft ruling
The Petrodollar: part three The petrodollar wars and the consequences of American foreign policy In part two of this series we looked at America’s military engagements and why preserving the dollar system is essential for the United States. In this, the final part in the petrodollar series, I examine the consequences of American
CYCLICAL HISTORY – A BRIEF INTRO TO GLUBB, TAINTER, AND TURCHIN Among the thinkers who work within the broad school of cyclical history, many fall into one of two major camps: those who intuit or infer patterns in existing histories or narratives, and those who model the ebbing and flowing from a statistical viewpoint. The latter can more robustly verify the
Decline A brief introduction to the history of consciousness “No, listen,” I say. “Imagine this. You’re in an old aeroplane, the altimeter reads 5000 meters, you’ve lost a wing, you’re going down like a tumbler pigeon, and on the way, you’re going over your schedule: Tomorrow from
THE CRISIS OF MODERN SECULARISM Modern Secularism is in crisis. There is a common view that traditional religions are in their own crisis, which is largely true, there is a certain amount of ignorance of how our ideas of secular society are being completely changed, if not supplanted. While this is not a strictly new
Monarchy and the Mind of the Matriarch Three short essays about one thing Opening my notepad today, I happened on three notes that added up to one essay. The first read “The biggest intellectual mistake of the 20th century”, the second “The Benefits of Monarchy”, and the last simply “The Woman Question”. Perhaps the sum will be
ROLLING FOR POWER: THE INTERSECTION OF ELITE THEORY AND D&D A hooded figure stalks silently down a corridor toward a room at the end of the hall. Voices can be heard from just beyond the door discussing matters of state and war. Creeping silently forward, the hooded man stops for just a moment, then swiftly kicks open the door. With
Ukraine: The Strategic Landscape An overview of the situation This article will overview the situation in Ukraine and give some predictions for the future. 1) Kherson A referendum was held in Kherson from September 23rd–27th. It asked: “Do you approve of having Kherson Oblast exit Ukraine, reforming Kherson Oblast into a self-governing state
IN DEFENCE OF LARPING Within the usual discourse around this topic, larping is defined as the incomplete, perhaps insincere, and by implication – fruitless attempt to embody or achieve something. An example might be that one would larp as a knight in Quixotesque fashion, or conversely to larp as a revolutionary. This term has fairly
The art of descandalisation On outrage porn, mimesis, and forgiveness One of the signs of our time is the almost overwhelming prevalence of so-called outrage porn. That colloquialism refers to things that provoke shock or indignation, whether by design or default. And, my goodness, there’s a lot of it around. Probably we did
Get Sertified A guest post by Don Baton Recently Don Baton, pseudonymous author of the great unwoke classical music newsletter The Podium , sent me an amusing (but also not so amusing) account from New York, and I felt it was worth him turning it into a short satirical piece for publication. That
Dispatch: The Children's Crusade A self-hating generation comes of age “An ancient axiom of politics teaches that a spoiled people invite despotic control. Their failure to maintain internal discipline is followed by some rationalized organization in the service of a single powerful will. In this particular, at least, history, with all her volumes vast,
The Luddites and Linus Torvalds Escaping Modernity's Bind There is a man standing on the neck of modern thought and his name is Ned Ludd. Really, I hated Ned before I knew his name, despite him not being American, not being my contemporary, and, well, not being real. As a legend, as an archetype, the
The United States, The World Bank and The IMF: Partners In Power Introduction The World Bank and the IMF (International Monetary Fund) were founded at the Bretton Woods conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944. These multilateral institutions wield tremendous power and influence across the world today. Indeed, depending on how you look at it, they can legitimately be said to
IDEOLOGICAL AMNESIA Ideology, like religion; matters to people. So much so that it will make them throw away their lives in the hopes that their chosen doctrine will be empowered. No amount of money will convince a man to sacrifice his life in such a way. Clearly, ideology matters, with differing contents
The great discarnation The ontology of the work of AI and its hermeneutical insignificance “I dont have nothing only words to put down on paper. Its so hard. Some times theres mor in the emty paper nor there is when you get the writing down on it. You try to word the big
Authoring Caesar: Part Four “Where there’s a will, there’s a way:” all can be overcome through the power of will; but one must first possess it. It’s been a long period of growth towards higher Civilization in the West. We have been seated high for so long that the notion of
Can an AI Chatbot Replace the Washington Blob? ChatGPT and I investigate I will be taking some time off over the next couple of weeks for Christmas, as well as to try to get in some deep reading for the next more substantial essay. In the meantime, I heartily recommend spending some time having fun with artificial intelligence
Authoring Caesar: Part Three The greatest failure of Democracy is in empowering the incapable and immoral. This brings the wretches into an unfair conflict with moral and just people over power. Armed with this evil, the immoral wretches slash at righteous good, before good knows what hit it. Democracy breeds naïveté towards the human
The Nixon Shock: part two How the Nixon shock changed the world forever Globalisation of Fiat System The creation of the fiat dollar changed the world forever because the reality is that as the dollar became a floating fiat currency so, by necessity, did all the other currencies in the world. This is because the
Authoring Caesar: Part One Western man stands on a precipice before a path ridden with obstacles; behind us lay our progenitors: “old”, “obsolete”, and “incapable”. Whiffs of their essence lay within us, hopefully enough to make a difference. Ahead lies our future, our progeny, and all we will, our canvas. We cannot correct the
Courage in the Streets of China Celebrating a brief revolt for human dignity against banal, nihilistic, authoritarian technocracy I highly recommend you read this in the web or app version rather than email so that you can view the many included videos, and so that it doesn’t get cut off. Apologies in advance for any
40 Lessons from Warhammer 40k Learning from the Grim-Dark Future free, text It's time to talk about everyone’s favorite science fiction pulp setting: Warhammer 40000. Since its inception, this extended fictional universe (designed as the backdrop for miniature war-gaming) popularized the image of the "Grim-dark" future. Of course, most of 40k's core ideas are
The Nixon Shock: part one The creation of the fiat dollar It is August 1971. America is in the grip of an inflationary crisis the likes of which has not been seen since the era of The Great Depression. Owing to the declining value of the dollar, countries were scrambling to exchange their dollars for
The incoherence of rights Thinking about ethics with Marshall McLuhan “A friend of mine who tried to teach something about the forms of media in secondary school was struck by one unanimous response. The students could not for a moment accept the suggestion that the press or any other public means of communication could
The Petrodollar: part two The petrodollar wars - U.S. foreign policy and the dollar system The first instalment of this series dealt with the origins and the mechanics of the petrodollar system and the benefits it brings to the United States. In this part, I will explore how U.S. foreign policy is
Transcendences Between limits and possibilities One of the most natural of human desires, a desire that is arguably at the very centre of everything we are and do, is the desire for transcendence. But as with all natural things, all apparent givens, this desire is part of the background of life.
The High Bretton Woods Era The mass reindustrialization and suburbanisation of the United States in the post-war era, along with an American centred global economy, allowed Americans to live an affluent lifestyle far beyond anything that had come before it. On the surface, the Bretton Woods system was generally working well as member states adhered
Dispatch: No More Apologies Pandemic amnesty and its discontents Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University, calls for a “pandemic amnesty” in a recent piece for the Atlantic. The first year of the pandemic was a time of “tremendous uncertainty,” Oster writes, and “treating pandemic choices as a scorecard on which some people racked
FIFTH-GENERATIONAL WARFARE – BEYOND ARMIES AND MEN The established wisdom, from both historical precedent and common logic; is that to wage a war, no matter how sophisticated the tools may be, a hardy man with an iron will is still required to wield it. We in the West seem to have abandoned that principle and chosen instead
The Petrodollar: part one The origins of the petrodollar and its role in the global financial system free, text If you have never heard of the petrodollar system, it would not surprise me. It is certainly not a topic that makes its way out of the State Department or Wall Street and on to
Bretton Woods – The Birth of the American Empire The Louisiana Purchase and westward expansion. The 1913 Federal Reserve Act. The Monroe Doctrine. The Ford Model T. The Nixon shock in 1971. The global realignment after World War One and the decline of the British empire. The end of the Cold War. It is no easy task defining when
Welcome to the Dissident's Domain A gentle introduction I thought this would be a short and simple introduction, whereby I can introduce who l am, what l am interested in, what I believe in and what kind of content and commentary you can expect to find here. However, one thing that I have learnt is
The Line The Great Wall of Arabia “The Line” megaproject was brought to my attention again recently: There has been a lot of commentary around “The Line” that goes like: “It’s dystopia city! The Great Reset!” Well, maybe it is that, too, but I think it’s quite obviously something else—
THE ETERNAL QUESTION: BUT IS IT ART? If you were once like me, you used to think that beauty was wholly subjective – in the eye of the beholder – and the question as to what made something art was an intellectual query and not something of pertinent or immediate concern. But then, perhaps like me, you once went
Tom Harwood: Establishment Shill Who’s team is he on?
Trains, Biplanes, and Autogynephiliacs Categorization vs. Corporatization
The Hungry Country Three Trials and Three Acquittals “…respect for the memories and deeds of our ancestors is security for the present and seed-corn for the future.” —Richard Taylor Lares and Penates Somehow through the centuries my family has managed to retain some of that “older religiousness” of the early American yeoman. We
The (He)art Reset the vibe shift is real and has been a long time coming There are few subjects as fascinating as art and the right-wing. How long have we been talking about this? A long time certainly. More than a decade before Andrew Breitbart made his proclamation that “politics is downstream from
Rats, Wires, and the Problem of Urukai “Preparation is Salvation.”
Book Review: “The Populist Delusion” by Neema Parvini “Power permits no rival.”
SPOTLIGHTING ART FOR THE MOTH-LIKE MASSES Editors Note: Edward White (aka KingEmperorPenguin) is an author and Youtuber. Readers are greatly encouraged to check out his work with the above links. Last year, I uploaded a video on YouTube called It’s Time to Move On (Fans of Critic YouTube Are Not Seeking Good Entertainment). This essay
Orderly Queues to Nowhere It’s a free country, ain’t it? “Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem." Sometimes I just can't believe this is the same place I grew up. When I was a kid everybody recited that ancient American catechism: "It's a free country, ain’t it?" But I can't remember the
A Letter to Right-Wing Pagans I am not here to throw your maypoles on the bonfire, your vanities are a different story Is there a serious religious debate on the dissident right? Not from what I can see in 2022. Online, there is a perennial discussion about “Paganism versus Christianity” which usually takes place in
THE EROSION OF THE CLASSES Modern society is dedicated to the material matters in life over the transcendent and this is wreaking havoc on the conventional classes of men. Our managerial ruling class has promoted a classless, uniform society to the detriment of the traditional classes. Men no longer realize why they should accept their
Cringe and Propaganda “Zeal takes the strength of man’s spirit and convictions and violently opposes meaninglessness and nihilism.”
Liberalism No Work, Very Sad Sometime last month I found myself drawn again into a conversation (conflict?) with the “radical centrists” Adam and Sitch. Most of the exchange was civil, but towards the end my interlocutors on the radical center continuously accused me of being “evasive” and hiding what I really believed as a right-winger.
Rod Dreher and a Parting of Ways Some bad news from Rod Dreher today, more personal than political. But to me it feels existential. In all honesty this is hitting me harder than it should. Rod Dreher was an enormous influence on my own journey from atheism to Christianity. And although it might seem shallow to admit
CREATING FROM THE RIGHT A challenge that all of us dissident right-wingers face is the need to retake culture. We lament that the left subverts traditional values and attacks our way of life. In the political arena, there is a clear-cut path to victory. Victory in politics will not guarantee victory in culture. Victory
ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL Working carefully, methodically, diligently, he makes a tiny little capsule. It is hidden, safe, barely perceptible to his predators. Enclosing himself, he lays dormant, silent for about two weeks. Then, he emerges. Now with wings, now a creature of flight, a caterpillar has changed into a butterfly. Or did he
BUILD YOUR TRIBE The globalized, disenfranchised, sterilized, secularized, urbanized, and the personalized world which our children are being born into idolizes the deracinated individual above all else. The deracinated individual is rootless, isolated, and bereft of both heritage and meaningful ties to the culture of their ancestors. The deracinated individual is therefore easily
Discourse won't Save the Boomers (but let's try anyways) Is it really possible "red-pill" your parents? So it turns out that my last letter was built on a faulty premise. Perhaps a follow-up is in order? In my last Substack entry, I painted a picture of a dissident community preoccupied with helping young folks and building a future apart
BORDERLINES: CHRISTIANS & PAGANS The Christian-Pagan Question has gripped this sphere of things as early as Dr. Revilo P. Oliver’s critiques of the religion following his removal from the Buckleyite National Review sphere. This faultline has made us aware of its presence through the tremors which emanate forthwith, taking the shape of arguments
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE? On March 23, 2010, the United States President, Barak Obama, signed into law the Affordable Care Act, or as it is more fondly referred to as ‘Obamacare’. It was such an important and inspiring bill that its chief advocate in the US legislature, the Speaker-of-the-House, Nancy Pelosi, encouraged members of
Anime Won't Save the Zoomers (and neither will Dante) Some thoughts on helping our new lost generation Today’s letter, perhaps fitting for the new year, is directed at a perennial right-wing complaint: kids these days, or as they say on the Internets, the “Zoomer Question”. As is obvious, the kids are not alright. Young people today (the “Zoomer
CONFLICTING TRADITIONS AND UNIVERSAL TRUTHS Part of the draw, if not the main draw, to studying topics such as power relations, social dynamics, and political trajectories – is the promise of unearthing some universal qualities which will make sense of the world in some underlying way. Conversely, there is the opposite proposition: that all traditions are
A PASSING THOUGHT ON SPENGLER’S CYCLE The Spenglerian cycle, at least in part, has been accepted as the God-given truth by most on the side of it. I argue elsewhere that this is due to Spengler being a prophet and not a philosopher. Yet even prophets have trouble predicting the entire future, and every theory has
OWNED AND BORROWED POWER Networks of influence and influence hierarchies are something that are well-known, and well understood in principle, but specificities around what the peak of any such network would look like – are often elusive. There may be disagreement on whether, in practice, a large number of small nodes exist, or one great
A TANGIBLE SHAPE OF PARALLELISM Asha Logos, a content creator whose channel everyone in Our Thing should be subscribed to, recently put out a call for parallel institutions on our side of things. This article serves as both an answer and a further call, like the relayed trumpeters atop watchtowers on the borders of East
THE GOLDEN MEAN Eudaimonia: Aristotle and most of his contemporaries used this phrase to speak of the end goal of humanity: a life well-lived. To successfully live life, they argued, one had to rationally apply virtuous principles to moral dilemmas. One of the principles used by Aristotle was that of the Golden Mean.
THE HIGH TECH HALFWIT Last summer, I was amazed to watch my five-year-old daughter get on her first bicycle and immediately ride it like she had been doing it all her life. She didn’t need a push first or someone to hold on and give her a sense of safety. There were no
THE POWER OF THE MERCHANT Counter-Economics is a term used to describe the process of cutting off the State from access to resources. It is the direct action through black or grey markets against the power of the Ruling Elite. Where we are taxed, one must avoid paying; where the State builds a monopoly, one
LESSONS FROM HOPPE: YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE There are forms of organizations that cause society to degenerate. This is the underlying theory in much of Hoppe’s work, from “Democracy: The God that Failed” to “Getting Libertarianism Right”, and there are lessons to be taken here for any right-winger, even those who reject the Austro-libertarian approach of
POWER, TYRANNY, AND THE TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw that over time, democracy would become a conservative mechanism as opposed to a progressive one. Ever astute, De Tocqueville realised very early in his examination of the democratic systems in America and in his native France, that although each successive wave of franchise reform would entropically
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY & THE RULING CLASS A fundamental lament about modern industrial society is the atomization of society. Individuals struggle to find meaning in social orders that destroy and subvert traditions. A valuable line of questioning rests at the very beginning of industrialization: Why? Advanced tool use is a hallmark of humanity. We define industrial tools
TYRANT ON THE CORRIENTES Dr. Francia is a name little-known among those of our community. A tragedy considering he fulfilled Carlyle’s vision of a Great Man and Bronze Age Pervert’s (BAP) vision of a Man of Power. Carlyle has spoken of Dr. Francia at length in an essay of the same name
THOMAS CARLYLE: THE DIVINITY OF ORDER Despite the pains and lengths man has suffered to legislate and manage post-industrial society, we find ourselves living in a state of disorder, and that we have lived in a growing state of it for centuries at the least. No matter the quantity of data and peer-reviewed studies that suggest
How it finally ends Some thoughts on the current American epoch, written on the 4th of July, 2021 We can't keep living like this. We won't keep living like this. That is as core a certainty as I have at this point. That's the thing that keeps me doing politics in 2021. Not victory
On Folk Culture and the "Extended Universe" A letter concerning the development of dissident art, and included prototype In 2021, the platitude "Get Woke, go broke" is dead. Everyone got woke, and no one who got woke went broke. The meme was on life support before 2019. In 2021 its corpse is starting to smell. Did anyone
A letter to earnest right-wing activists Behold the awesome power of fiat currency and elite over-production! To kick off this new era on SubStack, I intend to produce a series of letters directed at the persistent political divides which exist both on online and off. My goal generally will be to clarify the controversies as I