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’
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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
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 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’
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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