Quick comment without reading any comments. Older readers, with all the things you state - a house, a 401k, money in the bank, a steady paycheck, health - fear the loss of all that, true. We aren't Hamas, continually reborn out from under the utter destructiveness of the IDF boot. The Canadian truckers showed us what the security state will do to you, with digital currency, demonetization, weaponization of law, the wave of the future in suppressing dissent. The weaker the Empire gets, the more out in the open this becomes. Many of us grew up poor, and that makes the animal brain even 'less' likely to rock the boat - who wants to go back to that? Those of us with a taste of failure (I almost lost everything over a 3-year disaster recently), worry about the distant and more recent past, and, like you said, choose to turn away, as you say, out of fear of losing what we have, and fear of our families losing too. But there's another reason, maybe even deeper - let's say one finally begins to resist all the humiliations and wish to create something new or whatever it is you think we ought to be doing, the real, core shaking fear is that any such blip of resistance will be worthless. Not even 15m of fame. To overcome the fear of loss, and the fear of meaninglessness, one needs a purpose, one needs hope to risk all that. What will provide that? What is the thing we should be doing?
I have worked on the periphery of empire for most of my career; from refugee camps in Lebanon to squalid slums in Nicaragua to massacre survivors in Great Lakes Africa, to genocide survivors in two continents. I don’t fear the 401k, mortgage, unemployment, cancel culture, etc. Rather, I fear two things:1. I know that “it” can happen here- massive communal violence, destruction of the currency, internally displaced people, death, destruction, and the rest. The Empire can play the same game in the Core, the USA as it has in the Periphery.2: Conflict will consolidate the power of the Empire, Mordor on the Potomac will have more militarized police, more checkpoints, more travel bans, more social credit scores, more political prisoners, more surveillance. So my fear is twofold; that we resist, and in doing so empower the Empire at great human cost. To me, this fear is realistic and fits with the course of history; every falling empire cannibilizes its home front.
This is why we must resist wisely. Heal and strengthen them by freeing them of the psychological poisoning inflicted on us for generations via "entertainment" and every other weapon available to antiwhites.
How do we individually and collectively overcome this fear? Through building and having a sense of community. Something ‘The Dissident Right’ doesn’t provide and never has had or offered.
To attempt an answer. I quit my job in 2019 over mask mandates. (I had a dr note too). I sent an email to what I thought was the manager and owner of the company explaining my position beforehand, but I hit reply-all to the mask announcement and everyone knew I wasn't going to take part.
After rejecting my Dr note by saying I needed to wear a plastic shield mask instead, I wrote another handwritten letter to the boss and owner again. And left that day to never return.
I did not do this simply because I was pissed off. (I most certainly was and probably still am). I did it because if I didn't stand up and say NO! Goddamnit I'm NOT going to take this anymore! Then, what would my children think? If I didn't stand up who was most pissed, who would?
At the time I didn't have children, but I stood anyway.
This has greatly affected me personally. I have no job. No insurance or house anymore. But I have a wife and kid now and I stood up for what I believe.
I don't know if things will get better. But I will keep doing this until they submit or I die. I will not submit.
It meant taking any job I could, it mean a no frills existence for the wife and kid (as in: buying a bottle of soda and a bag of crisps on the weekend was fancy), but it also meant this:
My son, now a grown man, doesn't take crap. Dilligent at work, sticks by his friends, does what he says and says what he thinks, and walks tall like a lion on the savannah.
That is what you - and your spouse, let's not forget - are giving your children by your example.
Our great-great-grandparents did it for their children and the future; then, the post-WW2 generation squandered it all for lower mortgages and their perpetual teenangst rebellion.
Live Free or Die. not just a New Hampshire slogan (oh the irony today!)- Those aristocrats who finally took up arms against the Crown pledged their lives, fortunes, sacred honor, etc. and many lost all of those things. Thucycidean may have no children or family to pass on his knowledge or skills to. "What purpose"? Our purpose is to pass on the idea of liberty and freedom NO MATTER THE COST. Will our children or their children be born into tyranny? Start collecting old books, teach a child/ or someone else child a skill, join a club and sow dissidence, prep up , blend in now and - start throwing sand in the gears of the State machinery. and don't let the bastards grind you down.
I read John Carters posts a lot. And i attempt to understand most of them even. But I had no idea this comment would gain any traction so I just wanted to add some points of clarification, largely that I wasn't posting for sympathy, though I understand how it could be read that way.
My main point is that I got too tired of being afraid of consequences. Not just regarding state mandates, but most things. Now I just assess, make my decision, and accept what comes next. Not that it isn't sometimes (or usually in my case) painful.
One of the problems the right has is getting out of their own way. Myself included.
You don't HAVE to do things a certain way or look a certain way or keep up appearances to live out your values. This is easier realized once you are broke AF. 😂
That being said, I think there is something to be said about micro-cultures that are kind of mini-meme groups. What comes to my mind is the boogaloo 2A community that is supposedly worn out.
Myself and others from Midwest flyover country thought Hawaiian shirts and guns were a hilarious combination despite whatever the media politic portrayed it as. It was a good way to bond and make friends and laugh over stupid things. I kind of think we need more of that not less.
Want a culture of trad-wives with dresses and fresh baked bread? Go for it! Just because someone says it's played out or whatever doesn't mean YOU specifically have to stop. Or maybe i just take after my dad, who insists his original Nike Monarchs are the best indoor shoe. (As they are no longer wearable outdoors). 😂
Anyway, hopefully I didn't derail things too much. My personal matters are being handled best we can and I thank John Carter for the post and bringing forward this issue of fear. I'm too tired to be afraid anymore. How about you?
You have a moral core. You have been true to yourself. This is exactly what most cannot do. There will always be a price for personal honesty, for self knowledge--so accept that and know that you absolutely have achieved something far more important--you have managed to live an authentic life. Your life is an example for other, less courageous soul. Despite the hardships that must have ensued, you are living a true life.
If you didn't submit then it's already better because otherwise you'd literally living in hell. Good on you, congrats on the new family and I'd highly recommend some Sunday sermons to help you with the hope, fear and purpose issues. Good luck!
You are correct. I did not see it this way originally though. I was tore up inside. But I made myself clear and did not sacrifice my soul. I won. Only just have to figure out what's next.
For inspiration and how-to, look at the Worker's Rights Movements of the 19th century.
Long before they were co-opted into Socialist Democracy and communism, they fought against exploitative parasitical oligarchs; in that day, a worker protesting againts the 60-hour work week, against being paid in corporate money, against their children starving, was met with blacklisting, abuse, persecution and ultimately the capitalists' chums running the state siccing the police and the army at the starving workers, murdering them and condemning their families to slow death.
They had magnitudes poorer starting conditions than any of us whinge:ing online. They could do it.
Ever wondered why your school curriculum on history ignored those parts of the 19th century that pertains to democracy, workers' rights and solidarity? Wonder no longer after studying how barely literate miners living hand to mouth could bring entire nations to their knees, because other workers, even burghers and small businessmen too, stuck together.
It might be time to do the same that thousands of migrants from poor countries are doing every year - leave. The kind of society that most people who'd read this blog would be supporting is clearly not in the cards for the whole US in the foreseeable future. Unless the federal government is either ended or completely defanged, a change to a 'right-wing' govenrment will be the equivalent of sundress-wearing TikTok tradwives.
The french woman in the quote above has the whole EU open to her. She should move! Americans are the richest people on the planet. If they can't take the risk to leave their beleaguered socialist-run cities, who can?
Hardly anyone can run away. In contrast to WW2, today there’s nowhere to go: no ethnic community waiting to welcome you, no factory jobs waiting for you, no small family farms offering you room & board. In the USA, the best bet nowadays is to ‘head for the hills:’ homesteading & homeschooling; homeschooling is illegal in France, Germany, & apparently many other Western countries …
I think most americans at least can do better than random factory jobs, and even so, any american even somewhat skilled in a trade is probably better at it than most of the locals in many countries.
I think at the end, it comes down to how bad it is, or how bad it might be. There's a point where it's better to leave, even if the future is uncertain, than to stay and face a certain bad fate.
Leaving, my area is in fact a priority of ours. Though admittedly, I am in one of the least affected areas in the country most likely. I still find it unbearable.
Banger. Fear is the mind-killer. It is also destroying the West.
From Apocalypto: "Those people in the forest, what did you see on them? Fear. Deep rotting fear. They were infected by it. Did you see? Fear is a sickness. It will crawl into the soul of anyone who engages it. It has tainted your peace already. I did not raise you to see you live with fear. Strike it from your heart. Do not bring it into our village.”
That movie was a great illustration of who the real enemy of humanity is...the priests. I see priestcraft everywhere. The priests of science and medicine are history's most blood thirsty cult. They are Magi: slavers, usurers, and practitioners of human sacrifice. Magi use superstitious fear to pull the shade of mystery over their victims's heads. Free people cannot tolerate the presence of slaves, or the mentality of slavery. A slave has no ethical autonomy and no responsibility for the evil he does. He simply obeys commands. The freedom ethics of personal responsibility and free choice will never develop in an enslaved society.
You will always have a priest class in society. All of the modern era could be described as the rise of the Merchant class, by killing off the Warriors and Priests, replaced with mercenaries and demon worshipping priests.
I see what you're saying. The Philistines were seafaring merchants right? The Medici of Italy were a Jewish merchant family who traded wool in the east and silk in the west. Merchants become bankers when the money supply is low.
Solzhenitzen gave us the answer in his 1983 Templeton address. Here it is:
More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Somewhere—maybe Vol. III of Gulag S reports somebody mentioning 60 million. I asked Dmitry Orlov about this number and what it included and was permanently banned from the website which carried his blog, being accused of trying to develop negative propaganda.
So (if I may) I will ask you. Does 60M include the Gulag? The losses of the entire period 1905-2005? The kulack (sp?) disaster?
Exactly. Maurice Bowra in “The Greek Experience” points out that the violence and oppression which Athens used to maintain its empire came back on the Athenian people.
“When Washington declares war on something, it invariably produces more of it.” This seems to me to be the classic “Cobra Effect.” In Colonial India, the city of Delhi experienced a proliferation of cobras. The government established a generous bounty, and cobra hunting became a profitable profession — to the point the cobra population significantly decreased. Entrepreneurs began breeding cobras and then killing them for the bounty. The government saw fewer cobras in the city, but was still paying a large volume of bounties so it cancelled the bounty — without recognizing the problem it was about to create. The breeders released their now valueless commodity into the city, with predictable results. When you put a bounty on everything (racism, drug use, welfare, homelessness) you get greedy bounty-hunters and more and more ‘cobras’. When the government invariably moves on to the next abstraction (the next cobra), the previous breeders release their now worthless broods (the DEI ‘victim’, the addict, the homeless, and the welfare cobras) to chase new bounties. More cobras released into society = fear.
Simple. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Fear is the substance of things hoped for not. Say those back to yourself slowly and mean every word. Faith is substance, fear is substance. Make faith a joke, give men nothing to hope for, and naturally fear will take its place. You can't invent arbitrary things to hope for but you can invent things to fear. It does no good to chide men and say, "What are you really afraid of?" Ask men instead what they have faith in, and you'll have your answer.
Well, please don't take it as an attack on you. Faith and fear both move mountains. I'm just pointing out that you can't root out fear if you have no faith to replace it with. I'm also not advocating for any particular faith. What that is is the question of our times.
I think the question is more helpful if you articulate to yourself or others what specifically you cherish, value, believe in. That's not a vague optimism; that's 'what tangible thing would you die to protect?'
Here our friend John Steinbeck is helpful: from my favorite passage in East of Eden:
"I don't know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good. It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man. A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused.
At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost."
He wrote the book for his sons, to tell them his answer to the questions he poses in the passage. What are your answers?
In Canada at least, that's increasingly what MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) is seen as: dying in lieu of a proper, dignified life. Hardly surprising that in Trudeau's Canada, the numbers keep going up every year - MAiD deaths are now approaching a significant percentage of all deaths, and it's only a few years in . There is a rapidly diminishing stigma to a state-sanctioned neo-eugenic project that now will incorporate the mentally ill, indigent, and even those without terminal diseases.
It's becoming the Death Theatre in Soylent Green, an alternative to a Canada where you won't be able to retire, own a home, will be replaced by a never-ending tsunami of South Asian wage slaves, your right to express yourself online curtailed, an increasingly feckless serf under an anarcho-tyrannical legal simulacrum, a hollowed-out, Ponzi economy built on foreign slave labour and real-estate speculation. It's no wonder that Canadians' only fear, increasingly, is *perseverance* in the face of utter societal rot. Death? Not so much.
To answer your question, what are we to do? I think there is some sense in the alternative economy/society mentality. The regime-created world will surely collapse anyway. The fake money, the sabre-rattling, the newly imported peasantry languishing on the dole. That's all going to collapse. So us Northern European types should do what we do best and self-organize, learn some solidarity while we are at it. We are the superlative organizers after all, the model everyone else measures themselves against even if they won't admit it.
As for fear, it really is the mind-killer. They've exploited it well, I will give them that. But it is not an unlimited supply of fear they have to play with. It is a precious resource, best wielded by those with restraint. Our current batch of elites lack that restraint. They squandered a lot just on Covid, and for what? Dead athletes?
Nothing lasts, but we will, even if our countries will need a makeover once it's all done. Nothing a lick of paint won't fix. And laser cannons at the border, obviously.
Whether we are building in the interstices of the crumbling system, or building amidst its ruins, we will have no choice but to build. So we'd best get used to that.
Agree that covid was a huge long term error for the people who want to keep us in the matrix. The covid era freed me from concern with the opinions of others and from the mistaken idea that my place in society was secure and important. Half of the people I thought loved and respected me said loud and proud that they'd gladly see me in a camp and my kids taken away because I didn't mask and vax and thought the whole thing was baloney. That changes a person forever and I know I'm not the only one.
Covid was the best evidence yet our elites control less than we think. It was primarily a technocratic drive, the big bureaucracies seeing their chance to expand and assert themselves. To a bureaucracy you really are just a number. But they too overused their techniques. Covid woke many people up. From that perspective it did them much damage. The next pandemic will struggle to get off the ground.
With this you just birthed what's been boiling in me for the last couple of days. Brought to mind great scenes in The Godfather Part II. Don Fanucci rules his turf absolutely. Strolls the tenement neighborhood in his white suit, taking extortion tribute from the fearful residents on the streets of Little Italy, confident no one would dare resist him. Full-spectrum dominance. Seemingly.
His subjects are the same little men who left Italy for a better life in the land of opportunity, only to be packed into a New York City ghetto and dominated and ruled just like in the old country.
One struggling but perceptive young immigrant has been taking it all in, finally grasping that the all-powerful Boss is all bluff and no bite. Vito Corleone ignores the "safety first" concerns of his circle and shoots Fanucci dead. Earning the respect, admiration -- and fear -- of all in the neighborhood, eventually culiminating in a career of great power nationwide. A warrior-king right out of the pages of medieval history.
Lately I struggle through Substack, feeling a strange mix of sympathy and disgust for a seeming majority AMONG US whose great hope is still the ballot box or who unintentionally spread divisiveness among the various camps -- the Christians, the pagans, vitalists, futurists, fascists, neo-whatevers -- these accursed labels that our rulers must love so much. The camps that are the ONLY human force that can stop the great evil rampant in the world. And we spend our time, maybe the only asset remaining to us, debating metaphysics, comparative religion or how to fine tune the corpse of democracy. Keeping one another informed, and hoping someone will take action.
I am no better, just another keyboard warrior. But I know that what rules us will not be slowed even in the slightest by our "right" to vote or by the shrinking catalogue of "rights" they permit us to have. Until they decide to void them, one by one. As they are now doing. If those rights were "inalienable", they would have long ago erased them, which is what they are busy doing now. Until they can round us up for re-education. Which they would have already done if they felt sure they could do it with impunity.
Someone just today mentioned Americans' vaunted 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. It was in the context of the covid psyop, saying that millions of armed Americans drove themselves to wherever they went to be injected with the poison. Because their TVs told them to do so.
The evil will be stopped by a warrior-king so extraordinary as to win our respect, admiration and love. All of us. Because anyone who cannot see that we are presently fully divided and conquered ... I'm at a loss for the right words. If that man emerges -- the one we need -- we will know it is him, beyond all doubt.
I'll only add that my biggest fear at the moment is not being able to provide for my family. I lost my job (and much else) during COVID, and was lucky enough to stumble into something new that allowed me to keep paying the bills. ironically, that experience has made me more fearful - after all, what are the odds I'll stumble into something twice?
As much as the right tends to promote family formation, we have to admit that families tend to make parents more risk adverse. This isn't a bad thing, but if we want change to happen before things get too uncomfortable, we may need the childless amongst us to lead the way. (Or the boomers to step up as elder statesmen, but I'm not holding my breath for that.)
This is indeed why the squabbling between dad guys and the childless is silly. The former are making the future, yes, but the latter have a much higher risk tolerance.
This seems like a modern development though. I may be wrong, but ...having kids more than a hundred or so years ago meant leaving for extended periods on a consistent basis for all kinds of things with extremely high risk.
I have long described Boomers as the demographic equivalent of a particularly nasty kidney stone: they *do* eventually pass, but does it ever hurt like a mofo...
Your comment had me thinking that a lot of the risk aversion you mention also stems from the reality of life in a debt-driven consumer economy.
Let’s be frank. Our ancestors, great-grandparents and beyond, were willing to take risks with their large families in tow, because the alternative would have been far worse. The post-WWII generations seem to lack the agency and self-sufficiency that allowed millions of people to pack up all their shit and start their lives over in strange foreign lands. And they pulled it off. We are their descendants.
But what can a Boomer, GenX, etc. do if they they are cut off from the fiat lyfe? Can they build a home? Can they produce their own food? Can they defend themselves? Most of us unfortunately are not competent enough at these things and hence we perceive it too great a risk.
Having the confidence that we can support ourselves independently of the system mitigates that risk.
I agree with all of this, and will just add: it's not clear to me where I would go even if I had all of those skills. Maybe our kids will colonize Mars, but our present options of "moving for a better life" are few.
Correct. It took just two post-WW2 generations for the sociopathic Ruling Class to hyper-domesticate us Workin’ Stiffs - and to make self-sufficiency illegal, and personal responsibility illegal, and for the State to take primacy in all interpersonal relationships 😡, especially in romance, marriage, & reproduction.
The old have lived and need to step up [he said, old and not stepping up]. We are like Jim [Of Lord Jim] waiting for the big moment to charge the machine guns—with the cameras rolling. We see ourselves acting but fear that history will know nothing of it. We cannot be so precious. We have to say, with Dido:
I don't know if it's someting learned or something I was born with, but fear has always made me angry. And while fear is incapacitating, anger is action. You have anger, let it strengthen you. Trust yourself to know when to yank its leash and when to let it run loose.
The whole schtick about fear, anger, and hatred being negative emotions is a lie created to control and enslave: negative emotion would be lack of emotion, since emotion is a reaction to something from outside your mind.
Just look to the pomos, ignoring victims of rape if the vicitim is of the right race and creed - that is ngeative emotion. They see a man, woman, child raped - often before their loved ones - and feel nothing.
A sane, normal human with a soul - of any race! - would rage and clamour for the culprit to be publicly mutilated to death. That rage is a positive emotion. Hatred of what is vile and base is a positive emotion.
As is fear.
If you do not fear, you do not care.
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No text about fear, or properly: Fear, would be complete without a quote and a link:
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
It has been misused as to mean that the one who fears is ignorant of something, some matter or fashion or experience, and would stop fearing if he or she just let the thing happen to it, if he or she just embraced the unknown.
That is a Great Lie. It is not ignorance that makes us fear the unknown but imagination, ability to abstract and reason, and to put intellect over instinct, because what the intellectual sophisticate fear and thus seeks to experience and analyse and understand, in order to diminish and control - the barbarian will attack and slay or simply avoid and evade entirely.
Do not ask "What could happen?". Feel your Will well up inside and act on it. What could happen, could always happen, will always happen.
Well said. Anger - and, yes, hatred - is an important and useful emotion.
And fear of the unknown is absolutely as function of the imagination running wild, projecting scenarios of dubious plausibility which are felt, emotionally, as though they were actualities.
Thank you for this, Rikard. You've hit the nail on the head.
My husband is often enraged at the state of the world. It wears on me some days... but as I read your comment out to him, he stopped me and said, "Do you understand now why I need to be allowed to express my anger? It keeps me healthy."
He went on to say, most women call the expression of their men's anger "abusive." Which is absurd when you think about it - since a man's anger is a sign that he is ready and willing to defend his own, including his woman.
So again, thank you for your words of wisdom. I hope other women are reading your comment and understanding the visceral need to let our men be angry. We need to re-learn the art of being mutually supportive, and that includes supporting our men in venting what we might mistake as "negative" emotions.
Thank you right back (Can one say that in english or does it sound wrong? It's a swedish phrase: "Tack detsamma", meaning "thank you too/right back".) for saying this.
Mutually supportive is exactly what is missing, I think.
Thoughts awakened:
And virtually all men under the age of 60, especially the ones who grew up in kindergartens because both parents had to work full-time, has been taught from the start that it is WrongBadEvil if they become angry and show it, and even worse if they direct that anger towards what's causing it in order to fix things.
I've seen at work (ret. teacher) so many times: colleagues telling boys it is wrong to get angry. By not teaching the boys (and girls, presumably) /how/ to handle anger, their emotional development will be stunted and the anger will fester and eat at them from inside and more and more of their energy will go to repress the anger, and the anger of not being allowed to express the anger (and so on, ever-spiralling inwards).
Small wonder we have shootings, stabbings and 1/10 or more teenaged boys medicated.
But! We can all be positive examples. We can all show each other there's a way out through it all. Not necessarily the same way for all, but there's always at least one, if the Will is kindled.
"Thank you right back" sounds a bit unusual in English, but in a great way! How telling that the Swedes have a proper phrase for the expression.
What you shared about boys being told not to get angry is not surprising, but it's very sobering to think of the long-term effects of such a misguided practise. I'm sure it goes a long way to explaining not only the violence and "medicating" of boys you mentioned, but the illegal drug abuse problems as well.
And yet, as you say, "if the Will is kindled," we can find our way out of the mess. It's incredibly encouraging to think about how much energy we can liberate, first as individuals and then maybe even as a society, once we get this figured out.
A sober and honest assessment. Is a call to arms next?
We are only one more stolen election away—or possibly another massive false flag event—from finding ourselves at Patrick Henry’s moment of decision:
“The gentlemen may cry ‘Peace, peace’ but there is no peace! The war has actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brothers are already in the field! Why stand we here idle?
“What is it that the gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
“Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
It's not "fear" in and of itself that you're writing about. "Fear" in useful amounts, for real dangers, is no more than "prudence." Lots of people are doing lots of things that they do not talk about, write about, or telegraph in other ways. To do so...well, look at the J6 political prisoners. Look what happened to Ammon Bundy and the people around him. Look at the Branch Davidians. Look at Ruby Ridge. Look at the FBI "visits" to intimidate people that are happening right now. Look at the parents labeled as "terrorists" for objecting to the sexual grooming of their children. There's much to be said for prudence when confronting an ostensibly overwhelming force.
And yet...all that you're writing about involves observations indicating that the overwhelming force is on its last legs. The time will come to act openly. In the meantime, act covertly (keep your head down), act locally (build your networks), act strategically (know what you're ultimately aiming for), and act in accordance with the values we (the still-emerging dissident right) uphold. The time will come.
Ernst Jünger has written interesting thoughts on this which are congruent with your observations. A man of principle and the highest physical courage, he survived as a dissident under Hitler’s regime by practicing enigmatic prudence and doing what little he could, biding his time. His son was murdered but Jünger himself survived despite being associated with many figures connected to the von Stauffenberg assassination attempt.
It's reasonable to take precautions, but a couple points:
1. If one assumes globohomo is going to institute a permanent control grid via social credit scores, CBDCs and patrolled by a woke AI, most people not just writing but also reading dissident Substackers are going to end up cut out of the system sooner or later.
2. Who wants to live in a worldwide prison; what kind of world is that to leave for future generations? It is extremely dark, evil and depressing if one does not actively oppose it.
3. As shown by the COVID heart attack jabs unleashed worldwide, there is nowhere to hide and nowhere to run. Either oppose this evil to the extent that you can or be swallowed by it.
With that said, I do not believe globohomo's transition from a unipolar world to a multi-polar world scares our true elites. The WEF predicted this shift to occur by 2030, Alex Soros has bragged about it, and Klaus Schwab told his fellow elites to prepare for an angrier world. They seem firmly in the saddle to me even if our elected officials are idiots. The world's central banks act in uniformity and these elites control China, Russia, Brazil and India much as they control the West. The bungled U.S. wars, the endless monetary printing will have a bad end one way or another, but the dialectical solution will be even more "multi-polar" enslavement -- unless the problem is properly understood and the energies opposing it directed in a positive way. There is still very little understanding.
Correct. I believe that TPTB will successfully ‘run down the clock.’ As I’ve been saying since the ‘08 financial crisis, by the time GenZ hits middle age, “middle class” in the West will mean what it has always meant to be “middle class” in Latin & South America, and in similar countries. But starting 2020 (Plandemic), I adjusted my opinion: It will mean what it means in Red China today.
I think "whatever milquetoast populists manage to squeak into power when the modal European voter overcomes their fear of Austrian painters and Italian spaghetti-bundleism, it will be too little, too late." is unnecessary blackpill doomerism.
If guys like Trump/Pierre winning elections didn't matter, we wouldn't see the leftist hysterics over it. The most powerful weapon the right has is ultimately austerity - starve the beast. And austerity politics will become more and more supported by normie voters once they start to see the debt wall coming at us.
Elections are downstream of culture, and USA culture is content to live as domesticated debt-serfs. This is something WE need to be honest about- most of our population honestly and truly prefers safety to liberty; thus true democracy will result in a society that chooses safety over liberty; laws and regulations will prize safety over liberty, home owners associations and PTAs and churches all prefer safety to liberty. We must be realistic and realize that we are a small minority (10%?) that would prefer liberty to safety. This presents a political, social and ethical problem. We are like animals in a zoo where 90% of the other animals vote for cages and meals. What then shall we do?
Correct. I believe that TPTB will successfully ‘run down the clock.’ By the time GenZ hits middle age, “middle class” in the West will mean what it has always meant to be “middle class” in Latin & South America, and in similar countries. I’ve been screaming this opinion of mine into the Void since 2008, when I “discovered” the internet, social media, & the comments section. (I was born in ‘73, very slow to acknowledge the internet. I turned off the tv in 1990, “head in the clouds” thereafter; I did not get swept along with pop culture, but on the other hand I remained oblivious to pop culture developments till I “discovered” podcasting in 2020, which has since caught me up to speed on the 1960’s 2nd-wave “feminism” + LGBT transition from PC to Wokeism (Western Maoism).)
Fair, but then populism is kind of a new thing (it hasn't even been 10 years since Trump first ran), and it's iterative.
In the UK, when the Tories refused to see the populist writing on the wall, the main conservative party became Reform. Labour will win this election but the fledgling/upstart Reform party will likely win the next one.
In Canada, the Tories have the similar threat of Bernier and the PPC to keep them from backpedaling away from their populist promises.
Indeed. And how much more damage will have been done by the time Reform or the PPC manage to squeeze into government? And then, when they do … will they have the audacity to do what is necessary? Or by then, will they have moderated, learned to play the game?
I am not saying not to vote, rather that we should place very little hope in political parties, and instead widen the scope of the political well beyond the merely electoral.
Fiscally, the damage will be immense. Culturally, their mere presence as a viable contender is already enough to force leftist parties into backing away from the worst woke excesses. Self-preservation is forcing establishment parties to mimic the populists, and those who don't (UK Tories) slide into irrelevance.
And it's been done before: Preston Manning's Reform Party (I'm pretty sure Farage's party is a nod to it) did "move the needle" of the Canadian right from the Red Tory Mulroney era through to the schism that resulted in Harper consolidating the wreckage of the old Progressive Conservatives and Canadian Alliance into what became a fairly decent nine-year run under his premiership. I'm old enough to remember when Manning was hurled the same alt-right/Nazi/white supremacist smears as Bernier, Wilders, the AfD and others are receiving now.
Very true, but at least under Harper Canadians weren't subjected to never-ending gaslighting campaigns and the ceaseless vandalizing of Canadian history and institutions under the guise of "reconciliation" and "de-colonization". And in retrospect the "scandals" under Harper (Bev Oda and her orange juice, Mike Duffy repaying the money he borrowed) can't even compare with the *weekly* head-scratchers of this lot, the Sikh disgrace of a defence minister being the latest.
I don't remember the country being so thoroughly demoralized in, say, 2013.
Housing prices weren't nearly as out of control though; that's what will force Pierre to crack down on immigration. Pierre is also running on using the notwithstanding clause at a federal level.
Pierre’s housing plan is to build faster. There's no indication that he's going to change his stance on this; and even if he did, nothing in his record to suggest that would be anything but rhetoric.
We see hysterics from the opponents of Trump/Pierre, not from those who call the shots. One NFL team worried about another NFL team beating them, not the team owners worried about their hold on power.
Trump was never about austerity; no Republican has been since pre-WW2 times. Austerity politics becomes anathema to normies the worse things get. Read history. That's why socialism massively increases during times of want (e.g., Great Depression), and also why those who really call the shots intentionally create times of want periodically.
If you're referring to Pierre Poilievre in Canada, I hope you're right. But even among the "right" he's seen as little better than a slightly bluish Trudeau: held captive to the same neo-liberal corporate interests and pandering to the same ethnic voting blocs that have resulted in the husk of a Canadian economy and society that we currently have.
In that sense the Tories and Liberals are akin to what Mark Steyn describes stale European politics as comprising: a slightly left-of-right-of-centre and a slightly right-of-left-of-centre. No real threat to the status quo, until recently in Holland, France, etc. but only because once you concede that there is no political debate outside a carefully curated consensus, then there is no choice but to head to the fringes. In Canada, that means Maxime Bernier and the PPC.
Yep. It will probably take a couple of election cycles for the PPC to become viable however. By that point, say 5 years on, that's what … an additional 5 million Indians? At least?
Someone mentioned Solzhenitsyn, and my mind goes back 50 years to when I read The Gulag Archipelago as a teenager. More than once in the book S draws the contrast between men who risked their lives time and again on the Eastern Front (which I suppose was the Western Front for Russians), who were heroic in battle, and yet were reduced to gibbering fear and impotence when they got back to civilian life and Stalin's terror of the 1930s resumed as though WW2 had just been a hiatus. Our author's explanation? It's one thing conquering your fear when you're shoulder to shoulder with others who are doing likewise; another thing altogether to deal with fear when you are reduced to atomised solitude, with no one you feel you can rely on, and in any case they're as terrified as you are. So I would say that atomisation is a key factor here, maybe THE factor above all others. Hence the overcoming of atomisation presents itself as a paramount task.
This is also worth keeping in mind as the regime tries to start a war with Russia. They may well put the woke away just long enough to get white boys to fight for them. The woke will return the moment the war is over.
Quick comment without reading any comments. Older readers, with all the things you state - a house, a 401k, money in the bank, a steady paycheck, health - fear the loss of all that, true. We aren't Hamas, continually reborn out from under the utter destructiveness of the IDF boot. The Canadian truckers showed us what the security state will do to you, with digital currency, demonetization, weaponization of law, the wave of the future in suppressing dissent. The weaker the Empire gets, the more out in the open this becomes. Many of us grew up poor, and that makes the animal brain even 'less' likely to rock the boat - who wants to go back to that? Those of us with a taste of failure (I almost lost everything over a 3-year disaster recently), worry about the distant and more recent past, and, like you said, choose to turn away, as you say, out of fear of losing what we have, and fear of our families losing too. But there's another reason, maybe even deeper - let's say one finally begins to resist all the humiliations and wish to create something new or whatever it is you think we ought to be doing, the real, core shaking fear is that any such blip of resistance will be worthless. Not even 15m of fame. To overcome the fear of loss, and the fear of meaninglessness, one needs a purpose, one needs hope to risk all that. What will provide that? What is the thing we should be doing?
This is profound. An excellent point. Pinning this comment
I have worked on the periphery of empire for most of my career; from refugee camps in Lebanon to squalid slums in Nicaragua to massacre survivors in Great Lakes Africa, to genocide survivors in two continents. I don’t fear the 401k, mortgage, unemployment, cancel culture, etc. Rather, I fear two things:1. I know that “it” can happen here- massive communal violence, destruction of the currency, internally displaced people, death, destruction, and the rest. The Empire can play the same game in the Core, the USA as it has in the Periphery.2: Conflict will consolidate the power of the Empire, Mordor on the Potomac will have more militarized police, more checkpoints, more travel bans, more social credit scores, more political prisoners, more surveillance. So my fear is twofold; that we resist, and in doing so empower the Empire at great human cost. To me, this fear is realistic and fits with the course of history; every falling empire cannibilizes its home front.
Fear of failure, of exacerbating an already bad situation, is definitely a factor.
The key is to evade the underlying assumptions of the Empire.
The deep ones , not just the superficial ones.
This is why we must resist wisely. Heal and strengthen them by freeing them of the psychological poisoning inflicted on us for generations via "entertainment" and every other weapon available to antiwhites.
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How do we individually and collectively overcome this fear? Through building and having a sense of community. Something ‘The Dissident Right’ doesn’t provide and never has had or offered.
To attempt an answer. I quit my job in 2019 over mask mandates. (I had a dr note too). I sent an email to what I thought was the manager and owner of the company explaining my position beforehand, but I hit reply-all to the mask announcement and everyone knew I wasn't going to take part.
After rejecting my Dr note by saying I needed to wear a plastic shield mask instead, I wrote another handwritten letter to the boss and owner again. And left that day to never return.
I did not do this simply because I was pissed off. (I most certainly was and probably still am). I did it because if I didn't stand up and say NO! Goddamnit I'm NOT going to take this anymore! Then, what would my children think? If I didn't stand up who was most pissed, who would?
At the time I didn't have children, but I stood anyway.
This has greatly affected me personally. I have no job. No insurance or house anymore. But I have a wife and kid now and I stood up for what I believe.
I don't know if things will get better. But I will keep doing this until they submit or I die. I will not submit.
I've been there, though it was long ago now.
It meant taking any job I could, it mean a no frills existence for the wife and kid (as in: buying a bottle of soda and a bag of crisps on the weekend was fancy), but it also meant this:
My son, now a grown man, doesn't take crap. Dilligent at work, sticks by his friends, does what he says and says what he thinks, and walks tall like a lion on the savannah.
That is what you - and your spouse, let's not forget - are giving your children by your example.
Our great-great-grandparents did it for their children and the future; then, the post-WW2 generation squandered it all for lower mortgages and their perpetual teenangst rebellion.
They cannot win when you do not give in.
Live Free or Die. not just a New Hampshire slogan (oh the irony today!)- Those aristocrats who finally took up arms against the Crown pledged their lives, fortunes, sacred honor, etc. and many lost all of those things. Thucycidean may have no children or family to pass on his knowledge or skills to. "What purpose"? Our purpose is to pass on the idea of liberty and freedom NO MATTER THE COST. Will our children or their children be born into tyranny? Start collecting old books, teach a child/ or someone else child a skill, join a club and sow dissidence, prep up , blend in now and - start throwing sand in the gears of the State machinery. and don't let the bastards grind you down.
Amen!
you will be fine. You will be you.
I've been there. Two generations of my family have been there.
I read John Carters posts a lot. And i attempt to understand most of them even. But I had no idea this comment would gain any traction so I just wanted to add some points of clarification, largely that I wasn't posting for sympathy, though I understand how it could be read that way.
My main point is that I got too tired of being afraid of consequences. Not just regarding state mandates, but most things. Now I just assess, make my decision, and accept what comes next. Not that it isn't sometimes (or usually in my case) painful.
One of the problems the right has is getting out of their own way. Myself included.
You don't HAVE to do things a certain way or look a certain way or keep up appearances to live out your values. This is easier realized once you are broke AF. 😂
That being said, I think there is something to be said about micro-cultures that are kind of mini-meme groups. What comes to my mind is the boogaloo 2A community that is supposedly worn out.
Myself and others from Midwest flyover country thought Hawaiian shirts and guns were a hilarious combination despite whatever the media politic portrayed it as. It was a good way to bond and make friends and laugh over stupid things. I kind of think we need more of that not less.
Want a culture of trad-wives with dresses and fresh baked bread? Go for it! Just because someone says it's played out or whatever doesn't mean YOU specifically have to stop. Or maybe i just take after my dad, who insists his original Nike Monarchs are the best indoor shoe. (As they are no longer wearable outdoors). 😂
Anyway, hopefully I didn't derail things too much. My personal matters are being handled best we can and I thank John Carter for the post and bringing forward this issue of fear. I'm too tired to be afraid anymore. How about you?
You have a moral core. You have been true to yourself. This is exactly what most cannot do. There will always be a price for personal honesty, for self knowledge--so accept that and know that you absolutely have achieved something far more important--you have managed to live an authentic life. Your life is an example for other, less courageous soul. Despite the hardships that must have ensued, you are living a true life.
If you didn't submit then it's already better because otherwise you'd literally living in hell. Good on you, congrats on the new family and I'd highly recommend some Sunday sermons to help you with the hope, fear and purpose issues. Good luck!
You are correct. I did not see it this way originally though. I was tore up inside. But I made myself clear and did not sacrifice my soul. I won. Only just have to figure out what's next.
For inspiration and how-to, look at the Worker's Rights Movements of the 19th century.
Long before they were co-opted into Socialist Democracy and communism, they fought against exploitative parasitical oligarchs; in that day, a worker protesting againts the 60-hour work week, against being paid in corporate money, against their children starving, was met with blacklisting, abuse, persecution and ultimately the capitalists' chums running the state siccing the police and the army at the starving workers, murdering them and condemning their families to slow death.
They had magnitudes poorer starting conditions than any of us whinge:ing online. They could do it.
Ever wondered why your school curriculum on history ignored those parts of the 19th century that pertains to democracy, workers' rights and solidarity? Wonder no longer after studying how barely literate miners living hand to mouth could bring entire nations to their knees, because other workers, even burghers and small businessmen too, stuck together.
Organization and teamwork.
If you know a community will support you if the blame falls on you, and that others will carry on, risk becomes much more palatable.
i know you meant more palatable! yes. hearth-kin-kith-community-
Be not afraid, because paralysis is death. BTW the American Deep State is … going or gone… because the real Deep State is the Democratic Party.
And it’s dying and collapsing right in front of you and can’t be saved.
It might be time to do the same that thousands of migrants from poor countries are doing every year - leave. The kind of society that most people who'd read this blog would be supporting is clearly not in the cards for the whole US in the foreseeable future. Unless the federal government is either ended or completely defanged, a change to a 'right-wing' govenrment will be the equivalent of sundress-wearing TikTok tradwives.
The french woman in the quote above has the whole EU open to her. She should move! Americans are the richest people on the planet. If they can't take the risk to leave their beleaguered socialist-run cities, who can?
Americans of modest means could probably live quite comfortably in Hungary, Poland, Argentina, or Russia.
They'd need to learn the language, of course. English isn't as universal as is often thought.
Hardly anyone can run away. In contrast to WW2, today there’s nowhere to go: no ethnic community waiting to welcome you, no factory jobs waiting for you, no small family farms offering you room & board. In the USA, the best bet nowadays is to ‘head for the hills:’ homesteading & homeschooling; homeschooling is illegal in France, Germany, & apparently many other Western countries …
I think most americans at least can do better than random factory jobs, and even so, any american even somewhat skilled in a trade is probably better at it than most of the locals in many countries.
I think at the end, it comes down to how bad it is, or how bad it might be. There's a point where it's better to leave, even if the future is uncertain, than to stay and face a certain bad fate.
Leaving, my area is in fact a priority of ours. Though admittedly, I am in one of the least affected areas in the country most likely. I still find it unbearable.
This comment is where the discussion needs to start.
Deep, unshakeable, rooted localism is the answer: forget the globe, the nation, the state… just family, and build from there.
Those old timers with offspring can couch the purpose in salvaging the prospects of future generations.
Avoid leaving the young'uns a future like this:
https://milesmcstylez.substack.com/p/what-would-a-canadian-debt-crisis
Banger. Fear is the mind-killer. It is also destroying the West.
From Apocalypto: "Those people in the forest, what did you see on them? Fear. Deep rotting fear. They were infected by it. Did you see? Fear is a sickness. It will crawl into the soul of anyone who engages it. It has tainted your peace already. I did not raise you to see you live with fear. Strike it from your heart. Do not bring it into our village.”
I really need to rewatch Apocalypto. Such a great movie.
That movie was a great illustration of who the real enemy of humanity is...the priests. I see priestcraft everywhere. The priests of science and medicine are history's most blood thirsty cult. They are Magi: slavers, usurers, and practitioners of human sacrifice. Magi use superstitious fear to pull the shade of mystery over their victims's heads. Free people cannot tolerate the presence of slaves, or the mentality of slavery. A slave has no ethical autonomy and no responsibility for the evil he does. He simply obeys commands. The freedom ethics of personal responsibility and free choice will never develop in an enslaved society.
You will always have a priest class in society. All of the modern era could be described as the rise of the Merchant class, by killing off the Warriors and Priests, replaced with mercenaries and demon worshipping priests.
I see what you're saying. The Philistines were seafaring merchants right? The Medici of Italy were a Jewish merchant family who traded wool in the east and silk in the west. Merchants become bankers when the money supply is low.
Solzhenitzen gave us the answer in his 1983 Templeton address. Here it is:
More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Undoubtedly a huge contributing factor.
Somewhere—maybe Vol. III of Gulag S reports somebody mentioning 60 million. I asked Dmitry Orlov about this number and what it included and was permanently banned from the website which carried his blog, being accused of trying to develop negative propaganda.
So (if I may) I will ask you. Does 60M include the Gulag? The losses of the entire period 1905-2005? The kulack (sp?) disaster?
Thanks
"When Washington declares war on something, it invariably produces more of it."
Some ironic comfort there in it having declared war on us.
Precisely so.
It is the war on white men that they will be remembered for, in the sense of; what were they thinking?
Mostly they were thinking “we hate white people”.
When Washington declares war on something, that something wins. Just wait a few decades.
Exactly. Maurice Bowra in “The Greek Experience” points out that the violence and oppression which Athens used to maintain its empire came back on the Athenian people.
“When Washington declares war on something, it invariably produces more of it.” This seems to me to be the classic “Cobra Effect.” In Colonial India, the city of Delhi experienced a proliferation of cobras. The government established a generous bounty, and cobra hunting became a profitable profession — to the point the cobra population significantly decreased. Entrepreneurs began breeding cobras and then killing them for the bounty. The government saw fewer cobras in the city, but was still paying a large volume of bounties so it cancelled the bounty — without recognizing the problem it was about to create. The breeders released their now valueless commodity into the city, with predictable results. When you put a bounty on everything (racism, drug use, welfare, homelessness) you get greedy bounty-hunters and more and more ‘cobras’. When the government invariably moves on to the next abstraction (the next cobra), the previous breeders release their now worthless broods (the DEI ‘victim’, the addict, the homeless, and the welfare cobras) to chase new bounties. More cobras released into society = fear.
That's hilarious.
Better solution: tax the cobra farmers.
nailed it.
Simple. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Fear is the substance of things hoped for not. Say those back to yourself slowly and mean every word. Faith is substance, fear is substance. Make faith a joke, give men nothing to hope for, and naturally fear will take its place. You can't invent arbitrary things to hope for but you can invent things to fear. It does no good to chide men and say, "What are you really afraid of?" Ask men instead what they have faith in, and you'll have your answer.
I see very little faith around me.
Cool. How about you? Do you hope for anything and have faith it can be realized?
I try to retain an optimistic frame.
Well, please don't take it as an attack on you. Faith and fear both move mountains. I'm just pointing out that you can't root out fear if you have no faith to replace it with. I'm also not advocating for any particular faith. What that is is the question of our times.
I think the question is more helpful if you articulate to yourself or others what specifically you cherish, value, believe in. That's not a vague optimism; that's 'what tangible thing would you die to protect?'
Here our friend John Steinbeck is helpful: from my favorite passage in East of Eden:
"I don't know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good. It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man. A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused.
At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost."
He wrote the book for his sons, to tell them his answer to the questions he poses in the passage. What are your answers?
Wow!
What am I really afraid of?
Being denied a true death for lack of living.
In Canada at least, that's increasingly what MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) is seen as: dying in lieu of a proper, dignified life. Hardly surprising that in Trudeau's Canada, the numbers keep going up every year - MAiD deaths are now approaching a significant percentage of all deaths, and it's only a few years in . There is a rapidly diminishing stigma to a state-sanctioned neo-eugenic project that now will incorporate the mentally ill, indigent, and even those without terminal diseases.
It's becoming the Death Theatre in Soylent Green, an alternative to a Canada where you won't be able to retire, own a home, will be replaced by a never-ending tsunami of South Asian wage slaves, your right to express yourself online curtailed, an increasingly feckless serf under an anarcho-tyrannical legal simulacrum, a hollowed-out, Ponzi economy built on foreign slave labour and real-estate speculation. It's no wonder that Canadians' only fear, increasingly, is *perseverance* in the face of utter societal rot. Death? Not so much.
Some things are worse than death.
"Let justice be done, though the world perish."
— Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
Remarkable insight. Thank you!
Well said.
To answer your question, what are we to do? I think there is some sense in the alternative economy/society mentality. The regime-created world will surely collapse anyway. The fake money, the sabre-rattling, the newly imported peasantry languishing on the dole. That's all going to collapse. So us Northern European types should do what we do best and self-organize, learn some solidarity while we are at it. We are the superlative organizers after all, the model everyone else measures themselves against even if they won't admit it.
As for fear, it really is the mind-killer. They've exploited it well, I will give them that. But it is not an unlimited supply of fear they have to play with. It is a precious resource, best wielded by those with restraint. Our current batch of elites lack that restraint. They squandered a lot just on Covid, and for what? Dead athletes?
Nothing lasts, but we will, even if our countries will need a makeover once it's all done. Nothing a lick of paint won't fix. And laser cannons at the border, obviously.
Whether we are building in the interstices of the crumbling system, or building amidst its ruins, we will have no choice but to build. So we'd best get used to that.
It's the noblest thing to do. What a gift! It'll be hard work, but I'd rather be forced to build than lulled into mindless and endless consumption.
Don't wait until you know what to do. Start doing what you know is right, and the rest falls into place.
Agree that covid was a huge long term error for the people who want to keep us in the matrix. The covid era freed me from concern with the opinions of others and from the mistaken idea that my place in society was secure and important. Half of the people I thought loved and respected me said loud and proud that they'd gladly see me in a camp and my kids taken away because I didn't mask and vax and thought the whole thing was baloney. That changes a person forever and I know I'm not the only one.
Covid was the best evidence yet our elites control less than we think. It was primarily a technocratic drive, the big bureaucracies seeing their chance to expand and assert themselves. To a bureaucracy you really are just a number. But they too overused their techniques. Covid woke many people up. From that perspective it did them much damage. The next pandemic will struggle to get off the ground.
Nice!
With this you just birthed what's been boiling in me for the last couple of days. Brought to mind great scenes in The Godfather Part II. Don Fanucci rules his turf absolutely. Strolls the tenement neighborhood in his white suit, taking extortion tribute from the fearful residents on the streets of Little Italy, confident no one would dare resist him. Full-spectrum dominance. Seemingly.
His subjects are the same little men who left Italy for a better life in the land of opportunity, only to be packed into a New York City ghetto and dominated and ruled just like in the old country.
One struggling but perceptive young immigrant has been taking it all in, finally grasping that the all-powerful Boss is all bluff and no bite. Vito Corleone ignores the "safety first" concerns of his circle and shoots Fanucci dead. Earning the respect, admiration -- and fear -- of all in the neighborhood, eventually culiminating in a career of great power nationwide. A warrior-king right out of the pages of medieval history.
Lately I struggle through Substack, feeling a strange mix of sympathy and disgust for a seeming majority AMONG US whose great hope is still the ballot box or who unintentionally spread divisiveness among the various camps -- the Christians, the pagans, vitalists, futurists, fascists, neo-whatevers -- these accursed labels that our rulers must love so much. The camps that are the ONLY human force that can stop the great evil rampant in the world. And we spend our time, maybe the only asset remaining to us, debating metaphysics, comparative religion or how to fine tune the corpse of democracy. Keeping one another informed, and hoping someone will take action.
I am no better, just another keyboard warrior. But I know that what rules us will not be slowed even in the slightest by our "right" to vote or by the shrinking catalogue of "rights" they permit us to have. Until they decide to void them, one by one. As they are now doing. If those rights were "inalienable", they would have long ago erased them, which is what they are busy doing now. Until they can round us up for re-education. Which they would have already done if they felt sure they could do it with impunity.
Someone just today mentioned Americans' vaunted 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. It was in the context of the covid psyop, saying that millions of armed Americans drove themselves to wherever they went to be injected with the poison. Because their TVs told them to do so.
The evil will be stopped by a warrior-king so extraordinary as to win our respect, admiration and love. All of us. Because anyone who cannot see that we are presently fully divided and conquered ... I'm at a loss for the right words. If that man emerges -- the one we need -- we will know it is him, beyond all doubt.
Excellent comment. The masturbatory divisiveness is indeed not helping anyone; we have much larger things to worry about.
But people like drama…
Oof, this definitely rings true enough to hurt.
I'll only add that my biggest fear at the moment is not being able to provide for my family. I lost my job (and much else) during COVID, and was lucky enough to stumble into something new that allowed me to keep paying the bills. ironically, that experience has made me more fearful - after all, what are the odds I'll stumble into something twice?
As much as the right tends to promote family formation, we have to admit that families tend to make parents more risk adverse. This isn't a bad thing, but if we want change to happen before things get too uncomfortable, we may need the childless amongst us to lead the way. (Or the boomers to step up as elder statesmen, but I'm not holding my breath for that.)
This is indeed why the squabbling between dad guys and the childless is silly. The former are making the future, yes, but the latter have a much higher risk tolerance.
This deserves to be its own article
This seems like a modern development though. I may be wrong, but ...having kids more than a hundred or so years ago meant leaving for extended periods on a consistent basis for all kinds of things with extremely high risk.
I have long described Boomers as the demographic equivalent of a particularly nasty kidney stone: they *do* eventually pass, but does it ever hurt like a mofo...
Your comment had me thinking that a lot of the risk aversion you mention also stems from the reality of life in a debt-driven consumer economy.
Let’s be frank. Our ancestors, great-grandparents and beyond, were willing to take risks with their large families in tow, because the alternative would have been far worse. The post-WWII generations seem to lack the agency and self-sufficiency that allowed millions of people to pack up all their shit and start their lives over in strange foreign lands. And they pulled it off. We are their descendants.
But what can a Boomer, GenX, etc. do if they they are cut off from the fiat lyfe? Can they build a home? Can they produce their own food? Can they defend themselves? Most of us unfortunately are not competent enough at these things and hence we perceive it too great a risk.
Having the confidence that we can support ourselves independently of the system mitigates that risk.
I agree with all of this, and will just add: it's not clear to me where I would go even if I had all of those skills. Maybe our kids will colonize Mars, but our present options of "moving for a better life" are few.
Correct. It took just two post-WW2 generations for the sociopathic Ruling Class to hyper-domesticate us Workin’ Stiffs - and to make self-sufficiency illegal, and personal responsibility illegal, and for the State to take primacy in all interpersonal relationships 😡, especially in romance, marriage, & reproduction.
I agree that boomers need to show leadership. We remember a better America
The old have lived and need to step up [he said, old and not stepping up]. We are like Jim [Of Lord Jim] waiting for the big moment to charge the machine guns—with the cameras rolling. We see ourselves acting but fear that history will know nothing of it. We cannot be so precious. We have to say, with Dido:
Vixi, et quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi…
You ask how to handle fear.
You do not handle fear.
You attack it with all your might.
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I don't know if it's someting learned or something I was born with, but fear has always made me angry. And while fear is incapacitating, anger is action. You have anger, let it strengthen you. Trust yourself to know when to yank its leash and when to let it run loose.
The whole schtick about fear, anger, and hatred being negative emotions is a lie created to control and enslave: negative emotion would be lack of emotion, since emotion is a reaction to something from outside your mind.
Just look to the pomos, ignoring victims of rape if the vicitim is of the right race and creed - that is ngeative emotion. They see a man, woman, child raped - often before their loved ones - and feel nothing.
A sane, normal human with a soul - of any race! - would rage and clamour for the culprit to be publicly mutilated to death. That rage is a positive emotion. Hatred of what is vile and base is a positive emotion.
As is fear.
If you do not fear, you do not care.
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No text about fear, or properly: Fear, would be complete without a quote and a link:
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx
It has been misused as to mean that the one who fears is ignorant of something, some matter or fashion or experience, and would stop fearing if he or she just let the thing happen to it, if he or she just embraced the unknown.
That is a Great Lie. It is not ignorance that makes us fear the unknown but imagination, ability to abstract and reason, and to put intellect over instinct, because what the intellectual sophisticate fear and thus seeks to experience and analyse and understand, in order to diminish and control - the barbarian will attack and slay or simply avoid and evade entirely.
Do not ask "What could happen?". Feel your Will well up inside and act on it. What could happen, could always happen, will always happen.
Trust yourself to know your self.
Well said. Anger - and, yes, hatred - is an important and useful emotion.
And fear of the unknown is absolutely as function of the imagination running wild, projecting scenarios of dubious plausibility which are felt, emotionally, as though they were actualities.
Thank you for this, Rikard. You've hit the nail on the head.
My husband is often enraged at the state of the world. It wears on me some days... but as I read your comment out to him, he stopped me and said, "Do you understand now why I need to be allowed to express my anger? It keeps me healthy."
He went on to say, most women call the expression of their men's anger "abusive." Which is absurd when you think about it - since a man's anger is a sign that he is ready and willing to defend his own, including his woman.
So again, thank you for your words of wisdom. I hope other women are reading your comment and understanding the visceral need to let our men be angry. We need to re-learn the art of being mutually supportive, and that includes supporting our men in venting what we might mistake as "negative" emotions.
Thank you right back (Can one say that in english or does it sound wrong? It's a swedish phrase: "Tack detsamma", meaning "thank you too/right back".) for saying this.
Mutually supportive is exactly what is missing, I think.
Thoughts awakened:
And virtually all men under the age of 60, especially the ones who grew up in kindergartens because both parents had to work full-time, has been taught from the start that it is WrongBadEvil if they become angry and show it, and even worse if they direct that anger towards what's causing it in order to fix things.
I've seen at work (ret. teacher) so many times: colleagues telling boys it is wrong to get angry. By not teaching the boys (and girls, presumably) /how/ to handle anger, their emotional development will be stunted and the anger will fester and eat at them from inside and more and more of their energy will go to repress the anger, and the anger of not being allowed to express the anger (and so on, ever-spiralling inwards).
Small wonder we have shootings, stabbings and 1/10 or more teenaged boys medicated.
But! We can all be positive examples. We can all show each other there's a way out through it all. Not necessarily the same way for all, but there's always at least one, if the Will is kindled.
"Thank you right back" sounds a bit unusual in English, but in a great way! How telling that the Swedes have a proper phrase for the expression.
What you shared about boys being told not to get angry is not surprising, but it's very sobering to think of the long-term effects of such a misguided practise. I'm sure it goes a long way to explaining not only the violence and "medicating" of boys you mentioned, but the illegal drug abuse problems as well.
And yet, as you say, "if the Will is kindled," we can find our way out of the mess. It's incredibly encouraging to think about how much energy we can liberate, first as individuals and then maybe even as a society, once we get this figured out.
Very wisely said, Anna.
A sober and honest assessment. Is a call to arms next?
We are only one more stolen election away—or possibly another massive false flag event—from finding ourselves at Patrick Henry’s moment of decision:
“The gentlemen may cry ‘Peace, peace’ but there is no peace! The war has actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brothers are already in the field! Why stand we here idle?
“What is it that the gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
“Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
And the war has already begun. We’re already a full decade into it, at least.
This is surely now harbored in the hearts of most good men, but still remains unspoken. I salute you!
It's not "fear" in and of itself that you're writing about. "Fear" in useful amounts, for real dangers, is no more than "prudence." Lots of people are doing lots of things that they do not talk about, write about, or telegraph in other ways. To do so...well, look at the J6 political prisoners. Look what happened to Ammon Bundy and the people around him. Look at the Branch Davidians. Look at Ruby Ridge. Look at the FBI "visits" to intimidate people that are happening right now. Look at the parents labeled as "terrorists" for objecting to the sexual grooming of their children. There's much to be said for prudence when confronting an ostensibly overwhelming force.
And yet...all that you're writing about involves observations indicating that the overwhelming force is on its last legs. The time will come to act openly. In the meantime, act covertly (keep your head down), act locally (build your networks), act strategically (know what you're ultimately aiming for), and act in accordance with the values we (the still-emerging dissident right) uphold. The time will come.
Ernst Jünger has written interesting thoughts on this which are congruent with your observations. A man of principle and the highest physical courage, he survived as a dissident under Hitler’s regime by practicing enigmatic prudence and doing what little he could, biding his time. His son was murdered but Jünger himself survived despite being associated with many figures connected to the von Stauffenberg assassination attempt.
“3 F’s:” Food, Family, Firearms.
It's reasonable to take precautions, but a couple points:
1. If one assumes globohomo is going to institute a permanent control grid via social credit scores, CBDCs and patrolled by a woke AI, most people not just writing but also reading dissident Substackers are going to end up cut out of the system sooner or later.
2. Who wants to live in a worldwide prison; what kind of world is that to leave for future generations? It is extremely dark, evil and depressing if one does not actively oppose it.
3. As shown by the COVID heart attack jabs unleashed worldwide, there is nowhere to hide and nowhere to run. Either oppose this evil to the extent that you can or be swallowed by it.
With that said, I do not believe globohomo's transition from a unipolar world to a multi-polar world scares our true elites. The WEF predicted this shift to occur by 2030, Alex Soros has bragged about it, and Klaus Schwab told his fellow elites to prepare for an angrier world. They seem firmly in the saddle to me even if our elected officials are idiots. The world's central banks act in uniformity and these elites control China, Russia, Brazil and India much as they control the West. The bungled U.S. wars, the endless monetary printing will have a bad end one way or another, but the dialectical solution will be even more "multi-polar" enslavement -- unless the problem is properly understood and the energies opposing it directed in a positive way. There is still very little understanding.
Correct. I believe that TPTB will successfully ‘run down the clock.’ As I’ve been saying since the ‘08 financial crisis, by the time GenZ hits middle age, “middle class” in the West will mean what it has always meant to be “middle class” in Latin & South America, and in similar countries. But starting 2020 (Plandemic), I adjusted my opinion: It will mean what it means in Red China today.
I think "whatever milquetoast populists manage to squeak into power when the modal European voter overcomes their fear of Austrian painters and Italian spaghetti-bundleism, it will be too little, too late." is unnecessary blackpill doomerism.
If guys like Trump/Pierre winning elections didn't matter, we wouldn't see the leftist hysterics over it. The most powerful weapon the right has is ultimately austerity - starve the beast. And austerity politics will become more and more supported by normie voters once they start to see the debt wall coming at us.
We'll see. Elections have not solved very much for a very long time, and we've been very disappointed many times before.
Elections are downstream of culture, and USA culture is content to live as domesticated debt-serfs. This is something WE need to be honest about- most of our population honestly and truly prefers safety to liberty; thus true democracy will result in a society that chooses safety over liberty; laws and regulations will prize safety over liberty, home owners associations and PTAs and churches all prefer safety to liberty. We must be realistic and realize that we are a small minority (10%?) that would prefer liberty to safety. This presents a political, social and ethical problem. We are like animals in a zoo where 90% of the other animals vote for cages and meals. What then shall we do?
Correct. I believe that TPTB will successfully ‘run down the clock.’ By the time GenZ hits middle age, “middle class” in the West will mean what it has always meant to be “middle class” in Latin & South America, and in similar countries. I’ve been screaming this opinion of mine into the Void since 2008, when I “discovered” the internet, social media, & the comments section. (I was born in ‘73, very slow to acknowledge the internet. I turned off the tv in 1990, “head in the clouds” thereafter; I did not get swept along with pop culture, but on the other hand I remained oblivious to pop culture developments till I “discovered” podcasting in 2020, which has since caught me up to speed on the 1960’s 2nd-wave “feminism” + LGBT transition from PC to Wokeism (Western Maoism).)
Fair, but then populism is kind of a new thing (it hasn't even been 10 years since Trump first ran), and it's iterative.
In the UK, when the Tories refused to see the populist writing on the wall, the main conservative party became Reform. Labour will win this election but the fledgling/upstart Reform party will likely win the next one.
In Canada, the Tories have the similar threat of Bernier and the PPC to keep them from backpedaling away from their populist promises.
Indeed. And how much more damage will have been done by the time Reform or the PPC manage to squeeze into government? And then, when they do … will they have the audacity to do what is necessary? Or by then, will they have moderated, learned to play the game?
I am not saying not to vote, rather that we should place very little hope in political parties, and instead widen the scope of the political well beyond the merely electoral.
Fiscally, the damage will be immense. Culturally, their mere presence as a viable contender is already enough to force leftist parties into backing away from the worst woke excesses. Self-preservation is forcing establishment parties to mimic the populists, and those who don't (UK Tories) slide into irrelevance.
Trudeau at this point is shamelessly plaigarizing Pierre's housing agenda, and the EU is now grudgingly cracking down on unwelcome migrants. https://www.dw.com/en/german-cabinet-backs-deportations-for-praise-of-terrorism/a-69480819
And it's been done before: Preston Manning's Reform Party (I'm pretty sure Farage's party is a nod to it) did "move the needle" of the Canadian right from the Red Tory Mulroney era through to the schism that resulted in Harper consolidating the wreckage of the old Progressive Conservatives and Canadian Alliance into what became a fairly decent nine-year run under his premiership. I'm old enough to remember when Manning was hurled the same alt-right/Nazi/white supremacist smears as Bernier, Wilders, the AfD and others are receiving now.
Immigration accelerated under Harper, while very little of the Liberal party’s state apparatus was dismantled.
Very true, but at least under Harper Canadians weren't subjected to never-ending gaslighting campaigns and the ceaseless vandalizing of Canadian history and institutions under the guise of "reconciliation" and "de-colonization". And in retrospect the "scandals" under Harper (Bev Oda and her orange juice, Mike Duffy repaying the money he borrowed) can't even compare with the *weekly* head-scratchers of this lot, the Sikh disgrace of a defence minister being the latest.
I don't remember the country being so thoroughly demoralized in, say, 2013.
Housing prices weren't nearly as out of control though; that's what will force Pierre to crack down on immigration. Pierre is also running on using the notwithstanding clause at a federal level.
Pierre’s housing plan is to build faster. There's no indication that he's going to change his stance on this; and even if he did, nothing in his record to suggest that would be anything but rhetoric.
We see hysterics from the opponents of Trump/Pierre, not from those who call the shots. One NFL team worried about another NFL team beating them, not the team owners worried about their hold on power.
Trump was never about austerity; no Republican has been since pre-WW2 times. Austerity politics becomes anathema to normies the worse things get. Read history. That's why socialism massively increases during times of want (e.g., Great Depression), and also why those who really call the shots intentionally create times of want periodically.
Austerity was popular in Canada during the 90s debt crisis - voters more or less demanded it.
Voters also loved seeing Reagan lay off 11,000 air traffic controllers.
Oh I think it would be extremely popular. The only people who like the federal government are the employees of the federal government.
Non-gov people love the idea of austerity imposed on the government, but not on themselves.
Gov people love the idea of austerity imposed on non-gov people, but not on themselves.
Everyone loves pain as long as it's the enemy feeling it.
If you're referring to Pierre Poilievre in Canada, I hope you're right. But even among the "right" he's seen as little better than a slightly bluish Trudeau: held captive to the same neo-liberal corporate interests and pandering to the same ethnic voting blocs that have resulted in the husk of a Canadian economy and society that we currently have.
In that sense the Tories and Liberals are akin to what Mark Steyn describes stale European politics as comprising: a slightly left-of-right-of-centre and a slightly right-of-left-of-centre. No real threat to the status quo, until recently in Holland, France, etc. but only because once you concede that there is no political debate outside a carefully curated consensus, then there is no choice but to head to the fringes. In Canada, that means Maxime Bernier and the PPC.
Poilievre will change nothing that matters. His immigration policy is to build houses faster by importing more immigrants.
If he imports too many, Bernier will eventually replace him. I think to avoid that, he'll get serious about immigration.
Assuming he isn't being paid to continue immigration.
If Poilievre doesn't step up, Maxime is on deck.
Yep. It will probably take a couple of election cycles for the PPC to become viable however. By that point, say 5 years on, that's what … an additional 5 million Indians? At least?
See my reply to JC
Someone mentioned Solzhenitsyn, and my mind goes back 50 years to when I read The Gulag Archipelago as a teenager. More than once in the book S draws the contrast between men who risked their lives time and again on the Eastern Front (which I suppose was the Western Front for Russians), who were heroic in battle, and yet were reduced to gibbering fear and impotence when they got back to civilian life and Stalin's terror of the 1930s resumed as though WW2 had just been a hiatus. Our author's explanation? It's one thing conquering your fear when you're shoulder to shoulder with others who are doing likewise; another thing altogether to deal with fear when you are reduced to atomised solitude, with no one you feel you can rely on, and in any case they're as terrified as you are. So I would say that atomisation is a key factor here, maybe THE factor above all others. Hence the overcoming of atomisation presents itself as a paramount task.
This is also worth keeping in mind as the regime tries to start a war with Russia. They may well put the woke away just long enough to get white boys to fight for them. The woke will return the moment the war is over.
along with your great observations is Moral courage is much more difficult than physical courage.