I can tell you, as a lifelong Texan, that shit is getting weird down by the border.
I used to go down to Nuevo Laredo quite a bit for business, but it’s become way too dangerous in the last decade+. however, I still have friends who live in Laredo and McAllen. they all say the same shit: a constant stream of generic buses, migrants with pre paid visa cards, languages other than Spanish, non-profits and NGO’s occupying abandoned strip malls for 3-4 weeks to process new migrants etc.
the point is that this isn’t the border scene from even 5-6 years ago. the rumors going on now are that there is coordination between the cartels and the ngos/USgov. for what purpose, who knows?
I mean, the Texas border has always been a bizzaro liminal space, but now it’s evolving into something that’s closer to dystopian sci-fi. imagine the film Sicario where both the Cartels and the USgov are trafficking people instead of drugs. there is a crucial piece of this puzzle that remains in the dark. stay tuned…
When I read your stuff I get a kind of simultaneously sick and giddy feeling. I feel both less crazy and more furious; it's like you take everything I see, read, intuit, and hope, and make it visually tangible. And oddly, I can't thank you enough for doing so. In other news from crazytown aka academia, I actually had a straight white male student parse the term Nazi today, after I showed them that the swastika was actually an ancient Indian symbol and that in Sanskrit it translated to "to be good." He said, "Yeah, well people get everything wrong with their dumb Natzee talk. It meant National Socialist and they were trying to make Germany better." This was in a course on the History of Modern Art in a room full of dangerhairs! Whoa. It seemed to embolden the others. Later in the class another student said the work of Marcel Duchamp was "stupid and ugly" and "beauty has a purpose." The social mood has changed indeed.
You should change your name from John Carter to John Banger. We need to be handing out red pills in the form of Substacks to Zoomer boys at gyms. They are the "hard times create strong men" generation. I am cautiously optimistic about the Zoomers I have met, but they need all the help they can get. First order of business for them is to fight off the demoralization of Zoomer women who are drifting left as the men drift right, consooming CCP TikTok propaganda about killing their babies, mutilating their genitals, and slaving for corporations.
"You will find love; you will have many children; you will live in a house, with a nuclear reactor in the basement and two flying cars in the garage; you will eat the steak; you will build amazing and beautiful things; you will own your own life; you will be happy; and your grandchildren will go to the stars." Beautiful slogan for e/acc. Sounds a bit like GATTACA.
As one of those bred for war, a second generational soldier, whose father had 9 purple hearts and a silver star for killing 10,000 chinamen, I fled my service after one term back in the early 90s. I saw then what my father later spoke to: the only similarity between his army and mine was the name. It's only become orders of magnitude worse than in my youth. My brother finished up 32 year's service a few years back. Much of his career he was embattled by disloyal female officers and vicious zampolit NCOs. It took a dire toll on his health. The Army was no longer a place of service, but re-tooled by commies and faggots into a disgusting parody of itself.
It is well past time to correct this. I would if I knew how.
What you say is true. The crown lies in the gutter. Who will reach for it, I wonder?
Great post. I'd like to add that women are part of this backlash as well. We may be in an era of over feminization where balance is needed, but the Longhouse represents a minority of women. Most women want what all women have wanted... children, security, a strong man, and the ability to flourish creatively and contribute to their communities. I'm afraid sometimes that the backlash will bring us too far back. Correcting an overly matriarchal society with an overly patriarchal one isn't the answer. Balance is.. and right now things need to swing back to the masculine to achieve that.
One more missing piece: a short clear manifesto of what went wrong and how to fix it, a statement that all of those young men will instantly and enthusiastically agree with.
Something along the lines of "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
I've mentioned here before that I work as a tutor, so I'm pretty plugged into the Zoomer zeitgeist. The awake ones (overwhelmingly boys) lift, think about how to make money, and want be part of a "tribe" of like minded brothers. They understand that nobody cares about them and have adopted the Andrew Tate solution. The ideal is to become "rich and dangerous".
It's a start, but it's a pretty limited outlook. Materialism is fun, but we can't build a culture on it. Unfortunately, they associate all art, literature, and classical music with libtards, even though these things are a huge part of what made the West great. I think an important challenge going forward will be undoing all of this conditioning and introducing them to this world.
Ironic that the only governor with the gall to stand up to the regime is the only one who physically can't stand. There's a lot riding on how things play out in Eagle Pass in the desert wastes of South Texas, which, seems poetically apropos like the perfect place for a classic, Western-style showdown between the black and white hats. You're right about the orange man losing his nerve at the last minute (assuming he ever truly had intentions to follow through with it, which I'm still not convinced he was). I suppose Abbot should know well what will happen to him if he loses his.
As late as the beginning of 2001, Enron was still being heralded by much of the mainstream press as a brilliant and innovative company with a future so bright, it's executives had to wear shades. By years end, it was in bankruptcy and those same executives were facing criminal prosecution. Things can change quickly, especially in today's world. The regime is starting to lose even the Boomer normies. As for the Zoomers, they lost that generation when they stole their childhoods with the scamdemic lockdowns. My own children are zoomers, and I have overheard conversations between them and their friends that are similar to what you heard in the gym. The wave of liberalism/leftism crested in 2020 and is now receding, the regime knows it, and they are deathly afraid of what will be revealed at low tide.
Of course, this can make them all the more dangerous in the short-term. What do psychopaths with nuclear weapons do when they find themselves in danger of a revolt followed by the Qaddafi treatment? We're about to find out.
Those of us over thirty suffer from an ability to remember a time that wasn’t like this. We can remember when there was promise ahead of us and pride to be taken in this country. I think some lingering (admittedly delusional) hope that we might somehow get back to that is what keeps so many of us from the type of action you’re predicting amongst the younger generation. They have never known anything other than this madness. They won’t have the emotional baggage of better times to create inner conflict in them. The institutions and values of this country were never worth respecting in their lifetimes.
I don't know what will happen, but we have our own version here in the UK too. Inherently tough men, who often do physical jobs, or jobs at one small remove; real jobs, often their own small business. Tough, pragmatic women too. Usually, they live in a place; their parents are a street or two away, their sons and daughters are following along. Anchored in reality and community; people with something to fight for. Ordinary people, not career soldiers, but who would go when called. Not political, not expecting life to be fair or easy, slow to anger. Invisible, as they don't march, don't tweet, are busy making everything work. But also, and within generational memory, the materiel that built and defended and empire. There is a force there, which if set moving and given aim, would turn leviathan to fleeting dust.
There have been so very many "No one will ever put up with that" moments over the last few decades that we, none the less, put up with. So very many clowns in the gutter around the crown, so very very many "First they came for...I wasn't... so I did nothing" people that frankly I've little hope for our Republic and/or civilization.
We became Homo sapiens by teams of beta males killing off the alpha males: we murdered our way to niceness. This self-domestication only goes so far: we may be the least reactively aggressive primate — hence being the most gracile of genus Homo. But we are the equally most proactively aggressive primate, along with Chimpanzees, and much better at cooperating. All successful human societies put considerable effort into creating and maintaining effective male teams. The retreat from doing so has never been a path to success. A more effective set of male teams then takes over.
Sounds a lot like a Ft Sumter event. My family served in every generation and every war. That completely ended with our children and my brothers and cousins children. Not one served. They do all share a fierce sense of patriotism to what they believe America is supposed to believe. And they all feel cheated that they didn’t get the opportunity to serve and prove their manhood. That’s a particularly volatile set of feeling.
I can tell you, as a lifelong Texan, that shit is getting weird down by the border.
I used to go down to Nuevo Laredo quite a bit for business, but it’s become way too dangerous in the last decade+. however, I still have friends who live in Laredo and McAllen. they all say the same shit: a constant stream of generic buses, migrants with pre paid visa cards, languages other than Spanish, non-profits and NGO’s occupying abandoned strip malls for 3-4 weeks to process new migrants etc.
the point is that this isn’t the border scene from even 5-6 years ago. the rumors going on now are that there is coordination between the cartels and the ngos/USgov. for what purpose, who knows?
I mean, the Texas border has always been a bizzaro liminal space, but now it’s evolving into something that’s closer to dystopian sci-fi. imagine the film Sicario where both the Cartels and the USgov are trafficking people instead of drugs. there is a crucial piece of this puzzle that remains in the dark. stay tuned…
When I read your stuff I get a kind of simultaneously sick and giddy feeling. I feel both less crazy and more furious; it's like you take everything I see, read, intuit, and hope, and make it visually tangible. And oddly, I can't thank you enough for doing so. In other news from crazytown aka academia, I actually had a straight white male student parse the term Nazi today, after I showed them that the swastika was actually an ancient Indian symbol and that in Sanskrit it translated to "to be good." He said, "Yeah, well people get everything wrong with their dumb Natzee talk. It meant National Socialist and they were trying to make Germany better." This was in a course on the History of Modern Art in a room full of dangerhairs! Whoa. It seemed to embolden the others. Later in the class another student said the work of Marcel Duchamp was "stupid and ugly" and "beauty has a purpose." The social mood has changed indeed.
You should change your name from John Carter to John Banger. We need to be handing out red pills in the form of Substacks to Zoomer boys at gyms. They are the "hard times create strong men" generation. I am cautiously optimistic about the Zoomers I have met, but they need all the help they can get. First order of business for them is to fight off the demoralization of Zoomer women who are drifting left as the men drift right, consooming CCP TikTok propaganda about killing their babies, mutilating their genitals, and slaving for corporations.
"You will find love; you will have many children; you will live in a house, with a nuclear reactor in the basement and two flying cars in the garage; you will eat the steak; you will build amazing and beautiful things; you will own your own life; you will be happy; and your grandchildren will go to the stars." Beautiful slogan for e/acc. Sounds a bit like GATTACA.
As one of those bred for war, a second generational soldier, whose father had 9 purple hearts and a silver star for killing 10,000 chinamen, I fled my service after one term back in the early 90s. I saw then what my father later spoke to: the only similarity between his army and mine was the name. It's only become orders of magnitude worse than in my youth. My brother finished up 32 year's service a few years back. Much of his career he was embattled by disloyal female officers and vicious zampolit NCOs. It took a dire toll on his health. The Army was no longer a place of service, but re-tooled by commies and faggots into a disgusting parody of itself.
It is well past time to correct this. I would if I knew how.
What you say is true. The crown lies in the gutter. Who will reach for it, I wonder?
Great post. I'd like to add that women are part of this backlash as well. We may be in an era of over feminization where balance is needed, but the Longhouse represents a minority of women. Most women want what all women have wanted... children, security, a strong man, and the ability to flourish creatively and contribute to their communities. I'm afraid sometimes that the backlash will bring us too far back. Correcting an overly matriarchal society with an overly patriarchal one isn't the answer. Balance is.. and right now things need to swing back to the masculine to achieve that.
One more missing piece: a short clear manifesto of what went wrong and how to fix it, a statement that all of those young men will instantly and enthusiastically agree with.
Something along the lines of "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
I've mentioned here before that I work as a tutor, so I'm pretty plugged into the Zoomer zeitgeist. The awake ones (overwhelmingly boys) lift, think about how to make money, and want be part of a "tribe" of like minded brothers. They understand that nobody cares about them and have adopted the Andrew Tate solution. The ideal is to become "rich and dangerous".
It's a start, but it's a pretty limited outlook. Materialism is fun, but we can't build a culture on it. Unfortunately, they associate all art, literature, and classical music with libtards, even though these things are a huge part of what made the West great. I think an important challenge going forward will be undoing all of this conditioning and introducing them to this world.
Ironic that the only governor with the gall to stand up to the regime is the only one who physically can't stand. There's a lot riding on how things play out in Eagle Pass in the desert wastes of South Texas, which, seems poetically apropos like the perfect place for a classic, Western-style showdown between the black and white hats. You're right about the orange man losing his nerve at the last minute (assuming he ever truly had intentions to follow through with it, which I'm still not convinced he was). I suppose Abbot should know well what will happen to him if he loses his.
Great work as always.
As late as the beginning of 2001, Enron was still being heralded by much of the mainstream press as a brilliant and innovative company with a future so bright, it's executives had to wear shades. By years end, it was in bankruptcy and those same executives were facing criminal prosecution. Things can change quickly, especially in today's world. The regime is starting to lose even the Boomer normies. As for the Zoomers, they lost that generation when they stole their childhoods with the scamdemic lockdowns. My own children are zoomers, and I have overheard conversations between them and their friends that are similar to what you heard in the gym. The wave of liberalism/leftism crested in 2020 and is now receding, the regime knows it, and they are deathly afraid of what will be revealed at low tide.
Of course, this can make them all the more dangerous in the short-term. What do psychopaths with nuclear weapons do when they find themselves in danger of a revolt followed by the Qaddafi treatment? We're about to find out.
Those of us over thirty suffer from an ability to remember a time that wasn’t like this. We can remember when there was promise ahead of us and pride to be taken in this country. I think some lingering (admittedly delusional) hope that we might somehow get back to that is what keeps so many of us from the type of action you’re predicting amongst the younger generation. They have never known anything other than this madness. They won’t have the emotional baggage of better times to create inner conflict in them. The institutions and values of this country were never worth respecting in their lifetimes.
I don't know what will happen, but we have our own version here in the UK too. Inherently tough men, who often do physical jobs, or jobs at one small remove; real jobs, often their own small business. Tough, pragmatic women too. Usually, they live in a place; their parents are a street or two away, their sons and daughters are following along. Anchored in reality and community; people with something to fight for. Ordinary people, not career soldiers, but who would go when called. Not political, not expecting life to be fair or easy, slow to anger. Invisible, as they don't march, don't tweet, are busy making everything work. But also, and within generational memory, the materiel that built and defended and empire. There is a force there, which if set moving and given aim, would turn leviathan to fleeting dust.
There have been so very many "No one will ever put up with that" moments over the last few decades that we, none the less, put up with. So very many clowns in the gutter around the crown, so very very many "First they came for...I wasn't... so I did nothing" people that frankly I've little hope for our Republic and/or civilization.
Prove me wrong. Please prove me wrong.
We became Homo sapiens by teams of beta males killing off the alpha males: we murdered our way to niceness. This self-domestication only goes so far: we may be the least reactively aggressive primate — hence being the most gracile of genus Homo. But we are the equally most proactively aggressive primate, along with Chimpanzees, and much better at cooperating. All successful human societies put considerable effort into creating and maintaining effective male teams. The retreat from doing so has never been a path to success. A more effective set of male teams then takes over.
I'm an old lady, so I had to look up what fedposting is.
We are in Central Texas and I wonder how long it will be before the problem moves this far north.
God Bless Greg Abbot and God Bless Texas.
Sounds a lot like a Ft Sumter event. My family served in every generation and every war. That completely ended with our children and my brothers and cousins children. Not one served. They do all share a fierce sense of patriotism to what they believe America is supposed to believe. And they all feel cheated that they didn’t get the opportunity to serve and prove their manhood. That’s a particularly volatile set of feeling.
Nicely said, JC. We are headed for very interesting times indeed.