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In a private conversation, there was a lively back and forth about the books that new people to our politics should read. One of the hidden truths about this side of the great divide is it is a highly literate movement. People drawn to this type of politics tend to enjoy reading. Then there is the fact that our politics is not cut off from the Western intellectual tradition, which is the case for most conventional politics. As a result, we have a vast library of writing on our topics of interest.

That vastness is a problem. This side of the great divide has a lot of diversity of interests and thought. If you are drawn over by the human science, there are dozens of great books to get you started. If you are into right-wing intellectual history, you have more books and writers than you can read in a lifetime. Everyone on our side has their favorites. Many have a book or a writer they credit with their awakening. The new person can find it intimidating at first.

With that in mind, the show this week is about the books to get someone started on understanding dissident politics. These are not foundation texts or anything like that, just doorways to the sorts of topics that get discussed here. When you are a kid learning to write, you start with the big pencil and wide-ruled paper. You do not use that for the rest of your life. It is just how you get started. The books for the new person to our politics should work the same way.

The thing about the books covered in the show is they challenge the reader’s conditioning on various topics. That really is the essence of dissident politics when you stop and think about it. Because liberal democracy and the technological state cannot comport with the reality of the human condition, you are left with two choices. You can deny the reality of the human condition or question the morality and legitimacy of the prevailing orthodoxy. That is the great divide in a nutshell.

Of course, this is the sort of topic that generates endless disputes, because no two people have the same list. There is no doubt that many people will be outraged at the selection of titles in the taboo book section. Well, outraged by one of the books and what I have to say about it. At some point in the future, that will be the topic of a full show and maybe a series of posts. Again, the point here is a gentle introduction to the taboo subjects that can only be discussed on this side.

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  1. Last night with mumbly Joe Dementia was about invoking the 25th. They could have had a completely edited speech, even a software edit and looked fine. This is about replacing him with Harris.

    BTW the Deep State is running America, we’ll get the same results.




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  2. Z, I’ve heard you talk about the French Revolution and compare/ contrast that period to what’s going on today. Can you recommend a book or books on the topic?

    I apologize if you mentioned this in the podcast and I’m asking a stupid question.




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  3. Seems the imagery with all things Biden is that of a funeral and crypt

    Black mask and black suit. Half dead. Intentional symbolism that America is being laid to rest? Perhaps white america?

    And next they will have Spicy Harris come out and liven the party up with youth and vigor and color. Laughter. The embodiment of America’s soul and future IOW

    Meanwhile just spent a week in New Orleans. I don’t see how you southerners and East coasters do it tbh. So many joggers out here. Been so long since I’ve been back here and had forgotten. YIKES.

    Carry on




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    • That speech was sad and ridiculous. It’s elder abuse, frankly. That sad old man should be playing with his grandkids, not made to play president.




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      • I can think of a whole lot of things that that “sad old man” should be doing, or made to do, but playing with kids most definitely isn’t one of them.




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    • ”Intentional symbolism that America is being laid to rest?”

      Intentional or not, that’s definitely the gist of it. Hope and Change 2.0




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    • I’m always shocked at the number of Blax in the USA. The Punjabis / chinamen canada lets in are probably more dangerous to our actual civilization but blacks are an extreme nuisance in day to day life.

      Anyways yeah Biden is always dripping with secret messaging, but could also be my conspiratorial outlook. I remember when he had that speech in a parking lot surrounded by Jeeps. Now that’s creepy.

      White America is almost dead, and they’re going to pull a Bolshevik revolution on us using the people of colour they have imported + blacks




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    • I watched the first 15 seconds after he shuffled up to the podium in his face diaper wherein he slurred 3 words. Fast forwarded to the end wherein he slurred his good night so exhausted from the effort of reading tripe for 24 minutes he forgot to put the diaper back on as he shuffled back down the red carpet. I now have second hand embarrassment for our entire country.




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      • Large sections of that place are lilly White. The state of Alabama, for example, is Whiter than the national average with blacks concentrated in a few locations & limited to a total population only slightly larger than Chicago’s black population and smaller than NYC’s. Post break up, if only a few percentage of total Trump voters moved to some of these states, then they’d be Whiter than the UK is now or America ever was.

        That’s exactly the model Israel used. You don’t think Jews just appeared there overnight, do you? They got their own country, then emigrated more. Over time, the country became super-majority Jewish. I don’t see why we can’t follow that example. It clearly worked for them.

        Also, the voting demographics there are much better than in the Pacific Northwest, which is solid blue and far Leftist. So, secession is a legitimate proposition through the ballot box & state legislatures. Maybe 75% of Whites vote republican in states like Georgia. That’s massively more than anywhere else. It wouldn’t even be necessary to seceed a whole state, just part of a couple. Combined, their land masses would be greater than many European countries.

        Alternatively, there’s Greater Idaho. I wish it success, but I worry about California immigration ruining their chances. Also, many of those Mid-Western types are civnats who, unlike the South, don’t have any history with secession.




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        • This has been my conclusion and why, come October, I’ll be heading back to Dixie (former Florida Man here though I was born in Z’s hometown). I like some aspects of Montana and Idaho and a few other Western states but I think the old Confederacy might become the nucleus of a new white state. The proximity to Texas is useful too as the Texans may yet get their secession on and kick out a lot of the Mexicans, adopting strict border controls as well. I’m leery of ultra-low population states too since they can be Californicated easily and this may be the fate of Idaho and Montana unless they take deliberate steps to stem the tide of Cali, OR, and WA state lefties fleeing the consequences of their own stupidity here (Oregon).







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      • There will be many White homelands. Islands surrounded in a sea of darkness- for a time.

        Only for a time, as we have arisen, time and time again, 0through eons. We have spread across the world several times, then subsided, brought low, though none acknowledge this.







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    • Dammit! I missed the Mardi Gras again, didn’t I? Voodoo Central, it is.

      As to the Zman’s reply, they’ve found the missing element: redemption and salvation.

      The Cov isn’t just their WWll, it’s their Crucifixion. Papa Biden stretcheth forth his hand to the weak and woeful sinners, offering Redemption and Salvation in the bosom of the church. Their suffering and sacrifice has earned his mercy, their faith and fidelity shall open heaven.




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      • Mardi Gras was cancelled

        I left yesterday but tonight (Friday) they are supposed to increase the max bar and restaurant capacity from 25% to 50% which everyone is expecting will be a big deal and get the place back to feeling festive.




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  4. The thing I like is the rational discussion. There’s differing opinions, and you can talk about them and hash them out. Dissidents will explain their thought process if you question it and will consider objections and disagreement. It used to be we could do that with Democrats and liberals, before their politics devolved into “F*** you, you racist/sexist/bigot/hater…”. I am old enough to remember when liberals debated on ways to protect their people, invest in them and how to secure a future for them.

    The hell of it is the dissidents don’t either. I think the term you use, Z, was “negative identity”. Dissidents are in danger of defining themselves by their opposition to, and their contempt for Lefty.

    I would like to see the Dissidents put more effort into delving into how to actually run a country, or a govt. How do they propose to maintain their identity from those that would hijack it and subvert it? I am seeing normie-cons flooding onto Gab and they give me head aches. One thing is for sure: things can’t keep going like this. Our leaders are morons and weaklings and eventually somebody is going to notice the power vacuum and make a play for it. I would like to see the dissidents be one of the contenders.




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    • The first thing would be to cancel women. Women are the problem,,, they are too emotional, too nurturing and too afraid of hierarchy’s…

      There can be no place in a new government for any thing but indirect input from gash.




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      • We don’t need to cancel women. Women are great… In the proper roles. Like child-bearing, cooking, and organizing dinners / fundraisers at church. Certainly NOT – Prime Minister, or at the ballot box.

        Blame the beta males who thought the sexual revolution would increase their odds at getting laid. Before that – Mormons for letting their women vote.




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        • Hard truth: Most of what ails this country is the fault of White men. Women didn’t vote for practically anything in congress before 1980. They didn’t give us mass immigration, finance capitalism, endless war, the Patriot Act, or even various forms of political correctness in Western countries like hate speech laws. We men did that.

          Most White women are merely doing the best they can in a world wrecked by other people. No White woman with a family or who wants to get married is going to risk offending woke White men who have a disproportionate amount of power and influence in this society. Women are socially aware; they aren’t stupid.

          Men gave us these nutty philosophies — Modernism, vulture capitalism, the melting pot. Men authored amnesty legislation. Men started political correctness in the entertainment industry and government with diversity quotas. Most of the people who tore down those statues this past summer were men — disproportionately White men. It’s time to own up to that fact rather than blaming a convenient target.

          Think about it like this: a majority of White women voted for Donald Trump — twice. That’s incredible considering how poorly he campaigned and governed. There is potential with that demographic, so why are we insulting it? There are many problematic White women, but there would be fewer of them if there were more quality White men for them to emulate. That’s the truth rather or not you want to accept it.

          The fact that disaffected White women copied what they saw isn’t surprising. Many should be blamed individually, but not as a group. Man up and maybe they’ll woman up. Women didn’t always act this way. They were notably more patriotic, including shaming draft dodgers, in the early 20th century. What changed? Men changed and women followed.




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          • Agreed.

            Becky grew up with her dad and brothers idolizing NegroBall players on tv. Getting fat and drinking beer on Sundays instead of going to church.

            Now that Becky is 35, godless, childless, and sleeping with black men, is it really a surprise?




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          • No civilization had women with a franchise or working apart from a family . Yes, men gave it to the little cupcakes, but men have the power to take it away.







    • If dissidents were serious about developing a positive of governance, they would become either Catholic or Eastern Orthodox. Most dissidents, at this point, are simply protestants who don’t want to protest too much. The main divide between between liberal and conservative, in modern American political discourse, is not over principles, but whether principles have limits or be carried too far.

      To draw it out a little more, the fundamental social question for every society is whether human society is egalitarian or hierarchical. Traditional beliefs say humans are hierarchical; modern beliefs say it’s egalitarian. The problem with modern dissidents is that want a hierarchical society that is harmonious with egalitarian religious practices. If you want a body politic that recognizes the real differences between the sexes, classes and races of people, you have to start with a religion that is hierarchical.




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      • That egalitarianism grew out of a justified mistrust of authority because of corruption. I don’t think that was bad, but since then that mistrust has curdled into envy.

        Not sure how mistrust becomes envy, but envy is certainly at the root of class warfare, feminism, racial justice, etc.

        Also not sure what I’m getting at, but that’s what comes to mind 🙂




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        • The solution to corruption is to remove the corrupt, just like the solution to weeds is to poison/remove the weeds. Corruption is a problem of human morality, not social organization. That’s why no one has ever successfully designed a system of social organization that inhibited corruption.




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          • Agree. This is why the Renaissance popes should be understood differently. Alexander VI, I think: bottomlessly corrupt, gave us the Angelis. Wouldn’t ever dream of corrupting the faith, he just wanted to make sure his mistresses and bastards made lots of money, and maybe kill the odd enemy or two.

            I’d rather that than a traitor. It’s why I keep saying that I hope the next Pope just wants to look after his mistresses and bastards.




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    • I noticed a long time ago that much of normie-con right wing culture is just organized griping and ranting against the system with no real thought given to how we would do things differently. I think Rush Limbaugh pioneered this style and his many imitators kept it going and still do today. I listen to one of these guys whenever I’m driving.

      There’s nothing wrong with griping and ranting. Given the dominance of the Left by the early 90s it was perhaps inevitable that popular push-back would start that way. The problem is that when you would ask these people how they would do things differently they would mumble some vague stuff about needing to get back to muh Constitution or muh Bible or both. That was it really. It’s as though normie-cons think that the way to a sane, orderly, free and prosperous society is just one of the cardinal directions. How do you get from Baltimore to Philadelphia? Well it’s mostly east with a bit of north in it. How do you get from The People’s Democratic Clown Republic to a place you might actually want to live in? Well, you just take muh Constitution highway and turn onto muh Bible Parkway. Actually, there have always been three parts to the directions. I’m leaving out the leg of the journey that you make while LARPing the role of John Galt flying your own personal spaceship that you invented and built yourself without help from anyone.

      That’s been it really. That’s our “theory of governance”. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the Constitution or religious precepts but the Constitution itself came from a group of hyper-literate men trained in the Classics and capable in multiple languages. They prided themselves on being familiar with the cutting edge of the ¡Science! of their day. We have all that and new ideas from evolutionary psychology, genetics, and cognitive science. We have a lot of very smart guys here too. We *could* develop our own equivalents of the Federalist Papers and the ideas that led to the American Revolution and underlay the Constitution and Bill of Rights. I think Z is trying to move in this direction with things like today’s show and his various blog appendices. We need a LOT more of this.




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      • This is the main reason I listen to nothing but podcasts now. For the last decade the main theme of talk radio has been based on pointing out the lefts blatant hypocrisy. Almost every show has at least fifteen minutes dedicated to “Can you imagine if a conservative had done/said this!?”
        This is why I haven’t been able to listen to Hannity for the last three years and especially since the Muller report came out. For those of you who want to hear the word “breathtaking” at least twice in any given sentence for three hours, this is your program.
        I gravitated towards the podcasts here and from others of like mind because they’re focused on what are we as a community going to do next.




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    • “I would like to see the Dissidents put more effort into delving into how to actually run a country, or a govt. How do they propose to maintain their identity from those that would hijack it and subvert it?”

      You do it the same way you fight a war: from a position of strength. Before you can organize, you need a place where you can organize. Other groups with higher ethnocentrism had their exclusive religious and racial identities; they could build exclusive colleges, neighborhoods, television networks, magazines, etc. That’s much harder for Whites to do. It will take a long time to get there due to the immense level of propaganda floating around, and then there is the issue of government opposition which other groups don’t face.

      Alternatively, just get your own country and enforce its borders. You don’t have to worry about maintaining your identity if 1) it’s enforced by a government representative of a large majority 2) immigration of dissimilar groups is prohibited by law 3) subversive minorities are dealt with the same way China is dealing with them — reducing their population share and breaking up their solidarity 4) Leftist speech is specifically laid out and prohibited in a constitution, along with penalties for making it (i.e. support for immigration is a felony hate speech violation).

      There can’t be racism against your kind if you occupy a nation of mostly your own people. Nations are safespaces.

      The Right imagines it will fight some kind of rebel campaign to save America. That won’t happen. In fact, this mentality damages our ability to fight back. When guerilla campaigns have worked in the past, they usually have done so when a foreign occupier is on land rebel forces want to take and govern for themselves, after expelling the enemy — land where the guerillas are the ethnic, racial, cultural, and religious majority.

      We don’t have that. We’re too scattered and the opposing demographics are all around. It’s not possible to save everything or return it to the way it once was. Refusal to acknowledge that and move on to new options is why we lose.

      We can’t organize because every lever of power is organized against us. The moment we try anything, the state will crack down and we’ll lose (see the Proud Boys). We can’t attract talent because there is practically no chance we’ll win with the current strategy: the prospect of victory and spoils attracts adherents while practically nobody is willing to go down with a sinking ship.

      So, give the people a new option — a realistic and achievable goal — and suddenly you’ll find new adherents. That goal: a separate homeland for our kind, one where we are free of this clown world. Organizing will become much easier with a larger population and superior talent pool. The Jews got Israel, so we can do the same. Where’s our Zion?




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    • “I would like to see the Dissidents put more effort into delving into how to actually run a country, or a govt.”

      Absolutely. An aggregate resource site of the practical mechanics of networking, of fraternal benefit societies. (A personal goal of mine as well.)

      Also, rather than a reading list- none of us can ever read all the books- a wiki of one page book summaries bulleting the main points, chapter headings, pithy quotes, etc., contributed by readers.
      The Cliff Notes of political thought.







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  5. A New Tomorrow (cont)
    The arithmetic of disease.

    There are about 30 trillion cells in the human body plus many more symbiotic & protective bacteria cells living on us and in us. When a pathogen enters or a cancer evolves within us, these disease-inducing elements are typically very few in number compared to the host body. As such, most disease does not kill us because our immune system and bacteria defenders respond quickly to neutralize or eliminate the malevolent infection. The key point is that the root of the problem is relatively few in number compared to the host’s antibodies & its bacteria allies. Never forget that.




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  6. The the hyperlinks in the first four “links” in your table of contents seem to me missing, and the last two hyperlinks are identical. FYI…




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    • Fixed. I was distracted this morning with something while writing the post. I usually take care of this the night before so I don’t have to rush.




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  7. My original post may have been lost but anyone ever read up on the Guelphs and Ghibbilines? Often overlooked spat in Italy but dovetails with our own situation in many ways.




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  8. Thriftbooks.com for everything.
    Competitive with Amazon, free shipping with $10.00 order (no, this is not a sales pitch).

    Most of the classic books are effectively unused, which is both great and sad. I’ve picked up English translations of Xenophon, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Livy, Virgil, Seneca, St. Augustine, Boethius, Hoffer.

    Many of the copies I have were purged from government libraries. I was taught that destroying books was bad, but as they say, “two legs better”.




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    • The audio was not quite right for some reason. I tried to clean it up, but probably made it worse. Every time there is a Windows update, my settings get messed up.




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  10. I used to be full civnat. I credit Socrates, Plato, and Xenophon for my crossing over the divide. Their criticisms of liberal democracy are far too real to ignore. Once you start doubting this “sacred institution,” there’s not many other places for you to go but here.




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  11. Z, thanks. This is a great starting list. I have a few friends and family who are coming to our side, so it’s nice to be able to send them a few books to read to help in the journey.




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    • Agreed. Thanks Z, wanted this for awhile. Been collecting the “Essential Knowledge “ books for years.

      Humbly suggest Christopher Caldwell’s “The Age Of Entitlement “. Good insights on how the 1964 Civil Rights act created a parallel set of Constitutional “rights” that has since superseded the actual Bill of Rights.

      (Caution: he’s a bit of a neocon who worked at The Weekly Standard. Also find books written pre 1960 tend to be far more illuminating and educational)




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      • I upvoted your suggestion for Caldwell’s book.

        I do have some reservations about him though. For a man of his position, Harvard trained professional journalist/writer, Caldwell’s output productivity could be better. Not as impactful as he could be (same criticism could be leveled against many media conservatives). Also, while he does good analysis on stuff that happened decades in the past he shirks from advice for today and future. Things are moving faster now and with his unique understanding of US politics, I feel he (and others) have duty to enlighten. Might be too comfortable living in DC.




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  12. Related re: “Introductory Media” to //our thing//. Way back in the ancient era called 2010 those of us with highly attuned radar for f-ckery started to see the writing on the wall in a big way about where the next ten years would take us. It is faaaar worse than I could have ever imagined. But at the time I was seeing all the arrows pointing to something very sinister on the horizon.

    I also started to notice the various connections between the people pushing this narrative. What I couldn’t do was line them all up in my mind. I imagined one of those investigation boards where they put connectors between various groups to get to the masterminds of a crime or scheme. The movie I’m referencing below did that connecting for me finally and the light switch of my open rebellion against this diseased place that use to be called the US was fully turned on.

    I consider it ‘required viewing’ and it is incredibly normally friendly. If there is any CivNat, Boomertard, Joe Sixpack, or anyone else you know that you are trying to tip in our direction I can’t advise strongly enough you send it on to them. Well researched, well documented, slick edits & style, and most importantly Curtis Bowers ‘connects the dots’ and I mean ALL the way back to 100 years ago, the Bolsheviks. The people running things today are their successors and in some cases (Adam Schiff, etc) the direct descendants.

    Interestingly, and perhaps unsurprisingly despite a literal mountain of evidence in the docu about the ONE THING linking all these various groups and disruptors the (((ties that bind them))) is not even acknowledged once. I believe Curtis was smart enough to not touch the 3rd rail and let the educated viewer easily deduce what all these destructive agents had in common. (h/t to American Partisan for a recent article reminding me about this movie that started me on my journey into the heart of darkness)

    https://youtu.be/_oDxae-raW8




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    • I want to give the video that you recommended a chance, but very early on someone says something about “our Judeo-Christian framework.” I’m probably a little more moderate on the JQ than the average person around here but I already have a bad feeling two minutes into the video.




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      • I feel ya, but as I said he -very- specifically doesn’t touch the 3rd rail and I get that because it has to be normie palpable. (Again, all this is mentioned above). This is a ‘gateway drug’ not a hardcore dissident right video. The whole thing is dripping in civ-nattery but you can easily read between the lines to see who these godless “commies” actually are.




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  13. I refused to watch the sock puppet show last night, though perhaps in retrospect I should have just for the kabuki theater amusement it might have provided. As many have opined, better to totally disengage from our enemies than give them even the time of day. I’m sure my BP thanked me for my sacrifice, lol.




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  14. I have a few books on this list.
    As to your agreement on the Jewish century book I have to wonder why it was and is it true we are all Jews in some sense now.

    Maybe so, but if so it is because we were all easy pickins to subscribe to all of it.
    Secular and materialist to a fault, (or sin) and then prime the pump with constant irradiating of our brains with tv, film and government acquiescence.
    Empty vessels to be filled.




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  15. I always assumed that Bernie’s anti-zionism was based on old resentment for being kicked out of a kibbutz (for being too lazy).




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  17. Reason Magazine used to try hard to be a place for both right and left libertarianism. About 5 to 6 years ago they shifted hard left and lost the libertarian-right half of their audience. The Koch’s had to jump in and bail the place out financially.




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  18. A friend’s grandfather passed away last year.
    I had admired his book collection. My friend recently gave them to me. A couple of the titles some here may recognize, None dare call it conspiracy, The myth of the six million,
    The man had been involved with MOM.
    I think the only reason the feds didn’t gin up a reason to murder him may have been that he survived point duhoc. I doubt that would attend to today’s FBI.




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  22. A race realism tome is missing, i think? The Bell Curve by Murray. There probably is a better one around for the newbie. I think J Petersen did some very normie friendly race and mean IQ videos- excellent. Still not certain why VD went so ape on the guy. OT but recently greg johnson is sounding very hardcore radical and going hard against the small hats. Maybe i’m wrong as i haven’t followed him closely for long. However, I do have a signed copy of his white manifesto and liked how he backed Enoch during his troubles. Becoming a bit sick of the immature infighting on our side.




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      • My top five This-Side-of-the -Great-Divide books:

        The Possessed (or Devils) – Dostoevsky. He was the master at delving into the human psyche and what drove/drives evil into men’s hearts and minds. Very timely book to understand today’s left.

        Redneck Manifesto – Jim Goad
        Probably the first modern true dissident book I ever read. A
        Modern day classic.

        Alien Nation – Brimlow Already mentioned here. Probably my second modern dissident book I read

        Turner Diaries – MacDonald. read it on my honeymoon! Don’t ask.

        My Awakening – David Duke. I know, I know. It was still a fascinating read and from his dissident college days at LSU to almost becoming the most unlikely governor the US has ever seen.

        Honorable mention (not a book) – The Unabomber Manifesto. Boy did he nail it on how technology will be the ruin of W Civ.




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  25. As a long-term rightwing libertarian, I love your work, even if you bash us sometime. I appreciate you making the distinction, especially the shout out to Hans whom I once had the honor of driving to the airport!
    Speaking of CoC, I’m a big fan of MacDonald as well. Reading it for me was like a “Road to Damascus” moment. Have you ever done a show explaining you differences from MacDonald”s views? Would love to read it!




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    • Same for me, Kmac is a hero, for years (((people))) refused to review CofC they just ignore it and hope it goes away, I liked the Derbs review, he tells us the truth in the opening paragraph

      But yeah, I would agree that Culture of Critique is not for people who are new to our thing, but if you read the Zman and and others on the DR then you need to read Culture of Critique ASAP




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  26. Ok, I really like this topic books are my thing, and I like the books z advocates, in fact I ordered some, but I don’t like this list for red pilling normies.

    These books are too long and diffuse in subject matter. Jewish century is harder than culture of critique, moreover. The only title I strongly approved of was Alien Nation and perhaps the Jared Taylor book, any of them really, but that would not be my first choice.

    I would start young people or normies with more popular books that stress the immediacy of the problem right here and now. You are dealing with people of perhaps inexperienced reading ability and yes, variable innate intelligence. There is a tendency of elitism on this side of the divide we need to work around.

    I would start with the Patrick Buchanan books, probably Suicide of a Superpower to start. I would have them read Ron Paul’s books for a primer on foreign policy and esp sound money or what is going on economically in the country. On race, the abridged Philip Rushton book about the evolutionary differences and then Race and the American Prospect edited by Sam Francis, which also will acquaint them with that noble thinker. The JQ I might eschew altogether, but if I went there, the introduction to Culture of Critique on the 1965 immigration restriction act and the essays in Cultural Insurrections, particularly the one on neoconservatiivism. Alien nation perhaps too.

    How’s that?




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    • Read the Bible to learn how the chosen subvert their host countries and mislead the gentiles with compelling but destructive narratives.







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  29. Nothing convinces like fear. The Gulag Archipelago. Abridged version of course. Still 450 pages. Better may be his One Day in the Life of Ivan Whatshisface. Around 200 pages. You hand it to your normie bud and say, “I don’t care about Right or Left any more than you do. All I know is that when one side gets too much power—THIS shit happens.”




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  30. “They will tell you an ocean of truth to float a single lie.”

    Zman is okay with the idea that Jews, Gypsies and Armenians follow a similar strategy when interacting with their host society. What he’s not comfortable with is calling it an evolutionary strategy.

    For the love of God, don’t read Kevin McDonald!

    Curious…

    Also, Zman, Gypsies and Armenians do not have a stranglehold on our society. Gypsies aren’t telling us in 2021 via 24/7 media campaigns that if we don’t want our daughter to marry a negro we are evil. Armenians didn’t pioneer transgender surgery in Germany a century ago.

    What’s the common denominator here, Zman? Are we allowed to tell people about this?

    13 do 50 – okay

    It’s the Jews, stupid – not okay

    The very fact that you give this dross to your audience as a primer on White identity, or as you call it, this side of the great divide damns you as the most egregious of gate keepers.




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  31. My short list:

    1. “The Bell Curve.” Explodes equity & equality myths. Probably the most important modern dissident book.

    2. “The Spirit of Capitalism.” Greenfeld. Book explores the true origins of capitalism (nationalism and national identity) while debunking common myths about its origins and conditions under which it thrives. This book is essential, IMHO. It relates how industrializing Japan at gunpoint was short-sighted and inevitably led to conflict with a powerful country. If this book had been written, read, and accepted by American elites during the 1970s, then China might never have risen to power — not with American help that is. This is more of an advanced text, but it’s important.

    3. “The Death of the West.” PJB. Relates demographics to the nation’s future, assuming it has one.

    4. “Bowling Alone.” Putnam. Relates diversity and the health of societies.

    5. “The Righteous Mind.” Jonathan Haidt. Explores how people come to their opinions. This book is helpful to train the Right to reject the Left’s philosophy as being motivated by genuine concern when it’s merely self-serving and poorly understood on their part. Although, the book couches this in generalities about people rather than political parties.

    6. “How the Mind Works / The Blank Slate.” Pinker. Good normie fare challenging the blank slate concept. Some things are wrong, but it’s a good first step.

    7. “Diversity.” Peter Wood. Good critique of the modern diversity concept.

    8. “The g Factor.” Jensen. Good follow-up to the Bell Curve. Advanced text, but essential. I’d recommend this after the reader has digested other less advanced material.

    9. “America’s Half-blood Prince.” Sailer. Good take down of the Barack Obama phenomenon and how it relates to America’s diversity crisis. Humorous and easily readable but hard to come by.

    10. “The Nurture Assumption” / “No Two Alike.” Judith Rich Harris. Good normie take down of environmentalism in human development.

    11. “Who Are We?” Huntington. Relates diversity and the American search for identity.

    12. “Coming Apart.” Charles Murray. Explores the decay of White America. Murray’s works also imply how we came to this situation: the cognitive elite geographically separated from working-class Americans over time. Now they live in a bubble insulated from the consequences of their policies.

    13. “The Truth About Selma” & “Whitey On the Moon.” Paul Kersey. Explodes common historical myths about the Civil Rights Era (ex: the movie ‘Hidden Figures’ was based on a lie & Selma is now much worse off than it was before the 1960s; a former middle-class town is now one of the poorest and most dangerous cities in the United States). His other books are worth a mention, even if some are poorly organized.

    14. “The Closing of the American Mind.” Bloom.

    15. [Book on the French Revolution]. Any book which explains the French Revolution (or the Enlightenment) as really just a new economic class exploiting lower class resentment to overthrow the established order and put themselves on top. The French Revolution, and the myths surrounding it & how it was prosecuted, is critical to understanding what a true conservative / right-wing philosophy looks like (hierarchy, order, and patriotic aristocracy over chaos, mob rule and oligarchical economic class).

    Others: IQ and the Wealth of Nations (and other books by this author), Shadows of the Rising Sun, the Africans, The Fall of Rome and the End of History by Ward-Perkins …. etc. Not all of these books directly lay out a philosophy, but if you read them, then you’ll likely come to it on your own.

    Aside: there are so many good books out there. Maybe Z could start a book club. I’m serious. Announce what book you’re reading a few weeks in advance, then one day open a discussion thread on it. I’d love to go through my library and have a conversation about some of this stuff, most of which I — as the kids would say — “literally” hide in case Bradbury’s firemen show up.




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  32. We’re attracting new people who are frustrated with conservatism and intrigued by the dissident right. The problem is that many of them think that “dissident right” means “do the Tea Party again but harder.”

    What to do? Reinstating the constitution and encouraging assimilation will just be subverted again by the same characters and we’ll back here again in 25 years in an even worse demographic situation.




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  34. I haven’t yet heard the podcast (so flying blind while making my suggestions) but if someone is new to our side or primed to become a thought criminal, he needs to be ready to proclaim all the official narratives a lie and all the official sources propaganda. Few highly educated and literate men can do that.

    So, I would suggest for him to read two normie friendly books:

    1.almost anything by Coulter. I rarely read her anymore but she was a good gateway writer who helped me see how ridiculous all the official narratives are these days.

    2. White Girl Bleed A Lot. This book is even more relevant in the Era of St. George. When you compare the real life examples to what is in the news and the opinions that it are permissible for good people to hold, I found it hard to not think the people pushing the official narratives are sociopaths besides being liars.




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  35. Reading is essential. But we’ve reach the point where the issues are clear and the path forward is likewise. It has been clear since last November, if not earlier, that voting is a nullity, and H.R. 1 is likely going to make permenent.

    Please, enough time spent pondering the printed word. At some point, you have to acknowledge that voting isn’t going to get us out of this situation.




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