The final show of the year is a double album set. That means two hours of the dulcet sound of my voice jumping through twenty topics. There were a lot of good questions this time, so rather than try to figure out which ones were the best, I decided to do a two hour show and cover them all. There were some left out only because they were duplicates or not appropriate for a family show.
A few will become full shows in the new year. While I was talking about Strauss it occurred to me that it would make for a good trio of shows. One hour on Strauss, one hour on the neocons and one hour on Claremont. All three are tangled up together and all three are relevant to the next administration. There are more than a few people from the Jaffa cult in the Trump team.
Another thing that occurred to me while doing the show is a good feature of the new site would be a way to submit show ideas and questions/topics for these multi-topic shows that people seem to like. Over the holidays I am hoping to make some progress on the new site and maybe have it done next month. If anyone has ideas feel free to post them up in the comments
Otherwise, this is the final show of the year, other than the green door show. There will be a Sunday show and maybe some video experiments. That is another project on the drawing board. I did some experiments from the back of the truck the other day, so I might test those out over the holiday break. On the other hand, if they are terrible, I might save myself the trouble and scrap the idea.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Intro
- Liberalism
- Black Pilled
- Leo Strauss
- Dissident Art
- Our Bolsheviks
- Juvenile Politics
- AI
- Cunning & Evil
- Music
- Marriage & Family
- Civilizationalism
- Jewish Lobby & Christian
- Profilicity
- South Asians
- Populism Versus Dissident Right
- The Fuentes Business
- Video & Writing
- Christianity & Liberalism
- Israel & Jews
- Be Not Afraid
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I’m just starting the show and will listen to it on and off throughout the day as a Christmas present in between my work. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Happy Christmas to you, and all of the commenters here, from Londonistan.
May next year bring interesting times.
Merry Christmas to you, too. Alas, all I foresee for the immediate future are “interesting” times.
Merry Christmas to Zman and to all on this side of the Great Divide. This side will prevail because reality will not be mocked, but probably not in my lifetime.
Merry Christmas to the Zman and all commenters! I found the music question and some of the discussion around it interesting. My contention is that mass popular culture is almost completely dead, having been killed by the perpetually offended Wokesters. The stagnation began appearing in the musical arena in the 2000s and 2010s. I went and looked at Rolling Stone‘s list of, “100 Best Songs,” for each decade. Between the two lists there are four, maybe five songs that people still listen to or get played on the radio today. Anecdotally, I was just at a good-sized ski area. All… Read more »
I hate going to the grocery store in my diversity-infested area. I find that when I go in the very early morning after they open (6AM), there is (white) American music playing (that you will NEVER hear in afternoons and evenings), and a MUCH higher percentage of white people shopping and working (getting up early to get the hard part of the day’s work done->white).
Like many whites, I suspect, I drive somewhat out of my way to shop at the whiter grocery stores. For obvious reasons.
I tuned out of pop music and pop culture in general in March, 1992 at the ripe old age of 24. It was at that point that there was no longer any pop music I had the remotest interest in purchasing on CD. Prior to that point, every time I got paid I made a beeline to the Sound Warehouse to snag some new record/CD.
I’m just curious, but what in that month triggered this change? Was it personal reasons or was it something in the cultural zeitgeist? At the very least, in March, 1992 popular music was enjoying something of a renaissance.
Pop music has always sucked. Except for the late 1960s to late 1970s. Only in that decade could both Yes and Chuck Mangione be popular. Starting in the 1980s, music producers started “creating” acts instead of “finding” them. But guitar-based bands were still popular, and it was difficult to astroturf a guitar band, since the best groups usually had practiced together for 5+ years. I think that’s why vocalists and rappers are the pop acts now…they are singular and respond to money and fame better than a group of dudes who may or may not be in it “for the… Read more »
Pop music has always sucked. Except for the late 1960s to late 1970s. Only in that decade could both Yes and Chuck Mangione be popular. Ok boomer… I’m (obviously) FAR younger than you, and even I would say 50s music also has some great pop acts and ushered in Rock & Roll for those 60s and 70s Boomer era musicians you so adore. The 80s had their own weird “retro future” style, and the 90s killed the glam hair bands and brought us grunge, alternative, etc. The early 00s is when the decline started though we did get Nu-Metal and… Read more »
The interesting popular music of the 20th century Anglosphere was a highly unusual and unlikely phenomenon found nowhere else in the world (except in pastiche) that died to corporate homogenization, to managerialism and finance—which is what “wokeness” is. The strange electrical folk music(s) of an extreme outlier technological civilization took over the world. It can’t happen again. It’s not allowed and we’re not smart enough anymore. The guy who named the civilizational enemy “globohomo” got it exactly right. That’s why neither the left nor conservatives ever adopted the term. It rightly accuses them both. They do like “global American empire,”… Read more »
To me another factor complicating things was/is the existence of gatekeeping mechanisms and institutions. In the XX century you needed capital to create a cultural product of high quality and promote it. It is notorious how every artist is a plant one way or another, even original talent needed the support of a don that financed the production. These combines with who controls the banking to create an effective censoring machine. On the other side there is infinite money for debauchery and art that demoralizes the population. The great opportunity of today is how low is the cost to produce… Read more »
There was a time when “some” of the music industry execs cared (at least a little) about promoting quality art. It’s been a long time. Happened to coincide with the period Marko was talking about.
Odd how this subject came up. The two girls who run the counter at our local bakery were talking about this this morning. Both are in their early twenties, one sings, the other is learning guitar. The singer said that she will not listen to any music from later than 1993. The guitarist echoed her sentiments, saying that her favorite guitar music is from the bands of the 1970’s. I told her to check out Steve Howe’s “Sketches in the sun” and she punched it up on her phone. After watching it for around thirty seconds, she said, “Oh yeah,… Read more »
There are some green shoots. Some young people, when confronted by the yawning chasm in merit between music produced in 2024 and that made in 1984, strongly prefer the former. It is just possible that there is some thermocline below which culture cannot sink and still retain a sentient audience. And AINO’s “culture” has not only breached that barrier, but has plunged into the briny deep beneath it.
Good grief, here I thought the Zman was getting tired. It must be all that dreadfully clean living…I guess my strategy of max overtime on the wages of sin is maybe not the brightest idea?
Anyhoo, a Merry Christmas to all and best for the New Year.
Maybe God is sending not one, but two asteroids! Just to be sure.
Thank you for a great year of thought provoking essays and audio streams Z-Man.
Thank you for a great year of thought provoking comments and musings. They edify me and it is also good to not feel alone. We are legion, and that will become apparent some day.
Merry Christmas Z-Man. Merry Christmas Z-Blog commenters, fellow Americans and men and women of the Occident.
Yes, Merry Christmas to all. Let’s hope it’s not the last one. Here’s a question for a future show.
Why mysterious drones patrolling NJ now? Perhaps a false-flag in the works just in time to compromise the Jan 6th election certification vote. Romania cancelled its recent election of a populist president. A Georgian stooge president is defeated and refuses to leave office. Macron and Scholz are dead men walking but remain in power. Can it happen here?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I prefer the speculation that such activity can only be at the behest of the military, and further the reason is anti-terrorism—as in searching for radioactive material. Hence the silence wrt who/what of the drones. All other reasons fail one or more logic tests.
Can’t remember the last time a media hysteria signified any real thing. So I’d guess people heard about a “drone scare” on TV—perhaps based on a newsworthy sighting, but probably not—and started flying their neglected drones around, perpetuating the story.
That’s how the 2016 clown terror worked. “Oh right, I have a clown suit…”
That too preceded a Trump inauguration.
Ha, thanks, Evil Clown Panic had been memoryholed.
9/11 and Pearl Harbor hit the American public like bolts from the blue. Why would the regime telegraph a false flag by flying a bunch of drones around first?
*raises hand* Oh, teacher, I know this one! Can I try to answer? “Sorry American Goyim Grillers! We could not tell you because it was SUPER SECRET but yes, we WERE searching for a loose WMD all those weeks with sniffer drones. Now that Newark, NJ and the 5 mile radius around it (we should be so lucky!) has been turned to radioactive glass we can finally tell you we TRIED to prevent this. The (Russians, Iranians, insert enemy here) have been planning this because they hate us for our brainless goy cattle freedoms! I know everyone is angry but… Read more »
Nope. Then they’d have to take the blame for not warning anybody. Wouldn’t put themselves in that position.
Unlikely. This assumes a unity among factions that doesn’t exist outside of the fever swamp and its attendant derangement. The governors wouldn’t survive a failure to warn even if they agree with the Administration on about everything else; self-interest is paramount even in police states. There is some reason for the attempt to gin up panic but that’s not it. In fact, there seems to be some disappointment that people aren’t sufficiently panicking.
Merry Christmas to all, especially ZMan! I’ll miss your Friday program, but am consoled that you are getting some well deserved time off, hope you get some socializing in along with the solitude. God bless you all.
Shane, gone now just over a year, is said to have said to Sam, gone thirty-five now in two days, who repurposed it:
“Fail. Fail again. Fail better.”
I think I will actually try to listen to this, off and on, over the weekend – sounds quite interesting. Wishing a very Merry Christmas to all here. Spent several hours yesterday raking leaves (bought a gas blower but it’s still in its box in the garage) and laboriously carrying firewood up the hill and stairs to the rack on the porch (bought a wheeled caddy but that, too, is still in its box). Now I’m enjoying the wood stove and figuring out how many days to defrost the Christmas rib roast. The world is a woke mess, but up… Read more »
Spot on re the Right’s need for artists. I actually think this could explode since the Left has become so drab and stultified. It is happening now around the edges, actually, but the leftwing chokehold on distribution and exhibition has slowed its flourishing. Still, that likely cannot hold. I agree the United States has eerie similarities to the former USSR, but in all truth it is still not quite as bad, at least yet, in America. For an example, I guess an analogy can be drawn between the largely successful campaign against translating into English Solzhenitsyn’s TWO HUNDRED YEARS TOGETHER… Read more »
Thanks for going on Jaffa patrol, Z. Seems that all great Neptune’s ocean cannot cleanse us of this scourge. And now even Zeus 2024 continues to enlist its presence.
Merry Christmas to all.