Note: This coming Saturday, there will be an on-line debate between Jared Taylor and E. Michael Jones. The topic, “Is Race an Important Reality or a Fiction?”, will have Taylor on the race realist side and Jones on the race denialist side. The debate will be LIVE on Saturday, August 21, on Entropy, DLive, and Odysee at: 1pm L.A. / 4pm New York / 21:00 London / 22:00 Stockholm.
The show this week finishes up what I started last week. As is often the case, there was a lot I left out for time reasons. Reading about the Bolsheviks led me to reading a lot of Marxist writing, which inevitably led to reading some of the 20th century stuff that forms the basis of the cultural revolution. It has been a long time since I read the source material and I forgot much of it. It would be easy to do a series of shows on someone like Antonio Gramsci, for example.
One of the difficult things about doing overviews of this material is that so much of it relies on nonsense. It makes assumptions about the human condition that are at odds with reality, then it builds an imaginary world on top of it. The people attracted to it never see the nonsense, because they want the rest of it to be true. Read 20th century political philosophy and you quickly come to the conclusion that human society needs an official religion that is enforced without equivocation.
It reminds me of something Ed Dutton said about the sorts of people drawn to things like anti-fascism. They have disorganized, chaotic minds and need the structure of religion to focus their energy onto something useful. When religion faded, what replaced it was ideology, which focuses their energy on their fellow citizens, who they see as enemies of their new faith. The same impulses that gave us cathedrals now gives us mobs tearing down statues hoping for some grace.
This coincides with the fact that western man started getting dumber around the same time that Christianity started to fade. The intellectual history since that point has been about finding a suitable replacement. The body count suggests we were better off with the old gods. The search for new gods has been a disaster. This current search will no doubt lead to tears. Perhaps the right answer will be that we pick a form of Christianity and make it the basis of a theocracy.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- 00:00: Opening
- 02:00: Theory Of History
- 17:00: Cultural Marxism
- 37:00: The New Religion
- 57:00: Closing (Be Like Me)
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The term “Long march though the institutions” was coined by the German communist, Rudi Dutschke in 1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Dutschke#Death_and_memorials
“Perhaps the right answer will be that we pick a form of Christianity and make it the basis of a theocracy.”
Finally! Three Estates, see? And they are accountable to each other, right? Ok, now here’s where it gets interesting…
“The same impulses that gave us cathedrals now gives us mobs tearing down statues hoping for some grace.”
Actually – it is, at core, the exact *opposite* impulse. Building cathedrals and tearing down statues are opposites, and with opposite motivations. This ought to be obvious. The persistent failure to recognize such facts is the *root* of why The West (the world) is terminally demotivated and self-loathing (to the point of willed self-extinction). Without the love/ courage and transcendent will that ‘built the cathedrals’ (etc…) we cannot even think coherently enough to know the reality of our actual situation – leave aside knowing what needs to be done to escape civilizational suicide, then actually doing-it. Such things cannot even be conceptualized without the *kind of* faith that built the cathedrals.
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The most revealing, concise, and succinct explanation of the Antifa street thugs and their passive indoctrinated supporters that I have ever read. Thank you. Your passage: “…It reminds me of something Ed Dutton said about the sorts of people drawn to things like anti-fascism. They have disorganized, chaotic minds and need the structure of religion to focus their energy onto something useful. When religion faded, what replaced it was ideology, which focuses their energy on their fellow citizens, who they see as enemies of their new faith. The same impulses that gave us cathedrals now gives us mobs tearing down statues hoping for some grace.”
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Orthodoxy? It seems to have tools to resist modernity (for the most part, the Russians at least) that the others lack.
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Of course we should have a Christian theocracy! It should be the Orthodox Church of America!
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