The morning of the conference, the weather in Turku was perfect for a nice long walk around the city. It’s still winter, but the signs of spring are appearing, so in the morning it is cold, but too cold. I was waiting for the secret message telling me where the secret meeting would be held in the afternoon. I had decoded the message from the previous day, which gave me the location of the dead drop, so I had a few hours to kill. My first stop was the big old Lutheran church, that was a few blocks from where I staying.
Turku Cathedral was originally a catholic cathedral of Finland, but today it is the Mother Church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. It is the central church of the Lutheran Archdiocese of Turku. It was originally built out of wood in the late 13th century, but was expanded in the 14th and 15th centuries, using stone and brick as the construction material. In person, it is impressive mostly due to its age. It was not hard to imagine people walking to mass 500 years ago on the same spot I standing.
The cathedral is located next to the river that runs through the city. There is a little park there where you sit and watch joggers and bikers on the path along the river. In the early morning, it is very peaceful. As I walked along the path, I suddenly remembered how much I miss being on the water. It has been a few years since I’ve done any fishing, so I made to myself to pick up that hobby again. That is one of the great benefits of travel. It gives you time to think about what is important and remember to get back to doing that.
After a walk along the river, I took a hike up the big hill that overlooks the whole city, on top of which is an old anti-aircraft gun from the Second World War. There’s also a bunker that looks like it is functional. a short walk down the hill is the Luostarinmäki Handicrafts Museum. It appears to be a replica of what I think is a original village. During normal hours, they have actors playing the various roles of villagers from the period. It’s like an open air, interactive museum, along with a craft museum and the requisite gift shops.
From there I walked to the art museum, which was closed, but alongside of it was an open air food market. On the street leading up to the museum, which is on a hill, is a bust of Lenin. The Finnish Bolsheviks were a nasty lot, ready to see out their brothers to a foreign power, all in the name of a madhouse dogma. The Finns experience with the communists is a good reminder that there is no dealing with lunatics. There are simply some people who are born to be traitors to their own side…
Having retrieved the location for the secret meeting from the dead drop, I headed off from the hotel a little before the start, as it was a short walk from home base. Of course, I took a circuitous route, doubling back a few times to make sure I was not being followed. Upon reaching the location, I immediately saw someone I knew. We exchanged the appropriate greetings, which of course is the secret handshake. The cloak and dagger aspect these things is serious business, but there’s nothing that says you can’t have some fun with it.
All of these security protocols are due entirely to the fact that even in Finland, lunatics from Antifa are allowed to roam the streets causing mayhem. In fact, it is fair to say they are the unofficial secret police of the global managerial state. They are allowed to commit crimes, intimidate people and harass businesses. The government could shut them down tomorrow, but they don’t, which is an endorsement of Antifa by the state. That’s where things are in the West. We’re ruled by gangsters that employ thugs…
Inside the event, I was struck by the professionalism of the organizers. They really have their act together in Finland. The event kicked off with a recorded video from Jared Taylor, who was supposed to be at the event. He is usually quite sunny, but he was still a bit angry over what has happened to him. I really can’t blame him. When our enemies do these things, it is intended to be an insult, a humiliation. There’s nothing wrong with getting mad in response, even if it will change nothing. We are human.
Most of the attendees were young, 20’s and 30’s, with some graybeards sprinkled into the mix. There was a good number of people in their 40’s and 50’s too, so it made for a lively crowd, but not too lively. Most were people who worked in companies and were comfortable in a professional setting. The event had the feel of a corporate retreat. Once again, it was a reminder of why our rulers fear us so much. If not for the thugs, this event could fill a large venue with the sorts of people that keep society functioning.
Millennial Woes filled in for Taylor and gave a nice talk about the usual things. I think if I were to list one complaint about these events it’s that the speakers tend to spend too much time rattling off the list of crimes committed by out rulers. If you are at one of these events, you know why you’re at the event. Being the rude obnoxious American, I eventually spoke up during the question and answer period, making the point that these events need practical stuff about organizing, rather than the listing of complaints.
Olena Semenyaka, the international secretary for a Ukrainian group that calls itself the National Corps, gave a talk that lasted longer than it should. That and she sounded a lot like the IRA thirty years ago. Kevin McDonald was on hand and gave the sort of speech you would see at the Mencken Club, except for some commendatory on the Jews. He really hated the fact that I recalled the headline of John Derbyshire’s review of Culture of Critique. He’s still sore about that, I guess. I don’t think he likes me very much.
The best talk was given by Mark Collett. In all honestly, I liked his speech because he repeated many of the things I write here on a regular basis. I don’t know if he reads me or not, but he made a point I have been making for years. That is, no authentic alternative movement is going to succeeded by being negative. Positive identity has staying power and it naturally attracts people to it. A movement that is nothing but a laundry list of grievances only attracts misfits and trouble makers. That cannot be said enough…
I did have readers and listeners there at the event. Some of them recognized my voice and came over to say hello. It’s not false modesty. I just struggle with the fact that lots of people read these posts and now lots of people listen to me. It’s an odd thing to hear someone say they recognized my voice or tell me they are a fan. It’s even stranger when it happens seven time zones from home. That said, it’s always good reminder that there is serious stuff going on here and I always need to keep that in mind…
The event was over around seven, so we adjourned to a nearby pub to drink beer and socialize. The Finnish police were on high alert, as the local lunatics were threatening to cause mayhem. I’m not sure what happened, but we were told to leave one bar and then another. I noticed someone, who looked like Ted Kaczynski just after they pulled him the cabin, following us around, screaming like a lunatic. My guess is he was the one getting the bars to throw us out. We managed to have a good time nonetheless.
The lesson I’ve drawn from attending events in the US and Europe is that dissident politics is woefully short on organizers. We really need to get better at organizing locally, building real life communities and working out how to get together without alerting the crazies. That means were have to stop thinking of ourselves as concerned citizens. Like it or not, we live in a lawless age where the rulers will lie, cheat and steal to undermine dissent. That means we have to stop trying to play by the rules when organizing and conspiring.
Dissident politics will have to be radical politics. That’s the real awakening this week. We are the new Jacobins. If this thing is to succeed where prior movements have failed, it is going to have start with that understanding. That means operating like radicals, rather than the local rotary club. It means throwing sand in the gears, making sure that the wheels of society don’t turn smoothly. That’s going to be hard for many to accept and it will be harder to sell, butt hat is the only way forward, if white identity politics is going the thrive…
Appreciate the travelogues and this update about ‘the event’. At first I thought all the dead drop, circuitous route spy craft was was tongue in cheek. Then I realized given the current climate our ‘betters’ perpetuate, it must be quite necessary. Yeesh… Let me know if I’m wrong… I think sober minded adults in ‘our thing’, used to behaving well like rational adults, have yet to accept the reality of the situation you so clearly state. We are under attack because we threaten those in charge. We have to develop that ‘hard edge’ attitude required to be Radical. Willingness to… Read more »
Z: “The best talk was given by Mark Collett.” Good to hear that. I think of him as a good prospect to be among our future underground leaders when things get seriously real. Kind of a total package guy on the smart, articulate, experienced, charisma, spectrum.
I don’t think that politics (in any form) is going to right the ship of state and redirect us toward a viable remedy or future improvement. Rather, things will get worse until we hit bottom, and then the real work of rebuilding from the ashes must begin. When the elites have grown sufficiently fearful to justify extreme persecution of the non-conformists, then the response must be effective more so than historical. Such is the new age in which we live. They are very effective means of beating the next variant of tyranny. It’s just not what you may think it… Read more »
Politics may not right the Ship of State, but it will influence how the Ship sinks, and will govern the reconstruction. We build the foundations of the future by political action now. The Left understands this, and has been acting on it for over a century. That is why we are in the mess we are in; the Right has not acted in response, in part because the Right ceded the philosophical battleground to the enemy.
This is, first and foremost, a war of Ideas.
“This is, first and foremost, a war of Ideas.”
I disagree. If you are dying of Stage 4 cancer, no ideology is going to cure your illness. Our current dysfunction as a society is not a failure of persuasion. It’s a decline of our essential human spirit, wrought by the corruption (or absence) of fitness selection in our modern culture in which hardship and the gauntlet of existential threat have now become extinct.
“Dissident politics will have to be radical politics. ”
I believe the next election will in one way or another force us to do exactly that. If we remain in the catacombs our enemies will bury us.
Counter-signal.
I think our road to power is long and slow, based in decidedly un-radical bourgeois institution building. I think we should study the successes and failures of the Turkish Gulen cult, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the ’79 revolutionaries of Iran. Electoral politics and street politics could be discounted in favor of a coup d’état.
There is a large number of whites who will never see it our way. Never. We are already a minority.
‘A long an slow road’ does not end well for us.
A public show of will and cohesion and strength does not necessarily mean or require the ‘use’ of those things.
stop paying taxes?
A large portion of the population in the US has no net income tax liability. They might pay payroll taxes, sales taxes. The trend of increasing income inequality means that the rich will pay a growing share of taxes, even if rates are unchanged.
Anarcho-tyranny almost certainly would crack the whip hard on “tax-dodging Nazis”. In the leftist worldview, some billionaire WASP is paying the Zman. The only legal way to dodge tax is to not work, or work as little as possible. Consuming less is very helpful. Cancel your cable.
A journey of a thousand miles….
CANCEL the damn cable!
(I did it during Reagan’s first term for God’s sake)
Thank you.
It’s not just about consuming less, but not voluntarily giving money to the enemy, and spending more on friends, even if it costs more than it should according to capitalist rules.
Pay as little tax as possible. Shop at flea markets or kijiji. Buy second-hand. Stop watching the networks. Stop going to movies. Stop going to restaurants. Don’t support the economy. Hold tangible assets to minimize money in banks.
Drive your old beater into the ground. Don’t buy a new vehicle.
If your wife, husband, or significant other isn’t on board, divorce her or him.
We’re on economic strike! F**k this consumer economy.
That hasn’t worked out well for anyone who has tried it.
The government is still the government with all the guns and force that implies, and nobody’s going to be willing to stick their neck out for you.
Submitted for your consideration:
Not all tax forms that arrive at IRS offices have accurate information on them. Or even accurate names!
When 10000 do it in one area only then will it be effective…
Yes, but not by refusing to pay what you “owe” them, but by making sure that you don’t owe them anything.
Live a minimum lifestyle and reduce your income to the minimum necessary. Stop following the mantra of the (((media))), you really don’t need much to live the happy life.
Can’t do? Bullshit. Don’t want to is more likely. Change will only come when you really want it and are prepared to “suffer” personally. Only in this case, it is very likely that your life will actually improve…
Been following Millennial woes and Jared for ages. Good to see they have a voice over there, tough times for them both i’m Sure. This is all too important to back down now, and i’m With them
Millennial Woes is good background noise while making dinner. As a serious leader or voice? Not even.
I think it would be pretty fun to be at an event and to suddenly hear and recognize your voice. Kind of an auditory “Where’s Waldo” moment.
I just took an early retirement, so it’s possible I might do something like attend an AmRen or Mencken event sometime now that my life isn’t so hectic. I’ll be listening for you. 🙂
The biggest shock will be that you’re a 4’8″ hunchback midget!
We really need to get better at organizing locally, building real life communities and working out how to get together without alerting the crazies.
Preach it Brother…Been advocating that for years now…It seems though pain is the only motivator for most and it just hasn’t got bad enough for people to start building…Sad That…
I watched the speeches on Youtube, and I thought the best one was given by that young girl, Jasmina. She spoke in Finnish, though, so it’s not much use for foreign audience to listen to it, but I can summarize her main points. Basically her message was: Stop whining and look in the mirror. Yes, we are being ruled by treasonous scum, but there are still plenty of things you can do in your own life to protect our people and our culture, so stop making excuses and start acting. First of all, decisions about the future existence of our… Read more »
The basic (I won’t say “little” because making a family is dead-ass important) things are vastly under rated. Money multipliers may not exist for Keynesian policies, but they work quite well in the real world. When you give money to an enemy it passes through many enemy hands before it ends up back in your camp. You aren’t simply spending money in an establishment, you are supporting entire families and giving them resources to bring in more of their relatives and petition the government for even more favors.
It’s not just a sandwich.
Under what YouTube account or search term can we find the speeches?
Butt hat IS the only way forward, all hail butt hat.
The American Revolution would never have succeeded, had it not been for the existence of a brief, lucid, concise, reasonable, easy-to-read, best-selling pamphlet called “Common Sense,” written by a foreign observer named Thomas Paine. The secret ingredient of “Common Sense” was that it contained a great deal of common sense. To have any sort of positive further development of the pieces on the board (hint: you chaps don’t control the center, and you’re not even pressuring the center, you’re making moves like P-QR2), one of you boyos is going to have to write “Common Sense”. Or “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” at… Read more »
“It’s OK to be White” messaging is a small step in that direction.
Indeed. “Common Sense” was the match that lit the fire, but the kindling was laid decades, even centuries before. The ideas driving the American Revolution were derived from English Common Law and English History, and matured in a land remote from the power of the Crown. Estimates are that at least 1 copy of “Common Sense” was printed and purchased for every 10 colonists, which means that almost everyone had read it or at least heard of it, but the acceptance of the ideas in “Common Sense” were based on the ideas at play at the time. To quote another… Read more »
Historian writes, “…the path forward has to be rightful action driven by ideas that promote individual liberty.”
You could not be more wrong. The primacy of “individual liberty” is one of the main reasons that white people are now helpless before non-white tribalism. Whites must become tribal themselves to repel the existential threats arrayed against us and such tribalism is not possible when we “promote individual liberty.”
What I’ve said above does not mean that I don’t cherish individual liberty. It just means that I understand that individual liberty is only possible in a white country.
Organizations like Sons Of Liberty and Masonic lodges were important as well. Alexander Hamilton had a group of young men learning military exercise and practiced performing movements without firearms before any revolution ever happened. I’m not saying there’s going to be a violent confrontation. These guys were organized and had their leadership worked out long before any showdown came to pass. They bypassed convention and used whatever means at hand there was to organize. Even used churches. But I don’t think the American Revolution is the best model. Our founders had the advantage of independent rule and state governments for… Read more »
Well Stated Brother…
Amen Brother…Very Well Stated…
* Z podcast 48 “Dissident Right” http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=14166
* Z podcast 50 “Identity Politics” http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=14305
* Greg Johnson’s “White Nationalist Manifesto” (banned from Amazon)
* Richard Spencer’s Cville statement https://altright.com/2017/08/11/what-it-means-to-be-alt-right/
Just reread the Turner Diaries, scary stuff as the State seems to be following the path of the system.
“Dissident politics will have to be radical politics.” I kind-of agree, but at the same time do not believe that accelerationism can significantly speed up the decline. I believe that permanent change can only come through economic pressure. But economic pressure in the sense of “where do I get food tomorrow”. As long as production capacity exceeds this demand by a large factor, there is no need for change. And hence any sand you might throw into the gears of the economy will not reduce production capacity enough to force a change. Once production capacity only barely covers minimum demand,… Read more »
The sand does not necessarily have to be economic, but rather social and political. Here behind enemy lines it is ridiculously easy to bait the lefties. And the goal should be to bring out the crazy in them every day. Two benefits–first it’s hard to sustain that tempo forever, you wear them out–and you create space for a positive message on the other side. You even see a little bit of these among the leftists…Mayor Buttplug gets traction in the Demo candidate mob simply because he doesn’t sound batshit crazy.
Fins are the Europeans who most say that they would fight for their country, at 74% (in contrast with say, Germany’s 18%). So they must be doing something right up there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/4wgjns/infographic_would_you_fight_for_your_country/
Their national hero is Simo Hayha, The Deadliest Sniper In World History.
The one and only reason I’d buy a Mosin Nagant would be to see how hard it would be to replicate his iron sight shooting. He refused optics to avoid raising his profile.
At one time Century Arms offered the Moisin Nagant 1891 for about $100. It was the best rifle for the money they offered. You could do a lot worse than to buy one.
Maybe you should bundle all your travelogues into a short kindle book, mix in some photos with the text and have it be your version of “Shakespeare Never Did This,” Bukowski’s book about travelling to Germany. I remember when he got back to America and was trying to take a picture of some storefront and the owner came out shrieking at him, and he voiced his central insight about what was wrong with America: “The problem with these people is that no one has ever bombed their cities or told their mothers to shut up.”
I’d model it on O’Rourke’s “Holidays in Hell”. His commentary on “commie concrete” was priceless.
I just bought that. That looks like a fun read. Sometimes my reading is way too serious and I need to lighten it up
Look, I broadly agree with everything you say here but until we solve to problem of being co-opted by other “Rightists”, organising is going to do jack shit. You can do all the organising you want but if the stormfags and the neocons are part of team Dissident Right its all going to implode. Some “purity tests” need to be established if for no other reason to establish the goals that we want to achieve without being subverted from within.
Agree on the two points about positive message and the need to operate as radicals. But each of us needs to do a self assessment and figure out where you can best contribute. I’m deep in enemy territory. There are more of us here than one might think, but organization and meaningful action is difficult. But we’re trying to figure it out. But there are opportunities close at hand. My spouse and I reproduced at 2x replacement. So far we’re about 3.5 for 4 in inculcating the basic operating principles of whatever you want to call “our thing”. Not overtly,… Read more »
This is something I thought about regarding myself. I’m feeling pressure to do more, but that means figuring out my own tolerance for pain. It also means a frank assessment of what I can do that is worthwhile.
You have the makings of a network here. Think about how to use it. With nothing but paper and post riders, the Committees of Correspondence built a network that spanned the entire eastern seaboard. Though I still think the one I built in MA was superior to the rest… Just remember, “John has a long mustache…”
“We are the new Jacobins” –amazing. This is a phrase I have been using for about four years in conversation. Also one of the reasons I have been reading about the French Revolution. I don’t know why right wingers don’t just join and take over the dying Masons organization. Many Jacobin clubs were formed out of Masonic lodges, and many if not most of the revolutionaires were masons before they were anything else. In fact, I think that using a model like that and sticking to it a bit more strongly would be a good idea. I don’t see where… Read more »
One thing I should make clear: the Jacobin Club at the time of the terror, the one that had to be shut down by the Thermidorians, was not the same club begun in the early stages of the Revolution. It began as something one would think of as being somewhat like the Tea Party movement, an organization called The Society of the Friends of the Constitution. It took its name Jacobin from the monastery where it met. Everyone who was not an absolute monarchist who played a role in the Revolution started out in the Jacobin Club and even up… Read more »
Maybe it’s a good time to go through Whittaker Chambers Witness and take notes about how they communicated clandestinely. It’s possible even without the internet and we know that because it’s been done through millennia, the Communists were just particularly good at it. It’s always scary to follow the Communists into anything because of the myriad of crimes both large and small they committed for decades but remember they believed in the perfectibility of human nature. That’s wrong and thinking it will lead you down the wrong path every time
I’ve really enjoyed the travel log.
You’ve taken the wrong lesson from Whittaker. Chambers understood that the primary problem was spiritual not tactical.
I understand that. Believing that humans can be perfected is denying original sin and following evil .
“That’s where things are in the West. We’re ruled by gangsters that employ thugs…”
QFT.
“When you have nothing you have nothing left to lose.”
When the majority are feeling those words in their stomachs and their hearts, things will change – and change in an instant. The chaos that follows will naturally provide the leaders, the revolutionaries, and the warlords. Just as it always has.
Until then, watch and wait….
“We’re ruled by gangsters that employ thugs”
You could always do what Michael Collins did. That worked quick smart.
It was a major coup that NR reviewed Kevin Macdonald at all. They had to step back a little and give some condemnation to pacify their Jewish readers or donors, or wherever the influence actually lays. I just got the latest issue of NR and there are literally three full length articles in praise of Jews or Israel. I thinks it’s in response to the illyan Omar thing, but even for the non antisemite the fixation feels—unseemly. How would you react to constant articles in praise of Italians, or Irish, or any other particular identity? It would seem strange at… Read more »
How would you react to constant articles in praise of Italians, or Irish, or any other particular identity? It would seem strange at best. I can’t understand why others do not react negatively.
Because the brainwashing has worked…When you promote other races over your own then their experiment has worked…
I suspect a big part of the game for outlets like NR is to stay on the magazine racks. An executive decision not to carry from Barnes and noble(I’ve heard it was Jewish owned) or books a million would devastate them. Already some places, such as the Barnes and noble in Shreveport, don’t get NR.
Sounds kind of fun to sneak around Eastern Europe playing Cold-War spy games.
That means we have to stop trying to play by the rules when organizing and conspiring.
Giving yourselves plausible cover would be a start. Form a group where businessmen can discuss the protein content in soya beans and meet under that umbrella. Book venues, etc. under that guise (you could even build a website, print some brochures) and insist to anyone and everyone you’re going to talk about soya beans. Hell, you could even *have* a talk on soya beans if you really want good cover. But never, ever admit who you really are unless lying will result in criminal prosecution.
In one of Trump’s (now many) disgraceful cucks, he had the chance to designate Antifa a terrorist organization early in his presidency. Of course ideological trannies, like National Review, urged him not to, and he didn’t.
It would have been a big help, both practically and psychologically. Add that to the list of Trump’s disastrous inactions.
I’m not sure that your message will be hard to sell. Most of us know that it’s past time to start smashing the china. What we need to need to know is where and how to do it.