“Just keep arguing” is passive, not active. It takes very little effort and will actually do almost nothing to stave off collapse or the insanity of current world powers. Making “alliances” with more dysfunctional groups won’t get them to put our interests before theirs, nor does it give anything other than attention.
“Accelerationism” is people thinking the worse it gets the better without doing anything to weather the collapse. This is also passive lol.
Isolation is not the only other option. That is extremely simplistic. Rerooting can be done in a manner to rapidly grow communities and bring in more people… especially those who uphold the system. Trades and stem would be ideal… and this takes considerable effort, is active and hard to do but doesn’t give you likes like the non stop talking our way out of this mentality does. Or the grifting and attention seeking using the same talking points lacking any real creativity in thought.
Traditional lifeways always reassert when chaos becomes extreme. In the long run, the pendulum swings back. And forth. And back again. However, we are potentially, plausibly in the end time near a mass extinction event. So the usual cycle of history may not be relevant.
The pro-Gaza protestors on college campuses are NOT naive idiots indoctrinated by leftist professors. That's a simplistic and very stupid conservative meme, pumped out by politicians bought and paid for by genocidal Zionists, AIPAC, and the Biden dems.
The only hope of conservatives for influencing todays youth away from the woke zeitgeist is to embrace their moral courage to stand against the Gaza slaughter and embrace an anti-imperial, anti-war, conservatism that can make common cause with the anti-war left. Or, on another practical matter, embrace the anti-trans pro-woman feminism of J.K. Rowling. Or, embrace anti-corporate, anti-banker, anti-Wall Street attitudes in favor of the working class, as the MAGA movement has.
In other words, we need to make allies of the left whenever we can. Because "traditionalism" is really just normative morality, which exists on both sides of the political spectrum. The Parasitic Overlords (bankers, neocons, Anglo imperialists) have a very effective divide and conquer strategy. They remain in power by ginning up partisan hatreds.
As for acceleration v dropping out v proselytizing all have merits. We all need to maintain personal safety and sanity, by at least periodically dropping out. I play online chess and watch old movies, what do you do?
Acceleration is to me another way of saying "active, bodily, direct resistance" which is always necessary but must be properly organized. We are a violent species, so time in the Federal prisons and even death is a possibility. We need our heroes and martyrs.
As for proselytizing.. see the above on how to win the youth. Few will transition from Woke to Trad if we abuse them and call them idiots.
While an injection of positive opinion is welcome, consider this: if proselytization is the order of the day, why hasn't it worked yet? Year after year the Right loses more ground. Simple observation shows that the broader Right is caught in a Chinese finger-trap, where any effort in resistance against the machinations of the Left results in another loss. At some point we need to stop pretending that more words will win a war we've been losing for 60 years.
Planting the seed parable comes to mind----maybe not just the seed, but maybe the right, not overbearing or over complicated, seed. Nice crucial and long overdue discussion(s). God Bless!!!
For most people on the Right possibilities of participation in renewal of any kind of traditional order is very uncertain. Human material involved is simply too weak, burdened by all of the dissolution which was accumulated during last few decades. One approach is Ride the Tiger approach of Evola, but without attachment to any kind of result of one's actions. If enough men get involved in that approach there might be those who will "stay awake during the long night and meet those who will appear in the morning", to paraphrase Evola. That way some semblance of Tradition might be preserved and used by those who will participate in the new cycle. Maybe there are some hidden noble structures which will get involved in the right moment and lift everybody up and therefore help everybody deal with the situation of the end of the cycle.
I enjoyed the upbeat tone of this article, especially concerning the intellectual capabilities and potential open-mindedness of today's youth. As an American public-school teacher, I have grown to appreciate teen-agers' potential for good works in the cultural sphere. As is typical in education today, the majority of my teaching colleagues are political leftists, and they mostly look down upon their students as non-thinking zombies with no thirst for knowledge who are controlled by opinions vomited out of their cellphones. The very few existing Rightist teachers, on the other hand, see teenagers in need of an adult to figuratively hold their hands and introduce them to the transcendental wonders of Western tradition. The youth are not lost; they need adults to put them back on a path that will give their lives meaning.
“Just keep arguing” is passive, not active. It takes very little effort and will actually do almost nothing to stave off collapse or the insanity of current world powers. Making “alliances” with more dysfunctional groups won’t get them to put our interests before theirs, nor does it give anything other than attention.
“Accelerationism” is people thinking the worse it gets the better without doing anything to weather the collapse. This is also passive lol.
Isolation is not the only other option. That is extremely simplistic. Rerooting can be done in a manner to rapidly grow communities and bring in more people… especially those who uphold the system. Trades and stem would be ideal… and this takes considerable effort, is active and hard to do but doesn’t give you likes like the non stop talking our way out of this mentality does. Or the grifting and attention seeking using the same talking points lacking any real creativity in thought.
Agree that the post in its entirety is simplistic.
Traditional lifeways always reassert when chaos becomes extreme. In the long run, the pendulum swings back. And forth. And back again. However, we are potentially, plausibly in the end time near a mass extinction event. So the usual cycle of history may not be relevant.
The pro-Gaza protestors on college campuses are NOT naive idiots indoctrinated by leftist professors. That's a simplistic and very stupid conservative meme, pumped out by politicians bought and paid for by genocidal Zionists, AIPAC, and the Biden dems.
The only hope of conservatives for influencing todays youth away from the woke zeitgeist is to embrace their moral courage to stand against the Gaza slaughter and embrace an anti-imperial, anti-war, conservatism that can make common cause with the anti-war left. Or, on another practical matter, embrace the anti-trans pro-woman feminism of J.K. Rowling. Or, embrace anti-corporate, anti-banker, anti-Wall Street attitudes in favor of the working class, as the MAGA movement has.
In other words, we need to make allies of the left whenever we can. Because "traditionalism" is really just normative morality, which exists on both sides of the political spectrum. The Parasitic Overlords (bankers, neocons, Anglo imperialists) have a very effective divide and conquer strategy. They remain in power by ginning up partisan hatreds.
As for acceleration v dropping out v proselytizing all have merits. We all need to maintain personal safety and sanity, by at least periodically dropping out. I play online chess and watch old movies, what do you do?
Acceleration is to me another way of saying "active, bodily, direct resistance" which is always necessary but must be properly organized. We are a violent species, so time in the Federal prisons and even death is a possibility. We need our heroes and martyrs.
As for proselytizing.. see the above on how to win the youth. Few will transition from Woke to Trad if we abuse them and call them idiots.
While an injection of positive opinion is welcome, consider this: if proselytization is the order of the day, why hasn't it worked yet? Year after year the Right loses more ground. Simple observation shows that the broader Right is caught in a Chinese finger-trap, where any effort in resistance against the machinations of the Left results in another loss. At some point we need to stop pretending that more words will win a war we've been losing for 60 years.
The author might argue.. prostyletizing hasn't worked because it hasn't been done "right." That doesn't answer the question.. and time is very short.
Planting the seed parable comes to mind----maybe not just the seed, but maybe the right, not overbearing or over complicated, seed. Nice crucial and long overdue discussion(s). God Bless!!!
For most people on the Right possibilities of participation in renewal of any kind of traditional order is very uncertain. Human material involved is simply too weak, burdened by all of the dissolution which was accumulated during last few decades. One approach is Ride the Tiger approach of Evola, but without attachment to any kind of result of one's actions. If enough men get involved in that approach there might be those who will "stay awake during the long night and meet those who will appear in the morning", to paraphrase Evola. That way some semblance of Tradition might be preserved and used by those who will participate in the new cycle. Maybe there are some hidden noble structures which will get involved in the right moment and lift everybody up and therefore help everybody deal with the situation of the end of the cycle.
Live. Or die.
That is the lesson.
I enjoyed the upbeat tone of this article, especially concerning the intellectual capabilities and potential open-mindedness of today's youth. As an American public-school teacher, I have grown to appreciate teen-agers' potential for good works in the cultural sphere. As is typical in education today, the majority of my teaching colleagues are political leftists, and they mostly look down upon their students as non-thinking zombies with no thirst for knowledge who are controlled by opinions vomited out of their cellphones. The very few existing Rightist teachers, on the other hand, see teenagers in need of an adult to figuratively hold their hands and introduce them to the transcendental wonders of Western tradition. The youth are not lost; they need adults to put them back on a path that will give their lives meaning.