Friday Follies

“Movement” madness.  In all cases, emphasis added.

Read this laughable nonsense.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left “hippies” and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which replace organic reciprocity between man and nature with technological dominion of man over nature, a relationship that deforms and devalues both poles.

Dat right!  Let dem dere Chinese do dat technology, we’ll just hike through the woods, eating twigs and branches.

But philosophically and politically, Tolkien was much closer to the New Right than the New Left. Tolkien was a conservative and a race realist. 

Wrong, wrong, they’re always wrong.

…In 1961, Tolkien sharply criticized a Swedish commentator who suggested that The Lord of the Rings was an anti-communist parable and identified Sauron with Stalin. Tolkien said, "I utterly repudiate any such reading, which angers me…Tolkien vocally opposed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party before the Second World War, and was known to especially despise Nazi racist and anti-semitic ideology. In 1938, the publishing house Rütten & Loening Verlag was preparing to release The Hobbit in Nazi Germany. To Tolkien's outrage, he was asked beforehand whether he was of Aryan origin. In a letter to his British publisher Stanley Unwin, he condemned Nazi "race-doctrine" as "wholly pernicious and unscientific". He added that he had many Jewish friends….

Well, given Johnson’s recent Unzian slant, Tolkien fits in well…a pro-Jewish Christian cuckservative.

His preferences ran toward non-constitutional monarchy in the capital and de facto anarchy in the provinces…

The provinces, where our snug hobbit hole is located.

For those who need no introduction, there is no better commemoration than to spend a winter evening snug in one’s own Hobbit hole…

And, meanwhile….

Some reach for the stars, others burrow into their snug little hole.

And let’s all read about Tolkien and his distrust of technics – yes, read all about it…on a computer, over the Internet. Traditionalists do have a comical lack of self-awareness, don’t they?

Question – does this include Tolkien?

By this point I really do believe the Tolkien fetish has an ethnoracial biological dimension.  Traditionalism likely does as well in a related sense – Evola being an extreme outlier.  Or maybe it’s just me?  I don’t know.  This is a topic for further study.  Are there significant intra-European ethnic differences in the appeal of Tolkienite Traditionalism?  Are there different preferences for the snug hobbit hole vs. the spaceship?  And what does this tell us about Spengler and his pontifications about the Faustian Will-to-Power?  Tolkienism seems to be me as anti-Faustian as you can get - de facto anarchy in your hobbit hole.  

Delenda Est Traditionalism!

No, no, a thousand times, no!  A Mediterranean diet is going to double your melanin levels and halve your IQ; it is completely unacceptable for real White men!

Try this one instead.  Eat like a Viking!  “Movement” approved.

Can Strom explain how any of this Keystone cops routine is going to lead to “White renewal?”

Will Williams took over as NA’s third chairman in October 2014. He knew the organization was in financial and organizational disarray and hired accountant Randolph Dilloway to help restore the organization. {snip}

According to the lawsuit, Williams went to confront Dilloway for his shoddy work on May 3, 2015. Both men called the police, and Dilloway fled with a laptop and thumb drives with allegedly stolen documents. On May 20, the SPLC published an article called “Chaos at the Compound,” revealing documents Beirich admitted to receiving from Dilloway on May 6, three days after the confrontation.

I have a mixed opinion on all of this.

One the one hand, Spencer is a terrible spokesman for the Imperium idea, which is not at all incompatible with Salter’s Universal Nationalism or local sovereignty.  Pitching the Imperium idea with the aura of a James Bond villain, with lots of warmed-over Social Darwinism, does not impress. Spencer needs to read On Genetic Interests.  Universal Nationalism does not imply a lack of competition between nations and peoples; it does mean that every people should be allowed genetic continuity and at least some minimal means of existence.  And one must remember that in a world full of high-tech weaponry, including weapons of mass destruction, net EGI would suggest the wisdom of a degree of restraint in great power competition.

Universal Nationalism does not reject large-scale federated EU-like structures – see the discussion centered on Fig. 7.1 in Salter’s  book. However, at other times, “smaller is better” seems to be promoted for maximization of genetic interests.  Splitting the difference would lead to a scenario such as that suggested by a number of pan-European theorists (including myself) in which the federated structure is balanced against a degree of local sovereignty.  These are issues for careful discussion, not bombastic statements and posturing.

On the other hand, Vox Day is even worse.  Our interests are not served by following the ideas of a racially-mixed anti-WN Christian conservative and his bible-thumping followers. Is that ad hominem?  Yes, it is, but their attacks on Spencer are nothing but ad hominem as well.  At least I offer some actual criticism of Spencer’s thoughts and suggest he consult with some of Salter’s ideas (and my own) to broaden his worldview.  His Voxian critics descend to name-calling and the typical “CIA asset” accusations.  In the absence of a real argument, the same tactics can be turned against them. One cannot expect a person who identifies as racially mixed to understand, and promote, the best interests of Whites as a race, and Christian fanatics have long made clear that their priority is religion, not race and civilization.  Thus, Spencer is a misguided potential ally, and these others are opponents.

Spencer needs to seriously engage with Salter's ideas.

Der Movement: July Edition

SLC news.

Here’s your periodic reminder: “America’s Senator” Jeff Sessions not only defends Antifa, but also does their legal work for them as Attorney General. He’s worse than the Cuban and the Mormon.

Yeah Jeff, laugh over those “lock her up” chants.  Trouble is, when the audience is thinking of Hillary Clinton as “her,” Antifa Jeff is probably thinking of some Alt Lite bimbo. Or maybe Mudshark Annie herself.

An anti-pan-European Counter-Currents ethnonationalist comments on some stupidity from anti-White mestizo Vox Day.

First, why do Whites listen to the likes of Vox Day or Chechar?  Latinos, White-Amerind mixes, and the like should mind their own racial business and let Whites sort out their relationships among themselves.  As far as Counter-Currents, well, the dastardly Richard Spencer must be opposed, so let’s “diss” pan-Europeanism, while at the same time promoting the Cult of Saint Francis of Yockey, the patron saint of Western Empire.  It’s all a clown show.  How can all the Type Is take any of these idiots seriously?  Then again, if they had the sense to realize the inconsistencies, they wouldn’t be Type Is to begin with.

All these people are fundamentally dishonest.  On the one hand, you have self-described racially-mixed civic nationalists (hint to Counter-Currents morons: civic nationalism is not an acceptable substitute for racial nationalism, it is its enemy, in the same way para-fascism and real fascism are deadly enemies, and how the Mainstream Right is opposed to the Beavis-and-Butthead Alt Right) essentially assert that the state of White America in 2018 is the same as in 1918, or perhaps 1863 with natives fighting Dead Rabbits. The ethnonationalists knock down pathetic strawman representations of pan-Europeanism as wanting to erase European ethnic and national identities, when even Saint Francis repeatedly asserted that even he – the Avatar of Western Empire – supported the preservation of local identities, complete with local sovereignty. All they do is lie,lie,lie, and I have refuted these people so many times it has become boring.

Remember – keep on listening to HBD musclemen and race-mixing gamesters and eat that high fat diet!

High-fat diet (HFD) mimicked the human condition of obesity and insulin resistance, including symptoms such as elevated serum glucose and insulin levels and reduced insulin-stimulated glucose uptake into muscle and adipose tissue. Interestingly, HFD also decreased (-44%) glucose uptake into bone marrow. Bone mass was reduced (-45%) by HFD due to a diminished (-45%) bone remodeling rate. Bone matrix quality aspects, such as biomechanical stability, were additionally decreased…This data shows that exercise prevents some, but not all of the negative effects of HFD on bone health…

If they’re wrong about almost everything else, why not about diet and exercise as well?

There are also associations between a high fat diet and cancer risk.  Build dem muscles!  I don’t know… maybe you can slip in some steroids along with the chemotherapy?

Odds and Ends: 9/12/17

Odds and ends.

An excellent logical argumentation against the equality ruse.

The John Ray-like stupidity of Vox Day concerning National Socialism is dissected here.

Bannon the anti-Silker.  He’s right about the Chinese threat.

What’s wrong here?  Aren’t all the individuals pictured S. Italian/Sicilian?

In Der News: 9/10/17

News, news, news.

More on the cuck Trump.

Also see this.

And then we have this.

The pivot could also be reflective of the new environment Trump created in the West Wing after dismissing divisive, nationalist figures like former chief strategist Steve Bannon. With Bannon gone, the more moderate faction of the West Wing, consisting of New Yorkers like economic adviser Gary Cohn and senior adviser Jared Kushner, will likely hold more sway over the president's decisions. 

Jewish liberalism in control.  “4-D chess,” indeed!

Time to get Lindsey Graham tested!

Read this.

First, I was warning about “Vox Day” on my blog long ago.  Right again.

If opposition to the mixed economy and the welfare state is not an essential trait of the Right, then what is? On this matter, I follow Jonathan Bowden, who argued that the essence of the Right is the rejection of egalitarianism as the highest political value.

Agreed.  That’s good sense and any reasonable interpretation of political history.

I also think there is something slightly absurd about debating whether a world-historical phenomenon like National Socialism merits being included in a contrived, ephemeral, marginal, and increasingly ridiculous category like the Alt Right. It is like debating whether King Lear merits being classed among Saturday morning cartoons.

Well said.

My view is that we should abandon the Alt Right “brand” entirely.

Of course, I agree, but for different reasons than Greg, and this is something often discussed here and need not be gotten into with this post.