Putin calls Nationalism a Virus

The second half of last weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was a solo Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-444-ask-me-anything-with-greg-johnson/

Margot Metroland reviews the new academic publication Male Supremacism in the United States, which contends that the real threats facing America in 2022 are Gavin McInnes, the Alt Right, and the patriarchy. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/male-supremacism-in-the-united-states/

Mark Gullick reminisces about his time working for Britain's National Health Service, and what it taught him about how bureaucracies and large state-run institutions work. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/the-national-health-service-my-part-in-its-downfall/

Stephen Paul Foster on the 1986 film Extremities, which anticipated today's woke agenda in Hollywood. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/extremities-a-film-from-long-ago-that-anticipated-todays-woke-hollywood/

It is a big world full of busy people. Which means that, with a little looking, any event can be interpreted as "convenient" for some purpose or another.

Spencer J. Quinn's review of the monumental and fantastic new book from The White People's Press, 50 Classic Tales, which presents folk tales from the European tradition in their original and uncensored forms and context, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/04/50-classic-tales-from-the-white-peoples-press/

The eclectic scholar Kathryn S. was host Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed Mircea Eliade’s The Sacred and the Profane and answered viewer questions, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-445-the-writers-bloc-with-kathryn-s-on-mircea-eliade/

The introduction to Greg Johnson's The White Nationalist Manifesto is now in Portuguese. This is the first part of a complete translation of the text. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/o-manifesto-nacionalista-branco-parte-1/

Note that the Spencerites take issue with Tucker Carlson helping mainstream talk of the Great Replacement and Ann Coulter talking openly about Jewish racial activism, not because it isn't true, but because it is "stale" and "played out".

But what exactly has changed since the heyday of the alt-right to make either of these issues less relevant? Is Ann late to the party because everyone woke up to the talking points of the 2003 Occidental Quartlery years ago? If you think more popular figures promoting your talking points is a sign of defeat, you're probably more invested in the process of endlessly generating novelty takes than you are in actually winning.

To people who are serious about metapolitics, this is a huge win.

To a pathological narcissist, this is "meh" . . . because it does not involve HIM.

Spencer is not to be analyzed. He is simply to be diagnosed.

Jim Goad on what the evidence shows about whether human adults feel more compassion for children, other adults, or animals. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/animals-children-first/

Today is the 124th birthday of the great Italian philosopher of Tradition and man of the Right, Julius Evola. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/05/remembering-julius-evola-10/

The world has lost a genius.

RIP Vangelis, 1943-2022.

In honor of Julius Evola’s birthday, for the next ten days, Counter-Currents’ edition of Evola’s East and West is on sale for 25% off.

https://counter-currents.com/east-and-west-order/

It seems I made quite an impression on the editor of an anti-racist classics website:

https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/2021/12/17/the-fourth-year-of-pharos-emotional-toll-research-white-supremacy/

Wow. Quite the admissions from this guy.

“Johnson’s essay about white people rising up against a more equitable society looks pretty prophetic. That realization — that Johnson might be right, and that his movement, which so many people continue to describe as “far right” or “extremist,” might actually have widespread support — takes a toll. But even more, as I look back over that same period from 2014 until today, I know I lived my life and I made choices, some of which subverted white supremacist ideology, but others of which fit the pattern that white nationalists like Johnson are depending on “normal” people making to fuel their movement’s continuing rise. Where to live. Where to go to school. Which park to play at. Where to eat. Where to go to church. How different, really, is the life I’ve made than that which people like Johnson expect me to make?”


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This was a real whitepill.

https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/2021/12/17/the-fourth-year-of-pharos-emotional-toll-research-white-supremacy/

I wanted to hate Dozier's article but the fact is that there isn't much to hate here—it's just an anti-white activist being very publicly demoralized. Throughout he just states what right-wingers believe about antiquity and leaves the reader to conclude that this is wrong or bad without presenting any reasons why—his weary moral tone is supposed to be enough.

The problem he has is twofold: a) classics isn't really taught anymore so normal people's opinions on it have not been tainted by wokeness, and b) these normal people are, when not buried under an avalanche of propaganda, pretty much in agreement with the radical right on most things, as were the most brilliant minds of the ancient world. Ours is the null hypothesis. This is what's taking an emotional toll on him. I know you're tired, comrade.

Dozier may be hysterical (he calls Trump "a white nationalist president"), but he's a cut above most woke liberals in terms of self-awareness. He summarizes Greg Johnson's essay Truth, Justice, and a Nice White Country where Greg says that white nationalists just want to live around other white people. What unnerves Dozier is that he sees such people all around him—neighbours, friends, churchgoers:

That realization — that Johnson might be right, and that his movement, which so many people continue to describe as “far right” or “extremist,” might actually have widespread support — takes a toll.

What's worse—he's starting to realize he's no different. He quotes Joseph Sobran saying that "in their mating and migratory habits, liberals are indistinguishable from members of the Ku Klux Klan", and he has enough self-awareness to see this in himself:

Where to live. Where to go to school. Which park to play at. Where to eat. Where to go to church. How different, really, is the life I’ve made than that which people like Johnson expect me to make?

How is he supposed to change people's minds about "white supremacy" when he can't even change his own mind about it?

No, working on Pharos affects me because it is painful to see myself reflected in Greg Johnson’s confidence that most white people like me — especially white liberals like me — lack the courage and conviction [...] to create a more just world.

Dozier is tired and demoralized because he sees himself in Johnson's assessment of normal white people. But there's a deeper reason, one that occasionally peeks through amid his hand-wringing.

If reading Cicero is enough to redpill you on race, sex, and hierarchy—and he was basically the Mitt Romney of his day—imagine what reading Draco, Cato Maior, and Herodotus is. The fact is that Dozier immerses himself in clannish ethnocentrism all day, whether he writes about Johnson or not. Every time he cracks open an ancient tome, whether an epic poem or an obscure medical treatise, he's up to his ears in it. Dozier is tired for the same reason Donna Zuckerberg (who had to fold her glorified blog Eidolon because it was like totally stressing her) is tired—they've both devoted their lives to studying not things they love, but things they hate and want to change.

Maybe he should take a sabbatical from policing right-wing thought—we'll take over for him in educating people about antiquity. This is close to the heart of what Imperium Press is all about, and later this year we'll teach what so many classical departments no longer do, with our Latin course. The history of ideas belongs to us, because we believe what was considered wisdom and common sense for all of history up until the day before yesterday.

Don't worry Curt, we got this one.

The broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio with BitCoin maven Karl Thorburn discussing Elon Musk and Twitter, economic news, current events, and YOUR QUESTIONS has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/04/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-435-karl-thorburn-on-elon-musk-more/