Morris van de Camp on instances of ethnonationalist thinking in the Old Testament, and parallels we can find in European and American history. https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/doors-bolts-bars-in-place/

One of the problems with a largely online “movement” is that “leaders” are often determined by whoever can grab the mic and shout the loudest and the longest. This means that “leaders” become nearly synonymous with “content creators” or “e-celebs” or whatever the current lingo is.

As such, the ability to be successful in the real world becomes less and less a factor in whom people decide to listen to. It’s no longer required or expected that one elevated to a leadership position show any aptitude for strategy or diplomacy, or even that they are just relatively successful in their own personal lives, like being able to hold down a job or have a good reputation within their community. Even the most bare minimum requirements have been abandoned, to our overall detriment.

Instead, the natural human tendency is to gravitate to whomever or whatever stimulates their dopamine receptors. And similar to housewives hooked on daytime soaps, much of the dissident right is hooked on those who can produce a reliable and steady stream of drama or gossip. It's not activism; it's entertainment. Let's not kid ourselves on that.

There’s a certain “idiocracy” that seems to be taking hold. And I don’t mean that in the sense that any of the guilty parties are unintelligent, but that there is an increasing taste for low culture and plebeian vice within the DR, which is being encouraged by those “leaders” who reap some sort of profit from it- not necessarily financial, but also things as simple as basic ego aggrandisement. In any case, there is SOME kind of payoff for all involved.

There is probably no real solution to this, since human nature is what it is, and so it will always be something that is around. But individually, we can certainly all choose whose voices we allow into our mental space.

How you determine that is up to you. I personally tend to avoid two types of people
1) those who are frequently engaged in public disputes with others (especially if they are typically the one in the role of provocateur, which in many cases will be the person who spergs out on purity spiralling and needs to "call out" what they believe are "bad ideas") and
2) those who often find themselves at the centre of drama, claiming victim status (whether legitimate or manufactured- both are equally concerning for different reasons).

I don't look for nor expect perfect people (I'm certainly not one myself!) but I do look for people who, more often than not, are striving for unity rather than division, whose primary focus is on doing their own work well rather than criticising others' ideas and projects. Those are my two basic qualifications in assessing someone's leadership qualities. I like people who are positive stewards of their ideas and who embody qualities I wish I had in myself.

From a Traditional perspective, leadership is a regal thing and is associated with the immovable and immutable quality of the sun. He shines out his solar light regardless of what happens around him. The leader is not a rabble-rouser or a drama queen, nor does he pander to the mob- not for clicks, not for money, not for praise. His principles are what they are, take it or leave it.

None of this is intended to make anyone feel called out, but merely to provide points for reflection for everyone, whether true leader, self-appointed leader, leader-wannabe, or dutiful follower.

Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Ezra Loomis Pound, poet, critic, economist, and man of the Right. Learn about his life, work, and legacy for the New Right at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/10/remembering-ezra-pound-12/

Cade Riddick demonstrates, using voting records, how a red-state secession could succeed not through revolution, but by holding referenda to allow counties of blue states that lean red to join neighboring red states. https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/parting-ways/

The first part of Ezra Pound's Jefferson and/or Mussolini is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2013/10/jefferson-and-or-mussolini-part-1/

Francis Parker Yockey's "The Political Enemy of Europe," a chapter from his book The Enemy of Europe, explains why Europe must never fight for an enemy power, whether it be America or Russia, and has now been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/10/the-political-enemy-of-europe/

Jim Goad on Georgia's Republican candidate for the US Senate in this year's election, Herschel Walker, who seems to have no redeeming qualities apart from allegedly being a "based black guy" to conservatives. https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/the-dumbest-black-guy-for-the-job/

Mark Gullick on why Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter is about more than just free speech. https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/buying-freedom-musks-last-laugh/

Nicholas R. Jeelvy on why, contrary to popular opinion, anger isn't a bad thing; in fact, it's absolutely essential that white men DO get mad. https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/anger-is-energy/

Asier Abadroa on those who needlessly divide the white race from within during the time of its greatest peril over petty disputes and ideologies. https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/stupid-white-anti-unionisms/

Beau Albrecht's review of the film Predictions of Fire, a documentary about the infamous, ambiguously totalitarian Slovenian band and art group Laibach from the mid-1990s, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/10/laibachs-predictions-of-fire/

Anti-Empire on why the most truthful anti-war novels have probably already been written, but they're too horrible for anyone to want to read them. https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/the-ultimate-antiwar-work-would-require-a-psychopath-to-write-a-fool-to-read/

More correspondence between Miriam Hirn, who sometimes used the alias Viviane Sorel de Souvigny, and the Swiss fascist and Holocaust revisionist Gaston-Armand Amaudruz dating from 1978 and 1979 has been added to The Savitri Devi Archive. https://savitridevi.org/savitri_devi_works/correspondence-with-gaston-armand-amaudruz/

Greg Johnson on how sovereignty would be understood in the context of an ethnonationalist world order. https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/notes-on-sovereignty-and-international-order/

The transcript and audio of the lecture Bowden gave on Savitri Devi to the New Right in October 2010 has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/savitri-devi/

An update on Counter-Currents' fundraiser and matching grant, and Thomas Steuben explains why your support is crucial so that we can build a real Right-wing movement that's better than what the conservatives are offering. https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/forging-a-better-movement/

A Bulgarian translation of Bowden’s essay on Wyndham Lewis’ Tarr has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/articles_reviews/%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC-%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B8%D1%81/

Alain de Benoist on the thought of Jean-Claude Michéa, who has attempted to rediscover the original Left while tracing how the modern Left and Right gradually abandoned their original principles to become indistinguishable in how they ignore the interests of ordinary people and common sense. https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/the-populist-moment-chapter-5-part-1/

The broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio with Millennial Woes and Morgoth reminiscing about the great Skeptic War and answering listener questions has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/10/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-491-millennial-woes-morgoth-on-the-skeptic-war/

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