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Alain de Benoist's chapter on the contradiction in liberalism between asserting respect for everyone's rights while simultaneously seeking to impose a universal system of values has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/12/the-populist-moment-chapter-6/

Tonight on The Writers’ Bloc, we’ll be nursing our hangover in the company of our good friends Pox Populi, Hwitgeard, American Krogan and Greg Johnson, whilst reflecting on the year that passed and speculating about the year to come.

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I like normies. Most of our guys and our girls were once normies. Life becomes more joyful when you view your own people with love rather than disdain. It also becomes easier to present the righteousness of our cause when it comes from a position of genuine love.

Related to this, I very much do not like terms such as 'sheeple.' It is true that many people do not really care all too much about certain issues – this is normal.

My point is to see the goodness in people. In doing so it also becomes harder to embrace defeatist and escapist attitudes. It is common to hear 'they deserve it', 'just let it fall' – these attitudes stem from a hostile view of one's own.

It is natural to be frustrated with one's own. But that frustration must not turn into hostile attitudes against them. Keep in mind; most people have been lied to for most of their lives.

Alain de Benoist's chapter on the contradictions on the Right between the values it professes and its love affair with capitalism and the bourgeoisie has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/12/the-populist-moment-chapter-7/

Jim Goad recaps the stories that summarize the state of the US during the worst year yet, 2022. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-22-worst-things-about-2022/

Kathryn S. regales us with two surprisingly interrelated Christmas season tales: the Nutcracker, made famous by Tchaikovsky, and Napoleon's campaign in Russia. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-french-emperor-the-german-nutcracker-the-russian-ballet-part-1/

Greg Johnson on why he is awarding Dave Chappelle the title of Non-White Ally of the Year. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/dave-chappelle-non-white-ally-of-the-year/

Morris van de Camp reflects on what was good and bad, both for white advocacy and himself personally, in 2022, and what we can expect in the near future. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-broad-sunlit-uplands-year-end-reflections-for-2022/

It's impossible to portray ethnocentrism or identity as a function of ideology without outing yourself as a total schizo and tacitly affirming the leftist argument that identity is an infinitely malleable social construct.

If you can change your identity by changing your ideology, other aspects of your personal history (like family, ethnicity, and race) cease to have much bearing on your identity at all. When you accept that identity can be arbitrarily redefined in any given moment according to any possible criteria, the connection between your identity and the causal chain of purposeful actions that led to your birth is broken. It no longer matters who your parents are, who their parents were, where they were born, what they did, what their culture was, what their physical characteristics were, etc. All that matters is what you THINK you are in any given moment.

Attempts to transmit ethnocentrism and in-group preference through ideology are therefore self-defeating non-starters, and yet certain groups of Extremely Online right-wingers are enamored with trying to rehabilitate failed ideologies and the political systems to which they give rise as a means to promote ethnocentrism -- sometimes in the face of insurmountable social stigma (see: "The Alt Right")

So what's going on here?

Answer: Single mothers, dual-income families, and public schools have curated an attachment void environment where culture is no longer transmitted vertically or intergenerationally from parent to child.

Instead of orienting themselves to their parents (who are absent in one way or another), children grow up orienting themselves to other children, daycare workers, school teachers, or whatever they happen to find on the Internet while being babysat by a tablet. Imprinting upon peers and strangers who don't really care about them, in turn, leads to the emergence of an ever-shifting myriad of horizontally-transmitted peer cultures (i.e. "fads.") that fizzle out as rapidly as they burst into existence.

Since none of these fads or transient identities "stick" or fulfil the preferences of the people who adopt them, most people are always moving on to the next "current thing." Recognizing the degree to which the vertical transmission of culture has broken down (though not immune from the effects thereof), right-wingers reflexively seek to create a counter-cultural movement in the form of the times to act as a crude facsimile of their missing cultural inheritance and identity.

Unfortunately, their chosen means (internet cliques and democratic movements) undermine their intended ends (the restoration of ethnocentrism) because internet cliques and democratic movements are literally a manifestation of the peer-orientation that interfered with vertical culture transmission in the first place. As a result, they are mainly driven by whatever is the "current opposite thing."

The outcome is the opposite of the intended effect: the people with the highest affinity for traditional culture and ethnocentrism are redirected into a spiral of peer-orientation that masquerades as a caricature of its own antithesis. Their reward is that they get doxxed, deplatformed, and deprived of the ability to provide for their families -- assuming they're even able to start one.

The chilling effect speaks for itself.

No ideology will make relationships with your peers or internet strangers into suitable replacements for the organic relationships that you're supposed to have with your parents and children.

No online clique or political movement will ever be a suitable replacement for family or nation.

The French writer and fascist intellectual who was martyred for his beliefs, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, was born on this day in 1893. You can discover more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2020/01/remembering-pierre-drieu-la-rochelle-7/

Kathryn S. on Napoleon's disastrous occupation of and then retreat from Moscow, and how Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker retold the story in the form of fantasy. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-french-emperor-the-german-nutcracker-the-russian-ballet-part-2/

The great fantasist and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien was born on this day in 1892. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/remembering-j-r-r-tolkien-11/

Alex Graham reviews Janusz Bugajski's Failed State, which describes the various internal ethnic tensions that may eventually cause the Russian Federation to come apart. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/russia-as-failed-state/

Beau Albrecht on how the mainstream media just gave you the perfect reason to honor that New Year's resolution to hit the gym. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/another-reason-to-hit-the-gym/

The latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was a cozy New Year’s Eve livestream Ask Me Anything hosted by Greg Johnson, and with special guests Tim Murdock (Horus the Avenger), Jim Goad, Sam Dickson, Cyan Quinn, Nick Jeelvy, and Stephen Paul Foster, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-516-the-new-years-special/

Stephen Paul Foster on the age-old question first posed by the Roman poet Juvenal: "Who guards the guardians?" — in today's case, our ruling class? https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-guardians/

The next part of James Dunphy's guide to psychopaths, this one focusing on their appearance, communication styles, and tastes. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/a-womans-guide-to-identifying-psychopaths-part-3/

Alain de Benoist on the emergence of a form of conservatism among some Leftists. https://counter-currents.com/2023/01/the-populist-moment-chapter-9-part-1/

Nicholas R. Jeelvy's essay on the problem of white Zionists, and why Globalist American Empire (GAE) is a lousy term to refer to our enemies, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/12/the-problem-of-gentile-zionism/