Jim Goad on YNW Melly, a rapper who may soon become the first major rap star to be sentenced to death, as he stands convicted of murdering two of his closest childhood friends. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/when-life-imitates-rap/
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When Life Imitates Rap | Counter-Currents
1,404 words / 10:59 Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose "save link as" or "save target as." On February 11, 2019, a 19-year-old rapper who calls himself YNW Melly -- the “YNW”…
Anthony Bavaria's review of (500) Days of Summer, a film that highlights the architectural glories of Los Angeles while ignoring the city's ever-worsening state of decay, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/500-days-of-summer/
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(500) Days of Summer | Counter-Currents
1,417 words (500) Days of Summer is a romantic comedy released in 2009. It is certainly a cut above the rest of modern rom-coms, but this review will focus on the story’s setting in lieu of the plot. Though there is only one mention of the city in its dialogue…
Greg Johnson's essay on hegemony — its various forms, and the need for White Nationalist hegemony — is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2011/08/hegemony/
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Hegemony
2,603 words Translations: French, German, Polish, Spanish In September of 2001, just after the September 11 terrorist attacks, I flew to Paris to attend the Front National’s Fête des Bleu–blanc–rouge, a political rally and fair attended by tens of thousands…
Gunnar Alfredsson brings us a short story about a man in the trenches who is suddenly overwhelmed by a primordial compulsion. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/the-storm/
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The Storm
709 words The mud, the rain, the water, the earth, the corrugated iron, the barbed wire, the clouds, and the noise. We are here, in this place, this trench, our sanctuary, our Hell. The world was mud, rain, and sporadic machine gun and artillery fire. We…
Ricardo Duchesne on how early Christianity shaped the development of a modern, critical historical consciousness. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/western-civilization-is-destroying-its-historical-heritage-part-ii/
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Western Civilization Is Destroying Its Historical Heritage, Part II | Counter-Currents
4,344 words Part 2 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) The Emerging of a Christian Historical Consciousness For all we have said about Greek and Roman historiography (and there were other historians, such as Suetonius, Appian, and Casius Dios), contemporary scholars…
F. Roger Devlin's "Rolf Peter Sieferle: The Man & the Scandal" is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/rolf-peter-sieferle-a-skandal-kolem-jeho-osoby/
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Rolf Peter Sieferle a skandál kolem jeho osoby | Counter-Currents
818 slov English original here Rolf Peter Sieferle (1949–2016) byl německý historik, jehož posmrtně vydaná kniha Finis Germania vyvolala v zemi během léta 2017 morální paniku. Coby příslušník generace osmašedesátníků byl v mladí radikálem: svou doktorskou…
New writer D. H. Corax's essay on why humor and embarrassment are important tools to use to bring normies to the dissident Right has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/info-parody-a-strategy-for-reaching-normies-part-1/
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Info-Parody: A Strategy for Reaching Normies, Part 1 | Counter-Currents
853 words Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here) There is an unfortunate bias on the dissident Right in general toward focusing their efforts and techniques on logic in the narrower sense: that is, on calmly and methodically pointing out the internal contradictions and…
Mark Gullick on George MacDonald Fraser's novel Flashman, an extremely politically incorrect adventure story set in the days of British colonialism. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/the-gentleman-rogue-george-macdonald-frasers-flashman/
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The Gentleman Rogue: George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman
1,750 words I had different ideas about soldiering. — Flashman In 1965, in the English town of Ashby in Leicestershire, a great literary find was made at a simple household furniture sale. Several oilskin packages containing the memoirs of an old soldier…
Morris van de Camp on why the Left seems to be growing increasingly irrational and desperate as there are more and more signs of ordinary Americans rejecting their agenda. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/the-lefts-ghost-dancers/
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The Left’s Ghost Dancers | Counter-Currents
1,257 words The recent overwhelmingly hostile public response to this year’s Pride Month is encouraging. Pushback against the LGBTQ agenda should not be entirely surprising, as it’s been a long time in coming. Two years ago, governors from socially conservative…
Ricardo Duchesne on why the Chinese, Indian, and Islamic civilizations failed to develop the critical style of historiography that came to predominate in the West. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/western-civilization-is-destroying-its-historical-heritage-part-iii/
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Western Civilization Is Destroying Its Historical Heritage, Part III | Counter-Currents
5,586 words Part 3 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here) The Stalled Development of Chinese and Islamic Historiography Did the modern Chinese write better histories than ancient Europeans? Hegel said that “no other people has had a series of historical…
Spencer J. Quinn on what happened the last time a transsexual movement was allowed to run rampant in a white nation. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/bonfire-of-the-tranities/
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Bonfire of the Tranities
1,590 words We might be at a critical point in history. It is possible that the Left’s vilification of all things they dislike has reached its zenith, and will soon begin its downward arc towards a more realistic understanding of history. What’s driving it…
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TODAY: The Great Debate Greg Johnson & Gregory Hood on Ethnonationalism vs. Imperialism
Plato and Aristotle from Raphael’s The School of Athens 261 words JOIN US TODAY! Counter-Currents is celebrating its 13th birthday and launch our annual fundraiser this weekend. This weekend, a select group of Counter-Currents writers, donors, and friends…
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Rest in peace Theodore J. Kaczynski, one of the most important men of this age, a man behind and yet far ahead of the rest of the world.
(May 22nd 1942 - June 10th 2023)
“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behaviour that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”
"Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable."
"To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been."
"No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. "
(May 22nd 1942 - June 10th 2023)
“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behaviour that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”
"Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable."
"To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been."
"No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. "
D. H. Corax's essay on how breaking the liberals' monopoly over humor and social embarrassment could win normiecons over to our side has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/info-parody-a-strategy-for-reaching-normies-part-2/
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Info-Parody: A Strategy for Reaching Normies, Part 2 | Counter-Currents
1,305 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) As I hope I've shown in the first part of this series, embarrassment and/or humor are operative with virtually all people under all circumstances. The heart of clown world in the present is no exception;…
Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “When Life Imitates Rap,” on YNW Melly, a rapper who may soon become the first major rap star to be sentenced to death, as he stands convicted of murdering two of his closest childhood friends. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/when-life-imitates-rap-video/
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When Life Imitates Rap | Counter-Currents
49 words / 11:07 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, "When Life Imitates Rap," on YNW Melly, a rapper who may soon become the first major rap star to be sentenced to death, as he stands convicted of murdering two of his closest…
Jim Goad on the death of Ted Kaczynski, Portland's premier transsexual Anne Frank impersonator stabbing its father to death, more Shaniquas plaguing ordinary people's daily lives all over America, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/the-worst-week-yet-131/
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The Worst Week Yet: June 4-10, 2023
2,820 words Ted Kaczynski: 1942-2023 Theodore John Kaczynski, the Bedraggled Genius Prophet of Techno-Doom, was found dead in his North Carolina prison cell in the early morning hours this past Saturday. He was 81 years old. The cause of death is currently…
Yesterday was the great German composer Richard Strauss'159th birthday. Enjoy this video of "Frühling," from his "Four Last Songs," for the occasion. https://counter-currents.com/2012/05/richard-strauss-fruhling/
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Video of the Day: Richard Strauss, "Frühling" | Counter-Currents
time: 3:39 / 136 words http://youtu.be/iVWrjDEVrHo "Frühling" is the first of Richard Strauss' "Four Last Songs." It is sung here by Renée Fleming. The conductor is Christoph von Eschenbach. The orchestra is not named. "Frühling" ("Spring") (Text: Hermann…
D. H. Corax's example of info-parody in the form of a comedy sketch about a transgender woman in a psychiatrist's office has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/info-parody-a-strategy-for-reaching-normies-part-3/
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Info-Parody: A Strategy for Reaching Normies, Part 3 | Counter-Currents
3,112 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) In the first two parts of this series we highlighted the power of humor and/or embarrassment in determining the course of human events -- sometimes blatantly and swiftly, as during the Battle of the Yarmuk…
Yesterday was the German composer Richard Strauss' 159th birthday. Find out more about his life and works at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2014/06/remembering-richard-strauss/
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Greg Johnson, "Remembering Richard Strauss: June 11, 1864–September 8, 1949" | Counter-Currents
3,466 words In addition to being the fourth anniversary of Counter-Currents going online, June 11, 2014 was the 150th birthday of Richard Strauss, the German Romantic composer and conductor. Strauss belonged to the last generation of the Romantic era, along…
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Before there was Trump, there was Silvio. Say what you will of him, he was certainly one of the most charismatic figures of his time. He sought, and often delivered, success to whatever he directed his ambitions—whether it was business, calcio, or politics.
The text of Ruuben Kaalep's address to the recent Spring Conference in Tallinn, on the subject of how we secure our ethnic continuity, has been published. https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/how-do-we-secure-ethnic-continuity/
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How Do We Secure Ethnic Continuity? | Counter-Currents
3,514 words The following is the text of Ruuben Kaalep’s opening talk from the Spring Conference that was held in Tallinn on May 13-14, 2023. I. ETHNICITY How to secure ethnic continuity? This is a fundamental question that has been asked by nationalists…