Endeavour on quixotism in politics, where believers maintain their ideological beliefs about the world even as their consequences lead society to ruin around them. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-folly-of-quixotism-part-1/
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The Folly of Quixotism, Part 1
2,584 words Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here) Don Quixote is one of the most influential works of fiction of all time. Written in two parts by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in the early seventeenth century, the book tells the story of the comedic…
Michael Walker reviews The Indoctrinated Brain by Dr. Michael Nehls, who argues that the rise in cases of dementia in recent years is not, as many contend, the result of increased longevity, but is in fact the result of social trends that have taken root in recent decades. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/think-about-it-part-1/
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Think about It: Michael Nehls’ The Indoctrinated Brain, Part 1
2,824 words Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here) Dr. Michael Nehls Das Indokrinierte Gehirn Vörstetten, Germany: Mental Enterprises Verlag Das Indokrinierte Gehirn, which has recently been published in English translation as The Indoctrinated Brain, is difficult to…
Endeavour continues his examination of quixotism in recent politics by looking at how libertarianism and Third Positionism have influenced the dissident Right in recent years. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-folly-of-quixotism-part-2/
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The Folly of Quixotism, Part 2
3,353 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) The past decade or two have seen the rise and fall of an alternative to mainstream conservatism in libertarianism. If we were to use the political compass as a model, conservatism would sit in the center…
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Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Alcibiades I continues by showing how Socrates finally convinces Alcbiades that he is in need of his philosophical instruction if he wants to dominate Athenian politics. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/notes-on-platos-alcibiades-i-part-3/
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Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 3
2,360 words Part 3 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here) In the second part of this series, Socrates shows Alcibiades that he doesn’t know what justice is, so he should not be too eager to get involved in politics before he gets an education. But Alcibiades…
Michael Walker's review of the neurologist Dr. Michael Nehls' book The Indoctrinated Brain continues with a summation of its argument that the COVID-19 measures and vaccine were part of a planned assault on the individual around the world. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/think-about-it-part-2/
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Think about It: Michael Nehls’ The Indoctrinated Brain, Part 2
3,279 words Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here) Das Indokrinierte Gehirn focuses on aspects of neurobiology to explain a widely-documented global spike in neurological diseases — particularly, but by no means uniquely, Alzheimer’s Disease, along with an increase in…
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Final Reminder to Take the Counter-Currents Movement Poll!
914 words As of this writing, 464 people have taken the Counter-Currents reader poll. Thank you! We have already learned a lot, as David Zsutty reported last week. We have sent a total of 4985 invitations out. We would like to get at least 500 responses —…
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The team was reminiscing and talking about 1990s British pop culture and what it says about the state of Britain today on the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. Host Greg Johnson was joined by Brits Millennial Woes and Morgoth, as well as Counter-Currents’ resident expert on all things pop, Travis LeBlanc, for a lively discussion, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-585-british-pop-culture-in-the-1990s-part-1/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 585: British Pop Culture in the 1990s, Part 1
190 words / 1:27:01 The team was reminiscing and talking about 1990s British pop culture and what it says about the state of Britain today on the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. Host Greg Johnson was joined by Brits Millennial Woes (official…
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Endeavour concludes his essay on quixotism in politics by explaining through examples why practicality must always take precedence over ideology. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-folly-of-quixotism-part-3/
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The Folly of Quixotism, Part 3
2,216 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) The simple answer to the question of how quixotism can be avoided is that we shouldn’t allow romantic idealism to dissuade us from practicality. This is easier said than done, however, as it’s often difficult…
Clarissa Schnabel on the dragon that has been ritualistically slain in a small Bavarian town annually for the past 500 years. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/where-dragons-still-walk-the-earth/
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Where Dragons Still Walk the Earth: The Drachenstich in Furth im Wald
1,189 words Everybody has heard of the Oberammergau Passion Play that has been performed almost continuously every ten years since 1634. But there is a lesser-known, even older German folk play: the Drachenstich, or “spearing of the dragon,” in Furth im Wald…
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Michael Walker concludes his review of the neurologist Dr. Michael Nehls' book The Indoctrinated Brain by summarizing Nehls' view of how planned neurological damage fits into the Great Reset, as well as pointing out some aspects that Nehls left out of his argument. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/think-about-it-part-3/
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Think about It: Michael Nehls’ The Indoctrinated Brain, Part 3
3,150 words Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) It is a thesis of Das indokrinierte Gehirn that one purpose of the Great Reset is to reduce the individual to a condition in which he no longer believes the evidence of his senses. Owing to his mental exhaustion…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Mark Gullick concludes his review of James M. MacPherson's history of the US Civil War, Battle Cry of Freedom, by looking at the underlying driving forces behind the conflict. https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/james-m-mcphersons-battle-cry-of-freedom-part-2/
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James M. McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom, Part 2
2,538 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) [The present constitutional crisis over slavery] embraces the fearful issue whether the Union shall stand, and slavery, under the steady, peaceful action of moral, social, and political causes, be removed by gradual voluntary…
The second half of the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio continued with the discussion of 1990s British pop culture before moving on to more general topics about politics, current events, and the movement today. Host Greg Johnson was joined by Millennial Woes, Morgoth, and Travis LeBlanc, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-586-british-pop-culture-in-the-1990s-part-2/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 586: British Pop Culture in the 1990s, Part 2
216 words / 1:12:00 The second half of the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio continued with the discussion of 1990s British pop culture before moving on to more general topics about politics, current events, and the movement today. Host Greg…
Jim Goad on the recent arrest of Joshua Cobb, a black US Marine who was planning a mass shooting of white people — and which is being largely ignored by the media. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/fear-of-calling-a-spade-a-spade/
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Fear of Calling a Spade a Spade
1,370 words / 9:35 One would think that news the FBI has arrested an active US Marine for threatening to go on a shooting rampage against US citizens would be a major news story. But one would think wrong. As is so often the case, we have ourselves an inconvenient…
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Gunnar Alfredsson on the intensifying Israeli campaign of genocide in Gaza, which shows in an extreme form the choice that all non-Jewish peoples who fall under Jewish domination face: death or exile. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/death-or-exile-the-only-choices-for-the-palestinians-and-all-other-non-jews/
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Death or Exile: The Only Choices for the Palestinians — and All Other Non-Jews
1,578 words The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation against the city of Rafah has begun in earnest after weeks of deliberation and delays. After driving a captive Palestinian population toward the city, located in Gaza’s south, Palestinian civilians are…
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Greg Johnson's essay "White Genocide," on the motivations and justifications given for the phenomenon, is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2015/09/white-genocide/
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White Genocide
2,239 words Translations: French, German, Slovak, Spanish White Nationalists are united in the belief that our race is threatened with simple biological extinction. This is often dismissed as alarmism, but, as I have shown, one can make a very simple and…
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Mark Gullick on how British satirist Chris Morris got away with mocking Muslim terrorists in his film Four Lions without getting his head cut off. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/four-lions-and-the-satire-of-chris-morris/
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Four Lions and the Satire of Chris Morris
2,356 words Satire is a lesson. Parody is a game. — Vladimir Nabokov The devil, the proude spirit, cannot endure to be mocked. — Thomas Moore In 2005, a London production of Christopher Marlowe’s sixteenth-century play Tamburlaine the Great was subject to…
Paroled from the Paywall: Dominque Venner's essay "The Warrior and the City" is now in German in an original translation. https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/der-krieger-und-der-stadtstaat/
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Der Krieger und der Stadtstaat
770 Wörter English version here, also Portuguese, Spanish Übersetzt von Le Fauconnier. Als die Napoleonischen Kriege 1814 endeten, schrieb der prominente Schriftsteller Benjamin Constant erleichtert: “Wir sind im Zeitalter des Handels angekommen, einem Zeitalter…
Beau Albrecht on how to communicate with Christian fundamentalists. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/notes-on-getting-through-to-fundamentalists/
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Notes on Getting Through to Fundamentalists
2,844 words Christian evangelicals — or fundamentalists, to be a little less precise — are in the unenviable position of catching flak from both the Left and the Right. There are some points which have already been discussed quite a bit already on our side…
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