For my Tuesday livestream I will be on “Break the Rules” tonight: https://youtu.be/WUFefLxbilY

Over the weekend I heard a normie-con explaining that we should "repeat the success" of the 1980s Moral Majority because "culture is downstream from politics". Cringe. A little knowledge is indeed a dangerous thing.

Really the "upstream-downstream" dynamic has almost nothing to do with "politics" and "culture" generally and everything to do with caste. High caste is upstream. Low caste is downstream. There is a relationship between "culture", "politics", and "law" but it is hard to map across different castes (since the categories would repeat). Looking inside a single caste, I think the dynamic would look something like this:

Law (rules that define what is "criminal") => culture (our dialectic conversation) => politics (the rules we make for others)

Here the "Law" category for a given caste is the result of the "politics" category from the caste above it, hence the fractal nature of the dynamic.

In this sense "politics is downstream from culture" but culture is not actually molded by the kind of politics people of one's caste generally control. Instead it is molded by political decisions accepted as default reality and which make a person feel "criminal" for going against. For instance, "Civil Rights Law" has molded mainstream culture, but "Civil Rights Law" is not a mainstream political issue; for most normies this is just the default law, just "the way things are". But in reality it has been politically decided by their betters.

I will understand “the fall of Nick Fuentes” after I understand his rise. Nothing changed about his product or his behavior, at least from what I can tell. People just stopped liking it.

That Was one of the more frustrating conversations I have had in a while.

Former U.S. President George W. Bush confused Ukraine with Iraq during a speech in the city of Dallas, Texas.

The 75-year-old apparently wanted to condemn Vladimir Putin's decision to launch the special operation to protect the Donbass. Instead, his words seemed as if he had been referring to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

"The result is one man's decision to launch a completely unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean in Ukraine," Bush said, jokingly referring to his age as the reason for the confusion.

In 1999 all Chris Cunningham wanted to do was make a creepy parody of Hip-hop music videos for the techno artist “Aphex Twin”, instead he accidentally prophesied all early 21st century culture. https://youtu.be/UBS4Gi1y_nc

Years in the making, and exacerbated by war.

Remember when adults go-to question for kids was "what do you want to be when you grow up?"

I've noticed a transformation of that into "How are you going to change the world?"

Stop adults from asking children this question.

The vast majority of people are naturally bent to living ordinary lives, i.e. not newsworthy lives. And how many people can, in fact, "change the world"? This insidious messaging that everyone is destined to "change the world" means that, when someone doesn't change the world, they've not met their destiny and they've failed.

This messaging is one reason why so many Millennials and Gen Z —

1) fail to mature to adulthood and stagnate into eternal hedonism

2) become addicted to bizarre behaviors and "protesting"

They have been filled all their lives with the vision that they're going to step into the world and do Big Things and Change The World. Then they're just the typical person living a typical life. Many just give up — spend their days doing any self-destructive thing they can think of (YOLO!) and/or completely checking out of any attempt to have a life. Or, they might still try to meet their "destiny" as a world changer. The way to do this is to constantly bandwagon jump and do more and more extreme versions of social justice protestation. Both are soul emptying paths.

Our folk are taught that the unnatural and the nearly unattainable are commonplace goals, while they are also discouraged from the one thing that people are naturally bent to do that is, in fact, wholly profound and world changing. That is creating a family and bringing a life into the world. Two adults who love each other, raising their beloved child to be whole and good. But this path to fulfillment and the truly profound is discouraged.

We live in a time and a place when people are both set up to fail their expectations and to eschew the life that will actually fulfill them. To hell with that.

Spread the truth that "The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children." — GK Chesterton

Been very busy this last week. Will try to continue content creation when things calm down IRL.

A letter to right wing pagans I wrote a week back: https://fiddlersgreene.substack.com/p/a-letter-to-right-wing-pagans?sd=fs

Millennials love calling out “plagiarism”. But did anyone ever explain to them what it means? In order to be “plagiarized” an idea has to have sufficient complexity. It can’t be obvious folk wisdom or observable reality. https://twitter.com/SanaSaeed/status/1528729092731838465?s=20&t=5rr3FtG0toifht6QegNXIQ

Join me tonight for my weekly Tuesday sunset stream. https://youtu.be/0qnkqvawJcY

Can pagans replying to my article do me a favor? Please respond to my arguments. Don’t just copy-pasta the original statement of your claims and pretend you didn’t hear my responses. Better yet respond to the questions I brought to pagans IN that article.

What is a non-universalist religion? Does truth have a zip code?

Going live in an hour. https://youtu.be/0qnkqvawJcY

Lol