The New American Right, Brexit Betrayal and Immigration, China's Expanding Influence in Pacific and Australia, NASCAR Loses Its Soul, Australia's DEEP Archaeological Past
Political movements can only be counted on to replace one set of parasites with another. Doesn't matter if they call themselves revolutionaries, reactionaries, populists, or opportunists.
Regarding Trump doing a coups in 2024, that's really just the same fantasy that bewitched the right between 2016 and 2020. There's no question it would work and no question it would be wildly popular. The problem is, as you said, he's a reality TV star. All flash, no substance. What he isn't is a man of action.
That seems to be a fundamental problem in American politics. A Caesar should be from the warrior caste. Only, in the age of hyperreality, the only people with widespread name recognition are entertainers - wrong personality type. And in the age of managerialism, the flag officers aren't even warriors, but gray bureaucrats with the souls of merchants.
On NASCAR: that the sport would be gelded in the name of safety comes as no surprise. The mantra of "safety first" has been used to systematically and ruthlessly gut every aspect of our culture, corralling everything into a fenced off, padded, regulated, predictable, and deeply boring place. Safety first means directly what it implies: all other considerations are secondary to safety, therefore whatever restrictions can be justified in the name of safety will be justified, regardless of their costs. The result is a world that is extremely safe for the occupational class, but inhospitably toxic to the human soul.
On Brexit: Slavic friends of mine with experience in the UK have long complained about being treated like shit there. Seems to me that they got scapegoated, as convenient whipping boys and girls for popular discontent with mass immigration. Slavs are white, so you can't be racist to them; thus, you can complain about Polish plumbers all you want on social media, and that serves as a convenient release valve for the real source of anger, which is the colonization of Albion by the pungent swarth hordes of the turd world.
Given that, it was entirely predictable that the British establishment would use Brexit to do precisely what it has done.
"… watch over everybody… they are boss men… see everyone and everywhere with spirit powers… Man’ngur, he fix body sickness with herbs and magic waters. Kgun’diri is special spirit man… teaches good things… he go places without moving… can sleep sitting up. Eyes will roll this way and that. Sometimes disappear into head to look into spirit… uses special magic… put spirit hand in body and make it shiver like cold. Bad spirits fly away pretty quick. He make dream medicine from sacred plants and sing good ancestor healing songs… you become well. No one knows much about them any more…”
“So one [option] is to basically accept that this entire thing is going to fall in on itself,” Vance went on. “And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be preserved,” waiting for the “inevitable collapse” of the current order.
Hari Seldon said (and dealt with) it much better, in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series (1951 -- long before JD Vance was born).
Thanks for the update on Brexit. Nobody takes it up the arse like a Brit; the only difference between them is that public/private school lads like it, while local-authority boys grumble, but take it anyway.
Not sure how you can write a post about the dissident new American right without even referencing the chief overton window expansion trailblazer (for better or worse), Fuentes. O/w it’s a very clear Fischer Price description of what’s happening on the right for normies
Wow Nicc, article on the American new Right and NASCAR? My bribes must be paying off.
Having lived in Carolina all my life I really want to reiterate that Dale Earnhardt was loved with almost religious devotion here. Unironically was as much of a gut punch to most people as 9/11, especially in the Piedmont. Same year too! Gas station on the street I live on has an old car hood hung up over the register, replica of Dale's #3.
That sport's been on decline for all the reasons named in that excellent article, but the death blow was recent. My relatives, all die hards with their own favorite racers in the post-Earnhardt era, universally shunned NASCAR after the Bubba Wallace race hoax. The heart of NASCAR is the South and North Carolina in particular and everyone here I talked to knew that was crap from get go. People even said the noose was probably a garage catch before that was confirmed to be the case. But NASCAR corporate is just another global corp now, and must adhere to "American" standards. Even if that means a parade for a mediocre racer jumping at shadows and crying about oppression. I wonder if he and Lewis Hamilton trade notes?
It is wrong to say the Trump administration failed to change immigration policy. Net international migration to and from the United States, according to the US Census bureau, declined from over 1 million people in 2016, the last Obama year, to under 600,000 in 2019. Despite a booming economy with rising wages for unskilled workers. It went down even further after Covid.
Trump made at least one great hire, Stephen Miller. He and dedicated people at ICE and the Border Patrol had a huge impact on the most significant national question. Trump almost won again in 2020, and had he done so there would be nothing like the border crisis today.
I like Yarvin and read his stuff, but he's wrong. Entertaining, insightful as to the nature of power today, but wrong. Elections matter, and winning them is good.
Sorry for being late! I was travelling this weekend, so please do forgive me.
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Political movements can only be counted on to replace one set of parasites with another. Doesn't matter if they call themselves revolutionaries, reactionaries, populists, or opportunists.
Regarding Trump doing a coups in 2024, that's really just the same fantasy that bewitched the right between 2016 and 2020. There's no question it would work and no question it would be wildly popular. The problem is, as you said, he's a reality TV star. All flash, no substance. What he isn't is a man of action.
That seems to be a fundamental problem in American politics. A Caesar should be from the warrior caste. Only, in the age of hyperreality, the only people with widespread name recognition are entertainers - wrong personality type. And in the age of managerialism, the flag officers aren't even warriors, but gray bureaucrats with the souls of merchants.
On NASCAR: that the sport would be gelded in the name of safety comes as no surprise. The mantra of "safety first" has been used to systematically and ruthlessly gut every aspect of our culture, corralling everything into a fenced off, padded, regulated, predictable, and deeply boring place. Safety first means directly what it implies: all other considerations are secondary to safety, therefore whatever restrictions can be justified in the name of safety will be justified, regardless of their costs. The result is a world that is extremely safe for the occupational class, but inhospitably toxic to the human soul.
Aussies will have to up their foreign 'investments' if they want to compete with China.
On Brexit: Slavic friends of mine with experience in the UK have long complained about being treated like shit there. Seems to me that they got scapegoated, as convenient whipping boys and girls for popular discontent with mass immigration. Slavs are white, so you can't be racist to them; thus, you can complain about Polish plumbers all you want on social media, and that serves as a convenient release valve for the real source of anger, which is the colonization of Albion by the pungent swarth hordes of the turd world.
Given that, it was entirely predictable that the British establishment would use Brexit to do precisely what it has done.
Lovely stuff Niccolo. There's some great material on weird Australia here: https://web.archive.org/web/20190522053953/http://www.warriors.egympie.com.au/
"… watch over everybody… they are boss men… see everyone and everywhere with spirit powers… Man’ngur, he fix body sickness with herbs and magic waters. Kgun’diri is special spirit man… teaches good things… he go places without moving… can sleep sitting up. Eyes will roll this way and that. Sometimes disappear into head to look into spirit… uses special magic… put spirit hand in body and make it shiver like cold. Bad spirits fly away pretty quick. He make dream medicine from sacred plants and sing good ancestor healing songs… you become well. No one knows much about them any more…”
I’ve gone back and forth on Vance, whether he’s fake and cringe or for real. The Yarvinian Caesarist quote you share from him here is heartening.
Very interesting and entertainingly written smorgasbord, thank you
“So one [option] is to basically accept that this entire thing is going to fall in on itself,” Vance went on. “And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be preserved,” waiting for the “inevitable collapse” of the current order.
Hari Seldon said (and dealt with) it much better, in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series (1951 -- long before JD Vance was born).
Thanks for the update on Brexit. Nobody takes it up the arse like a Brit; the only difference between them is that public/private school lads like it, while local-authority boys grumble, but take it anyway.
Excellent as always.
Not sure how you can write a post about the dissident new American right without even referencing the chief overton window expansion trailblazer (for better or worse), Fuentes. O/w it’s a very clear Fischer Price description of what’s happening on the right for normies
Wow Nicc, article on the American new Right and NASCAR? My bribes must be paying off.
Having lived in Carolina all my life I really want to reiterate that Dale Earnhardt was loved with almost religious devotion here. Unironically was as much of a gut punch to most people as 9/11, especially in the Piedmont. Same year too! Gas station on the street I live on has an old car hood hung up over the register, replica of Dale's #3.
That sport's been on decline for all the reasons named in that excellent article, but the death blow was recent. My relatives, all die hards with their own favorite racers in the post-Earnhardt era, universally shunned NASCAR after the Bubba Wallace race hoax. The heart of NASCAR is the South and North Carolina in particular and everyone here I talked to knew that was crap from get go. People even said the noose was probably a garage catch before that was confirmed to be the case. But NASCAR corporate is just another global corp now, and must adhere to "American" standards. Even if that means a parade for a mediocre racer jumping at shadows and crying about oppression. I wonder if he and Lewis Hamilton trade notes?
Ooo I love me some reactionary evidence-based anthropology. Highly recommend traditions of conflict eg. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2020/12/13/book-review-humankind-by-rutger-bregman
It is wrong to say the Trump administration failed to change immigration policy. Net international migration to and from the United States, according to the US Census bureau, declined from over 1 million people in 2016, the last Obama year, to under 600,000 in 2019. Despite a booming economy with rising wages for unskilled workers. It went down even further after Covid.
Trump made at least one great hire, Stephen Miller. He and dedicated people at ICE and the Border Patrol had a huge impact on the most significant national question. Trump almost won again in 2020, and had he done so there would be nothing like the border crisis today.
I like Yarvin and read his stuff, but he's wrong. Entertaining, insightful as to the nature of power today, but wrong. Elections matter, and winning them is good.