Richard Spencer, Andy Nowicki, and Colin Liddell, are joined by Jack Donovan to discuss the "proto-Alt-Right" cinematic masterpiece Fight Club (1999) and its themes of nihilism, anti-modernity, and paleo-masculinity.
Running Order
00:00 Intro
03:00 Fight Club: first impressions
12:50 Fight Club as a Neo-Primitivist rejection of modernity
18:20 David Fincher's gothic aesthetic
22:25 Fight Club as "the End of History"
25:25 "Remaining men together"
28:50 The degradation of work and modern war
35:50 Why America doesn't have a Fight Club culture
41:00 Fight Club as a masochist film
45:00 The revolutionary class
50:20 The Left's dirty big secret
53:30 God's Unwanted Children
62:50 Male tribalism as the antidote to modernity
Show Notes
- James Bowman's Honor: A History
- Mark Steyn's article "In the Absence of Guns"