The 13th of the Vanguard Podcasts. The original "triumvirate" of Richard Spencer, Andy Nowicki, and Colin Liddell, are joined by the legendary Jack Donovan to discuss the proto-Alt-Right cinematic masterpiece Fight Club (1999) and its themes of nihilism, anti-modernity, and paleo-masculinity.
Originally uploaded on the original Alternative Right site on the 13th of January, 2013.
Running Order
00:00 Intro
03:50 Fight Club: first impressions
15:00 Fight Club as a Neo-Primitivist rejection of modernity
20:00 David Fincher's gothic aesthetic
25:10 Fight Club as "the End of History"
29:00 "Remaining men together"
32:20 The degradation of work and modern war
39:50 Why America doesn't have a Fight Club culture
45:40 Fight Club as a masochist film
51:15 The revolutionary class
55:55 The Left's dirty little secret
62:30 God's Unwanted Children
70:30 Male tribalism as the antidote to modernity
76:35 "Pants Secessionism"
Show Notes
- James Bowman's Honor: A History
- Mark Steyn's article "In the Absence of Guns"
