The Alt-Right is essentially a dead movement that has been betrayed by the attempts of its would-be leaders to nail it down and concretise it as something in the real world.
The Alt-Right is a living movement, with a powerful polymorphous energy that transcends all petty attempts made to brand it and profit from it.
Although these two statements are "contradictory" from a petty logicalistic viewpoint, they are both self-evidently correct to anyone at all familiar with the movement. In short, the Alt-Right operates between these two poles of over-concretisation (and moronic leadership) and potent diffusion.
The crux of the problem of the Alt-Right has been its generally retarded interface with the issues of identity and nationalism. Here the obvious schisms are between what is called White Supremacism, White Go-It-Alone-ism (my own coinage), and Civic Nationalism, which basically is pride as a welfare system. Most of the main sites and figureheads in the movement (as opposed to intellectuals) tend to have a two or more of these camps, but with White Go-It-Alone-ism predominating.
This tendency is sometimes presented as "nationalism for everyone," and allows its promoters to propose a new "morality" while basking in that of the old. But, of course, "nationalism for everyone" is a self-evidently absurd notion when most human groups are still struggling with the tribal stage – far below the national stage – while many actual White populations that have experienced nationalism in their history – are desperately trying to get back to tribalism.
Also, once we get into "everybody leaving everybody alone," what do we do when all the areas that revert back to jungle are then colonised by the Chinese or whichever other nationalism has kept a few supremacist tricks up its sleeve?
What we are seeing here is the "Metaphysical Gap."
The fact is that the Alt-Right, whether it realise it or not, has bitten off more than it can chew, and certainly more than most of the pedantic and modest minds sucked into its leadership positions can cope with, for it has unwittingly taken as its subject matter the destiny of man, the spiritual vacuum of modernity, the nature of morality, etc., but with a limited ability to move these giant shadow-casting rocks round the tiny candle of its sun.
This is also the reason why normie politics tend to stick to the relatively unchallenging minutiae of tax codes, welfare benefits, and drone strikes. To its credit, the Alt-Right hasn't.
By focusing on eternal problems and infinite solutions, the Alt-Right has invoked the great pagan formlessness of the cosmos. But then its leaders have started to revert to the modes and mind habits of petty talk radio hosts, GOP policy wonks, or think tanks.
What the Alt-Right truly is, and what animates it, is hard to put in a box – an analogy of its deathless vitality, hopefully. Tying it to a policy wagon makes an unsightly Gordian Knot, especially when the movement is supposed to be an Alexandrine stroke of the sword.
Greg Johnson is an interesting example of how the Alt-Right has gone wrong. Starting off as an academic with an interest in Ayn Rand, Greek philosophy, and intellectual pretensions that promised much, unfortunately his prissy and arid logic led him to increasingly over-emphasise the White Nationalist, anti-Semitic strand of the Alt-Right, instead of developing a convincing critique of modernity and a positive way of asserting White interests.
Such crude and visceral reductionism, dressed up with the ribbons and bows of dilettantish "philosophising" – the Counter-Currents model – keeps Johnson in sufficient funds for his allegedly gay lifestyle of international mini conferences and meet ups, but on the political and metapolitical level merely invokes the failed White Nationalisms of the 1990s rather than offering something new and potent, as the essence of the Alt-Right promised to do.
The Alt-Right has always been a lesson in how some metals become stronger by being subtly alloyed, which is why anally-retentive purists like Johnson are always its worst enemies. Richard Spencer with his Space Age Roman Empire nonsense is just as bad.
(((Andrew Anglin))) – someone who has successfully latched onto the Alt-Right but is clearly not "of it" in the same way that a tapeworm is not part of the digestive tract of a mammal – is another case study of how those directing the Alt-Right have endeavoured to steer it into sterility. Anglin and his Jewish friend Weev have literally placed the unthinking "hive mind" at the centre of what they do.
They have turned their following of alienated teenage human detritus that spends too much time on the internet into virtual bots for their retarded memes, and now they are laughably trawling and trolling through the world of "burger" or "mobility scooter nationalism," while incongruously keeping all their K and N words. This sudden pinpoint turn from 1488 to Stars n' Stripes nationalism is merely a measure of how stupid, pliable, and unthinking their sheeplike followers are.
Back in 2016, Vox Day, a card-carrying member of the so-called "Alt-Lite," came up with a family-friendly list of bullet points that were laughably intended to serve as a manifesto for the wider Alt-Right's would-be leadership cadre, keen to shine its shoes and walk over the marbled floors of Washington.
These bullet points, however, are all duds, not for what they say but because they have been minted into bullet points. But the whiff of possible respectability that they offered attracted support from the likes of RamZPaul, Stefan Molyneaux, and even Richard Spencer, who even agreed with this dictum:
But whatever grand manifesto the "Grand Central Committee of me-and-my-opinions" occasionally comes up with, we should be careful not to try to condense and crystallise the potency that lies behind the phenomenon of the Alt-Right or whatever succeeds it. Such attempts take something that is naturally turbulent, fuzzy, nebulous, and synergetic and try to make it obvious, pat, and static.
Analogies from contemporary art or whodunits apply: once art critics break the artistic code and put an artist in a box with a label on it, his work loses a lot of its power to make plutocrats pay up; once we know who the villain in a potboiler is, why bother turning the next page? Nailing things down, clarifying them, is also a way of killing them. The butterfly with its name written clearly in Latin is a dead butterfly. This is what the Alt-Right has been doing over the last two years to itself.
As Zen teaches us, imprecision, obliqueness, and vacuity at the center—at least until the moment of decision!—have an intense potency. Nailing things down, by contrast, presents our enemies with an unmoving target – a virtual piñata – to beat to smithereens. This is what Charlottesville clearly was—a cartoon donkey with a picture of Richard Spencer on it.
Hitler was victorious as long as his enemies were surprised by his point of attack (Norway, Ardennes, the Eastern Front, etc.), and defeated when his point of attack became too obvious (Moscow, Stalingrad). Telling the enemy who you are, and laying out clear and precise principles (carefully budgeted and time-tabled down to each railway car or repatriation boat), is not too bright because the future is shifting and ever-changing.
As I predicted in 2016: the degree to which the Alt-Right fits into any autistic little schemata or zombie hive mind will be the degree to which it dies before it can be killed by its own enemies. In a nutshell, the Alt-Right is the ultimate freedom – the freedom to think, and even to unthink, the "unthinkable." Does it still have a future? That remains to be seen.
The Alt-Right is a living movement, with a powerful polymorphous energy that transcends all petty attempts made to brand it and profit from it.
Although these two statements are "contradictory" from a petty logicalistic viewpoint, they are both self-evidently correct to anyone at all familiar with the movement. In short, the Alt-Right operates between these two poles of over-concretisation (and moronic leadership) and potent diffusion.
The crux of the problem of the Alt-Right has been its generally retarded interface with the issues of identity and nationalism. Here the obvious schisms are between what is called White Supremacism, White Go-It-Alone-ism (my own coinage), and Civic Nationalism, which basically is pride as a welfare system. Most of the main sites and figureheads in the movement (as opposed to intellectuals) tend to have a two or more of these camps, but with White Go-It-Alone-ism predominating.
This tendency is sometimes presented as "nationalism for everyone," and allows its promoters to propose a new "morality" while basking in that of the old. But, of course, "nationalism for everyone" is a self-evidently absurd notion when most human groups are still struggling with the tribal stage – far below the national stage – while many actual White populations that have experienced nationalism in their history – are desperately trying to get back to tribalism.
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| Two groups of Whites helping each other get back to tribalism. |
What we are seeing here is the "Metaphysical Gap."
The fact is that the Alt-Right, whether it realise it or not, has bitten off more than it can chew, and certainly more than most of the pedantic and modest minds sucked into its leadership positions can cope with, for it has unwittingly taken as its subject matter the destiny of man, the spiritual vacuum of modernity, the nature of morality, etc., but with a limited ability to move these giant shadow-casting rocks round the tiny candle of its sun.
This is also the reason why normie politics tend to stick to the relatively unchallenging minutiae of tax codes, welfare benefits, and drone strikes. To its credit, the Alt-Right hasn't.
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| Detail may not be your friend. |
What the Alt-Right truly is, and what animates it, is hard to put in a box – an analogy of its deathless vitality, hopefully. Tying it to a policy wagon makes an unsightly Gordian Knot, especially when the movement is supposed to be an Alexandrine stroke of the sword.
Greg Johnson is an interesting example of how the Alt-Right has gone wrong. Starting off as an academic with an interest in Ayn Rand, Greek philosophy, and intellectual pretensions that promised much, unfortunately his prissy and arid logic led him to increasingly over-emphasise the White Nationalist, anti-Semitic strand of the Alt-Right, instead of developing a convincing critique of modernity and a positive way of asserting White interests.
Such crude and visceral reductionism, dressed up with the ribbons and bows of dilettantish "philosophising" – the Counter-Currents model – keeps Johnson in sufficient funds for his allegedly gay lifestyle of international mini conferences and meet ups, but on the political and metapolitical level merely invokes the failed White Nationalisms of the 1990s rather than offering something new and potent, as the essence of the Alt-Right promised to do.
The Alt-Right has always been a lesson in how some metals become stronger by being subtly alloyed, which is why anally-retentive purists like Johnson are always its worst enemies. Richard Spencer with his Space Age Roman Empire nonsense is just as bad.
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| How the World sees America. More importantly, how America sees itself. |
Back in 2016, Vox Day, a card-carrying member of the so-called "Alt-Lite," came up with a family-friendly list of bullet points that were laughably intended to serve as a manifesto for the wider Alt-Right's would-be leadership cadre, keen to shine its shoes and walk over the marbled floors of Washington.
These bullet points, however, are all duds, not for what they say but because they have been minted into bullet points. But the whiff of possible respectability that they offered attracted support from the likes of RamZPaul, Stefan Molyneaux, and even Richard Spencer, who even agreed with this dictum:
"The Alt Right is opposed to the rule or domination of any native ethnic group by another, particularly in the sovereign homelands of the dominated peoples..."How very nice and Christian! So, goodbye Roman Space Empire!
But whatever grand manifesto the "Grand Central Committee of me-and-my-opinions" occasionally comes up with, we should be careful not to try to condense and crystallise the potency that lies behind the phenomenon of the Alt-Right or whatever succeeds it. Such attempts take something that is naturally turbulent, fuzzy, nebulous, and synergetic and try to make it obvious, pat, and static.
Analogies from contemporary art or whodunits apply: once art critics break the artistic code and put an artist in a box with a label on it, his work loses a lot of its power to make plutocrats pay up; once we know who the villain in a potboiler is, why bother turning the next page? Nailing things down, clarifying them, is also a way of killing them. The butterfly with its name written clearly in Latin is a dead butterfly. This is what the Alt-Right has been doing over the last two years to itself.
As Zen teaches us, imprecision, obliqueness, and vacuity at the center—at least until the moment of decision!—have an intense potency. Nailing things down, by contrast, presents our enemies with an unmoving target – a virtual piñata – to beat to smithereens. This is what Charlottesville clearly was—a cartoon donkey with a picture of Richard Spencer on it.
Back in 2016, in the aftermath of Hillary's speech attacking the Alt-Right, few realised the source of the movement's power. Some of us here at Affirmative Right did, and so did Heartiste. In his "Why The Alt-Right Is Kicking Ass And Taking Names" Heartiste cited Robert Greene's "power laws." The two that made the most sense were Law 17 and Law 48, which work better in inverted order:
Law 48: Assume FormlessnessFor a movement that has got hung up on retarded Hitler worship, perhaps a WWII analogy is also in order.
By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack. Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp keep yourself adaptable and on the move. Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed. The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything changes.
Law 17: Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
Humans are creatures of habit with an insatiable need to see familiarity in other people’s actions. Your predictability gives them a sense of control. Turn the tables: Be deliberately unpredictable. Behavior that seems to have no consistency or purpose will keep them off- balance and they will wear themselves out trying to explain your moves. Taken to an extreme, this strategy can intimidate and terrorize.
Hitler was victorious as long as his enemies were surprised by his point of attack (Norway, Ardennes, the Eastern Front, etc.), and defeated when his point of attack became too obvious (Moscow, Stalingrad). Telling the enemy who you are, and laying out clear and precise principles (carefully budgeted and time-tabled down to each railway car or repatriation boat), is not too bright because the future is shifting and ever-changing.
As I predicted in 2016: the degree to which the Alt-Right fits into any autistic little schemata or zombie hive mind will be the degree to which it dies before it can be killed by its own enemies. In a nutshell, the Alt-Right is the ultimate freedom – the freedom to think, and even to unthink, the "unthinkable." Does it still have a future? That remains to be seen.
