MILLENNIYULE: THE LIES THAT BIND

by Colin Liddell

I had a quick look at one or two or the recorded livestreams from this year's Millenniyules, and something struck me almost at once. It was the way that it's all about nodding along and not challenging each other, and sympathetically listening to each other's moans about the big bad world.

Woes's role is just to be the vaguely comprehending but not quite understanding host, allowing whatever sense or nonsense his guests spout to pass by unchallenged. If there was any actual intellectual honesty on the Millenniyules, there would be a LOT more argument than there is. But there isn't any, of course. 

It's a totally cosy space, and the degree of cosiness directly correlates with the lack of intellectual honesty. Ideas don't really matter. People are just there to "bask" in the supposed accolade of being "chosen" for that year. 

You believe Biden is controlled by the Chinese? Fine, no problem. The last thing anyone here will ask you to do is provide any evidence.

You think Putin was perfectly reasonable in invading and raping a neighbouring country? "Ha ha, yeh, me too," chortles Woes. Unless you don't.

Don't worry, you won't be asked for any moral justifications either. This goes for the ideas/conspiracy theories you espouse, as well as any degeneracy you may practice in your personal life. Woes is understandably generous in his attitude to the latter.

You think the Covid vax was a Soros power grab, but can't be arsed to dig up any evidence that would convince a normal sceptic? Just say it anyway; we're all friends here. Woes won't ask you to back it up in any meaningful way. 

It's like that all the way down. Any dumb conspiracy theory or thinly veiled piece of anti-Semitic bullshit -- "muh globalists," "the usual suspects," etc. -- will be warmly embraced and offered a mug of sticky cocoa or some puke-inducing eggnog. In fact, with regard to the anti-Semitism, you can frontload it and even garnish it with an oven joke or two.

No one's going to rock the boat, and there's Good Old Woesy, himself, with his oily, emollient, sleep-deprived personality, ready to smooth over any rippled waters and ensure that the whole thing continues on its tepid way.

The Alt-Right (or Diss-Right if it wants to call itself that) is revealed in its truest nature in the Millenniyules, as a social club for misfits who use lies, conspiracy theories, and a vague sense of being bullied and victimized to bond together.

This social dynamic -- as opposed to intellectual dynamic, of which there is none -- explains Woes's petty success in this little niche that he has carved out for himself. He has succeeded at failure!  

But it's not all sweetness and poor lighting. Behind the bonhomie is the bitchiness, the in-group agreement about who's in and who's out.

I know about this, as I was almost a regular on Millenniyule myself, until my tendency to call out bullshit (actually blatant Naziism) got me put on Woes's blacklist, which even then was being curated by Greg Johnson. Since then Johnson's hold on Woes has tightened, and Woes himself has drifted into ever more vigorous agreement with Johnson's Naziism. 

I could give many other examples of other people who are no longer in Woes's good books, the most obvious example, being Richard Spencer, who clearly went through his own Nazi phase a few short years ago, but has always been on Johnson's catty little list of enemies.

So, is everybody on Millenniyule Woes a card-carrying Counter-Currents Neo-Nazi?

The answer is no. The Johnson strategy is to hide his dirty inner circle with a few "normie friendly" dissidents -- dumb conspiracy types, old duffers like Godfrey Bloom, a civ-nat or two, a sprinkling of Christian nationalists, or just a few oddballs and colourful perverts. This year, Woes even had my good friend Richard Wolstencroft on. I won't say to which category or categories he belongs, but Richard's a good guy. 

He even told me that Woes would "like to be pals again." I don't think that's going to happen, as anyone who pushes back against the intellectually dishonest cosiness of the Millenniyules, or is in Greg Johnson's hate list, is not going to be allowed on, and then again, why would anyone who wasn't a Nazi want to be involved with a project that is clearly Nazi (just listen to Johnson ranting on about the Jews again as usual)? 

As for Richard, he'll jump on any podcast going. God bless him!

While many former guests, like myself, have been "disinvited" from the Millenniyules, a possibly even larger number have  sensibly disinvited themselves, after realising what kind of Nazi bathhouse they were in. James Delingpole appears to be the latest. They made the right decision.

The wider New Right or Dissident Right is essentially dead, and a big tent with Nazis in it soon becomes a collapsed rag in a muddy field, flapping in the wind.

If Woes was serious about the Millenniyules being in any way meaningful, he would do at least three things.

First, he would try to deprogram himself of the growing Naziism and tolerance of Naziism that he has allowed himself to slide into.

Secondly, he would kick Johnson and the Counter-Currents ghey Nazi club into the long grass.

And, thirdly, he would get rid of the whole cosy one-on-one vibe of the Millenniyules by making it more about discussing and arguing ideas (in a civilised way obviously), possibly by having two, three, or four guests on at the same time.

A simple Marxist critique -- i.e. understanding which side Woes's bread is buttered on -- tells me this is not going to happen. Johnson's financial hold on the man in the bathrobe is too tight.

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Colin Liddell was the Chief Editor of Affirmative Right. He is the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia).