Changes

Changes.

Several changes need to be noted as per my activist activity.

1. From this point forward my active Gab account will be: https://gab.com/theodoresallis

That account will be used to post links to my blog posts, whatever (few) announcements I deem necessary, and to provide a way that I can be contacted for important business.  For example, if anyone ever takes me up on my Western Destiny Radio debate challenge (unlikely, I know), I can be contacted via the Gab account shown above.

2. My focus will be on my EGI Notes and Western Destiny blogs, with the former being the most regularly active. I will also do Western Destiny Radio podcasts when I believe that format is superior for the delivery of particular content.

3. Attempts at group activity and online community formation have proven an unmitigated failure from the standpoint of my objectives; therefore, I am moving away from that activity at the current time.

4. If attempts to get my After the Deluge work (as well as any potential future book-length  works) published through “normal” mechanisms are unsuccessful, at some point I will just upload a PDF of it for public viewing.

On Argumentation, Winter 2023

Let us consider together.

Am I a hypocrite for decrying the vulgar juvenile writings and speech of others while sometimes indulging in mockery, ridicule, and invective myself?  I think not, since my objective is the deconstruction of the failed “movement” as well as of the System/Left; therefore, a hefty dose of vituperation, often tongue-in-cheek, is just what the doctor ordered. The use of ironic humor, parody, and the well-placed insult, done intentionally and strategically, differs in form and intent from the all-too-serious crazed lunacy of both Right and Left.  So, there is no hypocrisy because the two sets of behavior differ in their origins and objectives.

What about the argument that dispassionate and wholly objective commentary is more effective than subjective passion-fueled invective?  For a peer-reviewed scientific study, yes. For metapolitical analysis sometimes yes, sometimes no – it depends upon context.  But for more practical “politics” (broadly defined) – including Dissident Right politics – usually not.  True, there does need to be a core of objective truth, rationality, and facts, that’s the foundation.  But that is clearly insufficient in the cut and thrust of real world politics, where passionate polemics rule and where mockery, ridicule, and invective have their place as invaluable tools in dealing with the inherently irrational and chaotic maelstrom of human thoughts and emotions. We may (or may not) regret this, but it does seem to be the reality we must deal with.

I have had some well-meaning people give me advice that I should be solely dispassionate and purely objective. The problem is that I have tried that (to at least some extent) in the past and it simply doesn’t work. Yes, it may impress a small number of academically-minded, high IQ types who (like me) prefer that type of argumentation. But it doesn’t “move the needle” with respect to changing minds and influencing discourse on a wider level – or, better said, it can do so, but only when coupled with other types of commentary that are more polemical and aggressive; material that is more irrational and subjective.

That is a point I made here:

…a call to “preserve our distinctive genetic information” is unlikely to motivate most Western individuals to defend their genetic interests against the titanic forces arrayed against them. It almost certainly will not motivate the masses, who, as Michael O’Meara rightfully points out, are always induced to act by “myths” that encompass a cohesive worldview. Even rational activists can often become more motivated by these “myths” (which may of course constitute objective facts to a considerable degree) than to a pure empiricism. Thus, the “myth” of Yockeyan “High Culture” may be needed to motivate the defense of rational Salterian EGI.

The rational and irrational together can be synergistic, and the latter can assist in promoting the former (and vice versa?).

In addition, compare the dispassionate, objective work of Salter to the passionate, polemical work of Yockey and note that the latter is much better known on the Dissident Right.  Further, to the extent that the former is known, much of that is due to my own somewhat passionate and polemical (albeit also objectively empirical) promotion, defense, and extension of that work.  Again, an underlying foundation of rational objectivity is always helpful, but without a more subjective, sometimes aggressive promotion, the valuable objective work can become buried and thus politically irrelevant. There is a place for passionate polemics. Man is irrational, after all.

On a smaller, more personal, scale, I can’t help notice that my blog posts that are of the more passionate and polemical type typically obtain more page views, and other indications of interest, than the more dry, objective, and dispassionate posts (on, say, population genetics). One can argue that page views or “likes” and other manifestations of popular approval are not the best measure of the worth of a post or argument, and perhaps the more dispassionate arguments will stand the test of time better than the other type and have more long-term impact. Perhaps.  And I will continue in producing such content, but the evidence so far is that such dispassionate, objective content simply isn’t enough.  If you don’t add some “spice” to the “stew” the “stew” will be neglected, despite its nutritional content.

Odds and Ends, 11/19/22

In der news.

Another weak, despicable, and superficial “take” by Hood. Yes, yes, we need to “build local networks” and do [some vague pablum to attract supporters]. OK, Then why doesn’t Amren contribute? How about building those local White networks and stop talking about Asian racial superiority?

Further, ceding national political power to the Left is going to be a problem for your mythical “local networks” that federal power can shut down overnight. For godssakes, a relative nonentity like Sallis can’t even have a blog without it being deleted by Woke Capital, what makes you think that your “moots” will be safe from the Government-Corporate Alliance?

Finally, once again to Hood and the mass media – STOP using Fetterman’s win as some sort of barometer for the success of left wing populism in “deep red districts.” “Deep Red” hick areas in flyover country in America – PA especially – are pathologically exclusive in us/them outlooks based on community (not race). Someone – White, Black, Groundhog – who is a native Pennsylvanian (the more generations the better) is “good” and anyone from outside is “bad.” If the GOP had run some native PA High Trust retard instead of a moronic (a “medical doctor” who eats lentils the day before his colonoscopy) cosmopolitan dual citizen socially liberal Turkish Muslim, then left-wing populism would have crashed and burned. For godssakes, can these blue state coastal elites get their heads out of their asses and realize that red state flyover country is primarily composed of extras from the movie Deliverance?

The EGI Notes blogspot site deletion episode reinforces my belief that we are too dependent on the Internet; we have stressed the digital at the expense of the analog. After more than 20 years of online fantasy activism, I’m not sure that many folks would know where to start in the real world – one of the few benefits of the Amren conference is to maintain some face-to-face humanity.

I saw this coming long ago. Besides the ideological differences, one of my (many) tactical differences with Pierce was with his enthusiasm for the Internet. Without getting into details, I can say this difference reared its head even as far back as when I met him during the Clinton years. He was hyper-ventilating about the potential of the Internet even then. I also recognized the potential of the Internet but not at the expense of the “bread and butter” real world work. Essentially, I wanted analog and digital together, in equal measure, and the Fearless Leaders want to go “all in” to digital exclusively. They were painfully naive (as usual) if they thought the “Wild West” open atmosphere of the early Internet would last.

If you want to encourage someone to get involved in an activity – like political activism – that may be difficult, unpleasant, and involving sacrifice, what is the best way to do it? Do you ease them into it, give them manageable projects, let them achieve victories (no matter how small), and build up a tradition of success to build their confidence and give them hope for the future Or do you immediately throw them into the most difficult and impossible work, subject them to one humiliating defeat after another, erode their confidence, construct a tradition of inept failure, and this create an atmosphere of despair – while preaching “worse is better?”

Let’s try again. Do you build esprit de corps, loyalty and comradeship, and a feeling of value? Or do you scorn them as inferior, and outsider and/or (falsely) claim that outgroup members are their superior in every way?

Do we begin to understand the failures of Der Movement? Do we understand why even small scale wins like democratic multiculturalism are important? And why the HBD cult is so stupid and deadly?

It is amusing when people who are allegedly afraid of political violence promote the “solution” of censoring and deplatforming those people they allegedly fear – actions which will of course do more to incite that political violence than anything else. I cannot believe that the “experts” are so stupid that they do not understand that by disenfranchising people from the political process they leave the no choice than acting out. Indeed, I suspect that they do know this and are deliberately inciting their opponents into violence so as to justify even more repression against them.

Statement:

The real purpose of the Alt Right (and the associated ideology of HBD Nordicism) was, and is, to purge Der Movement of White ethnics, especially Italians.

This was implicit in WN 2.0 and is more or less explicit in WN 3.0.

Here Greg Johnson simply lifts all of my arguments against Trump and against “worse is better” and slaps his own name on them. That’s the same guy who was calling Trump a sincere man of genuine greatness when I correctly and presciently labelled Trump a fraud and a buffoon.

I’m calling you out Johnson as a fraud and as an intellectual plagiarist.

Johnson:

Trump, in short, is an unprincipled egomaniac, and it would be very foolish to depend on him for anything.

Gee, what happened to the sincere man of genuine greatness? The quote above sounds like what I was saying six years ago.

Dugin and Odds and Ends

In der news.

This is strange.

A car bomb near Moscow has killed the daughter of the ultra-nationalist Russian philosopher behind the Vladimir Putin’s aggressive expansionist strategies that propelled it to invade Ukraine.

Alexander Dugin may have been the intended target of the bomb that killed his daughter, Darya, as she was driving home from a festival outside Moscow where her father had just given a lecture.

Video showed Mr Dugan – known as “Putin’s brain” and even “Putin’s Rasputin” – holding his hands to his head in disbelief as he stood staring at the burning car. Eyewitnesses reported a large explosion and Russian officials said that 30-year-old Darya died instantly.

I suppose in this case Der Movement’s conspiracy theorizing has some merit.

Sallis correct again?

Going forward, I’ll be posting at EGI Notes less frequently. I’m busy with real world matters (after all, unlike your Fearless Leaders, I don’t live off of D’Nations) and I have no desire to post crap just for the sake of having something new put up (I’ll leave that for the Quota Queen grifters). Gab posting may decrease once Fall starts.  We’ll see how it all goes. My multiple health issues haven’t disappeared either; my decrepitude will only increase over time.

Reading books on the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, I am struck by how much time and energy was wasted, particularly in the East but in the West as well, on moronic Christian squabbles between popes, bishops, and monks about arcane issues of religious doctrine. At a time when the Empire was threatened by Vandals, Goths, Huns, etc. emperors had to worry about dealing with feuds between rival Christian sects.

Christinsanity!

Another thing is that the decline and Fall of Rome can be explained by various historical, social, economic, and military factors without invoking “racial admixture.” When in history has any empire lasted more than several hundred years at most?