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November 17 - December 31, 2020
I mean, not to give too obvious an answer to Land’s rhetorical “Why can’t we be cuddly racial preservationists?” but once you’ve gone and altered literally every other culture on the planet, preservation is simply not a problem you still have to solve.
Assuming that we’re fucked means explicitly proclaiming that you can’t make America great again, and even if you could, whatever you got would not be an “again” in any meaningful sense. But we’re on uncertain ground, carving out space in the ugliest gutters of the gilded city of the philosophers.
Later in the same post he makes it explicit, declaring that the trick to solving the problem of violence forever is “to look at this not as a moral problem, but as an engineering problem.”149
But while they may be penned into a virgin/whore complex within white culture, they are at least inextricably within white culture.
Women are problems; glorious, at times worshipped, but still, ultimately, objects rather than subjects.
(These interns were unsurprisingly a deeply unsavory lot, including one who stabbed his father to death for calling him a Nazi. He was, to be clear, a Nazi.)
But to a worldview that depends on the assumption that individual identities are fundamentally disingenuous and exist only as props to craft larger cultural narratives, the act of saying “I exist; this experience is real” is a genuine threat.
He is an aesthetic wedded to a perversion.
The most perverse thing about him is that he does not actually value money so much as being rich. As he puts it, money is just a way of keeping score.
He literally has no idea why you think that’s creepy. Of course he doesn’t: he said he hoped his one-year-old daughter Tiffany inherited Marla’s breasts, expressed a desire to date Ivanka, and raped Ivana.
His is, in other words, a psychogeographic racism, psychogeography being a term invented by the French Marxist Guy Debord, who describes its goal as being “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, whether consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals. The charmingly vague adjective psychogeographical can be applied to the findings arrived at by this type of investigation, to their influence on human feelings, and more generally to any situation or conduct that seems to reflect the same spirit of discovery.”
“More than anyone else I have ever met, he has the ability to convince himself that what he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.”
But his relationship with them is fundamentally framed by the Jamaica Estates—they are the people he goes down the hill from the palace to see.
You almost feel sorry for him. Two things, ultimately, prevent this. The first is simply that he is a genuinely awful person, and no amount of empathy can possibly outweigh the schadenfreude. The second is a basic principle of psychogeography: as the king goes, so goes the land.
Clinton was the candidate of stasis,. Like Jeb Bush or a new Fantastic Four movie she was the revival of a brand nobody was particularly nostalgic for.
Even the superficially liberatory idea of ‘self-ownership’ espoused by many praxeological Austrians and libertarians is a coy way of conceptualising people as commodities, which is probably how these supposed lovers of liberty so often end up defending slavery.
Bourgeois economists already wished to deny the obvious: that capital exploits labour. Marginalism came to be adopted as a hegemonic ideology by bourgeois society because of, well, its utility.
Marginalism thus sees value as determined by a consumer’s need or desire for a particular benefit or satisfaction, mediated by the supply of it.
Also, the fact that you, the worker, do more labour in a day than you’re paid for—because, generally, you are paid about what it takes to reproduce your ability to work, not what it takes to buy everything you make or do in a day—you are being exploited. You create ‘surplus value’ by doing more work during the day than you’re paid for, and this goes into the pocket of the capitalist to be reinvested by him into production, thus into the system that exploits you.
(This argument applies to most things leftists call social constructs—a phrase that does not mean “nebulous and unreal,” but rather “best understood in terms of lived experience than in woolly metaphysics.”)
Democracy breeds special claims by people who are not really concerned with making the choices that regulate the economy. The people without a big stake—the masses—thus destabilise the system. Democracy introduces things like central banks to monkey with the market. For the Austrians, this is where everything goes wrong. This is the fall; the expulsion from paradise.
The only cure for god’s wrath is to wait for the plague to exhaust itself.
Crudely, the big fish gobble up the little at bargain basement prices. This is how capitalism restores the rate of profit sufficiently to climb out of the depression into which the falling rate of profit has flung it. If this process is retarded—i.e. via easy credit—then the recovery is also retarded.
They are, ironically, the unknowing cousins-beneath-the-skin of the ‘socialists’ they hate, and whose systems they declare unworkable: the Stalinists and reformists. Like them, they see socialism as state-control of capitalism. it’s just that the Austrians characterise this as the unjust and damaging domination of the propertied by the propertyless. From this basis it is, of course, very easy to get to ‘white men are oppressed by political correctness’—and, these days, they do.
In both cases, the believer sees the crisis as—in some way—a sign of the oncoming future. Endogenously unstable, irreformable, and ultimately replaceable; or perfect but for the artificial imperfections, forced on it by parasitic and unnecessary meddling.
Mises asserts that public ownership, because it abolishes the capital goods market, means that there can be no determination of prices for capital goods, and therefore no way to determine the relative values of primary resources, and therefore no way to allocate them efficiently and rationally. This claim is patently outrageous coming from people who are putting it forth as a way of championing capitalism, a system that has brought us to the point where the richest eight men on the planet own as much as the poorest 50% of the entire human race, and which is literally pushing the planet to the
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As Hayek said in a 1981 interview with Renee Sallas of Chile’s El Mercurio newspaper: “I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking in liberalism.”
The logically consequent idea that emergency dictatorship may be necessary to preserve liberal society from democracy is in neoliberalism’s source code.
Neoliberalism, contrary to myth, is an authoritarian ideology, committed to defending property and wealth by violence both physical and structural.
Saying that without state interference the market would be free is like saying that without the soil, the vegetables you eat wouldn’t need washing.
The only main substantive ideological difference between libertarians and the alt-right is one that Vox accidentally highlights: the alt-right tend to oppose absolute free trade because that means open borders. So, the alt-right essentially is libertarianism, but modulated to fascist principles.
The neocons (hated by libertarians, as it happens) liked and encouraged the (ridiculous) notion that they had some similarity to Trotsky. Steve Bannon declared himself a Leninist. Ron Paul declared himself the leader of a revolution. The right always apes the left. The attraction works upon those young fogeys who, while not wanting to challenge any of the fundamental problems with the world, nevertheless fancy themselves rebels and iconoclasts.
Spectres gonna haunt, motherfucker.
Even the people it privileges are compelled to compete against each other, and to thus repeatedly tip the world they own into chaos… a truth so terrible that almost nobody on the planet wants to know it.
They have been hugging Marxism on the brink of the Reichenbach Falls for a century and a half, staring into its eyes, but have never really seen it. They have spent a long time grappling frantically and hatefully with that which they do not, and will not, look at. The essence of neurosis is denial. But, of course, in order to choose to be incapable of conceptualising something, you have to already have some idea of it. The Austrians are marginalism’s version of the Weird.
We have already noted the Austrians’ essentially metaphysical view of the market. To them, it is the battleground in which we work out our desires and methods against ourselves, against unforgiving nature, and against others. It is where morality comes from, as well as freedom. It is literally what gives life meaning. In this they resemble nothing so much as the radical and authoritarian Protestants who arose with, and championed, the rise of bourgeois relations in Europe during the Reformation—especially the Calvinists.
Thus the ideology perfectly expressed the interests and worldview of a new bourgeois class by reconciling meritocracy (you end up where you deserve to be) and predestination (you end up in the only place you ever could). It makes sense that it should still be with us, espoused by the same class in power.
But this nihilism and rejection of goodness has only ever been positioned opposite the crass sadism of a worldview where value requires lack in order to exist, and where things are only worth something if someone is being deprived of them.
We know wealthy elites control our minds. Knowing they’re lizards (or, for that matter, Jews) doesn’t actually change anything. It is, to borrow a phrase, malignantly useless knowledge.
The history of the world consists of a lot of wealthy assholes sleeping with each other and killing people. Changing up which assholes slept with and killed who doesn’t actually make much of a difference.
(In much the same way, it’s comforting to believe that Russian propaganda efforts were dispositive in Trump’s rise to power instead of one of several factors, and probably not one of the biggest ones.)
The idea that things happen for a reason—even a bad reason—is fundamentally more comforting than the idea that they don’t.
This set a pattern whereby trans rights were repeatedly employed by the gay rights movement as a bargaining chip—as the thing they were pointedly willing to sell out in the name of compromise,
To engage in alt-right thinking is to turn one’s self into a vacuous skinsuit animated by raw stupidity. There is literally not a single shred of non-stupidity in the entire thing.
Every single detail of every single aspect of this entire cratering shitstorm in which the human race seems hell-bent on going extinct is absolutely fucking stupid.
