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The Gross Hypocrisy of the Dissident Right (Part Two)

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It is curious to me, when confronted with the problems unique to government in form and scale, that the source of these problems is never identified as government, itself. In other words, the problem is never the existence of government.

Human thinking at its core seems to contain the false notion that man must be ruled in order to survive. It seems as necessary to man’s survival as breathing. It is an unconscious, even subconscious, instinctual assumption that makes hypocrites of everyone who decides that government X is bad and should be replaced with government Y, These people don’t realize that if man was capable of coming to that conclusion on his own, he wouldn’t need government in the first place. If man could figure how he should be properly ruled, he wouldn’t need to be ruled.

The hypocrisy here is several-fold, but the crux of it is this: the specious metaphysical premises (concerning the nature of man and reality) which assert why government must exist is entirely identical between governments X and Y. This means that at the most fundamental level, there is literally zero difference between them; and they both look at their constituency writ large in exactly the same way—as existentially flawed and needing to be first controlled, then subsumed.

What is this existential flaw? 

It is the flaw of individuality. Each human being possesses an intrinsic, indelible, singular conscious frame of reference…the “I”, or “Self” of individual existence. This is the Original Sin of man’s birth. He is born utterly un-collectivized. And as the government, the State, is an institution entirely rooted in collectivist metaphysics, this makes human beings writ large its enemy.

Man by nature thinks as “Self”; he wills and chooses as Self; he acts as Self…and that is why he is born in sin and suffers root existential insufficiency the moment he is born. And this is why government is necessary, you see. Reality, according to the metaphysics which inform government, is not individual, but collective. Your individual consciousness is a lie. There is no you qua you. There is no “your Self” in an epistemological and ethical corollary relationship with “Other” (other Selves). There is only the Collective Self, and One Collective Truth which is the Collective Ideal, which is The Divine Sovereign on whose behalf the government—meaning the “enlightened” ruling class—rules. Common examples of these Collective Ideals are: The Nation, The Empire, The Race, The Culture, The Workers, The Greater/Common Good, Social Justice, Climate Justice, The Church, and The People, to name just a few. That is reality; and you, with your Individual Conscious Self, are naturally opposed to this reality, and therefore, you must be governed…and “governed ” means “ruled”, and “ruled” means “controlled”, and “controlled” means owned, You qua you cannot be allowed to be. The True Consciousness—the Collective Consciousness—must be dictated to you from outside your Self. And you must be compelled into compliance with the will of the Collective Ideal, which really means the will of the ruling class.

You must be compelled out of Your Self and into The Group. Your singular, conscious Will must be replaced by an obligation to Law (moral ethics swapped for legal ethics) which is a set of Collective behaviors to which the individual shall be compelled by force, propaganda, spurious philosophies, and meaningless traditions by the ruling class. The military and the police, being the bedrock of coercive power, shall be subsidized by the masses. Individuality is not an affliction from which the ruling class suffers, of course, and this is because of…well…magic…divine intervention…special knowledge (gnosis). They don’t need the law, after all, so why should they pay for it?

They won’t. You will. Whether you like it or not. 

Of course in the United States the common trope is that no one is above the law, and we all must “pay our fair share”. Absolute bunk. This yarn of fantasy has been spun and consumed by Americans since the before the Constitution’s ink was dry. Yet a sleepy glance at the law applied to the masses versus the ruling class reveals a discrepancy large enough to shame the Grand Canyon, whilst the preponderance of millionaires and billionaires in positions of political power reveals an even starker discrepancy relative to the tax burden. So much for “all men are created equal”. That anyone fell (or falls) for this rank political absurdity is shameful; that any soldier died for it is an abomination. Look…that the US government was ever going to be compromised of a benevolent collection of humble citizen-servants is perhaps the oldest and clumsiest lie this country has ever told itself. My own cynicism tells me that the Founding Fathers could not possibly have believed such obvious nonsense when crafting the Constitution, which makes me think the whole Convention was little more than a political feint…but who knows? Maybe they were just arrogant and delusional enough to think that they could somehow perform the alchemy necessary to synthesize the State’s coercive nature with individual freedom. In reality, however, it was complete rubbish.

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The ruling classes are absolved of their own Original Sin of Individual Consciousness by appealing explicitly or implicitly to some divine, transcendent appointment…they rule not as mere humans, you see, but as ambassadors—which really means “incarnation”—of the transcendent Collective Ideal—which really means “God”. Hence why the ruling class claims the Authority to enforce the law whilst they, themselves, are never actually subject to it. They are the law, you see, as far as you and I and the rest of the unwashed are concerned, which means that they are the Authority of the Law, which means that they are that which gives the Law its efficacy and meaning. Which in effect and in practicality means that, again, they are God to us. In the case of a theocracy, the ruling class is quite literally God; in case of a representative democracy like the United States, they are The People, which is, once you cut through the rhetoric, just a euphemism for God. They are the Collective Ideal—that transcendent, utterly abstract, unseeable, ultimately unknowable, infinite and infinitely perfect All in All from which all things are made and that which the individual, with his wicked and preternatural Conscious Sense of Individual Self, is in perpetual rebellion as a function of his being born at all. 

Therefore the ruling class hates you…the government hates you…because it must hate you, otherwise there is fundamentally no reason for it to be the ruling class in the first place. This hatred—and hate’s political corollary, fear—is the immutable nature of every State from the beginning to eternity. There is no government that can ever truly serve humanity because it is contrary to its nature to serve. It is not designed to serve, it is designed to rule. That’s what it does. That’s all it does. It is force at the metaphysical level…its essence is violence. It is the Destroyer, not the Creator. The government is chaos…it exists to eradicate the individual, to eradicate the Conscious Self, the I. It is UnTruth; it is UnGood. It pretends to be the incarnation of God, but in reality it nullifies God by destroying the one thing in Creation which is capable of recognizing Him as God—the Individual. It destroys consciousness and thus the very frame of reference for reality, itself.

And that’s why humanity keeps winding up victims of ruling class mendacity trying to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. And, alas, right on cue here come the dissident right midwits to the rescue with a proposition for a “new” ruling class that will do power “right” this time. 

Sure they will.

Chattel slavery and the Battle of the Somme were both government programs; the atomic bomb was a government program; Auschwitz and the Rape of Nanking were government programs; Cortes’s rampage across the Aztec Empire was a government program; the Aztec’s practiced human sacrifice, a practice of the State religion, and thus was also enforced by the State, which makes it in essence also a government program. Yet by some deeply impressive cognitive dissonance, the moral atrocities which inexorably follow government in all its forms—democratic, capitalist, communist, monarchist, tribal, dictatorship—are always somehow in spite of it, not a product of it.

Astonishing. 

Thus the solution to the problems which are naturally a function of government never include the simple act of merely questioning the efficacy of government, let alone its existence, let alone suggesting the dismantling of its institutions and a categorical repudiation of the philosophies which inform it. At best we might get a superficial change in leadership, or a change in the “ism”, which of course never actually fixes anything. At best it postpones some inevitable disaster for a while, but in the meantime introduces a host of new ones.

It is curious how an institution which solely exists to coerce by violence and threats of violence is never considered the problem when people in a “free democracy” like the United States begin to feel as though their current political and economic situation isn’t quite as “free” or “democratic” as they thought. Such is the epidemic of cognitive dissonance. A long time ago God warned world vis-a-vis the Israelites not to demand a King, and we still haven’t learned. We pray for a benevolent State and benevolent leadership and from them, peace. We might as well pray for square circles. 

To keep beating this dead horse, the purpose of government is to coerce human behavior through explicit and implicit violence, and thus to control the will and the mind of the individual, and there is nothing benevolent about this. How could there be? Government represents the eradication of consciousness, and thus the eradication of reason and its progeny, Morality and Truth. This is why government always becomes tyrannical, even if benevolence is intended…something “of and by the People” as it were. The reality is that the ruling class, according to its nature, destroys the individual, and subordinates him to an entirely spurious “Collective Responsibly”, in service to the Collective Ideal. From this, individuality is supposed to magically morph into a supreme “Collective Consciousness”, which of course is impossible. Nevertheless the ruling class is ideologically compelled to force-collectivize the masses, which leads to society-wide chaos through ever increasing degrees of public control as the State removes all manner of individuality from the individual. The violence inevitably becomes overt, leading to mass death and systemic collapse.

The collectivist metaphysics at the root of Government are a lie. They are irrational, they are anti-reason, anti-language, anti -consciousness, and anti-life. . The Truth is individualism, period. Government’s entire purpose thus is to take man’s nature and by some alchemy change it into that which it is NOT. In short, government is in the business of making square circles. Government doesn’t then simply fail then, you see, but it is failure, institutionalized.

So, with regards to society under government, what is it, stripped down of all the fake philosophizing and pretense? 

It is the ruling class and the ruled; the master and the slave; the owners of men and the men who are owned. Everything else is fantasy. To think that replacing government X or politician A with government Y or politician B is going to do anything other than rotate the circle of history is complete delusion. 

Hence then the hypocrisy of those who belong to dissident right. The dissident right, being understandably disaffected by the globalist cult of neo-Marxism which passes for political leadership in the west, has fallen for the oldest trick in the book, and allowed themselves to be distracted by the shine of power rather than to do what is wise and truly revolutionary, which is to not immediately desire and seek power, but to examine the metaphysics of power, and go from there. To accept power as a-prior is foolish. 

The shine of power makes us believe that power is both the root of all social, political, and cultural ills and simultaneously the primary solution. This is a lie. It cannot be both. It cannot simultaneously be cause and effect, good and evil, truth and lie. If state power is the source of woes, it cannot also be the solution. One cannot fight cancer with cancer, or Marxist ideology with fascist ideology, and one cannot replace government X with government Y and expect any rationally or morally significant outcome.

Predictably and perfunctorily, the desire of the dissident right is to wrestle power from the left. Not that they have any coherent plan for this…they are revolutionary dilettantes at this stage. Nevertheless, implicitly or explicitly, they all assert that authoritarianism will be necessary to “right the ship”, as it were, at least in the short term. After that…well, if they can finally achieve a society comprised of the “right kind of people”, perhaps a more representative sort of arrangement can be considered. 

Right. 

In short, the dissident right is obviously a national socialist movement…I don’t even think they deny this anymore. Seems cliche to go there, but the truth is the truth. 

This appeal to authoritarianism as some kind of real solution is of course hilarious in its absurdity, and is insulting to the intelligence of even your average midwit. Apart from the obvious fact that authoritarian states never give up power willingly, for obvious reasons, it reveals just how ignorant the dissident right is when it comes to understanding the real nature of power, and of government. Like I said in part one of this series, the dissident right is highly educated but spectacularly lacking in wisdom. They have read many books, memorized many political theories and sociological and cultural philosophies, yet the depth of their actual understanding can be breached with a fingernail.

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The Gross Hypocrisy of the Dissident Right (Part One)

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Put as clearly as I can, the “dissident right”—also known as the “reactionary right”—are an offshoot of the political right in the West, which eschews the conservatism which typically characterizes right-wing politics. Instead, they embrace a more centralized, implicitly or explicitly (depending on the dissident rightist in question) authoritarian, nationalistic version of government. In any given article or podcast, the central theme of dissident rightism may be race (specifically provisions for the protection and nationalization of white people), religion (specifically Christianity…they hint at a theocratic model of government, or at the very least a government which names and codifies its ethics as specifically Christian), the preservation/establishment/re-establishment of the White, Western nation-state (England for the English, Ireland for the Irish, America for the Americans, by which they mean the “founding stock”, by which they mean northern-European white people, Australia for the Australians, by which they mean the “founding stock”, by which they mean northern European white people, Germany for the Germans, etcetera, etcetera), or a combination of these things. Other tertiary issues may arise, like the economy, the history of their movement, the philosophy of their ideology, which is little more than mystical appeals to racial solidarity, racial-identity-as-national-identity, and even the deification of the nation state (a recent video by the Distributist saw him in a conversation with Sargon of Akkad where the later spoke of the erstwhile British Empire in openly religious terms, with openly religious reverence, which was curious coming from a well-known atheist like Sargon, but whatever…hypocrisy, thou art man). There is also the steady and annoying drip of Christian dogma which hits you on the forehead like Chinese water torture…and look, I’m a believer myself, but the “Christianity” found in the dissident right is an unsavory mash of dogmatic ethics and trans-denominational doctrinal gobbledygook…and they are appealing to a truth and cause which is “higher than themselves”, you see, where of course that which is “higher than themselves” bears a striking resemblance to precisely themselves. What else is new?

Politically, as I said, the dissident right is essentially an autocratic movement…and these people are not secessionists, they are fully committed the idea of their side consolidating existing state power absolutely. They are vigorously anti-democratic, and some are openly authoritarian. At the very least there is always an implicit presumption that some form of authoritarianism will be necessary to “right the ship’ as it were, at least in the short term. Which always becomes permanent, of course, but somehow, like the tyrants before them, they are fully convinced that they will be able to do authoritarianism right this time. If they can get enough people on board, and even though it may take a long time (they understand the “long march”), once they finally get their hands on the power of the State they will wield its hammer in service to a blemish-free ideology and summon forth the One Truth and the One Good and a thousand years of of peace and prosperity…and…yawn…shrug. The timeline of political history is just a boring ride on a slow, rusty carousel. Only the bloodstains make it somewhat interesting.

So…you get the idea. It’s the new boss, same as the old boss. They want to exchange the old Authority for a new Authority that is the same as the old one, except they’ve simply reversed the moral categories. What’s good is now bad; what’s bad is now good. Punish the bad and promote the good with all the power of the State, and the sad thing is that they, like all other communists and fascists before them, think that this is actually revolutionary thinking.

It isn’t.

What you have here is a sequel, same as the original…it’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which makes it even worse than the original because it’s hypocritical. It’s is a bunch of rank reactionaries who want a new ruling class that will simply use its violence in service to their particular brand of macaroni and cheese. It’s literally no deeper than that. They speak only superficially about the metaphysics of their movement because why wouldn’t they? Truly analyzing the metaphysical roots would only confuse themselves and their followers and they’d end up sounding like the “woke” left that they think they hate but actually admire. It’s never good to appeal to a metaphysical premise that you will ultimately punt into the cosmic abyss of esoteric mystery, just like all collectivists do. It’s easier to focus on how wrong the assumptions of your political enemy are rather than making an open, honest, and public exegesis of your own. Finger-wagging is where you make a show of standing up for something new. That’s bog-standard politics.

The long and short of the dissident right is the same as it is on the “woke” left: absolute power in service to a Collectivist Ideal, rooted in collectivist metaphysics, which is mysticism, which is gnosticism, which is a death cult which hates the individual and sees individualism, which they politically confuse and conflate with “liberal democracy” or “classical liberalism”, as the root of all evil. The “woke” left has allowed too many people too much individual freedom, you see, and that’s why we are where we are in the West…so they imply. Too many people doing whatever they want, egged on by surreptitious Jewish influencers, and the outcome is today’s leftist, neo-commie totalitarian hedonism, and what we need is a new sheriff in town to start kicking some ass in the name of Christ, and Race Realism, and the White Nation State, and get tossing the rabble into the pit for a change. Which, by the by, I have never heard a group of ruling class wannabes complain more about something that they are desperately trying to convince everyone else and themselves that they actually are. What they truly are, are aspiring tyrants, but they want the masses to think they are liberators. In other words, they hate libertarianism with a red-hot passion, but they complain about economic oppression, the tyranny of the “managerial class”, by which they mean Jews, the perfidy of the Global American Empire, the mendacity of the ruling elite and so on to the point of almost sounding like anarcho-capitalists, The hypocrisy is off the scale…but they’ve mitigated this, you see, by giving their brand of authoritarianism a facelift. They are like the left, but they are the “new” right, so they are better, you see; and once they are in charge, believe me, you’ll totally notice a difference. Totally. You can take that to the bank.

Make no mistake, the dissident right wants power; they believe that the truth is manifest in power, and rank coercive power that is what you will get when they are in charge. You will get the same tyranny you already have…which begs the question, why then should you care, other than that you might get a few generations of relief for the straight, white, Christian man? In then end, you will only get what you already have—a ruling class that hates you and wants you dead, even if you are a straight, white, Christian man. Which makes the whole exercise pointless, and worse, selfish.

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Now..look, I get it on some level. Meaning I understand why the “reactionary right” is reacting. The United States of American in particular and the West in general is an object embarrassment to itself at this point. Naturally a reaction to the wholesale selling out of the West and its people to a collection of satan-worshiping, child-sacrificing, neo-Marxists with the lust and means for world domination and who toss out blood libel against their paler brethren like a clown tosses out candy at a circus would be warranted. I get it. But the answer is not to replace satan-worshiping, globalist, neo-Marxist blood-libel with your own version of the very same thing. This is not not freedom; it’s not truth or morality or justice…it’s revenge. It’s pretending that offering people a devil they don’t know instead of the devil they do is actual change. To replace one lie with another is evil, and stupid, and at most it’ll buy a generation or two of respite if successful, and that’s a big if. In the end history will toss the dissident right onto the charnel heap with the rest of the rotting tyrants, and there it will remain as a cautionary tale, nothing more: Look at what man becomes when he conflates reaction with solution—he is a blind bully, wildly throwing haymakers, destroying both friend and foe alike, and not actually caring or even knowing the difference.

Reaction is easy, you see; solutions are hard; and the Millennials and late-Zoomers who comprise the bulk of this movement’s leadership and talking-heads have been fed the sugary morsels of easy more than any other generation before them or after, and believe me it shows. They are blasé and dismissive; arrogant and self-righteous; entitled, dogmatic, and narcissistic; over-educated yet spectacularly lacking in wisdom. They are, much like their formative years, the nineties and early oughts, almost entirely form over function; propaganda over art. So naturally and predictably they are reaction over solution. The politics are thus entirely perfunctory; the purveyors predictably self-aggrandizing, overly sure of their ideas, and deluded.

In the next article, I will get into the nuts and bolts of why the dissident right is actually wrong. This was screed…but in the next article you will see why it was, well…necessary. Or at the very least deserved.

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