As I said, the Dissident Right are pro-government. but anti-democratic. They believe in the State, and they believe in a big one. No surprise there…they are bog-standard statists; this is just par for the course for disaffected midwitttery. The issue here is that they are already living in a big State, so they’ve already won. What’s the fuss about, then?

Oh. Now I remember. It’s a leftist State, and they are on the right. The Dissident Right wishes to trade an authoritarianism they don’t like for one they do.

Um…okay. Now, think about the profundity of cognitive dissonance it takes to think like that. The point of authoritarianism is that those under it don’t get to choose; and the Dissident Right concedes this very point and thus their very obligation to the current Authority by being themselves authoritarians (National Socialists, to be exact). That any rank statist believes they are entitled to choose which authoritarian master they shall serve is clearly ludicrous and speaks volumes as to what the 90’s generation behind this ideology really is—impetuous, vapid, intellectually lazy, entitled. arrogant, collectivist to the core, and morally adrift. They are they obvious progeny of those already in power. Ironic.

The Dissident Right desires a government that will exercise its monopolistic coercive power in service to their ideology instead of against it. This is the very definition of hypocrisy. It’s the tired political strategy of “let us oppress our oppressors”; “let us be the master and they be the slave”; “to be oppressed is evil but to be the oppressor is good”…that sort of twaddle. It’s rationally incoherent and of course intellectually dishonest, and worst, it simply affirms the very oppression under which the Dissident Right currently finds itself…as do we all. I mean, if the formula is sound—that is, if authoritarian government is good and effective—then who is in charge at any given moment is arbitrary, fundamentally. The only political differences which could arguably matter can only occur within the ruling class, and the dissident right are not in the ruling class, by definition. Thus, they speak from a place of being entirely ruled, which is, according to their own political ideology, right where they should be. Which means, again according to their own ideology, they don’t get to choose who’s in charge. “The masses must be ruled, not empowered” is the cornerstone of the very authoritarian-type government the Dissident Right espouses; and they are among the masses. And here’s the biggest irony: the only thing to which they can appeal for political legitimacy to question their leftist masters is the enlightenment-driven, classically liberal ideals in which they were reared as citizens of the anglo-sphere…and they violently reject these ideals as fraudulent. Classical liberalism is the root of their woes, is how they look at it. Yet, they implicitly appeal to it in everything they do. It is the only basis by which they feel justified in complaining about their current situation.

Midwittery and mysticism. It’s the type of magical thinking that typifies millennials. The 90s are coming home to roost. But we knew that bill was coming due, didn’t we? And by the by, the Dissident Right is the mirror image of today’s left, and believe me it’s not an accident.

Now, sure, the right amount of rhetoric and sophistry and the lie of “our Authority will be in service to our people” no doubt will sway some to the D-right cause, but ultimately it’s just an admission that “their people” must be ruled, and ruled they shall be, and thus the best “their people” can hope for under their Dissident masters is some superficial relief for a time…maybe a generation or two…and then, when their masters’ appetite for power turns insatiable, as it ineluctably shall, they will find themselves right back where they are now, and very likely even worse.

I could end the article series right here, but it would lack satisfaction to do so because simply pointing out political hypocrisy is perhaps the least effective way to actually end hypocrisy. After all, it takes an all-pervasive and almost instinctual level of cognitive dissonance to accept and defend the concept of government writ-large, so hypocrisy is merely a root characteristic of the nature of most everyone living under it. Thus, people scarcely notice ideological and political hypocrisy when it is dangled in front of their face, let alone woven into a relatively complex philosophical and political essay.

So, more than the hypocrisy is this: the authoritarian state simply does’t work the way the dissident right intends it, no matter the lip service they pay to truth. morality. and order. There is no “they” on whose behalf the D-Right’s National Socialist state will or can act. As I have explained in some depth in my series on “Why All Governments Become Tyrannical”, government, of any type, always represents the incarnation of a Collective Ideal—wholly abstract, mystical, divine, and ontologically transcendent. It is a metaphysical, not merely descriptive, Group Identity which commands all individuals to conform themselves—their minds and bodies—to its Essential Truth. (Not their souls, because collectivist metaphysics does not consider the Individual—that is, the singular, conscious Self—to be a legitimate expression of Reality…it does not recognize the root Self, and thus, does not recognize the soul.)

An example of a general Collective Ideal is “The People”, or “We the People”; a more specific example is “The Working Class”, or “The Proletariate”…I give many other examples of common Collective Ideals in previous articles; the point is that the Collective Ideal can be almost anything; this is fundamentally because it is entirely mystical, and thus completely unreasonable (i.e. not conforming to that by which consciousness actually arrives at truth, meaning, and value).

All individuals—the “masses”—writ-large must become One with the Group…the Collective. This metaphysical premise thus persists until all of those under the Authority of the ruling class, the State, which exists both as an incarnation of the Collective Ideal and the means by which the masses are enslaved to it, are either entirely subsumed or destroyed. That is, the masses become members/expressions of the ruling class, or they are murdered (or imprisoned and left for dead, which is in essence the same thing). In which case there is no one left for the Authority to hold Authority over, so the ruling class eats itself and then collapses, whereupon some new Collective Ideal and new ruling class rises from the ashes and rivers of blood to replace the fallen one, and the whole kerfuffle starts all over again. On occasion, a revolution or other circumstance preempts the collapse of society writ-large and the incumbent ruing class is replaced within the infrastructure of the current system. This is simply a different manifestation of the same process. In either case, this is precisely how the “Matrix”, so to speak—the general collectivist metaphysical premise—perpetuates itself. Necessarily and unavoidably built into the equation is the destruction of the collectivist system, but what remains in tact, planted in the rubble, is the seed…the heart…the premise…that is, Collectivism, Itself. The metaphysics survive, and so they give rise to essential clones of previous Collective Ideals. New ruling classes emerge and coalesce, and thus the Matrix is able to continue…forever enslaving, exploiting and murdering, over and over again, on and on .

This is the Dissident Right…the new, same-old Destroyer in the guise of a Savior. They fancy themselves revolutionaries of a “special kind”, and the guardians of reason, truth, and sanity in this chaotic leftist world. All they really are is its natural evolution. A forgone conclusion.

The only real change to be made is is to stab the heart. Kill the premise and you will kill the Matrix. Reject the foundational Collectivist Metaphysics of the State and the ruling class and you will preempt all of the evil incarnations which otherwise necessarily follow, time after time, and again and again. You will break the cycle. The Dissident Right cannot do this, and thus they offer the only thing a false prophet and false savior can: more of the same. Same lies, same misery, same death. In other words, they offer nothing at all. Their grievances against the left may all be correct, but they are empty because their “solution” is entirely redundant.

What is the point of Dissident Rightism then? To reap a few generations of relief, at best? But at what cost…and how many innocents from the “other side” will die and suffer as a result of the rise of the “New Justice”? Is this what we really want? To concede the perfidy and lies of the left by conceding the very same metaphysical premises which have doomed us in our current communism because it might makes us and our children feel better for a little while? And further, if we concede the left’s premises why should we not also concede their authority?

There is no rational answer to this question. The only answer is a purely mystical one; it will all get fixed by hope over reason. By the power of millennial magical thinking.

In actuality there is only a shrug at the end of Dissident apologetics. A Dissident Right thought-leader, Dave the Distributist, has openly admitted to being a mystic; thus his most fundamental epistemological and ethical Standard is ultimately beyond his ability to comprehend and articulate because it is a function of a God which exists outside his conscious and conceptual frame of reference …again, by his own self-admitted mysticism. Yet he fancies himself an evangelist for New Right Truth.

You can’t make this up. It’s a Monty Python sketch…except its not funny. It’s risible on some level, yes, but not because it’s silly, but because it’s so very sad.

Rhetoric. Tautology. Cognitive Dissonance. Madness. In the end, the only argument the Dissident Right has for why it should be in charge and the left should not is simply…well…just because.

That’s not a recipe for anything good. Mark my words.

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