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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