Life’s all about tradeoffs. If there really is a secret cabal of Jews running western civilization, I guess it could be worse. We could all be living under the rule of people like Kim Jong Un, Xi Jingping, or Iran’s mullahs. Pick your poison, I guess. I have no problem complaining about the evil people that rule over us, whether they are Jews or not, but I’m not convinced that bigotry is a vital part of the solutions to our problems.
Honestly, by the standards of tyranny throughout history, you could do a lot worse than ZOG. The trains run on time and the bagel selection is diverse.
Liberal history books won't tell you this, but one of the main reasons the US sought independence from the British Empire is that they foresaw that the Hanoverian Dynasty would cheap out on foreign aid to Israel in the future and wanted no part of that. It's like George Washington said in his Farwell Address:
"Seek out foreign entanglements, especially with the Hebrews, that we might fund their Armies with Publick Largesse."
Trains are not the best example for US excellence. In the USA trains were as low as 21% on time until the Supreme Court forced them to try harder. Now it hovers from 60%-90% depending on where you are.
In China they reported 95%+ for on time performance for high speed rail. When I tried to look up the US equivalent I remembered that the USA doesn't even have high speed rail to speak of since the train infrastructure management is so bad we are decades behind now-old systems like Japan's.
In regards to the 'standards of tyranny' it depends on whether you're measuring quantity of damage or individual quality. If you were to consider things like abortion and circumcision to be human sacrifice then the rivers of blood the USA, particularly under the reign of the Baby Boomers, far outstrip even the worst of monstrous societies like the Aztecs. Of course the counter argument, if I may use the most disparaging Boomer version, is "Why are you belly aching about mass human sacrifice? You got TV and MOVIES and IPHONES!"
Yeah, lets double down on ZOG being good - I love my nation getting browned! Woo! Anti bigotry for the win! Love me some jewish overlords, so Christian, so based.
Very nice piece. Unfortunately this seems to be the year when we all have to take a hard look at the situation in the Middle East and how we got there, funny mustaches and all. If I had no other reason to hate Hamas I would hate them for that.
The problem on the DR is that every time someone says, 'Maybe Bibi isn't a great guy and there are some things about the way that that country is run that upset me.' someone else says, 'Yeah I totally agree Jews are subhuman parasites.' For whatever reason, it is very hard to occupy a position of balance on Israel. They are either divinely licensed to do whatever is necessary up to and including set babies on fire or they rule the world and are poisoning Noble Aryans/created the White Man in a lab to destroy humanity.(two mutually exclusive versions of the same position which taken together puts the whole thing in perspective)
I say, that not everyone who is a friend to the Jews needs to be a supporter of the current Israeli administration anymore than every American Patriot needs to be a supporter of the Biden administration. I say that Hitler is something like a photographic negative of Lenin or Robespierre. He was a disaffected Leftist- a man who saw Liberal governments starve his people to death, foreign carpetbaggers buy the German cultural patrimony at the prices that you can only buy things from starving people, and the Liberalism in which he believed acquiesce. He then tried to turn the Liberal World Order's guns on itself. He used Leninlike purges on Communists and foreigners. He outcentralised the centralizers and outmodernized the modernists. But like Lenin or Robespierre he could only destroy. There is such a thing as a witchy weapon that never does good. Centralized government and Maolike purges never build freedom or peace no matter which bad guys you point them at.
BTW that is why we are well and truly f*ed with the mass migration into our countries. The only way to get them out is to surrender all civil liberties and endorse the largest government expansion in history. No one has ever successfully deported 40 million people. Hitler may be the only one who ever tried. It didn't go well. He was left with the Lenin/Mao/Pol Pot sort of solution. I like to think that Trump 2.0 won't wind up in a position like that, but honestly it is going to get very ugly. The 'refugees' can't stay here but where will these people go, how will they be identified and rounded up, and what will they do when they get there?
I like that you not only rebutted this particular failing Austrian Substacker (as it were) but also clearly and concisely knocked out a critique of the conspiracy theory that is antisemitism, identifying that even as it may harm innocent Jews and Zionists it doesn't do anyone else a lick of good, either.
I always really liked this speech from American History X. Whatever you think about politics, ask yourself, "has anything I've done made my life better?"
Yes, becoming an anti Semite made my life exponentially better. Would love to see you actually address things, rather than what was seen in the above article.
Except, that is, for the successful demagogues, who may gain immense adoration and personal power from those who believe their fantasies. Pray that the Trevor Goodchilds do not multiply more than they already have.
It was written in mid 2023, and the author is worried about Nick Fuentes and Kanye West being the biggest threats to Jews. I had to look him up to see if he wasn't the head of Mossad at the time.
"Hamas, nah, what are they going to do? I'm telling you, Ye is the active threat!"
The “Jewish Cabal” conspiracy theory is just the “systemic racism” delusion of the right. Both delusions result from wrongly attributing disparate group outcomes to a discriminatory or privileging “system” -i.e. the “Jewish conspiracy” or “white supremacy” - when in fact the disparate group outcomes are caused by cultural and genetic differences.
Jews are disproportionately represented in positions of power and influence because they have higher average and top-end IQs compared with other groups, along with a culture that values intellectual pursuits and delayed gratification. They tend to skew liberal because they tend to be urban cognitive elites and urban cognitive elites tend to skew liberal.
The belief that there is a conspiracy is just Kendi-style failure to understand the true causes of disparate group outcomes plus Kendi-style racial resentment. It’s a tremendously bad look for the dissident right that serves only to reinforce people’s worst stereotypes and push away those who are starting to understand the extent of the insanity and villainy on the left.
* Note that I am not equating conspiracy theories in general with the systemic racism delusion, as the Konstantin Kisin types were doing a few weeks ago. Powerful people conspire against ordinary people to increase their wealth and power. The intelligence community is engaged in full-fledged information warfare against we the people. Some of the people involved in these conspiracies are Jewish (eg Soros). The Israel lobby has considerable influence over US foreign policy. But there is no “Jewish conspiracy,” I.e. a conspiracy by a cabal of specifically Jews to advance specifically Jewish interests that is responsible for the things that make you mad.
'Jews are disproportionately represented in positions of power and influence because they have higher average and top-end IQs compared with other groups, along with a culture that values intellectual pursuits and delayed gratification. They tend to skew liberal because they tend to be urban cognitive elites and urban cognitive elites tend to skew liberal.'
oh I think there's a little more to it than that.
Do Chuck Schumer, Anthony Weiner, Madelaine Albright, Victoria Nuland, Bill Kristol etc. strike you as having particularly high intelligence? There's obviously something else going on.
I'm sure all of them score well on tests (especially Chuck Schumer). They can do calculus and read and write academic-tier books. They are fully mentally equipped to solve complex problems, plan ahead, and manage large projects. More importantly for their careers, they are the sort of people who have had their personalities fully trimmed for ascension in a managerial system- morally gray, willing to sacrifice others, and ultimately loyal only to the managerial elite class (not Judaism). David Horowitz talked about this in his memoir, the wish that assimilated Jews have to dissolve their Jewishness into a wider secular sphere. For his family, it was communism. For the neocons and neoliberals, it's America- not as an existing nation but as an idea. They're not disloyal as such. It's that their concept of what it is to be American is less emotional than ideological. America is a set of propositions to which one assents. This is why they thought the War on Terror would work; it was simply a matter of getting the Iraqis and Afghans to nod to 'liberty.' Israel, for them, is valuable less as a Jewish state than as an example of the West's ability to transmute its internal 'aliens' into good secular Enlightenment liberal democrats. They despise the Hasidim and other traditionalists as obscurantists, useful sometimes but ultimately just like the Evangelicals they have to pretend to like.
Their limitations are not intellectual, they're imaginative. For all the supposed cosmopolitanism of their urban environments they are remarkably obtuse in understanding their own countrymen and while they're good managers they're terrible leaders. It's why they missed the Hamas buildup in Israel despite checking all the boxes with their intelligence procedures. It's why they missed Trump, and why they'll miss whoever comes next.
“Probably you're more familiar with their works than I am, so sure--but are they as bright as you would expect considering their massive overrepresentation in the elite?”
This is a misunderstanding. A group with a higher average IQ will have disproportionate representation in cognitively demanding professions. That doesn’t mean the individuals from that group will be smarter than their colleagues. It just means a higher percentage of that group will be above the threshold needed to gain entry into and succeed in the profession.
And the smartest Jews aren’t in politics. They’re winning Nobel prizes or becoming billionaires. Which they do at astonishing rates, because the far right tail of their IQ bell curve is further right than that of other groups, and they have the cultural values and traditions to capitalize on it.
I’m not arguing this case because I think Jews are especially awesome (full disclosure: I’m 25% Ashkenazi/75% Euro mutt). As a cultural group, their political beliefs (which I was broadly raised with) are pretty shitty. Groups like AIPAC and the ADL suck. Soros is a blight on humanity. There’s plenty to criticize there.
I’m just arguing this case because it’s reality.
Jewish success is just the flip side of the failures of other groups. Like differences between individuals, differences between groups are the result of nature and nurture, genetics and culture. Just as there is no “white cis hetero patriarchy” conspiracy keeping the “marginalized” down, so too is there no nefarious conspiracy propping the Jews up. They’re just overall smarter and harder working. Deal with it. Leave the politics of racial grievance and resentment to the leftists. It’s a bad look. The (broadly speaking) dissident right should be better.
'there no nefarious conspiracy propping the Jews up'
I didn't say there was. But there is ethnic nepotism. The question is how important it is--relative to intelligence, assiduousness and whatever else you want to invoke--in the disproportionate success of Jewish mediocrities in e.g. politics. As you say, these people are hardly the intellectual elite, of their group or the polity as a whole, yet as a grpup they are *still* overrepresented.
'Leave the politics of racial grievance and resentment to the leftists.'
The video in this article, where Biden's economic advisor can't explain where the US money supply comes from or why, deflated any expectations of even test problem solving intelligence from the political elite. He would barely make it out of Finance 101 with an answer like he gave here.
At this point I'm almost convinced that a random lotto to choose political staff would at least get it accidentally right more often than it is now.
The simple and truthful answer is that it is largely immaterial and conjured out of thin air, in as large or small a quantity as the banks desire--and yet it is loaned at interest. Is it any wonder that he wouldn't/couldn't explain?
I *notice* his name is Bernstein. IS THIS ACCIDENT? He is not merely deliberately untruthful but also obviously of something like middling intelligence. Is there nobody among the goyim who could do the same 'job' more 'competently'?
Alright I realise it's tone-deaf and LoW StATuS to say this but...
- 'I'm sure all of them score well on tests (especially Chuck Schumer). They can do calculus and read and write academic-tier books. They are fully mentally equipped to solve complex problems, plan ahead, and manage large projects.'
Probably you're more familiar with their works than I am, so sure--but are they as bright as you would expect considering their massive overrepresentation in the elite?
- 'For his family, it was communism. For the neocons and neoliberals, it's America- not as an existing nation but as an idea. They're not disloyal as such. It's that their concept of what it is to be American is less emotional than ideological. America is a set of propositions to which one assents.'
Communism and America-as-pure-idea are both aggressively subversive ideologies which at their core are accommodating of 'minorities', and as such I don't think it's an accident that they were/are popular with THESE PEOPLE.
- 'David Horowitz talked about this in his memoir, the wish that assimilated Jews have to dissolve their Jewishness into a wider secular sphere.'
Well he WOULD say that, wouldn't he? The bit he left out is that the 'wider secular sphere' was irrevocably (and maybe deliberately--but this is probably the essence of disagreements between your view and mine) changed by their immersion in it.
- 'This is why they thought the War on Terror would work; it was simply a matter of getting the Iraqis and Afghans to nod to 'liberty.' Israel, for them, is valuable less as a Jewish state than as an example of the West's ability to transmute its internal 'aliens' into good secular Enlightenment liberal democrats.'
See I don't think this is the way they think. It's Straussian, you know?
- 'For all the supposed cosmopolitanism of their urban environments they are remarkably obtuse in understanding their own countrymen.'
Sure THEIR urban environments are not particularly cosmopolitan, especially these days. They're narrow suburbanites par excellence, probably accounting in part for the dullness of Bill vs. Irving Kristol. I agree completely with the second part of the clause.
- 'while they're good managers they're terrible leaders. It's why they missed the Hamas buildup in Israel despite checking all the boxes with their intelligence procedures.'
Yes and in this respect they are indistinguishable from the bueaucratic-managerical class as a whole--but not, I maintain, in other respects.
This is the sort of thing that had me trying to convert open minded progressives into populists instead of engaging with existing populists back in the day.
It was only after the progressives went into full on Maoist mode that I decided do a WTF and try to get existing populists to stop blaming Joos for everything and realize that the baddies have been winning by default -- conspiracy or not.
That, and the rise of truly respectable intellectual populists here on Substack...
Maaaaaan... Librarian, lemme tell ya something: I don't know much about the Jews or these Friekorps kids or any of that. But, what I do know... is that Aeon Flux was an AMAZING show.
Hopefully Denis Villeneuve will get $300 million and make a big budget movie version with Sidney Sweeny as Zev and Timothee Chalumet as Kai. Oscars all around.
Holy Shiiii--I had totally forgotten about that show until I clicked that link! What a glorious time for German-Canadian psychedelic sci-fi television! I miss those days. The effects reminded me of Wing Commander 4 haha. Now I have to go back and binge Aeon Flux AND Lexx!
And I'll always remember Aeon Flux because it also introduced me to the term "Demiurge."
I've come to think of Goodchild & Co. as a cost of doing business. There's not much to do about der Gammafuhrers (I'm stealing it), and not much of a need to. They are boring, repetitive, as predictable as sunrise. Most will burn out or expose themselves eventually, bleed engagement, hit rock bottom, whine and cry for attention, scream "nigger", "kike" and "faggot" with diminishing returns, etc.
Maybe this will trigger an epiphany for some of them down the road, but that's none of our concern.
It’s like women on OF; they realize there’s something outré they can do for attention and so they go all in for a while, then spend the next ten years hoping no one ever Googles them.
I'm a contrarian centrist (a label that sounds stupid, but is accurate) but I'll freely admit that a lot of writers in the loosely aggregated New Right are fantastic writers, capable of crafting critiques that are both incisive and insightful.
Morgthorak, though, writes great prose - but a lot of what he writes just seems unhinged. He is long on rhetoric but short on evidence; maybe I've missed his best work, but I don't think I've ever seen him produce any actual new insights into anything. If I were on his team I'd put him into the "morally right but loose with facts" bucket the left likes to use for it's most overeager foot soldiers but I'm not, so I can't even give him that.
The more nonsense I read from these conspiracy writers the more I'm convinced they really don't know the first thing about what's going on. It's like they stole a ride on the train, but got off three stops from the what's going on station, then dropped into a trendy coffee shop and wrote up an argument as they watched others walk by the window dressed for action. "Stick with me comrades as we prepare to battle the Zionistas!"
Someone please tell them it's 2024; time to leave mama's basement.
I mean, if they genuinely were as 'Powerful' as many seem to think, they would not be getting their 5 million USD Tanks blown to bits by weapons systems costing about 100-300 USD tops.
It's more a matter of Muslim & Westerner Weakness than it is Zionist Strength. At least, that is the conclusion myself & others have come to. Excellent work on this Well Written article!
I'm genuinely surprised that the moment they're not pointing a gun or bomb at women, children, the elderly, people fleeing, people trying to eat food and drink water, they get their asses completely handed to them by a ragtag group of essentially orphan jihadis (Hamas is significantly comprised of orphans.) I mean the footage shows they're absolutely incompetent cowards. TBF Hamas is on their own turf but if they were in "Israel" proper I think we'd be seeing similar kinds of battles. The IDF is as I've heard it, an airforce with a tiktok division..
Great article. Personally I don't think we have any stake in this fight between Israel and Palestine. My problems with Jewish people are that they don't accept Christ and that some of the elite aren't so great, but every race has a bad elite now. I pray that this war ends soon and that they open their hearts to Christ.
P.S. I agree modern nationalism is liberal in origin, but the idea of a collection of people made of different families who are proud of their heritage and are hard working is something I can get behind.
I don't have a dog in this fight, and will only say that if only we fiction authors attracted so much attention as the infighting between these two did. Oh well, on the bright side this was a superb article, and I would remind people of one Jew everyone loves; Stan Lee. Proof that you can be Jewish, friendly, warm and beloved by everyone.
So, I know this comment is off-topic, but in the article, you mentioned something about being a monarchist.
Gotta admit... that one's a bit of a head-scratcher.
It's got me curious as to why, though? You might've already written about your views on a monarchial government, which I didn't see. But, in case you haven't, that would be a fascinating topic for for you to cover in an upcoming essay.
Even if we disagree, you'll certainly have an interesting point-of-view, for me to consider. All the best, my dude.
I’ll get into it in a full essay at some point. As a reactionary, I reject liberalism in all its forms. I think the Enlightenment gave the world a running series of disasters papered over by technological innovation. We are alienated from organic forms of life because of all this, and I think a course correction is in order.
Life’s all about tradeoffs. If there really is a secret cabal of Jews running western civilization, I guess it could be worse. We could all be living under the rule of people like Kim Jong Un, Xi Jingping, or Iran’s mullahs. Pick your poison, I guess. I have no problem complaining about the evil people that rule over us, whether they are Jews or not, but I’m not convinced that bigotry is a vital part of the solutions to our problems.
Honestly, by the standards of tyranny throughout history, you could do a lot worse than ZOG. The trains run on time and the bagel selection is diverse.
Your trains run on time? Damn. Clearly we in the UK need to dramatically increase our military aid to Israel.
Liberal history books won't tell you this, but one of the main reasons the US sought independence from the British Empire is that they foresaw that the Hanoverian Dynasty would cheap out on foreign aid to Israel in the future and wanted no part of that. It's like George Washington said in his Farwell Address:
"Seek out foreign entanglements, especially with the Hebrews, that we might fund their Armies with Publick Largesse."
Or Patrick Henry:
"Give them the Liberty, and give us Death!"
Powerful words from great men.
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hahahaha
Don't you know you are just being a bigot! Love Israel more!
Trains are not the best example for US excellence. In the USA trains were as low as 21% on time until the Supreme Court forced them to try harder. Now it hovers from 60%-90% depending on where you are.
https://elpc.org/blog/amtrak-on-time-performance/
In China they reported 95%+ for on time performance for high speed rail. When I tried to look up the US equivalent I remembered that the USA doesn't even have high speed rail to speak of since the train infrastructure management is so bad we are decades behind now-old systems like Japan's.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-08/01/content_26292785.htm
In regards to the 'standards of tyranny' it depends on whether you're measuring quantity of damage or individual quality. If you were to consider things like abortion and circumcision to be human sacrifice then the rivers of blood the USA, particularly under the reign of the Baby Boomers, far outstrip even the worst of monstrous societies like the Aztecs. Of course the counter argument, if I may use the most disparaging Boomer version, is "Why are you belly aching about mass human sacrifice? You got TV and MOVIES and IPHONES!"
LOL
They’re killing us with yummy carbohydrates! And I hate trains. Especially for passengers. Sons-a-bitches!!!!
Yeah, lets double down on ZOG being good - I love my nation getting browned! Woo! Anti bigotry for the win! Love me some jewish overlords, so Christian, so based.
? What an odd statement. This article and the comment section is truly bizarre.
Did I stand you up on prom night or something?
Very nice piece. Unfortunately this seems to be the year when we all have to take a hard look at the situation in the Middle East and how we got there, funny mustaches and all. If I had no other reason to hate Hamas I would hate them for that.
The problem on the DR is that every time someone says, 'Maybe Bibi isn't a great guy and there are some things about the way that that country is run that upset me.' someone else says, 'Yeah I totally agree Jews are subhuman parasites.' For whatever reason, it is very hard to occupy a position of balance on Israel. They are either divinely licensed to do whatever is necessary up to and including set babies on fire or they rule the world and are poisoning Noble Aryans/created the White Man in a lab to destroy humanity.(two mutually exclusive versions of the same position which taken together puts the whole thing in perspective)
I say, that not everyone who is a friend to the Jews needs to be a supporter of the current Israeli administration anymore than every American Patriot needs to be a supporter of the Biden administration. I say that Hitler is something like a photographic negative of Lenin or Robespierre. He was a disaffected Leftist- a man who saw Liberal governments starve his people to death, foreign carpetbaggers buy the German cultural patrimony at the prices that you can only buy things from starving people, and the Liberalism in which he believed acquiesce. He then tried to turn the Liberal World Order's guns on itself. He used Leninlike purges on Communists and foreigners. He outcentralised the centralizers and outmodernized the modernists. But like Lenin or Robespierre he could only destroy. There is such a thing as a witchy weapon that never does good. Centralized government and Maolike purges never build freedom or peace no matter which bad guys you point them at.
BTW that is why we are well and truly f*ed with the mass migration into our countries. The only way to get them out is to surrender all civil liberties and endorse the largest government expansion in history. No one has ever successfully deported 40 million people. Hitler may be the only one who ever tried. It didn't go well. He was left with the Lenin/Mao/Pol Pot sort of solution. I like to think that Trump 2.0 won't wind up in a position like that, but honestly it is going to get very ugly. The 'refugees' can't stay here but where will these people go, how will they be identified and rounded up, and what will they do when they get there?
Wow, the white supremacist trolls are well FED today. They are springing up everywhere.
I like that you not only rebutted this particular failing Austrian Substacker (as it were) but also clearly and concisely knocked out a critique of the conspiracy theory that is antisemitism, identifying that even as it may harm innocent Jews and Zionists it doesn't do anyone else a lick of good, either.
I always really liked this speech from American History X. Whatever you think about politics, ask yourself, "has anything I've done made my life better?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgIMuTELzXI
Yes, becoming an anti Semite made my life exponentially better. Would love to see you actually address things, rather than what was seen in the above article.
Having read your other comments, I can actually believe that becoming a Nazi might be a step up from whatever you were before.
Except, that is, for the successful demagogues, who may gain immense adoration and personal power from those who believe their fantasies. Pray that the Trevor Goodchilds do not multiply more than they already have.
I don't want to pile on, but his doesn't strike me as a personality that lends itself to multiplication.
Not biologically, perhaps, but the potential rewards for making it big (as Hitler did) seem to be attracting larger numbers to join the trend. I found this article interesting some months ago: https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/politics-current-affairs/2023/06/from-coy-to-goy/
It was written in mid 2023, and the author is worried about Nick Fuentes and Kanye West being the biggest threats to Jews. I had to look him up to see if he wasn't the head of Mossad at the time.
"Hamas, nah, what are they going to do? I'm telling you, Ye is the active threat!"
The “Jewish Cabal” conspiracy theory is just the “systemic racism” delusion of the right. Both delusions result from wrongly attributing disparate group outcomes to a discriminatory or privileging “system” -i.e. the “Jewish conspiracy” or “white supremacy” - when in fact the disparate group outcomes are caused by cultural and genetic differences.
Jews are disproportionately represented in positions of power and influence because they have higher average and top-end IQs compared with other groups, along with a culture that values intellectual pursuits and delayed gratification. They tend to skew liberal because they tend to be urban cognitive elites and urban cognitive elites tend to skew liberal.
The belief that there is a conspiracy is just Kendi-style failure to understand the true causes of disparate group outcomes plus Kendi-style racial resentment. It’s a tremendously bad look for the dissident right that serves only to reinforce people’s worst stereotypes and push away those who are starting to understand the extent of the insanity and villainy on the left.
* Note that I am not equating conspiracy theories in general with the systemic racism delusion, as the Konstantin Kisin types were doing a few weeks ago. Powerful people conspire against ordinary people to increase their wealth and power. The intelligence community is engaged in full-fledged information warfare against we the people. Some of the people involved in these conspiracies are Jewish (eg Soros). The Israel lobby has considerable influence over US foreign policy. But there is no “Jewish conspiracy,” I.e. a conspiracy by a cabal of specifically Jews to advance specifically Jewish interests that is responsible for the things that make you mad.
'Jews are disproportionately represented in positions of power and influence because they have higher average and top-end IQs compared with other groups, along with a culture that values intellectual pursuits and delayed gratification. They tend to skew liberal because they tend to be urban cognitive elites and urban cognitive elites tend to skew liberal.'
oh I think there's a little more to it than that.
Do Chuck Schumer, Anthony Weiner, Madelaine Albright, Victoria Nuland, Bill Kristol etc. strike you as having particularly high intelligence? There's obviously something else going on.
I'm sure all of them score well on tests (especially Chuck Schumer). They can do calculus and read and write academic-tier books. They are fully mentally equipped to solve complex problems, plan ahead, and manage large projects. More importantly for their careers, they are the sort of people who have had their personalities fully trimmed for ascension in a managerial system- morally gray, willing to sacrifice others, and ultimately loyal only to the managerial elite class (not Judaism). David Horowitz talked about this in his memoir, the wish that assimilated Jews have to dissolve their Jewishness into a wider secular sphere. For his family, it was communism. For the neocons and neoliberals, it's America- not as an existing nation but as an idea. They're not disloyal as such. It's that their concept of what it is to be American is less emotional than ideological. America is a set of propositions to which one assents. This is why they thought the War on Terror would work; it was simply a matter of getting the Iraqis and Afghans to nod to 'liberty.' Israel, for them, is valuable less as a Jewish state than as an example of the West's ability to transmute its internal 'aliens' into good secular Enlightenment liberal democrats. They despise the Hasidim and other traditionalists as obscurantists, useful sometimes but ultimately just like the Evangelicals they have to pretend to like.
Their limitations are not intellectual, they're imaginative. For all the supposed cosmopolitanism of their urban environments they are remarkably obtuse in understanding their own countrymen and while they're good managers they're terrible leaders. It's why they missed the Hamas buildup in Israel despite checking all the boxes with their intelligence procedures. It's why they missed Trump, and why they'll miss whoever comes next.
“Probably you're more familiar with their works than I am, so sure--but are they as bright as you would expect considering their massive overrepresentation in the elite?”
This is a misunderstanding. A group with a higher average IQ will have disproportionate representation in cognitively demanding professions. That doesn’t mean the individuals from that group will be smarter than their colleagues. It just means a higher percentage of that group will be above the threshold needed to gain entry into and succeed in the profession.
And the smartest Jews aren’t in politics. They’re winning Nobel prizes or becoming billionaires. Which they do at astonishing rates, because the far right tail of their IQ bell curve is further right than that of other groups, and they have the cultural values and traditions to capitalize on it.
I’m not arguing this case because I think Jews are especially awesome (full disclosure: I’m 25% Ashkenazi/75% Euro mutt). As a cultural group, their political beliefs (which I was broadly raised with) are pretty shitty. Groups like AIPAC and the ADL suck. Soros is a blight on humanity. There’s plenty to criticize there.
I’m just arguing this case because it’s reality.
Jewish success is just the flip side of the failures of other groups. Like differences between individuals, differences between groups are the result of nature and nurture, genetics and culture. Just as there is no “white cis hetero patriarchy” conspiracy keeping the “marginalized” down, so too is there no nefarious conspiracy propping the Jews up. They’re just overall smarter and harder working. Deal with it. Leave the politics of racial grievance and resentment to the leftists. It’s a bad look. The (broadly speaking) dissident right should be better.
'there no nefarious conspiracy propping the Jews up'
I didn't say there was. But there is ethnic nepotism. The question is how important it is--relative to intelligence, assiduousness and whatever else you want to invoke--in the disproportionate success of Jewish mediocrities in e.g. politics. As you say, these people are hardly the intellectual elite, of their group or the polity as a whole, yet as a grpup they are *still* overrepresented.
'Leave the politics of racial grievance and resentment to the leftists.'
No grievance here, merely curiosity.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13381631/Jared-Bernstein-Biden-economic-adviser-fails-explain-money-works.html
The video in this article, where Biden's economic advisor can't explain where the US money supply comes from or why, deflated any expectations of even test problem solving intelligence from the political elite. He would barely make it out of Finance 101 with an answer like he gave here.
At this point I'm almost convinced that a random lotto to choose political staff would at least get it accidentally right more often than it is now.
The simple and truthful answer is that it is largely immaterial and conjured out of thin air, in as large or small a quantity as the banks desire--and yet it is loaned at interest. Is it any wonder that he wouldn't/couldn't explain?
I *notice* his name is Bernstein. IS THIS ACCIDENT? He is not merely deliberately untruthful but also obviously of something like middling intelligence. Is there nobody among the goyim who could do the same 'job' more 'competently'?
Alright I realise it's tone-deaf and LoW StATuS to say this but...
- 'I'm sure all of them score well on tests (especially Chuck Schumer). They can do calculus and read and write academic-tier books. They are fully mentally equipped to solve complex problems, plan ahead, and manage large projects.'
Probably you're more familiar with their works than I am, so sure--but are they as bright as you would expect considering their massive overrepresentation in the elite?
- 'For his family, it was communism. For the neocons and neoliberals, it's America- not as an existing nation but as an idea. They're not disloyal as such. It's that their concept of what it is to be American is less emotional than ideological. America is a set of propositions to which one assents.'
Communism and America-as-pure-idea are both aggressively subversive ideologies which at their core are accommodating of 'minorities', and as such I don't think it's an accident that they were/are popular with THESE PEOPLE.
- 'David Horowitz talked about this in his memoir, the wish that assimilated Jews have to dissolve their Jewishness into a wider secular sphere.'
Well he WOULD say that, wouldn't he? The bit he left out is that the 'wider secular sphere' was irrevocably (and maybe deliberately--but this is probably the essence of disagreements between your view and mine) changed by their immersion in it.
- 'This is why they thought the War on Terror would work; it was simply a matter of getting the Iraqis and Afghans to nod to 'liberty.' Israel, for them, is valuable less as a Jewish state than as an example of the West's ability to transmute its internal 'aliens' into good secular Enlightenment liberal democrats.'
See I don't think this is the way they think. It's Straussian, you know?
- 'For all the supposed cosmopolitanism of their urban environments they are remarkably obtuse in understanding their own countrymen.'
Sure THEIR urban environments are not particularly cosmopolitan, especially these days. They're narrow suburbanites par excellence, probably accounting in part for the dullness of Bill vs. Irving Kristol. I agree completely with the second part of the clause.
- 'while they're good managers they're terrible leaders. It's why they missed the Hamas buildup in Israel despite checking all the boxes with their intelligence procedures.'
Yes and in this respect they are indistinguishable from the bueaucratic-managerical class as a whole--but not, I maintain, in other respects.
This is the sort of thing that had me trying to convert open minded progressives into populists instead of engaging with existing populists back in the day.
It was only after the progressives went into full on Maoist mode that I decided do a WTF and try to get existing populists to stop blaming Joos for everything and realize that the baddies have been winning by default -- conspiracy or not.
That, and the rise of truly respectable intellectual populists here on Substack...
Anyone who says "joos" is being silly and not addressing the far right's actual views. Meander some more!
I am a silly person. Read my stuff. A mixture of entertainment and enlightenment.
Thanks for this, Libcel! Our full statement is forthcoming, but this was very, very much appreciated.
"And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." - James 3:18
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." - Confucius
Thank you, Librarian, for making peace. We can never hope to avail against enemies without if we don't have peace within.
Maaaaaan... Librarian, lemme tell ya something: I don't know much about the Jews or these Friekorps kids or any of that. But, what I do know... is that Aeon Flux was an AMAZING show.
You know, I forgot all about it until I looked up the Trevor Goodchild reference.
Remember Lexx?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFoP-vijbJo
Season 4 of Lexx is some of the funniest sci-fi ever. Especially the Canadian Total Regulation Commission.
Hopefully Denis Villeneuve will get $300 million and make a big budget movie version with Sidney Sweeny as Zev and Timothee Chalumet as Kai. Oscars all around.
Holy Shiiii--I had totally forgotten about that show until I clicked that link! What a glorious time for German-Canadian psychedelic sci-fi television! I miss those days. The effects reminded me of Wing Commander 4 haha. Now I have to go back and binge Aeon Flux AND Lexx!
And I'll always remember Aeon Flux because it also introduced me to the term "Demiurge."
I've come to think of Goodchild & Co. as a cost of doing business. There's not much to do about der Gammafuhrers (I'm stealing it), and not much of a need to. They are boring, repetitive, as predictable as sunrise. Most will burn out or expose themselves eventually, bleed engagement, hit rock bottom, whine and cry for attention, scream "nigger", "kike" and "faggot" with diminishing returns, etc.
Maybe this will trigger an epiphany for some of them down the road, but that's none of our concern.
We have bigger fish to fry.
It’s like women on OF; they realize there’s something outré they can do for attention and so they go all in for a while, then spend the next ten years hoping no one ever Googles them.
I'm a contrarian centrist (a label that sounds stupid, but is accurate) but I'll freely admit that a lot of writers in the loosely aggregated New Right are fantastic writers, capable of crafting critiques that are both incisive and insightful.
Morgthorak, though, writes great prose - but a lot of what he writes just seems unhinged. He is long on rhetoric but short on evidence; maybe I've missed his best work, but I don't think I've ever seen him produce any actual new insights into anything. If I were on his team I'd put him into the "morally right but loose with facts" bucket the left likes to use for it's most overeager foot soldiers but I'm not, so I can't even give him that.
The more nonsense I read from these conspiracy writers the more I'm convinced they really don't know the first thing about what's going on. It's like they stole a ride on the train, but got off three stops from the what's going on station, then dropped into a trendy coffee shop and wrote up an argument as they watched others walk by the window dressed for action. "Stick with me comrades as we prepare to battle the Zionistas!"
Someone please tell them it's 2024; time to leave mama's basement.
oh G_D
"Jews Run the World"...
I mean, if they genuinely were as 'Powerful' as many seem to think, they would not be getting their 5 million USD Tanks blown to bits by weapons systems costing about 100-300 USD tops.
It's more a matter of Muslim & Westerner Weakness than it is Zionist Strength. At least, that is the conclusion myself & others have come to. Excellent work on this Well Written article!
Thank you very much.
I'm genuinely surprised that the moment they're not pointing a gun or bomb at women, children, the elderly, people fleeing, people trying to eat food and drink water, they get their asses completely handed to them by a ragtag group of essentially orphan jihadis (Hamas is significantly comprised of orphans.) I mean the footage shows they're absolutely incompetent cowards. TBF Hamas is on their own turf but if they were in "Israel" proper I think we'd be seeing similar kinds of battles. The IDF is as I've heard it, an airforce with a tiktok division..
Hey. This is extraordinarily unfair to my Hero Beetlejuice.
He was competent, asked to do a job, did, and was double crossed by Boomer Liberals.
We need Beetlejuice’s now more than ever.
Frankly, the Boomers involved were clearly just jealous of his practical success, a pure exercise in Credentialism.
There’s a post to be written about how Beetlejuice was actually the good guy. Winona Ryder could have done a lot worse (and did).
Thank you.
BTW She snuck out and banged him on the side. Of course she did.
YEAH WINONA RYDER CHECK EARLY LIFE
Great article. Personally I don't think we have any stake in this fight between Israel and Palestine. My problems with Jewish people are that they don't accept Christ and that some of the elite aren't so great, but every race has a bad elite now. I pray that this war ends soon and that they open their hearts to Christ.
P.S. I agree modern nationalism is liberal in origin, but the idea of a collection of people made of different families who are proud of their heritage and are hard working is something I can get behind.
yeah agreed. I don't think forming an "us/them" distinction around common language/religion/history/land is liberalism
I don't have a dog in this fight, and will only say that if only we fiction authors attracted so much attention as the infighting between these two did. Oh well, on the bright side this was a superb article, and I would remind people of one Jew everyone loves; Stan Lee. Proof that you can be Jewish, friendly, warm and beloved by everyone.
So, I know this comment is off-topic, but in the article, you mentioned something about being a monarchist.
Gotta admit... that one's a bit of a head-scratcher.
It's got me curious as to why, though? You might've already written about your views on a monarchial government, which I didn't see. But, in case you haven't, that would be a fascinating topic for for you to cover in an upcoming essay.
Even if we disagree, you'll certainly have an interesting point-of-view, for me to consider. All the best, my dude.
I’ll get into it in a full essay at some point. As a reactionary, I reject liberalism in all its forms. I think the Enlightenment gave the world a running series of disasters papered over by technological innovation. We are alienated from organic forms of life because of all this, and I think a course correction is in order.
Now, THAT is one spicy take, hahaha...
I look forward to grappling with those ideas, whenever you do get around to writing that essay. It'll be a pretty wild read, if nothing else.
Meantime, be well.