This book attempts to light a fire under a lost and broken generation, and teach that generation to reject all the soul-sucking vices, traps and prisons of modernity. It sends you down countless rabbit holes--Luis de Camoes, Anna Comnena, Anatoly Fomenko, Conradin, Herotodus, Charles Oman, and others--and thus pays intellectual dividends in ways you wouldn't expect.
However, I recommend this book only to readers who can give this author a lot of rope both for how he writes and what he writes. If you are easily offended or cannot handle ideas with which you disagree... stay away. You'll just break your e-reader.
Think of the writing of Nietszche, with all its force, combined with the writing of a still mostly sane Philip K. Dick, both of whom look at the world a lot differently than you and I do. And keep in mind this author tends to write in walls of text, with typos, grammatical errors and, occasionally, with incoherence. One gets the impression that English isn't his first language, and judging by his tendency to drop articles (a, an, the) I'd guess he could be from somewhere in Eastern Europe.
In the post-modern era we are potty-trained to to marginalize anything that contains even the slightest whiff of sexism, racism, antisemitism, etc. If you're this kind of reader, again, stay away: this book contains all of the -isms and then some. Finally, if there might be any reputational risk for you in reading this book (imagine if your employer, spying on your social media activity for indications of wrongthink, finds this book on your Goodreads "Want To Read" list), then definitely stay away. You have a more pressing problem anyway: find a better job.
Let me say it once again: you will have to meet this author halfway. Actually, more like most of the way. He's got some things he needs to say, and many of those things need to be said.
[Once again, a friendly warning to readers: do not read any further. The notes below are just my copy-pastes and notes from the text, they are meant to help me arrange and order my thoughts, responses and in some cases disagreements with the author. Life is short: please read no further!]
Notes:
Prologue:
3: "If you look around [the] eyes of some people you see a kind of demented energy. It's pure anger or lust for power with nothing more... these people have an inhuman gaze and are vehicles for something else... You see it in the dead robot eyes of the new hue-man automatons running government departments, the DMV, the brutal zombies running the security in airports or hospital 'health care' rooms under vicious yellow fluorescent lights." [In the photo below of the CDC's Mandy Cohen we see a standard example of "crazy eyes." Note if you cover the lower part of her face and look solely at her eyes, her eyes are not smiling: rather they give off an expression of fear, perhaps even terror.]
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5: "...ours is an age of surfeit." Life is too easy today, we are feminized, weak.
Part One: The Flame of Life
8: "The most noble animals refuse to breed in captivity."
8: "Schopenhauer refers with contempt to the people who have their 'catalogues of monkeys' and think they understand nature. Darwin himself, Nietzsche called him a petty mind, the kind of calculator who likes to collect many small facts and synthesize some clumsy theory."
9: The reader learns the term "Bug-man."
10ff: On flaws in evolutionary theory [note also that the specific evolutionary mechanism of natural selection, as helpfully and elegantly as co-discoverers Darwin and Wallace formulate it, requires many epicycles to remain explanatory. See also Vox Day's fascinating mathematical argument that natural selection cannot possibly be the only driver of the speciation that has occurred over time: there are too many genetic fixings and not enough geological time for them all to happen; thus natural selection can only be a partial explanation for evolution.]
13: "...the modern education, that teaches women to be hyper-aware, anxious for the future, abstract neurotics, etc., actually takes away their power to a great degree, while tricking them into thinking they are being tough or sassy; but a hyper-conscious woman is made powerless and charmless."
13: "Darwin is meaningless without Malthus, but this is why Nietzsche is right about both of them when he says they describe only life in England, or more precisely the England of that time."
15: On peoples who refuse to be enslaved, who would rather die instead (e.g,. the Comanche, the Polynesians) as opposed to peoples who willingly endure slavery, but do so at a monstrous price: "For this reason Nietzsche say[s], noble peoples do not endure slavery, they're either free or they die out. There is no 'adaptation' to slavery for some types of life. What is that people, who has chosen survival at any price? The price they paid was monstrous and such a people becomes monstrous and distorted if it accepts this. The distinction between master races and the rest is simple and true, Hegel said it, copying Heraclitus: those peoples who choose death rather than slavery or submission in a confrontation, that is a people of masters."
21: Reference here to author/nutritionist Ray Peat, who is among people "treated as cranks" for their [non-narrative-approved] inquiries into the body's processes.
24: On the category error of sacrificing the body to perfect the mind: "What of the mind then? Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. Those who forget the body to pursue a 'perfect mind' or 'perfect soul' have no idea where to even start. Only physical beauty is the foundation for a true higher culture of the mind and spirit as well. Only sun and steel will show you the path."
24-5: On the "onanism of modern society": "[A] chimp in [a] state of nature never jerks off, but in captivity he does, wat[sic] does this mean? In state of nature he's too busy, to put plainly. He is concerned with mastering space: solving problem of life in and under trees, mastering what tools he can, mastering social relations in the jockeying for power and status. Deprived of this drive to development and self-increase he devolves to pointless masturbation, in captivity, where he senses he is in owned space and therefore the futility of all his efforts and all his actions."
25: Interesting take here: "Life in owned space becomes drained of energy through low-grade pointless titillation--and nofap is a kind of cargo cult that tries to reestablish energy in order, on path of ascent. Sometimes, however, it's a successful cargo cult, but whether it works or no can be seen usually within a week. The unfortunate thing about all this is that w*m*n have exceptionally good antennae for this kind of thing, and when a man frees himself from these pressures... they see this from very far away. They have an instinct to seek out ascending life and drain it... they and the species thereby achieve their goals, but you are bled dry and sometimes left a husk. They revert life back to its irritated state, and by their drainage of vital essence they've laid low many great tasks."
26-7: On "holes" in society: prostitution, drugs, perversion etc: "The truth is that they are allowing these 'holes' because they, or the people who crafted the fabric in which the masters of lies operate, are smart enough to know you need these 'free spaces': they are of great use to a manipulator. See how the Japanese, so famed for their love of law and order, have nevertheless always allowed the yakuza to operate running prostitution and meth rings and even worse. Such things have a serious function in Japanese society, as the mafia and other institutions have had in Western society... [in this world of shadows] you might almost forget suffocating air of gravity outside, and feel for a few minutes like [an] animal before moment of hunt."
28: On the development of society, agriculture: "...the majority of mankind suffered terribly also in their bodies from the coming of agriculture, the backbreaking labor, the malnourishment that shows itself in the smaller stature and more slender build of farmers' skeletons, of the destruction of their teeth, the atrophy of their brains and other organs. Agriculture allowed a steady food source, an increase in numbers, and above all the maintenance of an elite, free from these exactions, that lived parasitically on the many. But agriculture broke the human animal and domesticated him."
29: On alcohol intoxication: "I've often wondered at these times what it would be like, and how blessed life would be, if I could feel [intoxicated by alcohol] this way all the time and not just when I drink, and also never pay the price for it. Alcohol should never, by the way, be used for stress relief because after it crashes, and even the next day, there is a rise in cortisol so that unpleasant feelings become worse."
29-30: Now onto math/logic: proof by syllogism/reason vs mathematicians or physicists "feeling" physical or mathematical relations. "Compare the Euclidian proof of the Pythagorean theorem, based on syllogism, which helps you understand nothing that's actually going on, with the imagistic proof of the three squares, that makes you perceive, physically perceive even in your body, why this theorem is true."
30: Gauss' famous quote: "I got it... Now I have to get it." He felt the relation but now has to transmit it to others in a far more inferior language. "All great scientific discoveries, supposedly the great works of 'reason,' are in fact the result of intuitions and sudden grasp of ideas."
31: [Ouch here, but he's right, modern people think of technology and science not too differently from primitive man, it's basically magic to us, and yet we have a lot more epistemic arrogance about it! At least primitive man knew he didn't understand it]: "The modern peasant just replaces the artificial prejudices of superstitions and village old wives' tales with the superstitions of science, which he receives ready-made from authorities among the popularizers of science. He loves them because of the creature comforts he believes they provide through technology. He is a cargo cultist--he knows nothing of what goes into the discoveries of science, nor the way the substance is transmitted among scientists, he just has a propagandized image of some of the results... Science as popular religion brings no true consolation but instead feeds a kind of false pride..." "It actually makes the many more servile to the authorities who are presumed to understand and manipulate the technology."
33-4: Now we are suddenly on to atheism: "Sam Harris, and Hitchens, and the 'new atheists,' there's nothing really new--they want to banish not just religion from public life, but to enter your own mind and replace whatever vestiges of old organized religions are there with their own very stupid organized religion. If they have an easy time of it, this is because monotheism overreached."
34: "[Camille] Paglia said once that the real novelty of the one God was that he spoke the world into existence. How different this was from all other creation myths! All pagans knew the world was eternal, and that its present condition was a result of cycles of birth, rebirth, regeneration, copulation...
34: The idea of a deity or creator that lives outside of matter, and created it from nothing "seems and feels wrong, or runs against the immediate perception of the world, so it requires faith, a concept unknown to ancient pagans of all kinds."
35: "The weakness and spinelessness of modern man--no god would show himself to such creatures, to be jeered at! Why?... The true gods have a kind of power, but not the kind the many imagine. Why should they care for mankind? They are rare and precious, and it is for man to find, acknowledge, and honor them. This, at least, was the ancient view."
38: On confusing your "self" with your intellect: "...if you love someone only for what they know or remember...everyone knows this is a betrayal because that's not who you are."
40: On the tremendous dangers of comfort-seeking, both for the individual and (more critically) for society: "...unfortunately in the long run the development of civilization and comfort leads to the proliferation of damaged life, the innovation of mankind leads to unspeakable abortions of life, and men on the periphery who want to preserve the natural order begin to plot the end of everything."
40ff: On AI: "could one [an AI] hunt, or survive being hunted? In other words we think of AI in a totally narrow sense, and it really can't do what humans do, it never will. See also the "imbecility" of "the belief that you can 'upload' your intelligence to a computer and attain immortality" The author groups this with the "power fantasy of the nerd."
41: Page 41 alone is enough to brand this book "anti-Semitic."
41: "The nerd can be described as a person of inelegant and pedantic intelligence, often middling intelligence, who takes excessive pride in the intellect, even in the memorization of facts, the design of clumsy concepts to which reality is then expected to fit like [the] bed of Procrustes." [Nerd = midwit here.]
42: Also on the "nerd" craving prestige, gain, credibility; his activity is thus "forced"; "In men of intellect the desire for prestige is often the most disgusting, especially when there's no native manliness, because this leads to cowardice and lies, to others and oneself. For this reason Nietzsche said manliness is the first requirement of the philosopher..."
43: "Youth and beauty are universally hated in almost all human societies in history. These societies are run by decrepit, sclerotic old men... Other times they promote ugliness in all ways: ugliness and perversity in custom, scarification, circumcision, self-mutilation."
45: "Among the Greeks the man of power was called aner, who was different from the other word used, anthropos, which referred just to some shadow-being, indistinct, some kind of humanoid shape. The real man was rare, and most males were not and are not real men! The word in [the] beginning was used only for demigods and superhumans like Achilles or Diomedes or Odysseus."
Part Two: Parable of Iron Prison
48: "When you put some kind of working dog, like [a] terrier, even [a] cute Jack Russell in [a] city apartment, they will start to try to dig through the floor. This mode is inborn to them, they seek the development of their powers, and there are very few sadder things than to see [an] animal thwarted like this. Playing at becoming itself, but reduced to a doll and useless acting. Carl Schmitt said, “They've put us out to pasture.” This is the condition of life in [the] modern world." [Carl Schmitt: German jurist, political theorist, and prominent member of the Nazi Party.]
49: "Houellebecq, whose explanations of the sexual problem of modernity, of the incel--all of these explanations are amazing and true, but even he is just following Nietzsche."
49ff: Speculations on the origins of the modern flamboyant homosexual, or "queen" as the author puts it. Borrowing and combining ideas from Camille Paglia as well as a pseudonymous author Harro MJ to arrive at this quote: "It is not horseplay or the roughness of male competition as such that makes him turn away, but the utterly fake or artificial character of such displays, usually, in our time. Such [a] boy perceives what his peers don't, the conditional and entirely dependent character of life in our age. It is not the masculinity, the competition for status among men, the physical roughness, that makes him turn away... but the fact that all such play is happening in already owned space. It is this aspect of our time that is crucial to understand."
50: Interesting parenthetical thoughts about knowledge: "When I speak of something like owned space, it must not remain [a] mere word. When you understand something: I mean you must see and feel it like you would a landscape you know from youth, how to navigate all its nooks, the different heights of earth, the banks of streams, where the trees are and how it feels inside them, how long it takes walking from this or that group of beech to the abandoned factory, so that the map is already in your body. This is [the] only way to really understand something."
51: "Roman teenagers of patrician class were sent already on missions on behalf of Empire abroad. Modern adult Western male seeks permission to watch other men playing sports, quaff vegetable oil relish, beg for 'coochie' in simulated intercourse, masturbation with plastic on dick... a precocious type of boy who seeks real development and the real domination of the space around him, who understands in his blood that play and manliness are to this end, precisely such a boy will have his expectations about life crushed and thwarted as soon as his eyes open."
52: "In becoming 'gay' he believes he is escaping that sense of primal limitation and subjection that he felt as a small boy: he has reinterpreted his entire drama as a maudlin story of sexuality suppressed or oppressed by retrograde social and political norms. In this he becomes an unwitting pawn himself of the very power that as a young boy he had intuited to be the enemy..."
52: "And this brings up the question of who or what this force is. I think the answer to this problem isn't so simple, but one feature of this new condition in modern age is that the masters are hidden. That is even why this condition of subjection seems so suffocating, because they hide, and so there is no opportunity for open and manly challenge." [Interesting to see references to the "behind-the-behind-the-scenes power" here, as well as in three recently reviewed books at this site.]
54: "Look at [a] litter of pups, of whatever species, some will be inquisitive, playful, seek to experiment, to push boundaries, to leave [the] gaze of parents and the old, to conquer space; others will be far more docile and will lack curiosity. The only ones who survive the modern education 'whole,' not to speak of the regime of modern medication, are precisely those in the litter who are born docile."
55: On foolishly admiring "old" civilizations like those of Asia or the Near East.
56: Withering comments here on the Koran: "...the Koran is, as Schopenhauer claimed, a tedious book of wretched, repetitive stupidity, with not a single new idea in it, 'the poorest form of theism.' Unfortunately this is sufficient for the level of most people's religious needs."
57ff: On Buddhism as an escape from the city, from the fetid, suffocating city: "The Buddha became a world-denier in the city--look at his conversion, what drove him to it! It is the injustice but above all the filth, the disgusting suffocation of city life, the vision of life degraded and under distress, that led him to his escape... he said, 'the home is a place of filth.' And what was this escape, after all, but just an attempt to re-establish the freedom and openness of the steppe, where man can once again be what he was born to be?"
58: On the contrast of European cities vs the rest of the world: "In such way you must also understand 'the West,' or actually the city of the West. The small, orderly city of the north Italians, the German and Swiss cities Machiavelli praises for how well-run they are, this is entirely alien to the Orient..."
76: "I have no doubt your religions are true, but can you be sure some vicious faction didn't insert itself into the hierarchy of priests some time ago, or of religious authorities, or of book printers, and insert all kinds of things that weren't there to begin with? For example, all Old Slavonic copies of the Bible in Russia used to have heavy Gnostic interpolations. This explains the multitude of such sects that sprung up there... how do you think the Cathars found such currency in north Italy, in the Rhineland? It wasn't just a new teaching, but very old practices and old formulas that found a ready home among a population long prepared to receive them. ...Islam could very well be such a forgery: the Koran is a mishmash of nonsense, and possibly was originally a Syriac Christian devotional book that was re-edited much later. Mohammed was their name for Christ, and the faith originally was a version of Nestorianism that was spread by the Persian king, not by Arabs."
60: "Aristotle says Greeks are different from north Europeans and the Orientals. The Asian is civilized but slavish; the European barbarian is uncivilized, unlearned, but free. In this formula [it] is assumed Aristotle believed in a 'balance' between these two extremes, and that Greeks were better because they were the 'median' between these two deficient extremes." See also 12th century Byzantine historian Anna Comnena in her history The Alexiad, writing about her horror and fascination with western crusader/barbarians, in awe of their handsomeness, intelligence and bravery; see Herotodus praising and admiring the Scythians (Europeans) for how they outwitted the Persians (Asians).
61ff: On the Greeks' longing for freedom and avoidance of the slavishness of the Asian/Persian; On the European city which in modernity has found a balance between nature/freedom and civiliation; on "bugmen" [NPC types who this author believes are modern descendants of serfdom from prior eras] who want to impose smaller cities/integral communities to "save the planet" but it will only be a vehicle for them to impose a quasi-marxism on people; the author notes also that the Sierra Club used to be anti-mass immigration because of the strains it imposed on nature; on the delusion that if we retrogressed or froze technology it would benefit the environment, etc.
65: "I don't think we live just in some impersonal emergent mechanism, a 'system' that entraps everyone, something like 'managerialism,' or 'post-industrial ennui.' I think all of this was consciously crafted. It's possible much of known history is falsified. Nietzsche among many others hinted at this."
66: Odd tangent here on ultra-wealthy people: the author talks about a Rockefeller woman he once knew, who "had only contempt for the known rich who have to walk with retinues and bodyguards and are under constant surveillance by media and others." On freedom and power, living without constraint; see the movie Mulholland Drive for a metaphorical treatment of the "demented schemes."
66: "Someone wore green gloves in Hong Kong." [WTF with this non-sequitur?]
67: "In fact even Middle Ages man lived with more lust for life, even more sexual lust, than the modern: he worked less also. Most of the year there were feast days. There was the minimum amount of work done possible to have enough crops and to pay the taxes, that were relatively small. Most modern men hardly have the property of the medieval freeholder."
68: Intriguing quote here: "The most significant of these “telepathic” connections is indeed when two such people, supremely suitable for each other on a biological path, recognize in each other this inner intention or striving of nature for the production of something--of course they think it’s about something very different. In the normal case this is almost always man and woman, for production of a certain child, that nature wants to bring into emergence. But on rare cases there can be other reasons for similar connection in will, such as, two friends who are intended to achieve some task together. “We reach out with open arms in anticipation of satisfying our desire or delusion, meanwhile nature achieves her secret intention.”
70: "All real thoughts come only when you walk outside, standing up, in fresh air: I knew this long before I was made aware of it through Nietzsche, who says you should distrust any thoughts you've had indoors."
70: Interesting comments here about various oppressions and power plays by various people on the "plantation" in modernity: the author describes a waitress trying to take away his coffee mug when he wasn't done, etc.
71: "Traffic lights train you to obedience like animal in cage, especially at night when there are no other cars around." [Interesting here too, a conflict of vision: the west is high-trust, his criticism of the third world is exactly what is reversed here: the westerner who the author thinks has the chance to be free is exactly the type of person who would obey the red light when no one else is around!]
71-2: "Some talk about this 'madness behind things.' ... When Heraclitus speaks of all things being one, and all things being fire, he means this: when this actually shows itself to you, there is a demoniac and violent madness underlying things. The real world is similar to the apparent, but uncanny, devilish, disordered for us. Its hidden order, the fatal X behind things, reaches for things and aims beyond our scope as humans... Its origin and happenings and its fate is in the play and war of the most gruesome factions, forgotten gods... to them we're like stowaway rats on a ship."
73: Comments here on religious worldviews: the Hebrew faith fundamentally based on "saw that it was good"; Islam likewise; Hinduism and Buddhism see the world as something you must escape; [see also this quote: "But also, if you imagine the pleasure of an animal eating versus the pain and agony of the animal being eaten, you can't be fooled ...you see that suffering exceeds pleasure or happiness in this world, by many magnitudes."]; "Gnosticism is driven by the problem of suffering, or compassion for those who suffer, and tries to absolve God of responsibility for this state of things."
74: "Sometimes [Gnosticism] says the God of the Bible was put to sleep, or imprisoned himself, or that he is bound with chains of adamantine and kept in a cage, and that a usurper took his place. Other times it says that the God described in Genesis isn't the real God, but a demiurge, and the real God sent his emissary Jesus to overturn the rule of this demiurge.There are many variations, and some interject not one demiurge, but ninety-nine, all to remove responsibility from the Godhead for the creation of this world of evil. They should have just become Buddhist or Hindu and stopped trying to save the mythology of Canaan!"
75: On the fact that the entire known world is now settled, there's no escape, no place to go for adventures. Domestication has been imposed on everyone by the state, etc. "It is the very character of domestic life to present the world as an enclosed owned space, and, although mankind adapts itself on the whole to this condition, both biologically and culturally, yet there remains a glimmer of the opposite tendency inside even the lowliest. He can't help but experience this new state of things in late civilizations except with dread, the dread suspicion... an uncanny suspicion... that the world is artificial. He begins to sense that this hothouse he lives in is the malevolent creation of a demiurge that likes to observe our sufferings, that He and his minions feed on them. In the remote future, should the evil of human innovation continue unchecked, we really will live in the world the Gnostics feared..."
76: "But do you have any idea how speculative the conclusions drawn from archaeology are in general? Just read, for example, the kind of 'evidence' they used to establish horse-riding on the great steppe before 1000 BC--a few, maybe not even five or six, bones that seemed to look like bits."
77: "Look at Thucydides, who is a great man and a genius of the ages: he seeks to outdo Herodotus, and this pattern is followed throughout all antiquity. Each great historian was setting out to outdo his predecessor as a rival. Do you think they made some things up? How much do you think then that the scholar, the scribe, the vain 'monk'--the 'nerd' as a type--is likely to lie? They will lie far more than you think... the nerd more than a Thucydides is possessed by infinitely greater mendacity and also vanity, jealousy, spite and pettiness. Don't you think such people, who, for the longest time in the form of the monk were the only keepers and copiers of texts from antiquity, don't you think they would be willing to change the text, to add, and even to make up entire books and authors? Corroborations from 'third sources' would be relatively easy to manufacture as well. ...Much of antiquity could have been invented by sects or orders of Christians or even Jews, to make it look like their contrived and artificial, utilitarian religions had some basis in human nature or were anticipated by wise men in the past."
78: "Every new form of life among mankind seeks to blot out the memory of its predecessors, to rewrite the history, and maybe does so literally, corrupting the texts themselves." [You can't help but think here of the famous two photos of Stalin with, and without, Nikolai Yezhov]:
78: "[Saint] Augustine is almost surely a complete fiction, and there never was any such man--his pidgin 'Greek' is nonsense in that area to begin with, and is rather the makeshift Greek of the medieval monk, maybe living somewhere in Burgundy."
78-9: Even wilder theories here! The New Testament was written by a Jewish woman in an effort to overturn Roman life and "Roman privilege"... with this in mind then "Does this sound familiar in our own time, when monstrous historical hoaxes... including the so-called and entirely fake 'Cold War,' during which the United States was funding and arming the Soviet Union the whole time?"
79: On the ludic need for things to be "known" and how people can't handle the discomfort of questioning what they know. "Such speculations are the opposite of comforting, especially in a world where the consolations and certainty of religion are rare. History has somewhat taken the place that religion had, I mean to provide stability to a world that is otherwise lost in complete confusion and chaos and uncertainty."
79: "I want this chaos, because what I want to bring thrives in it." [Here perhaps is the central idea of a Bronze Age mindset: loving chaos, loving the lack of structure, seeing the "structure" of modernity as just another prison, an "owned space," and figuring a way to break out of this prison somehow, etc.]
79: Rabbit hole right here with the work of Anatoly Fomenko and his phantom time hypothesis and the [insane-sounding] assertion that the Crusades and the Trojan War were the same event. [???]
81: On the lie of the "noble savage"; the author cites the Samoans "punking" Margaret Mead: "most of the things she wrote about their views on life, about their sexual freedom, was nonsense they made up to make her look foolish."
81-2: Ironies of assuming matriarchies in the leftist's vision of the noble past when this couldn't possibly be the case; but also the paradox that modernity actually does have a sort of matriarchy: "When many of you moderns pine for 'communal living,' and talk about inter-generational households... you seem to forget that this would mean subjection to a strong-willed Dragon or Gorgon lady. The modern girl, when she pines for the community of the pre-modern extended family imagines that she gets from it the emotional and social support of her female cousins, and a crew of servants in the grandmothers, not the reality... which is utter subjection to the mother-in-law... In the end then the 'left' is more correct: the worship of the titanic powers of the earth, of the Great Mother, is connected to a kind of matriarchy, but where they're wrong is in imagining that this leads to any kind of freedom, that it represents a kind of liberation from the strictures of modern civilization..."
83: The problem of the young male: "Communal solidarity absorbs and snuffs out any personal distinction or intelligence and this task is relatively easy where it concerns the majority of the parts of the village: the real problem becomes what to do with the young males. In every way they represent a threat to the established customs and the physiological torpor that benefits the old and the women. The social problem in primitive tribes as well as most civilized and unfree societies becomes this, what to do with the young males, their aggression, their sexual instincts: in every way they must be broken and subsumed for the benefit of the tribe."
83-4: [This helps explain some of the demographic self-burying certain countries are embarking on as they embrace immigration to a level much higher than their culture's ability to sustain] "You fool yourself if you imagine that 'young males are needed for protection from external threat.' In fact most societies of the settled, primitive and as well as civilized, are more than willing to accept the risk of submission to an alien tribe. ...such societies, ruled by women, the old, and the imbeciles, are willing to rather accept subjection to the alien than to allow freedom and flourishing for their young men. ...submission to the alien just often means some sporadic taxation that used to be relatively hard to enforce: peasants are very good at hiding stores of goods, and even fields. The routine humiliations of subjection, the loss of honor, the rare but occasional rapes, the loss of sovereignty means little to such people."
84: "The Chinese Han faced the most dreadful external threats from the steppe, and were frequently conquered by a few scattered men on horseback that they outnumbered many times over. They didn't care: their stolid, unchanging life as a community continued, whether it was Jurchen or Mongol or Black Yi that preyed on them. The Indians, once they reached their period of priestly rule and senescence, also degenerated to this condition: they were conquered every summer by adventurers and warlords from the Hindu Kush and beyond. Afghanistan ruled India. But subjection suited them."
85: On China's brief experiment with masculinity, "of letting their own men assert themselves and gain the sovereignty": "On the brief occasion in the 15th century when they began to have a navy, with its glimmers of freedom and empowerment for youths, they noticed the ferment and disorder that this brought to their society and immediately quashed the whole project."
85: "The way of settled life is just this then: to break the youths from early age, to take the boys and caponize them physically, mentally and spiritually."
86: "But enough of this prison. I suppose you want to know of a way out, or, at least, to hear of a different way of life?"
Part Three: Men of Power, and the Ascent of Youth
87: "Life appears at its peak not in the grass hut village ruled by nutso mammies, but in the military state. In Archaic Greece, in Renaissance Italy and in the vast expanse of the heroic Old Stone Age, at the middle of the Bronze Age of high chariotry, lived men of power and magnificence in great numbers. We are in every way their inferiors."
87: "We find Paleolithic bones, the femur, so robust that nothing from our runners or power-lifters equals."
87: "You know about Marathon, but not the whole story. The real physical feat wasn't just the soldier who ran the twenty miles or so back to Athens to warn the people. The entire army ranged on the beach in heavy bronze armor, facing the enemy. After the Persians landed, the Greeks charged them from more than a mile away. The Persians were amazed at the line of gleaming bronze running toward them and their war cry. These men ran a mile in very heavy armor and also carried six-foot-plus ashen spear-spike. They drove the invaders into the sea. And right after this great effort they marched, still in armor, all the way back to Athens without pause, to prevent the Persians from making an opportune landing there. I don't think any special military units would be able to equal this feat today, and these were the average citizens of Athens."
87: "Here [in 5th century BC Greece] we have life at its peak. You know about their great art, science, and literature, or think you do. But these were men of conquest, exploration and adventure first. Aeschylus had on his tombstone engraved that he fought at Marathon, not that he wrote his plays."
88: "I'm afraid that, in the end, the examples of ancient men of strong hand, ancient men of power, will be very discouraging to many of you. Because you can't easily replicate their achievements and power in our time, and also, many of you are actually sissies compared to them, in your blood. But I think it's good for all of us to remember we're panty-wearers compared to them. Also, while you may not be able to emulate them in every way, because the age we live in is one of total repression, you can still take some inspiration from their examples, and try to live the same in some way... try to live according to a Bronze Age Mindset."
88: "Only the warrior is a free man. The only right government is military government, and every other form is both hypocritical and destructive of true freedom. You must aim high!"
88: Striking take here on the reign of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
89-90: On Alcibiades of Athens, imagined as a modern; "He rejected the advances of the Pelasgian pedo-pervert Socrates, a story that Plato then inverted and twisted like the lying cunt and Phoenician-asskisser that he was." [!!!]
90: "In the beginning was the word?? NO! In the beginning was the demonic fire that bursts out in men like Alcibiades and lays low the cities of men and exposes all their nonsense! Such men are sent by nature to chastise us and be our Nemesis. They are the great cleansing. His story is told by Thucydides and Plutarch, though you must know the latter is a famous liar. But I think there must be someone as colorful as Alcibiades among you."
91: The modern world "promotes the stressors, estrogen, serotonin, hyperventilation, over-excitation, the hallmarks of energetic exhaustion. Loss of structure, form and differentiation follows, which was the intention."
91: [On living with little to lose but still fearing to lose even that.] "There follows on this also a spiritual and intellectual rigidity, the orientation of the ideologue, of the social activist, but also of all our intellectual class right and left, as of those who work in the corporate world and in most of the military. They're stiff and constrained because, in short, they live in utter fear, fear that they will lose something. They have very little to lose, but they live in this fear anyway and this is why when there is a question of potential gain or, worse for them, potential loss, they react with desperation, they freeze in terror and hyperventilate." [Also, recall the joke: Why are academics so vicious to each other? Because the stakes are so small.]
91: The ancient Greeks admiring "a carelessness and freedom from constraint that would shock us."
92: "The way our own elite today marries and pairs off, by the way, is anything but 'eugenic': two over-the-hill spent people in their thirties marrying for 'practical' reasons... this doesn't give rise to strong children."
92: On Herotodus' story of Hippocleides, who went with dozens of other youths to try to marry the daughter of a rich important autocrat in Sicily: "[The autocrat] said, 'Hippocleides you have just danced yourself out of a marriage' ...but the answer was 'Hippocleides doesn't care.' In this one phrase you have the whole attitude of this beautiful, reckless piratical aristocracy that colonized and conquered their known world. It's an attitude that upsets all the moralfags of our time, of the left and right."
93: "Another story shows you the same thing: it is also the attitude of Diogenes the Cynic. When Alexander the Great came before his bathtub and asked him what he would want most of all in the world, Diogenes told him to get out of the way, stop blocking the sun... he was just trying to catch some rays! Now compare that to one of our slavish intellectuals and philosophers, and how their meager spirits would huff and puff at the approach of even a mid-level constipated bureaucrat--how distinguished! The honor! Alexander said that if he had not been Alexander, he would wish to have been Diogenes."
93: "Anything truly great must have some of this divine carelessness. Didn't the Christians also believe in 'give us but our daily bread'--implying that this is enough and you shouldn't worry about anything else, even for the week? Nietzsche say[s] good things about poverty, independence, and being of good cheer. And these were very poor men: but the sons of God need nothing more!"
93: Modern women as "Bernankefied up the ass" so they can become neurotic copies of gay desk-workers. They've abandoned the great power endowed in their blood."
94: "...the left talks much about letting loose, about no longer being repressed. If they only understood what this really meant!"
94ff: Stories here of Clearchus, of Agathocles, "who weren't held back by petty inhibitions. These are men who really knew how to enjoy their freedom, and who weren't limited by the opinions of others."
95: "...small people like Bill Gates, Zuckerface, and Bezos are entirely dependent men. They can't really do with their wealth what you think they can for example, they could never just kill a man and take his wife, but even the ruler of the smallest African country has this power, this true wealth."
96: On comparing the life of Alcibiades to the "life" we are encouraged to "have" today: pharmaceuticals, cheap wine, "the rancid fart-fumes of status and approval they beg from each other."
96: "We take the wolves and lions and leopards from among us when pups and break them with false ideas, vicious conditioning, and lately, drugs that would have lobotomized a da Vinci, an Alexander, a Frederick the Great out of existence in his youth. Then the energy that remains to them is channeled into mindless work for money."
97: "So when I mention leisure, don't imagine I mean by it what you mean by it. It's not just leisure, you don't need just leisure for higher life, but specifically leisure for preparation for war."
98: "Constrained and dependent people don't have real thoughts: for [the] same reason that nations without manufacturing don't really understand anymore what 'innovation' and invention was for in the first place. So our science and technology too is just more diddling."
98: "Cervantes completed Don Quixote while in jail, Spinoza was a lens-grinder, Diogenes was homeless, and many other great things were done by people who were poorer or in direr straits materially than people today."
99: "...as Nietzsche says: in [the] French Revolution, a mass revolt of racial slaves that remade Europe and took it on the downward path. Then there was another peripheral aboriginal revolt in 1917, that plunged Europe into a civil war from which it still hasn't recovered."
99: On our misconstrual of the Greeks, that the hoplite soldiers were uniform tools of democracy: "[Moderns] think of this age as one where the individual subsumed himself to the city and its laws, to the discipline of the ranks: and they connect this seeming egalitarianism to the practice of democracy in our time. In this way they want to flatter themselves. Modern man is then called on to make a similar “sacrifice,” and blamed for his selfishness."
99-100: "This is confused. In beginning the hoplite, the man who fought with heavy round shield, tall spike, and heavy armor, he did not come as a 'tool' of the republic or a democracy, the way modern soldiers are tools of the slave state. If you want to see what the spirit of the Bronze Age is, you look to ancient drinking song, at the mess halls of Crete and Sparta: 'This is my wealth: my spear and my shield. With this I trample sweet wine from the vine. With this I am called master of serfs. Those who do not dare to have spear and sword, and fine leather shield to protect skin, all cower at my knee and submit, calling me master and great king.' This was real song: a popular drinking song among the ruling men. Such formed small companies of adventurers who, early on, took over the state away from the mounted aristocracy--themselves equally piratical predators."
100: "But to draw any parallels to our time is absurd: these men would have never submitted to abstractions like 'human rights,' or 'equality,' or 'the people' as some kind of amorphous entity encompassing the inhabitants of the territory or city in general. They would have rightly seen this as pure slavery, which is our condition today: no real man would ever accept the legitimacy of such an entity, which for all practical purposes means you must, for entirely imaginary reasons, defer to the opinion of slaves, aliens, fat childless women, and others who have no share in the actual physical power."
101: "...if you think this question through, you will understand also the nature of our subjection in this time. Because it is not these people who are at fault, but a hidden power that uses them as a pretext. Modern 'democracy' is totalitarian and vicious..."
101ff: On male friendships subverted by the system today, on groups of males in sciences and art who could focus and direct real power: these institutions now have non-hostile environments, are subject to human resources, etc., they've been caponized essentially. The system wants you as "a weak and isolated individual."
103: On Silicon Valley: "...there wasn't any serious innovation being done in the first place: already technology had been reduced to the development of dick pic apps for adolescents. Science has long ago ceased and been castrated."
103: On Epaminondas and Pelopidas, who freed Thebes from Sparta: "it was they who established the famous 'Sacred Band,' the elite military unit that broke the power of Sparta. This group was formed of close friends, and you will always have too much love and compassion for a real friend to waiver in courage in front of him--but I doubt you understand what such friendship means or that you ever had such [a] friend!"
103: "In Athens the two friends Harmodius and Aristogeiton put down the tyranny through their schemes and their bravery: this is, you know, why all tyrants and totalitarians are suspicious of strong friendships between men. Most of all this is feared by the middle-aged lesbos and defectives that are used as guards by our prison-states." [Wow, this guy is absolutely relentless!]
103: "And yes, I know the rumors that these friendships were sexual, but I believe this is [a] misunderstanding and exaggeration promoted by the homonerds of our time, for reasons I will explain later. The model for all such friendships was that between Achilles and Patroclus: Homer never hints such friendship was sexual. It is only out of the poverty of our imagination that we think it was, because we can't conceive of such intense love between friends without some carnal or material benefit in play."
104: "It was out of his friendship for Patroclus that Achilles embarked on his great rampage: it was for the sake of his friend that he would not tolerate living a long and inglorious life at home... he chose instead a short and glorious one, and a violent death full of promise and beauty. Friends can spur you to this!"
104: "The original form for all this was the divine pair of charioteers: Castor and Pollux, or for the Aryans it was the Ashvin twins, and for the Saxons it was Horst and Hengist, the pair of the chariot driver and the archer--do you understand this is the real root of all the higher aspirations of Europe?"
105: On scouting movements, in Germany and the USA; also intriguing thoughts here about the Jewish youth guard movements that became Zionists: "Among the Jews, the promotion of this kind of camaraderie and friendship was a great miracle in the early 20th century, because it so much went against their culture of the cramped shtetl, of nerds dominated by women and old people and by fear. It was a great act of self-overcoming for them, and many are right that in some sense the creation of Israel is the most 'anti-Semitic' act ever conceived. It is, in any case, a great model for others to show that reestablishment of antiquity is fully possible, although there is no real reason why Americans or Europeans should have any regard for the welfare of this country." [holy cow, ouch.]
105: "In our time friendship is made illegal between boys in school, real fraternities are for all purposes banned, and the scouting movements are forced to accept women--and women are destructive entirely of any great friendship. In private life, friendship among isolated and defeated modern males is unheard of. Men are deluded into thinking their wife can also be their best friend (and this, of course, also makes their wives lose respect for them)."
106ff: On the "Superman mindset": "inside every noble Greek was an unquenchable lust for power, and this means power to become lord over life and death in your state. It's hard to understand what this means from looking around today, because there's nothing like it from the big examples you might have heard. Many of you might think of dictators in North Korea or some public lavatory of the world, or of the great total states of the last century, but you'd be wrong. These men weren't really free or powerful, in many ways they were hostage to their own security services. Someone like Stalin was trapped in a stream of events where his freedom to operate existed only in the realm of murder, and murder alone, and any small step outside of this would mean his doom."
107: "In fact the great totalitarian states you know about weren't that different from our own, or the 'liberal democracies': we live in the same kind of state, only that it is more prosperous and the viciousness of the power is indirect and hidden. But it is no less monstrous."
107ff: Very strange, seemingly irrelevant discussion here of Periander of Corinth and his various actions and debaucheries.
110ff: On Lysander, the Spartan, who defeated the Greeks, ended the Peloponnesian War, was worshipped as a god; see also Brasidas, another Spartan warrior, dying gloriously in battle; "It's not a surprise that you see men of this type of man come out of Sparta: the place that made the sternest demands on itself produced also the most brilliant men. They went rogue and easily imposed the intensity of their magic charisma on foreigners. True power needs no effort: it draws all around it like a force-field."
110ff: "In [the] Iliad you see the greatest warriors rise up to fight even the gods."
111: On "the fact that the genius sees this same world we do, but sees in it things that we can't, much like we see things that dog or ant can't. Indeed time itself entirely changes when the will is raised up to this height: the warrior in some way can be said to rise outside the stream of events in which we are held like prisoners."
111-2: "And you must understand one thing: the end of Achilles' mission was the total destruction of the city of Troy, the fire melting the brick of its alleys, its men killed, its women and children sold into slavery. This last was held to be the right of conquerors throughout the history of the Greek world, or at least for its vital period of ascent. Thus this most humane and refined of ancient peoples found it absolutely necessary nevertheless to have this out for the wolfish and predatory instinct in man. War alone brought rejuvenation of their nature."
112: "The Romans, before they conquered a new city, promised the gods of that city that they would honor and respect them tenfold more than the inhabitants."
112: [Sounds like this author has read The Bicameral Mind! "And it was only possible because such men knew also how to listen to the voice of the gods, and allowed themselves to be entirely possessed by a divine madness. It imbued them with superhuman strength, and drew others into their designs by instinct. This abandon to nature and instinct--this is the Bronze Age way! And you can learn to cultivate this exalted psychosis inside you also." [See also, a page later]: "You've been abandoned by the gods."
113ff: On the excesses of Nero, Caligula, Tiberius: On Caligula: "Sometimes he replaced the regular gladiator shows with pathetic fights between cripples and deformed animals; he would lock down the granaries to let the people go hungry for no reason at all. He was the greatest troll ever." The author contrasts this with the effete, pathetic examples of decadence of our elites today;
115-6: On Kleobis and Biton, the twins in the story Solon tells Croesus about true happiness; they died at their acme; thus this is a metaphor for the idealized Greek life; "This story confused Croesus the king, and it probably confuses you. It's strange to see how far the Greeks took aesthetic understanding of life and the world. There is no moral lesson in this story at all. Any moral lesson that you could think of, for example of duty to parents or to tradition, could have been made in [a] different way. What's unusual here is the ending. There is just biology: it is best for the end and the acme to coincide. A beautiful death at the right time is the only key to understanding a life, its only hidden “meaning.” It is a beautiful death to die after accomplishing a great feat for the glory of one's city, family and for the gods, but it's greater still to die in one's prime, at the height of your powers and at the acme of their discharge. A beautiful death in youth is a great thing, to leave behind a beautiful body, and the best study of this pursuit you find in the novels of Mishima, a real connoisseur."
116ff: "The most glamorous Christian prince for me was always young Conradin, King of the Romans and King of Jerusalem. He was unjustly killed in Italy by usurper Charles of Anjou with the contrivance of a corrupt Pope." He conquered Rome at the mere age of 14, the outpouring of love for him by the people alarmed the Pope and the sclerotocracy, he "never listened to the timid counsels of his advisors who tried to hold him back from his acme." Then a series of disasters, captured by treachery, beheaded by Charles of Anjou; "[Conradin's] execution was so absurd and unjust that it permanently discredited Charles of Anjou, the usurper. It discredited too this kind of Papal 'legalism' that must sound very familiar to you now." "...the people will not be fooled: they know the real man of power, and can tell the difference from a deformed usurper." "Now the robots who run our world also want to be loved or feared, and are trembling because the people don't respect them. They too, the nations of our time, seek the return of youth, of a Conradin."
118ff: "Crusaders like Cortes and Pizarro, Fernando de Soto, Drake and Raleigh, Magellan and Balboa equal in daring, intelligence, magnitude of spirit, resourcefulness and achievement any of the great men of the Greeks and Romans. The story of the heroic age of exploration remains to be told in full, and maybe one of you one day will make [a] big book or big movies."
119: "I say also now: for those who seek to make a difference and have some artistic or visual bent, movies are the golden key to the minds of the many. What Mel Gibson does is worth a thousand books or 'activisms' for your side."
119ff: On the works of Portuguese poet/explorer Luís de Camões, also the astounding, mythological adventures of the great European explorers: "...he is right that the voyages of these new crusaders equal any great expedition even from the myths and legends of the past... Perched on the beaches of the great Eurasian mass, these men went, in just a hundred years, from sailing a few almost-rafts that they barely knew how to navigate, to explorers of new worlds and founders of global empires that lasted for centuries. You must understand how amazing this feat was: there was no tradition of seamanship in Portugal or Spain, let alone France or England... it all had to be done from scratch."
120: On many of the great explorers being ignored because of their Christianity: "...most of the modern glorifiers of antiquity usually had an axe to grind against Christianity or the Church, so they didn't want to promote these men, or admit that the champions of the faith were the most shining exemplars of the classical man in our time. Even Nietzsche stays away from them and, in a moment of weakness, speaks nonsense about the “superiority” of the Aztecs."
120: "More than anyone else they spread its power and gospel through the world, and even before that, they saved Europe itself from the Moors and the other threats. They're the direct descendants of the crusaders who liberated Spain and other parts of Europe. The Church doesn't want to admit that once Ferdinand and Isabella cleared Spain of the enemies of Christ, God blessed that nation with a century of prosperity and pre-eminence, and gave it the foundation of world-empire." [Note here to self to read the almost certainly non-narrative-approved book The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by Dario Fernandez Morera]
122ff: On Pedro de Alvarado, right hand man of Cortes, "of boundless courage, carelessness, and also boundless cruelty. Cortes left him in charge briefly in Tenochtitlan where he massacred all the Aztec nobles in the Great Temple during a banquet... for no reason at all. During the battles he distinguished himself by insane charges into the thick of the enemy by which he was outnumbered by hundreds to one: yet he never lost heart, he went right for their garish flower-decorated lieutenants and cut them down, striking fear into the multitude... Alvarado was a nemesis to civilization, and this is right and good. God sends such men to chastise mankind. I want you to be like this: to listen to these instincts in you... I predict this: within fifty years a hundred Alvarados will bloom from deep in the tropical bestiary of the spirit. They will sweep away the weakness of this world."
123ff: On a modern warrior, Frenchman Bob Denard: "How different he is from the pretentious bureaucrats we see, the politicians with their high-flown language, their tedious moral preaching, their careful self-positioning, timidity, and the drudgery to which they subject themselves." "He took part in adventures all over Africa: coups in Benin, the Congo, secessionist movements like in Biafra (the French styling on English Nigeria) and so forth. His greatest feat was to overthrow the government of the Comoros four times. Each time France had to send special forces to the islands to dislodge him... At the end of his life... well this life lasted too long. He should have died in defense of his territory, younger, and without descending into the dementia and pain that took him in old age. France repaid his service with persecution; no longer needed to fight communists in Africa, his vainglory and ferocity became a liability."
124ff: On Colonel “Mad Mike” Hoare, "another example of why you're a fag." [WTF!!?? Wow. I don't know whether to laugh, be hurt, or be offended!] "He led an elite unit of mercs in the Congo, and in the same operation with Denard, was responsible for relieving Stanleyville and saving a hundred nuns and missionaries from rape and torture."
125: "Even just a few years ago Margaret Thatcher's son Mark was given a sentence in South Africa in 2005 for an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. He was ratted out and caught at the airport. You must understand that the meddlesome little cretinoids who run the West always put a stop to great plans and great actions. They've ended many promising adventures through their snooping... they're tattletales, always watching, never sleeping, always whispering."
126: "Neall Ellis in his trusty Mi-24 Hind helicopter held off the rebels in the Sierra Leone civil war, singlehandedly, and saved innumerable lives. In the Rhodesian war, you had companies of a few white farmers, raised in the bush, who ambushed armies of Zambia and Mozambique many thousands strong. They would attack with stealth, stalking them, inflict frightful casualties, and escape unharmed. Many such stories: look up Nyadzonya raid." [here: https://en.wikipedia.
126: The potential for adventures and conquests like European man has rarely experienced in the past still exists, and I have no doubt that in the coming years such opportunities will become ever more frequent. The great Leviathan will falter, sooner or later. The coming age of barbarism will not be owned, as so many of you urban cucks fear, by the gangbangers and the unwashed hordes of the teeming cesspools of the world, but by clean-cut middle-class and working class vets, men of military experience, who know something about how to shoot and how to organize."
Part Four: a Few Arrows
128: "It takes great efforts and much good luck to be able to surpass the dirty ape and rat inside us all. Most of mankind never left the regime of deformity, and it's no surprise that this morass is returning. It's just a reversion to the norm."
128ff: On how the Renaissance "ended up setting the stage for our trash-world." First the vital part of mankind, the warlord, the monarch, and "the very success of these men in securing the conditions of life and comfort for the rest of the community." "Second, the ascent, within this peacetime, of the priest, the shaman, the schemer, and the matriarch, which slowly usurp power away from the brotherhoods of young men and their captains." See Spinoza's explanation of the corruption of the Hebrew Republic, which lost power to a priestly caste. "But it often happens that the men of power become decadent and let the state drift into the hands of those who can't rule--and who start to resent them for this abdication. Women become also very aggressive, once real and relaxed manhood atrophies."
130: "And in the West, whose special fate has been confused for History or Progress of the entire species, this development has taken place through the promotion of logos or reason and all the manifestations of this: the adulation of empty words, of legalism as a guide for social and political life, of the cult of science that is very far from real science."
130: "The modern socialisms, the expansion of the power of the state that squashes all initiative and all life, the hypocrisy of all political life in our time--all of this is to be attributed to the participation of women in political life... The state we live in is as repressive as any oriental tyranny. But its hypocrisy is that it hides its force under the delusion of egalitarian ideals and legalistic procedures inconsistently applied. It is not women actually being free, but their 'legal freedom,' a practical fiction, being used by a hidden power to oppress, to dispossess, to intimidate and extort. It took one hundred years of women in public life for them to almost totally destroy a civilization." [Interesting distinction here--if the reader is able to get past the mysogyny here--that it's not "women in political life" per se that is the problem, rather it's the behind-the-scenes power structure with all its arbitrary power.]
131ff: On the transition of Western power from an increasingly decadent nobility to a banker/merchant/capitalist class in the 18th century: "The loss of respect in general marks the modern age since 1800 or so: the loss of respect in authority, for example, that came when industrialists and bankers replaced the warrior nobility." On Napoleon: "This is why Napoleon was such an enigma for so many: he represented a man out of time, something completely unexpected in the age of middle class mediocrity and hypocritical 'democracy' that was just then coming about. ... Napoleon was an escape from the domination of the bugman that was just then beginning to take hold of the nations."
133ff: On the many-sided/many-fronted nature of the fight now; "...any answer must be on multiple fronts, and each one calls for a different strategy and different type of talent and man..." On the idea that you may find yourself allied with people you wouldn't otherwise; Also on the idea that you may need to stay out of the public, don't be a sucker/patsy and show up to a rally and be facial-recognitioned by the state; "know what is possible in the normie political sphere."
135: Intriguing take here the "evils" of suburbs: "I don't see any evidence that the tax base of America moved to the suburbs by choice. Their inner cities were taken away from them not, as is imagined, by blacks, but by the politicians--and their handlers--who found it more profitable to replace middle class citizens with an underclass. The space to which they've been segregated and to which they have to 'commute' is I think a form of absolute hell to raise children in, especially boys. There is no freedom of motion except to regimented activities, they are always watched by caretakers of some kind. The places are of incredible ugliness, which takes away also from the will to discover new things at all. There are no nooks and corners where boys can form gangs, be away from prying eyes of parents and others, and have the feeling that they are exploring and owning territory, as there is in the city and in the countryside. America has successfully portioned off its historical population, its rightful citizens, and its tax base, in work camps and dormitories. That is what the modern American 'city' is: an economic zone arranged much like a work-camp, or concentration-camp if you want."
136: "I think the reason the suburbs are hateful to the raising of boys is also the reason they are most objectionable in general, namely that while in the countryside or the city a restive population would be able to hold their territory and challenge a power should the need arise, such a thing is impossible in the suburbs. Suburbs are living arrangement[s] for slaves and subjects."
136: On "social justice": "...just look at them during the Occupy rallies, hoping to siphon off respect. The need to be respected is [a] sign of [a] very low and wormlike condition of spirit. The tantrums of the coddled and domesticated, of no force... No force behind it, just the opinions of the left-over, the prattling of guilt and begging: not even the Marxist engine of the worker. What worker? They have contempt for the worker."
138ff: Various scenarios for the USA; breakup/secession, military rule; various comments here on the nature of the USA's military.
141: "'Representative democracy' plus a bureaucratic state is often criticized by conservatives as destructive of personal freedom and initiative, which it is; but given that most people who go into public life are poor and weak-minded, it also just means indirect rule by spooks, oligarchs, and whatever foreign nation or interest can funnel more money or influence or threat here or there."
142ff: Random musings here on the USA's intelligence services; why we as a culture aren't very good at "intelligence": "Full of Mormons and various cripplettes who put on a high Wasp manner, full also of soccer moms and neuters, the intelligence services are in fact quite incompetent, despite their considerable power." "But it's without a doubt that they've tried to get into the 'meme' business, and had units dedicated to this kind of visual propaganda, especially during the last election. We all saw their efforts and we laughed. I think the biggest threat the right presented to this system came from something like 4chan, which showed it can be an intelligence agency of its own, and far superior to what the formal spooks could do. How they located obscure objects, places, and people from photos is something that formally-trained agents couldn't normally do. The memes put a spike of fear in the hearts of all the constipated spooks." [I remember the very first time I heard about 4chan, it was during the "bike lock guy" controversy; heh, this was also when I learned the expression "weaponized autism" for the first time. Good times.]
144ff: On public movements that work vs those that don't: "Above all I believe that any public movement will be most effective if it is not political at all, and remains 'implicit.'" "It's without a doubt that any public organization will be infiltrated by feds, hostiles, and agents provocateurs, and therefore it's necessary to avoid and condemn any imagery or message of violence, and to ostracize people who exhibit tendencies in that direction or who try to convince others to idiotic 'action.'"
146: "The purpose of all such 'political action' should be the same as memetic samizdat, which is to make the enemy look ridiculous. You must show them for what they are, which is, dour, old, sclerotic, ugly, pedantic."
147: "Remember that they still own many of the cities and the police forces in these cities, which can be induced to act illegally and to put you in danger; for this reason, and many others, public rallies announced well ahead of time are totally useless, as are public 'policy' speeches and other such wankery. You must of course avoid all violence and all talk of violence as well, and not fall into the trap they want you to fall into."
148: "There won't be any 'beta revolution,' and betas are unreliable, because they can be easily bought off with a girlfriend, or even a shrew wife and the parody of a good domestic life. I've seen many men, intelligent and well educated, but weak in their core and much too concerned with women, who gave up all higher aspirations once a half-decent girl came along."
150: "Many are domestic animals and happy that way. I speak instead to the men who feel stifled by this bug world."
150: "People at all times try to domesticate each other. Language is used to clobber and deceive others into submission and domestication. Ideas and arguments and stories are manufactured for the same. The modern world is no different in this regard from any wretched tribal society."
151: "The left realizes they look weak and lame--because they are. They know they have nothing to offer youth but submission and lectures. They know they're unsexy and staid. If indeed young leftist men will start lifting and worshiping beauty, they will be forced to leave the left."
152: "I have nothing to say to the frivolous people who have found themselves, maybe bewildered, in positions of influence in media or government, or to the many superfluous who follow them. In the next hundred years and even before, barbaric piratical brotherhoods will wipe away this corrupt civilization, as they did at the end of the Bronze Age."
154ff: The book finishes with a call to action to a brotherhood, a small brotherhood of men, who will descend into the vices of clown world and use it against itself.
To Read:
Anna Comnena: The Alexiad
Anatoly Fomenko: The Issue with Chronology
Anatoly Fomenko: The Issue with Antiquity
Anatoly Fomenko: History: Fiction or Science?
Rene Guenon: The Crisis of the Modern World
Rene Guenon: Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines
Julius Evola: Revolt Against the Modern World
Julius Evola: Metaphysics of War
Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journey to the End of the Night
Charles Oman: Studies In The Napoleonic Wars
Luis de Camoes: Lusiad (poetry)