Muh Right-wing esotericism
It has come to my attention that the effete little circle-jerking club known as Counter-Currents has squeezed out another pointless book, this one entitled Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, & Other Populist Gurus.
It is published by the Counter-Currents-aligned Manticore Press and the writer is James O’Meara, whom I recall as moderately talented. But it is the choice of subject matter I want to comment on, as it is a shining example of something I identified in 2021 as a cardinal weakness of the supposed "radical" right, namely it's love of dull, trivial, esoteric writers and tendencies that have zero political purchase and therefore only succeed in walling the "movement" into the dank and mouldy little crevices that it inhabits.
It is published by the Counter-Currents-aligned Manticore Press and the writer is James O’Meara, whom I recall as moderately talented. But it is the choice of subject matter I want to comment on, as it is a shining example of something I identified in 2021 as a cardinal weakness of the supposed "radical" right, namely it's love of dull, trivial, esoteric writers and tendencies that have zero political purchase and therefore only succeed in walling the "movement" into the dank and mouldy little crevices that it inhabits.
My 2021 article identified three well-known reasons why the Left was ideologically dominant in the West, then added a fourth, the subject of this article.
The three well-known reasons were:
(1) The Left is simply more Machiavellian than the Right.
(2) The Left looks to the future; the Right is past-orientated.
(3) The Left tends to align with dominant economic interests.
The fourth reason that I then added was that the Right is dragged down by carrying too much pointless "philosophical" luggage which I then tied to the terms "extraneous" and "extraneity."
At the time of writing the article, I was mainly focused on the tendency by some of the more ludicrous dissident righters to "found" supposed new religions (Jorjani with his mumbo-jumbo "Prometheanism" and Spencer with his daft and gay-sounding "Apolloism"). Yes, that was where the grift was in 2021! Have those supposed "new faiths" made any progress since then, or are they just more Alt-Right detritus dumped down the memory hole?
At the time of writing the article, I was mainly focused on the tendency by some of the more ludicrous dissident righters to "found" supposed new religions (Jorjani with his mumbo-jumbo "Prometheanism" and Spencer with his daft and gay-sounding "Apolloism"). Yes, that was where the grift was in 2021! Have those supposed "new faiths" made any progress since then, or are they just more Alt-Right detritus dumped down the memory hole?
But my article also focused on the broken shelf of extraneous pseudo-philosophic, esoteric-signalling bullshit books that the Alt-Right has always lumbered itself with, a "strategy" formerly pushed by the clearly Kremlin-aligned Arktos publishing house:
"Then there is also Duginism and Heideggerianism, of which the less said the better, Trad Catholicism, and of course Evolian traditionalism, Spenglerism, and a lot of other nonsense imported from various Eastern mysticisms."
O'Meara's latest work is obviously the latest iteration of this anti-political impulse.
Robert Stark has written an overly sympathetic overview of the justly forgotten, politically irrelevant, intellectual nonentities included in O'Meara's book, figures who will continue to whimper out of the shadows to elements of the socially excluded and politically impotent for some time yet.
As for the problems that the Dissident Right was once supposed to address before it was co-opted by Kremlin scumbags and sub-masculine and quasi-White devotees of Heinrich Himmler, these remain simple, in-your-face problems that are much better viewed without the obfuscating lens of a stack of tedious and turgid pseudo-philosophical books:
"But contrast all this over-intellectualized garbage with what the average Right Winger actually wants, which, in its essence, is relatively simple and obvious. We tend to want a nation with clear borders and a clear identity that we can feel comfortable belonging to. As part of this we also want a society that rewards excellence and protects the genetic and demographic health of the group. Non-suicidal fertility rates are part of this. The whole thing could probably be boiled down to a simple formula: >2.1 average fertility."
If you really want to fight, travel light!
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia).
The fake right is superb at slavishly copying the failures of the past, not the successes. If they copied the successes, they’d have no issue with surpassing 2.1 children per family. The true right-wingers are the ones with 6 children per couple (and none out of wedlock).
ReplyDeleteTrue. Hearing childless outcasts talking about 'degeneracy lines' is painfully pathetic.
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