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The Great Jared Taylor – Steve Sailer Debates Of 2005
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The Importance of Rights
In a recent conversation, the subject of expulsions of problematic demographics came up.
It was pointed out that when European countries expelled their Jews, generally no calamity befell them.
It was pointed out that when Muslim countries expelled their Jews, no calamity directly connected to this action befell them.
There are a number of differences I want to point out between those situations and the situation in the West today, but the most salient point is very simple:
Those countries were shitholes.
They were poor, wracked with violence and political repression, politically unsophisticated, and generally not very pleasant places to live in.
When places like that and places like the modern West co-exist, there is a loud sucking noise as all the smartest and most productive people flood out of those places towards the West, followed by not so smart and not so productive people when and where they can move.
I am reminded of a couple of expressions: We see the past through rose-colored glasses, and the grass is always greener on the other side. The past did not have some of the problems that we face in modernity – and when we look back, we tend to focus on that and give it a romantic sheen.
The past was a shithole. Conditions much more like the past are freely available, and people run from those conditions like they are death itself. If the conditions on the past were forced upon the current crop of complainers agitating against modernity, they would call it a genocide, and would not be far off the mark.
Part of what made the past such a terrible place was the abrogation of rights. When more productivity means that more will be stolen from you, civilization is stuck in a mire.
The notion that someone should be much, much, much richer than someone else for producing much, much, much more is profoundly unintuitive to most people. They consider it unfair and divisive.
The notion that the unpopularity of an individual, enterprise, or demographic should not result in their rights being abrogated and their property seized is profoundly unintuitive to most people. They consider it a betrayal, protecting the wicked from the righteous.
The industrial revolution required the resistance to these unintuitive ideas to be violently overturned. Outsiders saw the industrial revolution and wanted in – but didn’t want those nasty divisive principles. To an extent, they were able to imitate the successes of capitalist industrialism without adopting their principles. However, there were several caveats:
No country was able to ape the successes of capitalist industrialism without creating analogous inequalities on the basis of bureaucratic rather than market favor.
No country was able to ape the successes of capitalist industrialism without strict information control to prevent reformers calling for fuller imitation of capitalist success from predominating.
No country was able to ape the successes of capitalist industrialism without suffering from either brain drain or the need to forcefully prevent their citizens from emigrating.
Many great achievements can be claimed by countries that aped capitalist industrialism without adopting its principles. However, those countries still suffered from the problems and requirements imposed by those caveats, and ultimately all the most successful of these examples were forced to converge more fully by the weight of those requirements.
If a political entity, whether a nation-state or an entity with ambitions of becoming a nation-state, decides to abandon the principles behind capitalist industrialism – the rights that underlie capitalist industrialism – it is choosing to cripple its own potential, and take on a burden that it will in all likelihood just abandon in short order.
This being undesirable, it is best to hew closer to the principles that underlie the greatest success story that we have. Abrogation of a citizen’s rights based on their demographic background cuts directly against these principles. It saws off the branch upon which Western civilization sits.
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Dissident Right Rhetoric
Rhetoric in dissident-right circles tends to frame right-wing violence like this:
DEUS VULT!
Mainstream society frames right-wing violence like this:
One framing is based on fantasy – the other on reality.
The success or failure of a political movements depends on the balance of power of proponents and opponents.
This is inseparable from optics.
Successful movements court allies by looking good.
They exploit and exacerbate weaknesses in their opponents.
National Socialists in Weimar Germany were obsessed with avoiding associations with historical losers, to the extent that they created a new and bizarre flag to replace their nation’s banner.
They were obsessed with attacking unpopular groups and soliciting popular groups and individuals.
They offered a compelling value proposition to the entrenched elites in their country, who feared communist revolution.
They were led by decorated war heroes in a country with a strong martial focus.
They did not spring from the ground, they were not the inevitable result of a people’s instincts. That is magical thinking popular both on the far right, and on the left, for different reasons. One wants hope, the other a bogeyman. Neither use logic or reason.
When fortuitous events outside of their control weakened the incumbent powers, national socialists were ready to surge into that vacuum because of the strategic decisions they had made for many years before. It was not force majure, not some inevitable expression of human instinct that led to the result. It was strategy, balance of forces, and fortune.
The dissident right has enacted the precise inverse of this winning formula. It associates with the banner and language used by a disgraced, hated, defeated, and foreign empire. It attacks popular individuals and groups, while defending unpopular individuals and groups.
It has no value proposition for entrenched elites. Rather, it professes to desire their overthrow and dispossession. Unlike the left, it cannot hide behind the shield of seeking justice or equality. In its advocacy, it combines the most unsavory elements of the left with the most unsavory elements of the right.
THE VIRTUES OF THE DISSIDENT RIGHT
What, then, is the significance of the dissident right? Does it just amount to a foil for both ends of the political system to attack, to bolster their own position? No.
The dissident right offers honest and open discussion of political issues of race and class that can’t be found anywhere else. No-holds barred discussion attracts many intelligent and learned people who are interested in these subjects.
The dissident right offers certain insights into these issues that simply aren’t found anywhere else. Forbidden knowledge, ‘hatefacts’ that aren’t discussed anywhere else are discussed in the dissident right.
The dissident right offers absolution to whites accused of being morally tainted for their heritage and history.
The dissident right offers excitement and humor with its attacks on nonsensical positions held by elites and the mainstream, and with its unrepressed style.
If the dissident right is to have any success, it must either find a way to split the positives from the negatives, and have different groups go their different ways, or to minimize the negatives and maximize the positives. The current trajectory is towards complete failure.
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#163 1-29-19 RBG: Who Are You Calling Brain-Dead? It’s Cognitively Impaired, Bigot
00:00 Judith Rich Harris’s 1998 book The Nurture Assumption
58:00 KMG arrives
1:01:00 The Trump Doctrine
1:22:00 Kevin’s crazy socks
1:24:00 Luke’s silk boxers
1:35:00 Where is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
1:45:00 Will Supreme Court ban abortion this week?
1:49:00 Abortion doctors tend to be bad doctors
1:53:00 Drudge loves the wind chill factor
1:57:00 Facebook pays teens to install VPN
1:59:00 Generation of child web addicts
2:02:00 Kids watching TV, KMG and Luke share their experiences
2:07:00 Love American Style
2:09:00 Bruce is a masculine Aussie name, but a gay American one
2:16:00 Germans build monument to migrant murder, rape and crime in front of chancellery
2:21:00 Woman kicked off flight for rant about sitting between ‘two big pigs’
2:30:00 UWS tenants: New homeless residents are making life a living hell
2:31:00 NYC is the most financially distressed city in the nation
2:34:00 Imagine being seated on a flight between Stacey Abrams and Loretta Lynch!
2:38:00 It’s time to end the war that can never be won in Afghanistan
2:11:00 Japan is giving empty homes to its citizens for free – there are over 8 million empty homes.
2:14:00 Google May Face RICO, Defamation Lawsuits Due to SPLC Partnership, Lawyers Say
2:16:00 ‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollett Recovering from Homophobic Attack, Bleach Allegedly Used
2:26:00 FBI: Las Vegas gunman sought infamy, influenced by father’s memory
3:07:00 The Kyle Question
http://www.unz.com/isteve/judith-rich-harris-rip/
http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/first/h/harris-nurture.html
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/shootings/fbi-final-report-finds-no-motive-for-las-vegas-shooting-1584677/
Where is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Absence of Public Appearances Leads to Growing Rumors
https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-may-face-rico-defamation-lawsuits-due-to-splc-partnership-lawyers-say/
https://nypost.com/2019/01/29/woman-kicked-off-flight-for-rant-about-sitting-between-two-big-pigs/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/28/pete-davidson-enrages-audience-with-jokes-about-having-sex-with-a-baby/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6642161/Generation-web-addicts-Children-spend-time-YouTube-friends.html
https://nypost.com/2019/01/26/nyc-is-the-most-financially-distressed-city-in-the-nation/
https://nypost.com/2019/01/28/uws-tenants-new-homeless-residents-are-making-life-a-living-hell/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/japan-has-so-many-empty-homes-its-giving-them-away?
https://nypost.com/2019/01/28/its-time-to-end-the-war-that-can-never-be-won-in-afghanistan/
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Hollywood Digs Its Own Grave
Kyle Rowland writes:
On Revolutions
Conspiracy theories are a face-saving way to make peace with losing. Winners by contrast tend towards a more accurate view of how much they can achieve and affect others. -Luke Ford
Wrong. History is made by the actions of groups of men engaged in conspiracies. The American and Russian Revolutions were hatched by tiny cabals. Dismissing explanations of history as “conspiracy theories” is the “winner’s” attempt at covering their tracks. -Brundlefly
American Revolution
Started as a small group of prosperous, prominent people talking up a subject that had popular and elite support – ‘we shouldn’t pay taxes to the damn crown!’
Happened in an overseas territory that had just recently won some of its own battles with local militia forces.
Grew rapidly in popularity, because it was an idea with inherent appeal to various powerful groups within the American colonies and to the broader population.
Russian Revolution
Started as a small group of political revolutionaries who organized into the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1898, which at first was illegal.
Very quickly held seats in the legislature — held ~80 seats in the 1907 Second Duma, which resulted from the first election they did not boycott.
Based on a popular revolutionary ideology, socialism, with long-lasting global appeal. Message of liberation from monarchy, a powerful political trend in Europe at the time.
Took advantage of the First World War and the misfortunes of the Russian military to take power.
Potential Alt/Dissident Right Revolution
Starts as a small group. Here the similarities end.
Group is marginalized and despised – widely known, inspires hatred and mockery.
Successful revolutions start small and grow out of control – the ideas of the dissident right started out widespread and became less popular with each generation.
The people and organizations making up the movement are generally careless, flash-in-the-pan phenomena. This trend goes back many decades. Fatal personal and organizational mistakes prevent lasting success.
As soon as any marginal success becomes possible, a vicious fight between factions ensues for credit and prominence. No possibility of forming a ‘government in exile’ or any such phenomenon of organized, cooperative, intelligent people.
Faces robust, organized, mature political organizations that are absolutely hostile to it, and a surveillance state + secret police to close off ‘nonpolitical’ routes to power.
The only similarity between the prospective dissident-right revolution and the successful revolutions alluded to by Brundlefly are that they all have to start small. But everything has to start small. Most ventures fail – even with a tenth of the headwind facing a prospective dissident-right revolution.
I would give the following practical advice to anyone dissident-right or adjacent:
Stop talking and thinking about revolution. It’s not in the cards at the moment. Of course, that could rapidly change – but the unique circumstances behind such a change will require taking a totally fresh look at strategy regardless.
Talk and think about the problems your enemies have as much as possible. There are contradictions and political weaknesses that can be attacked, and the energy and fun that comes from doing this is behind what successes have come from this sector of the right.
Replace resentment with humor. Make common cause with anyone who will laugh with you.
Lionize allies who show longevity and success.
Obsess over optics in our brave new world.
YouTube to stop recommending ‘conspiracy’ and other problematic videos:
In a blog post posted Friday, YouTube said it will begin to reduce recommending “borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways – such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11.”
Shop talk: My pet theory about recent reduction in view count on Luke Ford videos is due to a change in how viewers who pop in and out of a livestream are counted. I’ve noticed much lower initial view counts on streams, even when viewer numbers and stream durations are similar to before.
A TREE WAS KNOCKED DOWN!!!!!!! ORANGE MAN BAD!!!!!!!
A former park supervisor condemned the impact of the recent government shutdown on California’s Joshua Tree National Park at a protest rally Saturday. Activists said that the lack of park rangers on duty left the iconic protected area open to off-roading, vandalism and illegal camping.
Photographs of apparently vandalized Joshua trees recently sparked outrage on social media, with one user calling damage to the park “A TRAVESTY TO THIS NATION.”
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