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Jack Donovan’s A Sky Without Eagles

Jef Costello

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Jack Donovan
A Sky Without Eagles: Selected Essays and Speeches 2010-2014 
Milwaukie, Or.: Dissonant Hum, 2014

A Sky Without Eagles is Jack Donovan’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Way of Men (2012) – which has now sold an astonishing ten thousand copies. This anthology collects a number of essays and talks Donovan has given since 2010. In the earlier essays we encounter glimmers of the ideas that later wound up in The Way of Men. And in the essays written since that book’s publication we find him developing and expanding upon those ideas. It therefore seems fitting to begin with a very brief summary of the argument of The Way of Men.

Eschewing all the fashionable, politically correct claptrap about “redefining masculinity” (i.e., feminizing it) Donovan suggests an ingenious thought experiment designed to lay bare the core of what real manliness consists in. Let us cast our minds back to what life would have been like in the most ancient and primitive of human societies. They would have been concerned with very little more than surviving day-to-day. Since men are physically stronger and more aggressive than women, they would naturally have assumed the role of hunters and warriors (i.e., defenders of the territory, and of the women and children, against outsiders).

Needless to say, the men of the tribe would have to have banded together in order to play this role. And it is when they formed together in such bands (which Donovan simply calls “gangs”) that masculine virtue must first have manifested itself, and been reflected upon, and cultivated consciously by men. How do we know what those primal masculine virtues were — i.e., what was primal, authentic masculinity? Simple. They would have been the qualities men had to have possessed in order to be defenders of the tribe.

Donovan lists four primary male virtues: strength, courage, mastery, and honor. Now, some women can achieve some or all of these virtues. But Donovan makes the simple point that when men lack these virtues we think less of them, even perhaps going so far as to say they are not “real men.” But if women lack these same virtues we generally do not think less of them, and do not doubt that they are “real women.”

As I pointed out in my review of The Way of Men: “nobody thinks Martha is less of a woman if she needs help changing a tire. We never observe physical weakness in a woman and think ‘she’s unwomanly.’ Sally may defeat Martha in an arm-wrestling contest, but no observer thinks ‘Wow, Martha isn’t half the woman Sally is!’” Result? Strength, courage, mastery, and honor are not just the primary masculine virtues – they are primarily masculine virtues.

You will have to read The Way of Men to get the rest, including Donovan’s extensive discussion of the four virtues. Really, it’s a brilliant book and it is clearly making an impact within the “manosphere” and without.

Donovan opens A Sky Without Eagles by telling us how his thought has evolved over time:

When I started writing for Alternative Right in 2010, I was advocating for ‘a resurgence of masculine virtue in the West,’ and, specifically, in America. As my investigation of masculinity deepened and The Way of Men took shape, I realized that contemporary American and Western ideas and institutions were actually causes of man’s decline and inseparable from it. [pp. 13-14]

Indeed, much of Donovan’s writing has been devoted to an analysis of the sorry state of modern American manliness, and its causes.

“Everyone a Harlot” is the essay that probably best typifies this strand of Donovan’s thinking. It is tucked roughly in the middle of the anthology. With a great deal of wit and incisiveness, Donovan here skewers the repulsive narcissism of today’s “new masculinity”: “No one cares how much Tatum Channing [sic] or Brad Pitt lifts, or how fast they can run, or what they can build, or how many men they could defeat in combat. They’re admired for being desirable” (p. 90). Today’s typical “metrosexual” male sees this and aspires to be desired as well. He desires the desire of others, and that is all. For him, this is achievement enough.

There’s an easy transition from this essay to “Train for Honor,” which was written especially for the volume (and is one of my favorites). When the metrosexual works out he is merely building muscle in order to be sexually desirable. But Donovan states, correctly, that this makes him fundamentally effeminate: no different from women concerned with getting their makeup right, showing off their cleavage, and making sure they are not badly lit. Again, no one thinks less of women for doing this, because femininity consists, fundamentally, in two and only two elements: being attractive to men, and being nurturing (to children and others).[1] Homosexual men, Donovan points out, were the vanguard here. Think of the “gay clone look” of the 1970s and ’80s, which essentially involved creating a hyper-masculine, blue collar, “tough guy” look (mustache, sideburns, Levis, leather, work boots, etc.) – sans any underlying, achieved masculinity or actual blue collar toughness.

The metro/homosexuals hit the gym in order to be desirable (hence “everyone a harlot”). But why else should we work out? Most modern people don’t need big muscles, or the ability to run fast. It’s seldom that I am called upon to carry a wounded comrade on my shoulders, or to outrun a hungry cheetah (which is probably impossible anyway). “Ah,” some may say, “we must make ready for the coming collapse! For the war of all against all, when we’ll be stalking elk through the damp forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, wearing leather clothes that’ll last the rest of our lives, and climbing the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower.” Or something like that. But this may just be wishful thinking; it might never happen in our lifetimes.

And why train a body that’s just going to get old and ugly and die anyway? Donovan’s answer: train for honor. Train because the modern world – in which the average man needn’t be stronger than the average woman – is unworthy of you. Set your sights higher than what is required for life in the modern world. Train as if you needed strength to carry wounded comrades on your shoulders, and the endurance and agility necessary to outrun predators, or enemies. With this mindset, working out becomes a rejection of the modern world; a revolutionary act. Every set, every rep is an act of defiance, a repudiation of what Donovan calls the “Bonobo Masturbation Society.” (If this doesn’t motivate readers of this website to get off the couch and go to the gym, I don’t think anything else will.)

Donovan writes, “the male machine wants, at the apex of its potential, to be hurled in a warp spasm of muscular inertia at danger and, ultimately, death” (p. 110). Few of us are able to fulfill that potential, in the real and true sense. So instead we hurl ourselves at barbells and treadmills, at CrossFit and jiu-jitsu. No external signs may distinguish the man on the treadmill who trains for honor, and the gay or straight queen on the treadmill next to him, who trains to be “hot.” What counts is the motivation or the mindset they bring to their training.

Now, for Donovan training for honor is not simply about holding oneself to a higher standard than the present world requires. It also has to do with one’s relationship to the past. He writes:

I train because I imagine the disgust and contempt our ancestors would have for us all if they lined up modern men on the street. I train to be less of an embarrassment to their memory. I train because most modern men dishonor all of the men who came before them. I train “as if” they were watching and judging us. I train “as if ” I might one day be called to join them, or to strive and thrive as they once did, in a better world — a greater age. I train because it is better to imagine oneself as a soldier in a spiritual army training for a war that may never come than it is to shrug, slouch and shuffle forward into a dysgenic and dystopian future. [p. 110]

This is a very interesting statement, and it dovetails nicely with the final essay in the volume, “The Brotherhood.” It’s the final essay here but not because it is least important; arguably it’s the most important one of all, and it appears in print for the first time. Donovan describes The Brotherhood as “my sacred, guiding dream” (p. 152). What it is, quite simply, is the Männerbund: a voluntary alliance (or, as he puts it – significantly – “voluntary kinship”) between men based on honor – though there is a bit more to it, as we will see.

In modern society, brotherhoods have almost completely disappeared. War is reserved for professional soldiers, who see themselves (or are told to see themselves) as fighting for the preservation of the family – women and children, in other words. In days of yore, however, it was the Brotherhood that took a special kind of preeminence over family. Now, if we recall the argument of The Way of Men, we may be puzzled by these ideas. After all, didn’t Donovan tell us that male bands originate from the need to protect the vulnerable members of the tribe and its territory – and didn’t he tell us that this is the way that masculine virtue first manifests itself?

Yes, but the important thing to understand here is that while the Männerbund may originate in this way, it becomes – for its members – an end in itself. And those masculine virtues that are supposed to be cultivated by the members become ends in themselves. Of course, if the Männerbund became, in some fashion, antagonistic towards the tribe and the family, it would become a perversion of itself, and a cancer in the tribe. For, as Donovan notes, “without family, the Brotherhood has no future. The family is the second most sacred idea. The family is a means for the continuation of The Brotherhood, and gives a sacred role to women in The Brotherhood” (p. 153; i.e., because women give birth to the men who make up the Brotherhood, they have a sacred role to play in the tribe).

A lot of readers may miss the real significance of what Donovan means here. Essentially what he is saying is that the family exists so that the Brotherhood may exist. The coming into being of the Brotherhood, and its realization of the ideal and striving after it, justify the existence of the family. And he is also basically saying that, fundamentally, women exist in order to bring men into the world. Donovan writes, “The ideal woman is Queen Gorgo of Sparta, proud of her role in The Brotherhood, boasting that only women of her tribe give birth to worthy men” (p. 153). (Note to married men: Hide this book from your wives. Hide all Donovan’s books. Especially Androphilia.)

With his insistence that the family exists for the sake of the Brotherhood, Donovan turns modern reductionist biology on its head. His position is not unlike that of Hegel: the end of nature is to give rise to Spirit. The perfection of the human being is the realization of the ideal, but this happens in overcoming nature, including the nature in us. We begin as “natural beings,” but we become truly human when we turn ourselves towards the ideal and are willing to risk our bodily being in the service of it. For Hegel, this first displays itself in the struggle over honor. For Donovan, honor is an ideal that is first realized in the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood begins as something in the service of the natural (protection of women and progeny) but then disengages itself from the natural. It is in the Brotherhood that consciousness of the ideal is formed. It is in the Brotherhood that what is truly human is born.

Donovan tells us that, in fact, the Brotherhood is constituted by a triangle of values. Its uppermost point, aimed at the heavens, is the Brotherhood itself and “manly honor,” “but family and ancestry make up the two points across its base” (p. 155). “Family,” because without the family as such there would be no Brotherhood; and without my family there would be no me. I must therefore honor and defend the family – and protect my own family’s honor. Why “ancestry”? Donovan writes:

I have never been a believer or a religious man, but ancestor worship can bridge the gap between old religion and new science. The best we can do for the dead is remember them, and every man and woman wants to be remembered. This sacred cult of remembering the dead is also what makes women so important, and makes a strong argument for the majority of men to marry — even when they are not particularly inclined to — and continue their lines. Young men should grow up knowing what their great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers did, and who they were, and what they believed. [pp. 155-56]

And later he restates the Brotherhood’s triad of values as “The Brotherhood, The Family, and the Dead.” The members of the Brotherhood must look to who has come before them, to their ancestors. They must honor them, must become worthy to carry their name. Recall that Donovan tells us he trains “to be less of an embarrassment” to his ancestors. And – significant words here – “I train ‘as if’ I might one day be called to join them.” The members of the Brotherhood see themselves as one with the dead. And in real warrior Brotherhoods, they go out each day prepared to die – as if they were already dead. And they act with full awareness of trying to live a life worthy of being recalled in fables and songs. Their future is consciously constituted in relation to their past: the past of their ancestors, and the “past” they would create for themselves, in the memory of others.

Donovan’s essay “Anarcho-Fascism” expands upon some of these themes. There is a great deal of confusion about what the term “fascism” really means. Usually, for example, it is treated as a synonym for “totalitarianism,” which, of course, would make it indistinguishable from communism. Donovan goes back to basics in order to recover the meaning of fascism in its most basic sense. He says that the fasces “symbolizes a distinctly male worldview” (p. 42). It represents, needless to say, the Brotherhood. And Donovan is undoubtedly right about the “distinctly male” character of fascism and the central role it gives to the Brotherhood. The German scholar Hans-Peter Hasenfratz, writing of modern, “degenerated” forms of the Männerbund states:

The fascist movement, with its paramilitary groups (the Wehrwolf, the SA, the SS), provides examples of such degenerated forms in recent times. Further, in the political theory of National Socialism, the binding system that formed and sustained the state was considered not to be the symbiosis of man and woman in the family but rather the military association of man and man together in the Männerbund. In Alfred Rosenberg’s view, the Prussian, and later the German, army was “one of the most grandiose examples of the architectonic [transcending of lineage and family, state-forming] Männerbund, built upon honor and duty and corresponding to the Nordic man.”[2]

But why anarcho-fascism? Short answer: think Fight Club. Traditionally (with a capital T), The Brotherhood is a fascistic Männerbund bringing fascistic order to the tribe or nation. Today, the Brotherhood is – or must be – a fascistic “gang” (to use Donovan’s favored term) existing in “anarchic opposition” to the feminized, degenerated modern world. “Manhood can only be rebooted by the destruction of their future, and the creation of new futures for new or reborn tribes of men. . . .The way of men can only be rediscovered in Night and Chaos” (pp. 44-45, my italics). Shades of Hesiod in that last bit. Donovan is saying we must crank it all back to the beginning.

Of course, the rebooting of manhood will bring with it simultaneously, or shortly thereafter, the rebooting of Traditional culture. The Brotherhood’s internal policy: fascism. It’s policy toward the outside world: anarchy. Anarchy now, fascism later. Bring on Project Mayhem, in other words. (The Way of Men arrives at a similar result.) Donovan opens the “Anarcho-Fascism” essay with an anonymous graffito from the late 1960s: “In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish that society.”

He writes:

The fasces symbolizes the moment when men create order from chaos. This pure, primal manliness can only be realized under stress. It can only rise out of chaos, as a reaction to external forces. From there it matures, shaped by time, into an honor culture, and from that culture — that combination of collective history and custom that characterize the identity of a people — comes Tradition. [p. 44]

This is a passage pregnant with significance. Through the Brotherhood, culture is created. These were the men who painted the caves in the Upper Paleolithic. From “manly honor,” that one small, noble seed, has sprouted the mighty ash of the human spirit, with its three great branches: art, religion, and philosophy. Through the Brotherhood, a people constitutes its culture, and knows itself. The Brotherhood is the pride of the tribe, embodying its highest values. The Brotherhood is the holy of holies at the center of the nation. Donovan writes: “The blood of dire necessity that binds the band of brothers becomes the blood of heritage and duty that ties the family, the tribe, the nation” (p. 42).

Arising from natural necessity, the Brotherhood forms itself. Its members must exhibit and cultivate certain virtues. These values thus come to be reflected upon, theorized, and represented in stories and songs. And they come to be personified. They become, in short, the stuff of myth, which is the foundation of Tradition. It would be incorrect to say that these ideals become “objectified” or “hypostatized,” because these ideals are already real, already objective. But that is a tale for another time. Briefly: through the Brotherhood, men do not “make up” ideals and they certainly do not “make up” gods. They become aware of them. The gods are as real and as objective as the Pythagorean Theorem (and no more so – though they are closer in nature to the dynamic logoi spermatikoi of the Stoics, than to Pythagorean or Platonic ideas).

Donovan’s Brotherhood, fully actualized, is always a religious brotherhood. It is always, consciously or unconsciously, oriented toward the ideal – toward the divine. But its awareness of the divine is always simultaneously its own self-awareness.

This brings us to Crom. “Crom” is the title of another of the essays written especially for this volume, and it’s the second to last essay (before “The Brotherhood”), which has got to mean something as well. Crom is the fictional god in Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories. And this is Jack Donovan’s god – or so he says, but his tongue is in cheek here (sort of). In the preface, he tells us that this essay “pretty well sums up my ‘spiritual’ perspective.” And earlier I quoted him telling us that “I have never been a believer or a religious man.” Well, in the conventional sense of “believer” and “religious” man, yes. But in the unconventional sense Donovan definitely qualifies as God-intoxicated.[3]

Donovan is actually pretty serious about Crom. He’s had his name tattooed on his knuckles. If I had the name of someone’s fictitious god tattooed on my knuckles I’d have to be pretty serious about him. So, what does Crom offer the faithful? Nothing. And that’s precisely why he appeals to Donovan. Crom does not care about you. He does not think you are a beautiful and unique snowflake. If he thinks about you at all, however briefly, he considers you to be the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Because in his eyes we are all part of the same compost heap.

“CROM only cares about one thing, and that one thing is VALOR,” Donovan writes. And further,

CROM is a god beyond good and evil. CROM is a god of self-overcoming, and self-commanding, of self-obedience and the summoning of strength in the service of will. Even if you triumph, CROM probably won’t be impressed. He only cares about winners, not “survivors,” and he doesn’t pretend to be interested in hearing your excuses or rationalizations. Words like “fairness” and “equality” probably send him into thunderous fits of laughter. . . . CROM symbolizes the part of myself I need to tap into to push myself out of the nurturing womb of false affirmation that surrounds us all, and strive out into hostile territory. [pp. 145-147]

Hmm. Sounds sort of like . . . Odin.

As Bart Simpson might say, Odin is a perfectly cromulent god. (And he too is a knuckle-ready god of four letters.) Indeed, Donovan does tell us that, as gods go, he prefers “the European pagan gods to the Christian god or Asian religious figures because the European pagan gods were the native gods of my ancestors, and I like their stories better, and they inspire me in a way that I want to be inspired” (p. 144). So far so good, but then Donovan writes:

In an age where the gods have been driven into the shadows by the light of SCIENCE!, men must find inspiration where they can. If the old gods have become mere stories — ideas — then men are free to choose whatever story inspires them to become what they believe they should become. [p. 147]

But this isn’t really true. We are not entirely free to choose “whatever” story inspires us. The larger reason for this is that we’re never entirely free to do anything. Nurture and – more importantly, we’re finding out – nature (i.e., genetics) will pull us in certain directions. And Donovan admits that he finds himself pulled toward the “pagan European gods.” They are a better fit for him. But that’s not a matter of “choice.” So, why is he not sporting “ODIN” on his knuckles? Probably because so many self-proclaimed “Odinists” and “Ásatrúar” are basically just playing dress-up.

Believe me, I understand that. But the genuine article is out there. I know, I’ve met some. (And I hope I am some.) And now, interestingly enough, Jack Donovan has met them as well. Around the time of the publication of A Sky Without Eagles Donovan journeyed to Lynchburg, Virginia to visit the Wolves of Vinland, a self-described “tribe of folkish heathens” – Odin-worshipping, Germanic heathens. I won’t summarize the result, because you can read about it yourself. I will simply say that I think the reader will come away with the same impression I did: that Mr. Donovan had a religious experience in Lynchburg.

And if one reads A Sky Without Eagles with Donovan’s essay on the Wolves of Vinland in mind, as I did, it’s hard to resist seeing how the various strands of thought woven throughout these seventeen essays are all clues, leading Donovan back to the Northern European traditions of his ancestors.

If we could go back far enough in Donovan’s lineage, we would find men who were members of precisely the sorts of brotherhoods he idealizes. Initiated members of Männerbünde, followers of Odin, the “first initiate” and the leader of the Männerbünde. Odin is a god beyond good and evil, who doesn’t “care about you.” And he is preeminently a god of self-overcoming. He is “the god of the battle ecstasy (of the ‘berserker rage’).”[4] He only cares about valor.

The Germanic Männerbund was (to use Donovan’s words) a “voluntary kinship.” In the words of Hans-Peter Hasenfratz, it was “Sib-like (and yet Sib-transcending).”[5] It was devoted to valor and to honor – to living up to an ideal, and being remembered for it. Hasenfratz writes, “Through their initiation, the young members of the Männerbund are also counted among the heavenly ghost warriors of Odin (the einherjar); their ecstatic actions are reflected in the myth of Wotan’s ‘Wild Army’ [i.e, the “Wild Hunt”].”[6] And: “Because Odin was also the leader of the ‘Wild Army’ of the dead, in certain instances the members of the Männerbünde represented the dead among the living population of the community.”[7]

These men really wanted “to be hurled in a warp spasm of muscular inertia at danger and, ultimately, death.” Indeed, they were already dead: identified with Odin’s ghostly army. One thinks immediately not just of Donovan’s “sacred cult of remembering the dead,” but of his admonition that one should “imagine oneself as a soldier in a spiritual army.” And his telling us that he trains “as if I might one day be called upon to join [my ancestors].”

The orientation of Donovan’s ancestors was solidly “vertical,” to borrow the term he uses in the essay from which this volume takes its title. The skies of Donovan’s ancestors were full of eagles. Even Donovan’s belief in “hierarchy through meritocracy” (and his dismissal of the obsession with “caste” found among many Traditionalists) is characteristically Northern European. Our ancestors had their royal and noble houses. But a man could be elevated into a higher station through proving his worth. And the king or chieftain was always “first among equals.”

In my review essay of The Way of Men, I wrote that

I don’t really want to bring down the modern world to save “men” in general. I do sympathize with the men of other tribes, in so far as men are men and have much the same problems and concerns. But it’s the men of my tribe that I am really concerned with — just because my primary concern is with the survival of my tribe and my culture. Jack Donovan has taught us that masculinity first displays itself in this concern with the survival of the tribe — of our tribe, not theirs; with “us” not “them.” Fundamentally, what he has taught us is that to be a man means to be at odds with the men of the other tribe. If Donovan really gets his way and “gangs” proliferate, they’re not going to all go bowling together. They’re going to begin history again. And it’s going to be intense.

That this is Donovan’s own position is made crystal clear in this new volume. For I have not yet even mentioned what will be, for some, the most controversial of these essays: “Mighty White,” in which Donovan (sort of) endorses White Nationalism. The Brotherhood Donovan dreams of is not all shades of the rainbow.

This completes the picture, as far as I am concerned. It’s safe to say that Donovan has earned himself a place at Odin’s table; membership in the einherjar. And Odin won’t even mind if Donovan still wants to call him Crom. For Odin has many names.

Notes 

[1] This is not the same thing as saying that a woman has these two features and only these two. Women may achieve a wide variety of virtues, but the specific virtue of “femininity” consists primarily in these two aspects.

[2] Hans-Peter Hasenfratz, Barbarian Rites: The Spiritual World of the Vikings and the Germanic Tribes, trans. Michael Moynihan (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2011), 51.

[3] See Derek Hawthorne’s review of Androphilia for another discussion of Donovan’s religious side.

[4] Hasenfratz, 49.

[5] Hasenfratz, 50.

[6] Hasenfratz, 73.

[7] Hasenfratz, 49.

 

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15 comments

  1. James J. O'Meara says:
    July 15, 2014 at 1:16 pm

    “No one cares how much Tatum Channing [sic] or Brad Pitt lifts, or how fast they can run, or what they can build, or how many men they could defeat in combat. They’re admired for being desirable” (p. 90).

    Based on the above, I think I’ve found the ultimate Real Man: Bunny Roger, war hero, legendary Harrod’s window dresser, and inventor of Capri pants (while vacationing on the isle itself):

    “After active duty in the Second World War, which he acquitted with notable bravery, he commented “Now I’ve shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat.”

    “Major-general and major queen in the same wasp-waisted body. Haslam claims to have witnessed a kilted Bunny charging manfully up Highland slopes, pausing at the summit to wait for his winded troops, and to adjust his makeup using a compact hidden in his sporran; ready, no doubt, for his close-up.”

    http://strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/birthday-bunny/

    “Fighting for the British Rifle Brigade during the second world war, he went to battle wearing a chiffon scarf and brandishing a copy of Vogue. Once, when his sergeant asked him what should be done about the advancing enemy troops, Roger, who liked to wear rouge even with his khakis, replied, “When in doubt, powder heavily.” When he ran into an old friend in the hellish, bombed-out monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy he responded to his pal’s incredulous “What on earth are you doing here, Bunny?” greeting with one word: “Shopping”.

    http://selvedgeyard.com/2010/01/28/bunny-roger-english-style-icon-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

    1. Jack Donovan says:
      July 16, 2014 at 3:53 pm

      One of the reasons no one wants queens (or dandies, or however you’d like to romanticize them) around is that they are so narcissistic that they make everything about them. It’s obvious attention-seeking behavior better suited to a high school girl. At best, it’s a quirky character flaw to be overlooked or noted with humor because of more noble accomplishments.

      Tens of thousands of men fought heroically on all sides during WWII, and persistently elevating the one who acted like a twit while doing it as the finest example of manhood is disrespectful and despicable.

      Dandies represent every reason why the West deserves to fail. Self-obsessed, individualistic, narcissistic, atomized consumerism. Nothing more. Worthless. End of story. I wouldn’t want to have a drink with a self-proclaimed dandy, much less elevate him as some kind of Übermensch.

      1. Greg Johnson says:
        July 16, 2014 at 10:58 pm

        I think you are conflating several things here.

        First, the English are rather astonishingly tolerant of eccentricity. But flaunting eccentricity has no place in a foxhole, where people have to be able to count on one another implicitly. The military has all sorts of outlets for male vanity, but it has to flow through well-cut common channels or it undermines the intelligibility and trust that are necessary for it to perform its function. Bunny Roger is probably an example of how the British class system go the better of military effectiveness.

        But still, Bunny Roger stories are always a good laugh. “Powder heavily” and “shopping” are over-the-top queeny. (Did the samurai “powder heavily”?) But in their own way such retorts communicate the underlying attitude of detachment in the midst of horror (stiff upper lip and all that) that all men in combat strive for — like Bond’s witticisms after dispatching an enemy.

        Second, dandyism as a historical phenomenon is connected with a rejection of certain traits of modernity, specifically utilitarianism, the reduction of value to usefulness or functionality, which ends up denigrating the fine and the beautiful as merely useless. Dandyism, aestheticism, and other related phenomena are thus conservative, in that they provide defenses for high culture, liberal arts, the whole heritage of classical and aristocratic civilization, which are under attack in the modern world. I translated an article by Robert Steuckers on this issue here at Counter-Currents: https://counter-currents.com/2010/08/reflections-on-the-aesthetic-and-literary-figure-of-the-dandy-part-i/, https://counter-currents.com/2010/08/reflections-on-the-aesthetic-and-literary-figure-of-the-dandy-part-ii/, https://counter-currents.com/2010/08/reflections-on-the-aesthetic-literary-figure-of-the-dandy-part-iii/

        Third, there are masculine and effeminate forms of male vanity and display. Dandyism is not necessarily effeminate, it is just different from the norm of our times. A military uniform is just as much a rejection of the business suit or the prole-slob T-shirt and jeans as the feather boa is, but it is a lot more flattering to a man.

        Whose idea, by the way, was it to dress American generals up for public viewing in shapeless, butt-ugly combat fatigues that are about as flattering and dignified as pajamas?

        Fourth, I think that the metrosexual and the dandy are not necessarily the same thing. Metrosexuality is just a marketing scheme for narcissistic men. It is all about advertising, consumerism, and fashion (narcissism + conformism). But dandyism was a rebellion against the metrosexuality of its day, against the fashion of its day or any day. It was archaic (rejecting modernity) and consciously impractical (rejecting utility). Of course you can’t have fashion without self-display and material goods. And every rebellion is (1) defined in part by what it rejects, and (2) routinized and commodified in the end. Individualism strikes me as trivial, fashion is superficial, and fashion rebellions are mostly pointless, but I still don’t go around in boiler suits and flip flops.

        As a tattoo artist, how do you think that tattooing relates to consumerism, fashion, rebellion against fashion, modernity, etc.? As a Mishima fan, where do you think he fits into this?

  2. James J. O'Meara says:
    July 15, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    Also, I must protest the misuse of the term ‘metrosexual’, although I realize this, like “gay divorcee” may be a lost cause. The metrosexual does not conduct his rigorous daily routine to “attract” anyone; like his 19th century precursor, the dandy, he does it strictly for himself.

    In this, he is the antithesis of the Gamester, who, despite his macho self-image, is, as Andy Nowicki has rightly observed, entirely Other-oriented and thus pathetic.

    Bunny Roger, for example:

    “He … admitted to me that the Edwardian look he had perfected was what he fancied on other people. “Such a mistake,” he’d sigh. “One never gets anyone.” — Nicky Haslam, Redeeming Features.

  3. jef costello says:
    July 15, 2014 at 7:01 pm

    Surely this was the real-life model for The Avengers‘ John Steed.

    1. James J. O'Meara says:
      July 15, 2014 at 10:30 pm

      Too right! I don’t actually know of a direct link, but Roger set up a boutique after the war with … Hardy Aimes, who did, or at least inspired, the Steed wardrobe.

      Bunny was probably single-handedly responsible for making the Edwardian look a sign of rebellion: so old-fashioned and expensive, it was an insult to working class, rationed Brits. Thus, the “Teddy Boys,” the Beatles (via Brian Epstein) and Steed.

      Bunny looking very Steed:
      http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/bunny-roger.jpg?w=700

      1. Jaego says:
        July 16, 2014 at 4:25 am

        And when one thinks of Steed, naturally one remember his consort Emma Peel. Steed’s heterosexuality is strong, but understated in a very English way.

        1. James J. O'Meara says:
          July 16, 2014 at 2:26 pm

          Now, that opens a whole other angle. “Understated in the British manner” reminds me of the current meme, “He’s not gay, he’s just British.”

          As for Emma P. (named, it’s said, for M(ale) Appeal), one does note that both she and her predecessor in leather, Cathy Gale, were rather butch compatriots; Honor Blackman, of course, having left to play the blatantly lesbian Pussy Galore. I, however, perversely prefer the much-and-unfairly-derided Tara King series.

          Whether Steed is gay or English is irrelevant, since as a post-dandy, pre-metrosexual, his interests are clothes, cars, wines, etc., not women. Even if hetero, unlike today’s Gamers that doesn’t mean he devotes his time to planning clever ways to bed Emma; he gets his kicks above the waistline, Sunshine.

          1. Jaego says:
            July 18, 2014 at 4:26 am

            Steed’s orientation is irrelevant? It mattered quite a bit to Emma – and to the boys who wanted to be Steed and have an Emma of their own. We must orient ourselves to the Sun and to the North Star as you indicate. You are wiser than you know. Forget about the Tropics and the Moon. We came from the North – ultimately the Higher Worlds, not from the Apes of Africa.

            Have you read Haldeman’s “Forever War”? Homosexuality becomes the primary method of birth control and is genetically and culturally selected for. I fear he may yet become a prophet.

          2. rhondda says:
            July 18, 2014 at 1:10 pm

            I found Steed to be very attractive and the sexual tension between him and Emma Peel was the hook of the show. It was never consummated and one kept watching to see what their repartee would be like the next time.

  4. R_Moreland says:
    July 16, 2014 at 4:27 am

    Jef, I appreciate the Fight Club references. One thing to consider is how just prior to the turn of the (21st) century there were several movies which came out and said, “Whoa! There’s something wrong with the reality we are being given here!” Fight Club took on issues of male virtue versus consumerist society. It also brought out the other world in which men live their true lives. After all, who you are in Fight Club is not what you are in your 9 to 5 job, nor what the multicult ministry of truth tells you on 500 channels of telescreen. And the movie had the guts to take things through to their logical conclusion, prefiguring 9/11 when you think about it, with the destruction of corporate towers (albeit, without casualties, or at least so the movie tells us).

    Also look at The Truman Show or The Matrix. Theme of a man realizing that there is something not right with the world around him, then gathering the inner strength to break on through to the other side. The fact that all these movies were immensely popular with the public shows that they were on to something. There is this vague unease among the public about the political situation, the mass migrations into the Homeland, the Orwellian state of total surveillance and endless wars in Eurasia and Eastasia. Of course, for WN and others on the alternative right it’s not a vague unease, it’s facing up to the assault on Western Civilization.

    Compare these movies to the classic science fiction themes of Star Trek and Star Wars, where the heroes are, well, heroic figures taking on the universe. But in Fight Club we see men taking on their inner selves as a means to break the antagonist’s hold. It’s not just escapist fantasy. It is a statement for many alienated men. And it gives a goal. The question then becomes, how to turn the quest for the Mannerbund into a movement which can seize power?

  5. Wise Cave Owl says:
    July 16, 2014 at 8:38 am

    Ed Wood, eventual director of Plan 9 From Outer Space, fought his way across the Pacific 1943-45 as a Marine rifleman…wearing bra and panties underneath his uniform. Now that was a man.

    1. James J. O'Meara says:
      July 16, 2014 at 2:34 pm

      Bunny was “seen charging forward machine gun blazing and wildly throwing hand grenades after he realised “his boys” were in trouble. When everyone eventually advanced forward he was found occupying a German position surrounded by dead bodies and commented “Daddy will have to buy me a new mink for this.” He did not get the mink but did get the Military Cross at Buckingham Palace.” — http://selvedgeyard.com/2010/01/28/bunny-roger-english-style-icon-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

      The Germans called Bunny’s Scottish regiment “the ladies from Hell” “not just because they wore kilts, but also because they were ruthlessly aggressive with bayonet, rifle and grenade.” –Ben Le Vay’s Eccentric Britain

  6. Matt S. says:
    July 18, 2014 at 1:03 pm

    Extraordinary article. Well done, sir!

    Mr. Costello, what sources would you recommend to someone wanting to learn more about the folk-religion of the Indo-Europeans? This is the first that I’ve heard of Hans-Peter Hasenfratz’s “Barbarian Rites” and my interest is certainly piqued. Previously, I’ve read James C. Russell’s “The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity”, which I would recommend to anyone interested in the subject. It is exceptionally good at illuminating the worldview animating the various practices and rites of the Germanic tribes and contrasting this worldview to the salvationist religions which we are all so familiar with. It is this conception of the world which is my primary interest.

    1. jef costello says:
      July 23, 2014 at 10:19 am

      Dear Matt,
      I can only recommend to you works about the Germanic heathen tradition. I do suggest you read the Hasenfratz book. I also would recommend the writings of Nigel Pennick and Edred Thorsson.
      Best Wishes,
      Jef

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