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The past few months have seen the dissolution of several dissident narratives, even as the year 2020 worked overtime to produce them. Many people developed a healthy skepticism of the governments and reigning elites in the West. More who were already skeptical about governments and elites upgraded their skepticism to outright distrust of and hostility towards those groups. Dissident organizations grew in membership and funding. Dissident publications grew in readership, even in the face of censorship and deplatforming. Dissident thought flourished. Old hats, thought lost to the void, reemerged. New men arose. It should have been a very good year.
But it wasn’t.
Oh, sure, you can present me with an argument to the contrary. I, too, will be making such arguments in the future, I wager. It was a very good year in the sense that every year above ground is a good year. After all, we are dissidents. Much like guerrillas, as long as we exist, we are winning. When you’ve been blacklisted from the credit card industry and still manage to raise enough money to keep on trucking, that’s a clear win. When major social media block links to your website and you still have growth in readership, that’s a clear victory. But maybe the real victory was the friends we made along the way. And after all, isn’t a decrease of trust in institutions a good thing? It’s right out of the national populist white paper.
I strongly recommend you read the linked speech transcript. But here’s the part relevant to our discussion today:
If people believe such [Alex Jones type] stories, it doesn’t just lower the trust in the system, it lowers their trust in logic and their own lying eyes. But there’s a problem with that. Complete epistemological nihilism is very easy to start, but it is hard to stop. You might think the nihilist train will take you to your destination, but when you pull the cord to make it stop, it’s just going to keep on barreling down the tracks.
We’re seeing some of that today. At the time of writing (January 18, 2021), true believers in the QAnon narrative are still trying to convince me that the pretender Biden’s inauguration is a massive trap for the pedophile satanic elites. See, these past four years of ineffectual attempts at fighting the deep state — which these people always assume is a coherent cabal — have been nothing but Trump and the white hats in government playing possum. Now, The Plan will be put into motion and The Storm will commence and the evil satanic pedophile elites will be arrested, tried for treason, and President Trump will restore Our Republic.
But we’re not seeing complete epistemic nihilism. That might follow in the wake of Biden’s inauguration. Already, some of these Q believers sound like Q is their last thread before unraveling completely. It’s not just that the evil satanic pedophile elite media were lying to us — but the good guys, white hats, patriots, and Q himself were lying to us too. Worse, maybe it was all always lies. Maybe my own eyes are lying to me. Maybe there’s no such thing as truth. This is usually the point in the Lovecraftian tale where the protagonist goes mad and starts babbling about Yog Sothoth and the dusty tomes of the Mad Arab.
Hey, you wanna get nuts? Let’s get nuts. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Biden Washington wgah’nagl fhtagn.
Maybe that’s too dramatic. In all likelihood, only a tiny minority of Q believers will wander the street as lost souls repeating “Trump Won” until they’re blue and then green in the face. And for what? They never presented a genuine threat to the system. Even as they were entering the Capitol and taking selfies, none of the enemy’s agents were in genuine danger. QAnon and the broader patriot narrative do not challenge the central narrative of the ruling elite. It is, in a sense, a fanfiction of the ruling elite’s narrative.
The basic and inviolate, central and indubitable, indubitable I say, totem of the ruling elite’s narrative is that All Men Are Created Equal. Human egalitarianism, including gender, race, class, caste, and all other forms of egalitarianism. Every featherless biped being equal to every other featherless biped, including (and especially) Diogenes’s plucked chicken. It’s just those mean ole white men who et cetera et cetera. All of their insanities flow from and are energized by this presupposition.
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Now, pause for a moment and let us retreat into movieland.
Let us imagine that the past 5 years have been an adaptation of a Tom Clancy thriller. The Trap has been set. The pretender Biden, pumped full of an adrenochrome-methamphetamine-and-Scotch cocktail, is lifting his hand to be sworn in by the traitor John Roberts, who trembles as he brings forth the Necronomicon wrapped in a Bible’s dust jacket (to deceive the rubes). Cordoned off from the rest of the country by 20,000 troops in Washington DC, and believing the patriots well and truly defeated, the satanic elite have prepared 10,000 children under the age of 5 to be ritualistically raped and sacrificed to Communist Moloch in celebration of their total victory over Our Republic. Suddenly, arriving in attack helicopters evocative of Lord Indra’s chariot, Donald Trump and the Patriot army! US Marines pop up from hidden trap doors all over the National Mall and start arresting the pedophiles and Satanists. The National Guardsmen supposedly guarding them turn around and start shooting.
Enraged at the foiling of her plans, Kamala Harris shoves aside the trembling Roberts and shambling Biden, grabs a screaming infant from the rape pile, and rips out his pineal gland, scarfing it down in a frenzy and suddenly sprouting a forked tail, wings, horns, and a sturdy outer carapace that deflects bullets and grenades. Madison Cawthorne, faced with Uber-Kamala, turns to Steve Turley and says “I never thought I’d fight side by side with a boomer.” “How about side by side with a friend?” asks Dr. Turley. “Uh, based,” responds Fuentes, as he cleaves Mike Pence’s head in two with a battleaxe. Unperturbed, Barron Trump marches towards Uber-Kamala, commanding a division of ICE agents. She easily slaughters the agents, and is poised to open Barron from golden pubes to collarbone, but suddenly, she takes strong helicopter fire from her flank. It’s President Jair Bolsonaro, flying in with a detachment of Brazilian paratroopers to aid the battle, himself in his old captain’s outfit. “Dê a eles o inferno, Gringo!” quips Bolsonaro as he turns to engage Mecha-McConnell who is now trying to shoot him down with surface-to-air missiles built into his CCP-supplied battle mech. All of President Trump’s international allies are now appearing. We see Bad Vlad Putin riding in with a whole brigade of Russian bear cavalry, Bibi Netanyahu and a battalion of Israeli paratroopers charge the pedophile flank, crying out in pain as they strike them, and old Janez Janša has brought the entire Slovenian army (all three of them) to bear on the globalist center. Even Melania gets in on the fun, producing countless knives from her mink stole, engaging in a designated chick fight with a sonic-gavel wielding Alexandria Ocasio Cortez until both of them have lost too much clothing to keep the film’s PG-13 rating and she finally stabs a stiletto between Mommy AOC’s ginormous tits and black blood dramatically flows from her evil heart.
But circling back to Barron.
An unassuming man in an Army uniform gives him something shiny: the sword of George Washington. He uses it to sever Uber-Kamala’s head clean from her body. She lets out a scream that shatters glass and the energy beam from her dying body shatters the CCP headquarters far away in Beijing. The legions of liberated children carry President Trump on their shoulders. He looks for the man who gave Barron the sword of Washington and promises to reward him, but the man is gone, smuggled out of the mess by Bronze Age Pervert. We see from his name tag that he is Lt. Gen. Quentin Q. Quinn. The heroes party and Our Republic is restored.
I’ll give you a second to get your erections under control. Now, is this narrative pretty? It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever written. Is it true? Eh, we don’t use the t-word around here. Is it Q-compatible? Yes. Would it be ruined by casting Forest Whittaker as General Q? No, rather, it’d be enhanced.
The Q narrative was always race-blind. It never addressed the fundamental and inviolable central plank of the elite narrative: the notion of egalitarianism. Why shouldn’t Q be black? Why shouldn’t he be Jewish, or Hispanic? Our Republic is for everyone, as long as they come here legally. And who’s to say black people can’t oppose the pedophile satanic elites?
Now, I’m not exactly singling out the Q narrative here. I’ve already done that in the past, when its falseness wasn’t as readily apparent. But it’s not alone among dissident narratives in lacking dissidence. Racial egalitarianism can survive on Flat Earth (as the Pratchett opus will demonstrate), it can survive under conditions of anti-vax conspiracies, it can survive if aliens killed Kennedy, and it can even survive assuming that post-WWII, Nazis and Fascists infiltrated the governments of the West (as believed by Noam Chomsky and other eminent intellectuals). These are just some of the more ridiculous ones. There are others, each containing complete or partial rejections of human biodiversity, sometimes overtly. Some are rather compelling. For example, what is pejoratively called “IQ nationalism” seeks to reduce human biodiversity to IQ, for some tautological reason such as “it is measurable,” or “it is the best predictor we have of x,” where x is the inchworm’s pet parameter that will make marigolds measurable.
Whether we like it or not, no matter how flimsy the elite narrative, it is based on presuppositions set very deep into the Western psyche. These are reinforced by education, constant propaganda, and constant demonization of its opposites: the narratives acknowledging human biodiversity. Doubting or even imputing malice to the elite’s motivations does not automatically translate to an accurate or even useful representation of who they are or what they do — their genuine malice towards whites, males, Christians, and heterosexuals notwithstanding. The dominant narrative, as well as its ancillary conservative narrative, already has idea spaces for bad guys who’ve infiltrated the government (see Chomsky). If I had a dime for every time I’ve heard about “the fascist globalists running the EU and UN,” the Dissident Right would have its very own George Soros. I’ll even grow great big eye bags if I have to. I hear it’s union rules for shady financiers.
Human thought and emotion are like water. They flow around the barriers erected in the human mind by education, by propaganda, and if we’re very unlucky, by genetics. A sense of being hated by the elites without any significant deprogramming will lead to resentment of the elite on the elite’s terms. Consequently, any attack against the dominant narrative will be impotent because it will not question its central premise.
It doesn’t matter that you don’t believe that Epstein killed himself if you are not prepared to understand that Epstein was a racial alien, fundamentally and irreconcilably incompatible with white Westerners, dispatched by a foreign power, fundamentally and irreconcilably incompatible with the order of Western nations, to run a kompromat-gathering operation on American and Western power-brokers.
But to understand that is to get the Jew thing, which is a particularly nasty strain of anti-egalitarianism. It goes against every tenet of your conditioning. It’s like asking a pious Muslim to accept that Mohammed was nothing but an opportunistic and charismatic liar who invented a religion so he could steal, kill, and get his weasel waxed.
So, in the words of Larry David, curb your enthusiasm. Yes, we’ve witnessed a great rise in distrust of official narratives and institutions, but the alternatives springing up aren’t much better. They do not strike at the heart of the enemy’s deception and as such are to be shunned both out of practical necessity as well as out of duty to the truth.
We’ll get nowhere with a warmed-over version of yesterday’s liberalism and a dream of Secretary Q played by Laurence Fishburne.
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Interesting that ‘Vox Day’, probably the most prominent remaining QPromoter, is so seldom mentioned by anyone.
It is kind of odd that Vox Day got caught up in the Q stuff. He is a well-intentioned enough fellow albeit with a bit of overweening opinion of his own brilliance. On the other hand, he is a purveyor of comic books and Q is a comic book type theory, well suited to that medium. There are two reasons we should not be too harsh on the folks that fell for the Q stuff:
(1) Most of the people that fell for it weren’t very well educated or well-read
(2) The last four years HAS proven that a lot of the old conspiracy theories going back to the
folks like the Birchers in the 1950’s have been proven right. The world is, after all, run by evil
billionaire James Bond style villains. The Q people and those who think Queen Elizabeth II is a
reptile concluded that since the conspiracy theorists have been right all along, that all conspiracy
theories have equal credibility.
So my proposal is that we do our best to avoid mocking Q theorists. They at least know that the Deep State and the New World Order are evil institutions that must be fought. We should dedicate ourselves to forgive, though perhaps not forget, their silliness and soldier on and try to save this white civilization somehow.
I wouldn’t poke fun as such, since I save my rhetorical ammo for the other side. Still, the Q thing has been a big distraction. I’m not sure if someone was doing it for funsies, or if it’s black propaganda to tell people to “trust the plan” when there is none. It’s a lesson for us going forward.
Probably because starving Teddy Spaghetti of attention is the only way to make him go away.
It’s just the weirdest thing. People I know are carrying on with this crap. Is it me or are these people just dumb? Would you say it’s in the ignorance or quality of mind arena or are they genetically stupid? How does one differentiate?
Another strange detail is the slogan Where We Go One We Go All. It’s from the movie white squall, which I rented to get up on the phenom. It’s not a bad movie. Easy on the eyes, but I can’t see why they connected it to qanon. Unless, and here’s groping for a white pill, all the people in this film are criminally white. Of course they sleep with a black hooker…
In some ways Q is as old as the net itself. You can find posters posing as some ‘inner circle’ who have ‘inside’ knowledge of what is happening from a very long time ago, it seems to be a recurring internet theme. If you then jump to 9/11 you will find similar stories being propagated then that are saying what people wanted to hear at that time, again ‘coming from the inside’, ‘from important sources’. Of course none of it was real. People want it to be real. It’s ‘real’ in their mind. Quite why this has taken off into a cult today I’m not sure.
There is a powerful appetite for justice and redemption and Q feeds this appetite, but it can never satisfy. It’s a viral drug full of MSG and other chemicals that just make the victim hungry for more. Meanwhile the world continues to decline.
I would like to see some study of numbers of believers but it seems too many people have been pulled into swallowing this bs in part or whole.
It makes people addicted, lazy, passive and stupid and waiting for someone else ‘out there’ to fix things for us. As this article says it also shifts addicts somewhat off course from the tangible material issues into soft wooly-headed Americana that avoids discourse that is too difficult. Indeed Q is not a sufficient challenge to the system itself.
It’s presumably diverted a lot of good work chan style boards were doing into aimless speculation on some post anyone could have written for any reason.
How do we know white nationalism and the alt right are not simply our own brand of Q? In the wilderness of mirrors how do we know what truth is?
Q is both an affirmation of the system and an invalidation of trump supporters. 911 truth is an uncomfortable subject that would never get widespread appeal because it raises questions about the paternalistic Republican Party and our greatest ally that low iq people can’t handle. They look away uncomfortably and try to change the subject. The costs of criticism have been deeply internalized into the reptile brain and they dare not broach even in private.
Q on the other hand has been sterilized of all discombobulating subject matter, hence its broad appeal. There was a lot right wing conspiracy theory of this nature back when Obama was elected. The tales of fema camps to which Republicans were soon to be gulaged, the idea that Obama was “not going to leave office,” lol. But these kooks on the internet, not the speaker of the house.
Not sure I understand everything, but I maybe I wasn’t clear in what I wrote. I wasn’t taking a dig at 9/11 Truth, although this are some parallels with an internet phenomena that may or may not spur people into attending real life events.
I was referring to people who were trying to pump obviously fake but highly attractive news stories into 9/11 Truth at the time, such as ‘Bush and Cheney have been arrested for it’, or people who swore they saw a missile hit the Pentagon going on the patriot talk shows of time telling their story , only later to be inevitably found out to be cranks seeking attention.
There was an audience of good honest truth seekers who knew things were bad then, but there were clearly some people saying what that audience wanted to hear. Q today does the same.
“How do we know white nationalism and the alt right are not simply our own brand of Q? In the wilderness of mirrors how do we know what truth is?”
We are not telling people to trust the plan, we are telling them to trust reality.
“We are not telling people to trust the plan, we are telling them to trust reality.”
Most peoples “reality” is telling them that the races are equal and Whites are the cause of every other groups problems in America.
What’s true and what isn’t is largely immaterial. You need to control the institutions (or separate from them and make your own) that set the narrative so you can push your truth on the easily influenced masses, that’s it.
As an aside, the article had a nice movie script. If I was a wealthy Jewish movie producer, I’d give it the green light!
I guess if you take that definition of reality Q did a good thing by bringing white people into an albeit race blind narrative that was still broadly speaking to their interests and that had a clearly defined good and evil.
But it came with built in failure by saying these anonymous posters know the answer and to just sit back and wait, and then when nothing happened, to interpret every little detail about current events as some ‘secret code’ that Trump and the forces of good were speaking to them through.
In the struggle to capture this religious part of the brain I don’t exactly disagree about the grand narrative, and I have no problem with whites using propaganda, trolling, memes, creating viral narratives and whatever to win over the mob. There may be some lessons that can be learned from Q and other internet viral phenomena about our struggle as nationalists, but Q itself, its content and its hopeless brain rotting effects on people falls flat at even the most brief scrutiny.
Don’t mention the Q’s
Although a boomer, never paid no nevermind to Q, equivalent to marvel movies.
You’ll all be laughing out the other side of your faces when the saucers land tomorrow! Forget Hale-Bopp and Hail Trump you pink boys, Hail Bob!
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Excellent point, Nick… I know a Trumpist (who hates me for my racism, i.e. racialism) and I always wonder, what do you even want, what are your goals. Anyways… two things are achieved that seem valuable:
1)there is IMO no denying that the other side had to show their hand in a way that is extreme: anti-freedom, antiwhite hate, general total lunacy; IMO this has got to be waking up people at a huge rate.
2)The lunatics have created a united group of 75 million Americans: all those who believe that their Trump-vote wasn´t treated fairly. And since these voters are of-course at least implicitly pro-White, the lunatics have given us for the first time:
A (implicitly) pro-White in-group !
Now we can practice in-group solidarity! E.g. for OSTRACISM which is the weapon of the new NGO / tech etc. rulership: now we can play the ostracism game to our advantage.
A final word regarding Whites´ inability to be honest in the race-question: my idea for resistance is to start with enabling self-determination: the true freedom of assembly that comes along with that self-determination will solve the race-question all on its own, by self-segregation (and eventually explicit racialism); i.e. we don´t have to even say the word “race” if we don´t want to and we will yet arrive at White countries.
So my central demand would be self-determination, not racial segregation. The typical white individualist can easily agree with self-determination, so that´s a demand that can´t easily be dismissed.
A Trumpist who hates you for your racialism is probably practicing what they consider to be good optics. A Trumpist believes he is a Trump representative and they will do anything to stop people from tarnishing his reputation by association, or to deny the left more ammo. “If I’m honest about my feelings on the race question, they might use that against my leader.” This is especially true since Charlottesville.
Even so, a Trumpist doesn’t understand that their reputation will be tarnished regardless of optics. They are targeted for what they are: white and right of center. In the eyes of the enemy, Trump is no different from Richard Spencer. This is something the Trumpist must learn and perhaps with the coming ostracization of all Trump voters these people will see the light. I fear this will be only a third, however. The other third will cling to Trump as their fallen idol to the bitter end, and the final third will simply repent and slot back into the established McConnellite politics as soon as the next Paul Ryan starts talking about the usual Republican distractionary talking points like abortion, taxes and the national debt (I would add guns and the Bible in there but these are things the Republicans are already inching away from.)
“The basic and inviolate, central and indubitable, indubitable I say, totem of the ruling elite’s narrative is that All Men Are Created Equal”.
Exactly right, almost. The foundation-stone premise of the Left religion is, NOT that all are “created” equal, but that all can BE MADE TO BE equal by application of socio-economic conditioning. The malleable-Blank-Slate thing. An important distinction.
The Left thus holds that the moral mission of “society” is to MAKE everyone metrically “equal”. Forcing metric equality to happen “by any means necessary” is is the whole thing going on now.
The Blank-Slate theory of man IS the Left’s ideological Achilles Heel. Disprove it, and the whole credibility of Leftism COLLAPSES. Important for us to understand this now.
|||*** …It goes against every tenet of your conditioning. It’s like asking a pious Muslim to accept that Mohammed was nothing but an opportunistic and charismatic liar who invented a religion so he could steal, kill, and get his weasel waxed. ***|||
Don’t spoil your otherwise fine work with moronic analogies.
Don’t soil this otherwise fine comment with your mohammedanism.
This is a site for Europeans and their overseas relatives, and Islam will never fall on our side of the political divide. Theocracy is not exactly on the White Nationalist wishlist.
I wish for peaceful coexistence between Europe and the Muslim world but in our own territories we will say what we damn well please about your prophet.
Boom. Mo can considered his snackbar cooked.
Behaving in the manner of Robert Spencer, Christopher Hitchens, Ayan Hirsi Ali and other Pharisee-philic Islam bashers will NOT further your cause.
The Satanic Zionists and their gentile slaves would very much like to keep the Whites busy on Charlie Hebdo sketch boards so as to distract them from rekindling their own ethno-cultural hearths.
Your struggle is just and moral. Don’t torch it.
Regards
Excellent essay. Very good points. We do need to try to prevent our people from going ‘full nihilism’. Most people cannot handle the Abyss. Nor should they need to.
Even somebody like Semiogogue, who strikes me as pretty damn smart, felt that Trump would prevail in the end with the help of the military, the old industrial elite, and allied groups.
And even though I realized back in 2016 that there’s no hope for the USA short of its break-up, it still comes as a shock to me that not a single sector of our elite sided with the true American people.
Semiogogue was the biggest disappointment of all. He is a genuinely insightful thinker and I could listen to him speak about language for hours, but I can’t watch his videos now – he refuses to leave the copium den.
He said he’d be happy to eat crow many times if his bet failed. Give the guy a break.
In fact his “Wrong about Trump-Mea Maxima Culpa Livestream” is on YouTube (20:00 GMT 1/20/2021). Let’s see what Oliver has to say.
Gawd:
“… fanfiction of the ruling elite’s narrative.”
Brilliant.
Q was a gayop prob created by the [email protected] It’s not ok to just brush it off and tell the followers “it’s fine lil fella, you tried.” No: it was done to assuage people’s feelings that Trump was failing miserably. It was nothing more than a distraction to make normies look away from ZioCon Don’s GOPe fealty and his endless Zionism.
“Trust the plan” loosely translated in English means: “Keep voting GOP”
Great Q movie ending you’ve written, except for Q being a magic negro. I would rather see Nick Cave as Q, that way he could turn to the camera and sing “I Need You” as the credits roll, because as all good nihilists know “nothing really matters.”
I have read a fair amount of the Q material and of its prominent apologists. Do not underestimate the primal pull of the Good versus Evil narrative that serves as its foundation, mostly provided by St. Paul’s “principalities and powers” epistle.
Don’t pick on the true believers.
Can someone really be called stupid if their stake in the collective unconscious is being fucked with?
We will know the “t word” of the Q prophecies approximately 12 hours from now.
Q always seemed like nothing more or less than a trolling operation. Trolls do what they do for the sake of trolling alone. For the lulz. It was all just a big troll, like so many. Keeping it going despite its consistent and constant failures was part of the lulz.
It’s a baffling impulse to me — trolling just for lulz — but it seems to be a genuine motivation for some.
Q believers strike me as White Americans who are not psychologically ready to admit races are different, and some are more advanced than others. They also are not ready to accept that the people who are really pulling the strings are not some amorphous “elite”, but a very specific “tribe” that has parasitically afflicted Whites for a very long time. My hope is that Q believers use Q as, for lack of a better term, a gateway drug to race realism.
Very succinct and accurate assessment.
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