Counter-Currents
On Right-Wing Primal Urges (or, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Debating with Yourself over Politics in the Wee Hours of the Morning, and Forgot to Ask)
Spencer J. Quinn
1,772 words
Much of the friction within the Right in this country, and especially on the Dissident Right, can be rendered into a schematic conflict between two primal urges of the spirit. I call these the Republican Urge and the Monarchal Urge. Everyone on the Right has these urges, and falls into one of three categories.
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Really fun article with lots of intellectual meat for chewing.
The weakness of most ideological thinking is accepting that your prior ideological commitments should constrain you when proposing or taking action. That’s just an assumption that can be discarded (or amended) like any other. I’m a pragmatist. Whatever works is good. Whatever doesn’t work is bad. Situations where its unclear what kind of action will elicit what kind of outcome simply require a decision one way or another and a commitment to engaging with any outcome to make it as desirable as expected. ‘Principles’ really aren’t a strength if they’re not the right principles.
And if you’re lucky, you’ll be inspired or receive a revelation that will allow you to see to the heart of things so that you really never falter in your movement toward the best outcome possible.
Cincinnatus Urge – Republican, but uh… with less b.s. and in a hurry.
I’m up for whatever works. The way I see it, we can go with multiple strategies and then focus on whatever is getting results.
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