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Greg Johnson Speaks to Horus the Avenger About Charles Krafft
Greg Johnson
You can buy Charles Krafft’s An Artist of the Right here.
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Greg Johnson recently appeared on Horus the Avenger aka Tim Murdock’s EEx program on White Rabbit Radio to discuss the artist and friend of Counter-Currents Charles Krafft, as well as Counter-Currents’ recent publication of a volume of his writings, Charles Krafft: An Artist of the Right.
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We are acting like a network and a culture. That’s good.
I miss him a lot.
And…
Everything Greg said about libraries is true.
That was enthralling. I wish I could have gotten a bust of Greg or anglin while Kraft was still alive. Or Howard. Or all three.
Cheap is an offense against another person. It implies not paying ones share or not paying people back. Miserly implies personal thrift to a pathological degree. Both terms refer to having money but not using it properly. Thrift or frugality connote appropriate management of limited funds. What Greg is describing is a Spartan way of life, which is admirable. Stalin lived a Spartan existence. Ideologues tend to be Spartan because they are committed to the transcendent. And actual Spartans too, I guess. But they were committed to the Spartan state.
“If you own a rug, you own too much.” — Jack Kerouac
Spartan austerity and minimalism is the only way to live if you are a dissident in modern America. It’s imperative to not be tied down with unnecessary material concerns. If you are unencumbered by house ownership, car ownership, expensive furniture, and scores of other material possessions, that makes you that much freer to be mobile if it becomes necessary. Minimalism is for those who value freedom and dignity. The best things in life aren’t things. We are all gypsy nomads in this world. Travel light.
Beautiful thoughts, but I think it’s important to have some substance to support yourself and the people around you, at least if you are able. However, materialism is only an end in itself to the very small minded.
I never met him in person but I found Charles Krafft to be a helluva nice guy. He chatted a bit on the RODOH forum, and as I recall he contacted me because he was having some problem or other with his account.
On the board he explained his novel concept of using human cremains to make porcelain busts and so on. This led to some jokes about narcissism and time travel ─ because how otherwise can you enjoy a sculpture made from your own bone ash while you are still alive except by sending your faithful artist Charles forward into the future to collect and retrieve your corpse after you have already passed on? (Funny stuff ─ or maybe you had to have been there.)
I also found it interesting that Charles was Grace Slick’s cousin or something like that. He used a posting handle similar to WhoDaresWings? ─ who dare swings? ─ Charles, is that a reference to your love for intrepid aviators, rhythmic music, or progressive coupling? But “Wing” in Charles Wing Krafft is actually a family name. Grace Slick, for example, was born Grace Barnett Wing.
Anyway, Charles Krafft liked to chat with the late Revisionist Friedrich Paul Berg, who went to oil painting school after retirement and did some art late in life, so they had some artsy things in common.
Fritz passed away from an extended illness less than a year before Charles, and fortunately for Fritz he just barely missed the beginning of the Covid lockdowns ─ and therefore did not have to die alone and isolated in the hospice.
🙂
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