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The second half of the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio continued with the discussion of 1990s British pop culture before moving on to more general topics about politics, current events, and the movement today. Host Greg Johnson was joined by Millennial Woes (official website here), Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), and Travis LeBlanc, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:00:38 Patriotism among Brit Pop fans
00:03:32 On the Royal Family and the tabloids in the ’90s
00:05:57 Did regional accents become more prominent on TV in the ’90s?
00:07:49 The Full Monty
00:09:04 On regional accents and degeneracy
00:12:04 What does pop music reflect about the modern sociopolitical environment?
00:16:40 What do we do about grifters?
00:20:23 Nick Fuentes is back on Twitter/X
00:25:03 On the spike in anti-Semitism since October 7
00:31:13 On Zionist grifters
00:41:05 Getting White Nationalist accounts back on Twitter/X
00:43:24 The influence of Jared Taylor
00:45:18 Data about Counter-Currents readers
00:46:45 More praise for Jared Taylor
00:47:48 Counter-Currents polling
00:51:08 On the white horses that ran through London, and Millenniyule 2024
00:52:35 Was the ’90s more optimistic than now?
01:03:10 Is it wise for Donald Trump to be off Twitter/X?
01:05:32 Is Trump contractually obligated to use Truth Social?
01:07:06 What would Trump do in a second term?
01:09:16 Conclusion
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6 comments
That was different from the first part but equally as awesome. How do you guys keep it up for so long?
While there was some optimism in the 1990s, largely owing to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the US led victory in Desert Storm, it appeared to many as a kind of a false dawn.
Jean Raspail’s “Camp of the Saints,” with its prognosis about a third worlder mass migration into Europe abetted by hostile elites, was still in the mind of many Western advocates. The string of military defeats to include Indochina, the East Indies, Cuba, Algeria, Angola, Vietnam, Rhodesia and South Africa gave credence to Burnham’s thesis of the Contraction of the West. There were also the first stirrings of globalism with NAFTA and the outsourcing of American industry, one world ready or not.
Perhaps had there been a cohesive nationalist movement in the 1990s, the situation could have been turned around. But the conservative mainstream was focused on economics while the liberals were descending into the mindless orthodoxy of political correctness. Sam Francis and Pat Buchanan were lone voices crying in the Rustbelt wilderness. Western peoples were living in an increasingly delusional world with the facade of the Fall of the Berlin Wall concealing the underlying rot at home.
Movies which closed out the ’90s, like “The Matrix” and “Fight Club,” provided metaphors for this situation and were seen by many activists as a sort of wake up call. Let us not forget the origins of the term “Take the Red Pill” and the Mannerbund you didn’t talk about. As the 21st century opened, a new Underground was in the making…
What Underground do you refer to? No cryptic allusions please.
“Underground” is a reference to a line in the movie Fight Club:
Police Commissioner on television news: “We believe this is one of many recent acts of vandalism around the city somehow related to underground boxing clubs.”
Trevor Lynch and Jef Costello have posted analyses of Fight Club at various points around Counter-Currents. Fight Club serves as a sort of companion piece to The Matrix. Both movies involve protagonists breaking with the world of post-modernist delusion and creating underground anti-regime cadres (the Mannerbund “you do not talk about”).
The Matrix had considerable impact in creating one of the chief metaphors for the counter-regime movement, that of Taking the Red Pill. The metaphor was probably first used IRL by the MGTOW movement and spread throughout the wider man-o-sphere and then to the Alt Right.
Doubling down on this theme is the Red Pilled crew in The Matrix exploiting cybernetics to hack into the system. Today, the Dissident Right can throw the entire regime into a panic with a few basic online memes (Pepe, Great Replacement, National Divorce) and influence even mainstream conservatives into talking about the interests of white people (getting conservatives to act is still on the agenda).
Other artifacts of the 1990s: Douglas Rushkoff’s Cyberia, and Mondo 2000 by Rudy Rucker et alia, both providing a framework and tactics for exploiting the emerging technologies of cybernetics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, bio-engineering, and et cetera to break with the system (aka reality hacking). Much of this has played out in various “underground” venues. I first came into contact with the Manifesto of Futurism in an unlicensed warehouse club in the depths of a major urban metroplex whose proprietors took Filippo Marinetti as an inspiration for 1990s trends in industrial and techno music.
The point of all this rambling is that there is an underground out there, perhaps one which is so pervasive it is not quite visible but has had considerable influence on the Dissident Right and the wider world of metapolitics.
Greg was right. I just got my account restored on twitter after listening to this podcast. All I wrote was “I wrote nothing that isn’t protected by the 1st amendment.” A couple of hours later, I received an e-mail from twitter apologizing for their mistake and restoring my account, which had been suspended since 2020 after I made some inopportune comments during the BLM riots.
Excellent! Everyone needs to try regularly.
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