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Author: Ricardo Duchesne

  • December 17, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 12
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    Traditional Conservatism Can Never Defeat The Enlightenment Left

    White students pondering over a Herbert Marcuse lecture on the “one-dimensional mind” of the white race.

    1,364 words

    No one knows Friedrich Julius Stahl (1802-1861). He was a legal philosopher of Jewish parentage who converted to Christianity and became a defender of Prussian Lutheran conservatism against the imposition of Enlightenment values. He rejected Hegel’s argument (more…)

  • October 7, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 4
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    Emmanuel Todd’s Lineages of Modernity

    6,392 words

    The idea that the norms implanted upon us by our families affect our personalities and our prospects in life is almost a truism. The idea that there is a strong relationship between the Western nuclear family and liberal modernity is no longer controversial, and so is the idea that different family types have existed across the world and that these types have played a significant role in the historical trajectories of the cultures of the world. Some are aware of the so-called “Hajnal line” proposed in 1965 by John Hajnal, (more…)

  • August 26, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 20
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    Project 1619:
    When Will Conservatives Stop Begging Nonwhites to Love Western Civilization?

    1,366 words

    Andrew Roberts is a renowned conservative, Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, and Visiting Professor at King’s College London, who believes that everyone in the world can be educated to love the democratic values of Western civilization. If only blacks and immigrants were taught to appreciate the immense value of Greek (more…)

  • July 30, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 8
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
    Part 9: The Moral Argument for White Interests

    1,390 words

    We have now reached the last chapter of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition. This indispensable book argues that both the rise and decline of the West can be explained in terms of the genetically selected predisposition Europeans have for creating communities that emphasize the moral reputation (more…)

  • July 15, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 5
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
    Part 8: Why Are Whites Canceling Each Other?

    Whites cleaning up the mess blacks made of Minneapolis.

    1,582 words

    Do you know why Europeans across the political spectrum — liberals, conservatives, socialists — are morally committed to a politics that is leading to the dissolution of their millennial racial identities while promoting the racial identities of non-white immigrants within their own nations? (more…)

  • June 30, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
    Part 7: White Maladaptive Altruism

    Benjamin Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 1841.

    5,142 words

    The white race is uniquely altruistic. Why? This is a very difficult question to answer. It is easy to understand altruistic behavior for the benefit of one’s family members. This is common among animals. Mother bears will put their lives in danger to protect their cubs from attack. Sacrifices for one’s relatives and ingroup ethnic members (more…)

  • May 21, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 2
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
    Part 6: From Puritan Individualism to Jewish Infiltration

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (front, second from left) with his football team, 1899.

    2,687 words

    Chapter 6, “Puritanism: The Rise of Egalitarian Individualism and Moralistic Utopianism,” of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, claims that Puritanism and the intellectual movements descending from this religion were the “most important” forces shaping the culture of the United States “from the eighteenth century down to the mid-twentieth century.” (more…)

  • April 28, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 3
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
    Hail the Catholic Church!

    1,658 words

    Since the beginning of his academic career in the early 1980s, Kevin MacDonald has been wondering why only in the West “wealthy, powerful men” have not sought “to control ever-larger numbers of women”. Evolutionary biology teaches that male reproductive success benefits greatly from the acquisition of multiple mates. In all societies, except those in which harsh ecological conditions limit the amount of surplus the society can generate, “it is expected that males with wealth and power” will employ their surpluses to “secure as many mates as possible.” This is Evolutionary Biology 101. (more…)

  • March 27, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 6
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition:
    The Kinship Cut-Off

    William Dobson, Portrait of a Family, Probably that of Richard Streatfield, 1645.

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    Have you spent countless hours searching for the origins of individualism in the philosophical treatises of the Western Canon? Reading Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition may make you think this was wasted time: the origins of individualism lie in the pedestrian world of family life. (more…)

  • March 11, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 13
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & The Western Liberal Tradition
    Part 3: The Origins of the Weird Whites

    2,069 words

    The essence of liberalism is individualism, and the primordial evolutionary fact of individualism is the “the cutting-off from the wider kinship group,” and the origins of this cutting-off can be traced back to Northern hunter-gatherers in Europe during the last glacial age in the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. (more…)

  • February 21, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 15
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
    Aristocratic Individualism

    3,588 words

    In Part 1 of my detailed examination of Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future (2019) I covered MacDonald’s argument in chapter one that Europe’s founding peoples consisted of three population groups: (more…)

  • February 20, 2020 Ricardo Duchesne 6
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    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism & the Western Liberal Tradition:
    The Indigenous Europeans

    2,932 words

    Kevin MacDonald’s Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects For the Future (2019) is the first book that employs an evolutionary psychological approach to explain the rise of the West — actually, it is the first book that aims to comprehend the dynamics of the entire history of the West from prehistoric to current times to explain as well the decline of the West, the ways in which the “egalitarian individualism” originated by northwest Europeans in hunting and gathering times planted the seeds of the West’s current decision to destroy its genetic heritage through the importation of masses of immigrants. (more…)

  • November 5, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne
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    Pinkera Brzydzą Biali Nacjonaliści

    4,611 words

    English original here

    Steven Pinker
    Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
    New York: Viking, 2018

     Wraz z publikacją “Enlightenment Now” (Oświecenie Teraz) Steven Pinker zdecydowanie ustanowił się jako główny intelektualista publiczny w Stanach Zjednoczonych. (more…)

  • September 12, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne 4
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    The Immense Revolution of the Presocratics

    Oil painting of Heraclitus by Etienne Parrocel (1696-1775)

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    To understand why Europeans were the progenitors of the highest accomplishments in history – close to one hundred percent of the great ideas in philosophy, science, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, geology, astronomy, mathematics, architecture, technology, dance, and music – you must understand the Presocratic self-conscious separation of the knowing “I” from the “not-I.” (more…)

  • September 4, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne 42
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    Camille Paglia & the Consciousness-Light Day of Western Man

    3,871 words

    Camille Paglia infuriated feminists when she observed in Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) that males – as biological beings – are responsible for the development of civilized life and most of the world’s cultural creativity. What no one has wanted to say is that the implicit argument throughout Sexual Personae is that only white males have possessed the Apollonian rationality that “has taken us to the stars.”

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  • July 10, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne 1
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    The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part IV

    Georg Friedrich Kersting, Faust in his Study

    5,530 words

    Part 4 of 4 (Part 3 here)

    Definition of “Axial thought”

    The Axial Age idea is the most concerted effort to retain aspects of the idea of progress while disallowing Western civilization from claiming to be the most progressive in the sciences, technology, cultural creativity, and forms of state organization. This idea has historical merits. (more…)

  • July 9, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne 2
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    The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part III

    The Mask of Agamemnon

    4,700 words

    Part 3 of 4 (Part 2 here, Part 4 here)

    Rituals in simple mythic cultures

    According to Bellah, humans express their highest values and cultural practices in those activities we define as “play” and “ritual,” because these activities are performed when humans are in a “relaxed” state away from evolutionary pressures. (more…)

  • July 8, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne
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    The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part II

    2,468 words

    Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

    “New capacities” under conditions of “relaxed selection”

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  • July 3, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne
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    The European Idea of Progress Supersedes the Axial Age, Part I

    Robert N. Bellah, theorist of the Axial Age

    3,787 words

    Part 1 of 4

    Only European peoples have made history and discovered the idea of time, and this is why the idea of progress is uniquely European: Only European history has been characterized by progress, and there can be no conception of historical time and no history without progression or without man becoming conscious of his role in the making of history, as well as the realization that only the mind can be the adjudicator of the truth. (more…)

  • March 26, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne 10
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    Michael Sandel’s Anti-White Populist Strategy to Defeat “Right-Wing Populism”

    Michael Sandel

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    The rise of nationalist populism has shaken the globalist establishment far more than the rise of Islamic radicalism did in the 1990s and after. Muslim terrorism merely encouraged globalists to bring more “moderate” Muslims to the West to show undisturbed confidence in the value of diversity. The more Muslims have bombed the West, the more power “moderate” Muslims have gained by way of grants, affirmative action, spread of businesses, regulations against “Islamophobia,” and endless eulogies about their “indispensable” contributions. (more…)

  • March 21, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne 8
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    The Higher Cognitive Fluidity of the European Mind

    Julian Jaynes

    7,982 words

    Half of my book, The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, is about discrediting the multicultural claim that, as late as the mid-1700s, the West was no more advanced than the major civilizations of Asia, or China in particular, and that only a set of fortuitous circumstances gave the West a chance to industrialize first. The West did not “stumble” accidentally into the New World, I argued, and it was not “easy access” to the resources of the Americas, enslavement of blacks, or availability of cheap coal in Britain that made Britain’s takeoff possible.

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  • February 25, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne 5
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    On the “Unreflected Substantiality” of the Chinese Mind

    7,688 words

    As the Chinese “silent invasion” of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada continues, you may want to learn something about the Western academics who lay the intellectual groundwork for this invasion. In a prior article, “The Transcendental Mind of Europeans Stands Above the Embedded Mind of Asians,” we met two influential scholars calling upon whites to abandon their “failed” attempts to formulate transcendental truths for the sake of the more “profound” contextual approach of Chinese philosophers with their demonstration that all thinking is “embedded” to a time and a place. (more…)

  • February 8, 2019 Ricardo Duchesne 14
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    The Transcendental Mind of Europeans Stands Above the Embedded Mind of Asians

    7,002 words

    Europeans were the first – and are still the only – race to become conscious of their consciousness, to identify the faculty of thinking as the point from which all knowledge must proceed in separation from all extra-intellectual sources and inclinations, be they conventions of the time, religious mandates, or emotional inclinations.

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  • October 18, 2018 Ricardo Duchesne 6
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    Jean Piaget & the Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part II

    Representatives of two stages of mental development: Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653)

    6,358 words

    Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

    Why did the West rise to become the most powerful civilization, the progenitor of modernity, the culture with the most prodigious creators? The answers are plenty. But it may be that a child psychologist, Jean Piaget, has offered the best theoretical framework to explain the difference between the West and the Rest. (more…)

  • October 17, 2018 Ricardo Duchesne 2
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    Jean Piaget & the Superior Psychogenetic Cognition of Europeans, Part I

    Jean Piaget

    4,677 words

    Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

    Everyone has heard about Jean Piaget’s (1896-1980) theory of the cognitive development of children. But no one knows that his theory placed Europeans at the top of the cognitive ladder with most humans stuck at the bottom — unless Europeans taught them how to think.

    Piaget is widely recognized as the “greatest child psychologist of the twentieth century.” Unlike many other influential figures, Piaget’s discoveries have withstood the test of time. (more…)

  • September 5, 2018 Ricardo Duchesne 2
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    Canada in Decay: One Year Later

    762 words

    August 22 marks one year since the release of Canada in Decay: Mass Immigration, and the Ethnocide of Euro-Canadians (reviewed at Counter-Currents here). I thought this book would have an impact in the long run as the first scholarly effort to explain the nature and origins of multiculturalism from a truly critical perspective, without kowtowing to the banks, politicians, and conformist academics. (more…)

  • June 8, 2018 Ricardo Duchesne 1
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    The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, Part 4

    3,397 words

    Part 4 of 4

    The Radicalizing Logic of Modern Individualism

    With the formation of nation states in the modern era, as liberal institutions were emerging in the form of constitutional rule, freedom of religious expression, and representative bodies in which members of the bourgeoisie were included, (more…)

  • June 7, 2018 Ricardo Duchesne 1
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    The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, Part 3

    3,355 words

    Part 3 of 4

    Bio-Masculine Foundations of Individualism

    In The Uniqueness of Western Civilization I traced this aristocratic individualism back the pre-historic Indo-Europeans (IEs). The IEs created a new type of aristocratic society in the sense that “some men,” not just the king, were free to deliberate over major issues affecting the group, as well as free to strive for personal recognition. (more…)

  • June 6, 2018 Ricardo Duchesne
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    The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, Part 2

    1,893 words

    Part 2 of 4

    Conventional vs. Postconventional Morals

    Europeans will never become tribal and collectivist in the manner and degree of non-Europeans. Having an individual identity, an awareness of one’s inner being, that one’s actions can be causally dependent on one’s free will rather than on preceding events, (more…)

  • June 5, 2018 Ricardo Duchesne 7
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    The Masculine Preconditions of Individualism, the Indo-Europeans, and the Modern Hegelian Concept of Collective Freedom

    1,476 words

    Part 1 of 4

    Libertarian freedoms are not incompatible with a strong commitment to in-group white identity politics. On the contrary, Europeans can preserve their attachment to individual liberties only by living inside nations with a strong sense of collective ancestry in opposition to mass immigration.  (more…)

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