Having already published two extensive articles on The Prisoner (see here and here), I didn’t expect to ever write about the series again. But times have changed, and so has The Prisoner. Works of art are living things, and their meaning changes over time. This ultimately has little to do with the artist’s intentions. That The Prisoner had changed was brought home to me one evening when, on a whim, I chose to revisit an episode I had always disliked. (more…)
Tag: China
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A minimum put to good use is enough for anything. — Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days
Up, up and away
In my beautiful balloon.
— The 5th Dimension, “Up, Up and Away,” 1967The curious thing about the Chinese spy balloon (which would be a great name for a restaurant in Chinatown) is not that it was from China. (more…)
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Pox Populi did a solo Telegram stream last week on Greg Johnson’s essay “Against Imperialism,” reading it aloud and then chatting with listeners about ethnonationalism versus imperialism. It is now available for download and online listening. It is also available on YouTube, below. (more…)
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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)
This is intended as a response to Dr. Greg Johnson’s essay, “Against Imperialism.” (more…)
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You can pre-order the Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey’s Imperium here.
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One of the fundamental divisions in the White Nationalist movement is between ethnonationalists and imperialists. Ethnonationalists want a world in which every distinct people has the right to a sovereign homeland. Imperialists want a single white racial state. Wilmot Robertson makes the case for ethnonationalism in his book The Ethnostate, whereas Francis Parker Yockey presents the case for imperialism in Imperium. Other advocates of imperialism include Sir Oswald Mosley, Jean Thiriart, and Guillaume Faye.
The division between imperialists and ethnonationalists is often overlooked. (more…)
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Patrick J. Buchanan
Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles that Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever
New York: Crown Forum, 2017It’s déjà vu all over again, folks. The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is one of the takeaways from this fascinating political memoir by Pat Buchanan, who worked in the Nixon White House as a strategist and speechwriter after serving Candidate Nixon on the campaign trail. (more…)
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“The [scariest] shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” — Albert Allen Bartlett
To procreate, people need to be sociable enough to meet someone and decisive enough to choose them. Similarly, to make money they need to pick a career and shut out all other options. Such people excel in getting into power and then idiotically doing nothing as the world collapses around them. (more…)
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We’ve tried the cowboys, now for the Indians
There is nothing so exciting or colorful as the election of a Hindu Prime Minister. The splendor of India, the heat and dust, the parade of many-armed goddesses and elephant gods, the dusky maidens in bright saris doing that thing with their necks that parrots do, the flowers, the smell of spice, the . . . (more…)
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Dietmar Friedhoff
Denken wir Afrika: Eine konservative Grundsatz-Strategie zur Selbstentwicklung unseres Nachbarkontinents
Bad Schussenried: Gerhard Hess Verlag, 2021A canny financier in the British situation comedy series Only Fools and Horses proposes a new investment future: “Get your hands round this” he exclaims, then pauses dramatically and utters one word: “Africa.” (more…)
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September 14, 2022 Gunnar Alfredsson
Utopian Visions, War, & Mass Starvation
Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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In August of this year, China engaged in military exercises and heated rhetoric against Taiwan and the United States in light of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the embattled island nation. Veteran paleoconservative pundit Pat Buchanan believes that a “US-China collision somewhere in the Western Pacific appears inevitable,” with Taiwanese sovereignty as the catalyst. (more…)
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Nancy Pelosi’s flight landed in Taiwan on August 2 despite very loud and vigorous protests from the People’s Republic of China. For the time being, the Chinese have done little but whine impotently, rattle their sabers, and announce military exercises near and around Taiwan. They’ve declared a state of emergency in the coastal regions nearest to Taiwan, which is expected to last until August 7. Chinese sources are calling this the Fourth Taiwan Crisis. (more…)
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A terrible signal.
Too weak to even recognize.
— Talking Heads, “The Overload” (more…)