Tag: enmity

Fidus, Schwertwache (Swordguard), 1912

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Many disagreements about politics stem from a confusion between two sets of basic distinctions: “us vs. them” and “friend vs. enemy.”

In politics, the most important distinction is between “us” and “them”: our group and all the others.

A political regime is just if it benefits “us”: meaning that it serves the common good of one’s community. As a White Nationalist, my ultimate ingroup is white people. As an American, my ingroup is Americans, meaning white Americans, not non-whites who happen to hold US citizenship. (more…)

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Growing up, the video game Metal Gear Solid made a significant impression on me.

Looking back now, it’s amusing to remember how much the series deals with the topic of genetic determinism. The core of the plot revolves around a number of characters who eventually discover that they were created as part of a government project to create genetically enhanced soldiers (more…)

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Greg Johnson talks to Chris Robertson about his book In Defense of Hatred. Topics include:

• Chris’ intellectual journey
• Matthew Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The World Beyond Your Head 

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Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pollice Verso (detail), 1872

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Early on in Samuel Huntington’s classic political analysis, The Clash of Civilizations, he makes the following point: “For peoples seeking identity and reinventing ethnicity, enemies are essential, and the potentially most dangerous enmities occur across the fault lines between the world’s major civilizations.”

Well, that’s us, of course. If anything, the Alt Right is “seeking identity and reinventing ethnicity” for white people wherever they are. This is our driving force, and I don’t need to explain it further here. But is it true that we need enemies to do this?  (more…)