Tag Archives: pessimism

Alphonse de Neuville, The Huns at the Battle of Chalons

2,411 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following extracts are drawn from Emil Cioran, Précis de décomposition (Paris: Gallimard, 1949). The title is editorial.

There are no beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: The great persecutors are recruited among the martyrs who were not beheaded. (13)

Published: September 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emil Cioran, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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The Counter-Currents 2019 Fundraiser
Do Not Throw Away the Hero in Your Soul

Jef Costello

Finnish hero Lauri Törni

2,050 words

Our goal this year is to raise $100,000 in order to expand our efforts to build a metapolitical vanguard for White Nationalism. So far, we have received 80 donations totaling $18,115.92. We set our goals high because the task we have before us is formidable, but not impossible. And we need your help to succeed.

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I sometimes wonder who I am writing for. I know that a couple of my friends read every essay I post (though recently, one of them has been falling down on the job). Read more …

Published: July 5, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2019 Counter-Currents Fundraiser, articles, Freidrich Nietzsche, heroism, Jef Costello, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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Cioran’s On France: Thriving Amidst Decay

Guillaume Durocher

2,942 words

Emil Cioran
De la France
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

This is a strange, vile little book as only Emil Cioran knew how to produce. It was only recently published, in both the original Romanian and in French translation,[1] having been written in 1941 and left to languish for decades in some cardboard box in the Cioran archives. Read more …

Published: February 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, decadence, Emil Cioran, France, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, vitalism | 6 Responses

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Cioran:
Aesthete of Despair

Alain Soral

Emil Cioran

495 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

The following is Alain Soral’s negative assessment of Emil Cioran, as contained in his “dictionary” of aphorisms. While this appraisal is not exactly fair, the text expresses some understandable frustration with the nihilist Cioran and gives one a sense of the oppressive atmosphere, for Right-wingers, of the postwar French literary scene. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aestheticism, Alain Soral, articles, Emil Cioran, Guillaume Durocher, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, translations | Leave a comment

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Cioran on Decline

Emil Cioran

873 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following are some rare more-or-less political comments from the post-war Emil Cioran, more in keeping with his pessimistic outlook. These are translated from Emil Cioran, De l’inconvénient d’être né (Paris: Gallimard, 1973). The title is editorial.

Published: January 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emil Cioran, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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The Motivational Cioran

Emil Cioran

1,097 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: Emil Cioran is notorious as perhaps the most pessimistic philosopher of all time. Nonetheless, I was able to find some aphorisms of his which I would consider inspiring. These are translated from Emil Cioran, De l’inconvénient d’être né (Paris: Gallimard, 1973).

Published: January 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Emil Cioran, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

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We Are Doomed Revisited:
An Interview with John Derbyshire

Travis LeBlanc

2,219 words

2019 is almost here.

As everyone knows, 2019 is the year when the dystopian sci-fi movie Blade Runner takes place. 2019 will also be the ten year anniversary of the release of John Derbyshire’s paradigm-shifting bestseller We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, a book which paints a dystopian future for America even more disturbing and unsettling than the one portrayed in Blade Runner. Read more …

Published: December 24, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alt-Right, conservatism, Dissident Right, interviews, John Derbyshire, North American New Right, originals, Travis LeBlanc, writing | 6 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
British Politics Today:
Optimism, Pessimism, & Realism

Michael Walker

Theresa May trying (and failing) to be the multicultural Dancing Queen, a clear case of too much optimism.

3,745 words / 25:20

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Counter-Currents readers may be familiar with the name Tai Lopez. Tai Lopez runs commercials which regularly appear on YouTube. He is a self-made millionaire and latter-day preacher of the “God helps those who help themselves” school of economics: Read more …

Published: October 15, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brexit, British politics, Conservative Party, environmentalism, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Michael Walker, North American New Right, optimism, originals, populism, realism, Theresa May, UKIP, United Kingdom | 5 Responses

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Nowicki & Nulick:
Sex, Death, & the Other Death

Ann Sterzinger

2,198 words

Here’s a sign that the feces-slinging partisan playpen that is the Internet is getting to you: I caught myself feeling decidedly strange as I made plans to write this tandem review of an essay collection by Andy Nowicki—a devout Catholic—and Valencia, an autobiographical novel by James Nulick, whose protagonist catches AIDS during a gay-sex-and-crack binge.

“Who’s going to want to read about both of them?” said my stupid brain. Read more …

Published: November 4, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ann Sterzinger, book reviews, death, hedonism, literature, North American New Right, originals, sex | 1 Response

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The Philosopher’s Moan:
Saltus on Pessimism

Ann Sterzinger

1,556 words

“Spinoza was neither an optimist nor a pessimist. He neither laughed at life nor grieved over it. It is possible that he understood it.” —Edgar Saltus, The Anatomy of Negation

After making something of an effort to keep up with the terrific output of Vox Day’s Castalia House imprint, I’m now poking my nose into Kevin Slaughter’s doings over at his Underworld Amusements publishing venture. Read more …

Published: October 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ann Sterzinger, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, atheism, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, Oscar Wilde, philosophy | Leave a comment

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True Detective & The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Christopher Pankhurst

3,568 words

“It is a book of great truths,” I said.

“Yes, he replied, “of ‘truths’ which send men frantic and blast their lives. I don’t care if the thing is, as they say, the very supreme essence of art. It’s a crime to have written it, and I for one shall never open its pages.”

— The Repairer of Reputations, Robert W. Chambers

True Detective is widely considered to be one of the best TV series ever broadcast. Read more …

Published: June 2, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-natalism, articles, Christopher Pankhurst, originals, philosophy, Thomas Ligotti, TV reviews, white dispossession, white extinction | 10 Responses

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The Revolutionary Conservative Critique of Oswald Spengler

Lucian Tudor

Oswald Spengler

2,727 words

Oswald Spengler is by now well-known as one of the major thinkers of the German Conservative Revolution of the early 20th Century. In fact, he is frequently cited as having been one of the most determining intellectual influences on German Conservatism of the interwar period – along with Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and Ernst Jünger – to the point where his cultural pessimist philosophy is seen to be representative of Revolutionary Conservative views in general (although in reality most Revolutionary Conservatives held more optimistic views).[1] Read more …

Published: November 14, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, articles, conservative revolution, cyclical history, European New Right, Hans Freyer, Julius Evola, Lucian Tudor, North American New Right, optimism, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Pierre Krebs, reprints, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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“Everything is Still Possible”

Jonathan Bowden

Fortunato Depero, Skyscrapers and Tunnels (Gratticieli e tunnel), 1930

2,770 words

Editor’s Note:

This text continues the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s interview at the Union Jack Club in London on Saturday, November 21, 2009, after his lecture/performance on Punch and Judy. The title is editorial.

Published: October 28, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged death, dystopia, economics, free trade, interviews, Jonathan Bowden, modern art, North American New Right, optimism, originals, Oswald Spengler, protectionism, white nationalism | 2 Responses

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Interview with Chip Smith on Anti-Natalism, Cosmic Pessimism, & his Plans for the Future

Greg Johnson

5,020 words

The conclusion of my interview with Chip Smith of Nine-Banded Books deals with anti-natalism, cosmic pessimism, H. P. Lovecraft, Hollister Kopp’s Gun Fag Manifesto, and other future 9BB publications.

Anti-natalism is the theme of two of your titles: Jim Crawford’s Confessions of an Antinatalist and the forthcoming title by Sarah Perry, Every Cradle is a Grave. What attracts you to anti-natalism? Read more …