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The exponential growth of the leviathan state is a perpetual Frankenstein tale—each generation regrets and bemoans the growth of the snowball they pushed down the hill. (more…)
Counter-Currents
Tag: post-collapse scenarios
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1,757 wordsKurt Schlichter
People’s Republic
CreateSpace, 2016I’m reviewing this book not because I think it’s an important one for the Dissident Right, but because knowing about it will be instructive. Kurt Schlichter’s People’s Republic is, in essence, a cowardly novel masquerading as a brave one. Yet, compared to the state of popular literature in the West, it’s still pretty brave. (more…)
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1,621 wordsDavid Crawford
Lights Out
Halfast Publishing, 2010David Crawford’s Lights Out is one of a constellation of underground post-apocalyptic novels written by American authors in recent years, catering to the prepper / survivalist subculture. These novels would be considered by mainstream readers to be on the political Right, although in reality their authors are libertarians or classical liberals who describe themselves as “conservative.” (more…)
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1,237 wordsDawn of the Planet of the Apes, the second movie in the rebooted Planet of the Apes series, establishes this as a superior franchise inviting comparisons with Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy.
The movie begins exactly where Rise of the Planet of the Apes left off, with a tracker plotting flights around the globe showing the spread of “simian flu.” (more…)
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5,835 wordsWhen I think of my favorite cities in the United States, Washington, DC is not high on the list. I’ve had to go there, for various reasons, several times over the years, but, except for the time I came as a tourist, it’s never been a place I would imagine spending any more time in than absolutely necessary.
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2,253 wordsPendant un moment, alors que les vents et les inondations de l’ouragan Katrina balayaient la fumée et les miroirs, les moutons de Panurge entrevirent une Amérique qui n’était pas vraiment le panier de cerises auquel nos manipulateurs voudraient nous faire croire. (more…)
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1,117 wordsIn Archeofuturism, Guillaume Faye envisions a future world that simultaneously embraces both the latest advances in science and technology, and the values and worldview of Homer and ancient myths. A world that is profoundly inegalitarian, in which might makes right, but in which might now includes the powers of science. (more…)
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3,167 wordsThe life cycle of a civilization is an extraordinarily complicated affair, subject to a thousand changing influences. It is all too easy for analysts, by focusing their attentions on various of these influences, to reach differing conclusions as to the state of health of the civilization they are studying. This is as true of Western civilization as of any other. Yet there are trends, clearly observable in the West today, which, if not reversed, must inevitably dominate all other influences and bring about the demise of the West. (more…)
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2,280 wordsLyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” in the 1960s set up millions of Blacks and Hispanics in cities on generous housing and welfare benefits. Before the Great Society, nobody assumed they could live on permanent government benefits, except maybe disabled veterans.
