Tag Archives: taste

Rousseau’s Émile

3,539 words

Part 3 of 3 (Part 2 here)

This conversation took place in the spring of 2015. We would like to thank KC for making this transcript.

Greg Johnson: When people talk about vanity, another term that they’ll use is narcissism. “So and so is very narcissistic.” Again, I think that there’s a certain sense of narcissism in which it’s not a bad thing. The myth of Narcissus is that he’s captivated by his own reflection in the water, and he basically exists as a prisoner of his own image, reflected in something external. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, beauty, degenerate art, elitism, Greg Johnson, honor, Hugh MacDonald, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, narcissism, North American New Right, originals, pretentiousness, snobbery, the left, the Right, transcripts, vanity | 4 Responses

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The Original Optics Cucks, Part 2:
Pretentiousness, Snobbery, & Elitism

Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald

2,340 words

This conversation took place in the spring of 2015. We would like to thank KC for making this transcript.

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

Greg Johnson: We also got into the question of pretentiousness when we were walking around Hyde Park. I think pretentiousness always has a negative connotation, but I think that one can actually say that there is a positive connotation of pretense in this sense: Read more …

Published: July 10, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, beauty, elitism, Greg Johnson, Hugh MacDonald, North American New Right, originals, pretentiousness, snobbery, the left, transcripts, vanity | 3 Responses

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The Original Optics Cucks, Part 1:
In Defense of Vanity

Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald

John William Waterhouse, Vanity

1,901 words

Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)

This conversation took place in the spring of 2015. We would like to thank KC for making this transcript.

Greg Johnson: I’m Greg Johnson. Welcome to Counter-Currents Radio. I’m going to have another conversation today with Canadian filmmaker Hugh MacDonald. Read more …

Published: July 9, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, beauty, Greg Johnson, honor, Hugh MacDonald, North American New Right, originals, pretentiousness, snobbery, transcripts, vanity | 3 Responses

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Mozart Won’t Make You Smart
(But Rap Will Make You Dumb)

Spencer J. Quinn

2,340 words

After listening to Greg Johnson’s recent conversation with Rob Kievsky entitled “Leveraging Social Decline,” in particular, the part of it in which they discuss parenting, I (being a parent) felt the need to weigh in. Around the 47-minute mark, the two got into a friendly dispute over the best way to be a parent. In reality, I think both were presenting sides that seemed antithetical but really weren’t because they were each addressing different problems with their arguments. Read more …

Published: October 17, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, classical music, education, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, parenting, popular music, Spencer Quinn | 18 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 126
Greg Johnson & Hugh MacDonald
Vanity, Pretentiousness, & Snobbery

Counter-Currents Radio

John William Waterhouse, Echo and Narcissus

56:55 / 133 words

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Published: May 1, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged beauty, Counter-Currents Radio, education, elitism, Greg Johnson, honor, Hugh MacDonald, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, narcissism, podcasts, pretentiousness, psychology, snobbery, vanity | 9 Responses

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Em Defesa do Mal Gosto

Anthony M. Ludovici

Angelina Jolie, apotheosis by race-betrayal

1,676 words

English original here

A fundamental falta de gosto da mulher é o fato ao qual eu atribuí os dois mitos de Pandora e Eva, nos quaias a mulher é representada como sendo a causa da queda do homem, e da introdução do mal na terra. Eu demonstrei esse mal gosto fundamental apontando para a inabilidade da mulher em selecionar e reconhecer os melhores homens e sua preferência geral por homens inferiores, Read more …

Published: January 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anthony M. Ludovici, female psychology, in Portuguese, in translation, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality | Leave a comment

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In Defense of Bad Taste

Anthony M. Ludovici

Angelina Jolie and her adopted children

1,718 words

Portuguese translation here

Woman’s fundamental lack of taste is the fact to which . . . I ascribed the two myths of Pandora and Eve, in which woman is depicted as being the cause of the fall of man, and of the introduction of evil on earth. I demonstrated this fundamental bad taste by pointing to women’s inability to select and recognize the best men and their general preference for inferior men, the reason of this preference being the greater facility with which the latter are ruled and made amenable to women’s love of petty power.