Tag: the red pill

Faustovská civilizace se obrátila k rovnostářství

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Pravda o ženách o vztazích mezi pohlavími bývá zpravidla pro muže tou poslední, nejtvrdší a emocionálně nejobtížněji stravitelnou ze všech „red pills“: zatímco pochopení genetických a biologických rasových odlišností, pravda o Hitlerovi a 2. světové válce či židovské otázce u lidí obdařených jistou dávkou intelektuální otevřenosti a kritické myšlení obvykle přichází bez větších zádrhelů, prozření o ženách obvykle kráčí ruku v ruce s koňskou dávkou popírání. (more…)

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Greg Johnson welcomed Sarah Dye of Above Time Coffee Roasters, a recently-established nationalist-owned business, to the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download or online listening. (more…)

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Greg Johnson did a new solo Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

Caravaggio, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (1610)

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Author’s Note: On the August 28th, 2022 Counter-Currents Radio livestream, Gaddius Maximus asked me to share my thoughts on the Mar-a-Lago raid, which I also discussed on The Political Cesspool on August 20th. Hyacinth Bouquet transcribed my answer, and I have edited it, adding in some comments on Biden’s sinister Philadelphia speech. I wish to thank all of them for their help. (more…)

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The Writers’ Bloc had their good friend Hwitegeard over for a friendly, low-intensity chinwag with host Nick Jeelvy, where they also answered listener questions, and it is now available for download and online listening.

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00:07:00 How does one speak Anglo-Saxon and what does it sound like? (more…)

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For the past two and a half years, the world has been gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic response. The disease itself, which broke out in China, turned out to be a bit of a nothingburger. Not exactly “just the flu, bro,” but not quite the doomsday plague many were hoping for. (more…)

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Spencer J. Quinn is one of Counter-Currents’ most prolific writers. I personally enjoy reading his articles on topics such as forgotten figures in history, music, and current political issues. In addition to writing articles, Spencer is the author of several books. His love of wisdom is evidenced by his avatar, Thucydides. (more…)

You can buy Robert Stark’s new novel Vaporfornia here.

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Host Greg Johnson invited Robert Stark (his Substack is here) to join him on the last broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss his new novel Vaporfornia, plus of course current events and your questions, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

00:04:00 Vaporfornia
00:05:00 Vaporwave
00:10:00 Literary influences
00:12:00 Nostalgia for lost futures
00:16:00 Political themes in the book (more…)

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Larry and Andy Wachowski’s The Matrix (1999) is a science fiction classic. The setting is a devastated Earth in the far future. The premise is that humanity has been enslaved by artificial intelligences. Human beings spend our lives in what are essentially coffins while mechanical vampires drain our energy. We don’t know it, because we are asleep, dreaming that we are in a radically different world. This is the Matrix. Today we would call it a multiplayer online game.

Like many dystopias, The Matrix is actually too optimistic. The Wachowski brothers thought the human race would have to be forced into the pods. (more…)

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Host Greg Johnson was joined by learned Counter-Currents writers Stephen Paul Foster, Mark Gullick, James J. O’Meara, and Kathryn S. on the last installment of Counter-Currents Radio to share their lists of five essential books every educated person needs to read — plus, of course, answer YOUR QUESTIONS — and it is now available for download and online listening.

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00:05:00 Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (more…)

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Hari Kunzru
Red Pill
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020

Though its origins lie in the big-budget science fiction film The Matrix, the now-infamous term “red pill” has recently undergone a subconscious attempt by center-of-the-Overton-window content creators to reclaim it from its primary users: the internet-based Dissident Right. (more…)

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If you’ve ever wanted to deliver massive doses of red pills to your friends, David Duke’s My Awakening[1] can be considered an entire bottle of them. The first edition, which is reviewed herein, has aged pretty well. Much has happened since then, of course — and little for the better. However, the basics are still relevant; what held true back then remains so now.

David Duke, in brief (more…)