Tag Archives: Winston E. Bakewell

1,489 words

Author’s note: Cited passages are taken from the 1988 Stephen Mitchell translation, London, Macmillan.

Tao Te Ching, the “Book of the Way,” was ostensibly composed by the pseudonymous Lao Tzu, about whom next to nothing is known, sometime around the time of Confucius (551-479 BC). It’s things like this that add even more irresistible mystique to this slender volume, Read more …

Published: July 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged action, articles, Eastern philosophy, Eastern religion, hubris, identity, North American New Right, originals, Tao Te Ching, Taoism | 1 Response

Print this post

We’re the Bad Guys?

Winston E. Bakewell

René Magritte, Golconda, 1953.

2,173 words

The twofold crises of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic are perfect opportunities for modern nihilists and culture-destroyers of every stripe to let off all the brakes. It is not often that world events align so cleanly with the rhetoric and goals of our enemies, which presents some troubling developments Read more …

Published: July 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, amoralism, articles, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19 pandemic, George Floyd, ideology, individualism, leftism, liberalism, lying, moral signaling, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, rhetoric, self-righteousness, virtue signaling | 6 Responses

Print this post

You Know You’re Right

Winston E. Bakewell

Mars, ca. 2nd century AD.

2,096 words

You are here because you are convinced of the rightness of your ideas. This is not meant in a specific, epistemological sense; as in, your ideas have been verified by some kind of universal truth or that they are backed by data drawn from rigor, though these things could be applied to many of the ideas we hold on the Right. I mean that you are convinced enough of what you hold to be true that you are taking a risk in upholding it, even in the face of great adversaries. Read more …

Published: July 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, debate, deplatforming, discipline, North American New Right, objectivity, optimism, originals, philosophy, rhetoric, self-righteousness, truth | 5 Responses

Print this post

Placemaking

Winston E. Bakewell

1,494 words

What makes a place? Perhaps the best definition is simply where one feels they can linger. A “place” is a location that can be both a destination and a path. When we consider places, they invariably have a few attributes that make stopping there or passing through there a memorable experience. The opposite of a “place,” as it where, Read more …

Published: July 8, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, consumerism, globalization, homogeneity, individualism, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, urbanism, white dispossession | 7 Responses

Print this post

Are You Also Frightened?

Winston E. Bakewell

He doesn’t even have shoes on.

1,349 words

The McCloskeys waving what amount to toys in the hands of the untrained was the single most impotent display of fear and guilt that has graced the screens of the West this month. This incident was laughable in and of itself, but was made even worse by the couple’s spineless cope of a public statement on the matter: Read more …

Published: July 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, articles, Black Lives Matter, elites, North American New Right, originals, Saint Louis, the bourgeoisie | 21 Responses

Print this post

Strange & Bitter Fruit

Winston E. Bakewell

1,215 words

Six black people have been found dead, hanging from trees, during the month of June so far. They were all ruled as suicides by local police. Black people refuse to believe that’s true, of course. The circumstances of these deaths too closely resemble the lynchings of yesteryear, right down to the surrounding social turmoil and the highly public spectacle of the corpses. Read more …

Published: June 25, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, civility, cynicism, death, debate, honesty, lynching, mainstream media, North American New Right, originals, polarization, rhetoric, suicide, truth | 6 Responses

Print this post

Google is a Dirty Word

Winston E. Bakewell

1,470 words

The Alphabet Company, the parent of Google, has a market capitalization of $991.53 billion, which is about the same size as the nominal gross domestic product of the Netherlands. Chrome accounts for 68% of the global desktop browser market, Read more …

Published: June 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Big Tech, censorship, deplatforming, Google, North American New Right, originals | 12 Responses

Print this post

America Is Not a Real Country

Winston E. Bakewell

2,220 words

The term “failed state” conjures images in the mind’s eye of collapsed banana republics, exploding Islamic theocracies, and Somalia in general. It’s a condition that would be unthinkable in the West; the countries and nation-states that constituted a vast majority of the world’s white people have remained mostly in place for centuries Read more …

Published: June 10, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, American empire, articles, culture war, incompetence, international relations, North American New Right, originals, polarization, racial polarization, the United States | 6 Responses

Print this post

Bait Bricks

Winston E. Bakewell

1,518 words

There is a fascination with seemingly random piles of bricks showing up at ~~riots unlawful assemblies protests~~ benefit balls in major cities across the United States. To the eagle-eyed observer, pallets of blunt objects appearing in the line of planned marches and gatherings is just a little too convenient — and concerning — to brush away as a coincidence. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, antifa, articles, Black Lives Matter, North American New Right, originals, political violence, protests, racial divorce, realpolitik, riots, violence | 4 Responses

Print this post

So Far Beyond Karen

Winston E. Bakewell

1,434 words

The “Karen” meme has quickly spread like wildfire across Twitter. It’s a more easily referenced offshoot of the previously unnamed “I would like to speak to the manager” joke that was more broadly associated with tannie haircuts and Ray-Bans than anything else. Now that there’s a name for it, it’s easier to crack a joke, especially at the expense of those who seem to embody the trope’s worst attributes. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, AWFLs, conflict, memes, modernity, North American New Right, originals, the bourgeoisie | 29 Responses

Print this post

You Keep Using That Word

Winston E. Bakewell

Richard Parkes Bonington, Riva degli Schiavoni, 1826.

1,320 words

Quarantine, quarantine, quarantine.

The Internet™ loves talking about the “quarantine.” It was one of the most popular terms used on Google during the month of March in the United States, a search for the term on Twitter returns millions of unfunny shitposts, Read more …

Published: May 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, COVID-19, language, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

Print this post

May Day Special:
Distractions

Winston E. Bakewell

1,676 words

Leaked documents from Amazon depict a “heat map” of Whole Foods stores at risk of unionization. One of the determining factors was a given store’s ethnic diversity. The more diverse a store is, the less likely it is to unionize, according to the metric used. Read more …

Published: May 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, class politics, homogeneity, May Day, North American New Right, originals, socialism, the labor movement | 5 Responses

Print this post

The Real Cost of a Traffic Jam

Winston E. Bakewell

1,687 words

I will preface this by saying that this year, you’re most likely not struck in traffic. We owe a great big “thank you” to the ‘rona for making Earth Day 2020 a rousing success. It’s positively alpine out there!

In normal times, however, it’s highly likely that a majority of you jump into a car in the morning, crawl your way towards a workplace of some kind on a slab of freeway, Read more …

Published: April 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, diversity, Earth Day, ecology, economics, environmentalism, North American New Right, originals, taxation, urbanism, white dispossesion, white flight | 9 Responses

Print this post

“Cocaine” & Crowley’s Mad Men

Winston E. Bakewell

1,507 words

Aleister Crowley’s essay “Cocaine” is not among his most-discussed works, being overshadowed by those more esoteric, salacious, or dense. Nonetheless, “Cocaine” is an entry worth noting in the Crowley catalog on account of its prophetic nature and as an insight into Crowley’s personal philosophy and mental state.

Crowley begins with a tantalizing weave spun about the seemingly supernatural powers of cocaine; referring to it as an “herb,” he describes its capacity to provide man with near-immediate self-satisfaction and thumos-imbued energy. Read more …