In case you haven’t noticed, your world is on fire.
But let’s not make a big deal out of it. So we’re living through the self-inflicted collapse of western civilization. What are YOU going to do? Put on your cape and go save it?
If that’s your plan, best of luck. I’ll be cheering for you, and I’m sure it’ll be more fulfilling than mindlessly buying into a culture choked with lies. But history suggests you won’t find much success, either in your mission or in your personal life. Larry Auster (god bless’m) has not, as of yet, succeeded in reversing our decline. Nor does he strike me as a particularly happy guy.
And really, what is this thing, “Western Civilization” that you’re fighting for? Christianity? The good, sweet and true America of the iconic 1950’s? Each contained the seeds of its own destruction, evidently. Aspiring to recreate some idyllic past version of either just so it can start back down the same path to the present and beyond is not a viable long-term solution.
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Young men in particular are shit out of luck today. Good jobs are disappearing. The dating market is red in tooth and claw. Mainstream society wants to cure us of our maleness, while making us hate ourselves for whatever vestiges remain. We’re groping blindly for a purpose, a cause, a tribe to rally behind, but we have nothing. No instructions. No role models. Often, no fathers.
Eventually, we snap. It might take 18 years, or it might take 50. But we all must eventually come to the realization that God doesn’t like us. Could be, God hates us. But, this is not the worst thing that could happen.
In fact, it’s very liberating. God – as a metaphor for our society, our culture, our government – hates us. Say it out loud. Once you understand this, you’re free to hate him back. You can stop feeling guilty that you owe “God” anything but enough surface obedience to keep yourself out of trouble. Then, you can fully embrace the freedom of selfishness.
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So now you’re free to be selfish. What next? Obviously, it’s up to you.
One popular option is to embrace a secluded life of porn, video games, TV, and internet forums. Maybe you laugh now. But the porn, the games and the sex dolls are only getting better. How strong is your willpower? Wait ten years before you snicker at the millions currently living their lives through Warcraft and Redtube.
The other choice is to fight back, and devote your life to becoming the best possible version of yourself that you can. Maybe you think you’re already doing that. But are you really? Modern society forces upon us the previous generation’s masculine duties and responsibilities, offers none of the rewards, and distracts us from our shitty deal with the soothing balm of counterfeit achievement. Rather than get laid, improve ourselves, and build an empire, we can push the same neurochemical buttons by fapping off to a 720p lesbian orgy, levelling up, and shooting imaginary space aliens.
But even if you aren’t a pathetic, pasty-fleshed loser reading this in your parents’ basement, are you even close to achieving your full potential as a man and a human being? Or have you succumbed, if only partially, to the opiates of the modern world?
- Do you waste time on shitty TV, XBOX, jerking off, and mindless internet surfing?
- Do you eat crap and plod through lazy workouts?
- Do you think about starting businesses and finding a better job every day, but never do anything about it?
- Do you read about game, but never actually approach?
- Do you have a creative passion – music, art, writing, whatever – that you have never really pursued?
I’ve been guilty of all of them. I still waste time and puss out of things I know I should be doing. But I’m trying to snap the fuck out of it. I’m taking control of my health. I’m writing a novel. I did a bit of traveling for the first time. I started a blog. I still have a long way to go before I’m living my ideal life, but I’m taking steps towards it.
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So what does self-improvement have to do with the Alt-Right blogosphere? A lot, actually.
There are quite a few practical disadvantages to finding and taking the Red Pill, disconnecting from the mainstream, and re-learning reality from the ‘nets. Socially and professionally, you’ve always got to be on guard, lest some morsel of crimethink slips out. People will sense that you aren’t a joiner. Perhaps, one day, your RSS feed and search history will be part of the prosecution’s case for shipping you off to a Gulag, where 20 years of hard labour and diversity seminars will cure you of your hateful thoughts.
But there are also advantages. There are truths we have access to that most don’t. Some of them are extraordinarily useful. How long do you think it will be until the rest of the world starts eating low-carb? Sells off all the federal, state and municipal bonds in their portfolios and buys gold? Stops their self-defeating approaches towards the opposite sex? Maybe one day there will be more than a small, anonymous community of internet writers who see the world for what it really is. Until then, those of us who do will have a monopoly on information that is both useful and politically incorrect. And we can use that to become super-fucking-human.
Meanwhile, let the world burn. Pour a little gas out if it makes you happy. But if you’re willing to consider that everything you know is wrong, a much better life awaits you. Rejecting the conventional wisdom on nutrition, economics, and the sexual marketplace will make you healthy, wealthy, and get you laid.
Frost writes at Freedom Twenty-Five.
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Not a bad guest post, a little light on application though.
The guidelines for guest post submissions link is broken.
So “God” is now a “metaphor” for the willful malevolence of existing leaders, and let’s be honest, many Americans, as Mark Ames points out in “We the Spiteful”?
Is “God” a metaphor for Black Jesus, Obama, now? How about the ‘tards that elected him? Are they “God” to?
What about my pile of dirty clothes in the corner? Are they a metaphor for “God”?
Blaming “God” is a lame excuse. Every problem America is inflicted with had obvious causes, was obviously getting worse over a pro-longed period of time, and was in many cases self-inflicted by actions that were obviously self-destructive in anything but the short-term. Sometimes in even the short-term.
Blaming “God” is a cop-out. AMERICANS had a Job To Do. And they Got It Done. Blaming “God” is a cop-out.
I’d say this is even more silly than Firepower, who is very agitated about how American’s do nothing. Normally, I’d tend to agree with him. But how much time is left of America’s clock right now? One year? Two years? Really.
If you want to know what you should do, then I’ll tell you.
Move to another country. Move in the direction of AWAY. Americans are bad people, and they will, for sheer nastiness, make your life unpleasant. That’s what they do.
Even if you are part of the problem, it still be better FOR YOU to be around non-rabid people.
Very good post, reflects most of my feelings. Getting up to do something is problematic, perhaps little steps will get me off the ground.
I agree with the post. I owe a society who hates my guts for being born male nothing but the minimal surface level obedience to stay out of trouble. I would never donate to my alma mater, to any charity, to any gov’t institution, always try to minimize the taxes I pay which go to subjugating my fellow man for the benefit of feminazi-controlled manginas in power. I always avoid doing anything positive for my community. I never help out a bitch who’s car is broken down on the side of the road. I never open doors for women and I would never ever lift a finger in defense of this shitty soulless country that has made second class citizens out of a full 50% of its population – the productive half who run, maintain and power it forward and they are called men. All I care about is fucking attractive college bitches, siphoning my income out of the market and staying out of the misandrist beast’s way.
If people want to chill and relax while Roma burns, fine.
But dear god, Firepower’s fatalistic whining is annoying.
Gx, is this freedomtwentyfive guest writer really the racist poster known as Firepower?
What an aweful post. FB you need to lift the level of intellectual material here.
Apparently, we can be self-improvers while being nihilists( rejection of god is the ultimate nihilist act followed by suicide.) Whats the point of self-improving if nothing has value, for to improve is stating a value.
Tyler durden disagrees, you are self-improving mastabater, now self-destruction.
FB, I do enjoy your posts but to wade into this nihilist swamp, will not maketh a mass movement(I know what you are up to). A proper reading of the classics would tell you so. Nihilism is a vaccum not a steady state.
Hence, I believe that all those young unemployed disgruntled young men will, call forth the strong man on a white horse. Wallenstien style. The next 20 years will see a detonation in religious
extremism in the west, (im not talking about Islam here). An army of young men, prepared to do violence, with little reagrd for lives, for they have no family and no nation, and one unifying conviction is RAW POWER. It is the engine of history.
You men are just too stupid to figure it out… yet
come on guys lets get serious here.
DF, I agree with you that might makes right, but until the current power-structure of female coddling and white-knightism collapses, us young men can do nothing but wait it out and keep a low profile (doing our best to sabotage and starve the beast) until that time comes when the hordes form liberation “armies” and takeover as you stated.
Read the Book of Ecclesiastes. If Solomon can write that, then there is no hope for meaning in this life apart from God.
Actually “Might doesn’t make right”, quite the opposite, but that wasn’t my point. It’s matter of perspective. If the present structure and reigning culture is oppressive to young men, yet reached a point where its own center of gravity is folding. then why are you so gloomy about the prospect of it collapsing. You men have everything to gain with each passing month and little to lose for you are already are the lowest and most disenfranchised. Clauswitz and Sun Tzu would envy your position. It is the old order that has much fear. This is OUR moment. Men must collectively as well as individually push against the Zeitgeist’s ever weakening center. We all know that, it is hippocritical, superficail, nihilistic, and obviously bankrupt. An affirmation of one univerasl transcendental belief aim right at its heart will do more damage than you can concieve so far. Affirmation is achieved through acts of sacrifice and grace. Sacrifice that illuminates that your beliefs are real and concrete as the earth you stand on and the air you breath, while dispelling the relativistic mind numbing haze that has destroyed what was once good but is now corrupt.
There is such a thing as a hero.
Or you could just go and wack off, and play world of warcraft thats FB’s pathetic offer.
lmsao at you turds
Ferdinand hasn’t asked me to write a piece for his blog.
Still, don’t hate on my disciple. I’d only tweak the excellent logic and observations by differentiating between the isolated effect of individual pursuits of internet fappin’ n’ forum-in’ to historically effective results of group strategies.
You might as well say that God hates old people because He kills them all. According to Sir John Glubb (“The Fate of Empires”), the maximum lifespan of a great nation is about 250 years. America is 234 years old and showing signs of terminal decline.
When old nations die, new ones are born. America’s fall may unleash war, genocide, and mass starvation around the world. But it will also open vast areas for brave, ruthless, non-feminist men to conquer, colonize, and found new nations. The strongest of these nations will be based on the same principles that once made England and America great (life, liberty, property rights, male franchise, small government, strong families, etc.)
That’s why it’s important for men to preserve these values, even if today’s society has no use for them. Women will join later, when the Good Terminator says to Sarah Connor, “Come with me if you want to live”.
For those curious, Frost used to guest-post at 2 Blowhards under the name “Zdeno”. So no, he is not Firepower.
Fall of the old regime
The revolutions begin with problems in the pre-revolutionary regime. These include problems functioning — “government deficits, more than usual complaints over taxation, conspicuous governmental favoring of one set of economic interests over another, administrative entanglements and confusions”. There are also social problems, such as the feeling by some that careers are not “open to talents”, and economic power is separated from political power and social distinction. There is a “loss of self-confidence among many members of the ruling class,” the “conversion of many members of that class to the belief that their privileges are unjust or harmful to society.” (p. 65) “Intellectuals” switch their allegiance away from the government. (p. 251) In short, “the ruling class becomes politically inept.” (p. 252)
Financial problems play an important role, as “three of our four revolutions started among people who objected to certain taxes, who organized to protest them …. even in Russia in 1917 the financial problems were real and important.” (p. 78)
The revolutions’ enemies and supporters disagree over whether plots and manipulation by revolutionists, or the corruption and tyranny of the old regime are responsible for the old regime’s fall. Brinton argues both are right, as both the right circumstances and active agitation are necessary for the revolution to succeed. (p. 85-6)
At some point in the first stages of the revolutions “there is a point where constituted authority is challenged by illegal acts of revolutionists” and the response of security forces is strikingly unsuccessful. In France in 1789 the “king didn’t really try” to subdue riots effectively. In England the king “didn’t have enough good soldiers.” In Russia “at the critical moment the soldiers refused to march against the people” and instead joined them. (p. 88)
Background of the revolutionaries
Revolutions “are born of hope” rather than misery. (p. 250) Contrary to the belief that revolutionaries are disproportionately poor or down-and-out, “revolutionists are more or less a cross section of common humanity”. While revolutionaries “behave in a way we should not expect such people to behave,” this can be explained by the “revolutionary environment” rather than their background. (p. 120) “`Untouchables` very rarely revolt,” and successful slave revolutions, like Haiti’s, are few in number. (p.250) Revolutionaries are “not unprosperous” but “feel restraint, cramp, … rather than downright crushing oppression.”(p. 250)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_Revolution
Might makes right because right is the opinion of the victor.
Dave,
Did you question what is the meaning of ‘nation’ before taking whatever is said about it as a matter of fact?
Ferdinand, much thanks for publishing this and for running a kick-ass blog and link-hub. If schoolchildren ever learn about the early history of the Alt-Right blogosphere, I hope In Mala Fide gets its own chapter…
Anyways. The question I’m trying to answer with this post is, what the fuck do we do with our lives when we realize we’re caught in the final decades of a collapsing empire, and that empire has morphed into something that is actively hostile towards us? The first part of my answer is to selfishly advance my own interests.
The second part… well, sometimes I entertain the possibility that this odd, isolated community of blogs will one day mature into something . I wouldn’t put money on it, but you never know. The alt-right blogosphere will have a lot more energy if it’s dedicated to 1) Learning and understanding the TRUTH about the world, and 2) Using that truth to get ahead in life.
I mean jesus h christ, why are some people around here so dreary all the time? We’ve discovered a book of secrets about the world that will help us make smarter choices with our women, careers, money, and citizenship applications. Celebrate! Use that shit! While everyone else is eating pasta, buying dinners for women, investing in California state bonds and moving their kids into “vibrant” school districts, we can be fit, rich, safe and get laid like motherfuckers.
“Self-improvement is masturbation. Now self-destruction…” — Tyler Durden
I never said that this guest author was Firepower. I just said that Firepower’s fatalistic whining is annoying (to me, at least).
One single superpower coming and swiping the US? Nah. Worst case scenario, return to racial-tribalism. Tyranny of distance and all.
About revolutions, that’s a cute term for a coup d’ état. With all the bloodsheding that it implies. It can vary from a clean stroke to a full fledged civil war. Guess where my money is.
What,s with the firepower hate? He’s a fine contributor.
Also, that bitch is fucking hot. That is all.
I am putting my hopes in better looking women with lower standards.
Meh to this and some of Ferd’s more extreme flights of rhetoric.
Roissy sings odes hedonism well because he has a genius for mixing despair with hope. The imitators not so much. Ferdy comes close, but this one felt like it was written by one of Chateau’s unoroginal freshman students. Oddly so, since Zdeno wrote well in the wake of Michael Blowhard’s departure from 2BH.
Aspiring to recreate some idyllic past version of either just so it can start back down the same path to the present and beyond is not a viable long-term solution.
Leaving aside the issue of whether or not we can learn from the past and avoid making the same mistake twice, if we could recreate America 1960 in the full knowledge that in 50 years we’d be right back where we started… that would be good enough for me, and an improvement over the present. How many people here expect to live another 50 years? If not, then resetting the clock means you’ll live your whole life in relatively good times, which should be “long term” enough for anybody.
Much thanks Ferdinand, both for posting this and for running a kickass blog/link hub.
@Tarl: If I could push a button and send the western world back 50 years, I would. Do you have a button like this? I don’t. I think the only way the US is going to change course is if the whole mess collapses, and gets rebuilt from scratch, in which case we might as well aim higher than the vastly better, but still deeply flawed and unstable America of 1960.
@PA: Thanks for the kind words for my 2BH writing.
I have no objections being called an unoriginal freshman imitator of Roissy (or Ferdinand, MBlowhard, Mencius, Roosh, etc) since that’s basically what I am. Lately, I’ve been trying to figure out what the hell I want to do with my life while the world falls down (and maybe gets rebuilt) around me. So I write about it.
Also, I don’t buy the supposed hedonism of the Roissy/Ferdinand worldview. Actions speak louder than words, and each spends 20+ uncompensated hours a week writing pseudonymous blogs…
Nice to see a positive post on a generally negative site. However, there are problems. The advantages spoken of here are the advantages of free thinking. However, it is a mistake to assume that the opposite of politically correct talk is truth. Also, one must remember that the goals being pursued here are goals defined by the cultue being rejected. That is, the pursuit of self-fulfillment is in itself a symptom of our degenerate culture. Likewise, the view that the behavioral standards of the past can be judged by no other standard than who in society benefits from them is a symptom of our degenerate culture. (That is, do you employ Game because chivalry is used to control men now? Then you implicitly suggest that the purpose of chivalry in the past was in part to benefit men. But this is not the view that would have been adopted by those who lived in the past.)
The Alt-Right and the manosphere are in serious risk now of falling prey to gnostic fallacies. Don’y fall prey to anger and frustration.
Okay, this has turned into a Neo-Luddite, pseudo morally nihilistic blog in just under 3 posts. Or has it always been that way?
What fascinates me is that all this emotional expenditure bequeathed by modernity was nonexistent in a time when living in a cave or eating sabertooth tiger leftovers was a necessity. In other words, primitive man did not have the time of day to sit on his ass to think about how much his life sucked. We evidently are very privileged.
How can you reject something which does not exists?
Well, there’s certainly zero whining or sensationalism coming from you. My guess is your money will be with Billy Mays, carnival barkers or Vince, that Slap Chop guy.
Yeah, I’m sure “primitive man” had a boss-man making him work 80 hours a week. He’d kill a deer, and the boss-man would come over and take 90% of it and then say “back to work, you worthless *bleep*!”.
On the other hand, in the real world, they worked till had enough food. Sometimes that would require a long, long time. Sometimes they would wake up, a stupid animal would get in their sights, they’d hit it, and it would be chow-time. And they wouldn’t need to kill more spoiling food for a while.
Or are you referring to farmers? I’m sure during the winter the farmers worked day and night tending the fields… oh no wait, that’s wrong.
Or maybe herders? If you define “work” as sitting around and watching cows eat grass…. then sure, they worked 24/7.
“Rejecting the conventional wisdom on nutrition, economics, and the sexual marketplace will make you healthy, wealthy, and get you laid.”
Amen to that!
The only snag is that you’ll cop alot of flack for pointing out the proverbial “elephants in the room”.
Instead of copping flack for telling people the truth, I like to fuck with them a little:
“Invest in government bonds.”
“There are real differences between the left and right.”
“Join the military.”
“Calories don’t matter.”
“Be a gentleman and buy women expensive gifts.”
Watch the herd, then do the opposite.
Alasdair MacIntyre:
http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=14
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“A crucial turning point in that earlier history [before the dark ages] occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman Imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of the Imperium. . . . What they set themselves to achieve instead—often not recognizing fully what they were doing—was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming ages of barbarism and darkness. If my account of our moral condition is correct, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without grounds for hope. This time however, the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament. We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.”
Awesome. Just…awesome. To quote Master Shake of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, “I will do WHAT I WANT, WHEN I WANT, AND HOW I WANT! AND NOBODY…IS GONNA TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
Time to stop fucking around on the net and go claim what’s MINE! My science degree, my health, my money, and some ASS.
Shit man, these comments…life isn’t all peaches and cream for us women either you know. We grow up thinking that femininity is a weakness. We struggle to be strong, independent and get a career started…and then we hit out 20′s and realize that our life would have been so much better if we just put on some makeup and acted girlier.
Also, don’t you guys realize that every era has had it’s issues? Oh yes, let’s go back to the 50′s, back when minorities and women could be treated like shit and the white man ruled the world. Fuck no. Some of you need to humble yourselves. You don’t deserve anything, you earn it.
I hear some of you men saying you just wish women stopped trying to be independent and career oriented. You know, I would love to, but there’s a reason we are like this, because back when women used to be devoted housewives with no career, their husbands would dump them and they would be left with no way to support themselves.
There’s no going back. Deal with it.
[MS: pssshaw. the white man will always rule the world. i got here by being stronger than everyone else. you can display moral outrage at an ugly truth, but it doesn't change reality. as you say, deal with it. whether the toothpaste can go back in the tube is not the debate. it cant. the debate is, when society gives women everything they need to succeed and still can't without a leg up and someone to tie a hand behind my back, what is really holding women back? whoever told you femininity is a weakness was an ugly, unloved cow.]
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