Great article. One nitpick is I wouldn't rule out white people regaining their ethnocentrism or ethnic consciousness. In many respects both Christian Evangelicalism and LGBTQIA2S++ are just veneers for ethnic tribalism, though actually more truly tribal than ethno-nationalism, in that you can "initiate" outsiders into the tribe as the genetic core or general group cohesion is retained, no need for autistic nitpicking about percentage of moorish or semetic blood.
Tribalism is just too encoded into our being, and immutable phenotypic features are just too much of a strong pull, both since they signal shared kin and you can't do much to lose them. You can't burn your skin off like a spited sport's fan after a disappointing sportsball season. The only thing that ranks in terms of immutability is sex and gender, and it's looking like the left's gender push is going into the same dumpster the temperance movement and eugenics were dumped.
I actually wonder if the cultural differences between whites in the United States alongside common intermarriage patterns isn't just going to start spawning new ethnic groups, or even new outright races. Apologies for a very digressing comment to an ancient article. I'm also not a white nationalist, so don't take this comment as a cope.
Hm, I could agree, except the part when the current winners are undermining themselves. Like, they are not having kids. A lot of currently winning ideas have self-sabotaging parts.
The pushing through part is clear - that was what various kinds of accelerationisms were always about.
I think being temperamentally past-oriented is a trap, for instance, it is usually an imagine trap. It comes from the desperation that the currently winning ideas are self-undermining, not self-sustaining.
I tend to be usually on the left, because mostly they are right, but the right has a point of some basic minimum of self-sustenancy, more babies, less immigration, just keeping Western nations in existence in a basic way.
Good words. Only place I felt like adding to/you seemed to pose a question:
> But let me ask you, are these past-minded people, equipped with this youthful energy, are they powerless, or are you powerless?
No. 99% of the right are not capable of this synthesis of future-focused-yet-past-respecting. Nor are ~97% of the left. Perhaps these numbers include a decimal (99.9 and 99.7) either way, it is only a small number who can.
But this piece is for that tiny percent who can but are simply unaware it is an option. Or perhaps are already doing it and just need help clarifying and articulating it. Most NRx readers probably fit somewhere in this.
And also is just kind of an examination in a pseudo dialectical-materialist sense of how our society is a balance of these forces of these two dominant temperamental “classes”—one whose naive idealized utopia is in the future and one whose naive idealized was in the past. and the tug of war between both creating a kind of nash equilibrium which is the basis on which our modern/late modern human metaorganism (society) continues its existence.
I’d be interested in a follow-up to this article.
Great article. One nitpick is I wouldn't rule out white people regaining their ethnocentrism or ethnic consciousness. In many respects both Christian Evangelicalism and LGBTQIA2S++ are just veneers for ethnic tribalism, though actually more truly tribal than ethno-nationalism, in that you can "initiate" outsiders into the tribe as the genetic core or general group cohesion is retained, no need for autistic nitpicking about percentage of moorish or semetic blood.
Tribalism is just too encoded into our being, and immutable phenotypic features are just too much of a strong pull, both since they signal shared kin and you can't do much to lose them. You can't burn your skin off like a spited sport's fan after a disappointing sportsball season. The only thing that ranks in terms of immutability is sex and gender, and it's looking like the left's gender push is going into the same dumpster the temperance movement and eugenics were dumped.
I actually wonder if the cultural differences between whites in the United States alongside common intermarriage patterns isn't just going to start spawning new ethnic groups, or even new outright races. Apologies for a very digressing comment to an ancient article. I'm also not a white nationalist, so don't take this comment as a cope.
Hm, I could agree, except the part when the current winners are undermining themselves. Like, they are not having kids. A lot of currently winning ideas have self-sabotaging parts.
The pushing through part is clear - that was what various kinds of accelerationisms were always about.
I think being temperamentally past-oriented is a trap, for instance, it is usually an imagine trap. It comes from the desperation that the currently winning ideas are self-undermining, not self-sustaining.
I tend to be usually on the left, because mostly they are right, but the right has a point of some basic minimum of self-sustenancy, more babies, less immigration, just keeping Western nations in existence in a basic way.
The right doesn’t always lose
prove it
There are still things the right supports which are normal and still things the right is against which are profane.
wow very convincing
Good words. Only place I felt like adding to/you seemed to pose a question:
> But let me ask you, are these past-minded people, equipped with this youthful energy, are they powerless, or are you powerless?
No. 99% of the right are not capable of this synthesis of future-focused-yet-past-respecting. Nor are ~97% of the left. Perhaps these numbers include a decimal (99.9 and 99.7) either way, it is only a small number who can.
But this piece is for that tiny percent who can but are simply unaware it is an option. Or perhaps are already doing it and just need help clarifying and articulating it. Most NRx readers probably fit somewhere in this.
And also is just kind of an examination in a pseudo dialectical-materialist sense of how our society is a balance of these forces of these two dominant temperamental “classes”—one whose naive idealized utopia is in the future and one whose naive idealized was in the past. and the tug of war between both creating a kind of nash equilibrium which is the basis on which our modern/late modern human metaorganism (society) continues its existence.