The dissident right is a broad name for people who oppose woke elites in gov’t, media, academia, finance, & tech. Their champions are mostly famous on Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, but are too impolite as well as too bold to be acceptable in any respectable conservative institutions. The result is that they have an effect on hundreds of thousands of men who care about what they have noticed of society, that it is a gynaikocracy; & millions of less interested men, who nevertheless have the taste for harshness. A million people may mean nothing in an America that harbors 350 at least; but it may mean everything—events will tell.
The dissident right is also a source of new magazines like Mark Granza’s IM-1776, which I’ve helped, since it was the first thing to oppose pandemic despotism, or Man’s World (Raw Egg Nationalist’s creation), & new podcasts, far & away the most popular & infamous being Caribbean Rhythms, Bronze Age Pervert’s offering of an alternative education for angry young men who would rather embrace their new identity as toxic & turning into a source of power. The matter of the new attempt is a return to Nietzsche’s boldest statements in his early & middle periods, that is, Birth of tragedy, Untimely meditations, & Human all too human. Given the complete collapse of higher education, young men will take their lessons where they can find them. Now, as to the form of the education, besides the podcasts, it’s old-fashioned tracts, self-published & sold over Amazon, in the new fashion. There are two of them, Bronze Age Mindest & Selective Breeding, both bestsellers beyond expectations, the latter a dissertation in political philosophy, concerned with Plato’s Gorgias & Pindar’s lyric poetry. The power of numbers tells in a democracy, so this could easily become a million-dollar business. This is a measure of the importance of the movement. That podcast has audiences in the six figures, a vast number of whom pay for the entire version, & are proud of it. Quoting the witticisms or more provocative attacks is like saying hello for lots of young men. If success deserves applause, this man deserves applause.
Of course, Progress in communications, technology, & the exchange of ideas stopped in 2016—all new developments since have been evil rather than good, perversions, if you will. Bronze Age Pervert is accordingly constantly denounced in the elite press, usually in an embarrassing way that cannot conceal the increasing parochialism of that elite—they neither control the tech, nor the audience, nor do they even understand the phenomenon facing them, nor, finally, can they agree on a strategy for dealing with it—they’ve tried tech censorship, doxxing (revealing the identity of a pseudonymous account in the hope of ruining business, reputation, or getting him arrested or killed), & denunciation in various mood—hysteria, contempt, boredom, morally earnest worry. Nothing has worked so far, but the Bronze Age Pervert’s admirers fear the power of the national security bureaucracies will be deployed next.
Everything in the politics of the dissident right somehow happens in the shadow of the Bronze Age Pervert. He has perfected a form of dissidence that doesn’t seem either in his control or to aim at a purpose, to turn a movement into an organization. There are many other famous pseudonymous accounts who achieve some influence over young men, accordingly, & they somehow imitate the key industries in America, the core regime institutions they oppose, sometimes work in, & by whom they are somehow formed.
Chris Rufo, the star of the conservative activist movement, talks to these men, partly to lend them legitimacy, partly to create right-wing media. Rufo is a respectable guy with respectable affiliations, whom politicians listen to, but he has not found much help from conservative media & most organizations, who avoid controversy & seem committed to decadence… It makes sense that he has turned to the pseudonymous celebrities, since there is no other avenue for political contestation. Rufo has just organized & moderated the first debate on a question that is supposed to distinguish the harsh young men of the dissident right from respectable conservatives: Should we embrace a policy of No Enemies To The Right?
You can listen to the recording here, it was somewhat formal, two men speaking for & two against, stating their positions briefly, then explaining through debate on specific questions ideas & disagreements previously hashed out on X. Apparently, it is becoming a public matter, some 15,000 guys have already listened to it over two days, with more to come. I recommend it & will take the time to introduce briefly the speakers. Charles Haywood spoke in favor, indeed he has made this statement famous on the dissident right over the last year. Since we live in a kind of Enlightenment, a techno-democracy, everything turns into an acronym which sounds somewhat barbaric, in this case NETTR. Haywood’s website is called The Worthy House, it’s a mix of his own essays & reviews of his readings—dissident right recommendations for understanding the current crisis &, especially, its likely resolution. He predicts the imminent collapse of American liberalism, which he hopes to replace with a new techno-Christian patriarchy. Sounds cool! You could listen to Haywood’s advice about marriage, together with his wife—it may surprise you to notice that the reviled people of the right really talk Christian-Darwinist liberalism. Haywood made his money making shampoo, is an investor, including in dissident right magazines. Also in favor is Nate Fischer, an investor trying to build businesses & a venture fund for people on the right. His argument is that you need allies with whom to build, whereas respectable institutions tend to want to adhere to liberal positions, at the expense of any newcomers. Against, Neil Shenvi. His argument is that Christians are commanded not to make alliances with immoral people; the political consequences cannot matter as much. Also, wokal_distance defended the Enlightenment against Haywood, as compatible with family & all good things. Both made the argument that evil is contagious—we have to set boundaries.