About this episode
Hello my friendsThis is episode 2, on who we are and how we fight, Capitalism, Communism, and ManagerialismA nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.I think of this often, whenever I sit down to write, who am I writing for and what is the goal?It can be useful to imagine that we are educating the normieThis may be a false conceit — anyone who is listening to me here has long since departed the Overton window But we spend most of our mental lives in well-worn channels and we begin to feel that “everyone knows” the things we know, even though the overwhelming majority does notThe perspectives we trade with each other, my friends, are what we call “high context” — they assume a high level of already-shared understandingAnd often that understanding has become so implicit that we end up neglecting to share it, we’re only interested in the edges of what we’ve already establishedBut something I’ve always known, and something that becomes more and more apparent as my audience grows —Is just how little of that shared understanding most people have — look, the average person who comes to us, to the frog right, to us reactionaries — for the time being we should avoid becoming too attached to labels, because we exist in many ways as a shadow, a negation —The average person who comes to us doesn’t know the classics, and if they come to us it’s because they have a problem, they’re looking for something and they can sense we are operating from a different set of axiomsA big part of the reason I’ve found my audience is that I like to share those axioms, as much as I enjoy the frontiers of our thoughtform, it’s also critical to cultivate the interiorBut we exist in many ways as a negation.Some people don’t like to hear this. They want to talk about a “positive vision” — you have no right to complain if you can’t offer me a comprehensive plan for the total restructuring of society — this is really what people think.“Oh yeah, if liberalism is so bad, what do you want to replace it with?”And we have answers, but only partial answers, of course. Because the world is vast and complex, more complex than anyone even begin to understand or fit in their mind, and things are always changingBut people don’t want — no, scratch that — we were talking last time about how most people are not even capable of thought — people cannot think about, they cannot begin to approach the world as it is, they can’t even perceive itSo it feels reasonable to make this demandBut it’s very hard to define health, and it ought to be easy to recognize sickness. And we recognize many sicknesses; And the average person who comes to us may recognize one or two, often just one, which varies from person to personSome people will have found themselves on the business end of what is called “antiraci
