ACTUAL ANGEL
dancingtotaylorsbeat: ACTUAL ANGEL That’s how the populists of the Late Roman Republic came to power, leading up to Caesar himself. Winning over the people with conspicuous displays of charity and great arena entertainments. Bread and circuses. When I say she’s going to become the Queen of America, I FUCKING MEAN IT.
Hey look, you can see #NRx from space.
(For all the duck goes on about “conservakins”, it’s like congratulations dude, you and yours are fighting the good fight by creating a whole new idiom for asshats to compete for retweets on their snarky jokes and ominous pronouncements.)
The worker elite has three main functions within modern imperialism.
1. First of all, it serves as an active buffer between the ruling class and the proletariat. This function has several aspects:
- A. The worker elite absorbs and co-opts proletarian struggle. When proletarian insurgency grows,…
The funniest thing about the libertarian -> neoreactionary pipeline is looking at these guys being like “what we need is an elite-run government insulated from electoral demagoguery, in coalition with a tame academy, industry, priesthood, capital and civil society dedicated to patriarchy, anticommunism, skilled labor, and at least lowercase white nationalism” and thinking “man, remember when you defined your politics against the New Deal state?”
So one way I could see monarchy returning to relevance in the Western world is through a renewed emphasis on personal union in the face of secession.
(Hi, I’m personal union. You may remember me from such historical powers as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Iberian Union. I’m here to remind you that the rule of distinct countries by the same human monarch is a form of government that exists even outside of the Europa Universalis game series.)
If the Scottish secession referendum passes, and/or regional secessionist movements in Spain achieve any success, I could see a movement to cede authority currently held by parliaments back to the respective monarchies as a way to hold on to geopolitical economies of scale in the face of civil disunion. That’s something the NRxics should be keeping their eye on.
Lot of attention lately to the Dark Enlightenment that is mostly about Moldbug. The brown menace, she rides again.
As I’ve said before, his one innovation, “neocameralism”, is just a rewording of the Divine Right of Kings in corporate shareholder idiom, a legitimating myth for an order that hasn’t established itself yet. It is significant that that’s exactly the idiom native to the SF tech/VC complex - if shit kicks off in America, dollars to donuts it starts in the Bay Area, which I’ll maybe go into in another post, but suffice it to say I expect the particular details of his program to be pretty much irrelevant to anything.
I will say what intrigues me more, and what could really be a prime mover in that sector, is the construction of a modern, international, English-speaking Australian-American-Polish-British-Scandanavian-Serbian-etc. white volk around a core of internet-native right-masculo-populism on the chans’ “waifus, warhammer, and white nationalism” model
things like Polandball’s (and SatW’s) western-centric resurrection of the concept of national personification, heavy metal culture and the associated Vikingism, feelsguy’s translinguistic sense of selfhood, /pol/’s kebab removal… well, just /pol/’s /pol/ness, really
Now this sounds ridiculous. I know this sounds ridiculous. This is me pointing to cultural trends particularly prominent in the dork niche circles I notice and ascribing to them world-shifting importance. I know it is.
Sure, heavy metal is not the actual historic musical tradition of any people. Sure, Norse neopaganism is not the actual historic religious tradition of any people. Sure, Tolkien-by-way-of-D&D aesthetics are not the actual historic mythology of any people.
Unless, of course, you count “2008” as being a part of history, or those then alive as counting as a people. Or, say, 1978. Or, you know, the 19th century, and the conscious, successful Wagnerian construction of Germanic identity from which these are all lineally descended.
To Golda Meir is attributed the line that there is no such thing as a Palestinian, by which was meant that the identity didn’t predate the establishment of the state of Israel. True, true. Neither was there such a thing as an Israeli. But then the state of Israel was established.
Plus okay, the celebration of western, particularly north european feudal great man realpolitik that is Paradox games is a niche thing, not quite mainstream popular culture
but how about the celebration of western, particularly north european feudal great man realpolitik that is the Canadian/Irish/American “Vikings” series?
how about the celebration of western, particularly north european feudal great man realpolitik that is Game of Thrones?
*de Benoist voice* metapolitics
