By Richard Hoste 0
Hollywood’s Reach — and Limits
From The Occidental Observer, September 12, 2009When a set of beliefs becomes a society’s accepted morality, portrayals of good and evil often take stock forms. I’m younger than the majority of people who will read this, but even I am shocked with how much multiculturalism has replaced the old Ten Commandments morality as the basis of what it’s necessary to believe to be a...
Read MoreTyler Cowen on Inglourious Basterds
“Unacceptable Thoughts about Quentin Tarantino”Marginal Revolution, September 13, 2009I’ll put this under the fold, as it may contain spoilers from some of the people who have not yet seen Inglourious Basterds…Tarantino made his Hong Kong movie, his martial arts movie, and his Blaxpoitation flick but I never expected him to dip into Nazi cinema. He sure...
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More from Hunter Wallace on Libertarianism
“Linder and Libertarianism”from Occidental Dissent, September 12, 2009Libertarians tend to think in abstract terms. They have all sorts of theories about government, economics, and ethics. I’m impressed less by their abstractions and more persuaded by the empirical results that follow their implementation.We’ve tried almost everything the libertarians recommend over...
Read MoreSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs
I have watched a number of Disney animated features intended for children.The messages in these films are so clear and so overpowering that it is a wonder none of the volunteer reviewers on Amazon see them.But they don’t, and I suppose it is just as well.Five are White Nationalist Classics. These are Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, and...
Read MoreThe Searchers
In 1953 — a very good year for westerns that are White Nationalist Classics — a movie named Broken Arrow appeared which raised a huge favorable buzz among the critics because it painted a sympathetic portrait of the poor Apaches in their wars against Whites.Broken Arrow marked a major turning point. Hollywood had decided it was time to move the Western movie genre in...
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The Fed and Us
The Case Against the Fedby Murray RothbardThe Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2007If there’s a connection between opposing the federal reserve and believing in human biodiversity, it lies in the fact that people who question the conventional wisdom on one topic are more likely than the average thinker to do so on another. Finding out whether the partisans of hard currency are kooks...
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Hunter Wallace Settles Accounts with Libertarianism
“Raimondo, Libertarians, and Paleos”from Occidental Dissent, May 28, 2009As I pointed out to Evan McLaren last night, the disabling of the comment section at Takimag was about more than simple irritation with Captainchaos and friends trolling multiple threads. Justin Raimondo, John Zmirak, Paul Gottfried and others who write for that website have long held racialists in...
Read MoreGustave Le Bon’s The Crowd,
Chapter 3: “The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds”
Chapter 3“The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds”§ 1. The ideas of crowds. Fundamental and accessory ideas — How contradictory ideas may exist simultaneously — The transformation that must be undergone by lofty ideas before they are accessible to crowds — The social influence of ideas is independent of the degree of truth they may...
Read MoreResurrecting Woodstock?
From The Occidental Observer, September 10, 2009Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. A time-proven recipe for poor choices. Forty years ago this summer a group of young promoters organized what is regarded as a milestone in popular music history. The result was a celebration of free love and tuning out.The Woodstock Music Festival’s original producer Michael Lang had planned...
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Another European Destiny, Part II
Editor’s Note: For the first part of this review essay on Dominique Venner’ s Ernst Jünger: Un autre destin européen (Paris: Éds. du Rocher, 2009), click here.4. Der ArbeiterJünger’s nationalist politics turned out to be a passing phase in his long life. By 1930, after the wind started to go from the revolutionary-nationalist sails and the National...
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