Apr 5, 2010

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The Overman High Culture: Future of the West

Can the West and its peoples be saved? And what will this take–particularly if we are concerned with a long-term solution rather than a last ditch “stop gap?” Can a new High Culture of the West arise to secure the existence of the peoples of the West for an extended time frame? What characteristics should such a new culture have?I will assume the reader is familiar with...

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Apr 3, 2010

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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 3

Black Metal and the Return of Völkisch Thought How did völkisch ideas resurface in popular culture? By the 1960s Christianity had entered a phase of decline in the West, following a long period of growing skepticism as well as hostility from political ideologies from both Right and Left. As has been the pattern in the West since the fourth century,[1] the decline of the dominant...

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Apr 2, 2010

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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 2

Völkisch Thought and the Conservative RevolutionSome of the most fascinating aspects of Black Metal are its parallels with the ideas and sensibilities of the Conservative Revolution and the wider völkisch (populist) movement that swept Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These similarities are so striking that Black Metal may well be considered, if not the...

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Apr 1, 2010

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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 1

Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 1

From the viewpoint of racial nationalism, the musical genre known as Black Metal is one of the most significant popular culture phenomena of the last two decades. Yet it has been seldom discussed by politically congenial scholars and commentators. This is surprising, since Black Metal runs counter to the post-World War II trends toward the progressive marginalization, condemnation,...

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Oct 20, 2009

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White Noise

From Taki’s Magazine, October 19, 2009I was once asked to imagine what the world would look like today had North American settlers snubbed the African slave traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. We can let our imaginations run wild with speculation, but one thing is certain: had the slave markets in Africa been starved of custom, our Pop music charts would look nothing like...

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Oct 1, 2009

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Ragnar Redbeard’s Might Is Right or the Survival of the Fittest

From The Occidental Observer, September 29, 2009Note: In biology, “adaptive” means (very precisely) promoting the survival and reproduction of an organism’s genes. “Natural selection” is the logical and empirical process whereby forces of nature affect the survival and reproduction of some genes over others. The terms, “natural selection” and “selection...

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Jul 21, 2009

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The Real Right? Part II

New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe by Michael O’MearaBloomington, Ind.: 1stBooks, 2004For Part I, click here.. . .  The New Right itself in recent years has moved away not only from its early attraction to a biological view of human nature and society but also from its opposition to multiculturalism, if not to immigration as well.  The earlier...

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May 26, 2009

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“The Great Death-Continent”:
D. H. Lawrence on America

Editor’s Note: The following passage on America is from D. H. Lawrence’s novel The Plumed Serpent (1926). The Plumed Serpent tells the story of Kate Leslie, an Irish widow of 40, who, to escape her unhappy life, decides to travel to Mexico. She is horrified at Mexico’s ugliness, degeneracy, and backwardness. Eventually she encounters Don Ramon and General...

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