Here's another recent interview/debate with Pearl Davis just this week: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGwSrOvmtSI)Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:13 pmI had never heard of Pearl Davis and I find her presentations quite interesting. If by saying that Pearl Davis, though working in an area of challenging the range of choices women make and can make because of the support our culture gives to them, is not necessarily coming from a defined Radical Right or defined dissident and traditionalist position, I can agree (I only watched the video you submitted and a few others).
It seems she is working an angle of common sense in regard to such crucial issues as the lack of marriage solidity; the issues that arise when large percentages of women end up single and alone because their marriages fall apart (not to speak of the loss for men). From what I gathered she is questioning with a scathing focus the degree to which young women -- speaking generally -- are not thinking through the choices they are making when they are motivated by short-sighted advantages they can enjoy when young and sexually attractive.
I do not know if she is interested in examining these social problems, that are so consequential, with an attempt to trace the causes that have led to the present -- and I think fair to say *disastrous* situation -- for our culture, but it is obvious that she has found a large audience for her casually-delivered and somewhat extemporaneous monologues on these topics.
And I think that I could go along with you in saying that she is not working from a defined ideological position of many of the (quite intellectual and studied) exponents of Radical Right Dissidence (like Alain de Benoist, Jonathan Bowden, Greg Johnson and many others I could list). However, what she is doing, and what she is saying, is certainly part of a trend that has developed in the last decade (since I began paying attention). I think it is important to identify what that movement is and why it is developing and also where it will tend.
Again, I see her as a 'symptom' of these greater sociological trends. In particular, Pearl is somewhat liberal-leftist herself, having black ex-boyfriends. So there is a bit of convolution and blurring of the Left/Right, Liberal/Conservative paradigms recently. I would strike them all as 'Centrist' and 'Moderate', which may expand, because of the extremist pulls to the Left or Right in Western Civilization. Thus, the waters are 'muddied' so-to-speak. There are many conflicting values at work, many different Causes, which may or may not be the primary and most influential causes.
Even the greatest trends, though, the Religious-Left, and the Liberal-Leftists on this forum, in this thread, no longer deny their occurrence.
They're reacting emotionally, as expected. This isn't my first rodeo, Alexis. I've been through many similar debates, elsewhere, to the type in this thread. But as you prove, the emotional defensiveness and strategy is very effective. The Religious-Left have been using 'Nazism' and 'Hitler', like the boy who cried wolf, for nearly a Century now. They cry wolf too often—the insult, slander, smear, and effectiveness all become reduced. They ignore some critical facts: the American Conservative-Right defeated Hitler and Nazism already. So their fear-mongering is irrational.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:13 pmI had written:
The view I have is that -- here I only comment on the denizens of this forum -- most of those who come out strongly in a mechanical and reflexive opposition to the ideas and perspectives you present (shotgun style), and also in opposition to much of what I think and write, do not and cannot see and identify the *crisis* that we are in. It is as though it does not show up on their radar of concerns. Flash and Sculptor for example can do nothing else but *bark* their opposition by screaming *Nazi!* (it really does resolve to this) but they do not seem to have a position of actual values that they are working with.Those who pay attention -- I wager that no one of those Terrible Opponents who write in these threads does -- to current events know that there is developing, and there has developed, a political and cultural position that is hard to categorize but let's call it Dissident Right for the sake of simplicity.
Gary has a somewhat more clear, and also common sense position but has no interest at all in examining the present conflicts and problems through a more holistic lens. So for example he does read Chomsky, and give assent to his views, but when challenged to examine the ideas of Renaud Camus (on the demographic changes being engineered on European nations and his own beloved France) Gary's mind snaps shut. And though Renaud Camus is so far on an opposite side of anything that could be called fascistic of Nazi-esque, nevertheless his discourse, even before it is heard and thought through, is associated with the same Ontological Malevolence that is referenced when the Nazi-emblem is blazoned. These are reflexive mental habits that have been instilled in us all through what can only be called PR-propaganda and cultural engineering.
Thus it is demonstrated as a weak rhetorical tactic, that any average minded 'Rightist' ought to be able to riposte easily.
Once the reputation smears are ignored and surpasses...look at what Hairball is willing to admit to, when backed into a corner. The Religious-Left need to Lie in order to defend their sick, twisted societal, cultural, political positions. They know that they cannot defend the Evil that represents their "side". And this "side" now appears in seeds' response, back to the cultural revolution of the 60s and 70s, the Boomers lived and caused, thus the origin of these "Sexual Revolutions".
But now we all see the 'dirtier' side, and the rot manifests from that. I don't know what seeds' defense is, but we'll see shortly...
We are all definitely 'Affected', often negatively, from these sociological, political, cultural forces...but I wouldn't necessarily use 'Vitims', as again, this is the forté of the Religious-Left, Victimology.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:13 pmTherefore, one important element here is a movement that begins a process of reverse-engineering. And the confrontation of what Tomislav Sunic calls Liberal Rot, and I call Hyper-Liberalism, by people who are really only just beginning to get their ideas clear.
This is an important factor. We are all *victims* of mass social engineering by powerful economic powers, concentrations of capital, and by elites with specific ideological positions, and very importantly by decades of Marxist agitators and activists, and it is when this is realized and brought out into the light for examination that one -- an average person -- can begin to examine the destructive consequences of the trends we are trying to identify.
Perhaps this then is a primary Strength of the Conservative-Right...refusal to be or become 'Victims'. Conservative-Rightism ought to champion Agency and Anti-victim-ology.
