Belinda wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2025 3:12 pm
People can't help it if they have been badly socialised. We need to find out dispassionately why it happened that trump supporters became ignorant and stupid.
And then try to influence them as and when we can.
My experience in studying the Dissident Right for over 10 years (unofficially) is that this is anything but true. First, the Dissident Right in Europe has influenced the Dissident Right in America, and the European DR is anything but stupid or ignorant. What they are is aware that *something has been done to them*. That is, that something occurred in European culture that emasculated men. The
essence is there. This European man, the product of these processes of liberalization, had the ground under his feet removed from him. Had his *identity* thrown into moral doubt. And this man was attacked and made to feel unwelcome to himself.
One of the interesting manifestations of a new political will is taking the shape of the selection of Robert Kennedy Jr. to lead the HHS with the declared realization that America is terribly unhealthy and suffering “chronic diseases”. Aware people realize that physical health, mental health, cultural health and spiritual health are all part of a whole, and therefore a holistic approach to the well-being of men has been and is one of the major points of focus among those of the Dissident Right. That is, a sort of social and cultural biopsy that attempts to underdstand, and begin to counteract, *what happened* and why.
The question of rediscovering what is empowering is a vital concern, and associated with it is a recovery of a religious orientation. Meaning, for example, redefinition of one’s own *metaphysical dream* and that vision and understanding of life around which one can orient oneself. There are such movements within pagan traditionalism and at the same time within Christian traditionalism, both Protestant and Catholic. The value of studying people like René Guénon (Crisis of the Modern World) and Julius Evola (Revolt Against the Modern World) is that each of these defined
metaphysics as the more important locus of religious principles.
A huge part of the present cultural manifestation that is labeled
extreme right actually has much to do with the discovery of a type of will that can act against decades of social programming. In short it is saying *Fuck off* to that weakening ideology and all that undermines a genuine manliness. Naturally this involves
redefinitions of what being *manly* entails. And in the process of redefinition there is also the necessary analysis of what makes a man weak.
Steve Bannon is an important figure in the Dissident Right (his podcasts are very popular among the MAGA crowd) is quite well-read among most of those who are European Dissident Right authors and theorists.
Those who write on this forum are, to be honest, nearly completely of the intellectual roots that stand behind the manifestations of the Dissident Right. You effectively *hide your heads in the sand* and refuse even to examine what must certainly be examined if you were to get any genuine, operative understanding of the present.
See
this talk on Steve Bannon’s background.
Consider
this as well.
