A quote often attributed to Chesterton notes that when something draws equally vehement attacks from opposite sides of the same issue, it’s a good bet that what the partisans are attacking is true. In other words, heresies tend to come in diametrically opposed but equally erroneous twos.
The resurgence of Satanism has sparked a new round of opposing heresies attacking the truth. Con Inc. and the racialist Right are tripping over themselves to divert your attention from the man behind the curtain.
“Death Cult witches aren’t satanic,” insist Conservative grifters. “They’re Commies doing communisms!”
At the same time, ethnonationalists who normally have nothing but contempt for GrifterCons say, “Only cowards call practitioners of Devil worship Satanists! What looks like satanic ritual is really just anti-white!”
To cut Collett some slack, he’s done a lot of good work and suffered the all-too-familiar punishments levied by the Death Cult against its enemies. It’s also the nature of the streaming game to constantly scramble for novel takes peddled with bombastic headlines. The strategic use of caps is a dead giveaway.
That said, such transparent spin is beneath him. Denying the stench of sulfur that hangs over the Death Cult constitutes gaslighting worthy of the Witches themselves. It reinforces the impression that a small but vocal segment of the dissident Right are ex-Reddit atheists who simply dislike black people and take out their cognitive dissonance on Christians.
And getting back to Chesterton, Con Inc. runs the same play, tarring the Church with their own favored epithet. One side worships Mammon, so they attack anyone who rejects unrestricted market worship as Commies™. Across the divide, race idolaters harangue anyone they deem guilty of insufficiently hating nonwhites.
Both heresies commit the error of reducing a field to a binary. Con Inc. sees the world in exclusively economic terms, so they dismiss any other explanation. Racialists reduce all social phenomena to ethnic struggles, so they lash out at anyone with a more complex view.
Now, to deny the Death Cult’s racial element would be to commit another equal yet opposite error. As corporate race quotas and the Rittenhouse show trial demonstrate, the Cult has demoted whites to second-class citizens.
But contrary to what ethnonationalists and blank slate civic nationalists alike presume, the Church has plenty to say about the reality and goodness of race and man’s right to form nations.
What the racialists can’t account for is why a heretic civic religion has formed which enshrines anti-whit hatred at the core of its morality. The best they can do is accuse the cultists of envy, but in so doing they necessarily appeal to the Christian morality they loathe.
After all, it was envy that led to original sin. Even atheist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre accepted the doctrine of the Fall, because it’s so self-evident. Man is the only creature in hereditary disharmony with God, nature, his fellows, and himself. Only Christianity gives a complete, internally consistent account of the reason for man’s brokenness and offers a proven remedy.
“Once you start, you’ll finish!”
I used to wonder why Chesterton was buried until I see the frothing hatred of his beliefs from one side of the aisle and the low IQ sperging about Distributism from the other. It was a tag team effort.
Also, I thought the Right was familiar with Yuri Bezmenov? Nowhere in his supposedly infamous lecture did he ever mention anything about Capitalism or Communism having anything to do with what was happening to the West. In fact, he mentioned that subverting religion and making it look foolish, outdated, and backwards, was a prime target in what their goal was for subverting society. If you’re still a fedora at this point then you really are out of your depth.
It’s not the economy, stupid.
Yuri gets the same treatment as Chesterton. The Wignats cite his support of Christianity as proof he was compromised or something.
I think decades of indoctrination that “it’s the economy, stupid” have produced massive intellectual inertia. If every problem is defined in terms of political economy, then “Capitalism vs Communism” becomes the low-hanging fruit of political debate. If folks have been further indoctrinated to blame the cruelty and negligence of bad bosses on “capitalism,” instead of on basic human cupidity and concupscience, the problem gets worse. The spiritual dimensions of the problem are very carefully hidden. Anyone who gropes for them gets gaslit back toward false dilemmas.
“When we win, never forget that these people want you dead, broke, your kids raped and brainwashed and they think it’s funny.”
-Austere scholar
And that student’s name was Albert Einstein.
The quote I always remember is “Don’t worry so much about money…”
The ex-fedoras among the political right remind me of slow devolution of Teddy Spaghetti. One moment, Teddy talks about how we shouldn’t harbor deplatformed nu atheists, or how the enemy of our enemy becoming our friend is “Arab logic.” A few years later, Comrade Teddy praises the atheist ChiComs under Xi as “noble pagans,” and he asks, “Is the enemy of our enemy not our friend?” And before that, there was also his old relationship with Stefan Molyneux that he admitteded was more incestuous than that of the nu atheists.
But Comrade Teddy is Italy’s problem. As for the IRS snooping? I’m thinking of commissioning a mural of Christ’s resurrection on the topmost wall of my living room—and it’ll need to cost $600 or more if I hope to even remotely depict the Lord’s majesty…
The Nick Fuentes v Styx debate demonstrated everything I needed to know on the China question.
Xi understands that empires aren’t worth it, but he still needs a way to keep America on its leash. Let’s pray that he sticks to economic attacks instead of a Soviet-style cultural subversion that makes the problem worse.
What happened in the debate?
Styx spent the whole time obfuscating, attacking straw men, and feigning ignorance. It was obvious to everyone within five minutes that he assumed what the opposing argument would be and was caught unprepared when Nick took an unexpected approach.
Wouldn’t expect less from the guy who had to reflexively defend the Satanic Panic when the Finders report came out. He probably doesn’t even know what the False Memory Syndrome Foundation is nor their links to pedos and glowies. All of which takes very minimal research.
Modern pagans aren’t serious people.
I have no personal animus against Styx. It’s just that in all of his debates I’ve seen, he comes off like a high school stoner who shirked a book report to get high over the weekend, then tried to bluff his way through it on Monday. Don’t see the appeal at all.
In that case, I propose a feast day for Nick Fuentes. An ugly tree that bears fruit still belongs in the orchard.
An obnoxious Zoomer debated a shirtless, leather-jacketed weirdo about whether lame dissidents like themselves should root for China.
That’s my version, anyway. What Brian wants you to understand is that people who hate China are usually materialists who obsess over money and censorship unto themselves like Styx does.
The new Yellow Scare is largely manufactured by the same neocons who lied us into Iraq and Afghanistan. Their whole racket is playing let’s you and him fight while skimming off the conflict. People would notice they’re useless parasites the second the US lacked a bogeyman, so in the absence of a real contender, they have to make one up.
As for Fuentes, yes, he’s an abrasive gadfly. Those types are attracted to the dissident scene, which isn’t exactly spoiled for options at present. He’s so far managed to avoid the landmines that detonated his predecessors, and he’s used that time to build a serious movement, create the only alt-tech platform besides Gab that works, and most importantly, bring scores of people back to the Church.
His Millennialism is an acceptable tradeoff.
@JD Cowan, to quote Chesterton: “But one of the strange marks of the strength of Christianity is that, since it came, no pagan in our civilization has been able to be really human.” (The Everlasting Man, Part I, Chapter III, The Antiquity of Civilization)
I once heard it said they are small people with small gods. I suppose, in rejecting the Divinity of Christ, they reject the Humanity of Christ too, and the humanity in themselves which He came to assume and redeem. I once heard them called small people with small gods. From those I have known, I think I agree. I would dance for joy to learn that some of the pagans I pray for have found Jesus. It is a pity they are so lost.
On a related note, a thought I’ve had recently: are the Church of Satan sorts who claim to not believe in Satan or to be doing Satanism ‘ironically’ closer in spirit to their master–the Father of Lies, the one who tries to define himself as “I am who am not” (cf. Fulton Sheen)–than those who do it sincerely?
Granted, this may be like asking “So is a black mamba deadlier than a king cobra?” when you’re hip-deep in a snake pit … 🙂
They’re Boomerism’s logical conclusion.
At this point whether it is ironic or not is irrelevant because irony eventually leads to sincerity. They are supporting evil.