Conservative Creatives

Conservative Creatives

A reader on Twitter asks: Starting a parallel cinema scene is becoming an ever-more feasible option for conservatives and dissidents. It's easier and cheaper than ever to make your own movie. An enterprising director could crowdfund a slick little indie film. Professional grade editing software; even high-end hardware like a…
January 12, 20229 Comments
Modern Art

Modern Art Is No Object

We've discussed before how Millennials and Zoomers suffer from a peculiar aesthetic disability. Unlike past generations, many of them seem unable to engage with artistic works on anything but a subjective level. A Big Brand X viewer from Generation Y on back would say, "I want to be devoted like…
January 10, 202213 Comments
messiah

Incel Messianism

Yesterday's post on Pope Francis' stern rebuke against cat moms drew a number of critical comments--not just from the Child Free™ and loving it crowd, but from ostensible dissidents, too. That's not surprising, since the fallout from the Sexual Revolution has tainted every corner of modern life, even the counterculture.…
January 7, 20223 Comments
economy

It’s Not the Economy

One encouraging sign heading into 2022 is that the counterculture has for the most part rejected the Conservative obsession with ascribing economic causes to social phenomena. Sad to say, this undead meme has seen a resurgence since Mister Metokur's New Year's Eve stream, so let's drive another stake in its…
January 4, 202217 Comments
charizard

Milo v Beardson

This past Saturday, Trump-era provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos resurfaced on-stream with internet bloodsports veteran and inner circle groyper Beardson Beardly. The occasion was a debate on the spiritual ramifications of grown men pursuing children's hobbies--in this case, Pokémon cards. If you're wondering how the dispute started, one of the Groypers' wignat…
December 20, 202114 Comments
Astroworld satanic

Stanning for Satanism?

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…
November 19, 202119 Comments
Babel Collapse

The Collapse

Spend any length of time in dissident circles online, and you'll soon be introduced to the concept of the Collapse. Though formulated by philosophers of history a hundred years ago, the idea that civilization now faces a great decline is popular with ex-Trump supporters discouraged by the MAGA program's failure.…
November 18, 202111 Comments
Swearing in Silver Lining

Silver Linings

An occasional reader confided the other day that he finds this blog too black pilled. Frequent readers will be aware that I eschew the whole white pill-black pill dichotomy. What people mean by a "white pill" is a sensible consolation--warm fuzzies, in laymen's terms. In the political life as in…
October 25, 202132 Comments
Transactional Generation

The Transactional Generation

A frequent topic of this blog that has, rather surprisingly to me, caught a great deal of reader interest is the ongoing project to map the contours of forgotten generations. These are the cohorts who've been memory holed since Madison Avenue no longer finds them profitable to advertise to. Also…
October 21, 202126 Comments
Travis Bickle Loser

Biggest Loser

Regular readers know I'm always on the lookout for new cultural insights. To that effect, a recent Twitter thread just caught my eye. This thread resonates with a post I wrote earlier this year about the same phenomenon. The only difference is the decade. If you want to gauge how…
October 19, 202112 Comments