Amerika

Many of us hate politics. We are forced to choose one side — the “fast decay” side or the “slow decay” side — that includes something we care about plus a bunch of other stuff designed to manipulate an audience into supporting that side. Red flag or blue flag, but in the end, the same approximate destination.

It is hard to go through life without being exposed to some history. The information we need is hidden in plain sight. Early Rome had kings, a caste system, no subsidies, and a sense of purpose based in excellence (arete). Late Rome shuttled between democracy and oligarchy, had equality, used subsidies, and had no goal.

We can see parallels in the people we know. When they are young, they have a strong sense of who they are and what they want to do with their lives. After a decade of jobs, they just want to bribe the wife and kids to shut up while they pile up money to eventually escape this madhouse of taxes, red tape, resentful people, and mediocrity.

To fight back against politics, we can use a simple metaphor: the binary light switch versus the dimmer switch. The former has two options, on or off, while the latter has degrees. If you want fifty percent light, you can do that without having a second switch.

My approach to politics for a long time has been disconnecting goal from method. Goal is where you want to end up; method is all the stuff like social security and defense spending that are presumed to lead to the goal. Politics wraps up methods and sidesteps goal as best it can.

A more sensible approach views every area of politics as a dimmer switch. Very little is completely wrong, but these things need to exist in balance for us to get what we want. The libertarians, communists, anarchists, conservatives, fascists, eugenicists, and national socialists all have something we can use.

Following our mission here, we are radical realists who recognize that progress and tradition must exist in parallel, and this requires a nuanced approach of four pillars:

• Ethno-nationalism: if you import any other ethnic group, you change your group irretrievably by combining genetics. This genocides your group. Diversity is flat-out insane in any form. The utility of ethno-nationalism is that you can have organic culture which has continuity from founding through future. Organic culture proves a better method than government or law for regulating everyday behavior and controlling the excesses of the markets and mass human behavior. It creates a center for society that is controlled by no one and constantly returns to the same ideals — behaviors, aesthetics, values, habits — that have guided that society since its founding.
• Monarchism: aristocracy is the system of choosing the best people and making them wealthy, instead of making either the wealthy powerful or the opposite, namely rule by the lowest common denominator. Aristocracy provides constant upward pressure toward an example of what is desired, and provides leaders who are of the people instead of those acting as outsiders to enforce control systems.
• Capitalism: the “last man standing” in economic systems is the original one because it is not oriented around centralized control; all alternative economic systems so far have been political rather than economic. Competition renews markets from monopoly and steadily reduces costs and raises quality. Everyone benefits from this system but it requires an abolition of socialist price controls and subsidies to function well.
• Transcendence: perhaps the most controversial item here, this states that societies need an intangible goal such as excellence (arete) in order to move upward instead of “forward.” Progress attempts to change the quantity of our existence, switching from one form to another, while upward motion increases the quality of what we have and keeps it contiguous to the past.

This bundle does not correspond to any political view, but borrows a bit from each with the dimmer switch set to certain levels. That way, the parts balance each other and keep the focus on function instead of manipulating people with visions of Utopia or Hell based in methods, slogans, and affiliations.

Tags: aristocracy, capitalism, ethnonationalism, monarchism, organic culture, politics, transcendence, ultright