I stumbled into White Nationalism circa 2006. There wasn't any particular happenstance that resulted in my interest, I just always seemed to inherently find myself viewing an increasingly diverse society through a racial lens.
Perhaps one of the biggest
misconceptions about White Nationalism on an individual level is that
it's a reactionary position based on causation, due to either
multicultural victimization, or being seduced by some form of
antiquated, familial indoctrination. Of course this isn't a
coincidence, it's a socially engineered ad hominem fallacy used to
deter Whites from being pro-White: “Oh, you're a 'racist,' did you
get assaulted by a black guy, or was your grandpa in the KKK?” An
unprovoked worldview in support of White homogeneity is implausible
reasoning within the conformity guidelines of the status quo.
Due to the perpetual onslaught of
anti-White propaganda that has flooded the Western conscious via the
subverted information systems over the last 60 years, the concept of
White people wanting to be racially exclusive triggers immense
cognitive dissonance within the average person's psyche. The argument
can be made that “diversity is our strength” and “we all bleed
red” have replaced “land of the free” and “home of the brave”
as characterized mantras of neo-Americanism.
Personally speaking, my journey into
White Nationalism began after an internet search of a local
politician accused of doing a racism directed me to the forum
Stormfront. Mind you,
this was long before search engine censorship attempted to manipulate
people's curiosities algorithmically. Therefore, interest on a
variety of topics could lead one to such a website and ultimately
pique their curiosity into the foundational ideology of the platform
(hence the reason for censorship years later). I've personally known
people who had very little interest in race who became race realists
after their interest in pantheism and Nietzsche resulted in Google
sending them to Stormfront as well.
Furthermore, up until that point, I had
this media-induced stereotype ingrained in my mind that these “White
Nationalists” were just a bunch of dumb skinheads and rednecks with
a collective IQ of 78. Instead, what I quickly learned was that White
Nationalism was a byproduct of intellectualism, motivated by the
quest for unadulterated truth. Of course, like all intellectual
movements, many of these people were eccentric, anti-social
personality types, but that was the stage of the game at that point
in time. It was the exchange of ideas that was needed to pave the way
for future generations by seeding propaganda in support of an
existential ideology that was forged with group survival in mind.
In those days, White Nationalism was a
thinktank, not a movement. In fact, way back in January of 2014 I had
my first paper published on Occidental Observer titled Is
White Nationalism Real?, based on the premise that White
Nationalism was just the exchange of ideas on the internet:
Theoretically,
White Nationalism is the political ideology supporting the formation
of a homogeneous state or “homeland” for the White race. Although
the definition might vary somewhat, the concept is universally
consistent. Obviously the philosophy is real, but is the movement
endorsing the dogma a reality? Is White Nationalism figurative
terminology in efforts to make the ideology more socially acceptable
(i.e. “I’m a White Nationalist, not a racist”), or is it an
actual movement?
I was somewhat jaded, because it seemed like all anyone wanted to do was argue on the internet about things that had been argued about a thousand times already. You couldn't even convince anyone to meet you for a beer. I couldn't see the forest through the trees. I was naive to the systemic consequences involved with revolutionary ideas, and the fear of social ostracization that made a lot of people really paranoid. And after reading books like Hoffer's
The True Believer, I developed a better understanding of the psychology behind the personality types that were attracted to fringe movements. It takes a certain kind of person to be “racist” in an explicitly anti-racist world.
In the conclusion of my paper, I
posited that White Nationalism wasn't “real” because it
hadn't been experienced:
In conclusion, the term “real”
is defined as having actual physical existence. With a very few minor
exceptions, the White Nationalist movement would be better defined as
a hobby of like-minded idealists. The reality of an all-White
homeland in the foreseeable future (in America) is comparable to
finding the end of a rainbow….
“Nothing ever becomes real until
it is experienced” ~ John Keats
Hindsight is always 20/20. If you had
told me back then that the political landscape would be what it is
today, I'd probably accuse you of lying. I remember having a
conversation with a Bob
Whitaker disciple around that time period, and I asked him to
give me an optimistic forecast for where he would like to see us in
10 years. He said, “If the mainstream media is using our talking
points and terminology, that would be big. If they just referred to
us as 'White Nationalists' or 'pro-White' and we can defeat their
term 'racist,' that would be a huge victory.” He was one of those
guys who would just go around repeating “anti-racist is just a code
word for anti-white” to anyone who would listen. The term “racist”
has definitely lost its sting, mostly because I think people have
slowly realized that the “R word” is just the “N word” for
White people.
I
seldom write these days. Maybe one piece a year. I'm not very
ingenuitive, and when you're an “oldhead” like me, a lot of
dissident discourse becomes redundant. But occasionally something
will spark the creative juices, and I'll dust off the keyboard and
spend a day pecking away. Case in point, Counter Currents recently
published an article titled Alt-Right
Nostalgia that was an enjoyable and rather reminiscent read. The
author touched on some things that I've discussed in this paper, and
consequently instigated a personal pause for reflection:
Occasionally, I
miss the romance of fighting a battle against seemingly impossible
odds. The movement is in a different phase. We’ve won the debate
and our ideas have conquered the internet. In a way, the fun part is
over. The road ahead to the next level is going to involve some
mundane normie politicking that requires engaging with the system and
a long march through the GOP.
He references the
romantic age of the Alt-Right era of 2016-2019. Those were certainly
fun times to be involved in dissident politics. Lots of street
activism. Tons of entertaining podcasts and digital media content
with very little censorship. And for the first time since my
involvement, the adage “getting White Nationalists together is like
herding cats,” didn't apply. There was an aroma of optimism in the
air.
This Dissident
Right, or whatever we shall have to call ourselves now, was founded
by political theory nerds who arrived at White Nationalism after a
long ideological journey. “I started out as a normie conservative,
then read Atlas Shrugged and was a libertarian for a few years. I was
into Moldbug for a little while and then got redpilled on race after
watching some Molyneux videos. Then I found Jared Taylor and here I
am.”
While many probably see that bygone era as the catalyst for the mundane march politicking through the GOP that lies ahead, I personally rewind back further to those early Stormfront days as the formative years that paved that ideological road for future success (I assume those before me are going to rewind it back further, before the internet). You never really know what is going to become relevant, and what's not. So many of those ideas that were so passionately debated at the time ended up being completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. You can draw up the perfect societal system on paper, but until the unpredictable variant (humans) is inserted into that equation, you don't know what the question will be. This has always been the argument for and against communism. When faced with the atrocities of communism, communists always point out that “true” communism has never actually been implemented.
It's
so crazy to see some of those talking points that nobody knew
anything about 20 years ago be used in the mainstream today. Those
big-brain political theory nerds, like Bob Whitaker and Horus,
used to preach about the importance of staying on a consistent
message, and how propaganda typically took about 15 years to have an
impact on public opinion. Our side was playing 4D chess long before
that term became popularized in 2016. Nonetheless, intellectual
movements just provide the ideological framework necessary to nudge
the pendulum of power. At some point, conclusions are reached when
the variants of unpredictability become known, and that intellectual
candle slowly burns out. As the writer of the Alt-Right
Nostalgia piece accurately
points out, dumbing down is an unavoidable part of the mainstreaming
process:
That said, I also remember the bad
times of the Alt Right. The sociopaths and constantly having to run
cover for the latest self-inflicted PR disaster. After having been in
the game as long as I have, I’ll take the boring but stable
normiefied Dissident Right of today over interesting yet volatile
counter-culture era Alt Right. Being edgy was fun but I’m ready to
be a normie now. The whole mission was to get the ideas to this
point.
But to be honest, yes, something
has been lost in the mainstreaming process. In many ways, the level
of intellectual discourse has dropped since back in the good old
days. There have been rumblings about “low-IQ antisemitism.” That
might mean different things to different people. Sometimes the term
is used disingenuously and sometimes it’s referring to a real
phenomenon that might or might not be a serious issue. It’s normal
to accuse your factional rivals of being a dumb version of what your
faction believes. Still, it is deniable that the level of discourse
in the right-wing ecosphere has dropped a grade or two. Going from
Kevin McDonald to Lucas Gage is a step down intellectually.
Science-heavy Human Biodiversity stuff has become less fashionable,
and the leading influencers are less dynamic thinkers than back in
the day. I don’t think it is an unreasonable critique to say that
the scene has gotten dumber.
Some of the dumbing down may be an
unavoidable part of the mainstreaming process. Some of it is not.
Some of it we might be able to remedy and some of it we simply
cannot.
“The whole mission was to get the
ideas to this point,” is the perfect summation of pre-2020 White
Nationalism, and dissident politics in general. The exchange of ideas
is over. There were certainly lots of pessimistic times during that
period. Honestly, you pretty much had to be a pessimist to even get
involved in White Nationalist politics pre-2016. But the good thing
about pessimism is it reduces expectation. It has been said that
happiness is results minus expectation. And demoralization is usually
the result of failed expectations.
When I embarked on my intellectual
journey I was already college educated, but I never really learned
anything meaningful until I dove head first into White Nationalism.
And that isn't to say I just learned how to regurgitate White
Nationalist ideology, I learned philosophy, psychology, political
theory, science, genetics, theology, human biodiversity, the JQ,
economics, geography, migration patterns, finance, etc, which all
supported the morality of my worldview. I could count the number of
books I had read on two fingers, and my writing skills were
elementary at best. I became an accomplished writer and have read
hundreds of books. I lived in a very diverse metropolis, and
relocated to a predominately White rural area. I fathered White
children. I adhered to a pro-White code of conduct. It's highly
improbable that any of these things would have happened had I not
become interested in White Nationalism. To say that White Nationalism
hasn't had a profound impact on my life would be a drastic
understatement. I was (and still am) a true believer that White
people should have the right to self determination.