Update: Man's World, Dugin, Land, and Other Considerations

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Issue #7

I have been absent of late, due to this thing called life. All is fine on my end health wise, but I was asked to create an online class mostly from scratch on Statesmanship and political economy. The central focus has been “what could our declining regime do economically to recover, if at all?” Reading and recording online lectures has been my focus. However, I am almost done with that job.

Once I have completed this task, I will return to full-time on the Grant book. I am still in the spot I was when we left—that is shoring up 1869 and moving into 1870. After that, I plan to write one chapter for each year—1871, 1872,1873—then his second term, the same.

In addition to the class opportunity, I was encouraged to write a piece for Man’s World. I heartily enjoy this magazine put together by the based Raw Egg Nationalist. I have it half completed. IF it is accepted (it might not be) it will be in issue 9 or later—so that’s a bit off in the future. The topic? My recent project I undertook at home—the restoration of a 1980 Ford truck. I have been engaged in this arduous process for over 6 months. The working title is “Built not Bought.” After Charles Haywood’s piece in issue #7, I was inspired to write something, especially because Haywood writes,

The key is to realize that a natural tendency of boys and men, which sharply distinguishes them from girls and women, is their desire to create, and to be fulfilled by creating, lasting objects to be productively used, to create functional solutions to problems in the real world, and to offer those solutions to others. Philosopher Matthew B. Crawford (the apostle of manual work for men, and you should read all his books, especially if you want a more exhaustive, philosophical treatment of the topic of manual work), notes that such work “is meaningful because it is genuinely useful.” Making real things in the real world confers power, knowledge and wisdom; it is a fulfilment of men’s desire for agency in relation to the physical world, as distinct from the feminine desires to nurture and empathize. Therefore, to reclaim and rebuild masculinity, we should aggressively support men’s work in creating real things out of real materials. Instead, however, even men aware of the problem spend much of their priceless time on pointless fillers— very often watching others play sportsball and playing computer games, both nearly totally worthless activities.

The tool-based manual arts, what might also be called mechanics or craft, are not only firmly based in reality, but entirely revolve around typically masculine traits, such as problem solving, competition, and objectively demonstrating competency and prowess. They also often involve some danger (it is no surprise that all the most dangerous trades are utterly dominated by men).

I would go further, the fact that GAE is trying to shove us into a pod means men, if they are to be men, must reclaim owned space—something BAP discusses in Bronze Age Mindset. But, you do not have to be a believer in Nietschean Natural Right to believe that owned space is at the exclusion of the republic. In fact, this country was founded by people who made things with their own hands—even our elites back then did the same.

I will not develop this argument here. You must read Man’s World for the rest.

I recently read Alexander Dugin’s Great Reset and the Great Awakening. He is nothing that our corporate GAE press makes him out to be—he is not a communist nor a fascist. Anyone who says so is a complete and utter liar. He is a man who believes in traditional morality. He is also Eastern Orthodox, and that is the rub with GAE—anything traditional or based on the Nature of man, is a threat to their end goals. What the ruling class does not like about Dugin is that he challenges (and is at open war with) the global world order.

We all should be. If they win, we are enslaved, Dugin notes. He is correct.

The Globalists are making an effort to remake our identity. This is the last gasp of the liberal world order—first it defeats Communism and Fascism, then it liberates the self in the guise of “rights,” then it liberates us from our humanity to makes us cyborgs.

The incessant imprimatur by the West/NATO/Davos/WEF to force us to accept all identity is chosen (by them) and not bound by Nature is just one aspect of all this. This is why Russia is not our enemy, and the invasion into Ukraine was a self-protection gambit. Ukraine as the globalist money laundering “country” pushed all sorts of faddish new values that separated man from his God, and now in the present, man from his body. The Russian invasion is working. The east—China, Iran, Russia, India, and Turkey (see the peeling off of NATO there?) will help create what Dugin believes is required to stop the demise of man—a multipolar world.

GAE hates that because they rule the world, and they cannot imagine a time when they were not the masters of the universe. They cannot conceive of a world where they are not leading it. Look at, say, Andrew Weissmann’s twat feed—he is boldly open now that GAE will win and all enemies of the world order will be destroyed (canceled), jailed, or killed. He is confident this is coming soon. He cannot conceive his own defeat.

This is, in a nutshell, Dugin’s 4th political theory—a multipolar world based on the protection of peoples and nations that do not fall into the GAE mindset of western post modern morality—nihilism.

That the people have woken up to what is happening before their eyes, is the Great Awakening. He writes, “modernity lied to everybody,” and hence there are people in the west must join this effort—Trump and MAGA voters see this—and that is why Biden gave his pre-final solution speech against that blood red wall on 1 September declaring ½ the country enemies of the State. GAE cannot deliver all it has promised the last 100 years, and we are not to notice. To notice it, is to set ourselves against their project. Fall in line peasant!

Dugin mentions Nick Land in his now banned book in the west. For those who do not know, he has been labeled a fascist too. He’s not. He does write about the global reality in a way that makes them unsettled—reality bites GAE. They do not want us to know what is happening, nor that there may be a challenge to their exalted status. This is why they burn books and cancel the opposition.

I am not going to pretend to understand everything Land writes. He is comprehensive in few words. It is difficult to know if he means what I think he means. He is important because, like Mencius Moldbug, he quite understands the problems we face. Allan Bloom did the same. But in the end, their black pill makes peace with the coming catastrophe. In other words none—Land-Bloom-Moldbug-really have an answer or a path out. Only Moldbug and Bloom hope that the best we get is an elegant nihilism—for Moldbug that is under a REX. They ultimately, accept the path we are on—trust the plan. Dugin offers a way out, the Americanists offer a way out, Land seems pleased with our dark acceleration.

Therefore, this masterpiece opening of Meltdown in the early/mid 1990s:

The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.

The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace.

By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex.

Neo-China arrives from the future.

Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo.

Retro-disease.

Nanospasm.

Essentially, as I read it (not necessarily as Justin Murphy perhaps more correctly reads it) technology and capital come together and create an unstable world. Daniel Bell wrote in his book the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism that instability is the characteristic of free markets. Land updates Bell to say, imagine markets are AI and then imagine technology speeds up time. The leap usually took over 100 years, now leaps happen almost yearly. Waves stack on themselves over time, and come more frequently. Technology has compressed time and understanding. The amount of change in a short time is beyond man to comprehend. Hence, let’s really create AI to handle it. This will further our demise. Marshall McLuhan was getting at this I think in the 1960s! Except, McLuhan thought all this was horror.

Land: as decline accelerates, there’s much instability, war, and the loss of humanity. Land is not necessarily opposed to all this as Dugin is because this is the reality to him. It just IS, and he’s rather excited about it. Dugin states that man cannot quit being man generally. He is not excited about any of it.

In part, Land above speaks to the past. But Land states rather correctly, that the waves of modernity increase rapidly as time goes on—we are globalized, overwhelmed, and paranoid.

Meltdown is brief but not short read. I am impressed how he predicted this:

[N]ot thinking about increasing the human heritage' ... dams up the flow of cultural time and deprives future generations both of their birthright as participants in the life struggle and attainments of the species and the very notion of history as an irreversible flow encompassing generation, maturation, and the transference of wisdom and trust from parents to children, teachers to students. The futuristic flu is a weapon of bio-psychic violence sent by psychopathic children against their narcissistic parents.

This sounds a lot like the problem we are facing today—the decline of the family; the hatred of parents for their children; the in turn hatred of children for their parents. Education prepares us for all this woke nihilism. The experts rule and yet, know nothing.

We all then are alienated from our species, from the human body. We are corporeal form without a soul.

There’s more I could say about Land and Dugin, not to mention how (or IF) Leo Strauss fits into all this, but I will let this post rest for now.