Note: This was originally published at The Asylum. You hear leftoids talk about the spirit of ‘68. What is the spirit of ‘68? Most of us weren’t there, but it was a moment in time when it must have felt to all parties right, left, and center as if a burgeoning left-revolutionary consciousness was unfolding, filling the world with possibility. It was this perhaps intangible energy which was thought to unite labor movements, women’s liberation, black nationalism, civic rights, homosexuals, and pedophiles. I’m not saying that to be provocative. In ‘77, a depravity of French intellectuals (this is the technical term for a group of French intellectuals, like a school of fish, or a parliament of owls) all signed a petition to remove the age of consent in France. This is a very old and crucial leftist revolutionary idea, that the nuclear family is the source of all social oppression, that children should be raised by the state, and that the sexual use of children should be democratized and open to everyone. You can find these ideas wherever leftists are preeminent, because the ultimate motivating animus of leftism is “fuck you, dad.” Even most center-left activists, if they have any awareness of history, or their imagined place in it, still view the revolutionary events of the 60s and 70s with a kind of holy reverence. They still idolize the spirit of ‘68. Those were the days, yeah? There was solidarity, there was music and dancing, and most importantly, there was open, violent revolt in the street.
This is so damn good and True. I wish I had the means to buy Zero’s subs for everyone in the country and force them to read this, at gunpoint, if needed. 😅
(Okay, I’m a super fan. Probs b/c I’m an old lady that’s lived a lot of life and knows Truth and Brilliance when I read it.)
Amazing as always! I’m kind of stuck between building an online presence that represents my morals and thoughts, and being cancelled because of how I think. On my academic path I was sabotaged every step of the way: accused of promoting eugenics (on an essay about Herbert’s Dune...), called a Renaissance person as an insult, failed my thesis because I refused to use anything but the generic word man as it’s always been, cut out of all the phd fundings, not allowed to take part of any competition because I’m a ‘privileged’ white woman who doesn’t adhere to (sadly) true stereotypes about women. What would be your advice , hide what my moral compass is and just write? Or go all in?
What an unbelievable roundhouse kick into the mental balls. A subtly piercing reality check, going deeper and deeper, killing all illusions. Had fun reading it, need to read and reflect a few more times.
I’m sure this has been mentioned already but it just dawned on me after thinking more about this article for a few days
The rate at which the fatherly spirit of 16 has faded from dominance in common culture is likely directly related to the rate at which children born out of wedlock have come into adulthood. Less fathers = less fatherly love, from the family and up into the world.
If this hypothesis is true then things are gonna get way worse before they get better.
"You still have 42 million feral blacks milling around."
I am a Traditional Catholic from México.
I think that demonizing and dehumanizing ALL blacks is nonsensical to the extreme.
To me a heretical white "pastor" like the leader of scientology is a feral criminal,but we had stopped counting crimes of theology centuries ago, I wonder if all crimes of the XVI century were counted who would had worse crime rates.
All the wasp heretics, all the Malibu abortions from bored anglos, all the wars of bush, all the vaccines of Bill Gates.
I say anglo crime is higher both in number and impact than all the "feral" blacks from the USA,...
I've been disgusted for many years by the fact that the Right is almost entirely a never-ending series of Copes.
The Left fantasizes about actions like punching nazis, canceling unbelievers, and burning down cities. Then they do it.
The Right fantasizes about someone coming to rescue them. So they sit around, fantasizing.
-Coloreds will start voting Republican.
-Republicans will start voting conservative.
-Leftists will start fighting fair if we just shame them 1 more time.
-If only those in power implemented this one weird trick that restricts the power of those in power, everything will get better.
-1 part of the Deep State will save us from another part of the Deep State because reasons (Q).
-Trump will save us from the government.
-A madmax collapse will destroy all government, leaving only like-minded people to rebuild because reasons, in spite of such a thing never happening in recorded history.
-Even their rebellion fantasy is passive: The Gubmint will send people to the Right-wingers's door to take their guns, allowing the Right-winger to defend freedom without having to leave his EZchair.
OK: while I agree with much of this, I still think something fundamental is missing. The piece displays a tendency to universalize negative assessments of one’s political opponents and thereby demonize them. The result is a failure to engage in a meaningful dialogue, to seek common ground, to build a shared understanding that could (at least in theory) facilitate the difficult job of building a stable, just and moral society. This is happening on both sides.
As an example, I am going to tell a short story. Right after reading this essay, attempting to digest it and understand what my ultimate reaction would be, I encountered a FB post. The post’s author (a friend from long ago) is a male homosexual, legally married for about as long as it was possible in the US, with an adoptive son who is now a teenager. I am 99.9% certain that there is no sexual exploitation involved and that basically decent parent is happening. I am also 99.9% certain that this man suffers from TDS and related psychopolitical maladies of the normie/center-left. The FB post describes an encounter with a pest-control guy, whose services the author was tempted to engage until he discovered the man’s political leanings: conservative, essentially normie/center-right by the standards of this blog. After the discovery, the author wrote the pest-control guy off, concluding, “I’ll live with the pests”. In other words, total demonization of another human being that was likely a very decent person who could have helped him with a real problem from which he was suffering. I shook my head in sadness, but I wasn't at all surprised.
This is happening on our side as well. This post describes very real phenomena that are unmistakable consequences of leftist thinking, but in the process it universalizes certain negative judgments, demonizing our political opponents in a way that is counter-productive and ironically contributes to the avoidance of discomfort (it obscures the humanity of the other side as it obscures our own shadow -- which, yes, does exist-- and thus is just another form of the feel-good).
I mean, sure: you could spark a kinetic revolution where the risk of losing is non-negligible and the probability of massive damage, disruption, and dislocation is quite high. At the end of that, should you actually win, you will found a society that doesn’t look very different from some Arab cultures (and I remind you that all modern innovations have come from Christianized Europeans, not the Arab Middle east). That is not really a win.
The work of constructing a stable, just and moral society involves the difficult of task of finding common ground with political enemies while confronting one’s own shadow. Is this possible in our society in its present state at the current time? I don’t know. It might have been possible 10 years ago. If it is possible now, it means actively confronting and opposing the very real forces that seek to intensity polarization and sow chaos. Those forces are the real Enemy.
This is so damn good and True. I wish I had the means to buy Zero’s subs for everyone in the country and force them to read this, at gunpoint, if needed. 😅
(Okay, I’m a super fan. Probs b/c I’m an old lady that’s lived a lot of life and knows Truth and Brilliance when I read it.)
Thank you, ZeroHP! 👌🏻❤️
Oh, how I have missed you, Zero
Well I’m definitely stealing the Doppler shift analogy.
Out of curiosity, do you support something like Curtis Yarvin’s Sovereign-corp state? Or something else?
Because I’m curious as to what you think would be a better government of the future.
Amazing as always! I’m kind of stuck between building an online presence that represents my morals and thoughts, and being cancelled because of how I think. On my academic path I was sabotaged every step of the way: accused of promoting eugenics (on an essay about Herbert’s Dune...), called a Renaissance person as an insult, failed my thesis because I refused to use anything but the generic word man as it’s always been, cut out of all the phd fundings, not allowed to take part of any competition because I’m a ‘privileged’ white woman who doesn’t adhere to (sadly) true stereotypes about women. What would be your advice , hide what my moral compass is and just write? Or go all in?
"Hail the Messiah!"
"I'm not the Messiah!"
"I say you are, Lord, and I should know, I've followed a few!"
(All) "HAIL THE MESSIAH!"
Brilliant as always. We need another mimetic Trump commercial like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbM6WbUw7Bs
This was so fucking good. I was going to write a comment, but instead wrote a tweet, so hopefully more ppl see it & actually read it..
https://x.com/SvetskiWrites/status/1717547836194091251?s=20
💯
What an unbelievable roundhouse kick into the mental balls. A subtly piercing reality check, going deeper and deeper, killing all illusions. Had fun reading it, need to read and reflect a few more times.
I’m sure this has been mentioned already but it just dawned on me after thinking more about this article for a few days
The rate at which the fatherly spirit of 16 has faded from dominance in common culture is likely directly related to the rate at which children born out of wedlock have come into adulthood. Less fathers = less fatherly love, from the family and up into the world.
If this hypothesis is true then things are gonna get way worse before they get better.
Worship of messianic figures ties into the switch from Bannon to Evola: from actions to art critic.
Can you elaborate on the claim that the ADL funds unite the right et al so they can secure funding? New to this and didn’t realize this was so obvious
do you actually think anything you write is worth reading? shut the fuck up and kill yourself
"You still have 42 million feral blacks milling around."
I am a Traditional Catholic from México.
I think that demonizing and dehumanizing ALL blacks is nonsensical to the extreme.
To me a heretical white "pastor" like the leader of scientology is a feral criminal,but we had stopped counting crimes of theology centuries ago, I wonder if all crimes of the XVI century were counted who would had worse crime rates.
All the wasp heretics, all the Malibu abortions from bored anglos, all the wars of bush, all the vaccines of Bill Gates.
I say anglo crime is higher both in number and impact than all the "feral" blacks from the USA,...
A great article.
I've been disgusted for many years by the fact that the Right is almost entirely a never-ending series of Copes.
The Left fantasizes about actions like punching nazis, canceling unbelievers, and burning down cities. Then they do it.
The Right fantasizes about someone coming to rescue them. So they sit around, fantasizing.
-Coloreds will start voting Republican.
-Republicans will start voting conservative.
-Leftists will start fighting fair if we just shame them 1 more time.
-If only those in power implemented this one weird trick that restricts the power of those in power, everything will get better.
-1 part of the Deep State will save us from another part of the Deep State because reasons (Q).
-Trump will save us from the government.
-A madmax collapse will destroy all government, leaving only like-minded people to rebuild because reasons, in spite of such a thing never happening in recorded history.
-Even their rebellion fantasy is passive: The Gubmint will send people to the Right-wingers's door to take their guns, allowing the Right-winger to defend freedom without having to leave his EZchair.
OK: while I agree with much of this, I still think something fundamental is missing. The piece displays a tendency to universalize negative assessments of one’s political opponents and thereby demonize them. The result is a failure to engage in a meaningful dialogue, to seek common ground, to build a shared understanding that could (at least in theory) facilitate the difficult job of building a stable, just and moral society. This is happening on both sides.
As an example, I am going to tell a short story. Right after reading this essay, attempting to digest it and understand what my ultimate reaction would be, I encountered a FB post. The post’s author (a friend from long ago) is a male homosexual, legally married for about as long as it was possible in the US, with an adoptive son who is now a teenager. I am 99.9% certain that there is no sexual exploitation involved and that basically decent parent is happening. I am also 99.9% certain that this man suffers from TDS and related psychopolitical maladies of the normie/center-left. The FB post describes an encounter with a pest-control guy, whose services the author was tempted to engage until he discovered the man’s political leanings: conservative, essentially normie/center-right by the standards of this blog. After the discovery, the author wrote the pest-control guy off, concluding, “I’ll live with the pests”. In other words, total demonization of another human being that was likely a very decent person who could have helped him with a real problem from which he was suffering. I shook my head in sadness, but I wasn't at all surprised.
This is happening on our side as well. This post describes very real phenomena that are unmistakable consequences of leftist thinking, but in the process it universalizes certain negative judgments, demonizing our political opponents in a way that is counter-productive and ironically contributes to the avoidance of discomfort (it obscures the humanity of the other side as it obscures our own shadow -- which, yes, does exist-- and thus is just another form of the feel-good).
I mean, sure: you could spark a kinetic revolution where the risk of losing is non-negligible and the probability of massive damage, disruption, and dislocation is quite high. At the end of that, should you actually win, you will found a society that doesn’t look very different from some Arab cultures (and I remind you that all modern innovations have come from Christianized Europeans, not the Arab Middle east). That is not really a win.
The work of constructing a stable, just and moral society involves the difficult of task of finding common ground with political enemies while confronting one’s own shadow. Is this possible in our society in its present state at the current time? I don’t know. It might have been possible 10 years ago. If it is possible now, it means actively confronting and opposing the very real forces that seek to intensity polarization and sow chaos. Those forces are the real Enemy.