I. Uprising - A Civic Tradition
The Dublin Riots, the IRA and the Possibility of Victory
Did you hear about Substack censoring some newsletters recently? Yeah, after months of pressure applied by ethnic censorship activists to shut down no-no blogs, the authorities at Substack just shut down some tiny, no-name, probably made up by the activists themselves blogs. I was expecting the worst, but was pleasantly surprised.
We live to fight another day!
As I lay sick in bed, seeping into my sweaty mattress, I was re-watching the videos from the Dublin uprising of last year and reading the “analyses” of other writers on the topic trying as hard as I could to find even one interesting or insightful thing being shared or disseminated in the “alternative” samizdatosphere on the events that took place. Sadly, all I saw and read was yet more confusion about the nature of politics and what the future portends for all of our occupied peoples.
So, I figured I’d pen something on the topic that might actually be useful and worth reading.
I remember starting a series about a year ago that may have been titled “Remedial Politics” or something similar and I also remember tabling the topic until I could come up with a better title for it. Also, I figured that I should avoid touching Western topics to not encroach on other bloggers’ territory. Internet cyber-warriors are very sensitive about who is “allowed” to write about what and if they consider themselves an expert on a topic, they behave like a cut-throat drop-shipper working for razor-thin margins that notices a new competitor trying to crowd into their marketplace nook.
At the time, I wanted to make nice with various political bloggers so that they’d repost me and have me on their podcasts. To achieve this, I figured it’d be best if I acted like I had no interest in encroaching on their turf and talking about their bread and butter core issues. But that ship sank in the harbor before it even raised anchor, so I may as well talk about what I want at this point. And the next wave of censorship is probably at least half a year out at this point so we might as well have some fun while we can.
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The key points raised by the Dublin unrest are actually perennial and so don’t require any specific understanding of Irish political nuance or recent history. We’re talking about the same thing that we are always talking about nowadays: an occupation government, growing nativist unrest, state-employed janissaries, xenocrats, identity, empire, rebellion and so on.
So, let’s just hone in on what protests and riots are all about, in the general, eternal, archetypical, practical, perennial sense. Forget we are even talking about the Irish, because frankly, I find this largely irrelevant in the final analysis. It may as well be the Boxer Rebellion that we are discussing here.
Let’s start at the top by asking ourselves what a protest is before moving on to talk about uprisings.
The Point of Protesting
Protests are gatherings of supporters for one political faction or another and fulfill several important functions.
First and foremost, in the archetypical, perennial sense, groups of protestors are actually armies. Sure, they’re unarmed (mostly), but they’re essentially a mustering of militamen or levies that have gathered in support or defense of someone or something. Whenever there is a concern or a problem that people believe deserves redress, they instinctively seek out like-minded people and gather an army around themselves to seek out the strength that comes from numbers.