Sovereignty, Distributionism and John Carter's SOTT Interview

I was listening to John Carter’s recent interview on SOTT and I found the episode stimulating and edifying because many points that we bring up here were discussed by the hosts and John. Especially the parts about the need to move past ideology - those resonated with me.

John brought up a lot of good points that I thought were worth exploring in greater depth. For example, the idea that what we are seeing on the world stage now is a repeat of the legendary conflict between Athens and Sparta. Athens, being a Democracy, decided to impose its ideology on the rest of the Greeks. This is a perennial quality of all Oligarchic forms of governments - they are totalitarian and expansionary. In contrast, Sparta was happy with its own idiosyncratic Authoritarian system. They didn’t try to convert the rest of Greece to their way of doing things and so, were able to create an alliance similar to BRICS now, where Spartanism wasn’t imposed and the unifying factor was simple opposition to Athens’ aggressive ideological chauvinism.

To really flesh out the comparison, Sparta is a classic example of a society that built itself around the concept of strength. They made some errors along the way, but they had a good run and their legend became a template and inspiration for other nations and movements throughout history. So let’s accord them some respect, please. No jokes about their practice of shaving their fiancees’ heads allowed.

Point being, the conflict between the Global Oligarchy and Russia + friends now is perennial, really.

Moving on, John Carter talked about the need to push back against ideologies and create systems that take into account the culture and history of the people instead of trying to force the people to change to satisfy ideological dogma. I would add that the only concept that a nation needs to understand is the idea of SOVEREIGNTY. And the choice is binary for all nations and people - submission to foreign powers or a globalist control grid and actually having sovereignty.

The pursuit of sovereignty has to be multi-faceted. Russia is trying to become sovereign economically, financially and politically right now. This process of “sovernization(?)” is what Putin talks about in his speeches and it is antithetical to participation in the “global community” which is a euphemism for the global oligarchy. If only Russia could start adopting sovereign ways of thinking as well. That’s what I harp on and on about on this blog - the need to drop foreign modes of thought and adopt a sovereign mindset, sovereign ideas, sovereign first principles. To throw off the ideological fetters of the enemy, to stop seeing the world in their moral terms and to start marching to battle to the beat of one’s own drums.

Sovereignty is a powerful concept and strength paves the path to its attainment. Only the strong can be sovereigns of themselves. What we see on the micro scale is replicated on the level of nations. As above, so below and vice-versa.

John brought up an interesting point about Distributionism, which I found myself kipping my head in agreement to. The idea, in short, is that problems need to be solved on the level that they occur. That is, if an individual can solve a problem, there is no need to involve the mayor or the police in the matter. And if a community can solve a problem, there is no need to involve the secret police and so on. The first principle at the root of this proposed system is self-sufficiency and I think that’s a fine addition and complement to the principle of strength.

Sadly, most of Eastern Europe suffers from the aftereffects of an extreme centralization of power that stripped the peasants and proles of the ability to solve their problems on their own. Local-level cooperation and organization is practically non-existent, and worse, now the state doesn’t even hold up its end of the bargain and leaves the people to fend for themselves. The Communists destroyed all local, lower-level forms of organizations. Like, they literally went around banning Judo clubs and independent book clubs, chess clubs, homeowners associations and so on. Only the party was allowed to organize in any way whatsoever. The older generation is absolutely hapless and continues to demand a more involved state, not understanding that this over-reliance on higher structures stripped them of personal power. And the younger generation doesn’t know how to build up social structures to fill the void.

This is why I talk a lot about starting small and learning how to organize at the picnic level at the very least. It’s all about the people taking back their power and building cooperative best practices.

America wasn’t made great by Capitalism, but by the American people, who were never subjected to a brutal terrorist campaign by Jews, and retained their ability to self-organize and build meaningful cooperative relationships with their fellow Americans. Living in America was a joy because of how cooperative American communities were. Now, Americans are being stripped of this power because toxic ideology is turning the peasantry against itself, the secret police is coming down hard on patriotic organizations and because people are becoming increasingly reliant on distant power centers that can’t be held accountable.

In Russia, there is a hyper-competent and powerful Autocrat and a vast morass of incompetence and powerlessness in the echelons between him and the peasantry, who are themselves unable to organize. We need to “fill up” this chasm with appropriate organizations and structures that help the people solve their problems. Here, the example of civic-minded American communities, where people often organized themselves to address problems and build community is worth replicating.

Lots of good ideas were discussed in the podcast and I’d encourage you to take a listen. I’m glad that some of the ideas we discuss here are starting to spread and getting picked up by others.