The Dissident Delusion

Are the "Managers" out to get you or are you just being paranoid?

I recently finished reading The Populist Delusion, a book that summarizes some of the insights of the Italian school of political realism and the people that came after them. I have been familiar with the name of this school for about a year, but have been familiar with their ideas for about a decade now.

I also already recommend another stack (Circulation of the Elites) dedicated to summarizing these peoples’ work which you can find in the sidebar:

But a quick refresher is always helpful.

This summary book draws most heavily on James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution and the work of Sam Francis, who coined the term “anarcho-tyranny” that you may have heard used around the dissident interwebs to describe the situation that we find ourselves in now. The big thesis of the short book is that all politics is elite politics and that the disorganized peasant slave masses (the citizenry) have never had a say in the management of the state and never will. Spoiler: not even under a democracy! I know, I know! Turns out that a political system’s claims about itself being the bestest and goodest and freest are rarely the whole story! Egad!

Now, anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear living in a Western Democracy can tell you that the will of the people is never heard and people are only ever punished for voicing their concerns or objection to, well, take your pick (migration, green agenda, clot shots, dry driver laws, tobacco tax, women’s rights, etc.)

But now I guess we can now provide a citation the next time a Liberal asks us to source our claims. That’ll convince ‘em, I’m sure. 

There were also some talk in the book about foxes and bears … or was it tigers? I think it may have been cheetahs, yeah. Basically, the idea that good times lead to sneaky, manipulative, feminine personalities slowly taking power with their scheming - the foxes - because as the system becomes stable it also becomes averse to open conflict. And then in turbulent times you have the rule of the beavers, who are the opposite of foxes - dynamic, direct and masculine - who fashion order out of the chaos.

The mighty beaver hard at work forging civilization.

Me, I would argue that objective social polling statistics seems to empirically prove that Authoritarian states actually do listen to the peasant masses on occasion and that this is born out by both data and common sense. In fact, on average, the leaders of a Liberal Democracy tend to deliberately do the opposite of what the people want, even if it hurts their own elite interests! seemingly almost entirely out of spite!! Not so in Authoritarian systems, if we simply look at the statistics that is.

But this goes unmentioned in the book, sadly. 

One thing we can agree on though: it turns out that having the power to vote every four/five/six years does absolutely nothing to improve the lot of the people. 

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Rolo’s Theory of Liberalism Simplified

The most important point made that almost made it worth the price of admission was the observation that Liberalism enables well-organized minority groups to seize power and then wield it against the hapless majority. This is called the Law of Mosca, apparently, and you can check for yourself if the law applies in your country or not. You will know whether or not such a law exists because like with all rules, you will go to jail if you violate it. In my case, for demanding that Russia be ruled by the majority, that is by Russians, as opposed to the tribe that rules it now, I’d no doubt end up sharing a cell with Strelkov for “extremism”. I had no idea that this was called the Law of Mosca and labored under the delusion this whole time that it was called the Law of Moses or Law 282 of the Criminal Code of the RF.

I know better now.

I’m not sure whether or not this part was in the text or who to cite here, but allow me to explain how I think this comes about using my own brain to puzzle this whole thing out. Liberalism is, at its ideal best, basically a state of government-mandated mutually-assured weakness among the citizenry. The state becomes a Leviathan and seeks to strip its subjects of all strength in all sectors of society. Once the strength is taken and locked away by the Beast state, the monster turns around and starts handing out “rights” written on fancy-looking pieces of paper. This is considered a good thing, by the way.

This, in simplified Rolo-speak, is the foundation of Liberalism.

In other words, the citizens deposit their real rights with the great wyrm sitting on its hoard of accumulated rights and the citizens get “fiat rights” printed out and handed to them by the state as a form of “I owe you”. Even the right to petition the ogre of monopolized power for redress is ostensibly granted to the now-powerless citizenry.

And everything works fine for awhile, that is true. Better than before, even.

People suddenly feel themselves to be freer than they were before, for a time. This is because fiat freedom is printed out and the citizenry feels itself richer from the increased freedom supply. If before the average person had to participate in his own self-defense by either being strong, being part of a strong clan, or serving a strong master, and was “limited” by the necessity to retain these safeguards, now he no longer need concern himself with acquiring strength to ensure his freedom when he has fiat rights “guaranteeing” him his freedom instead. The only problem is that these fiat rights only exist so long as everyone believes they exist (the government included) and no one rushes to the bank of power, so to speak, to make a withdrawal of their real rights. Should they do so, say because of a famine or war or another crisis of safety, all of a sudden they would realize that there aren’t enough rights to go around and the paper IOU doesn’t actually represent anything. The paper turns out to be just that - a piece of paper, not a weapon - and there is a lot fine print that either is or isn’t written on it, but which changes nothing, ultimately. Paper in unsafe times is only good as kindling or for a good ass-wipe at that point.

You see this “fiat freedom” phenomenon at play the most in America, where the citizens are the freest (have the most fiat rights deposited in their account) and so Esaumericans are, paradoxically, the most afraid to ever make a withdrawal or cash in their fiat rights/redeem their real rights, as it were. Their great wealth in freedom exists only on paper and in their minds, but that is something at least. So long as they believe themselves to be freer than others, they get to feel better about themselves. The lie is considered worth the placebo perks of believing in it (as all lies are) and to many that is better than nothing. So, as a result, Americans tenaciously cling to their freedom fiat more than a people that has no illusions about how oppressed they actually are. I would liken the Anglosphere in particular to victims of a Ponzi scheme or a crypto coin rug pull. Those who bought into the scam harder and now own the most shares in a non-existent company or have the most scam-coins stashed in their wallet are the most loath to admit that they were hoaxed, are they not?

Me, I’m still sitting on my stash of GRT and telling myself that it will be alright and that I will be rich someday.

And that’s what we have at play at here with fiat rights as well. Those who didn’t hand over their strength for rights retain an advantage in the system because while you and I are powerless individuals, they retained the ability to be able to organize sects, clans and mafias. The ability to self-organize is the principle factor of strength for human beings. Structures that we build around us like militias (disavow), religious cults (disavow), terror cells (disavow), tribes (disavow) and so on are our fangs and claws. Without them, we are powerless and dependent on the state to make others as powerless as we are.

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Are the Managers the Secret Police?

Now, I’m not here to write a bad book review or to dissuade you from reading The Populist Delusion. Go do so right now if you’re the reading type and are new to these ideas. Me, I found it a decent enough use of an afternoon while I was hobbled from my accident and I was nodding my head along as I read it all the while. But it is an academic work and all academic works usually have just a couple of points to make and the rest of the book is explaining the process by which the conclusion was reached and citing other people who reached these conclusions first because that’s just what you do in academia for better or worse. Nothing wrong with that, but I no longer read texts that are 90% methodology anymore. I prefer the bullet-points, which, as you can see for yourself, I was able to provide rather succinctly a paragraph above. I also just intuit stuff. Like that paper money rights comparison. I made that up.

You and I are not the same.

The main point of the book is that the bourgeoisie or the landed gentry or even the caricature-capitalists who twirl their mustaches and chomp on sweat-shop made cigars have been replaced by the “managers” who are basically technocrats educated at elite universities and taught to make powerpoint presentations about synergy and keeping overhead low in an downturn cycle. Sure, this observation has some explanatory power, I guess. Big companies and globalist organizations are run by policy wonks who all think, talk and look the same because they were produced on the same K-12 + college and grad school assembly line as their peers. There are also very few maverick capitalist titans of industry left in the world. The conclusion of this line of thinking is that yuppies run the world now.

And that’s all very well and good, of course. Smart people came to this conclusion and it is well-cited and that should be enough for me, I suppose. So, forgive me for the faux pas, por favor, but, *ahem* what about the spooks that run everything and puts political dissidents away? Do they not factor into our analysis of power structure in the current political paradigm at all?

What about the ethnic mafias? The religious cults? I think I can prove for a fact that large swaths of the media in America or, say, Russia, are run by spooks, ex-spooks or children of spooks too. How does that fit into the theory? Am I just seeing things?

Consider: The recent revelation that the CIA edits Wikipedia to keep it in line with the dictates of militant messianic Liberalism hardly registered with anyone, even though it is yet further damning proof that we live in the web of a sprawling spider-like spook state that runs our educational systems, our political systems, our media resources, our everything. Of course, anyone who knows anything about how Liberalism actually works and keeps its power knew that there was absolutely no chance of something like Wikipedia not being under the control of a spook cabal.

Related: I also recently found out that the Azeri (Shirvan Neftchi) who runs the large geopolitics channel Caspian Report on YouTube gets his scripts written for him by a spook at Stratfor named Meredith Friedman according to WikiLeaks.

What’s more: This comes on the heels of the revelation that Kings and Generals, a YouTube channel that makes historical videos and now war analysis, gets its scripts written for them by another Azeri, this one with NED/CIA links and part of the Soros sponsored anti-Russian movement.

And most of the ZAnon accounts on Twitter work for the FSB, clearly, which is just a round-about way of saying that they work for the CIA as well. At this point, the internet is just one massive psy-op aimed at the weak-willed, clearly.

So, yes, you have clever “managers/technocrats” who set up Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, whatever and who run the big woke companies as well as those international organizations that no one knows anything about in Brussels and Nice. But it seems to me that they are just apparatchiks, clearly, working for their bosses. Like nerds doing the homework assignments of fraternity brothers and getting a pat on the head and a “maybe next time” to their request to attend a party at the big house where the girls will be getting drunk and handing out sexual favors next Friday.

In short, if the dissident conservative or reactionary thinkers say that the Marxists are wrong to blame the factory owners and that it is conference organizers and grad students who know how to use Stata that run things now, I would argue that it is the intelligence aristocracy that runs the world now and that the technocrats are just serving the agenda of their social betters. Unless I’m missing something obvious in the argument made by these prominent and quasi-respectable paleocons, then my view of the situation is clearly better.

An interesting argument that would one could make thought that might “synergize” these two positions is if someone were to take the position that the tail has begun wagging the dog and that the nerds have taken revenge on the frat jocks who boss them around in the above analogy (or is it a metaphor?). But that only raises more questions if it were true like: what is the grand agenda of the insurrectionist powerpoint guru alliance? So far, it seems to me that it is the grand spook conspiracy to monitor everyone and achieve total control over everything that is progressing rapidly apace and that the technocrats simply supply the tools to achieve this.

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The Guardians of the Dystopia

To understand the true nature of the spookocracy that rules over us, you may as well start with some Russian literature on the subject. As usual, the surly Slav is the first to see through the tricks of the Semitic spookacracy (Dostoevsky’s Demons or Zyamatin’s We). Naturally, our esteemed, but less-insightful European cousins come along decades later to take the credit (Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury, Burgesse) as has been their tradition since time immemorial. We allow them their little victories out of a sense of grand-souled largesse, I suppose, like a big brother might do to encourage his younger sibling to overcome and step out of the shadow of his elders.

In Zyamatin’s We, he describes a sprawling spook state run by the Bureau of Guardians. At the time, the idea of spooks becoming the new ruling class was a neat new cutting edge spin on a truly ancient idea. Plato’s The Republic advocates for the establishment of a Totalitarian Spook State run by …

Q: Do you remember the term he used?

A: … yes, he used the term “Guardians” as well, also known as the “philosopher-kings” or “psycho-priests” in Rolo parlance.

Zyamatin was a sharp cookie (philosophical term) and he understood that Plato had written the first work of dystopian literature albeit disguised as a utopian blueprint for an ideal society that a theocratic elite might enact in the near future. The spooks who later ran the USSR took all of their ideas from either Marx, Moses or Plato when constructing their ideal new totalitarian society. They understood how the three thinkers were related to one another (if one simply flipped the order); Plato’s writing inspiring the writers of the Septuagint which in turn inspired Calvin (a converso) next, actually, leading to the ideological birth of Capitalism (the concept of money signifying Yahweh’s favor (the Elect) which was found in the Old Testament) and then to Marx, who gave us the dialectic reaction in the form of Communism.

This all sounds complicated, but, basically, the end goal was always Plato’s utopia.

In it, just like in Zyamatin’s novel, children are taken away from their parents and raised in ideological boot camps (gymnasiums/government schools). Life is communal, just like in ancient Sparta which Plato admired and was inspired by, and which became the foundation for the communal living promoted by the Communists in St. Petersburg and the collectivized Kibbutz-style farms as well. History is also to be destroyed and rewritten, just how Plato himself collected the works of the Pythagoreans and burnt them, or sought to ban the telling of the tales of Homer in Athens. Finally, the most important part: rule is handed over to the “Guardians” who enforce ideological dogma on society.

In a way, the sprawling global spook state is the crowning glory of the Plato project and the entirety of the political and religious tradition that he inspired. As least Zyamatin thought so, clearly. I do too for that matter.

This final transformation began more than a century ago, in Zyamatin’s time. In Western Europe you already had the hegemony of capital crowding out the landed, titled nobility. As you went further East though, further away from the epicenter of the merchant pirate base known as the City of London, you still had remnant aristocrats holding on to the old political system. But at the time of Zyamatin writing, these were in the process of being exterminated by leather jacket wearing goons working for Trotsky all over the territories of the Russian empire. This transition to a Guardian-based society was as conspicuous and consequential as the phasing out of horses for cars at around the same point in time, actually.

And yet, so few well-payed, oft-cited and eminently respectable self-styled dissident writers seem to allow themselves to even notice what happened, let alone to talk about it. It seems to me thought that no honest student of modern political history can deny that the untold story of the 20th century is the takeover of society from either the big factory owners, resource monopolists or the leftover titled nobility by the spook state in almost every single country in the world. In Russia’s case, the transition is so glaring and brutal as to be undeniable. We went from a Tsar and a hereditary nobility ruling to a state run by a party and the Chekha/NKVD/KGB literally in less than a decade.

The transition was not as apparent in the United States, but, arguably, the hidden political history of the United States from the 50s onwards and maybe even before, is the story of the alphabet agencies killing, intimidating and toppling presidents - and taking control of the arts, the media, the internet, the think tanks, etc. Nowadays, those of us who are still mentally strong enough to allow ourselves to engage in conspiratorial thinking without feeling a twinge of guilt for mistrusting the benevolence of our betters know that we have a new spook aristocracy that rules over the world.

Those who deny this or who try to shift our attention away from the Guardians to these … *checks notes* *squints* *adjusts glasses* *soft cough* … these so-called “managers” are either using a euphemism that is so obscurantist as to be useless or they are actively covering up for the actual masters of the galaxy and therefore either in cahoots or in their employ.

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The Eternal Psycho-Priest Theocracy

Now, back under the ancien regime, it didn’t matter what your opinion was, you had to be an aristocrat to have an opinion at all. Before that, you had to be a priest plotting to brainwash and subjugate the nations to be included in the conversation. Only one caste at a time is ever given a say in society.

Nowadays, we are ruled over by a caste of psycho-priests, again.

Unlike the previous caste, which ruled through control of the land and through military service or through capital (briefly), this caste rules by controlling what society allows us to say publicly, and what we allow ourselves to think privately.

I have argued before that the spooks are basically the eternal, perennial priest caste in disguise.

What is the difference, exactly, in being forced at the barrel of a gun to believe in some nonsense theses about historical dialectic materialism and to spend the next century poring over the sacred texts of Marx trying to decipher hidden meanings in them and being forced to interpret the 613 commandments of a volcano deity and his horned messenger Moses for centuries on end? To my mind, there isn’t much daylight between the two prophets and the voodoo religions that were created around both of them respectively, but many beg to differ, sadly.

Now, do you want me to tell you how it all ends? What it all comes to?

Spook religious orders always cannibalize their host society over time with their insane ideological terror campaigns and the cancer-like growth of the parasitical institution. Example: Europe was practically owned by the Church who manipulated inheritance laws to gain control over vast swathes of land through monasteries and the like. This led to a German political rebellion disguised as a theological squabble, and the monasteries were the first to be sacked, their wealth nationalized and then used to both fuel the continued wars and then to create nationalism further down the line.

The reason for the rebellion in the first place was the extreme burden placed on society by the insane dictates of a voodoo caste who bent all of Europe’s financial, cognitive and cultural resources towards the goal of either achieving Zionism (the Crusades) or preparing for imminent Armageddon through displays of conspicuous penance, which they were dead sure was right around the corner for the entirety of the so-called Middle Ages right through the Renaissance.

But if this example is too contentions, we can simply look elsewhere.

Everywhere you look in history, you see psycho-priest cults periodically taking over societies, almost always as the result of some kind of environmental cataclysm or some period of political crisis (usually taking the form of democratic demagoguery) and the same destructive cannibalization process beginning anew. Eventually, you see a sustained physical and psychological terror operation unleashed on the peasant/slave population.

Look at what the Papacy of the Himalayas got up to in their free time: skinning peasant children alive and sewing shamanic curses into people’s eyelids to boost morale among the slave population. At some point, the Bon monk theocracy had bloated out to encompass about 30+% of society, placing an enormous burden on the slave castes to provide for their rulers, who refused to work, naturally. This led to rebellions, wars and eventually foreign conquest.

This is the end result of parasitical priest-class overgrowth. And the Italian school of realists warned that societies with an overproduction of elites eventually become engulfed in internal catastrophe and rebellion.

Nowadays, the remnant of the Tibetan theocracy is kept on artificial life support by the Western taxpayers and the Llamas depicted as groovy hippies, of course, because they made an alliance with the CIA, which runs all media PR operations in the West since the 60s. The truth behind the centuries of terror unleashed by the Bon Tibetan priest caste against the peoples of the Himalayas and beyond is swept under the rug. But you can still find a few texts here and there that reveal the horrors that defined their rule.

The CIA and the KGB is no different from the pre-Spanish Inquisition or the Bon death-psychers or the Aztec heart-eaters and so on. They even study and use the same occult techniques on their captive populations, only they use the language of the Western Enlightenment to describe non-material or psychological phenomenon known to initiates in the priest castes for tens of thousands of years at this point, probably, but denied to the peasants who wouldn’t understand it anyhow. How else are we to explain the now infamous and well-documented CIA experiments to control consciousness and remote view and create Manchurian candidates? Or what about what the Soviet spooks got up to?

Perhaps we ought to explore the techniques that they pioneered to manipulate the population on this blog as well. Although, the most important bit of tech developed in this time period was a kind of black mirror that could reflect the religious teachings of the ruling elites in every single person’s home and convince them to obey the regime’s dictates willingly. I believe Zyamatin predicted the invention of TV 3 decades before it came to be. Curious. My elders sit there for hours every day, like I would imagine Siberians tribesmen would squat around a teepee campfire, staring into the bright colors and hearing the religious lessons of their time being passed on by the religious authorities of the tribe.

Meanwhile, we are taught by both the remnant religious priests and the new religion of social engineering that occult techniques and technologies for brainwashing huge swaths of the population don’t exist.

But I’d do the same if I were running the world, wouldn’t you?

Again, in the archetypical, perennial sense, it doesn’t matter whether or not it is hearts being ripped out of slaves’ chest to ensure good harvests or meat being forbidden to the peasants to ostensibly cool the weather. The point is that this is psycho-priest terror tactics at work on society again and the political structure that we live under now resembles a dark theocracy most closely. There is nothing new under the sun in this world. That which occurred sometime ago in the past will occur again either now or in the future, eventually. Having smartphones doesn’t mean that we are immune to archetypical patterns that govern the behavior of societies. Furthermore, just because a system claims to be secular doesn’t necessarily make it so.

Consider: If we look closely at the ideological system that we suffer under now, we can see that it is clearly metaphysical in nature. How else are we to interpret the belief in transgenderism? Ostensibly while being secular materialists, the ruling priests of our day are telling us that souls are making their way into the wrong bodies and that only surgery and chemical therapy can remedy this situation. Can they explain the nature of this soul mix-up? Is their a soul-snatcher in the noosphere putting girls’ souls into fat men’s bodies? What is its name and why is it gender-swapping souls and bodies? Can they demonstrate the existence of this soul-snatcher scientifically, empirically? No, of course not. And yet, no other explanation is proffered for the “girl soul somehow getting into a boy body and vice-versa” crisis facing society now.

This is pure dark voodoo hiding behind the thin veneer of science, of course.

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Is it the “Cathedral” or the “Longhouse” or the “Matrix” or the “Agency”?

Almost every single figure crafting the narrative about the Slavlands civil war from either camp right now is involved with the intelligence community in some capacity. The rare few who, despite all their shortcomings, probably weren’t spooks (Lira) ended up getting arrested by them (SBU) and then denounced by other spooks (Ritter). The “patriots in control” narrative is something that Surkov the spook crafted - an updated Operation Trust psy-op for the 21st century - which we covered in depth the other day. Saker, who took Surkov’s talking points and ran with them, openly admitted to his work in Yugoslavia working for Western organizations after his dox by a Serbian lady that he had pissed off by trying to force her to write apologetics for Islam. Marko covered Saker’s spook career before:

And on and on the list goes. Every single one of them a “former” member of the ruling order of intelligence apparatchik in some capacity or another. Little wonder then that they all toe the line and promote one another to their captive audiences. It’s a caste see, and you and I are not in it. Worse, the peasants have even been convinced to give alms to the propagandists who seek to fool them and then enslave their minds with their narratives of 5D chess and political messiahs. They even spend their free time writing scathing emails to people like me demanding that I start lying to them as well and damning my soul to the pits of Sheol where their desert demon-deity resides.

And it isn’t just Russia analysts.

I remember watching the interview between Tucker Carlson and Andrew Tate a few weeks ago and wondering aloud what a coincidence it was that both men were sons of CIA agents and enjoyed such meteoric rises to fame and influence by promoting a lukewarm and tepid criticism of the powers in high places. In Tate’s case, his organization’s finances are run out of the UAE by a Mossad man who promotes Kabbalah and NLP. Although the Tates made a chunk of their money pimping out cam-girls and scamming lonely men out of their money, they also had a money-laundering network operating out of Dubai that worked actively in Eastern Europe. Tate has also casually bragged about committing wire fraud on camera and engages in other forms of shady financial operations. Despite all this, he was able to operate freely for quite a while until he clashed with another, better-funded and higher-placed elite project in the form of the autistic downs climate-child Greta Thunberg. When he was arrested, despite the seriousness of the charges, members in his organization that I spoke to were quite sure that he’d be out in a month, tops. He’s out now even though the prosecutors could have easily put him away for at least a decade because of all the crimes he admitted to committing on camera or in print.

And yet, he beat the charges. Lucky him. “Top G” indeed.

Similar examples abound everywhere in the media, if you only allow yourself to look.

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Self-Enslaving Prophecies

The reason that you won’t hear anything resembling my rants about archonic neo-priest orders and theocratic takeovers from other sources is a two-part problem. For one, the only people who are allowed a voice with any kind of reach in our society are people who stay within the accepted parameters of discourse. Whenever the priests rule society, ideological conformity takes first and full priority. The second reason for the silence is the self-limiting beliefs held by the slaves themselves.

It doesn’t matter whether they believe in materialism/nominalism or Hebrew fairytales, both positions are part of the control matrix.

Before the peasants were taught to deny all non-material realities, they were taught to be afraid of learning the truth about non-material realities. After all, the main villain in the overarching meta-narrative that the peasants followed for a thousand and some years (the cognitive elites abandoned Christianity at least three centuries ago) was a talking snake that promised metaphysical knowledge to the first man and woman. By casting this character as the villain, the peasants were taught to not ask questions and to obey the dictates of priests meekly instead. To add insult to injury, the peasants were encouraged to refer to themselves as and emulate the example of the mindless sheep flocks led to the sheering by their pastor! And they did! Some still do, thinking it is an effective defense against the emerging cult of child-mutilation practiced by the state!

The rubes truly will believe and repeat anything that their social betters tell them to!

But the cognitive elite always knew better, of course. They never believed in mass graves in Jerusalem opening up and zombies marching out of of them en masse, which is why many in the European noble elite began organizing in secret societies to overthrow the rule of the priests as soon as they figured out what was really written in those “holy texts”. The pinnacle of this effort was the Founding Fathers eventually creating a Deist, anti-Christian agrarian Republic in America. Yes, Thomas Paine wrote anti-Yahweh polemics, Thomas Jefferson took scissors to the Old Testament to create a better version of his own and Benjamin Franklin was friends with all the Deist secret societies of Europe. However, ultimately, they failed as the nation became more and more democratic. Also, the industrial revolution eventually reached America’s shores and destroyed the agrarian land-owning republic in a bloody war. Sadly, as America became more democratic and demagogic, the politicians began to rile up and terrorize the peasantry and encouraged superstitious nonsense to promote their own political interests.

Following every single religious revival in America,(Christianity, Democracy, SJWism), the masses have been led on a Crusade abroad for one cause or the other abroad, and the situation has only worsened at home.

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In the Russian version of the popular video game Bannerlord there is an infamous mistranslation of a dialogue with an NPC character.

It reads: I support me.

It is supposed to mean that the feudal lord in Bannerlord supports another feudal lord, but it came out funny.

Who do I side with? I side with myself!

Actually, the mistranslation is even better than the correct version. Just think: In the game you can fight for different factions, hold different positions and so on, but you have to be a feudal lord to even play the game and matter in that virtual universe. It is the same in any society, really. There is always one caste that rules and the rest don’t have a voice, really and while this caste may fight amongst itself, at the end of the day it is on its own side.

It follows then, that revolutions are only made when entire castes make war on other castes.

The discussions and the op-eds that you read in the media are not written for you and me. It is an intra-elite discussion, or at least the public-facing part of it that we are privy to is. The only reason why we might labor under the illusion that we are part of this conversation is because unlike peasants of previous ages, some of us are literate, and so we think that we are being spoken to and feel the need to answer. But it doesn’t matter what we think if we are not part of the caste that is allowed to have positions. In our age, you have to either be part of a certain tribe or part of the spookacracy that they created to govern over us. In fact, the spook state is simply the structure that has been built to serve the interests of this particular tribe. It is simply a “secular” order of priests, so it is fitting that it was built by the titular nation of priests is it not?

Consider: feudalism ended up being the structure of governance for a mega-tribe of horselords that once burst out of the great steppe and conquered all of Europe, did it not? And they built this system in every country that they conquered from India to England. Then, in time, a network of monasteries and seminaries and churches around Europe became the system of governance for the rebranded Haruspices in Rome. Nationalism later then became the governing structure of “enlightened” German elites in opposition to the theocrats. Like pants, it was such a success as a system that the whole world then started adopting and imitating it.

The whole world started wearing pants as well.

Naturally though, each peoples affected the manifestation of nationalism in their own countries and no two nationalisms end up looking the same. It is the same with Communism - every single country ended up with its own idiosyncratic version of what ought to be a universalist system. Look at how different Protestantism turned out in different countries. Or Orthodoxy. Or Islam. Or Buddhism.

Any honest political theory of anything has to account for the effect of ethnos on ideology and political structures. None of the accepted political theories dare do this though, of course, because belief in the very existence of ethnos and its relevance to politics is dismissed as a dangerous conspiracy theory. That is also why there isn’t an ethno-oriented equivalent theory of political governance. In other words, you are allowed to talk about class, or individuals, and their relation to politics, but not about ethnic groups and what political structures they end up manifesting in the countries that they rule over.

I contend that different human groups are like different species of animals in the sense that the political structures that we build to live in are different. Some animals make nests to live in. Others make lairs. Still others dam up rivers and change the entire ecosystem around them.

That is why the mighty beaver is the symbol of my political ideology

Humans are political animals and so different groups of humans not only build different kinds of houses, but build different kinds of political systems that they themselves inhabit or inflict on others. Theocracy of either the religious or secular kind seems to me to be a foreign import and the preferred tool of a xenocracy to rule as minorities amongst a great majority. Remember the animal metaphor from before? Well, I contend that we are like beavers being forced to live in a fox’s burrow. The spookacracy is foreign to us both in its constituency and its character and it permeates all aspects of our culture and our lives. Even the architecture it forces upon us is oppressive and demoralizing.

No wonder life has become so miserable under this occupation.

As for me, all I want is for some PR guy to come around and attach some labels and snazzy terms to the stuff I’m saying and to start selling it as an intellectual property. This will happen whether I will it or not anyways, so I may as well lean into it. The “Cathedral” and “Longhouse” and “Matrix” have been already been taken in various circles so maybe we could call my oppression system the “Agency” going forward? These competing terms for the system of control all blame slightly different elements of the control structure and they are all the intellectual properties of men who enjoy the right blood credentials to have opinions in this system albeit in its dissident sphere. Yes, some important person with the proper bloodline and security clearances should write a book popularizing and plagiarizing my stuff so that it can be taken seriously by other very respectable people and the points raised discussed with the reverence that they deserve.

All I ask for is a citation.