I am an American living in Russia. I think you raise some interesting points. Russia is, as the cliche goes, quite an enigma. There is a deep wellspring of exactly what you referred to, a certain together-ness, a unity in suffering. And yet, Russians are aloof to each other, uprooted (thanks to the 20th century), rather distrusting of each other (also largely thanks to the 20th century), mostly lacking in the small social graces that we may take for granted. And Russia has gone much further down the path of consumerism and materialism than many realize. I think you're right: had the West not antagonized Russia with such malice now, this protective quality that coalesced over a long stretch of time and through many hard lessons would have atrophied beyond repair. It almost already has.
At their peak, the Comanche were the most powerful Native American tribe on the vast Southern Great Plains. Like many tribes, they called themselves simply "the people", but the name "Comanche" is derived from a Ute word meaning “anyone who wants to fight me all the time.”
Really superb post - thank you. I have seen the subject of passionarity discussed before, but never with such clarity or recognition of our own acute deficit, there.
I grew up in a cult, and so saw a false version of Sobornost, also - which makes me think one thing we must also understand is that is a spontaneous upwelling, or it is counterfeit (that is, forced, and thus of a weaker strength in every possible way).
The real thing is in the same general territory as pure heart and true love (want to say strictly Platonic realm stuff, but I'm a recovering poet - I trust you'll forgive me).
Spent my early life on the left, with many old-school (genuinely self-sacrificing) leftists of principle - that old wobbly spirit is a tiny besieged minority line now in the west (very sadly) but still remains as a humane current which once knew how to join in strength with those of deep faith. Humanity and transcendence both qualify as bigger than ourselves - post tribalist visions - and without that bigger than ourselves vision, we are all suffering pointlessly, of pointlessness.
Really appreciate your stuff (not just your brilliant guests). Also trying to use reason from less conventional angles, to bring light, give heart, pierce fog and build team.
One of us million monkeys will nail it eventually! (or go down swinging, anyhow)
Strength to your sword arm, my friend! (the best writers salute I know)
I just happened to have open Vaclav Havel's famous essay, The Power of the Powerless from 1978 which begins, "There is a specter haunting Eastern Europe … " It's a great compliment to Solzhenitsyn's Live Not by Lies about the power of truth to chip away at tyranny. These are ideas with which Westerners will be forced to become intimately familiar.
This passage reminded me of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, where the hero's resolve was tested when dragging his boat across the mountain to get to the neighboring river and continue his journey. Great metaphor.
"You know. Those spots where you have to disembark from the easy life of drifting downstream and then you have to drag your boat across some rugged terrain to intercept another river where you can resume the trek. It’s the portages that define your chance of survival. Can you do it? Can you drag your cargo and carcass across that rocky ground? More importantly, can you do it in the face of unrelenting forces arrayed along the banks of the river you traverse?"
Excellent read. This "racial essentialism / identity politics / division" by the Left in America has to end. And I think people are sick of it, we've suffered enough. Then we can again say "We are Americans."
It is time for serious nationalists and industrialists to start joint plans for pogroms of Jews and Jewish corporations.
Much like England gave charters to Privateers to pirate enemy ships, we will pogrom all of USA corporations traded on the Wall Street exchange. Foremost enemies are Neocon Blackrock, Vanguard, and Blackstone. Violent takeover of corporations is hard to imagine today, but conditions will worsen and opportunities will arise.
An untouchable entity needs to create charters, give material support, and coordination for Privateers to take over corporations with local force. For example, an industrial plant will be forcefully taken and the board of directors imprisoned. Local businessmen will control this locally. State governors and sheriffs would ideally be involved. But conditions could get so bad that their support is not needed.
These are the ways that we need to push forward nationalism. If we are not discussing violent pogroms against genocidal Jews now, we may fail and die like Christian White Russians did against the Soviet Bolshevik Jews. White Russians retreated and died in the frontiers of Russia. Currently, all of America’s White nationalists are retreating to the Western Redoubt AND they have no plans to take the East and West coasts and no plan to destroy Jewish Wall Street and Jewish controlled corporations. When the economy fails, you will learn that only ONE entity owns all of the publicly traded stocks in America. Your stocks are derivatives, play things. Your stock portfolio is a fantasy football team. You own jack shit until you pogrom the Jews and take back America with blood and spoil.
The victors with create the new industrialist billionaires and family dynasties. Glory, greed, and ambition will save Nationalist America.
It’s sad that our government officials serve a foreign country and their lobbyists, instead of their constituents here in America
I am an American living in Russia. I think you raise some interesting points. Russia is, as the cliche goes, quite an enigma. There is a deep wellspring of exactly what you referred to, a certain together-ness, a unity in suffering. And yet, Russians are aloof to each other, uprooted (thanks to the 20th century), rather distrusting of each other (also largely thanks to the 20th century), mostly lacking in the small social graces that we may take for granted. And Russia has gone much further down the path of consumerism and materialism than many realize. I think you're right: had the West not antagonized Russia with such malice now, this protective quality that coalesced over a long stretch of time and through many hard lessons would have atrophied beyond repair. It almost already has.
So many in the West have become simply citizens and have lost their nationality.
At their peak, the Comanche were the most powerful Native American tribe on the vast Southern Great Plains. Like many tribes, they called themselves simply "the people", but the name "Comanche" is derived from a Ute word meaning “anyone who wants to fight me all the time.”
Really superb post - thank you. I have seen the subject of passionarity discussed before, but never with such clarity or recognition of our own acute deficit, there.
I grew up in a cult, and so saw a false version of Sobornost, also - which makes me think one thing we must also understand is that is a spontaneous upwelling, or it is counterfeit (that is, forced, and thus of a weaker strength in every possible way).
The real thing is in the same general territory as pure heart and true love (want to say strictly Platonic realm stuff, but I'm a recovering poet - I trust you'll forgive me).
Spent my early life on the left, with many old-school (genuinely self-sacrificing) leftists of principle - that old wobbly spirit is a tiny besieged minority line now in the west (very sadly) but still remains as a humane current which once knew how to join in strength with those of deep faith. Humanity and transcendence both qualify as bigger than ourselves - post tribalist visions - and without that bigger than ourselves vision, we are all suffering pointlessly, of pointlessness.
Really appreciate your stuff (not just your brilliant guests). Also trying to use reason from less conventional angles, to bring light, give heart, pierce fog and build team.
One of us million monkeys will nail it eventually! (or go down swinging, anyhow)
Strength to your sword arm, my friend! (the best writers salute I know)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just happened to have open Vaclav Havel's famous essay, The Power of the Powerless from 1978 which begins, "There is a specter haunting Eastern Europe … " It's a great compliment to Solzhenitsyn's Live Not by Lies about the power of truth to chip away at tyranny. These are ideas with which Westerners will be forced to become intimately familiar.
https://archive.org/details/the-power-of-the-powerless/page/22/mode/1up?view=theater
I wonder what Solzhenitsyn would say about Russian oneness....
"Me? What for?"
Briggs, lay of the vodka. Let the girls cheer you up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZKcvl5nx0
MyOba Tata EEJA!
This passage reminded me of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, where the hero's resolve was tested when dragging his boat across the mountain to get to the neighboring river and continue his journey. Great metaphor.
"You know. Those spots where you have to disembark from the easy life of drifting downstream and then you have to drag your boat across some rugged terrain to intercept another river where you can resume the trek. It’s the portages that define your chance of survival. Can you do it? Can you drag your cargo and carcass across that rocky ground? More importantly, can you do it in the face of unrelenting forces arrayed along the banks of the river you traverse?"
Excellent read. This "racial essentialism / identity politics / division" by the Left in America has to end. And I think people are sick of it, we've suffered enough. Then we can again say "We are Americans."
I know rednecks do, I know the people of NYC and NJ did right after 9/11 (I was there).
So WE DO,
The atomized urban 💩 can mist 🌫️ into 💨 …. They will probably survive, as cockroaches.
🪳
Still better than Locusts .
And as far as hand wringing?
(Facchi Oremus, Servi).
It is time for serious nationalists and industrialists to start joint plans for pogroms of Jews and Jewish corporations.
Much like England gave charters to Privateers to pirate enemy ships, we will pogrom all of USA corporations traded on the Wall Street exchange. Foremost enemies are Neocon Blackrock, Vanguard, and Blackstone. Violent takeover of corporations is hard to imagine today, but conditions will worsen and opportunities will arise.
An untouchable entity needs to create charters, give material support, and coordination for Privateers to take over corporations with local force. For example, an industrial plant will be forcefully taken and the board of directors imprisoned. Local businessmen will control this locally. State governors and sheriffs would ideally be involved. But conditions could get so bad that their support is not needed.
These are the ways that we need to push forward nationalism. If we are not discussing violent pogroms against genocidal Jews now, we may fail and die like Christian White Russians did against the Soviet Bolshevik Jews. White Russians retreated and died in the frontiers of Russia. Currently, all of America’s White nationalists are retreating to the Western Redoubt AND they have no plans to take the East and West coasts and no plan to destroy Jewish Wall Street and Jewish controlled corporations. When the economy fails, you will learn that only ONE entity owns all of the publicly traded stocks in America. Your stocks are derivatives, play things. Your stock portfolio is a fantasy football team. You own jack shit until you pogrom the Jews and take back America with blood and spoil.
The victors with create the new industrialist billionaires and family dynasties. Glory, greed, and ambition will save Nationalist America.
Suggest you read some Rene Girard.