A worthy but difficult question!  I’ve worked many mediocre jobs when I was a wee liberal to pay for school - janitor, landscaper, exterminator, heavy metal journalist, and so on.  Currently, I look towards furthering my studies in Konie Greek and Biblical Criticism to eventually teach on the subject.  Of course, I find myself quite at odds with the rampant leftism at university campuses, but it’s complete folly to think that liberalism is a symptom of modern higher education and not the other way around.  Post-Enlightenment man is born into a world of liberalism, and those who reflect on it yet embrace it unquestioningly embrace its ecocidal means-before-ends world of egalitarian, democratic degeneracy.

But enough of that, to the question at hand.  Most jobs today are the most un-heroic ways to spend time imaginable.  You take long commutes to hideous sprawling urban hell-holes, treat all customers, no matter how stupid or childish, with entitlement, kiss-ass to higher ups to perhaps one day get paid more to do something you really don’t care about, and live a lifestyle of swallowing your breath and indulging in revenge fantasies to cope with the insanity.  In the process, the underlying neurosis, materialism, and sophism of modernity is reinforced.  The end goal is usually profit and rarely holistic good, which is a spiritually draining, incredibly un-heroic way to live life.  

Find a job whose end is not completely divorced from reality.  This is true conservatism in action.  This obviously excludes jobs devoted to ecological destruction, jobs that exist only to cozy up bourgeois and suburb life, and jobs located in large cities - the ultimate abode of the anti-real.  Instead find a job that you like, in a field in which you are skilled, that works for the holistic good, not just what is safe and popular through lowest common denominator thinking.  Odds are this job will not give you high social standing or a large salary, but to any forward-thinker it’s obvious how meaningless those kinds of things are.  It may not necessarily be a simple and straightforward process, either, but life is simply not worth living without the self-discovery and refinement that comes through conflict and struggle. 

The definitive place to start is Pentti Linkola’s Can Life Prevail?   For too long “environmentalism” has been hijacked by anthropocentric liberals in green clothing.  Linkola destroys shallow ecology in his essays through bringing ecologic ideas to their logical, anti-humanistic conclusions - anti-immigration, anti-democracy, eugenics, downsizing human population, a honest re-evaluation of technology’s role in the evolution of man, and so on.  The infamous Unabomber Manifesto of Theodore Kaczynski also provides many insights into man’s increasingly dependent relationship to machine and the global effects of rampant industrialization.  Much of my own thought towards Green Conservatism comes from Brett Stevens’ many articles on conservation at amerika.org. 

When common cultural goals and values are lost, all that’s left is a social game of altruistic distance-pissing. 

badb-catha:

Humanity could do with going back and discovering the primordial psychological forces of nature. That is, it needs to experience what mankind called God. Human consciousness, and male human consciousness in particular, is a delicate thing. Put a bear in a cage and it’ll pace. For the sake of regaining our sanity, it’s important for us to connect with these forces of nature. Our little lair in the woods was upset some time ago, and as a result we lashed out. 

We all know that feeling.

Personally, a few of my top wishes would be the preservation of our folk and their culture. Our peoples have held the view that nature is sacred and worthy of a profound respect. However, due to globalism and liberal humanism, this natural inclination has been perverted and replaced with “conquer the earth and bring it into subjugation”. Pure folly, I say. The earth was here before us and will remain after we’re gone.

Reaching for the stars has removed our feet from the earth. Not only has this lobotomised us into a cultureless dumbed-down state, but what overall purpose have it served other than for mass production lines, internationalism, indiscriminately curing sicknesses (or inadvertently creating it), and gave encouragement to the sick to procreate more than those who possess inherently better health. In other words, the playing field has been leveled. This is an example of the humanistic mode of thought that inadvertently fell on its back, making our lands filthy, our population  and our souls heavy. There’s a great quantity, but not much of quality, be it in regards to produce or people. This generation could be best summed-up as dull-minded, shallow, histrionic, overweight, attention deficit and depressive. Yes, it’s a charming picture.

Progress is advancement of a species ability to survive and expand. We’re certainly succeeding, but the question is to what ends?

At its purest form, conservatism is perceiving and adapting to reality without the distortion of humanist illusions of an anthropocentric universe. 

Thus, true conservatism is impossible without a commitment to deep ecology.

So what is reality? Reality is what’s outside of your face: a world arising continuously as the result of many interacting forces of matter and idea. As detailed above, to understand it, you’re going to have to master yourself and face reality as the functional mechanism it is, which is something few humans do.

This is why most humans are anti-realist: it’s as inaccessible as heaven to them. But to ask the question “what is reality?” is a good first step toward releasing us from the prison of our own perspective, and allowing us to see the infinite potential of this world hiding behind the shadow of human form.

- Vijay Prozak 

thesalorepublic:

I have to agree with the above.

Take a look at the world around you, and realize something: We are shaping the globe. Geology and geography are no longer the ruling factors in topography, we are. Humanity and its associated technologies have made mother nature, and the process of evolution obsolete.

We have accomplished, in only a few hundred years, the ability to go across the glove in a few days. We have conquered every continent, sent probes to dozens of worlds, moons, and even a few other galaxies. 

We have, through sheer force of will, a stubborn refusal to give up, and our ability to work together destroyed, subjugated, and in general neutralized any natural enemies.

We have unleashed the powers of atomic weapons, which we could very easily wipe all life off of this planet with. We have accelerated the extinction of species by a thousand times.

The new nature will be built off the back of technology, where even the very genes of your body have been designed.

Mother nature isn’t being killed. She’s being retired.

And it will be a fine new world, a great new world, that will emerge.

There certainly is no question that mankind is shaping the globe in his own image, and that he has secured himself a position as one of the more dominant species on the planet, at least for the time being.  But your assumption that this is inherently a good thing is, in essence, liberal humanism.  The supposal that what’s “good” for mankind is ultimately what is right rests on egalitarian Enlightenment thought that sees mankind as a deified universal fraternity that replaces the logos (be it the classical understanding of the term or the Christian understanding) with its own betterment and mass reproduction as the ultimate goal of existence.    

Furthermore, your assumption of what is “good” for mankind is misled as well.  As Spengler observed, the West’s love of technology is a Faustian bargain - we tend to only see the sides of technology that bring us instant gratification and material pleasure instead of the bigger picture that shows us the steady spiritual weakening of modern man.  Increased travel seems to lead to positive exchange between cultures, but has instead led to globalization and colonialism, which I believe as fellow anti-egalitarians we both see as a disaster, since globalization is built on idolatrous ideas like “Europoids and Negroids aren’t so different, we have a lot to learn from each other.”  Mankind’s artificially elongated lifespan seems nice because who doesn’t want to live longer, but ultimately results in modern man becoming a slave to materialistic notions of “the good life” because he rarely considers the fact that his time on earth is limited.  And so on.  Mankind has not overcome the process of evolution, but he has redirected the process of evolution into herd-morality, democratic insanity where the weak, stupid, and degenerate thrive because of technology.  This ultimately has led to ecocide, hedonism becoming a virtue, and rampant industrialization.  The more nature shrinks (“nature” in this case meaning that which is untouched by man), the more mankind deludes himself into believing reality was created for him.  Within nature lies the cure for humanity, and modern man especially.  

On Cosmos

The path up and down is one and the same.

The sun is new each day.

In the same river we both step and do not step, we are and are not.

It is not possible to step twice into the same river.

Upon those that step into the same rivers different and different waters flow.

Sea is the most pure and polluted water: for fishes it is drinkable and salutary, but for men undrinkable and deleterious.

Disease makes health pleasant and good, hunger satiety, weariness rest. 

What is in opposition is in concert, and from what differs comes the most beautiful harmony.  

War is the father of all and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free.

It is necessary to know that war is common and right is strife, and that all things happen by strife and necessity.

For souls it is death to become water; for water, death to become earth; from earth, water comes-to-be, and from water, soul.

Immortals are mortal, mortals immortal, living each other’s death, dying each other’s life.

After death things await men which they do not expect or imagine.

Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child. 

On Men and Mortals

Asses prefer chaff to gold.

Dogs bark at those whom they do not recognize.

If happiness lay in bodily pleasures, we should call oxen happy when they find vetch to eat.

It is not good for men to obtain all they wish.

Sane thinking is the greatest virtue, and wisdom is speaking the truth and acting according to nature, paying heed.  

All men are granted what is needed for knowing oneself and sane thinking.

A dry soul is wisest and best.

A man when he is drunk is led by an unfledged boy, stumbling and not knowing where he goes, having his soul moist. 

The best choose one above all else: everlasting flame above mortals. The majority are contented like well-fed cattle. 

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

One man to me is ten thousand if he is the best.

The Ephesians would do well to hang themselves, every adult man, and leave their city to adolescents, since they expelled Hermodorus, the worthiest man among them, saying: Let us not have even one worth man; but if we do, let him go elsewhere and live among others! 

- Heraclitus, “The Dark Philosopher”

A defense of aristocracy, recognition that undermen prefer indulgent appearances to reality, a disdain for egalitarianism, staunch anti-humanism, an intense reverence for the logos, acknowledgment that life is not worth living without struggle, contempt for materialism and hedonism - this is the essence of true conservatism.   

Through the lethal combination of liberal democracy and the replacement of typographic discourse with television culture, “political action” nowadays means reducing complex ideas into meme-like sound bytes the lowest-common denominator can digest.  Modern politics demands that what’s right take a backseat to what’s popular.  In the process, the individual desires of the stupid and degenerate consistently win out against holistic good.  

So yes, you won’t see me running for democratic office and peddling safe platitudes to the masses to win the votes of those who devote their lives to pornography and alcohol, nor will I be attending any form of protest, unless it’s to watch hippies get blasted with water canons, which incidentally is an underrated spectator sport.  

In the modern world where the quantity of human beings great exceeds the quality, the radical traditionalist should not concern himself with spreading his ideology to the masses.  Rather, he communicates his message to any aristocrats of the soul willing to listen, and lives his life in such a way to overcome modern man through his actions and lifestyle.  True “political action” should not be done through banal means popularized by the anti-logic of liberal democracy, but through transcendent, “hard” words about reality, and the time-honored actions of traditionalism.   

http://www.arktos.com/julius-evola-ride-the-tiger.html

http://www.anus.com/zine/articles/nihilist/

Behold, the antifa!  A beta male of beta males, a sore of the West’s spiritual leprosy.     

Growing up, the antifa never found proper release for the angst sown deeply in his soul from his trying life in a 95% white, middle-class suburb of Portland.  His parents divorced at an early age, and he struggled socially in high school.  Always the awkward, passive type, the larval-stage antifa floundered profusely with the ladies growing up.  It just didn’t make sense to him.  He bent over backwards for girls, treated them with respect, worshiped the ground they walked on, and listened to their problems, and yet they always went for the jerks that mocked his frail physique instead.  Often, before his forthcoming womynist enlightenment, he would mutter under his breath, “all women are bitches.”   

Politically, he was liberal by default; his mom voted Democrat, and liberalism just made sense to him.  “Why can’t the rich pay a little more?  Isn’t free health care for everyone a good thing?  Authority fucking sucks, man!”, and so forth.  Punk rock always appealed to him.  At first, the slick, glossy faux-punk sounds of Green Day and Blink 182 provided a suitable outlet for his woe-is-me angst.  The more his internal purposelessness and rage against reality compounded, though, it just wasn’t enough.  Eventually, he discovered hardcore punk and crust punk.  It was perfect for two reasons: it let him release his inner three-year-old and listen to structureless, musical temper tantrums, and it opened his eyes to the glorious world of liberal altruism - the cure for his broken self-esteem.  

It was perfect.  By crusading against racism, sexism, and tyranny, he inflated his unwarranted sense of self-importance instilled through the cooing praises lavished upon him from liberal society simply for existing, nursed his very warranted sense of self-loathing, and even fed his damaged sense of masculinity through hxc tough-guy distance-pissing along the way.   

Like a grown man staring red-eyed and unblinking into his closet and screaming, “fuck you boogyman!”, the antifa declares his forward-thinking, anti-authoritarian independence through rebellion against an ideology that less than 1% of Americans hold.  Of course, without a real enemy, he resorts to labeling anything not insanely leftist as fascist.  Don’t like abortion?  Fascist.  Voted Republican?  Fascist.  Acknowledge the existence of gender differences outside of social constructionism?  Double fascist. It’s hard to hold it against the antifa for this childishly simplified good guy/fascist dichotomy, however.  It gives the antifa just a brief grasp of sanity, along with the whole host of other leftist memes - “all humans are equal,” “fuck the police,” “race is skin deep,” “no gods, no masters,” “die cis scum,” etc.  

There are essentially two life paths for the antifa - go to college on daddy’s money to major in European cinema with a queer studies minor, or go straight to working for Target, where the antifa will work after college, anyways.  In spite of his anti-corporate stance, most of his income will go towards lining the pockets of fat-cat video game and beer corporations.  

The antifa’s atheistic materialism gradually solidifies in college, or at punk rock shows, not that there’s much of a difference anymore, anyways.  In this philosophy, based on the humanistic fantasy that the universe revolves around mankind, therefore making mankind an egalitarian fraternity of anti-realism and mankind’s pleasures and desires inalienable rights, the world is divided into The Oppressed and The Oppressors.  This false inherency is, perhaps, the single most crucial meme to antifa philosophy, and it is the antifa’s goal to level humanity into a global, cattle-like entity of equality.  Of course, as a white, straight, cis, non-incest privileged individual (in other words, The Oppressor), he practices a curious, seemingly-paradoxical ritual of self-loathing ego-masturbation.  He’ll bite his tongue while listening to “kill whitey” or “all men are complicit in our rape culture” rants.  Through his silence and understanding, he gains the glorified social status of master altruist.   Sure, his feelings get hurt occasionally, but if he can gain those sweet, sweet moments of brief approval from The Oppressed, it was worth it.  Where else could he nurse his damaged sense of self-worth?  Certainly not through his own achievement, merits, and conquests.  That would be downright patriarchal.  And fascist.  And just too much effort.  Besides, when he’s lucky, self-proclaimed “liberated sluts” reward him with pity sex.        

Antifa pretend to stand for revolution, but in fact function as yet another social cog in the great grinding wheel of modernity.  Therein lies its great appeal - the appearance of a new and dangerous movement for global good that amounts to little more than another tired rehashing of liberte, egalite, fraternite, just with gimp costumes, shitty music, and adolescent men throwing temper tantrums at riot police.  No “hard truths” about reality need to be accepted, no effort to view the world outside of the humanistic lens of materialism needs to be undertook, no need to make music with any semblance of musical competency.      

The cure?  Heroic music, anti-humanism, cultural standards, and increased police brutality seem to be good starting points.

I’ll be working farm hours for the foreseeable remainder of the summer with limited access to the internet.  Thus, sadly, I will not have the time or energy to write further until harvest, or at least until it’s darker out well earlier.  

In the meantime, I encourage readers to check out the other Axis of Evil blogs for their fix of countercurrent anti-modernity, in addition to anus.com.  I may be sighted on the Axis of Evil forums from time to time as well.    

Regards,

The River Runs Black