If Only You Knew...
We are here taking stock at the edge of the abyss. The terrible face of our adversary gazes down upon us; raw hateful power be thy name. There’s a great meme that gets the gist across: The caption reads, “If only you knew how bad things really are.” The last three or so years have been eye opening all around. The learning opportunity is there, if only one is willing to use it. Reactionaries have been vindicated – to a degree. The whole internet neo-reactionary scene have been stating forthrightly for some time that activism is folly, that it is a leftist rallying tactic undertaken after they had already acquired institutional advantage, and that the essentially nascent right needs to focus on logistics and human-social capital building. At least these are what I take away. This is the thrust of the ‘Benedict option’ as I see it – becoming warrior-scholars or ascetic workers and building networks from scratch, with the rub that most of us should be finding wives and making families ...