Man, even the Unz comment section is full of coping and seething…

We’re not gonna make it.

edit: just read some more of the responses. “Listen to this ukulele teacher!” Holy shit idiocracy is a best case scenario now.

First of all, wokeism is found in countries with few Jews (and even with few Protestants). It’s become a feature of Western societies and thus can’t be blamed entirely on Jews. Secondly, in the latest versions of wokeism, African-Americans, feminists, gay activists — and increasingly, foreign students — play major and leading roles. Third, Woods looks only at Jews, and not at the Protestants Sailer and others were speaking of.

In The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America, Eric Kaufman has studied liberal Protestant thinkers and WASP cultural rebels of the early 20th century and found some of the roots of wokeism. So far as the cultural rebels are concerned, they could also be found among Gentiles in Britain and Germany and later in France, Italy, and other countries.

In the US after WWII, Jews moved into greater prominence and influence and WASPs began to fade into the background, but even then, liberal and secularized Protestants (and Catholics) embraced the changes that society was going through. It’s hard to deny that Freud and Marx played a major role in shaping the modern West, but they are a part of what the West has become and now is. You might want to believe that there is some “healthy” pre-modern West accessible to us, but it’s gone.

I wouldn’t be so hard on the Abolitionists, though. Slavery was not a good thing.

They are right about many things, but a little cliquish. When they start having seminars and internships and cruises, look elsewhere for inspiation.

Strange dismissal of what Western society is as Jewish and harkening back to some Aryanism of a millennium or two back. It’s a little like Zionism.

Look at Hart and O’Neal’s faces. Their faces have been swapped.
For the first time, I’m starting to believe what the MSM people say: maybe iSteve readers really are racist. They can’t tell Shaquille O’Neal and Kevin Hart’s faces apart lololol

Amen.

I am not sure many people are actually following the war with a mind to accuracy in the death tolls. It seems like this war is a lot like the Spanish Civil War, a real bloody struggle for the men in action but something of a projection screen for the ideologies of the observers overseas (except of course for the MIC).
I suppose in the SCW, the observers could articulate their worldview more clearly than now (communism vs falangism is clearer to me than “NATO oughtn’t to expand gay marriage-womens rights-trannies” vs “Putler is evil Nazi”).
I admire the consistency of your worldview, Steve, summed up as “Don’t invade other countries”. It’s just that history is not sure it’s workable in the long-term.
But all that aside, do you believe Putin’s claim that the war was precipitated in part by atrocities against Russian ethnics in Donbass?
I remember reading you on the Georgian conflict, and you seemed more open to Russian points of view, iirc.

Shouldn’t the same corruption problems be true of the Ukraine?

The two countries are so similar, one would imagine they’d be similar in this way too (It’s these similarities that make the war seem more tragic). Otherwise, if they differ in this, how did Ukraine get the Magic Dirt and Russia the Tragic Dirt?

Also, maybe Putin conceived of a limited strike such as in Ukraine 2014 or Georgia 2008. That possibility is obviously off the table.

Do you take seriously Putin’s claims about the mistreatment of ethnic Russians in the Donbass? In the Georgian example, he displayed himself willing to protect ethnic Russians under attack, if I understand correctly.

You didn’t notice anything off about that picture??
Look closer.

How about Oriana Fallaci for number 1 danger-seeking adversarial interviewer of the 1970s?

Maybe Camille Paglia could be claimed to have had a brief run as top pop culture critic for a few years in the 90s (her main disadvantage? She talked way too fast).

“What’s wrong with us?”

It is a natural consequence of North American culture that deifies greed and encourages everyone to think that they are kings and queens to the exclusion of others. No amount of white exceptionalism and racism, so rampant on the comments sections here, can cure the loss of whiteness in North America unless the underlying cause above is rectified…

You know what would make a great movie? An alliance of MUSLIMS and SWPLEs in Mexico puts a NUKE on a speedboat, boat it to NYC, and set of a NUKE in NYC.

Plus, it’s so true to life!

LOL. Thanks, Rob. Don’t forget the dastardly role played by the HARVARD WASP MAFIA and its control of media, banking, and NYC law firms.

Just read like 80,000 words from John Derbyshire, thanks, Steve. I’m just getting into this rational “conservative” thing, but there’s obviously better writing on the right these days. God, contemporary liberal novelist-essay books are horrible. You can’t find essays by Hazlitt or Addison in the biggest Barnes and Nobles. Kinda weird shortish essays have NO appeal, with people’s short attention spans.

“Why put white American women on a pedestal? The quintessential modern example is the Tea Leoni type in “The Family Man.” She’s a nagging bore, yet the movie wants us to look at her as if she’s some sort of great catch for Nic Cage.”

Or all the reviews of Curb Your Enthusiasm are like “why is the wife with HIM?” Uhh…maybe because he’s worth 500 million while being one of the funniest people in the wor-, human history? And she’s a nightmarishly boring WASP moron who could be instantly replaced by hotter woman 20 years younger? Jesus.

But I hate to hate on any women. I “imagine” nerdy menfolk turn evil after years of “game” failure…it’s just womanly selection is as superficial, idiotic and inexorable as male-selection. We want you to not eat and be young, you want us to be some kind of alien thing without much to be said for it, except that it pleases your innate triggers and appears upstanding to you. You deprive us of sex when we can turn our minds into something more interesting, we deprive you of sex when you have no hope of ever changing. Unfortunately, after years of woman-trouble, I can only say “ha ha,” but we can’t much change what we’re attracted to.