Recently I bumped into one of my brothers friends from primary school. I'd not seen him in probably 25 years, so we stopped and had a chat and exchanged news. Just as we were moving our seperate ways he mentioned to me the name of the pub he drinks in nowadays. He also told me the name of his mate who works there and usually has venison to sell if I need any meat.
One of the big changes around here in the last ten years has been the massive increase in the dear population, so obviously someone somewhere has a gun and is making the most of it. I've never in my life been offered black market meat before, unless it was some scally who's pinched it from Tescos, and it definately felt quite old fashioned, and well, just weirdly re-assuring in some way. We can learn to not need the regime (I hope).
The beginnings of the new world we will inhabit I suspect. Probably best to buy some to ensure the market is in operation when the soylent green becomes mandatory round your way.
In the US there is a problem with chronic wasting disease in wild deer that makes consumption riskier. I have not seen good explanations for why it has become a problem. I suspect environmental pollution or perhaps government programs like the Department of Agriculture's oral vaccines for wildlife in over a dozen states.
The new world can't be based on hoping to be left alone. Ideally we get reformers like RFK Jr put into positions of power to dismantle the machine.
Personally I think we must put processes in place to starve the machine, not rely on reformers. RFK has many interesting things to say but is ultimately an Establishment insider. American royalty.
I agree with the idea of starving the beast and parallel institutions, but we need reformers too. Gates talks about blotting out the sun to fix the weather. Nobody is left alone in that scenario.
I'm cynical when it comes to politicians and government, but hopeful for RFK if he can get put into a position of authority on health.
Fantastic, however I think you do Grok a disservice "If I asked Keir Starmer, who is only mildly more human than Grok" :-)
Regarding Appalachia, the folks there (for the most part) are, of course, of Ulster-Scots descent (descendants of Scots Protestants planted in Northern Ireland during the 17th century), who fled Ireland in the 1700s to escape both British oppression and Irish vengeance. They weren’t really wanted in the colonies (even back then the ruling elites were embarrassed and appalled by them) and were sent into the mountains by the Puritan elites as a buffer between the "civilized" settlers and the Natives. They have never really been wanted, except, of course, as fodder for the war machine. The regime is embarrassed by their beliefs and behaviours, much like the British regime is embarrassed by North FC. Similarly, the descendants of Ulster-Scots who didn’t migrate are now unwanted and an embarrassment to both the British and the Irish. However, like our Appalachian cousins, we hold firm to the motto: “What We Have, We Hold,” in spite of the odds or the future planned for us. I suggest the indigenous English take note of the plight of the Appalachian and the Ulster-Scot—dying breeds, used and abused by their "betters."
The future belongs to those who know how to do things, how to use their hands. My maternal grandfather, an Arkansas farm boy, could build houses entirely on his own (if necessary). He was an excellent carpenter, plumber, electrician, and mechanic. And he never got past the 5th grade. He was a foreman in WW2 building ships (training and supervising largely women crews to rivet). He hunted deer and fished his entire life. My mother grew up eating venison that my grandfather hunted down himself and told me that she thought nothing of it until she entered college and 'All the meat in the cafeteria tasted funny.' My grandfather built excellent furniture in the mid-1970s that my late mother used until she past away in 2019. My grandfather was a free man.
Having real skills, being self-reliant, that is true freedom.
And beyond that, having the right mindset will be paramount. I know this will be unpopular with some of you: I am Christian, and it sustains and guides me. I have always lived clean, worked hard, and tried to stay in the Grace of God.
What is coming will be horrific, make no mistake. With bankrupt Western governments printing money to stay afloat and with dwindling food supplies, droughts, and water shortages now the norm, life is about to become very, very hard. I expect public services to start failing across the West next year. I hate to say this, but if you can't fix the plumbing or repair your roof yourself, you'll be in trouble. The welfare system WILL COLLAPSE and that will bring in serious urban panic as illiterate and unskilled 3rd world migrants rage across the cities.
'...while we reforge kinship networks, clan and tribe.'
And here is where the rubber hits the road. If people do nothing and allow their towns to crumble, refuse to fight back, and refuse to gather into coherent tribes, they will perish. And they will deserve to.
No one is going to save you. Save yourself, your kin, and your tribe.
I have been thinking about this more recently, that real skills will come into their own in the near future. My husband is not overly handy but has some plumbing skills and thinks like an engineer , and my eldest son does all the work on his house himself, my youngest son is an electrician. We spent six years in the plain Mennonites ( Amish with black cars), and know how to grow and preserve food, cook and bake from scratch, quilt, sew all types of clothing, etc. I find myself holding on to fabric and wool yarn I would normally clear out “just in case”.
There are 16 of us including children and grandchildren. Not a bad sized tribe.
A surprisingly hopeful essay Morgoth, especially considering the topic. I agree with you that as the Empire continues to slowly stagger to its knees, we will see more "normal" people simply living outside of its purview. At least as much as possible. The tipping point will be similar to that of the Soviet Union - in that case, it was when normal people just stopped believing anything the government was saying. In our case, it will be when even normies internalize what we've all been saying for years: the government hates you and never intentionally does anything for your benefit. Once people finally get that, then they'll start doing for one another what they've been expecting from FEMA or the NHS or UNESCO or any of a thousand other soulless, horrid agencies.
As a former MI guy, I've been more focused on the crude attempts at propaganda that I've been seeing over the past few weeks. Your comparison to the regime's Katrina response vs this one was apt. Our double reality world, made up of the one in which we live and the one carefully crafted for us by the regime, is spinning apart. No one here in America even pretends that the government cares as much about us as they do Ukranians, Jews, Lebanese, or Haitians. Yet we also move in the reality in which they talk as though they do. It's a very weird place to be in.
Sorry if my response ran too long but this was a very provocative piece. Thanks for posting it and good luck this winter.
Beautiful. The response to Helene has been outrageously insufficient. George Bush was pilloried on his supposed insensitivity to Katrina, which had boots on the ground national guard from the beginning with basic supplies and ever increasing aid provided relatively quickly. Because many victims were black any hesitation in response, even just to formulate the most effective plan, was viewed as racist. The whiteness of these victims, and their likelihood of voting Trump may not be the reason for the pitiful response, the government is bankrupt, though that hasn’t kept them from printing money for Ukraine and Israel. Still, it looks really bad, and when their not favorite state of Florida gets hit with Milton tomorrow we can expect similar ineptitude.
As the final part of your article alludes to, we seem to be near a new beginning as the old world collapses under its ridiculousness.
When the artifice is gone all we will have is the reality in front of us, including those ties you mention. I too have more in common with the hicks in Appalachia than the people Farage refers to. How can they not sense this themselves?
If you take Labrador Retrievers to Argentina, or the Philippines, they and their puppies are still Labrador Retrievers. Yet we’re supposed to think humans work utterly differently.
I suspect we will see more of this from people marinated in a diversity swamp. Expecting diversity to feel great as they have been taught, and yet feeling more affinity for strangers who look like them and have similar surnames. Britain seeded a lot of people all over the place, and all of them have more in common with British natives than some who now live here.
I am slightly more upbeat than most maybe. Why? Well where I live there seems to be more and more farmers markets springing up. The use of cash remains popular with many. More and more people, ourselves included are sidelining 'local authority' and are just getting together in small groups to repair and maintain our environment locally. Just small stuff at the moment but as it's said, 'from small acorns...' . For myself I always try to barter for local services though it is with people I have known for years. The more authoritarian our leaders become then so also , will normal life become invisible to the controllers. No amount of investment in giant server farms to watch our every move will be enough for those who turn away from high tech and return to nature.
Morgoth, the driving force of Western Civilization is alphabet soup and wokeism. That is the point of it. That's what we're fighting for. Of course as with any religion, how devoted its elites 'really' are to its precepts are up for grabs, personal religious adherence varies. That isn't that important though. It's become literally the defining "why" of everything the West does. Its the single defining characteristic that distinguishes the West from everything else. This is just the terminal stage of the Boomer Truth Regime.
It started in 1945 and I give it somewhere between 10 and 20 years before the narrative collapses under its own weight.
The anglo has a providential future, but he must initiate to Become it. Many will have to suffer for the way of initiation to open to them. Some who see early and are willing to sacrifice can begin now, and the Lord will open the way to them, he will then grant them revelatory knowing and action to lead this people into this future. Without that divine help to escape the thought regime, it is certainly over. But with divine help, there is nothing the regime can do to stop the overcoming.
Hey man, the feeling of “these people seem familiar” is mutual when it comes to the working class English from the Northern coal country.
You ever end up visiting the empire, Appalachia is definitely recommended. 100 percent God’s country. I’m sure you’d fit right in. Of course I’m biased.
But to keep it real, since you like to fish, I have to recommend Florida for fresh water action. Absolute slab fest down there.
A point of doubt: I lived in NC for 8 years and know the Appalachians pretty well. Whoever is telling you there are any significant numbers there living off grid is delusional. The impoverished people of the Appalachians have been reduced to sucking on the welfare teat of the Government. They are fully registered, chipped and vaccinated. They need their free health care and gibs. The makeshift repair jobs will have been made by the many educated, right leaning middle class retirees, landowners and professionals many of whom are recent transplants from out of state.
The fantasy that anyone living in the present could survive without civilization is laughable. "I will hunt with my guns". So romantic. Can you manufacture a gun? can you manufacture bullets? you yourself i mean. "Oh i can do carpentry, i can build a house". So romantic! can you also fell enough wood in the correct way with an axe? those chainsaws need oil. Can you produce oil yourself?. I could go on and on, but people here think they will be living just fine in a Fallout the video game type scenario where they can be hardcore survivalists who need no government. It is a funny musing, but it is a dead stupid one.
What strikes me as the core issue is that many here in this comment section don't have any grasp of History. Civilization as we known it took 10,000 years to be built. In the case of a collapse you don't get to go back to the tribal stage and just instinctively survive cuz you're a badass frontiersman.
You don't know how to hunt using bows, you don't know how to forge a spear, you don't know how to track animals, you don't know how make coats, you don't know how to pick medicinal herbs, you don't know how to wage war for supplies or self defense. You'd cry at the first human you'd have to kill. You don't know not because you are a romantic halfwit with delusions of survivalism. The reason you know not is because we moved past the tribal stage some 5,000 years ago with the formation of large urban centers, who in turn formed empires.
A Greek galley was a rowing ship 37 meters long made by a hundred carpenters with 40 correctly felled trees. Each galley had 170 rowers and 50 soldiers, wearing armour made correctly by hundreds of blacksmiths. In the battle of Salamis there were 600 galleys of such civlizational complexity, just on the Greek side. Can you and your friends build a war galley? no, because it took the greeks 5,000 years of civilization-building to get to the point where they could pump galleys for trade, let alone warfare.
People who romanticize about living in the woods with nothing but their grit, or living in tribes don't get that it is simply EASIER to take back their countries. You don't have to spent 5,000 years building civilization up from scratch, and even if you and your friends want to, you wouldn't have the "grit" to do it. Neither would i.
This is just a completely fantastical, borderline hysterical strawman of the sentiment expressed both in the article and in the comments section which doesn't amount to much more than ''Be prepared for hardtimes, be in a network''.
Yes. The entire point of the article is to build networks. You may not know how to smith, but your friend might. He might not know how to sew, but your wife does... etc.
I think the point is, while the savages are tearing each other to shreds, the resilient will be fortifying and producing. This has been shown throughout European history and throughout Colonial history.
"It can't be done!"
The entire founding of the American colonies refutes your bullshit.
I don't see anyone here romanticizing anything. People are are trying to prepare the best they can for what is happening now. I don't see anyone talking about building civilization from scratch. I plan to take things back. I get the sense that most people here do, too. When things go sideways, it's better to have skills and somekind of plan.
'As much as a sympathize wit the “redneck from alabama” archetype, the red american whom in Curtis Yarvin ‘s words “just wants to grill”, the quintessential parochial man of family and religion, there is something really sinister about these people’s lack of intellectualism, of wanting to read, of having no curiosity. They remind me of the hobbits from the shire. Good honest folk, but total simpletons with no ideas of their own. Even when Frodo gets back from his journey, no one gives a fuck and no one believes him. That is why Bilbo and Frodo leave with the Elves. They don’t want to spend their entire lives in backwater nowhere grilling and drinking beer.'
Really, Rake? You are attacking the blue collar men who make countries function.
This post you wrote is so vile, Rake I won't quote from it, but it shows your true low moral character. I have spent my life avoiding people like you as much as possible. You know, I have met a lot of people like you in air conditioned offices, but none like you in the field.
Your posts across Substack are ridiculously narcissistic, obnoxious, and nihilistic. I have never met a Brazillian like you, ever. (At least you claim to be from Brazil.)
All I see you doing on Substack, Rake, is hysterically attacking Christianity, the foundations of Western civilization, and praising Putin and your magnificent self...
You spend a lot of time railing against gheys, but your posts come across as flamboyantly ghey... Do you really talk like this?
Recently I bumped into one of my brothers friends from primary school. I'd not seen him in probably 25 years, so we stopped and had a chat and exchanged news. Just as we were moving our seperate ways he mentioned to me the name of the pub he drinks in nowadays. He also told me the name of his mate who works there and usually has venison to sell if I need any meat.
One of the big changes around here in the last ten years has been the massive increase in the dear population, so obviously someone somewhere has a gun and is making the most of it. I've never in my life been offered black market meat before, unless it was some scally who's pinched it from Tescos, and it definately felt quite old fashioned, and well, just weirdly re-assuring in some way. We can learn to not need the regime (I hope).
I felt the same seeing people in Blyth knocking out fish during the pandemic.
The beginnings of the new world we will inhabit I suspect. Probably best to buy some to ensure the market is in operation when the soylent green becomes mandatory round your way.
In the US there is a problem with chronic wasting disease in wild deer that makes consumption riskier. I have not seen good explanations for why it has become a problem. I suspect environmental pollution or perhaps government programs like the Department of Agriculture's oral vaccines for wildlife in over a dozen states.
The new world can't be based on hoping to be left alone. Ideally we get reformers like RFK Jr put into positions of power to dismantle the machine.
Personally I think we must put processes in place to starve the machine, not rely on reformers. RFK has many interesting things to say but is ultimately an Establishment insider. American royalty.
I agree with the idea of starving the beast and parallel institutions, but we need reformers too. Gates talks about blotting out the sun to fix the weather. Nobody is left alone in that scenario.
I'm cynical when it comes to politicians and government, but hopeful for RFK if he can get put into a position of authority on health.
Fantastic, however I think you do Grok a disservice "If I asked Keir Starmer, who is only mildly more human than Grok" :-)
Regarding Appalachia, the folks there (for the most part) are, of course, of Ulster-Scots descent (descendants of Scots Protestants planted in Northern Ireland during the 17th century), who fled Ireland in the 1700s to escape both British oppression and Irish vengeance. They weren’t really wanted in the colonies (even back then the ruling elites were embarrassed and appalled by them) and were sent into the mountains by the Puritan elites as a buffer between the "civilized" settlers and the Natives. They have never really been wanted, except, of course, as fodder for the war machine. The regime is embarrassed by their beliefs and behaviours, much like the British regime is embarrassed by North FC. Similarly, the descendants of Ulster-Scots who didn’t migrate are now unwanted and an embarrassment to both the British and the Irish. However, like our Appalachian cousins, we hold firm to the motto: “What We Have, We Hold,” in spite of the odds or the future planned for us. I suggest the indigenous English take note of the plight of the Appalachian and the Ulster-Scot—dying breeds, used and abused by their "betters."
The future belongs to those who know how to do things, how to use their hands. My maternal grandfather, an Arkansas farm boy, could build houses entirely on his own (if necessary). He was an excellent carpenter, plumber, electrician, and mechanic. And he never got past the 5th grade. He was a foreman in WW2 building ships (training and supervising largely women crews to rivet). He hunted deer and fished his entire life. My mother grew up eating venison that my grandfather hunted down himself and told me that she thought nothing of it until she entered college and 'All the meat in the cafeteria tasted funny.' My grandfather built excellent furniture in the mid-1970s that my late mother used until she past away in 2019. My grandfather was a free man.
Having real skills, being self-reliant, that is true freedom.
And beyond that, having the right mindset will be paramount. I know this will be unpopular with some of you: I am Christian, and it sustains and guides me. I have always lived clean, worked hard, and tried to stay in the Grace of God.
What is coming will be horrific, make no mistake. With bankrupt Western governments printing money to stay afloat and with dwindling food supplies, droughts, and water shortages now the norm, life is about to become very, very hard. I expect public services to start failing across the West next year. I hate to say this, but if you can't fix the plumbing or repair your roof yourself, you'll be in trouble. The welfare system WILL COLLAPSE and that will bring in serious urban panic as illiterate and unskilled 3rd world migrants rage across the cities.
'...while we reforge kinship networks, clan and tribe.'
And here is where the rubber hits the road. If people do nothing and allow their towns to crumble, refuse to fight back, and refuse to gather into coherent tribes, they will perish. And they will deserve to.
No one is going to save you. Save yourself, your kin, and your tribe.
I have been thinking about this more recently, that real skills will come into their own in the near future. My husband is not overly handy but has some plumbing skills and thinks like an engineer , and my eldest son does all the work on his house himself, my youngest son is an electrician. We spent six years in the plain Mennonites ( Amish with black cars), and know how to grow and preserve food, cook and bake from scratch, quilt, sew all types of clothing, etc. I find myself holding on to fabric and wool yarn I would normally clear out “just in case”.
There are 16 of us including children and grandchildren. Not a bad sized tribe.
It seems a lot of us have been thinking the same thing: https://thecounterrevolution.substack.com/p/the-age-of-the-educated-man-is-over?r=ry9e1
A surprisingly hopeful essay Morgoth, especially considering the topic. I agree with you that as the Empire continues to slowly stagger to its knees, we will see more "normal" people simply living outside of its purview. At least as much as possible. The tipping point will be similar to that of the Soviet Union - in that case, it was when normal people just stopped believing anything the government was saying. In our case, it will be when even normies internalize what we've all been saying for years: the government hates you and never intentionally does anything for your benefit. Once people finally get that, then they'll start doing for one another what they've been expecting from FEMA or the NHS or UNESCO or any of a thousand other soulless, horrid agencies.
As a former MI guy, I've been more focused on the crude attempts at propaganda that I've been seeing over the past few weeks. Your comparison to the regime's Katrina response vs this one was apt. Our double reality world, made up of the one in which we live and the one carefully crafted for us by the regime, is spinning apart. No one here in America even pretends that the government cares as much about us as they do Ukranians, Jews, Lebanese, or Haitians. Yet we also move in the reality in which they talk as though they do. It's a very weird place to be in.
Sorry if my response ran too long but this was a very provocative piece. Thanks for posting it and good luck this winter.
Great reply, thanks.
Beautiful. The response to Helene has been outrageously insufficient. George Bush was pilloried on his supposed insensitivity to Katrina, which had boots on the ground national guard from the beginning with basic supplies and ever increasing aid provided relatively quickly. Because many victims were black any hesitation in response, even just to formulate the most effective plan, was viewed as racist. The whiteness of these victims, and their likelihood of voting Trump may not be the reason for the pitiful response, the government is bankrupt, though that hasn’t kept them from printing money for Ukraine and Israel. Still, it looks really bad, and when their not favorite state of Florida gets hit with Milton tomorrow we can expect similar ineptitude.
…and articles like this are precisely why I subscribe to Morgoth. As anyone not bathing in the radiance of their own ignorance should.
As the final part of your article alludes to, we seem to be near a new beginning as the old world collapses under its ridiculousness.
When the artifice is gone all we will have is the reality in front of us, including those ties you mention. I too have more in common with the hicks in Appalachia than the people Farage refers to. How can they not sense this themselves?
If you take Labrador Retrievers to Argentina, or the Philippines, they and their puppies are still Labrador Retrievers. Yet we’re supposed to think humans work utterly differently.
I had the distinct pleasure to hike the "West Highland Way" last year. Yeah, touristy. But spectacular.
I've never felt more at home.
I, too, feel an affinity for the Scottish. Ancestors came from there.
It's an odd thing to note that blood recognizes blood. Thicker than water, as they say.
Your nod towards the Scots in Appalachia as fellow suffers more powerful than I'd expected. I feel the same way.
Disturbing connotations about blood memory and tribal affiliations across distance in a "blank slate" world.
I suspect we will see more of this from people marinated in a diversity swamp. Expecting diversity to feel great as they have been taught, and yet feeling more affinity for strangers who look like them and have similar surnames. Britain seeded a lot of people all over the place, and all of them have more in common with British natives than some who now live here.
'It's an odd thing to note that blood recognizes blood. Thicker than water, as they say.'
That connection stirs the blood.
'I, too, feel an affinity for the Scottish. Ancestors came from there.'
My paternal grandmother was a Campbell.
I am slightly more upbeat than most maybe. Why? Well where I live there seems to be more and more farmers markets springing up. The use of cash remains popular with many. More and more people, ourselves included are sidelining 'local authority' and are just getting together in small groups to repair and maintain our environment locally. Just small stuff at the moment but as it's said, 'from small acorns...' . For myself I always try to barter for local services though it is with people I have known for years. The more authoritarian our leaders become then so also , will normal life become invisible to the controllers. No amount of investment in giant server farms to watch our every move will be enough for those who turn away from high tech and return to nature.
Morgoth, the driving force of Western Civilization is alphabet soup and wokeism. That is the point of it. That's what we're fighting for. Of course as with any religion, how devoted its elites 'really' are to its precepts are up for grabs, personal religious adherence varies. That isn't that important though. It's become literally the defining "why" of everything the West does. Its the single defining characteristic that distinguishes the West from everything else. This is just the terminal stage of the Boomer Truth Regime.
It started in 1945 and I give it somewhere between 10 and 20 years before the narrative collapses under its own weight.
Thank you for another fantastic article. I always read them when they come out.
It's quite a thing to realise your living through the death of your people and knowing there's nothing you can do about it.
Well, we're not there yet...
Despair is a sin and learned helplessness is a psyop.
Our people are not dead, far from it. We have a mild decline in population, which is uneven. This is masked by immigration, which seems overwhelming.
But we are still here and we will outlive the inept regime that is dying in front of us.
The anglo has a providential future, but he must initiate to Become it. Many will have to suffer for the way of initiation to open to them. Some who see early and are willing to sacrifice can begin now, and the Lord will open the way to them, he will then grant them revelatory knowing and action to lead this people into this future. Without that divine help to escape the thought regime, it is certainly over. But with divine help, there is nothing the regime can do to stop the overcoming.
Robert Reich auto-played after this...
Hey man, the feeling of “these people seem familiar” is mutual when it comes to the working class English from the Northern coal country.
You ever end up visiting the empire, Appalachia is definitely recommended. 100 percent God’s country. I’m sure you’d fit right in. Of course I’m biased.
But to keep it real, since you like to fish, I have to recommend Florida for fresh water action. Absolute slab fest down there.
Another wonderfully eloquent essay on our current and probably future dystopia.
A point of doubt: I lived in NC for 8 years and know the Appalachians pretty well. Whoever is telling you there are any significant numbers there living off grid is delusional. The impoverished people of the Appalachians have been reduced to sucking on the welfare teat of the Government. They are fully registered, chipped and vaccinated. They need their free health care and gibs. The makeshift repair jobs will have been made by the many educated, right leaning middle class retirees, landowners and professionals many of whom are recent transplants from out of state.
Because a transplant knows the people and the area better than a native North Carolinian…
The fantasy that anyone living in the present could survive without civilization is laughable. "I will hunt with my guns". So romantic. Can you manufacture a gun? can you manufacture bullets? you yourself i mean. "Oh i can do carpentry, i can build a house". So romantic! can you also fell enough wood in the correct way with an axe? those chainsaws need oil. Can you produce oil yourself?. I could go on and on, but people here think they will be living just fine in a Fallout the video game type scenario where they can be hardcore survivalists who need no government. It is a funny musing, but it is a dead stupid one.
What strikes me as the core issue is that many here in this comment section don't have any grasp of History. Civilization as we known it took 10,000 years to be built. In the case of a collapse you don't get to go back to the tribal stage and just instinctively survive cuz you're a badass frontiersman.
You don't know how to hunt using bows, you don't know how to forge a spear, you don't know how to track animals, you don't know how make coats, you don't know how to pick medicinal herbs, you don't know how to wage war for supplies or self defense. You'd cry at the first human you'd have to kill. You don't know not because you are a romantic halfwit with delusions of survivalism. The reason you know not is because we moved past the tribal stage some 5,000 years ago with the formation of large urban centers, who in turn formed empires.
A Greek galley was a rowing ship 37 meters long made by a hundred carpenters with 40 correctly felled trees. Each galley had 170 rowers and 50 soldiers, wearing armour made correctly by hundreds of blacksmiths. In the battle of Salamis there were 600 galleys of such civlizational complexity, just on the Greek side. Can you and your friends build a war galley? no, because it took the greeks 5,000 years of civilization-building to get to the point where they could pump galleys for trade, let alone warfare.
People who romanticize about living in the woods with nothing but their grit, or living in tribes don't get that it is simply EASIER to take back their countries. You don't have to spent 5,000 years building civilization up from scratch, and even if you and your friends want to, you wouldn't have the "grit" to do it. Neither would i.
Quit daydreaming brothers. This is peak nonsense.
This is just a completely fantastical, borderline hysterical strawman of the sentiment expressed both in the article and in the comments section which doesn't amount to much more than ''Be prepared for hardtimes, be in a network''.
insta block accounts like this. Doesn't matter if they pay. Polemic for polemic sake looking for growth.
Is it now? Huh, guess i forgot to take my pills
Looks like it.
Yes. The entire point of the article is to build networks. You may not know how to smith, but your friend might. He might not know how to sew, but your wife does... etc.
I think the point is, while the savages are tearing each other to shreds, the resilient will be fortifying and producing. This has been shown throughout European history and throughout Colonial history.
"It can't be done!"
The entire founding of the American colonies refutes your bullshit.
I don't see anyone here romanticizing anything. People are are trying to prepare the best they can for what is happening now. I don't see anyone talking about building civilization from scratch. I plan to take things back. I get the sense that most people here do, too. When things go sideways, it's better to have skills and somekind of plan.
First things first: survive.
Who here says they are going to live in a cave?
You insult people all over Substack. FROM RAKE: https://substack.com/@deceneus/note/c-71580306
'As much as a sympathize wit the “redneck from alabama” archetype, the red american whom in Curtis Yarvin ‘s words “just wants to grill”, the quintessential parochial man of family and religion, there is something really sinister about these people’s lack of intellectualism, of wanting to read, of having no curiosity. They remind me of the hobbits from the shire. Good honest folk, but total simpletons with no ideas of their own. Even when Frodo gets back from his journey, no one gives a fuck and no one believes him. That is why Bilbo and Frodo leave with the Elves. They don’t want to spend their entire lives in backwater nowhere grilling and drinking beer.'
Really, Rake? You are attacking the blue collar men who make countries function.
Do you expect to find 'Elves' in Russia?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-149367880?selection=d4ff5509-4d48-4088-97df-69252488cc59#:~:text=You%20can%20follow%20your%20prude%20protestant%20god%2C%20and%20i%20will%20respect%20that%20to%20a%20degree%2C%20but%20you%20don%E2%80%99t%20get%20to%20call%20me%20a%20degenerate%20for%20liking%20sexy%20women%20in%20classy%20outfits
This post you wrote is so vile, Rake I won't quote from it, but it shows your true low moral character. I have spent my life avoiding people like you as much as possible. You know, I have met a lot of people like you in air conditioned offices, but none like you in the field.
Your posts across Substack are ridiculously narcissistic, obnoxious, and nihilistic. I have never met a Brazillian like you, ever. (At least you claim to be from Brazil.)
All I see you doing on Substack, Rake, is hysterically attacking Christianity, the foundations of Western civilization, and praising Putin and your magnificent self...
You spend a lot of time railing against gheys, but your posts come across as flamboyantly ghey... Do you really talk like this?
Quoting Yarvin, and disdain for whites...
Yeah this guy might be one of the tribe
Thanks for the free publicity!
Somehow, I doubt this will help you.
Somehow, you'd be surprised ;)