In this episode of The Dissident Right, I'm joined by a new guest, a fine artist, a musician, and a dissident who's collaborating with Arctos to create videos on culture, history, art, and philosophy.
00:05:58.700It's almost like a disugenics sort of visual project to convince you that, you know, the lowest common denominator or, you know, staring into the abyss.
00:06:12.700That these things are somehow like we used to see the world as, you know, in terms of what was beautiful.
00:06:23.340We wanted to amplify that because we wanted to become more like that.
00:08:49.740So obviously, you know, basically taking us from that is telling us, well, no, all interpretations of reality matter.
00:08:58.400Well, okay, you could be wrong in your interpretation of what you think is beautiful or what you think is the way to actually do something that you would use your rationality to, let's say, fly a plane.
00:09:09.660We know that there are certain metrics, certain ways we go about, you know, making a plane.
00:09:14.860Not all ways of making a plane will make a plane.
00:09:18.060Obviously, you need to know how to do that.
00:09:20.040Well, we've kind of abandoned the study of aesthetics and our sense experience.
00:09:25.140And that was something in the West that we really developed and we refined, that we understood, no, taste can be developed.
00:09:33.520And then you can determine what is beautiful and what is not.
00:09:37.880So, yeah, you could be wrong in your subjective understanding of what is beautiful.
00:09:42.440And so I guess the last thing I'll say here is that it's definitely a way to disorient, to say that, you know, even the ugliest thing can be beautiful because I say it is.
00:09:56.900And ultimately, I feel like it's all just a war on a healthy European society and values, right?
00:10:03.460Because we've always valued and beauty has always mattered to us, whether it's art or architecture, fashion, interior design, the machinery, the cars, the fabrics, you know, that is such a part of Western civilization.
00:10:18.380And now you see this degenerate, like, as you see here, this modern art being pushed, urinals, literal shit on, you know, on a plate.
00:10:27.500Like, this is being pushed in pop culture as though this is like something amazing and we should like be celebrating this now.
00:10:35.700It's very, it's very incredibly subversive.
00:10:38.540And I think basically the shit on the plate summarizes it.
00:10:42.100It's like, they want to crap all over Western civilization and all the beauty that we've been.
00:10:48.240Well, again, you guys are showing on the screen here, Marcel Duchamp, and he's a perfect example of exactly that.
00:10:55.180And I think he, there's actually a quote from him where he basically admits that he wants to destroy Western aesthetics.
00:11:03.260Yes, and they also use language to do that too in a variety of different ways.
00:11:09.020But basically, you know, putting a urinal in a gallery is a way to, it's sort of a joke.
00:11:15.780It's that, oh, well, I can have a found object, a thing that I find, and there's no skill needed.
00:11:21.520Once again, the, you know, egalitarianist nature of the art world is that you don't need to have skill.
00:11:27.680You don't even need to have any fruits and display those things.
00:11:30.920In fact, that's what, you know, we would prefer.
00:11:34.500And you can see how subversive that is because then everything is open to interpretation, which just means that we can degrade and hit at all of our roots and, you know, destroy them.
00:11:46.060You also find too that these people are very anti-nature, anti the natural order, natural hierarchy of just what nature has created.
00:11:55.060And nature has always been such an important part of art.
00:11:58.840Can you discuss just a little bit about the relationship to art and nature, as we've seen in Western civilization?
00:12:05.120Because we're seeing a lot less of that now as we're, you know, celebrating trannies and all that.
00:12:15.540So there's definitely a, it's, it's a bit complicated, but basically because of individualism, we have sort of this, it's, I call it navel gazing, where we're looking only at ourselves.
00:12:29.280And so it's, it's me, me, me, me, it's my individual experience.
00:12:33.060And when you do that, you go inward and you're not really looking out into the world.
00:12:37.180You're, it's, it almost becomes, for lack of a better word, satanic, right?
00:12:42.400Because, you know, honestly, in a way, Satan is really just ourselves.
00:12:50.320It's where you, you hyper focus on only the things that humans have developed and our perception of reality.
00:12:57.140And that's why looking at nature is important that we actually look out into it and try to derive meaning and purpose from it because it's our, it's our best possible teacher is, is nature.
00:13:08.860So, so without question, that's something that's been removed.
00:13:14.640It has to do with the Dionysian and, and, and the Apollonian sort of cultural differences throughout time.
00:13:21.020But yeah, generally speaking, we've moved further away from nature and the divine to kind of, you know, have this almost a Reddit tier interpretation of things that if you can't measure it, and, and it's not something that's provable by human standards.
00:13:37.980There's, there's no mystery in anything, which is what nature is.
00:13:58.840And, and you see that in like the, the architecture, this cuboid, this modern art, this cold, clean, modern lines, as they call it, and just stark whiteness.
00:14:12.400I'm surrounded by, you know, nature elements, paintings that incorporate nature or scrolly looking things or, you know, floral looking things.
00:14:20.620I love like the old world kind of classic touch in, in furniture, for instance, it just makes your soul feel good.
00:14:34.460And Roger Scruton, he actually talks about that too.
00:14:37.140And how, you know, if you look at in his documentary, he talks about this, that a building that is more in tune with nature, you know, gets covered with vines, you know, these, these little, you know, like German villages and stuff like that.
00:14:52.120They have, there's like a harmony that they have with the nature that's around them, whereas a modern building, like the one he's standing in front of is, is almost like in denial of nature.
00:15:17.460They're putting up all this ugly, cuboid, utilitarian, soulless kind of stuff.
00:15:22.940So it just tells me, okay, you are soulless.
00:15:25.300If you could feel good living in that and be surrounded by like, you know, art that's just like paint splatters and these clean lines all around you.
00:15:54.680And I think that that's one of the biggest thing is that it uproots you.
00:15:58.480You know, it's, it doesn't, it doesn't feel like home because there is no, there's basically no group of people who have come together to make that thing.
00:16:07.000It's like almost like a foreign entity has put this thing here and it's corporate and again, it's utilitarian.
00:16:13.160No one's going to want to preserve that.
00:16:19.480It has the ability to house you, but it doesn't have the ability to, to inspire you.
00:16:25.100Now, when it comes to art, I like to go to like fineart.com or art.com and go, they have like a lot of old stuff too, you know, 15, 16, 17, 1800s.
00:16:33.780And you can get those things reprinted so you can find, you know, mythological paintings and all kinds of just paintings that make you feel, feel good.
00:16:42.680Like some of the famous ones too, and you can get them reprinted on canvas and it looks amazing.
00:16:47.060So I've done that for some of my favorites and there's a bunch more that I want, but let's talk about the Renaissance because I find that it's interesting.
00:16:54.820Henrik and I have talked about this before.
00:16:56.560The Renaissance happened after the Black Plague, right?
00:16:59.820Which was like half of Europe was wiped out.
00:17:02.820So it was like this death and then this rebirth that created this inspirational and transformative time.
00:17:09.120And then it was like, bang, all this like amazing art came out.
00:17:12.420And I always think about that in terms of like now and what's happening.
00:17:16.520Like maybe we need a Black Plague to bring back another Renaissance.
00:17:26.620Like the Renaissance period and like all the death before that?
00:17:30.200I actually do agree with this, but also at the same time, I have a little bit of an opposition to that time period.
00:17:40.300And I know that's kind of strange because I'm an art student and that's one of the main things that's pushed in art school is, oh, the Renaissance.
00:17:51.040Well, yes, it was a revitalization and, you know, Europe was going through a tough time, but what preceded it was the Gothic era.
00:17:59.600And I think there's a lot of really interesting, important things that are going on there.
00:18:02.760If I actually just read a book by Julius Savula about the Holy Grail, and he talks about how it's around the time that the Knights Templar fail and they were burned up the stake by, you know, the by the Pope, which is weird because, you know, a lot of pagans were also burned to the stake as we know.
00:18:24.600Yeah, there he he says that this is kind of like a signal to the end of the of the West.
00:18:30.400And so the Renaissance is something that comes after and is, yes, a revitalization, but a revitalization of what of of Hellenism, of of what the Greeks were doing.
00:18:42.220And that's a complicated story. But but basically what I'm alluding to here is that that culture is very secular and what that ends up leading to.
00:18:51.960And it's kind of almost the foundation for is kind of the mess that we're in.
00:18:56.820So it's kind of strange because it happened slowly over time.
00:18:59.640So I guess what I'm trying to say is that, you know, the the Medicis were one of the biggest patrons of the arts during that time.
00:19:07.240And they were very connected to bankers.
00:19:11.140And and it's kind of the setting the stones for the breaking down of civilization and the scientific revolution and then the Enlightenment.
00:19:22.100So it's it is great, but it's also there's pros and cons there.
00:19:46.700It's a slow decline. It's a very slow decline of the West.
00:19:50.440There are many different factors, but obviously during that time, people still understood with what beauty was there.
00:19:56.400We weren't as as far along, you know, as we are today.
00:20:01.800So obviously they still were able to maintain that.
00:20:04.480But it's just that there was, you know, sort of liberal, you know, liberalism was kind of starting to develop during that time for complicated reasons.
00:20:15.720Yeah. But but we there's no doubt that Rome produced and the Greeks produced some of the most beautiful sculpture that that we have in the world.
00:20:25.460So that is always a good thing that comes out of Hellenism.
00:20:29.900I know we'll get into Rome and also how it's not gay.
00:20:32.920But what what does it mean to be part of the West?
00:21:08.080So, you know, obviously, it's a it's a piece of terminology that that, you know, historians use to kind of, you know, indicate that like civilization really kicked off during this time period, which was, you know, the Roman era.
00:21:23.560And and really all that the West means, you know, from your standard definition is that you were from Rome or culture that came out of Rome.
00:21:34.440And so as far as the barbarians are concerned, it gets a little complicated.
00:21:40.080But, you know, basically, all that it meant was that a barbarian was not a person of Rome.
00:21:48.840And of course, over time, that developed a negative connotation.
00:21:53.060You don't bathe. You're basically like a redneck.
00:21:55.520You have no manners. And it's the complete opposite, by the way.
00:21:58.820Well, no, it really is, because the you know, there's there's this misconception about the barbarians that brought down Western civilization.
00:22:06.540Right. Those people were actually very noble, very upstanding, like Alric, the barbarian.
00:22:12.640The Romans at that point in time had degraded severely.
00:22:17.820And the people in Rome didn't like being in Rome and they didn't like their leaders and actually welcomed the barbarians.
00:22:23.820So, you know, it's I guess what I'm what I'm trying to allude to here is that the people that were up in the northern region that weren't a part of Rome,
00:22:34.980they would work for Rome and were even genetically similar to a lot of the people that were, you know, tribes that were living in Rome.
00:22:43.860It's just a collection of very many different people that, you know, are all generally speaking in what we know as Europe today.
00:22:53.820So it's just it's just that this word, it has a particular use in ancient times that's kind of gotten this bad rap.
00:23:03.200Yeah. And it's yeah, I think you understand what I'm saying.
00:23:06.420Yes. And then and then nowadays you have like these anti-whites and even have it on the like conservative side of like, well, you know,
00:23:14.920it was many different races that built Western civilization.
00:23:24.100And if we're going to go just Rome, like Rome was white people as much as they're trying to interject that there was all these blacks and all these people,
00:23:31.940that it was multiculturalism and all this.
00:23:47.320Actually, it was a Christian for a shorter period before it fell.
00:23:50.000But it was really multiculturalism at the end of the day that made it fall.
00:23:54.180But what can you say about Rome not falling in a day and a little bit about Rome's history?
00:23:58.960Um, yeah, so I Rome, obviously, the decline of civilization happens slowly over time.
00:24:08.980And of course, yes, you know, incorporating other groups of people into your civilization who don't have anything to do with it can bring about the end of your civilization.
00:24:19.760You know, from my understanding, in Rome, people weren't, they were starting to speak their own languages that, you know, Rome wasn't being as strict as they should have been in, you know, making the Germanic people, you know, speak Rome and, you know, take on their customs.
00:24:42.140And obviously, that just makes sense that if you have this great civilization, like Rome was, that, that if you want to keep it consistently going, you have to stick to the root of what made that thing successful.
00:24:57.060And it was a particular tribe that, that, you know, kicked off that civilization.
00:25:03.260And then over time, that ended up, you know, everybody sort of lost the, the culture, the spirit of what it was to be Roman.
00:25:11.000So yeah, you know, you know, it's definitely not the same as what we're dealing with today, because obviously, Germanic tribes and people in the Mediterranean have a lot of connection to one another.
00:25:23.780The history is, is very intertwined, because, you know, of the Vikings and stuff like that, and the Phoenicians.
00:25:28.900So, so, so, you know, to suggest that it's the same type of situation as what we're dealing with today, it is in the sense that, you know, any country, you know, throughout history, not just the Romans, that decided to take in foreigners, people who were invested in the culture or, you know, in the history.
00:25:49.080You know, of course, that's going to eventually lead to the decline of that civilization.
00:25:54.660But to suggest that, you know, Africans have, you know, that, that it was multicultural in, in the way that we're multicultural now.
00:26:04.140No, we all as Europe, European people all have sort of a root connection to one another, be it Roman or, you know, Germanic.
00:26:13.080Romanic, it's, it's all kind of connected.
00:26:18.200It's, it's like America, when they say, oh, it was a melting pot.
00:26:20.900Well, it was a melting pot of European peoples, and we already have some shared core values that we don't have to explain to one another as European peoples.
00:26:30.360Just as, you know, Asian people have their things, Africans have their things, you know, Middle Eastern people have their things.
00:26:37.040Like, some of these, it's not really multiculturalism, in the sense of today's multiracial multiculturalism.
00:26:45.700And even then, when you have a bunch of white people, even with the different ethnicities, even then, it's, it's issues, you know, it's problems, and it's hard.
00:26:53.160But at least it's our own problems, right?
00:27:36.680It was just like, they just immediately jump on, oh, they had black skin, so they must be African.
00:27:41.000You know, it's this total reconstruction, completely guessing all these things, just as another excuse to justify how we're not really native anywhere.
00:27:50.940And therefore, anyone could come live there and have claim to it now.
00:29:41.520But to suggest that they had an embrace of the feminine to the point that they were homosexuals, it doesn't even make sense with what they believed in their customs.
00:29:51.980They were very opposed to homosexuality for the reason that if you were acting like a woman, they considered you to be, like, the lowest of the low.
00:31:52.320And they're basically considered to be the first Europeans, the Minoan civilization that was on Crete.
00:32:01.880And one of their figures in mythology is the bull, is the Minotaur.
00:32:09.480And this kind of, you know, this story of Europa is that she's a Phoenician princess who gets swept away by a bull.
00:32:20.420And that symbolism of the bull is really fascinating because in, you know, we know Arianism is something that, you know, a lot of people are contending with.
00:33:19.640And so with it is the symbol of the bull and of this mythology and kind of explaining what sort of happened.
00:33:28.040But yes, it's really key because, like I said, the first group of people that we denote, that historians denote as being Europeans, are the people from Crete, the Minoan civilization.
00:33:51.740And they somehow connect it to the European Union, which the European Union has nothing to do with, like, caring about the future of Europe and protecting European interests and celebrating European culture, does it?
00:34:04.340Yes, it's a very good symbol because wherever we go throughout ancient history, we look at how we were kind of influencing different areas throughout time.
00:34:16.080We always, you know, were, we were raising bulls.
00:34:24.020And as far as it being related to the feminine, yeah, there's complicated things there and paganism and whatnot.
00:34:30.060But yeah, I don't know if you want to talk about the Phoenicians, but yeah, the Phoenicians are also an interesting group of people that have the connection to, to Crete and are part of, you know, our story.
00:34:48.740Yeah, because this whole situation, right, regarding Israel and Palestine, it's revealed a lot for the West, as you mentioned in your video, where we just kind of got over talking about what the West is.
00:35:01.260But Israel is not a European country today.
00:35:04.960I see people calling it a white country.
00:35:07.220How do you respond when they're calling Israel a Western or European or white country?
00:35:12.880Well, I think it's, it's definitely incorrect, and for complicated reasons.
00:35:21.540Now, obviously, in the very, very, very distant past, you could make a claim that we have a connection to the people who are now living in Israel that are known as Jews.
00:35:32.340Well, there's this conflation between Christianity and Judaism, that they're sort of the same thing.
00:35:40.500And it's because of this ancient root that they have.
00:35:44.200So, you know, the Tanakh and other, you know, works that these people were, you know, that they all had a connection to, eventually became, you know, the Babylonian Talmud and the Bible.
00:35:59.200But those things are, they've kind of gone their separate ways.
00:36:02.620One group of people who lived in the Northern Kingdom, which was called Israel, they ended up getting taken over by the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
00:36:17.280And so they ended up getting taken into Europe, into Turkey, and then into Romania.
00:37:14.240And then, you know, once the southern area, you know, Judea, ended up getting taken over by the Babylonians, they ended up kind of becoming more Middle Eastern, I would say.
00:37:28.100And that's why the Talmud is called the Babylonian Talmud.
00:37:31.800And that's something that someone like Jesus, being, you know, Hellenized, living in the Levant, and then you have these people from the Babylonian exile who are still part of the tribe of Judah.
00:37:43.500But they're not, you know, they're obviously influenced by Babylon now.
00:40:04.780And this group of people conveniently will shift when it, you know, suits their interest to be Westerners or to be something entirely different.
00:40:14.700So I think we should trust them when they say that they are something separate from us.
00:40:20.500Because they're constantly telling us that until it's convenient to unify with us.
00:40:57.740I mean, he's not calling for this kind of progress, open borders in Israel to bring them more diversity, multiculturalism, cultural enrichment,
00:41:05.720and all those lies, and calling it progress.
00:41:08.000He sits there and he's just so pompous and so arrogant.
00:41:11.060It's just so annoying seeing this guy.
00:41:13.320So obviously, he's seeing like us versus them here.
00:42:55.140But almost what we've had has been more subversive and happening through the decades in a sneaky, nefarious way.
00:43:03.540It's almost easier if it's like in your face and someone's like pointing a gun at you and saying,
00:43:07.560yeah, I hate you, I want to kill you versus some of the subversive ways we've seen where, you know,
00:43:14.100these scholars are trying to convince white people why they should be replaced and why they shouldn't hate themselves
00:43:20.560and why they should open the doors to letting everyone live in their country.
00:43:24.880Yeah, yeah, I definitely think, and that's well said, that there are groups of people that, you know, this tribe that, you know, Bill hails from that have used, you know,
00:43:40.140not, you know, physical force and weaponry because, you know, the West was so, you know, stable in that regard.
00:43:48.540And they've definitely used art and media and a sort of persuasion to convince people and undermine, you know, their ancestral roots
00:44:02.180and convince them, you know, that, that they should be nihilist and that there's no point in, you know, of existing.
00:44:08.760And so, yeah, it's definitely happened in a very slow kind of boil the frog sort of manner.
00:44:16.460It's not in your face because I don't think that they could really deal with us in that way.
00:45:41.860I think people are really starting to realize what you just alluded to there, that it's the spirit of a group of people that, you know, all of these different ways of communicating through visual format or through, you know, a mythos that we're all connected to each other.
00:46:12.780And so that spirit, if it's tampered with or isn't kept up, you know, like look at the Egyptians.
00:46:21.320They're a really good example of a group of people that had a very specific culture and they did that for thousands of years and were very successful because they remembered who they were.
00:46:32.360They had a lot of culture to constantly reaffirm who it is that they were.
00:46:38.560And so that's why something like, you know, ancient Greek sculpture ends up revitalizing and we remember who we are.
00:46:46.780It's because these different forms of communication and art are the thing that make up our culture, remind us of what our spirit is.
00:46:58.140So, yeah, that's it's important because once you lose that and once that's degraded, then a collective dies.
00:47:06.880Because what's really binding us together, it's our shared experience.
00:47:11.860It's our shared taste in things of how we like to live.
00:47:15.980So if we break those things down and we don't continue to, you know, make the same art or we don't continue to to have the same customs, the West doesn't exist because the West isn't just, you know, a physical place.
00:47:33.280It's obviously a certain group of people with a certain collective spirit.
00:47:37.480And so that's really why I would say culture is and why it's important.
00:47:41.040Yeah, well, we're seeing the erasure, the destruction of our culture.
00:47:46.680We're seeing them trying to rewrite our stories in the forms of visual visually, right, with movies, because that's what people remember when they think of history, right?
00:47:56.120It's like, oh, I saw that movie and then it registers.
00:48:21.280And, you know, as you alluded to earlier about the Renaissance, though, I have my criticisms of the Renaissance.
00:48:27.020We go through a cycle where we kind of have a decline and then we revitalize the best elements of our culture and get back on track.
00:48:41.840And so I know that we can do it because we've done it in the past.
00:48:47.360And it really just takes being confident in our ancestors, because one of the things that's been done is that it's been, you know, the past has been deemed, you know, erroneous.
00:49:02.700That there's sort of been a secularization of mythology and legend of understanding the past.
00:49:10.260And so I think it really will just take embracing what our traditions are and what our ancestors told us about who we are.
00:49:20.680And, of course, you know, not letting someone else write our stories for us, because that's what's happened with Hollywood, is that there was a shift from one group of people to another to tell our stories.
00:49:34.820And, of course, you know, it's obviously been not in favor of us and it's been sort of putting doubt in people's mind that maybe the past wasn't what we thought it was and that, you know, our ancestors were lying to us.
00:49:47.240So I think it really just takes not letting these people determine what we determine to be the past.
00:49:57.400We need to not be on their terms of what we define as myth or legend or actual history and we just take it back for ourselves.
00:50:11.520That's really just the problem is that, you know, we are not in control of the narrative right now.
00:50:19.100Yeah, we're letting other people who hate us write our own stories or teach our kids.
00:50:24.600I mean, think about the statue that was recently taken down of Robert E. Lee.
00:50:30.800Why was this African-American woman in possession of that sculpture?
00:50:52.340And by the way, that that park where he once stood, Robert E. Lee, is now a full of homeless people, tents and drugs and people pooping in the grass.
00:51:03.020Of course, it's very symbolic, isn't it?
00:51:23.440I think that the root of all our problems today, like what we've been talking about, is the destruction of European ethnic folk culture and history.
00:51:35.620I mean, really, that's the root because they've been, you know, we've been convinced that we're this horrible thing.
00:51:41.540And so we just don't care about, you know, preserving these things anymore, defending or honoring it.
00:51:46.780Yeah, yeah, we've been convinced that we've been lied to and that, you know, there's almost like this lie of freedom, which is really strange that we have become more free having untethered ourselves from the past, which isn't true.
00:52:05.560So under the guise of freedom and progress, that we're moving somewhere new and somewhere better, which isn't the case.
00:52:13.300We've abandoned all of these, all of this ancient wisdom, all of this tradition that, you know, let's say you're in a forest.
00:52:22.400Would you be able to navigate a forest without, you know, a compass and a map?
00:52:29.260Well, that's basically what we've done is we've decided, okay, well, the map and the compass that our ancestors gave us, that they were wrong, that it lies to us.
00:52:40.700And so it's basically treating these things that have been worked on over time, this wisdom that's been passed on to us, that it's false or evil.
00:52:51.580And, you know, that, oh, we're free now that we don't have those constraints, but that's not the case.
00:52:57.080We're actually more free by having the map and the compass, if that makes any sense.
00:53:04.000That's right. Oh, absolutely. It's just like people being dependent on technology or where AI is going.
00:53:09.700Are they really empowered and free when they're not going to know how to do anything and they've just relied on a computer to do everything for them and then that computer dies?
00:53:18.400Right. So, yeah, you're exactly right.
00:53:20.340Right. Now that they've convinced you that these important things that were gifted to you by your ancestors, a way of understanding reality and knowing, oh, well, you know, here's a moral code or something.
00:53:33.840Oh, well, that's all wrong. Well, OK, now you've just opened the door not to be free, but to be controlled by someone else.
00:53:43.180No, that's why I think like ancient philosophy, religions, mythology and knowledge, the spirituality, we can't let that fade away.
00:53:51.960And I think those in control want that to fade away because they know it is so important for us for like true liberation.
00:53:58.180Right. For true enlightenment. And if you don't have those things, you're not grounded in something real and timeless and truthful and classic and ancient.
00:54:08.580And then you are easily manipulated and controlled. And then it turns into ghetto rap culture. Right.
00:54:14.440And it's like that's all I see anymore is like ghetto rap culture.
00:54:18.120I even see like old ladies listening to this crap in their car. I'm like, do they really do they really like it?
00:54:23.720And you go to malls, you go to restaurants, you go everywhere you go.
00:54:27.900It's like ghetto rap culture is now mainstream.
00:54:31.000I remember when this was like the trashy kids listen to that.
00:55:15.200It's been around for 25 years and I'm sick and I'm tired of it.
00:55:19.040And I do think, I do think even though people are persuaded by, you know, oh, billboard top 100 is saying or what, you know, the people in power suggesting to people in the media that is good, you know, like, you know, Nicki Minaj or something like that.
00:55:33.680Despite that, I do think that people who are European or white are getting really tired of this.
00:55:40.740And, you know, obviously people, even though they're persuaded by these entities, they still understand what beauty is.
00:55:49.180People instinctually still know when they see something that they love.
00:55:52.020So something that's interesting that's happened is that at least young white kids are really interested in K-pop and that's kind of a scapegoat because it's not cool to like white culture.
00:56:07.100So if the Koreans are dressing like white boys and they have bleached blonde hair and, you know, like blue eye contacts and are dressing European and, you know, are using all of those traditional instruments, suddenly it's okay.
00:56:20.200So obviously, even though people are accepting that culture almost like as a virtue signal, that of rap, they still long for European aesthetics, but just not if the white person's doing it.
00:56:32.100Well, in those rap videos, they love the fine European cars and the clothes and the bling, you know, they love all the fine sheet that we make, you know.
00:56:42.100Yeah, I mean, American culture sucks, right?
00:56:45.960And this is what happens when you lose memory of all the cool, old, ancient stuff.
00:56:51.120This is what happens when you open the doors to, you know, foreigners.
00:56:55.840And not all these people were brought here through slavery, by the way.
00:56:58.720There was only like, what, 400,000 African slaves by a few merchants, really.
00:57:03.640So like a lot of these came later, right?
00:57:06.920And it's just like, it just doesn't go away.
00:57:09.500It's like globalists have decided, like, this is where they wanted to stop, you know?
00:57:30.580But at the same time, I think there's going to be a huge backlash.
00:57:33.160The people are sick and tired of this shit, too, you know, where they're going to want, like, beauty and aesthetics and things that sound pleasing.
00:57:40.640I have a friend that's an interior designer, and she said that she's seeing the trends, and she deals with people, like, high end also, seeing the trends of people getting tired of the modern, cold, clean lines and, like, a resurgence of a lot of the old world type of stuff.
00:57:58.400So she's seeing that, you know, it's, there's always been levels of that on the high end, but now we're seeing it, like, in the mid-end, you know, more, like, upper middle class people who are, like, wanting to go back to that.
00:58:08.560And I was like, oh, I saw that as, like, a little good glimmer of, glimmer of hope of people getting sick and tired of all this other stuff.
01:01:10.620Well, the argument for that, that, like, the Indians were the first people that came here, and they have more of a claim to the land than we do.
01:01:19.140Okay, that's not how civilization works.
01:01:42.320And then it's like, okay, if we're invaders, then what makes it okay for all of you to come live here then and enjoy the fruits of what the invaders built, you know?
01:01:51.860And then, of course, we can go back farther with, like, the Solitrean hypothesis and all of that.
01:01:56.440And most American Indians today are admixture.
01:03:43.860Yeah, so I think the, probably the best lead that I have is that German Romanticism would be the direction that we would all want to go in.
01:04:00.720Because they seem to really have everything sort of checked out.
01:04:08.200So, they would be pulling even from ancient Mesopotamia.
01:04:13.080You know, someone like Richard Wagner was very well studied in basically every piece of mythology.
01:04:20.280He would touch on the things that happened in the Near East.
01:04:23.000He would touch on, you know, elements in Hellenism.
01:04:26.680But then also would, you know, imbue the mythology with stuff about, you know, Odin or Wotan.
01:04:32.980So, there's something about Romanticism and about putting the mystery back in everything and kind of reconnecting with the divine in everything in your life that we've sort of been missing in the West for quite some time.
01:04:48.200So, I think that all of the influences that the German Romanticists that were trying to revitalize the spirit of Europe during their time, because Enlightenment had basically taken the life out of everything and they were becoming, you know, rootless.
01:05:05.820I think that that's the biggest lead and that would be the biggest inspiration for me and where I see myself going.
01:05:19.200We're not saying go back to being a 1950s housewife, right?
01:05:22.760It's not about it's about not forgetting, like, where your people come from.
01:05:28.000And I always wonder, are we capable of creating art or stories or mythology today that will be viewed as classical in the future?
01:05:37.420You know, something that incorporates new mythologies and art to remind future generations of the struggles that we went through, our generations now, so that they don't forget.
01:05:49.020You know, now we have the Internet, you know, which is vast.
01:06:01.480Yeah, we've most certainly done it before in the past.
01:06:05.380And there's always a group of people who are unique, like Richard Wagner is a good example, or Homer.
01:06:13.400And these people have just this drive to, you know, figure out and, you know, like, mythologize our past and create this story and help revitalize culture.
01:06:27.840And these people, honestly, right now are just not being encouraged to do that.
01:06:33.320But once those people have the go-ahead and we understand culturally where we're supposed to head, we have at least, you know, a semblance, understanding of who it is that we are, because that's been so eroded.
01:06:47.220I have absolutely no doubt that we're going to start making, you know, some true classics.
01:06:54.940We are, you know, we go through different phases where we're, you know, in a low and then we have to, you know, you know, get back together with other people and decide, okay, well, what are we really?
01:07:09.200And actually, I think the internet, yes, can be a bad thing, but you can see how powerful a meme can be or a tweet can be if you just, like, hit on the right energy.
01:07:18.420And the moment that we start figuring out this spirit, this zeitgeist of who it is we really are, and someone talented comes along and decides, you know what, I want to do something vitalistic and life-affirming, as opposed to something that's nihilistic and postmodern, which is where all the artists are centering their attention right now in, like, the liberal realm.
01:07:37.820Once somebody with actual real talent decides to take up that route and seriously pursues it, no question.
01:07:58.920It summarized exactly what we were going through perfectly.
01:08:02.120It's not the most beautiful art, but it's, like, it's still classic.
01:08:06.540There's one story that's very popular, and you have a new video coming out exploring Gothic culture, which I also am interested in, and it's the legend of King Arthur, right, and the Grail.
01:08:26.880Yeah, it doesn't, and it's remarkable that it doesn't.
01:08:30.720And obviously, during its time, it was very powerful.
01:08:35.220And I think the reason why it sticks around is because there's a truth to it, and that's why, you know, the Iliad and the Odyssey is something that still sticks out to us to this day.
01:08:47.760Or Lord of the Rings, which was inspired by Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle.
01:08:52.460There are certain mythos that's formed that is almost more true than history, and it's this ability to take the past and amplify all of the aspects of it that are important, because history is basically a recounting of the past that's very secularized.
01:09:14.800You kind of remove, you kind of remove, it's like very mathematical, if you will, it's very scientific.
01:09:19.480But when you properly mythologize something that happened in the past, it can echo through the ages, you know, forever.
01:09:29.360And so this particular story is one that, you know, during the medieval era, communicated something really important to people about, you know, your lineage, and was very life affirming.
01:09:45.780And in terms of, you know, enlightenment, its meaning sort of changed over time, what it meant to be enlightened.
01:09:53.700But the story of the Holy Grail kind of gives us an insight into what that used to mean.
01:09:59.780So, yeah, it's popular just because I think it's so true.
01:10:04.580There's obviously something true about it.
01:10:07.840Yeah, and it's always the quest for eternal life, right?
01:10:25.600We want to evolve into something greater, and I want that personally, and I want that for our, you know, ethnic racial family as well, right?
01:10:34.660I think that there's a spirit, also a spiritual reason why we're here, and why we exist, and it's not just to, you know, go view poop on a plate in some gallery.
01:10:45.660Yes, yes, and so I actually think that exactly, you know, the narratives and the mythos that we have today takes us away from that.
01:10:54.840And it's interesting that people during, you know, they were intrigued by this mythology of the Holy Grail and the Knights of the Round Table, and it was very life-affirming.
01:11:05.100And so I really do think that we can gain some insights from that mythology, and maybe it's something that needs to be re-mythologized and, you know, told to our children so that they can, you know, understand why that quest is important.
01:11:19.060Because now that we've abandoned that, I mean, you know, we're, you know, letting all of these people from the third world in, and it seems that those people understood that family was important, and that lineages in your bloodlines were a very, very, very important thing.
01:12:23.940They're doing that because they know that it's the children that are the most persuadable.
01:12:29.720So if we're going to, you know, revitalize our culture and we're going to, you know, rekindle the spirit of Western civilization, it's going to be reclaiming all of our institutions or making our own, understanding that culture is important, not looking at art as entertainment.
01:12:50.000And, and, and to be more mindful of that consumption, but then, yes, you know, using art as a means to help children understand what their past was.
01:13:03.560And, and, and to tell them these important stories.
01:13:06.220And I think it's honestly just focusing on them and imbuing them with the, the right values that will end up, you know, saving the West because, you know, they're the future.
01:13:19.980You should create a fine arts crash course for the school of the West.
01:13:26.740No, I think that would be great for like homeschoolers to have as part of their, you know, education, their, their toolkit.
01:13:33.160If you would love to, I think that would just be awesome because it's like most of us, we, you know, we don't know like all of art history and like, where do you begin and all that.
01:13:40.840But that would be something that's really needed.
01:13:46.580I'll have to put you in touch with them.
01:13:48.200Tell us about your new video podcast series.
01:13:51.060I know you're kind of examining the current state of Western civilization, exploring how modern liberalism and all these woke narratives are influencing and demoralizing and controlling our identity.
01:14:02.740Tell us about what you've got going on and how people can find you.
01:14:06.440Well, yes, I have a YouTube channel and it's, it's kind of a silly art project.
01:14:13.060It's kind of a silly, it's kind of a silly art project, but at the same time it is informative and I like to do things in, you know, an unconventional manner because, you know, censorship, you know, when I started the channel was really kicked up a notch.
01:14:26.780And so I like to address things in a more subtle manner.
01:14:34.520Yeah, I don't know anything about that.
01:14:36.620The channel is just generally speaking a kind of more subtle way to, to talk about these really complicated questions and really just address, you know, who it is that we are.
01:14:48.460Why are we having these problems in relation to culture?
01:14:52.920Because politics is important, it is, but I think it's politics that's downstream of culture and I've known this for quite some time.
01:15:00.760And so if you're able to change the culture and understand it and talk about it properly, then, you know, people will vote correctly.
01:15:10.760So that's kind of the aim is to, is to touch on identity and that's what my channel kind of does, it has to do.
01:15:38.480You have to find like roundabout ways, interesting ways to convey these topics.
01:15:43.980Like, you know, because there's a white people are interesting, you know, all kinds of different ways that they need to be reached, you know, all kinds of different personalities and weird little hangups.
01:15:59.500But it's also valuable to have a different approach for people that, you know, kind of need to have the seed planted, if you will, and kind of think that they're the ones who came up with the idea.
01:16:28.680Because when you're, when you're speaking artistically, when you're communicating in that manner, you're communicating on multiple different levels.
01:16:37.540You know, you know, where like logic and reason may, you know, fail most people.
01:16:43.760You know, it's, it's these other things that really are true.
01:16:46.740Once they feel them, now it's going to register with them and they're going to understand a lot better.
01:16:54.180I think of how the English language, how people used to convey these ideas with this rich vocabulary and these, like, the ways that they would, you know, share their experiences.
01:17:07.540And things that they were going through or, like, ways that they would insult people that just sounded beautiful.