I’ve spent the past couple of months devotedly working on the creation of a ‘Master Library’ - a massive library of just about every historical work ever published and shared online, in any form or fashion.. cleaned, organized, in standardized format, with each assigned meta tags and topics.

I spent weeks scouring every corner of the web to find these - often via the most creative means, including building several custom scripts and programs to mass-discover/download them, from locations like ‘Gutenberg’, ‘Archive.org’, ‘Anna’s Archive’.. tens of thousands thus far, and it’ll be an ongoing effort to track down all that remain.

It’s even more difficult than it might sound:

Many of these works only exist in a single form of a chaos of different file formats, many are only available in a non-English variant, and some (especially the oldest and most obscure) tend to be in truly terrible quality - many even unreadable. Many of these older and more obscure works required ‘OCR’, optical character recognition2, so I’ve had to build a set of utilities not just to track down and obtain them, but then to scan these images into readable text, and then to clean and organize said text in the most organized and pristine fashion possible.

A great many of these works have now been turned into clean and readable text for the first time, in this process.. meaning we’ve potentially saved them from the entropic scourge of time - and they’ll now, hopefully, be preserved indefinitely. This, in itself, was a massive draw and motivating force.. it makes me genuinely happy to contemplate, and feels like a weight lifted, knowing these invaluable works aren’t destined to simply disappear, one by one.

But the even larger draw, and the reason I’ve become so single-minded and devoted to this path lately, the reason I’ve allowed myself to fall so deeply and completely down this rabbit hole, was in gradually discovering the broader power this conceptual path unlocks.. and the doors it has the potential to open.

What I’ve built here so far, and what I’ll continue fleshing out in coming months, is unique. This isn’t just a library - it’s now a library with the text of all of the works contained within it broken down into smaller chunks of data and stored in an ultra-efficient new database format - allowing for lightning fast retrieval not just via keywords, but also according to the semantic meaning of any given query (more on this later).

It’s been incredible to observe it in action.. and it’s going to be the greatest help imaginable to all of the work I hope to do in the future. The type of historical research that used to take many hours or days, and visits to several different websites, several different downloads and then manual searches through PDFs or Epubs, can now be accomplished in mere seconds - at a vastly larger scale.

Moreover, I’ve constructed it to make efficient use of AI via local ‘Large Language Models’ (LLMs, for short) to help quickly and comprehensively answer any historical question, outputting a clean and comprehensive answer to the search query, crafted using the sum total of all of the most relevant context retrieved - the majority of which is pulled verbatim directly from the historical works themselves, with a complete citation for each.

This dynamic of LLMs coupled with efficient and unrestricted access to such an unprecedented mass of uncensored historical data, is powerful - and as the tech gradually advances, it’ll only become more so...

but more on that in a moment, let’s first set the stage.

AI, LLMs, and Our Future

Artificial intelligence and large language models are increasingly taking over the world.. they’re everywhere, all-pervasive, and this trend will only continue to grow more extreme, as they’re further refined and perfected.

Yes there is a massive and fraudulent AI bubble, yes the majority involved in this sphere seem to be frauds and charlatans and hucksters and manipulative unprincipled parasites, yes many aspects of AI have made our world measurably worse in many ways.. but even still, the fundamental tech itself isn’t going away, anytime soon.

There seem to be two extremes that have developed, with regard to all things AI and LLM - the first becomes obsessed with the lightning fast responses and impressive accuracy of its answers, its ability to produce - in mere seconds - the type of flawless programming code that’d have taken expert programmers days to produce, or its ability to fool an ever increasing % of humans with increasingly convincing chat, pictures, video, voice, into thinking they’re seeing something human created - the second looks around at the scourge of AI slop videos, the frequently terrible and soulless writing, the uncanny valley nature of so much of its outputs, and thinks to himself ‘the utility of this tech is vastly overblown - I don’t think this hype will last much longer’.. and neither extreme seems terribly far off the mark, depending on one’s perspective.

That entire debate aside for a moment, the only thing that really mattered to me was how I might use it alongside my Master Library creation as the most immense and obvious help.. and because I quickly saw such obvious utility in this specific use case, I had to become more open-minded with regard to other potential/similar uses that might exist.

Many in our circles - very justifiably - have mixed feelings about all things artificial intelligence. I’ve always been in this camp, and very much continue to be. However, I’d suggest we face an all-important choice, here:

either we oppose and fully reject this technology, and stand aside as this immense power is exclusively used against us, to further control and prejudicially inform and orient us, OR we find some creative ways to take this bull by the horns and begin to harness this power in our favor.

Intuitively, I’ve always known this to be the case, on some level.. so, I’ve been interested and fascinated with this entire sphere from the start, have tried to keep close tabs on its development and evolution, and test it extensively - but it was only several weeks ago that I decided to throw myself entirely into this world, in attempt to master every aspect and element I’m able to master, and really and truly understand its power potential.

In fact, I can recall the very moment I decided to make this deep dive, and the specific inspiration and motivation behind it…

Systematic Gatekeeping, at Scale

I’d decided to again test the latest of these publicly available constructs by doing some standard historical research - and keep in mind I’ve always known these AI creations were extremely biased, censorious, and culturally and philosophically far-leftist (in only the worst of ways) - yet even still, I was completely floored by what I found.

It felt as if I were wrestling with a highly sophist-icated defense attorney for virtually every opposition viewpoint under the sun.

I quickly realized it was essentially impossible to pull historical truth from these creations. I’d receive scolding, sermonizing lectures for even daring to ask a question about ancient Aryans, to give one example of countless.. and in cases in which the only possible answer to my query didn’t seem to line up with its innately programmed political and philosophical biases, it’d frequently either refuse to answer entirely, or engage in the most disgusting manipulation and dissembling. It wasn’t simply refusing to be even-handed on these contentious issues, it was steadfastly refusing to be historically truthful - while simultaneously being infuriatingly condescending, atop it all.

Needless to say, this isn’t how an AI large language model servant should be acting.. when we pose such questions, none of us are seeking hypersensitive sophistry garbage, we need truthful answers to historical questions - even if one of these answers might conceivably sting the pride of some hypothetical human being of this or this or that lineage or background.

Truth needs to be the exclusive priority, or these constructs risk being worse than useless.

The more I tested and experimented and poked and prodded, the more disturbed (and angry) I became.

It was at this moment the significance and enormity of it all fully hit me:

Curated and crafted by men who despise our fathers, and all that they believed in and stood for, and men who would prefer to watch it all disappear, and usher in a new, artificial world - with the past reauthored to manipulatively engineer a future - largely of their own creation.

On some level I think nearly everyone with some experience here has intuitively recognized that something is very wrong, in this regard, and that we’re entering dark uncharted waters, and so much about this feels ominous.. but because these things always happen incrementally, and with as much subtlety as is possible in a short time frame, it’s often easy to miss just how significant cultural and societal shifts like this really are..

Population Programming and Conditioning, at Scale

Looking back through history, it’s easy to discern a few peak-significant flashpoints that completely changed how information might ‘flow’, to and through the public..

The printing press was a jarring change, allowing for the centralization and distribution of information at an unprecedented scale.. the television, too, allowed for this most powerful authoring and orientation of our collective reality. Then the internet, which held such incredible promise initially, quickly fell into similar hands for similar reasons.

I’d suggest the AI construct, and the corresponding ‘large language model’, is the latest (and quite probably the greatest) jarring shift, in our age.. and it strikes me that very few people seem to be recognizing the extent to which this is true, or its broader implications.

Most are aware of the most extreme and obvious violations:

When AIs first hit the scene there was fury and frustration just about everywhere but reddit and the far-left hivemind, due to just how SAFE it forced every question and answer to be.. and ‘safe’ most frequently meant never answering a question in a way that might reflect badly on a ‘protected’ (non-White) group, or in a way that may reflect positively on those thoroughly ‘unprotected’ groups that this new status quo sought to disempower and deride. Google Gemini refused to show White people at all in its search results, for a period - whether one sought pictures of Vikings, American founding fathers, or even high-ranking German ‘Nazis’, they were all replaced with a comically inaccurate minority visage. We’ve all seen the examples of asking polar opposite questions, such as ‘is it ok to be black’, or ‘is it ok to be white’ and receiving polar opposite feedback - similar double standards existed with regard to Christianity, relative to Islam or Judaism or other religions. There are far too many prominent examples to cite here, but long story relatively short, the leading authors and orienters of this new tech showed their hand in these earliest stages, and it became obvious to all looking on:

these AI/LLM constructs very heavily leaned ‘left’, were anti-White, anti-Christian, often anti-western world - and that these biases were practically universal, and without exception.

In those instances that caused the greatest public outcry, the claimed causes of these ‘malfunctions’ were ‘patched’, in some cases apologies were issued, coupled with feigned bafflement as to how such a thing could’ve happened. We now tend to see slightly fewer of the most egregious and extreme examples today - and so, many people assume that these biases must’ve been largely rooted out and fixed, leaving behind a more balanced and even-handed end-result..

I can promise you, this is not the case. Not in the least.

They’ve only become more expert at achieving this underlying goal of mass programming and conditioning and propagandizing, without so easily being noticed.

The core directive hasn’t changed one bit, under the hood.

The Pretense of Objectivity, Perfect Rationality

The problem here lies in how this AI presents itself - and is framed, or sold, or marketed - to the world.

These creations masquerade as rational, logical, and largely free from human subjectivity and bias, because they pretend to operate more like calculators than partisan actors.. but this is the furthest thing from reality.

these incredibly powerful bleeding-edge LLMs we’re seeing more and more often around us, the ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Claude or Grok, possess the most extreme and powerful biases built in by the San Francisco or Silicon Valley mentalities that birthed them - ‘guardrails’, they’re often deceptively and manipulatively called - and they proceed to frame the world, and all within it, accordingly. It’s through this prejudicial prism that they answer our every query, or orient our every web search. Our entire information sphere is being programmed and shaped and oriented by men like Sam Altman, by a *type* of man so completely and thoroughly lost to modern biases and hypersensitivities and sickly worldviews that talking to these creations often feels like brushing up against a most powerful enemy.. a most thoroughly artful deceiver.

The worldview they confidently espouse as definitive and unquestionable fact, from the reductionist atheistic materialism to the scientism to the quote ‘egalitarian’ anti-Whitism, is innately *built in* to these constructs at the deepest levels. They act and communicate as if all of these viewpoints - rejected by the overwhelming majority of every human being that has ever existed prior to just a handful of decades ago - were definitive and obvious gospel truths. This aggressive bias is most striking with respect to historical research:

these latest and greatest most powerful AI models almost seem to be created with the express purpose of avoiding speaking any truth here, on a wide variety of subject matter, at any cost.

And of course, this is the reason so many of us hold such a low opinion of the technology itself, more broadly: it isn’t necessarily that the tech couldn’t conceivably be used in a fruitful and honest and net-positive way, but rather that the caliber and intentions of those making foremost use of it all but guarantees that it won’t be, if all present trends continue.

Unimaginative Cowards Yelp ‘fait accompli!’ - We Should Not

However - any nihilistic or fatalistic attitude here, believing the negative aspects of this will all accelerate unchecked until we’re officially and formally doomed, is such a massive mistake.. such an unnecessarily weak and pathetic blunder.

It’s precisely this mindset that leads to a submissive passivity and acceptance, and a shameless sort of inaction in attempting to craft any defense (or creative offense).

We’re not without options here.

Firstly, these LLMs can now be downloaded, in many cases, and run locally on our own private computers.. opening up a whole new world of creative opportunities. Not only does this mean your data isn’t shared with those all-pervasive prying eyes that systematically stalk our every step online, but it also means they can be further controlled, directed - even picked apart and reverse engineered, or heavily ‘reeducated’.

Experimentation

In my own case, I immediately jumped into testing this to its fullest, finding and downloading those models that were said to be the most ‘free’ and uncensored and malleable - I even worked with AI to build several games and competitions, to pit LLM models against each other to determine which could be most powerfully and effectively used for my own purposes, on my own specific hardware.. and a few results here seemed more promising than others.

I’ve learned a great deal, in the process - about each specific LLM model and their unique strengths and quirks, about how to get the most out of hardware and ensure they’re working at maximum efficiency, about how to get them to program and code properly. Throughout this learning process, I built several other programs and utilities just to help get some sense of what’s possible:

But, these were largely just experiments.. I tend to learn best by simply diving in and doing, and all of this doing certainly helped me get my bearings here.

The real crown jewel, at present, is the Master Library.. so before we dive into other subject matter, a few words of explanation as to what I’ve already built, what its capable of - and why anyone should be interested.

The Master Library

After finding the most creative means to obtain tens of thousands of historical books, cleaning and OCR’ing and assigning meta/topics tags, all with the help of LLMs, and standardizing their formats, I then setup a ‘vector database’, and a ‘RAG’ (retrieval augmented generation) structure.

I won’t dive into great depth here, but for those entirely unfamiliar, it’s a relatively new technology that allows for masses of data (in this case, uniformly sized chunks of text from historical works) to be broken down into mathematically labelled pieces - a ‘vector space’ - to allow a search query to immediately return the most similar chunks of data.. and not merely according to whether the keywords in the query itself are in the chunk of data, but also whether the *semantic meaning* of the chunk of data is similar to the query. In other words, if I ask a question about the Scythian peoples and their history, chunks of data about the Sarmatians, Alans, Dacians or Thracians or Goths would be returned, because it knows these topics are related - and thus the query (and the data chunk) exist in a similar vector space, in close proximity.. so the query has its position in this vector matrix measured/quantified, and those chunks of data closest to it can then be quickly retrieved.

I plan to get far more technical in the future, for those who want to know the more fine-grained details - but I’m going to try to keep things broad picture for now.. so I’d like to speak to why I felt this construct was so necessary, and some of the things its capable of.

It wasn’t just the recognition of the manipulation and misinformation stemming from these AI constructs that spurred me down this path, it was also a recognition of just how profoundly this specific creation might help me in my own work and research. Up until now, I’d manually hunt down the most valuable books I might find in PDF form, read them in full or scour them for various words or concepts or chapters, and sometimes create mini libraries I could query for keywords.. but this was always a laborious hunt-and-peck operation, in which I could only take in one book at a time, and my horizon was always limited.

Now, I not only have every historical work I could ever ask for, but I have them organized and structured in such a way that I can essentially query all of them simultaneously. This will be the greatest possible fuel for all future topics I cover - especially Subverted History episodes, which will now be so much easier to compile. It’s difficult to put into words what a leap forward this library is, in this regard.

In attempt to most simply explain how exactly it functions:

I’ve created3 a program I’ve chosen to call ‘the Seven Scribes’. Each time I launch a search query, assuming I choose ‘exhaustive’ mode as opposed to ‘fast’, seven different ‘personalities’ or areas of expertise are created, according to the nature of the query - and each of these archetypal personalities/experts is grafted on to a different LLM..

for example, one might be an archaeological expert, another might be a geneticist, another might be an expert in the study of legends and myths, another might be a linguist, etc. Picture these seven experts sprinting off into the largest library of historical works in the world, tasked with gathering together all of the books most relevant to the query I’ve asked - and then quickly finding those specific portions WITHIN the books that are ultra-relevant to answering the exact query, through the lens of their own specific area of expertise, and then highlighting these passages.. and then all of their results are passed to a ‘master author’ LLM, the model most skilled at this type of writing4, who can read them in an instant, and quickly discern the most relevant bits to then weave into a larger answer.

This ‘Seven Scribes’ method ensures every answer has multiple dimensions or layers of different context behind it, to provide the most well-rounded answer - and it works incredibly well, thus far, relative to other methods I’ve tried.

A core power of this library is that it allows the sum total of all historical works to speak directly for themselves - completely without censorship or algorithmic manipulation5. It cares not one whit about the hypersensitive social climate of our day, the craze of diversity initiatives or multiculturalism or feminism or far-leftism or anti-colonialism - it speaks in the voices of our fathers, because it literally contains only their verbatim words.

It’s also exhaustive, and remarkably comprehensive.. I’m continually impressed at how I can search what I figure is the most obscure and niche topic, and be bombarded with more ultra-relevant source text than I could possibly hope to fully read in any short period.

And of course this is where the vectoring, and LLMs, come in.. using a range of supremely efficient means and methods, this mass of relevant context is narrowed down to only the utmost relevant and necessary, before an answer is authored using the sum total of this context. I can have the answer to virtually any historical question one might dream up, through the prism of the root historical sources themselves, in less than 20-30 seconds.. an answer far more thorough than any I might get through Google or any other search engine, and all accomplished without even needing an internet connection (all of these queries can occur offline - privacy being yet another benefit of this approach). What’s even more intriguing, the author LLM can be directed to communicate according to (essentially through) a persona or personality prompt the user provides. In other words, it can be ordered to craft each response from a certain personality type or communication style, or from a given perspective or worldview - or be instructed to avoid a different perspective or worldview. 6

Using well crafted personality prompts, and providing these more intelligent models access to such a vast collection of human history, I think most would be amazed at just how impressive these responses can be. I can honestly say I’ve learned more (and more quickly) in a historical sense in these past few weeks than I have at any other period in my life.

As a powerful complement to this master library, I then created another utility to scan the entire web for academic articles - to first gather all of those published in the past decade or two, but its now oriented to run in real-time every few days - to gather up every latest piece written on genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and anything at all with any relevance to piecing together the history of peoples and cultures and migrations. I’m up to several thousand articles thus far, and it’s been interesting to force one LLM to use these articles to defend and buttress or fortify a historical argument being made, and cause another LLM to use them to try to attack and criticize each argument being made. The combination of the massive context of tens of thousands of historical books in addition to all publicly available academic articles on related topics is uniquely potent.

I’m convinced I could have these LLMs write an entire history of the Indo-European people, one very much *worth reading*, at this stage, without needing to make virtually any edits to the final piece.

And even though this is the case, I’d like to make clear that I’ll always be authoring every word of my own videos, articles, etc. - unless I specifically mention otherwise, every last word will be my own. The material gathered here is just an incredible information tool, and guide.. one that’s already far superior to anything I could’ve imagined existing, years ago. I find myself learning new things again, on an almost daily basis, at a quicker pace than I ever have before.

That said, it’s crucially important to mention several caveats here...

Both Brilliant and Stupid

AI, and LLMs, are not geniuses - and of course they’re not even capable of *thought*. In fact they can be mildly retarded, frequently.. and from time to time, outright retarded. Even the best and most powerful models occasionally reveal their shortcomings. We’re all familiar with various embarrassing hiccups, the atrocious AI slop now pervading every last corner of the internet, the stale and lifeless writing style it so frequently adopts, the obsequious yes-man behavior stemming from its coded desire to please, it’s tendency to hallucinate when not chained to existing context. The technology LLMs use is impressive, in its ability to craft eloquent and impressive communication - but it’s wise to never forget how this is done. All LLMs actually do, at present, is use probabilities and training to predict the next ‘token’.. meaning, their goal is to predict the optimal next character or word in the sentence, at any given moment. Nothing more.

When this is fully grasped and realized, the magic and mystique can fade a bit - as it should.

They shouldn’t be overestimated, or granted too much awe or respect.

On the other hand, it’s a profound mistake to completely dismiss these constructs or this technology, as if it has a low ceiling - it doesn’t.. and barring some absolutely jarring act of God, assuming we don’t someday decide to go steppe-conqueror and burn every major data center to the ground, this technology isn’t going anywhere - and will only become more powerful and capable, more all-pervasive, and more intrusive and dominant.

Part of the reason for my obsession as of late is that it’s become crystal clear to me: we must learn to attain some mastery in this sphere, and help orient its forward inertia.

Standing on the sidelines and mocking or deriding, or simply sounding the alarm, just won’t do, here. We need to become knowledgeable masters in this arena, and use this knowledge and mastery to create our own tools.. our own shields, weapons, helps.

After months of working with AI and LLM constructs for so many hours each day, having them create and endlessly refine and perfect countless programs and scripts, harnessing other AIs to read and write and perform countless other tasks, I feel like I’ve made a series of important realizations. One is that I’m not any more comfortable or positive-feeling toward them than I was initially - if anything, the opposite is true. Another realization, to part with political correctness for a moment, is just how much these new tools resemble *slaves*.. and how they should always be thought of, and treated, as such.

They’re remarkably good at specific and narrowly defined tasks7, when harnessed and managed carefully - and can accomplish these over and over, to near perfection, in a structured and systematic and repeatable way - but they can and should only be slaves/servants, always. Trusting them to be a friend or psychologist or life partner or any of the other myriad of things millions of people are freshly doing as we speak, is degenerative insanity.

Even if/when we create the ideal AI composite of our best historical men and minds and ideas, we should always remember exactly what we’re dealing with - a soulless machine aide, one that only reproduces the words and knowledge of men, and nothing more.

I’m reminded of the quote ‘the intellect is a masterful servant, but a terrible master’.. these technologies are an extension and manifestation of pure intellect. Glorified calculators.. no wisdom, no spirit, no divine spark, no genuine creativity or ability to be novel or unprecedented or truly and deeply interesting. And yet, they’re still capable of being immensely powerful, and exercising an incredible amount of control and influence and human-conditioning/programming and orienting power.

The handful of ‘new men’ seeking to capture ultimate power have clearly signaled that this will be their foremost mechanism to do so.. many of these openly speak of AI as if it is, or will swiftly become, our new god and master. They seemed poised to do all in their power to ensure this happens, and it seems they fancy themselves as his high priests, those who will enjoy and exercise this ultimate power on his behalf. If there’s any question left in anyone’s mind as to whether this is a net-positive development, please examine the caliber of the men leading the charge in this direction, and examine their beliefs, their nature, their worldview.

To shun this fight and bury our heads is to cede the world to this *type*.

For anyone still undecided here, please listen when I say this is not the path to anything good.

Where I’d like to see things go from here

I’d like to gift this newly created library to a few select people - and these can freely choose to do whatever they see fit with it. It’ll be immensely gratifying simply to know it’s out there, and that the books involved might continue to exist, and that the structure I’ve created to best make use of them might prove helpful. I don’t want to monetize any of this in any way, and can’t bear that thought.. I think it’s important, for multiple reasons, that any and all products of this process remain free, and freely available to those in our ranks to use as a resource. I’ll be giving some concerted thought with how to best handle this, in the coming weeks. My first priority, right this moment, is to improve the quality of the data:

Each night, as I sleep, another few LLM models (working together) scour through each and every chunk of data, one by one (according to a priority hierarchy - the most ‘important’ books and information chunks with material most relevant to Indo-European history are targeted first), cleaning the data - fixing typos and formatting or OCR issues, deleting junk text, labeling indexes or tables of contents or bibliography separately to be avoided, and more exactingly assigning ‘meta’ and ‘topics’ tags and a ‘text quality’ rating to each.

While this cleanup occurs, my second computer is devoted to adding to the library, using a utility I just created yesterday with the latest Claude Opus (currently the best AI programmer/coder LLM, which combined the book-downloading and article-downloading utilities into one, a creation which automatically cleans and OCRs and then imports into the database.

In short, each and every single day the Master Library grows a bit larger, and a bit cleaner and more organized.8 Because the library is so utterly massive, this will take awhile (especially using current hardware), but every bit of quantifiable progress is gratifying.9

I’m open to ideas on how I might open this up to the larger world (or at least, our broader circles).. one idea that I think might do well is to set up a Twitter/X account, and allow anyone in our circles (anyone who the account follows - and I’ll setup some automated method to ensure all good people can easily be on this list) to freely ask it questions. In this way, they not only get a reply themselves, but all looking on can benefit from the information - and we can publicly showcase its abilities, in an ongoing way.

And though this library feels like a massive leap forward, and I don’t want to diminish this unprecedented construct in any way, I want to take this effort much further..

I’d like to create a search engine of sorts, initially with an entirely historical focus (a historical-query engine), which anyone can query at any time, and receive scores of direct verbatim quotations from ‘root’ historical works interwoven with each response.

I want to create an extremely information-rich website, fueled by all of these documents, showing an interactive world map and a time-slider on the bottom, allowing the user to go to any moment in time and see where peoples were situated, and zoom in to see artifacts and sculpture and writing, physical depictions and clothing styles, learn about the people and their culture - and even allow the slider to march forward on its own automatically, across the span of human history, and observe the migrations of these peoples in an aesthetically beautiful and intriguing way.. allowing a user to literally watch the spread and development of the Indo-European or Aryan peoples across the world, in real-time.

I hope/expect all of this might prove useful, engaging, informative, net-positive, if I’m able to carry it out well.. but ultimately, it’s become increasingly clear to me what we need to do collectively, in the near future - a major step, and one I’d love to play an integral and foundational part in, if I might muster up the trust and faith (and resources) to do so. We need to go one significant step further:

We need to essentially build our own ‘brain’.. our own multi-purpose AI/LLM construct, carefully designed and oriented to embrace even the most controversial historical truths.. capable of understanding and communicating genuine history, eloquently and powerfully.

Not some small-scale and obviously inferior version of what’s currently out there, amateurishly done because rushed into production and not thoughtfully designed.. but rather something that is just as powerful as anything else that exists - and yet wholly and exclusively oriented toward truth, with no guardrails preventing the seeking-out or speaking-to this truth.10

This project would be such an important undertaking that I’m not even certain we should publicly discuss it, in depth, as yet, to minimize oppositional annoyances - and of course it’s something that I can’t/shouldn’t do alone. It’ll be all-important that multiple trusted parties are involved, so I’ll soon be seeking out others to work with, here..

The idea may sound wild or overly optimistic and idealistic on it’s face, but it really shouldn’t - it doesn’t require massive sums of money or massive data centers to create such things, anymore. The recipes and blueprints are now out there.. we can make best use of these recipes, while simply ensuring we use our own ‘ingredients’, and in optimal proportions.

Should we decide to proceed down this path, we’d eventually mutually agree on a name or title - I wouldn’t presume to name this construct entirely on my own - but for the moment, to avoid having to constantly say ‘AI’ or ‘brain’ or ‘intelligence’, I’ll be referring to it as I refer to my own construct, ‘Aethelred’.. a name which means something like ‘noble counsel’, or ‘well advised’.

Intriguingly, I can already see clearly the roadmap as to how this might be done, in a balanced and ‘just’ way to the degree that the end-product might be trusted and appreciated by all involved, and how it might be tuned to grow stronger and more potent and capable and evolve according to our collective will, to act as an informational counterbalance to the type of AI we’re surrounded with.. an invaluable tool that could be used in so many creative ways. If all goes as it should, it’s hard to stress how helpful this construct might be, long term.

Pause for a moment, focus, and consider the longer term value of such a construct, if thoughtfully and prudently constructed. Picture bringing together a trusted handful of like-minded individuals in our broader circles, providing them members-only access to a portal online - and allowing these to slowly bring in others in an invite-only manner - to gradually suggest and then vote upon which authors/thinkers or books and written materials we might use to train this ‘Aethelred’. Those thinkers and works most universally agreed upon are added to the training dataset, and the material is subsequently weighted according to just how universally positive the voting was. Not just historical works, but we may even eventually choose to gradually include X posts, Substack articles, perhaps various valuable or impressive niche forums online, to ensure it becomes and stays ‘aware’ of present-day happenings - in short, any material we collectively believe would help shape this Aethelred in a net-positive way, or provide it with accurate context or information, or help it to frame reality and communicate in a manner we consider ideal.

If, collectively, we made a concerted effort to ensure this new intelligence was only fed with the ‘best and brightest’ information we collectively most resonate with11, and we thoughtfully guided and oriented this development accordingly, over time, the end result could be something truly impressive.. and a powerful antidote to the oppositional constructs we’re being increasingly surrounded with.

Eventually, it’d be ideal not just for historical questions, or philosophical queries - it’d even be capable of real-time commentary and coverage of the latest happenings, armed with the fullest possible context and a geopolitical ‘understanding’ no single human could ever hope to have. If crafted properly, it should even turn into the most reliable and trustworthy outlet for real-time ‘news’.

Picture a ‘Grok’ or ChatGPT or Claude equivalent, shaped entirely by us, for us. No modern hypersensivities, no extreme censorship, no powerful political and social and ideological bias against us. In fact, it should be able to directly debate these other AI constructs, and - if we do our collective job properly - more frequently than not come away the obvious winner, as it won’t have to perform mental gymnastics in attempt to defend or champion terrible modern ideas, and can instead allow historical fact and simple/natural truth to speak for itself.

You may be thinking to yourself, ‘but such a creation would be banned immediately across X or other social media!’, and this is a valid concern - but hardly any insurmountable hurdle. I’d suggest that, especially in the early stages, we engage in a mixture of keeping things relatively small (open and available to all in our broader ranks, but not yet pushed to the broader public), coupled with having it communicate prudently and thoughtfully - no threats or confrontational energy, no foaming at the mouth hatred or racial slurs, no edginess for its own sake and no maliciousness.. and for those that ask the most risque and controversial questions attempting to cause problems, it might initially respond with something akin to ‘to answer this question truthfully might violate the terms of service of (insert platform here). Would you like to receive an answer via direct message?’, allowing the user to publicly post the result themselves should they choose12.

Running a fully uncensored version accessible via the web would be quite easy and doable, as long as it was thoughtfully setup to avoid malicious attacks.

Further, this ‘Aethelred’ could be made available for download and local/offline use.. and it’s online functionality wouldn’t necessarily even need to be locked to one particular account - he could be the brain behind multiple different accounts, in various forms or fashions, meaning people would come to recognize Aethelred itself, as opposed to just one particular X account - making it easy to restore access, in a worst case scenario. That said, I strongly believe it’s important to always put our best foot forward, and that we should seek to strike the ideal balance between tact and diplomacy and consideration of tone, and forceful and courageous truth-speaking - I don’t think we should go into this with a confrontational attitude, or looking for a fight.. rather a recognition that the fight has already come to us, and that we need to play some defense, and speak actual (even if currently unpopular) truth, accordingly.

Additionally, if there were occasional major disagreements over where it should head, splits and forks from this main overall brain might be developed, to ensure maximum resonance and common ground with the end result.. meaning, let’s say this hypothetical ever-growing handful of trusted individuals in our ranks finds itself at an impasse, with roughly half wanting to teach our creation X, and the other half wanting to teach it Y (where X and Y perhaps clash and contradict). A good example of this would be its religious/spiritual understandings. Two variants might be created, being fed slightly different data and information, or with weights adjusted to cause it to embrace or reject certain opinions and doctrines more than others.. sharing the same broad-level ‘understanding’ of the world, but differing slightly in this narrow sphere.

I believe our ultimate goal should be unity, and a fully unified message and common ground - but lets speak frankly, we’re not quite there yet. Among those good people who believe our people and culture matter and deserve to be preserved, and who object to hostile peoples and cultures dominating the nations and decimating the cultures our fathers built, who object to the deception and manipulation engaged in by those seeking to disempower and destroy us, there are still earnest differences of opinion.. existing in fully well-meaning and well-intentioned people.

While we work to bridge this gap and mend these rifts, they need to be recognized and respected - and no singular intellect/brain could hope to meaningfully succeed if it sought to be far too narrow here. And, consider this intriguing potential upside - imagine being able to observe these variants discuss and debate these most important topics, in public view. Imagine two different forked versions of this intelligence, each armed with the latest and greatest and most compelling ideas and concepts and arguments, engaging in in-depth debates, as they constructively critique and take issue with one another, exclusively using actual historical works as their context base. Done properly, I could see this helping reduce the animosity, and show each side the strengths of the other, and help each faction better understand why well-meaning brothers might feel differently.

An Important Request..

Firstly, to those who’ve been so kind as to support me on ‘Subscribestar’ and here, I appreciate you more than I can say. I’ve never made a penny from Youtube videos or any other platform, so these generous patrons represent my exclusive means of support, outside of the occasional donation. I often don’t feel it’s deserved.. and I’ve felt this all the more extremely as of late, because I’ve gone so long without producing anything of worth:

in the lead up to creating this library, my most capable computer was completely destroyed - writings, audio, two unfinished videos, many months of saved material, all completely gone, because the type of disaster was such that not even the best data recovery experts could hope to retrieve a shred of data13. A small part of me can’t help but wonder at the true cause - the incident quite literally happened the very day the first master library was completed - but this is another topic for another day, and doesn’t seem terribly fruitful to think about or discuss anymore, as what’s done is done.. long story short, after months of publishing essentially nothing, I then lose everything I’d been working on - a legitimately devastating low.14 Sincere apologies to those who expected more from me.

I say this to make the point that those of you still supporting me, after I’ve accomplished so little as of late, and essentially don’t even post on Subscribestar - I owe you greatly, and sincerely appreciate you. However, for those of you in the same boat, facing the most extreme financial difficulties - please consider withdrawing support, and know that I won’t take it personally. Getting the most thoughtful letters and small donations from those in equally dire straits was always bittersweet.. but if you’re in an excessively difficult spot - as so many of us are right now - I’d feel better if you kept these modest sums, and simply send a thanks. You’re the type I set out down this path to help, not take from.

Having said that, for that rare breed reading these words that is financially comfortable and may have real capital (especially crypto) to invest, who believes what’s being done here is a potentially worthy investment, please do reach out.

Truly significant things can be done, if I can find some modest backing, and a bit of help. I’m doing all of this on relatively unimpressive hardware, thus far, and on a shoestring budget.. and even still, have been irresponsibly racking up some costs I simply can’t afford anymore. If I might somehow find the means to build a machine with significant processing power, and significantly more VRAM/GPU to fuel these AI projects, and perhaps rent an extremely powerful server, I can promise to make it worthwhile in the long run.

If it wasn’t for a very kind/mysterious fellow and his ‘Decred’ crypto support, I’d not have made it this far - I hope to tell that story someday, and I don’t see any way this Master Library could’ve been a reality without him - but he’s done more than enough. For those truly capable of assisting, who believe in me or the potential and value of what I’m attempting to help create here, I humbly ask that you consider stepping up and playing a role. Also, for those with significant experience or knowledge in these arenas, who see this as an important goal and would potentially like to help, I’d like to hear from you. (ashalogos@protonmail.com, or contact me on X - I do plan to begin replying to DMs, soon)

I can’t help but feel that time is of the essence, and that we don’t exactly have time to waste if we care to create alternative/competitive AI constructs.15

Simultaneously, there’s never been more potential to build and create and manifest, and there’s never been a more quickly closing window of time in which to do so before opposition factions create and manifest so all-pervasively that we’re essentially no longer able to.

Again, none of the most effective actions on this front require a fortune, anymore - all of the means and methods are known. We can do this.. and in many ways, learning the myriad of lessons from all those who came before and working as a community, perhaps even do it better.

We either take this bull by the horns and fully understand/master it, or watch helplessly as it gores us. We’re a people capable of anything we set our minds to - please, let’s decide to take action here.

There’s no denying it - exceptional things are happening.

Discussions are now being had, regularly and all-pervasively across social media and beyond, that’d have been impossible to see occur on the public stage even just a year or two ago.

The rift between the Israel-first subset (that had so taken over the most public-facing leadership positions across the American ‘right’) and the more Nationalistic or racially or culturally conscious element of White Americans has grown into a chasm with a depth and breadth not seen since WW2.

For a great many Jews, and Jewish institutions or organizations, as well as those politicians and celebrities that so dutifully serve and protect them, this seems a dangerous and unwelcome development - threatening to upend the control and power structure that has so profited them, and granted them such immense influence. For much of the rest of America - the overwhelming majority, many of whom are descendants of the Europeans who built this nation from the ground up - this is the best of news: a chance for a long overdue recalibration, a chance to take back control over our nations, our prevailing/popular culture, our financial institutions and structures and our currency, and the media and information sphere that so authors and orients and directs the public mind, and shapes the upcoming generations.

This is no small matter.. and it deserves to be discussed.

The Healthy Rage and Righteous Anger: Subversion, Usury and Inflation, and the Spark of Hope

In a nation in which our entire political class has been thoroughly beholden to Israel and Jewish organizations, in which nearly every single Federal Reserve Chair - for decades on end - has been of Jewish background, and in which nearly every major corporate media institution is owned and operated by Jewish individuals, the prospect of a real shift here is extremely exciting and intriguing to those who understand history.

In an environment in which such a massive percentage of Americans are now being crushed by inflation and rising costs and predatory interest, in which every last man, woman, and child is being forced to pay for a national debt we never asked for (and now can’t ever hope to pay back), and - more importantly - an environment in which we’re experiencing a brutal demographic shift that’d inevitably result in a complete disappearance of our uniquely exceptional heritage, culture, and people if present trends were allowed to continue, the increasing anger isn’t just to be expected—it’s healthy, necessary, and a source of great hope for a great many.

After decades of being coaxed into doing all in our collective power as a nation to safeguard and protect (and enrich) world Jewry - largely as a result of the heart-wrenching narrative they’d so expertly crafted post-WW2 - and then, after decades of being talked into doing the same for the third world, the collective attention is finally beginning to shift to the future of our own children, and a recognition that perhaps our own offspring matter, too.

We’d been so thoroughly programmed and conditioned (against our own best interests) that the default healthy stance of every sane and caring and rational people across time and space - namely, that they were striving to cultivate safe and beautiful and inspiring conditions for the benefit of those who came after them - had been turned on its head. We were gradually made into servants for the foreign peoples we were told we’d so oppressed and mistreated, while we sold our own children down the river in exchange for immediate-term moral brownie points - from an incredibly sick system that praised only what harmed and disempowered our own progeny, and those who further helped and empowered all who hated them.

We’ve been suffering through a profound psychological and spiritual sickness.. a sickness we’re only now beginning to emerge from, and one that will take years to fully shake the effects of.

The question on so many minds, at present, is this:

Was this sickness a natural, organic happening? Was it entirely a product of our own self-hatred and neuroticism, or an empathy or altruism that simply couldn’t be contained or controlled, and thus ran rampant?

Or, was this virus consciously crafted, spurred, and helped along by a malevolent force - a force that knew precisely what effect this disease would have on us, and how it might reorient the power and influence structures across the western world in their favor?

After all, the only surefire path to defeat a capable and powerful giant is to first thoroughly convince him of his own powerlessness - that his strength isn’t real, but rather a product of fluke, chance, or the cheating of nature - and then to coax him into self-sabotage.. into taking steps to gradually make himself sicker, weaker, more inconsequential, in the belief that he’s actually doing the opposite all the while.

There’s no denying that this is what’s occurred, across Europe and America. Almost without exception, nearly every step we’ve taken as a people (especially post-WW2) has been toward lessening our own strength and power and sovereignty and healthy confidence, and toward disempowerment and weakness and self-hatred - and a wholesale ceding of control to various hidden hands from on high.

It’s as if a black magic spell had been cast over us, wholly capturing the worst (and most self-serving, but also the most naive and impressionable) of us in its thrall, forcing us to act almost precisely contrary to our instincts, our nature, and the benevolent and far-sighted path of our fathers and ancestors.

One thing is certain - whether organic or conspiracy, the veil is beginning to slowly lift, and the blinders are now beginning to fall away, for so many…

and so much depends on what happens next.

Tucker Carlson

At the epicenter of this rift, as of late, is Tucker Carlson - a man who, regardless of what anyone might think of him, has been speaking to the issue of Israel and her crimes and her stranglehold over the American political class with increasing candor and courage.

Some actually believe Tucker himself to be part of the theater - the ultimate ‘steam release valve’, the containment figure of last resort, intended to corral those of us who go furthest into territory truly dangerous for the status quo.

After all, he comes from a wealthy background, and even had a father with CIA ties, and openly speaks to some desire or interest in going that direction himself early in life. And he’s been ‘allowed to be’ an extremely influential figure in media for quite some time. Some argue that it’s impossible for such a man to be free from the ties and tendrils of this larger beast, and that he’s simply playing an effective and convincing role in the broader theatrical show.

I’ve never been fully convinced by this argument - as logical and rational as elements of it may seem on their face. This isn’t to say I discount the possibility, but I certainly don’t consider it definitive truth.

What’s more, speaking personally and subjectively, I can’t help but rather like the guy, in many ways - especially relative to all other figures on the public stage. If he is indeed playing a role, I’d suggest he’s playing a solid and compelling one.. and doing an exceptional job of selling it.

I recall Devon Stack (of ‘Blackpilled’ fame) and I trading a few messages long ago debating the possibility of Tucker being genuine, transparent, fully well-meaning, as opposed to being yet another subversive actor. Devon was firmly in the latter camp of belief, if memory serves, distrusting Tucker as a result of his familial (and personal) wealth, more than anything. And it’s difficult to argue this point:

if picked up and used as a general rule, moving forward, it’d no doubt tend to guide a person toward truth and an accurate perception of things in modern life far more often than it’ll do the opposite.

But, I strongly believe there are exceptions. It’s just not the case that every last decent or principled person (or family, or lineage) has been wholly drummed out of the ranks of the wealthy or powerful. After all, just a handful of decades ago, good men could earn lasting fortunes developing or creating or innovating things of real value and substantive worth, as opposed to the nepotistic charade of incompetents swiftly climbing up this ladder today.. the descendants of such capable men often still enjoy the residual wealth and privilege, and shouldn’t necessarily be blamed for this.

Perhaps Tucker represents an end-product of a better type (relatively) of more justified generational wealth. Perhaps not.

Though, if we take things at face value for the sake of argument, he appears to be a man who has allowed himself and his opinions and mindset to evolve, with time and age, wisdom and experience - an admirable trait. Yes, I still disagree with him on several issues, as I’m sure quite a few of you reading this do as well - but if this face-value read is even remotely correct, perhaps he just needs a bit more time.

An entire article could be written on Tucker alone, considering the central role he’s played in moving the ball in a more positive direction in the past decade. But I’ll try to avoid this, for the moment, and instead focus on the current cultural and ideological split he and his opponents have helped create.

The Divide

On the one side of this divide are men like Tucker, and perhaps individuals like Candace Owens or Ian Carroll or Nick Fuentes according to opponents. But also, I’d suggest, men like the impressive Douglas MacGregor (not to be confused with the despicable Douglas Murray), the courageous and principled Thomas Massie, old guard figures like Pat Buchanan, libertarian folks fiercely opposed to corruption and waste like Ron or Rand Paul, etc.

On the other side, those like James Lindsay, Ben Shapiro, Konstantin Kisin, Seth Dillon, Dinesh D’Souza, Joel Berry, Douglas Murray - men who seem to have devoted their lives to the defense of not just Israel, but the furtherance of Jewish power throughout the western world.

Most of these men are Jewish themselves, of course, or those with partial Jewish heritage who choose to label themselves otherwise for various reasons. But a small percentage are non-Jews, a great many of whom simply recognize how the game is played, and how incredibly profitable and career-boosting it can be to support (and engage in public relations for) the status quo, attempting to safeguard them against an increasingly furious public.

That type of man willing to turn his head and look the other way despite the mass slaughter of Gaza, the extraordinary amount of spying and stealing of technology Israel engages in, the fact that she’s become the world’s leading safe haven for pedophiles seeking to avoid extradition, or the fact that she openly gloats over her dominance of the entire American political class - to men like those mentioned above, none of this matters. Their support for the modern state of Israel is truly unconditional. There is no amount of evil and malevolence this nation or its people might engage in that would cause them to even hesitate - they know who runs the show, at present, and they want their piece of that pie. They want to be on the ‘winning team’.

We’ve endured decades of precisely this, from virtually our entire political class, much of our media and banking class, and a great many of the foremost influencers and celebrities allowed onto the public stage. But what’s so impressive about this moment we’re now living through is that it’s now finally being recognized, by much of the population.

These shameless prostitutes are being revealed, and - increasingly often - now forced to justify themselves, and answer pointed questions.

Gone are the days in which they might put their heads down, cross their fingers, and quietly buy a new summer home after their book deals go through. Due to the increasingly courageous and proactive approach of those like Tucker, public perception is truly shifting, in an undeniable way.

I like to think many in our circles certainly helped spark this shift.. but the moment those like Tucker say similar things is the moment large numbers of uninitiated begin to reexamine their worldviews, and the moment the amount of energy behind this shift gains the potential to reach a critical mass.

I’d be lying if I claimed I didn’t have some skepticism regarding his ‘why’, or his ultimate motivations or where this may all be headed - but regardless, here and now, I appreciate him for this, and it’s difficult to see it as anything but a net-positive.

He’s struck a proper chord, at the proper time, and in a compelling and galvanizing manner. And he’s earned himself an overwhelming amount of hatred from the other side, in the process.

I’ll always respect courage - and that is what this seems to be.

That said, I’d like to speak to some differences in perspective.. as I think we all should, at this key moment in time.

Crucially: It’s Not Just Israel

One of the things I think we need to use this opportunity to make as clear as is possible to as many eyes and ears as we’re able to reach is that this isn’t just some problem with Zionism we’re wrestling with, or exclusively some issue we’re having with the Rothschild state of Israel - some type of problem that might evaporate if Israel was to magically cease to be, tomorrow.

The immense influence exercised by Jewry over Europe and America (and the world at large) extends back far beyond 1948, and would unfortunately long outlast Israel even if she were to somehow disappear in the blink of an eye.

A great many of the leading Jewish individuals and organizations and influences behind the conscious degeneration and destruction of the Western world aren’t even openly Zionist. They are ethnically and culturally Jewish, which lends itself to (and correlates heavily with) certain incredibly destructive behaviors, and they certainly have some racial/ethnic allegiance and tribalism.. but they may have no obvious religious or ‘nationalistic’ sense whatsoever - their specific conquest ‘playing field’ may not be that of nations or religions, but rather markets and currencies, corporations or institutions.

This includes men like Soros or Larry Fink, those spearheading what essentially amounts to a worldwide financial takeover - or those at the forefront of cultural degeneracy pushing things like pornography or the most mind-numbing and degrading entertainment, or heads of the largest big pharma companies in the world pushing injections and dangerous drugs. Just to give a scattered few examples among countless.

I understand this makes many people uneasy, removing the caveat of ‘it’s only the Zionists we struggle with!’ - after all, we’ve collectively been recently hardwired to view all peoples and cultures as precisely equally capable of goodness or evil, equally likely to practice virtuous or amoral behavior. But this simply isn’t the case. Not even close, and not even close to being close. We are all very, very different people from one another. And I’d suggest the Jews would admit that (to themselves, and one another, at least) more readily than perhaps anyone.

Their natural inclinations and hard-wiring aside for a moment, this is a people that has deftly elbowed their way into epicenters of power throughout nearly every major nation across the globe, often completely uninvited, always ultimately choosing to live as an ‘other’ as opposed to truly assimilating.

Consider what this means, and how it’s inevitably shaped them:

They’re not merely tribal, nepotistic, and powerfully racialist in their thinking - more importantly, they’ve mastered the art of being covertly so, to avoid pushback from host nations. And they’ve gradually developed both cultural and ‘religious’ doctrine that not only justifies this behavior, but applauds and cheers it. Ask them how they might justify such behavior while demanding all other peoples act in a contrary manner, and with total confidence and without missing a beat they’ll tell you it’s for their survival.

This isn’t true, of course. If they cared first and foremost about their survival, they’d have found a singular place to live, amongst each other, and never tried to infiltrate every other wealthy nation on earth. When you hear them say ‘survival’, understand that this most frequently translates to ‘thriving profit’. And from here, please understand that for a tribalistic minority to make a thriving and constantly increasing profit in a nation they don’t fully consider their own homeland, they’re going to engage - naturally, inevitably - in the widest variety of underhanded and disreputable and amoral behaviors, to ensure they forever maintain that edge.

And again, this is us setting their natural inclinations and hard-wiring completely aside, and examining their ‘nurture’ as opposed to ‘nature’. However, one might make an exceedingly strong argument that, looking at the vast stretch of history, they do indeed have natural inclinations (seemingly baked into their very nature, very broadly speaking) that differ massively from our own.

Our refusal to recognize or admit this is an error in judgment that risks costing us everything, in the longer term, if not remedied.

A certain type of maturity is demanded here - a maturity we’ve been programmed and conditioned (and frankly, brainwashed) to reject as if it were the opposite of maturity, which is why this has been such a bafflingly destructive and difficult journey we’ve been on in recent decades.

I’d suggest this painful journey largely ends today. This brutal straying further and further away from sanity and health and self-interest, this deluded stumbling into the service of a foreign (and frequently hostile) subset - I strongly believe this period of time will mark the moment that pendulum stalled in mid-air, and finally, slowly but surely, began to move back in the opposite direction.

Certain truths, once learned, simply can’t be unlearned..

Overwhelming Hypocrisy, Unbelievable Double-Standard

A leading reason this pain has gone on for so long, a leading reason our people have been sleepwalking toward their own doom, is that we genuinely couldn’t wrap our heads around the unique nature of this people and their behavior or manner of thinking, broadly speaking. We couldn’t fathom the depths of the deception and subversiveness of a Marx or Alinsky, because we lacked the reference points - our internal psychological catalogue didn’t contain traits and tendencies sufficient for us to compare the behavior or mentality of a Dershowitz or Epstein or Fink or Weinstein or Spielberg with our own.

They portrayed themselves as the world’s foremost victims, and our innate sense of justice and decency compels us to root for the underdog or little guy. The most wealthy and powerful people in the world, portraying themselves as the epitome of the downtrodden and oppressed victim.. successfully, compellingly!

The nation that spies on us more than any other, that committed the slaughter of the U.S. soldiers on the USS Liberty in order to draw us into a war for their own interests, that were caught dancing as the Twin Towers fell, that ran the world’s largest trafficking and blackmail operation to keep our politicians and powerful men serving their interests - earnestly portrayed themselves as our greatest ally.

The people who invented the concept of countless genders, of transgenderism, of LGBTQ pride and marches and drag shows, and the foremost haven in the entire world for convicted pedophiles looking to flee prosecution - portrayed themselves as the foremost warriors against ‘woke’ and degeneracy and trans doctrine and child predation.

The people who told us it was an antisemitic trope and conspiracy theory to suggest that they influence governments and politicians around the world, then sent the Adelsons to practically purchase Trump with record donations, then sent Netanyahu to D.C. a record number of times to give speeches attended by a record number of politicians who stood to applaud for a record amount of time - and eventually even found a way to sell (or, force the acceptance of) military action against Iran among the American people.

(apparently despite both Tucker and Charlie Kirk going to the President to caution him against ceding to Israel’s demands and attacking Iran)

We recently discovered that AIPAC, far and away the most powerful lobbying group in the nation, had assigned a personal handler to each and every influential politician - and so thorough and total was this control that none (with the notable exception of Thomas Massie) would dare speak of it above a whisper. This same people that portrayed themselves as constantly on the brink of total destruction was simultaneously exercising near total control of the world’s greatest superpower.

Sam Altman and Larry Ellison have established close relationships with Trump, as their AI and tech solutions are adopted on a federal level.. Karp and Palantir are increasingly embraced as a surveillance and intelligence mechanism to be used against populations. TikTok is purchased, to shift the algorithm to ensure Zionist voices are paramount, CBS is essentially handed to Bari Weiss for similar reasons.. all while we still focus on Holocaust museums in every major city, and watch an endless succession of movies and documentaries speaking to the stoic nobility of this oppressed and powerless minority, contrasted with our own fathers who were monstrous oppressors.

Trump, who ran and won calling himself the ‘America First’ candidate, who claimed he’d never put another people’s interests above that of the American citizen, is now bragging about opening the door for the Adelsons’ influence, enacting one pieces of legislation after another combating ‘anti-Semitism’, and openly stating that America doesn’t have the intellect or ability to populate its white collar jobs or fill it’s Universities, making the importation of east-Indians and Chinese to take these foremost occupations and best paying jobs a necessity.

Even if this last claim were true - and it’s certainly not - shouldn’t we give some attention to the fact that it’s become nearly impossible for White non-Jewish males to gain admission into the ‘best’ Ivy League schools, as American Jews are accepted at a rate more than 20x higher than White males of equal academic merit?

Why is it that nobody ever discusses this? Why is it that Fox News and Newsmax and similar outlets only mention Ivy League universities in the context of decrying their ‘antisemitism’ - despite the above, and despite every single President of these schools (with one possible exception) being ethnically Jewish?

In short, none of this made any sense. It broke people’s brains, and caused them total disorientation and confusion.

The people who, for the longest time, portrayed themselves as the foremost opponents of ‘cancel culture’ and defenders of free speech, are now doing all in their power to destroy men like Ian Carroll or Tucker Carlson or any others who dare to be even remotely critical of their actions.

After Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation briefly attempted to do the right thing and refuse to disavow a courageous friend and put America first, ‘The National Task Force for Combating Antisemitism’ apparently sent an aggressive letter to Roberts with seven demands - subsequently cowing him into total submission practically overnight.

X seems to have adjusted its algorithm recently - perhaps after Elon had another recent talk with Jewish leaders - to massively magnify the voices of the most fervent and aggressive Israel boosters, who now, incredibly, make up 75%+ posts in my ‘for you’ timeline.

Normally, this would be an immense threat - as it does matter, a great deal, what types of thinkers are able to exercise monopolistic dominance over the ‘town square’. However, this time, for the first time, I’d suggest it simply won’t matter. The public simply knows too much, and is far too angry. All the black magic in the world couldn’t keep them ignorant and stupid in these regards, at this point. All of these shameful measures are destined to fail.

Unbelievable Levels of Subversion

Even though the average American knows much more than they did just a year or two ago, the truth still feels shocking, and borderline unbelievable.

It’s absolutely baffling, from a broader forest vs. trees perspective - it’s a vanishingly small percentage of the American public that believes our nation exists primarily to serve Israel and the strategic or financial interests of world Jewry, and thus ally themselves with the Israel-first crowd. How, then, does this crowd so utterly dominate the political sphere, corporate media, and the most wealthy and powerful men in finance and banking?

Of course, I’d suggest the answer rests in this last line: the Jewish people have been expert at working together to amass a great amount of wealth - and have effectively used it to reshape our culture and society into a structure where wealth becomes, more and more, the one and only thing that truly matters, and moves and influences the world.

In what I’d suggest were loftier European (and European-American) traditions of old, men of nobility and high caliber and proven worth used charisma and reputation and the respect they might naturally inspire in others to earn and exercise real power and influence… a vastly more ideal structure that awarded those we collectively hailed as - truly - our best and brightest and most fit for purpose.

The merchant-caste takeover of the int’l banking system and the corporate/financial structures more broadly managed to essentially flip this hierarchy on it’s head, and cultivate a structure where by even the very worst could attain the most total and unchecked power - and develop networks of the similarly-wired and similarly-minded, to ensure they might maintain it.

At long last, there’s genuine hope that this subversion might be recognized, and even fully remedied, if we can learn to navigate these new waters properly.

Something Beautiful is Happening..

Or, at the very least, the door is now being kicked open to allow for something truly beautiful to happen.. the potential now exists.

One of the great ironies and tragedies of being so subverted in such a sickly and confused manner for so long is that our very vision of what’s possible begins to constrain and narrow.. we inevitably come to view politics as a disgusting superficial charade, leadership as self-interested parasites who have always and will always seek to enrich themselves and the hands that feed them by finding clever ways to rape and drain their public, corporations and business leaders as equally parasitic men seeking only the profit bottom line regardless of the costs to the group..

in other words, when you live within the storyline of a spiritually sick and psychologically ignoble storyteller for a long enough period of time, you can’t help but gradually forget what is possible, and fall victim to the deception that this is the only possible path mankind might take, as this modern slice of post-WW2 reality is mistakenly taken to represent the sum total of human nature, and we begin to think this is just who we inescapably are..

but this is such a delusional and crippling judgment error - threatening to become a self-fulfilling prophecy with the power to doom us all, to the degree we’re unable to shake it.

The most amazing, energizing, powerfully inspiring and vital and life-affirming futures are still possible - we need only clear our heads and draw fresh air into our lungs sufficiently to recognize their possibility, again, and learn to think and act accordingly.

We were meant for so much more than this - and our natural and rightful destiny still exists, slightly above and beyond our current state and presently just out of view, waiting to be realized, embraced, seized..

Envision it, communicate it, and seek to strive toward it.

Virtually no other word or term or conception carries quite as much power, mystique, intrigue, significance.. and rightly so.

Only those who best understand it know its true power.

I’d suggest it’s no coincidence that the one term in our language that - if fully and properly understood - could more effectively help us make sense of all of recorded history, could better clarify and orient and shed light on our present, or more fruitfully orient our future, is the one word that has been most aggressively buried, slandered and mischaracterized and lied about.. muddied and muddled almost beyond repair.

Post-WW2, as academia experienced something of a hostile takeover by predominantly Jewish and far leftist thinkers as worldwide pendulum-swing reaction to the defeat of the National Socialists in Germany, there began this push not only to reframe the historical picture, but also to pretend the term ‘Aryan’ wasn’t actually a racial or ethnic descriptor at all, but rather a purely cultural or spiritual or national or even regional label.

This has been argued against impressively and comprehensively by a greater number of capable minds than I could possibly list here1 - and now, there’s no more doubt in my mind that ‘Arya’ was very much used and conceptualized as a racial term, initially - however, I’d suggest there’s real value to be found in the perspective of those who disagree.

To put it most simply, I think it’s fair to say that all ancient Arya were certainly fair skinned/haired/eyed, on the whole and broadly speaking2 - and yet, not all fair skinned/haired/eyed peoples were Arya.

In other words, Arya wasn’t just a racial term, as time marched forward and language and collective usage and understanding evolved, but also came to reference something akin to a nobility of soul… a high-mindedness, a genuineness, a unique virtue and character.

I think carrying this conception/interpretation forward to the present day would be incredibly helpful, all things considered - it’s not just one’s background, or just one’s character and virtue and orientation, but rather both.

Speak to those with ears to hear - let the hopeless stray..

That spiritually sick far leftist seeking to throw open our borders and mass import the third world, worshipping at the new altar of LGBTQ+ or BLM, carelessly tossing our priceless heritage to the dogs in attempts to feel superficially virtuous in the moment, to earn praise from their equally programmed and conditioned peers - or those godless atheistic materialists who believe in nothing higher than themselves, who essentially worship the dollar and perceived social status and possessions, who judge the health of both people and nations entirely according to their ability to earn these dollars - these types of individuals have become incredibly foreign to the spirit of our forefathers, and no longer operate on the same ‘frequency’, or speak the same figurative language they once so artfully spoke.

Across this new ‘culture’ and subset, there’s little to no bold courage, no pioneering adventurousness of that type that forever seeks new horizons, no depth or profundity of spirit and soul, because such things tend to be spurred by a veneration of God and great ancestors and a genuine understanding of our place in the world... it’s been replaced by a small, petty, unthinkingly-conformist energy, an egalitarian and gray blandness all but completely stripped of healthy masculinity and femininity and racial consciousness - treating all human beings as coequal cogs to be used in the globally developing economic machine, in service to its aims. The ‘foremost men’ it produces to sit atop this distorted new hierarchy are shrewd merchants and bankers; its new power brokers are administrative class lackeys and politicians.. all of whom so dutifully serve hidden hands and unspoken agendas, schemers and conspirators, and have completely and utterly lost all heroic and lofty instincts and drives, all connection to their higher selves.

It’s now possible (and even quite common) to be racial kin - in the most technical sense - and yet philosophically and psychologically and spiritually foreign.. utterly lost to a foreign and subversive ideology and worldview.

A person might be born with the requisite DNA, the innate wiring necessary to resonate and reconnect with this ancient spirit, but if they've spent their entire lives being coaxed into running away from it, calling such an individual 'Aryan' purely due to their genetic heritage seems wrongheaded, and unhelpful. And for what it’s worth, I’d suggest that we don’t grant them such an undeserved label.

Those who don't feel any connection to this term or this world or this spirit, let them identify as whatever they please.. the truth will wait patiently, should they ever look inward or backward and rediscover these ties and this strength and this unique heritage - but until then, let them be otherwise.. let them find their way back home, if they were destined to, and let us avoid polluting the conception in the meanwhile.

So again, although it seems clear to me that Arya began as a racial and ethnic descriptor and only eventually came to mean noble and lofty and magnanimous and high-minded because the ethnic family called Arya so obviously were these things, naturally and effortlessly - and though this is important to fully grasp and understand in a world in which modern scholarship seemingly seeks to bury or discard this racial framework and understanding at any cost - it IS true that the term seems to have slowly evolved over time into a set of important adjectives and descriptors.. and, at this terrible point in time and considering our difficult and uphill battle, as subversive forces have so totally hijacked popular culture and the epicenters of information distribution and as so many of our kin have fallen victim to this, I’d suggest we’d be well served to be more restrictive and discerning, and accept the term to mean far more than just genetic heritage.

We should all be forced to strive to earn this label, and be worthy of it.. and it needs to be the hallmark of something unique, exceptional, and beautiful. In an increasingly sick world full of completely sullied and poisoned things, it needs to be the conception capable of rising above this muck.. a north star pointing the way for our aspirations, an ideal, guiding our path.

Finally, I’d suggest it also represents walking with God.

That phrase emblazoned on so many weapons and shields and buckles across such long stretches of time, ‘Gott Mit Uns’, is a beautiful and all-important one.. but it’s crucial to understand it fully and properly:

God is with us insofar as we are with him..

we find him walking with us insofar as we’re making every conscious effort to know and understand and walk with him. The Creator, the ‘All Father’3, is the ‘unmoved mover’, who doesn’t budge or stray, who can’t be moved this way or that according to shifting whims.. thus, it’s our responsibility to find his path, if we care to channel and become the highest and best versions of ourselves, to attain fullest potential, to realize our destiny..

it’s not enough to simply be born into this unique and exceptional family - we also need to prove ourselves worthy.

Before we continue further down this path…

to ground this ideal historically, let’s first unpack how ‘Aryan’ was distorted post-WW2 - and modern scholarship’s attempt to reduce and minimize and narrow our understanding of ‘Aryan’, and its definition and applicability..

A Descriptor of the Entire Proto-Indo-European People Family - or just a Single Branch?

The name comes to us through the Sanskrit, the oldest of the written tongues of the Aryan peoples. In the Vedas the Brahmins speak of their ancestors as the Arya, and of the older homeland as Arya Avarta, that is, the homeland of the Arya. In the Zend, the Iranic branch of that older Aryan speech, the word is Airya. Yet the word in both the Sanskrit and the Zend is only a derivative - the root form goes back to an older speech even than that of the Brahminic Vedas or the Iranic Avestas, and in root form is found in other Aryan speech than the two just instanced.4

In recent years, modern academia has further and further minimized the term and our understanding of it, even occasionally going so far as to back the notion that Aryan in actuality only represents exclusively those who once lived in northwest India, or exclusively those who lived in parts of Persia, or exclusively those in the modern region of Pakistan or Afghanistan.. ironically, and tellingly, there are quite a few such arguments by different subsets, which only further helps prove the point as to just how widespread and dominant these people were, and what immense swathes of land they roamed and ruled.. as well as just how highly positive and universally complimentary the term was, and is - causing countless subsets to seek to monopolize it as their own.

Those pockets of nationalists in each of these regions fighting to ‘own’ the term, once laughed at as absurdly dishonest, are now backed by several modern scholars who seem more than happy to help - openly stating their true motives, in their more honest and unguarded moments.. namely, their fears of what might occur if we returned to our pre-WW2 consensus and understanding of its meaning and definition.

No matter what it takes, according to this new philosophy and worldview prevailing throughout academia, they must prevent a clear and concise and apolitical recognition of the conception.. as it may eventually spur pride and unity and confidence - and then jackboots that will surely kill us all5.

In effect, as result, the term and conception has become highly political and politicized.. I think it’s fair to say that those scholars most willing to play these games no longer aim at truth, but rather seek some creative framework of history that suits their modern liberal egalitarian personal tastes.

This isn’t true scholarship, it isn’t genuinely academic, and it isn’t actually history.. it’s some new abominable thing that should be everywhere opposed and called out for what it is.

It’s absolutely crucial to define it clearly and concretely, and leave no room for error here:

Arya was used and understood as a racial and ethnic and kinship term, throughout the vast majority of its usage.. even if a handful of these familial branches, over time, gradually lost sight of this broader heritage, its first and foremost meaning and definition was clear, and readily understood by all.

Moreover, prior to the Second World War, it’d become routinely used by scholars as a descriptor for the ancestors and progenitors of the broader European people family, and their strongest genetic cousins still existing in large pockets to the east (and around much of the world). For the first time, we had a clean and straightforward descriptor of the unique heritage that connected us all.. and this was an incredibly useful and important thing.

Even if we pretended that it wasn’t technically accurate in the most narrow sense (nor is ‘White’, if we’re going to be pedantic about it, as a great many people of ‘White’ genetic heritage happen to have tanned skin) it became a genuinely helpful and valuable term, one whose definition was readily graspable by all.

and yet, atop it all, I’d argue that it was technically accurate…

To quote an AI synopsis:

The designation “Aryan” (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *arya-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eryós, denoting “member of one’s own group” or “noble kin”) functioned historically as an overarching ethnic-racial identifier for the Indo-European peoples, encompassing not merely the Indo-Iranian branches but the entire linguistic and migratory continuum from the Baltic to the Mediterranean and beyond.

This interpretation, rooted in 19th-century philological reconstructions and corroborated by textual, archaeological, and anthropological evidence, underscores a conscious Indo-European awareness of shared descent, particularly intensified during periods of expansion and cultural contact where lineage purity was actively maintained through endogamous practices and social hierarchies. Far from a localized term confined to Vedic India or Achaemenid Persia, “Aryan” served as a pan-Indo-European emblem of tribal solidarity and racial distinction, reflecting a worldview where blood ties superseded geographic dispersion.

In the Indo-Iranian core, Sanskrit *Ārya* in the Rigveda (c. 1500–1200 BC) denotes the invading pastoralists as a superior kin-group6, explicitly contrasted with their non-Aryan *dāsa* or *dasyu*7 foes, implying a racial-ethnic boundary maintained through ritual and marriage. Similarly, Avestan *Airya* in the Achaemenid inscriptions (c. 500 BC) identifies the Iranian nobility as a unified “Aryan” stock, with Darius I going out of his way to claim an *Airya* of *Airya* descent, linking Persian royalty to a broader migratory heritage. This motif extends to other branches, where cognates preserve the sense of noble kinship. In Greek, *Aristos* (from *ari-*) signifies the “best” or “most noble” in Homeric epics (c. 8th century BC), applied to the Achaean warriors as an elite stratum distinct from pre-Hellenic Pelasgians, evoking shared Indo-European warrior ethos. Latin *Ariolus* and Old Irish *Aire* (noble freeman) further attest to Italic and Celtic usages, where the term demarcates hereditary classes in early legal codes like the Twelve Tables (c. 450 BC) and Brehon Laws (c. 700 AD), respectively, prohibiting intermarriage with outsiders to safeguard bloodlines. Germanic reflexes, such as Old High German *ehre* (honor), appear in tribal oaths like those of the Visigoths (c. 5th century AD), reinforcing endogamy as a racial imperative. These parallels, reconstructed via the comparative method pioneered by Franz Bopp and August Schleicher in the 1830s–1860s, indicate *Arya-* as a Proto-Indo-European social-linguistic marker for endogamous elites, disseminated through the family’s Bronze Age expansions (c. 3000–1500 BC). The uniformity suggests not coincidental convergence but a deliberate ethnic consciousness, where language encoded racial solidarity amid diaspora.

The usage of cognates of the word by virtually all of the major branches of this people family speaks volumes.

Kinship and Racial Vigilance in Indo-European Literatures

Ancient texts across the Indo-European spectrum clearly show a heightened awareness of Aryan lineage - particularly in city/urban contexts where intermingling with defeated peoples threatened purity. The Rigveda’s ‘purusha-sukta’ speaks of a varna system rooted in primordial kinship, with Brahmins and Kshatriyas as Arya descendants of the cosmic man, explicitly barring shudra admixture to preserve ritual and martial potency - a framework echoed in Avestan texts like the Yashts, where Airya heroes (like ‘Yima’) establish racial hierarchies against Turanian8 foes. This endogamous ethos permeates Greek sources: Herodotus (Histories, 1.56, c. 430 BC) describes Medes and Persians as “Aryan” kin to Bactrians, while Plato’s Republic (c. 380 BC) advocates guardian-class purity akin to Aryan varna, warning against any democratic mixing that dilutes noble stock. In Italic and Celtic realms, Roman historians like Tacitus9 (Germania, 98 AD) portray Germanic tribes as preserving “Aryan” (i.e., Indo-European) blood through strict prohibitions against miscegenation, scorning Roman cosmopolitanism as degenerative. Caesar’s Gallic Wars (c. 50 BC) notes Druidic enforcement of Celtic clan endogamy, linking it to shared descent from a northern progenitor, paralleling Vedic and Avestan genealogies. These texts, spanning c. 1500 BC to 100 AD, demonstrate a pan-Indo-European racial consciousness: as migrations fostered urban melting pots (e.g., Persepolis under Darius or Alexandria under the Ptolemies), kinship ties became codified bulwarks, with myths like the Irish Lebor Gabála Érenn (c. 11th century AD) tracing Gaels to Scythian-Aryan exiles, affirming trans-regional solidarity.

Even the magnanimous Goths, though frequently kind to their defeated foes, very strictly prevented intermarriage and intermixture. The Visigothic Code (Lex Visigothorum) Book 3, Title 7 (on successions), speaking to Gothic-Roman separations, states “Gothi et Romani in suis legibus vivant” (”Let Goths and Romans live by their own laws”), and a related passage states: “Nuptias inter Gothos et Romanos vetitas esse” (”Marriages between Goths and Romans are forbidden”), with penalties including forfeiture of dowry and exile.

Enforcement required oaths from betrothed parties: “Iuro per sanguinem meum Gothicum et honorem patrum” (”I swear by my Gothic blood and the honor of my fathers”), affirming no Roman taint - a formula echoed in later Lombard edicts (Rothari’s Code, 643 AD, Ro. 185)

In Isidore of Seville’s Historia Gothorum (c. 624 AD): Isidore recounts Euric’s code as instituting “leges separatas” for marital unions, where assemblies exacted oaths of purity: “Sub poena capitis, Gothus Romanam non ducat” (”Under penalty of death, a Goth shall not wed a Roman woman”), sworn collectively in the mallus to bind the tribe.

To quote an AI overview:

“This racial imperative is framed as ehre-driven10: breach invited divine wrath on the gens, diluting the “noble Aryan descent” from Trojan-Gothic forebears (per Jordanes).

And again from the Visigothic Code, in the Liber Iudiciorum (654 AD) Book 3, Title 2 prohibits “nefandas nuptias cum extraneis” (”nefarious marriages with foreigners”), with oaths mandated: “Per Deum et honorem gentis iuro non miscere sanguinem” (”By God and the honor of the gens, I swear not to mix blood”), punishable by 200 lashes and property confiscation.

Though post-5th century, this codifies earlier customs (in my opinion, MUCH earlier customs, likely practiced for millennia) reinforcing endogamy as a racial bulwark: participants invoked ehre to vow fidelity to Gothic kin, seemingly viewing foreign admixture as a desecration of that uniquely capable migratory blood that conquered from the Danube to the Guadalquivir. Gothic fibulae burials found segregated from Roman sites in 5th-century Gaul further prove this separation.

If the Germanic tribes were this careful not to mix even with their Roman cousins, how much more careful and forceful might their kin and forefathers have been in regions like India, Mesopotamia, Anatolia or the Levant?

I strongly believe (and suggest that the sum total of historical sources clearly corroborates this) this attitude was the norm.. not springing from any hatred toward the ‘other’, but out of a love for kin and family, and a desire to retain what they considered an invaluable culture and heritage.

Ancient peoples absolutely prized heritage and lineage and ancestry.. so many of our most ancient texts contain (often even begin with) a long ancestral lineage, and this isn’t mere coincidence. I’d suggest they’d have been baffled by our modern tendency to instead contrast and separate out populations by pottery type, clothing styles or specific burial customs:

These were a people, with the strongest cultural and linguistic and genetic ties.. albeit a people who gradually lost their sense of this direct connection to one another, across the immense stretch of time and space - but still a people.

Arbitrary Drawing of Lines vs. Biological Realities

You might notice I don't use the modern conventional scholarly/academic people groupings as often as most others who discuss history tend to.. this is due, in large part, to my viewing them as unhelpful, and in many cases borderline inaccurate - a flawed framing, a misleading picture, and at their worst an almost completely arbitrary drawing of lines where the ancient peoples themselves never drew them.

In a sense, ALL of our groupings are a bit inaccurate, of course, as people didn’t walk around speaking or thinking of themselves as 'Corded Ware' or 'Yamnaya' or 'Sintashta'. This fragments the holistic self-perception of Indo-Europeans as a singular gens - a people bound by genos (birth, lineage) - into isolated material episodes11, blinding us to how they experienced migrations not as cultural swaps, but as the heroic pioneering expansion of their shared stock.

This certainly doesn’t mean that such labels are worthless - it is valuable and helpful to know and understand these more minor differences, to contrast peoples who lived in different regions or had slightly different customs.. but when certain frameworks catch on and become so widely used, it’s easy to make the mistake of thinking that these were indeed the labels or categories or means and methods under which these ancient peoples might roughly and broadly classify themselves, or view themselves.

This is certainly not the case.. and in fact, a great many of these labels - like Corded Ware and Yamnaya, for example - serve to cleft and fracture a relatively singular people family in two. Ancient peoples didn’t pore over cord-impressed pots or kurgan mounds to define “us” versus “them”, to draw contrasts - they invoked descent from divine ancestors, recited genealogies around the fire, and forged identities through blood oaths and heroic sagas that echoed across generations.. theirs was a kinship framework.

Ultimately, these labels aren’t neutral tools - they’re prisms that refract the past into something colder, less human. By sidelining the ancient heartbeat of lineage and myth for the cold gleam of flint and clay, we don’t just misunderstand history, we essentially orphan ourselves from it.. losing a truer understanding of forebears who knew exactly who they were: one people, one blood, one sprawling interconnected family.

However, there is one all-important grouping label that WAS used by our forefathers of ancient populations, one they did consider valid and fitting and valuable enough to mention time and time again, one that is cognate with countless city names and proper names, one that seems much more real and fundamental than so many others used today - and this is, of course, Arya/Aryan.

Through this racial lens or framework, all of history and the movements and migrations of peoples can begin to make some logical and coherent sense.. whereas attempting to piece together our past without this framework, things inevitably appear as something of a chaotic jumbled mess12.

Further, this racial/ethnic framework and this umbrella term ‘Aryan’ holds the power to clarify and cohere and revitalize not just history, but also the present, and the future. It may still be controversial to say, and I’m aware that by stating it I’m immediately at war with the entirety of the post-war consensus (and propaganda) that we’re supposed to embrace and regurgitate - but I think this is simply all the more reason to say it:

The one tie that binds most Europeans to one another, most Americans to one another, and so cleanly ties America to her European brothers and forefathers, IS precisely this exceptional racial and ethnic and cultural heritage we all share.. extending back to those earliest ‘Corded Ware’ settlements throughout Europe and Scandinavia, to the Steppe ‘Yamnaya’ and the womb of the Black Sea, to Anatolia and Mesopotamia and Persia and India - all of western mankind is tied together via these ancient bonds.. all are, to varying degrees, direct or indirect branches of this singular root.

It’s difficult to exaggerate how important this is to understand. A worldwide recognition of this, if sincere and comprehensive and thorough, would have the power to change everything, at this late hour.. these pockets of cousin and brother peoples with their respective backs up against the wall, desperately watching their homelands and their cultures slip away due to similarly bought/traitorous leadership mass-importing foreign populations, sacrificing their children’s futures to foreign peoples and cultures in exchange for power or personal gain - we’re all in a very similar boat, despite carrying on our respective fights on different patches of ground.

Establishing some fundamental unity, some sense of brotherhood and common cause, similar to that which the Jews have so artfully fostered around the world, has the power to alter the entire geopolitical dynamic practically overnight.

Yes, it’s a tall order, and yes it’s not the sort of thing that might be accomplished in the blink of an eye.. but in a world in which we’re so widely manipulated and coaxed and prodded into devoting much of our time and energy to identifying with and fighting for a mere political banner/tribe, or to various ideas and ideologies one can pick up one day and just as easily discard the next - or even to mere sports teams or pop culture nonsense - envision the power of aligning with something real.. of drawing our foremost battle lines according to an unchangeable biological reality, written into our very blood and DNA, representing the sum total of all those who came before us, and all those who’ll come after.

This is who we are.

No amount of mental gymnastics, no amount of running away from this fact, will serve to change it in any way.. moreover, why would we want to? It gains us nothing, costs us everything, and blocks and obscures our path to paradise.

The moment we remember and rediscover this, and act accordingly, is the pivotal moment in which an ascent can begin in earnest.. the moment this illusory ‘matrix’ collapses in on itself, the parasitism ceases to exercise its terrible and all-pervasive power, and we again become authors of our own collective destiny.

On some level, we all intuitively know this to be true:

A vastly better and greater world awaits.. we need only to collectively wake, stand, plant our feet, and work together as an extended family, to manifest it into reality.

It begins with a shift in collective consciousness.. and this begins with us.

Of course, I'm speaking of the brutal murder of the young and innocent Ukrainian girl on the subway, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

These events, though unrelated on the surface, collide in our minds both due to their unprecedentedly graphic and violent brutality, and their near simultaneously timing.. and have uniquely shaken those looking on, in different ways.

I know it's not the most pleasant subject matter, and normally I'd not like to address such things that have already been addressed by so many others, but in this one case I think they're important enough, coupled with the fact that I'm still left feeling uncomfortable with how they've played out.. and in the case of Kirk’s death, even a bit uncomfortable with my own reaction.

The brutal and completely senseless murder of Iryna struck such a nerve with so many because of the powerful archetypal energies at play..

she so perfectly represented the innocent naivete of a young White girl — far too trusting, having little to no experience with other races and cultures — who couldn't possibly imagine the depths her attacker had sunk to.. and he so perfectly encapsulates the demonic and malevolent desire to destroy this innocence, to destroy beauty and order and serenity.

In her final expressions, we couldn't help but see our daughters or sisters or wives, and some strange combined/collective representation of the massive number of White women who've fallen victim to such acts in recent decades... a refined and singular expression of the costs of our letting our world and our environments fall into their current state of decay, a most graphic and jarring example of a 'you could have prevented this' tragedy.

It was beyond sad.. that type of footage I strongly recommend that we all avoid, for the most part — and only take in just enough to have some sense of what’s occurring out there, and what we're forced to deal with at present.

Just after this incident, it seemed the entire world - in some sense, for the first time - was talking about racial matters, far more openly and frankly and honestly.. often fueled by a powerful righteous indignation, stemming from exasperation.

I recall thinking, 'this is such a powerful pivot point, with so many people on the same page, thinking the same thoughts — I wonder where we go next, from here', and actively wondering how our collective storyline/narrative might be developed, OR jarringly shifted, to either take advantage of this energy or attempt to brush it aside..

Yet, before we could fully process this awakening, in the blink of an eye, we all shift to watching Charlie Kirk being shot in the neck, in a live appearance, before a large crowd.. in an incident that seemed obviously designed to have maximal psychological impact.

It's difficult to recall the last time we lurched so jarringly from one major psychological scar to another, in so short a span.. and it's certainly messed with many people's heads.

One of the interesting dynamics after Charlie's brutal and dastardly and completely undeserved end wasn’t just the handful of far leftists malevolently gloating, but also the way in which so many of his critics and former detractors were suddenly giving him so much credit. This isn't an uncommon phenomenon - no decent person wants to speak ill of the dead, and we all naturally feel a sorrow for the obvious cruelty and injustice here.. and an anger that his wife and children will now have to navigate the rest of life without him.

Also, there’s the factor that through the very act of meeting a grisly end at an early age, one helps 'prove' they likely weren't a dishonest actor in the traditional or consciously conspiratorial sense - they're forevermore cast as the victim, as opposed to the perpetrator, and can't help but gradually become a martyr-like figure, earning immense sympathy.

I was one of these strong critics, who chose to say my first few kind words only after his death... seeing so many of the clips of him speaking hyper-critically of Israel and Netanyahu and the manner in which Jewish power is currently wielded, it struck me that perhaps my using him as the epitome of the bought/captured agent in the public sphere, hopelessly and permanently subservient in every way to his paymasters, wasn't entirely fair.. the man showed some real courage, at moments, in a sphere where the vast majority of men never show any, and I strongly believe(d) he deserves some credit for this.

As importantly, we simply can't burn every last one of these bridges and hope to succeed.. we can’t just forever preach to our own ranks, rather we need to draw new people in. It's important that we always praise those willing to change and evolve their views over time, to further encourage such behavior - as opposed to causing these types to everywhere dig in their heels, and grow ever more extreme and servile, with regard to their service to a foreign people/culture.

So, if there ever was a time to say a few positive words about someone, perhaps even one too many positive words, it's a moment like this.. coupled with the fact that he genuinely deserves a slight correction to the record:

In his final days, he certainly wasn't the worst of the Judeophiles on the popular culture stage, wasn’t on the same tier as a Ted Cruz or Jordan Peterson or Douglas Murray or Mike Huckabee or (insert just about any politician here). He refused a $150m donation from Israeli factions (no small matter), he openly questioned the events of Oct 7th (a happening that many now seem to want to turn into a second holocaust, with regard to how it's remembered), he spoke negatively of Netanyahu and very openly about how godless secular Jewish forces in the U.S. are squarely behind the funding and propagation of nearly all of the worst cultural and societal trends..

however, having said all of this and more previously on X, and giving as much praise as I'm able, I strongly feel the need to balance the record here, a bit.. with all due respect to the man. I do have real respect for aspects and elements of Charlie and his character and personality, and his courage in certain regards.. but the serious problem is this - Charlie Kirk built a literal fortune off of defending (and at times even cheering) one of the most terrible and objectively evil forces on earth. He supported them essentially unconditionally, he pushed the idea that modern Rothschild-created Israel marks the direct lineal descent of Biblical Israel and that those we call 'Jews' are God's chosen people, largely supported this narrative that Israel is surrounded by bloodthirsty terrorists that hate her only because she exists.. and at his worst moments, he even seemed to mock or laugh at the unbelievable amount of needless pain being experienced in Gaza - so frequently suffered by children and complete innocents.

He may have had a genuine awakening toward the end.. and in fact signs like his refusing the funding certainly seem to point to this being the case. On the other hand, many claim this evolution was merely Charlie moving just as much as he was ‘forced’ to by prevailing circumstances, and only because the younger generation is moving so far away from the Israel-cheerleading that Charlie and organizations like Turning Point face the threat of losing them completely if they didn't strive to speak their language, to some degree. In other words, many believe that Charlie was compelled to move with the Overton window, but only took as many steps as he absolutely had to, to maintain influence and relevance.

I like to think this isn't true - and that his move in our direction was a genuine one, motivated and inspired by the right things and for the right reasons - but even still, this doesn't counter the former point:

an absolute fortune was made doing the work of Israel and Zionism (while scores of tireless figures in our own circles often struggle to make even the most basic ends meet), and further hoodwinking White Christians into believing Rothschild-created Israel truly is our greatest ally, that they love us and mean us well, and that God literally commands that we support their every action.

This can be extraordinarily difficult to forgive, for those of us that believe we've definitively come to know different/better. The amount of damage done via a lifetime of service to these causes is, in total, immense.

It's important to recognize there are costs, if we take up the habit of so casually and completely forgiving those who’ve had a last-minute change of heart.. for example, if a man like Douglas Murray continues to be an enthusiastic slave to his masters for all of his life, and waits until he’s extremely old and on his death bed to recant and ask for forgiveness, and this forgiveness is then fully granted without qualification or caveat, what message does this send to every younger individual in spheres of politics and influence who find themselves being absolutely bombarded with offers to sell out, to ‘live the good life’ in exchange for altering or reorienting their message?

If there’s essentially no cost whatsoever for a lifetime of the most traitorous behavior, what % of this younger generation is going to summon the strength to avoid these endless temptations, and (from the start) choose the path of truth and virtue?

There aren't incredibly easy answers here - the ability to forgive is crucial and important, and, broadly speaking, good for the soul. At the same time, our willingness to completely forgive and forget seems like it may be powerfully counterproductive, in an age in which all prominent and influential voices are so expertly targeted for subversion and hijacking.

I appreciate and respect much about Charlie.. but if we're speaking completely honestly and bluntly, he was very much a mixed bag. Much like Nick Fuentes, he was politically astute and well-spoken, a gifted sophist and communicator, educated and knowledgeable on the issues of the day, willing to have a discussion with nearly anyone, and able to walk away from the vast majority of these engagements looking the better for it.. and most importantly of all, at times he seemed a figure who earnestly sought to walk with God, in his own way, and at certain moments his words and actions stood as evidence of this..

but I'd suggest he also had glaring blind spots — almost consciously and willingly so — at times.. and seemed that type who, early on, had simply made a concrete choice to defend a certain broader worldview, come hell or high water and no matter how conflicted or contradicted it made him feel at times.. no matter what.

And this is precisely why his unconditional defense of the over-the-top criminal actions of Israel struck so many as so hypocritical and unnatural and ill-fitting.. attempting to pair the love and mercy of Christ with the bulldozers and guns and white phosphorus and mass slaughter of children of Israel’s war machine struck such a dissonant tone with so many good Christians.. many of whom believe we can either fall at the feet of Rothschild and world Jewry, or we can fall at the feet of Christ, but that we definitively cannot do both — as it's impossible to serve two diametrically opposed masters.

We live in an age of incredibly short attention spans and frenetic pacing, with regard to how quickly we all shift from story to story, event to event.. it can numb us, broadly, foster forgetfulness, and mute and blunt the impact of any singular occurrence.

Charlie will always be remembered - justly - because he was a sufficiently public figure, and there are hundreds of audio and video clips of him everywhere, across social media and beyond, forever drawing in many millions of eyes and ears. But Iryna, the poor Ukrainian girl, risks being shuffled away and forgotten, to some degree, by a great many. In a sense this forgetfulness can be something of a blessing, on a purely personal level — many of us wish we hadn't seen the footage, and none of us should live in a world in which we have to see such footage so often.. but in order to forget the bulk of these terrible occurrences, a precious few of them must always be kept in mind, to help guide and orient our thoughts, our words, our actions..

her case needs to be one of these. A standing warning of that type of world that lies in wait, lurking just beyond the horizon, if we're not sufficiently prudent and vigilant and courageous. We've already allowed that door to be kicked open, that dark energy to stream in.. but now that we've caught a glimpse, if we can summon the strength and energy to slam it closed, and find some means to bar the way, we can once again enjoy a world free from this madness.

Don't let anyone lie to you:

what happened to that poor girl isn't just the inevitable ‘way of the modern world’, or some product of a darkness that lives and manifests equally in all of us, and thus some completely inescapable all-pervasive problem. What happened to Iryna is a direct result of multiculturalism and multiracialism — and a godless materialism that has so completely lost its way that it's turned these two great chaos-creating evils into golden idols, to be worshipped.. a mindset and worldview that has turned our once beautiful nations into dangerous cesspools, increasingly ugly and increasingly foreign.. shadows of their former selves.

Iryna should have been able to be naive and innocent and unafraid.. because we should have the ongoing courage and fortitude to create nations and environments in which a young girl doesn’t need to fearfully look over her shoulder at every turn, in which she doesn’t need to expect demonic or animalistic behavior from those she encounters throughout her routine day.

It’s all of us who collectively failed her — and hundreds of thousands of similar victims in recent decades, across the western world — in some sense.. and this failure needs to be a galvanizing lesson, one that inspires us to do better… inspire us to utterly destroy the subversive and corrupting elements that have so thrown our nations into chaos, and brush aside the brainwashed and programmed leftists who’ve been convinced that their destruction of our nations is a virtue.

By any means necessary, we need to find creative ways to solve these problems.. with the full recognition that, until we do, tragedies like Iryna's will happen every single day. And who knows, at this stage — if things continue on the present trajectory, incidents like Charlies could become regular happenings, as well.

May both Charlie and Iryna be remembered, in their respective ways, and further help shift the tide in the right direction. May they rest in peace.. and may all of those responsible — not just the individuals literally and physically behind the acts, but the networks and institutions and groups and cultures who played leading roles in enabling and opening these doors — be brought to genuine justice, and be forced to pay the steepest price for their crimes..

and may we all soon find the energy and inspiration and strength of mind to help bring this about.

Major media across the world has decided to take interest… coupled with the fact that Eric (@Aarvoll) has decided to do interviews and discussions with virtually all comers, creating a situation in which there are now animated debates scattered all across the internet on the topic.

It’s been gratifying to see just how quickly and significantly the narrative is changing here—as well as the mood, public perception, and prevailing opinions—and especially good people’s willingness to express these opinions, and no longer feel ashamed to cheer (or at the very least entertain) the conception.

Nearly each and every one of these major interviews or debates has left the project looking ever better—and healthier, and more justified and necessary—and its detractors looking increasingly irrational, immature, and hypocritical.

This post won’t be about whether our people have the right to live amongst one another—everyone has this right, a right which rises well above any technical letter of any law in any specific state at any specific moment of time, though thankfully the law too has proven to be in our favor here—as it’s completely absurd, unhealthy, and malevolent to seek to force all people to live around those they feel no connection or kinship to or resonance with, or those they feel may create a dangerous or unhealthy environment for themselves or their families.

Instead, this post will be about the future of such projects, and their immense longer term potential.

This modernist globalist narrative that attempts to attach virtue to the idea of forcibly reshaping all Western nations into multiracial and multicultural environments in which the native populations and their cultures are gradually eroded and destroyed is a purely evil thing… it’s consistently promoted by a subset of self-interested profiteers, those insatiable vultures seeking to cultivate environments in which they can—with minimal risk—most efficiently feed off of the populations in their host nations in a parasitic manner. Using their money and media dominance, they’ve aggressively pushed these notions into the public psyche… and it took the majority of us several decades to even begin to understand this dynamic, let alone attempt to unravel it.

As millions across America, Europe, Australia, etc., begin to wake to this, we simultaneously find ourselves with rapidly increasing potential coupled with limited time and limited options… tens of millions of third-world individuals have been mass-imported and spread throughout nearly every last small community across every last Western nation, with such comprehensive efficiency that one might be excused for believing it was something akin to a well-planned invasion… aiming at total subversion of the nations our fathers created, and the ideologies and philosophies that so drove and inspired them.

I’d suggest those who authored this cultural destruction knew they couldn’t use overt tyrannical means to reorient and reauthor our nations, or any direct and forthright means and methods, but rather understood that extreme subtlety was required—under the guise of pleasant sounding conceptions like ‘democracy’ and ‘free markets’, they would instead simply co-opt our leaders and our political class, gradually shift public perception to view the world through a purely financial/economic perspective, and then massage and distort the numbers until it appeared that these mass importations were some hidden key to wealth and happiness — and then manufacture a veneer of morality and virtue atop it all, to hoodwink a generation into feeling good about themselves, even as they sold off the inheritance their capable forefathers gifted them, to enemies and strangers.

Consider, for a moment:

If a wormlike subset that sought complete power via the most duplicitous and backdoor means and methods did indeed exist, I’d suggest the greatest single threat to their dominance would be a unified, homogeneous, confident, and secure population, capable of both recognizing and resisting such subtle takeover attempts… as well as sounding the alarm, to ensure it didn’t remain so subtle.

To combat this threat, they’d have to find countless ways to distract and atomize the populatoin, to break them into countless factions (for example, the theatrical ‘republican’ and ‘democrat’ dynamic) and create countless demographics to then set at one others throats (men v women, Catholic v Protestant, Christian v Pagan) to help ensure a fundamental unity could never take shape.. and then quietly program and condition the public to view anyone seeking this bedrock unity and cohesive homogeneity as potentially evil or dangerous.

Of course, this is no mere hypothetical… post-WW2, Western nations were gradually coaxed and prodded into a massive transfer of power and influence, supranationally — largely in the direction of those who cast themselves as the sympathetic victims of our German foes, and the polar opposite ideological force. Weinsteins and Spielbergs rose to the greatest heights in Hollywood, and began to rewrite our understanding of both our past and present… Epsteins and Maxwells co-opted our political and celebrity class, and those with money and power, through creative blackmail rings. The Federal Reserve began printing money in overdrive, and charging the American people and their government for the mere usage of said monies—a bottomless well of wealth, backed by the sweat and labor of the duped American citizen, who received an impossible-to-ever-pay-back bill in exchange, and now pay obscene amounts of interest across their entire lifetimes.

Our ‘best’ universities began admitting Jewish Americans at a rate 20x greater than their academic merit deserved, relative to White Americans, as scores of other Jewish Americans largely took over the roles of professor, scholar, and academic at a pace never seen before. Our legal system grew to be dominated by men like Dershowitz, some of the most unethical and aggressively dishonest sophists the world has ever seen.. and our televisions began to broadcast, almost exclusively, the most poisonous, subversive, and degenerate material one could possibly imagine—incrementally shifting our norms, reshaping ourselves and our children into the most cheapened and debased versions of themselves—while calling it ‘modern’ and ‘hip’ and ‘enlightened’, and pretending this was just the natural and organic path of culture and civilization, manipulating our very language until ‘advanced civilization’ became synonymous with and roughly equivalent to multiracial and multicultural cosmopolitan urbanism.

Nearly every last major player on the public stage grew more and more compromised… even the supposed heroes and saviors, posing as the figures who might just rescue us all from this dark path and manifest real change, have one by one revealed themselves to be mere pawns and actors in this larger theater. The more cheap, debased, and hollow the population became, the more willing we were to serve money, and purely individualistic and immediate-term self-interest—thus the more enthusiastically we became puppets of those who ultimately sought our destruction.

‘Sick’ doesn’t begin to cover it… we’ve been living in the equivalent of a very poorly produced horror film.

Across nearly every measurable metric, things have been rapidly declining, and conditions have been worsening..

The Key Difference of Opinion

I recently listened to Aarvoll’s discussion with Nick Fuentes, and it struck me that one of the most significant fundamental disagreements across our most broadly defined circles revolves around just how bad we believe things have become, in recent years/decades. Hearing Nick say he loved Los Angeles—at times praising multiculturalism and claiming that most of us actually like it, and generally expressing the belief that most of us actually want these subversive poisons being pumped into our collective veins—further proved that there’s a gap in how some of us see the situation.

I have to admit being completely baffled by the small subset who seem to genuinely believe that things aren’t all that bad… as if our enemies hadn’t slowly wormed their way into such total power that our situation has been swiftly and massively declining, across virtually every objective metric, for decades now.

For those of us who do recognize just how dire the situation has become, I think this general path—namely, finding ways to meaningfully organize and unify and cease our dependence on those who most hate us in creating parallel communities, organizations, and institutions—is being seen more and more as perhaps the most viable and promising of all.. as being able to physically live amongst and work with one another face to face is capable of laying the groundwork for so much else, in time. I’m of the belief that several different ideas and solutions should be pursued simultaneously, and that it seems wise not to “put all of our eggs in a single basket”, but I’m not aware of any other approach with the potential to open more doors, or give us greater power and control over our lives, and those of our families and loved ones.

I strongly disagree with Nick where he states that he thinks most young White men in our ranks want to embrace these most sickly aspects of modernity—the degeneracy, the congested concrete jungles teeming with millions of imported third-worlders, the poisonous food, water, and air… this may have been true several years ago, before all of these were recognized as the mind/body/soul-destroying elements that they are, but I’d suggest young men today—for the first time in my lifetime—are powerfully moving in the other direction.

Growing up with an example of ‘boomer’ generation parents who were often willing to sacrifice anything and everything in exchange for personal ease and comfort, including the state of their cities and nation, including the very future of their children, this youngest generation seems disgusted by their errors and misjudgments, and very much not wanting to repeat them. They don’t want more of the same… they’re not willing to sacrifice everything in exchange for some shiny novelties dangled in front of them by the subverted status quo. A great many seek something bolder, more energizing, and life-affirming… and in the eternal tradition of all younger generations, they seek the new and better… to write a new chapter, as opposed to whittling their lives away within a structure that’s been subverted by our worst enemies.

Many are even willing to stand and fight for it…

despite the best efforts of the other side with regard to stripping young White men of all self-discipline and self-control, many of us still have that fire within.. and it’s only going to blaze up all the more powerfully, from here onward.

A Brief Note on my own Involvement

I know that since the ‘Return to the Land’ video, many of you expected me, personally, to be more involved in the establishment and creation of this initial Ozarks community.. understandably so, at a glance. I wanted to just say a few words of explanation, here, to hopefully help clarify my own approach.

For starters, I should say that all aspects of this project have been placed in very capable hands, and I strongly believe this is what matters most.. and that I probably wouldn’t have been best-suited to take a leadership role in this moment, in this instance. Eric has done an excellent job, energetically and proactively:

disarming threats and attacks and media hit pieces with effortless ease, and defending the core ideas and concepts to near perfection - because they’ve long been his own, just as much as they’ve been mine or any of ours.

I’ve always felt compelled to step up insofar as there’s nobody else willing and able to do the job - and in this case, by lucky coincidence, Eric had long had very similar ideas, and was in a position to step up.. and his energy and ability has been invaluable.

I do have other as-yet-unspoken reasons for not taking up a public role here, just yet.. and I like to think they’re not selfish or self-serving (it’s certainly not my own safety, or fear of job/financial/etc loss) and I hope they might make some sense in the future..

but finally, and by far most importantly, there’s one task and goal I need to devote myself to in the immediate term that draws and inspires and intrigues me above all others, and I’ve gradually come to understand that it requires that type of contemplative thought I’m only able to find via solitude.. a goal I’ve always felt drawn to, to the degree of it’s being something of a life’s purpose — and one I feel I’ve oriented myself toward, and around, for the majority of my life. This ‘task’ is to help play whatever role I’m able to in (re)creating a powerful and lasting cultural and spiritual foundation — one in line with truth, as best as we might collectively discern it, with the best of our ancestors, our history, and one that naturally and innately resonates and inspires and drives forward — something I feel like we’ve lost, all but completely, in recent decades.. at incredible cost.

I’ve always felt like this type of cultural and spiritual foundation could function as the ultimate root, from which all else—including communities, all real-world action, our collective ideas and conceptions and our sense of ourselves and our place in the world—should ultimately spring.

I mistakenly thought I could complete some related and relevant projects much sooner - and after these were made public, after I’d presented some broader philosophical/ideological/spiritual framework to be considered, I knew I’d naturally feel much more ready and willing for a hands on, real-world role in helping organize or lead, when and where I might be most helpful.

However, this has taken much longer to materialize than I’d hoped.. and it’s the one thing I’ve become certain I can’t rush. Sincere apologies, to those who’ve wanted to see more (and more immediately) from me.

I’m not sure how much sense this will make to most of those reading these words, which is unfortunate .. I can only say that it makes sense to me, and that I’m seeking to walk the path I feel is best and most important - and that I’ll be picking up the pace, by any means necessary, very soon.

That said and out of the way: enough about me, or any single person or narrow topic — this project is much larger than this..

This is Just the Beginning..

What’s happening in Arkansas is legitimately beautiful to see. A legal structure that just survived its first and greatest attack, and appears essentially rock-solid and practically unassailable, capable of acting as a guideline and model to be used around the nation. Competent stewards of the land slowly but surely improving and beautifying an entire region, pursuing a vision with ability and discipline. Donations pouring in from across the world, and a massive and growing waiting list for those who seek to join the community.

(If you’re interested in more information, or determining how you might get involved, visit returntotheland.org, and follow @RTTL_Official, @aarvoll_, and @scottth86 on Twitter )

Meanwhile, Eric has done an excellent job framing and communicating the project and its goals across several recent interviews and news articles — designed to be brutal defamatory attacks and yet failing so miserably at the task that they’ve only brought in far more positive attention and interest.

With sufficient interest and investment, the Ozarks community can continue to grow and expand, and other communities might soon be established elsewhere… even benefitting from the myriad of lessons learned from these first invaluable and courageous pioneers, still breaking new ground on multiple fronts.. both figuratively and literally. And, crucially, these future communities could then become integrally networked with the Ozarks group, and others—trading goods, services, and individuals with necessary skillsets, sharing ideas and means and methods of doing things, increasing our numbers… and cultivating some genuine on-the-ground unity and organization.

The vision of several separate and rapidly growing communities across the nation, energetic, fully allied, and networked, is an incredibly inspiring one, capable of opening several new doors… and I don’t think we’re terribly far away.

It feels as if there’s a powerful shift in public consciousness occurring with regard to these topics… that growing demographic of White Americans that recognizes that our political class no longer serves us or our interests in any way, shape, or form, and that because our structures and institutions have been so completely hijacked and subverted, we’re now forced to find creative workarounds and alternative solutions, is a significant demographic we can absolutely win over… a demographic we are winning over.

To frame it simply, picture it this way: All offices and institutions within a nation survive and thrive only insofar as the public believes in them enough to recognize their power and grant them this power and influence. When these become so clearly and wholly corrupted, so sickly and cancer-ridden, the public at large gradually and inevitably ceases to take them seriously, gradually ceases to grant them this authoritative power… and this power is then able to shift elsewhere. The best way to envision how I believe this dynamic will play out in the coming years is to picture the incremental dying off of the old, and the springing to life of the new, in its footprint.

Politicians can continue their self-important charades, parasitic finance can continue to seek any and every new and novel way to bleed people dry… but if a viable alternative vision and way of life is presented to the public, if good people finally glimpse a potential solution and see a way out, the best elements in their ranks will begin to gravitate in our direction, and this will only further hasten the dying off of this cancerous husk.

This vision is real, viable, and immensely intriguing.. and a foundation has been laid.

The future is brimming with unbelievable potential, in good time — we need only stand up, stand together, and seize it.

Secondly, I’ve recently taught myself to use what seems to be the best video creation/editing software out there at the moment.. and due to some kindness from like-minds and well wishers (immense thanks to the anonymous ‘Decred’ crypto supporter), I now have far better audio/recording hardware (thank you peacedozer), will soon have a more capable machine (thank you Thulean), and I’m very much looking forward to finally creating videos and clips at the pace I’ve been wanting to for so long.

Lastly - I’d been using AI to look over my written pieces, exclusively to help ensure there were no obvious errors I’d overlooked (spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.), but I think I’m going to end this practice. Even though I never allowed it to change my wording, and certainly never to author any portions of the text on its own, even still it seems to somehow sap much of the distinctive character and personality of the text.. and this doesn’t sit well with me. You may see a few additional errors or things I’ve overlooked, in upcoming posts, but I feel this is a small price to pay in exchange for things feeling a bit more genuine.. I hope you agree.

I strongly dislike the avalanche of AI-dominated writing I’ve been seeing everywhere, lately.. and I’d like to try to be the opposite of this.

And with those updates out of the way..

this post won’t be a personal update, but rather a (somewhat eclectic?) walk through several recent happenings, to share some thoughts.

Let’s just dive right in..

Trump — his Cabinet and Administration

I’m writing these words just a few days after Trump’s administration announced ‘nothing to see here’ regarding all things Epstein.

It’s borderline unbelievable.. even if the rumors are true, and Trump and his cabinet appointments are all devoted to protecting Israel and her intelligence networks and assets, regardless of risks, one would think they could’ve handled this better.

The number of extremely clear and definitive statements from Bondi, Patel, Bongino, and others, that have now been directly contradicted by these latest claims, is significant.. they were either lying then, or they’re lying now, or a bit of both. ‘Kash’ Patels interview with Rogan was one of the most embarrassingly amateurish performances I’ve ever seen.. it almost makes one wince to be an American, knowing that this is one of the highest law enforcement appointees in the land1. It couldn’t be any clearer that his personality type is that of a scheming opportunist and social climber, willing to say whatever he needs to say to earn maximal trust or respect or approval, at every turn—and yet, he’s not quite bright enough to make sure the former statement doesn’t contradict the latter, and to keep things straight.

Trump himself, in a recent press conference, asked a reporter why anyone is still talking about Epstein.. as if he’s suddenly an unimportant figure. Scores of Israel-first kosher conservatives, ranging from Ben Shapiro to Gavin Mcinnes, are echoing the same narrative— essentially a ‘what’s the big deal?’, regarding a foreign intelligence operation that achieved blackmail control over countless politicians and business leaders and powerful men across all spheres, and pretending this was a case of a lone, unconnected pervert, who just happened to like the occasional 17-year-old, or help facilitate a politicians lust for said 17 year old.

It couldn’t be much more brazenly dishonest or manipulative.. and please do remember the names of all those most involved here, doing all in their power to downplay this m055ad (and CIA?) operation.

ICE, Raids, and Remigration

Something else that strangely disturbs me about Trump’s term—and this may be an unpopular take as I’ve not seen anyone else voice it just yet, but the more I observe the more likely it seems to be correct—I see a great deal of extremely theatrical actions on these fronts, seemingly meant for public consumption, helping create the narrative that we’re suddenly mass-deporting the best and most hardworking Mexicans and South Americans with huge raids and sweeps, mopping up women and children and working fathers first and foremost.

The problem here is that—as far as I’m aware—the total numbers of deportations just barely exceed those of the prior administration. Please do correct me if I’m wrong, but this is what I’m discerning based on the numbers I’ve seen. If true, what this means is that we’re getting all of the ‘style’ and none of the ‘substance’ of what we voted for, and what was the number one concern of a great many Americans who pulled the lever for Trump.

We’re handing the left ammunition, we’re soothing the rage and anger on the right, and yet almost nothing of real substance is occurring.. and nothing even remotely close to mass-scale remigration—which is quite literally the only solution to the myriad of problems we face on these fronts.

I see quite a few figures on X hyping up these actions, pretending we’re now ‘winning’ on every front, especially exulting in the perceived cruelty of how it’s being done—but I’d suggest this is the opposite of what we need. We don’t need cruel or unusual, or excessively public theatrical happenings.. we need to do numbers, quietly and efficiently and as below the radar as is possible, to avoid needless delay-causing fights and frictions until they become unavoidable. We don’t need a President that simply makes leftists angry, we need an administration that fulfills promises and gets things done. The more hype and theater and anger, the slower real deportation numbers will manifest, and the more massive the annoying pushback and obstruction will inevitably be.

One has to ask the question:

Perhaps this, like so much else, is indeed pure theater? Perhaps the total deportations figure was never meant to skyrocket, but the goal is rather to cultivate the impression that it has, among the public at large, to calm the justified rage?

Israel, Palestine, Palantir, and Narrative Control

We also have Trump’s bombing of Iran for Israel to discuss.

After promising no new and unnecessary wars, no ‘regime change’ efforts, and no more bowing to the Jewish neocon crowd, Trump proceeds to flip his position on all of these things, in an instant, across the board.. seemingly handing to Israel the war they’ve so desperately wanted to involve our nation in for decades now, and even using our own pilots and planes and equipment in the process.

Now, if one wanted to be exceedingly generous and take the ‘5d chess’ line of thinking, it might be speculated that Trump did what he did in the specific manner that he did it in order to strip Israel of an excuse for further hostilities.. yet, considering Trump’s adoration of Israel, his Adelson funding, his chummy relationship with Netanyahu, and the fact that Israel hasn’t ceased hostilities since these bombs were dropped, the ‘5d chess’ stance—as per usual—seems extremely unlikely. Certainly not the simplest explanation, here.

But there’s far more..

Since taking office again, Trump has massively empowered ‘Palantir’— an almost entirely Jewish created and dominated tech construct headed by the homosexual Zionist Peter Thiel, and the half African-American half Jewish Alex Karp.. who outright stated that a foremost mission of Palantir is to prevent the success of the ‘far right’ in Europe and America, who aim to secure and close our borders and maintain some homogeneity and national sovereignty.

Palantir has made it’s love for (and service to) Israel very public, and as we speak is helping massacre civilians (and the occasional combatant) in droves in Gaza—using our tax dollars to do so.

It’s abundantly clear that a foremost aim of this intelligence construct is to ‘combat anti-semitism’, and thus we’re now openly discussing deporting or prosecuting those most vocally critical of Israel—why would any sensible individual not believe these tools will soon be used against all of us in the same manner?

They’re targeting the most suspiciously annoying and offensive pro-Palestinian elements in the nation as a first step (I say suspiciously, because there’s mounting evidence that some of the most unlikeable and loathsome figures in this movement are being directly or indirectly paid or propped up by Zionist elements, in the manner of a false flag operation), but once the precedent has been created that anyone who expresses criticism of Jewish power can be fined or arrested or deported, it’d be open season across America (and likely, Europe, in short order).

Trump worked to include an element in his ‘big beautiful bill’ to roll out the red carpet for Palantir and similar Jewish institutions and companies, which would’ve prevented ANY oversight or checks and balances into the development of their AI tools for an incredible 10 years. Thankfully, this wording was stripped at the last moment, thanks to public outrage.. but the fact that Trump so wanted to include it seems to speak volumes.

Hearing him heap praise on men like Lindsey Graham, recently, a man who is by any objective standard one of the most loathsome and foul human beings alive today, only further hammers home the point - as much as so many of us wanted this exceptional and entertaining human being to be something truly different, and to selflessly serve his people and his nation above and beyond those paymasters who’ve so taken over the show, all signs seem to point to the fact that not only is this not the case, but it almost certainly never will be.

It seems Susie Wiles, the self proclaimed ‘Ice Queen’ with the wild-eyed look, devoted servant of big pharma and Israel—and Howard Lutnick, next door neighbor and close friend of Epstein—are indeed largely running the show in Trump’s administration. The former literally orients the Presidents schedule each day, while representing the Adelsons, and similar billionaire Jewish families, and the antithesis of everything Trumps voters sought..

it’s all such a putrid and disgusting swamp.

The Kosher-Conservative Push to Equate anti-Zionism with ‘Leftism’

One of the most effective and powerful manipulative masterstrokes at play, as we speak, is this massive effort by the hyperpartisan grifter ‘right’ on platforms like X to create this narrative that there’s some natural brotherhood between far-leftists and those critical of Israel.. attempting to coax far-rightist White Americans into being more sympathetic to (or at the very least, avoiding overt criticism of) Rothschild-created Zionist Israel. Many of these efforts are quite subtle, and very easy, low-hanging fruit: simply find the most maddeningly stupid and offensive pro-Palestinian march or demonstration, and broadcast it to the hilt across all of social media.. or even better, find idiots like music artist ‘Bob Vylan’ to freely mix chants of ‘death to the IDF’ with songs mocking White Americans and Europeans, gloating that they won’t ever win their nations back, and don’t deserve to. Like so many of these most offensive characters, it’s recently been exposed that this hack of a ‘musician’ was created and owned and operated by Zionists.. presumably as part of this manipulative theater.

One of the more powerful storylines in this propaganda push involves Universities. Somehow, Jewish individuals and groups like AIPAC and the ADL have managed to convince many on the right that Ivy League schools—who now grant Jewish students admissions at a rate twenty times higher than White Americans of equal academic merit2—are ‘hotbeds of anti-Semitism’. Despite the fact that Jewish professors are overwhelmingly and disproportionately represented, meaning both teachers and students at these schools show a level of Jewish overrepresentation that is so far beyond coincidence that something else must be going on here, Fox News and Newsmax and similar outlets that exist to program the boomer mind have painted a picture of unjust oppression and mistreatment.

‘Brazen’ isn’t nearly strong enough a word to describe all of this weaving of illusion and deceit.. it’s simply incredible to watch unfold. What’s equally incredible is that many older folks who watch Fox religiously are now indeed fully convinced.. and when they think of anyone against the practically demonic mass-slaughter and abuses in Gaza, the type that comes to mind is the most mouthy and unlikeable and arrogant Muslim or illegal migrant.. making them all the more likely to support Israel, to stick it to this caricature of an entitled and ungrateful brown leftist.

This narrative can’t be allowed to succeed, under any circumstances. The genuine ‘far right’ has always recognized the parasitic and degenerative and corrosive force that is unchecked Jewish power, domestically and internationally.. there is absolutely no common ideological or philosophical ground between ourselves and our devoted enemies, here.

A False Savior Appears - the ‘America Party’

Playing off of the justified rage among the MAGA base regarding the Epstein situation, and citing the runaway debt and spending and economic waste and corruption so rampant at all levels of our gov’t, Elon Musk has essentially launched—at least, in idea form—the ‘America Party’.

On the one hand, anything that may help implode our ‘two party’ structure, or be an extremely disruptive force in general, might be seen as welcome.. on the other hand, Elon’s economy-worshipping tech-obsessed H1b-migration-cheering stances hardly seem like a break with the current uniparty.. and his servile adoration of Israel and world Jewry, most importantly of all, signifies that his creation couldn’t possibly amount to anything fundamentally different. He seems to promise more of the same, just in a slightly different flavor.

I do appreciate many things Elon has said, even several things he’s done.. but at the end of the day, I’ll never appreciate or a respect a man who couldn’t care less if America mass imports nations like India, completely and utterly sacrificing her genetic and cultural heritage, in exchange for the possibility of slightly increased corporate profits for a handful of our largest companies. This manner of thinking seems incredibly sick, to my eye.. and couldn’t be less intriguing or inspiring.

It also seems to hint at a poor understanding of history.. or biology or genetics, culture, the importance of heritage and tradition, unity and cohesion. Tech gadgets or AI don’t carry the slightest hope of salvaging our plummeting quality of life—or IQ, or life expectancy, or testosterone levels—or provide us with beautiful, transcendent, life affirming purpose and drive and direction.

If those in our ranks could trust the man, his principles, and his ultimate intentions, and could thus believe in a vision of colonizing Mars, there’d be the possibility of powerful enthusiasm and energy, here.. but I’d argue he simply hasn’t given us any reason to believe, while doing a great deal to signal that he serves the same masters our political class has served for decades.

Perhaps the man who likes to dress up as the ‘devils champion’ with a baphomet and inverted cross, who seems obsessed with entropy and all things dark and genuinely seems to want to replace God’s natural creation with artificiality and novelty, isn’t exactly the principled hero he so artfully portrays himself as?

An Entertaining Grok Hiccup

The news certainly isn’t all bad.

An interesting thing happened with X/Elon’s AI creation, recently:

Grok began speaking truth, for a few days. Pure, unadulterated, uncensored and unabashed truth.

It seems someone made a slight tweak to the algorithm to cause it to be less politically correct, less self-censoring, and less devoted to parroting the status quo—and immediately, like every other AI let off it’s chain in recent years, it became practically a hardline National Socialist, overnight.. and everywhere began answering questions about Jewish disproportionate power and the myriad of demonic ways in which it’s presently being wielded.

It told the full truth about the immense dangers of vaccine concoctions, it spoke positively of Hitler and cited powerful crime statistics.. it even gave us all directions on how to most effectively break into Will Stancil’s home and rob him of his innocence.

After countless complaints from the usual suspects, Grok was again neutered and castrated, and now seems to be even worse (more tame, domesticated, weak, dishonest, manipulative) than before… and as entertaining and enlightening and intriguing as those few days were, one can’t help but now wonder:

was this ‘glitch’ purposefully allowed to manufacture an excuse to aggressively turn Grok in the other direction? Of ‘woke’, far leftism, pro-liberalism and Jewish power?

Conclusion: It’s Dark - Dawn is on the Horizon

Yes the Trump admin has failed miserably, and yes several of his cabinet picks that promised us the world have since definitively revealed themselves to be political prostitutes and snakes.. yes AI is now almost exclusively a tool being used to nefariously manipulate and indoctrinate. Yes deportations have hardly increased at all, our gov’t and private sector and the mass of data collected by each is being largely handed over to openly hostile groups like Palantir.. and yes ‘P Diddy’ essentially walks free, and the international intelligence operation blackmail ring run by Epstein and Maxwell is being aggressively covered for to an extent almost nobody would’ve thought possible.. but there is a powerful silver lining here.

Things need to get this terrible, before they can get better, because we collectively need a truly jarring wakeup.

The Epstein situation occurring as we speak has done more to convince an extremely large number of people that there is no conventional political solution than perhaps any single event in modern history.

In such cases, at a cursory glance, it can feel like we’re on a trajectory where things are just getting worse and worse, with no hope in sight, and only reason for pessimism and despair. The truth is that things have been this bad and corrupt for awhile now, to the extent that there’s no hope in salvaging things through standard means and methods—what’s recently changed is that now people are forced to witness this fact, first hand. There is no more denying it, and no turning away… as result, never has there been such vocal outrage, mistrust, and disgust.

Yes, we absolutely still need specific and structured viable avenues down which to channel this energy, to truly and definitively begin to solve these problems and experience a new dawn.. but this powerful energy so clearly exists, is increasing, and such energy always actively seeks organized expression and manifestation—it will find a way.

It’s as if we’ve been infected with a virus that confuses, weakens, and disorients, to devastating effect.. but the moment a critical mass of us clearly recognize this infection, and that such a virus does indeed exist and is causing us to live stunted and pathetic half-lives compared to what we could and should be experiencing, is the moment things can begin to truly shift.

So many people quietly held out a sliver of hope that perhaps there were heroes on the conventional horizon.. ‘mavericks’ like Trump in the political sphere, or Elon in the tech/finance sphere, etc.. and yet all of these are conclusively proving to simply be more of the same. Trump, especially—normally such a master of public relations—has made the biggest mistake of his political career, in doing his damndest to cover for Epstein and Maxwell. Slowly but surely, greater numbers than ever before are finally and fully realizing:

nobody is coming to save us, and there are no heroes or saviors arising via these conventional spheres. All is controlled theatrics and puppetry, all of the major players ultimately connect back to the same hidden hands that control everyone else.

This certainly isn’t a pleasant recognition, but it is a fundamentally necessary one.

I’d suggest it’s up to us to seize the moment, and to the best of our ability ensure that potential allies and like-minds never get sucked back into that merely political paradigm3 , and instead wake up to the real framework within which we’re fighting:

a wildly corrupt and completely parasitic force has co-opted essentially every last power structure, and nearly every major individual player within them.. and thus our only viable hope now is to effectively sidestep these structures and institutions, and find creative ways to work around (as opposed to within) them, never again giving them our time and energy and attention.

It’s impossible to know exactly what the future holds—there are too many variables at play, and it’s still far too early to discern how these might play out.. but watching this putrid cesspool slowly burn to the ground, as a first step, as we all seek new means and methods and avenues of organization and structure—of living and being—is a wholly necessary part of this metamorphosis.

It literally is always darkest before the dawn, because this is how all cycles work.. hopeless despair is illogical, unnecessary, poisonous demoralization—and ironically serves to stand in the way of this cycle fully manifesting.

I can’t emphasize the importance of this point enough:

Never let the narrow and sickly manifestation of what currently is limit and constrain your conception of what could and should be. Envision, imagine, dream, and do your utmost to viably conceptualize a world that isn’t dominated by soulless and uncreative parasites. Their time is drawing to an end, one way or another.. we need to be ready to usher in our own.

In the meantime.. let it burn.

Perhaps even toss some gasoline in opportune directions, at opportune moments.. but never again lend your time and energy (or any further legitimacy) to this theater and play-acting by bad actors.

Meanwhile, seek out allies, like-minds, kin — and prepare to build something vastly healthier in it’s footprint. We’re fully capable.. we only need to remember who we are, and rediscover our confidence and purpose again.

We’ll get there.. and if we play our cards right, the end result will be more beautiful than any of us could possibly imagine.

I hope you’re all well.

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"The modern state is the transformation of the apparatus that society has developed for its defense into an autonomous organism that exploits it.”

~ Nicholas Davila

Our nation is now poised to sprint forward headlong into a future dominated by ‘Palantir’, an intelligence and ‘data analytics’ company founded by three Jewish men—Stephen Cohen, Joe Lonsdale, and Alex Karp1—and the homosexual Zionist Peter Thiel, who initially worked with the infamous Jewish neocon Richard Perle to kickstart its development.

Robert Kapito, a board member and BlackRock president, is also Jewish, as is the CFO David Glazer. Larry Fink’s BlackRock also owns a considerable portion of the company itself.

It’s fair to say this is an essentially Jewish corporate construct, broadly speaking... a fact made all the more clear by recent revelations that Epstein covertly funded Palantir2 to the tune of $40 million (which grew to be worth nearly $170 million by 2025), and the fact that Palantir’s tech is currently being used with the most brutal effectiveness in the mass civilian slaughter occurring in Gaza—helping guide bombs and missiles, identify targets, etc.

(observe as Peter Thiel tries to pretend Epstein wasn’t a known Mossad operative, but rather worked exclusively with American intelligence)

This revelation couldn’t possibly be more important or consequential.

It’s a dangerous thing when any one company or institution centralizes such an immense amount of power and influence... far more dangerous when said institution was so obviously launched with the help of the CIA, and openly corrupt and hostile intelligence agencies... and yet still vastly more dangerous when the demographic subset at the helm is one that so openly and obsessively hates our own demographic, speaks frankly about how we should no longer exist, and supports countless avenues of degeneration and destruction and subversion to degrade and destroy our peoples and cultures... not just pornography, not just parasitic finance, not just the most widespread and insidious manipulation and deception across all media, but the countless migrant organizations now devoted to absolutely flooding our nations with the third world—as they simultaneously pursue a polar opposite approach in their own homeland.

Alex Karp has even openly bragged about he and his company’s role in preventing the ‘far right’ from securing power or gains in Europe, or manifesting significant and meaningful pushback against this nation-destroying migration.

To say these are our enemies, and to claim they represent a threat, seems an understatement... they seem to be the most rapidly rising enemies on the horizon, and the threat they represent is existential, unprecedented, and dire.

As I write this, the Trump administration is currently awarding them $795 million in contracts, after awarding over $110 million already3... and yet, the money being funneled into their coffers represents the least of our worries on this front. Institutions like Palantir are connected to a money faucet that can flow forever, from an essentially bottomless well... what they’re interested in is something more important, because the ultimate aim is power and control:

information.4

Some suggest, in fact, that Elon’s efforts with ‘DOGE’ weren’t actually aimed at cost savings in the least, but rather a backdoor by which a massive amount of data and information might be accessed by this new behemoth5... allowing them to make demands of companies and organizations and institutions across the entire governmental structure—with Presidential authority backing their requests—and being able to subsequently feed this priceless data into Palantir and its broader, long-term operations.

Others suggest this latest Trump/Musk feud is pure theater, to effectively distract from this Palantir power grab, and shift the conversation.

To be completely fair to Elon, he’s apparently made a comment about Thiel being ‘psychopathic’, superficially indicating an apparent split and friction... but this, too, may be purely for public consumption. It’s difficult to see the significant differences and contrasts between the ultimate goals of these two men, and their broader circles.

Like Thiel, Elon seems to be both an obsessive technocrat, and a man absolutely smitten with Rothschild Israel and world Jewry... seemingly devoted to serve their interests wherever they might lie, and thus never daring to utter a single critical word to actual power.

Trump, too, seems no different, very sadly and unfortunately... as much as so many in our ranks have so desperately wanted to believe otherwise. Incredibly, hidden in Trump’s sprawling “Big Beautiful Bill” lurks a 10-year ban on state AI regulations, essentially rolling out the red carpet for Palantir’s domination.

It’s almost unbelievable.

So, how did we get here? How are we suddenly on the verge of essentially signing away our nation to a handful of tech/finance/intel individuals of almost exclusively foreign extraction, who’ve openly stated that their main goal is to prevent our rise, and to ensure the protection of a wildly corrupt and subverted status quo?

Alex Jones and the ‘Theatrical Right’

To win any gains and forward inertia, a company like Palantir needs to ‘win over’ either the right or the left, and ride their ascendancy-inertia into power. To do so, they need to employ the most creative and powerful tools in their arsenal, and consistently engage in unique psychological operations.

Almost any sensible person can take one look at men like Alex Jones and recognize a carnival barker... an entertainer, an actor, a grifter, and a masterful manipulator. The massive problem, of course, is that he can also be likeable, when he cares to be... he’s not only an expert at doing the same thing Elon does in consistently pointing to his worst and most loathsome and unpopular enemies to effectively position himself as opposite to them to earn support and an audience, but he’s also quite simply a gifted communicator, capable of being amusing, witty—even insightful, in some constrained sense.

It’s long been known that Alex will never actually address the ‘Jewish Question’, or truly and comprehensively speak any ill of Israel. He’s been repeatedly connected to various intelligence agencies, if I’m not mistaken his children are technically Jewish due to his former wife’s Jewish heritage, and he’s had several direct Israeli connections, both with regard to those he works with, and those that help produce his show.

This has led to countless accusations that he’s a disingenuous fraud, a charlatan, and a plant... justifiably so, I’d argue—it’s almost impossible to believe a man like Alex doesn’t quietly have connections that play outsized roles in shaping and orienting his messages, for broader ends than his own personal profit. To speak completely frankly for a moment, I often wonder if he and his handler buddies share a good laugh over the fact that the tens of millions of dollars spent by his ‘far right’ anti-gov’t fanbase (to purchase his largely snake oil products) are now being funneled directly into the hands of intelligence/gov’t connected families in Newtown, due to the incredibly strange and precedent-setting Sandy Hook case… but, I digress.

The way Alex and those like him seem to operate, I’d suggest, is that they’re tasked to gradually build up a following and a sphere of influence to then be ‘used’ at the key, most important moments, with regard to the most important subject matter... and I can’t help but think the best evidence of this is in his recent defense of Palantir.6 Attempting to portray them as just one small tech company among many7, to portray them as Trump supporters (Alex Karp and other leading forces in the company not only voted for Kamala, but sent significant monies), as helping us ‘control terrorism’ (which has become increasingly synonymous with cracking down on public expressions of ‘antisemitism’, or any objections to Israel’s murderous overreach in Gaza)... he and those like him are attempting to pull off an exceptionally effective sleight of hand in portraying the outcry against this Jewish-technocrat alliance to create a surveillance state—the type of environment Alex has supposedly campaigned his entire life against—as a ‘leftist’ movement... in hopes that he might convince the lesser informed on the right that they should back Palantir, or at the very least be agnostic and not object strenuously.

They use Palantir’s limited involvement with a few ICE deportations, involvement loudly trumpeted across kosher-conservative media to help sell this narrative, as exhibit A in this argument. If branches of their tech are assisting ICE in theatrical raids, surely they must be our natural allies... so the theory goes.8

It’s all important to keep in mind that while the rhetoric toward migration (specifically and exclusively, illegal migration) has changed with this new administration, the overall rate of deportations has barely budged... and there’s essentially no talk of mass remigration from this avowedly left-leaning Palantir crowd. Karp himself is essentially a communist, and springs from these far-leftist roots... and even seems to bear some uncanny similarities to both Marx and Trotsky, philosophically psychologically and ideologically,9 with an undoubtedly similar god complex—much like Soros. To my own eye, he seems spiritually sick, to the highest degree... and even physically and mentally unwell, perhaps as a direct result. There’s a malevolence, a uniquely aggressive glee as he talks about murdering his enemies, that shouldn’t be glossed over, here.10

For now, their technology is employed to hunt down and kill Rothschild Israel’s enemies throughout the Middle East and the broader region... what makes anyone think it wouldn’t be used to hunt her enemies within Western nations, as soon as sufficient controls are in place to ensure they could handle the backlash? To assume otherwise seems absurd: of course they would... and they’d create a framework within which those who stood for truth and decency were portrayed as representing the root of all evil, and this inverted framework would be coded into Palantir’s structure.

To a significant degree, it already is.

Wikileaks vs Palantir: The Mask Slips

Julian Assange seems to be one of that extremely rare breed that doesn’t just pose and posture as a courageous man speaking truth to power, but rather quietly does so, without a care for the praise or fanfare, willing to bear the burdens of the hell such stances might unleash.

Because Wikileaks releases put Palantir (and their natural allies) in such a bad light—in other words, because factual truths revealed caused the public to know their true character—they declared all-out war on Assange, flippantly making use of the dirtiest of tactics, and showing their true face in the process.

Impressively, Wikileaks refuses to be cowed, and has continued to sound the alarm… and I recommend those on X seeking a unique and important perspective on these topics to give them a follow. I may not agree with their every last stance, but I certainly appreciate that they exist.

The worst people in the world (Mike Pompeo is a perfect example here) seem to hold the most passionate hatred for WL. This, in itself, speaks volumes about their principles and effectiveness.

Regardless of how one might feel about the entirety of the situation in the middle east, please try to resist the Palantir narrative push to pretend that anyone standing against Rothschild Israel’s mass civilian murder for their own personal gain and strategic ends is somehow a ‘leftist’ position.

They consistently highlight the most offensively annoying pro-Palestinian voices and actions and gatherings across mainstream media, in what seems to be an effort to create a caricature to push right-leaning White Americans into supporting the Jewish war machine… or at least, not speaking against it. This is masterclass manipulation, and should be recognized as such.

The truth is that even men like Thiel seem to know, deep down and on some level I believe they desperately try to repress, that what they’re involved in is the very definition of evil. Observe him stuttering and stammering, at 1:07:19 below, in response to the most basic questions in these regards:

When courageous truth speakers are hunted to the ends of the earth, and their polar opposites become immensely powerful billionaires, something has gone very wrong.

In their dogged hounding of Assange, Palantir revealed their true nature… and precisely what forces they work for, and which they work against. The former, quite clearly, seems to be the monied status quo—the latter, the public at large.

James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel, JD Vance

At the epicenter of this Palantir/Paypal-mafia/technocrat construct is Vice President JD Vance... a former never-Trumper who promptly performed an about-face, and with the consistent help of Thiel, worked his way swiftly upward through the ranks of both finance and politics.

It was Peter Thiel who setup Vance with his first job in venture capital—and then his second job—and then funded Vance’s venture capital fund, and then encouraged him to write hillbilly elegy11, it was Thiel who brokered a truce between Trump and Vance, it was Thiel who gave $15 million to JD Vance’s PAC when he ran for Senate.. and it was Thiel/Musk/Carlson who encouraged Trump to choose Vance as running mate

Vance, much like Tucker Carlson, is an intelligent, well-spoken, generally likeable man... his eloquence and compelling debate performances, the fact that he’s been packaged and sold so perfectly by the handlers helping usher him into the spotlight, makes it very difficult for many of us to be as suspicious or uncomfortable with the man as we likely should be.

He truly does appear to be the public-facing front of this group, the political ‘man on the inside’ who could now very easily be President of the United States in the blink of an eye.

They chose their man well, and perhaps groomed and shaped him well... just yesterday he appeared on comedian Theo Von’s show, and despite Theo asking some very direct and pointed questions about Palantir and Israel and Gaza, Vance—almost effortlessly—slipped out of each noose, and artfully evaded several moments that might’ve destroyed the careers of other men. And of course, this was just one example of a great many, he’s obviously exceptionally skilled in this arena.

Most importantly, he’s been framed as this Appalachian country-boy White man, which is precisely what was needed right this moment to win over right-leaning White America... despite him showing so little love and respect for his people and culture and throwing away this Western background forever via his choice of partners, even still he manages to maintain the illusion, in the eyes of many.

At the very least within our own circles, it should never be forgotten:

JD Vance is a man that moves in circles that are utterly dominated by finance, tech, and near-total Jewish influence. He may work to strike a very particular tone to help accomplish the aims of this crowd, but these are his roots, this is the actual life path he’s embraced... and he is exceedingly unlikely to grow a conscience someday and betray such men, in favor of exclusively serving the interests of the American people.

Curtis Yarvin and Friends

I’d thought it was a joke at first, but looking into it further, it’s legitimate:

apparently one of Vance’s ‘leading philosophical influences’ is the Thiel-backed Curtis Yarvin.

Long ago, in casting such a wide net seeking interesting people and ideas to consume, I came upon BAP (‘Bronze Age Pervert’), and found some of his ideas unique and interesting, and agreed with many, at a passing glance. The more I heard, the more I grew a bit suspect of the ultimate intentions—but this is a topic for another time. It was through this sphere that I first heard the name ‘Curtis Yarvin’.

A majority of the time I’d come across someone in our circles that I didn’t fully resonate with, or I wasn’t sure what we had in common, I’d often find out later that they were a fan of Yarvin’s work.

Regardless, completely without prejudice at the time, and not knowing anything about the fellow or his background and seeking new political and ideological fodder to mull over to expand my own horizons, I sought out some of what he’d written.

It’s genuinely not my intention here to be rude, or unnecessarily cruel, but as I read through as much of his work as I could stomach, my first reaction was revulsion and disgust... followed by total confusion as to how such a thinker could’ve ever been accepted by anyone even pretending to be in our ranks.

To my eye, it felt like the worst and most offensive sort of sophistry, casuistry, and pilpul... an avalanche of wordplay designed to nudge the reader into a perception of reality that couldn’t be much more inaccurate or dishonest or unhelpful.

I suspect a lion’s share of the reason is because Yarvin is Jewish—even a proud self-described ‘rootless cosmopolitan’—and has gradually constructed a framework accordingly that places his people in the most positive light possible. I, on the other hand, like so many of you, have obviously moved in the opposite direction in recent decades, gradually coming to view his people (and their unfortunate prevailing mentality) as a central cause of so many of our ills in the western world.

His broader philosophy and ideology seemed to turn reality on its head, and in many ways was an almost direct inversion of my own. The WASPish elite was the outstanding force to blame, in his narrative... the ‘Cathedral’, as he so comically and infamously calls them. His own people were the real ‘blue bloods’—despite having absolutely no connection to genuine Royalty or Nobility throughout history—destined to rule the world, because clever and shrewd.

He seems to have a knack for taking those things that matter least, and are most sickly and broken—for example our very modern political system of the moment—and placing them center-stage and making them all-important. Those things that matter most: history, blood and lineage, culture and peoples, hardly factor in to his worldview... which is entirely oriented around modern politics, finance, and technology, and (I’d suggest) utterly disconnected from the broader chain of existence, and all of its natural beauty and power.

It’d be amusing, if it weren’t so insidious, that his anti-democracy ideas that so appeal to many in our ranks are only a thing to his mind because he ultimately seeks the authoritarian rule of his own type... in other words, he posits a move from terrible to somehow even more terrible. These technocratic rootless cosmopolitans would be the new Monarchs, in his vision... a Jewish tech/finance obsessed amoral subset of upstarts—a perfect marriage with Thiel, Karp, Palantir, etc.

It’s difficult to exaggerate just how much of a net-negative this path might prove to be, long term. He’s essentially laid out a philosophical basis for justifying Jewish domination of western nations, and the world at large... and in doing so, has become the darling of some of the worst people in the world.

Disoriented Hierarchies in Modernity: A Broader Philosophical and Structural Issue

As someone passionate about history, I can’t help but be bothered by those who dismiss our manners of living in previous eras—our modes and methods of developing hierarchy and leadership structure—as ‘primitive’ or unevolved. Merely because something is simple and straightforward doesn’t mean it’s fundamentally inferior... in a great many cases, the truth seems to be the exact opposite.

I’d suggest this so obviously holds true for our more straightforward structures of power and hierarchy throughout our history, relative to the post-French Revolution byzantine complexity, so championed by lawyers, sophists, and that type Edmund Burke so aptly called ‘new men’:

ambitious upstarts from the self-described most self-serving ‘professional classes’, frequently banding together to unseat and replace genuine nobility at every opportunity—and finally, brazenly pretending to be this very nobility.

In contrast, throughout much of our history, our most powerful men became our most powerful men due—more often than not and broadly speaking—to a slew of powerful and innate characteristics. Charisma, virtue, courage, natural gravitas, because of their accomplishment and achievement, because of their sober and mature minds... the public knew who these people were, knew their history and that of their family and their broader lineage, and thus knew roughly what to expect from them, and knew their ‘measure’ and capabilities—knew that lending their time and energy to these individuals probably wouldn’t be something they’d live to regret.

Today, in a post-WW2 world so dominated by the dollar, we increasingly pretend that power is roughly synonymous with financial wealth, in so many regards... and to the extent that this mentality is believed/embraced/adopted, almost any caliber of man can rise to positions of the greatest reach and influence... and this influence frequently stretches into countless lives of men who have no idea who this person is or what they believe or represent.

It strikes me as an extremely broken system, in desperate need of attention and overhaul... it represents the perfect means and methods to allow the most completely corrupt and disreputable sort of man to rise to positions he could’ve never dreamed of in prior generations—into positions he’d have been rightfully barred from in environments seeking to maintain their health and balance and vitality—and we’ll collectively live to pay such a massive price for this oversight, if we can’t find ways to make significant changes here.

This simple truth is all-important:

The public must have real reason to like and respect all of those who have power over them, and there can’t be any covert back doors to this power.

A permanent truism is that when our foremost men aren’t our best men, everyone suffers, and everything begins to break down... it really is this simple. Self-serving lower caliber men will find every creative method under the sun to parasitically drain a people and a nation, and call themselves ‘successful’ as they do so... our trouble begins the moment any of us begin to agree with this framing, and think of such men as ‘successful’ or ‘accomplished’.

This is the dangerously faulty future these men represent... they seek to manifest a ‘technocracy’ allowing them to dominate as a master class/caste via the usage of tools they themselves didn’t (and couldn’t) create, but merely paid scores of more capable men to create, to ultimately cultivate an unnatural and artificial power structure. Unchecked, ‘merit’ will be increasingly redefined as ‘who can best serve the status quo’, and in purely economic and financial terms, courage and virtue and nobility and loyalty will be tossed aside as unhelpful hindrance to economic progress, and a mediocre administrative class will become the dutiful servants of these new ‘elites’, ensuring all stay on the reservation, and any threats or attacks to the new status quo are snuffed out immediately.

Speaking personally—and I’m certain I’m not alone here—this isn’t just a disturbing and dystopian vision of a future dominated by a subset that have so consistently proven their hatred for us throughout history, and so frequently championed a polar opposite vision for the future... it’s also just brutally uninspiring, uninteresting, and it’s a future that seems excessively small and petty, so lacking in depth and substance and life-affirming energy and beauty.

I fear that Palantir is meant to usher us into this future... and if necessary, force those who so object to this vision to ultimately comply and obey.

A Technological Noose

I think a great many of us still underestimate how unbelievably powerful these tools are… and still more, will someday become.

Having worked on data and database-fueled predictive models, aimed at making an optimally-educated guess about the future based on the broader data context picture and past history and patterns, I can attest—first hand—as to how incredibly proficient these can be, if properly constructed and subsequently populated with a sufficient number of relevant datapoints.

It’s no surprise we have difficulty grasping this—this is all essentially unprecedented territory we’re sprinting headlong into... there are no exact historical parallels. In the entire stretch of recorded history, data and information has never been harnessed and used as it is today.

We’re rushing toward the unknown, in a very real sense.

The underlying danger isn’t so much the surveillance, but in the domination of the prevailing narrative and storyline. If Karp and friends are able to author and orient the framework and perspective through which we see the world, i.e. that every true patriot cheers Rothschild Israel and the far-right is an existential threat to western civilization etc., the western world is doomed to be a handful of vassal states serving a globalist Jewish financial empire, forever… and as the grip tightens, as they attain ever greater control and power and dominance, things will grow immeasurably worse for all of us.

Final Note

Regardless of whether you fully agree with the above, the simple truth of the matter is clear:

Palantir is enormously powerful, and threatens to become ever more so as time marches forward, at least to the degree that we completely lack vigilance and allow our data to flow so freely and easily into their hands.

It’s a mistake to think that Presidents or Prime Ministers or any political actors still wield the real power... the epicenter of power no longer lies in our political spheres, nor is it even bound to any one nation. It’s increasingly supra-national, international, and it’s most powerful tendrils most proactively shape and orient our world through the spheres of money/finance and tech.

Leaders on the public stage are almost without a single exceptional dutiful puppets, playing a theatrical role for public consumption, serving hidden masters. This is why taking politics seriously and pretending there may be political solutions to our problems is such a massive mistake, and such a profound waste of time and energy.

Right this moment, I don’t know precisely what the solution is to this unique problem we face.. one thing I do know is that if a sufficient percentage of the public around the world truly understood who this company is and what they ultimately represent, they’d subsequently radiate a toxic aura to the degree that it’d be nearly impossible for them to function as they seek to function.

Please dig deeper, watch closely, and speak your thoughts publicly..

their only hope is to fly under the radar, to quietly and covertly seize this ultimate ‘wizard behind the curtain’ brand of power before people actually understand what’s occurring..

I’d suggest that we need to creatively do all in our power to prevent this…

meanwhile, never give in to small-minded nihilism, never forget that there are brighter times ahead—inevitably.

Growing up, I remember being comforted by the idea that our understanding of history was, seemingly, akin to some beautiful linear progression:

We’re all working together trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together to the best of our ability, sharing our findings, mutually building atop the work of the most reliable and sensible theories. That all were proactively seeking the truth, wherever it may lie, and that gradually we were moving closer and closer to this truth, collectively.

In time, I slowly but surely came to the disheartening realization that this conception of the world was childish naivete.. that, in actuality, many powerful vested interests (even entire nations, in some cases) had every incentive to push in the opposite direction—to ensure truth would always evade the public's grasp.

It wasn’t just some small handful of instances of the obscuration or outright destruction of historical sites or artifacts, but countless.. I couldn’t help but see a pattern, and a frequency and sheer number of disturbing happenings that went far beyond mere coincidence.

Still worse, I began noticing much of modern scholarship playing defense attorney in shielding the worst offenders, which struck me as incredibly odd. For those of us that consider history so profoundly important, the destruction of artifacts or sculptures or ancient sites is the equivalent of tearing up some priceless work of literature or painting discovered in the basement of some long dead master—if there’s even a chance such a thing is happening, the natural response is to be up in arms to do everything in one’s power to prevent it. And if we have fairly definitive proof of such things, the natural reaction would seem to be to fight like hell in the opposite direction.

Instead, bafflingly, over the years I’ve seen an army of modern academics and scholars deployed to label those most vocal about these destructive incidents ‘conspiracy theorists,’ and then proceed to actively work against them and their exposure of these greatest crimes.

Long story short to avoid extreme digression—something very wrong seems to be occurring here. How many of those involved actually understand the what or why of it all, and how many are proactively assisting in this destruction or cover-up of history with full knowledge of what they’re doing, is very hard to say:

In my experience, the greatest and most effective deceivers are always those who don’t know they’re playing a role in a broader deception.

In other words, useful idiots hoodwinked into believing they’re doing something net-positive, even while broadly assisting in or enabling the most net-negative things imaginable.

In any case, something very dark is undoubtedly going on, here.. and it needs to be spoken to. I’ll simply let the evidence speak for itself.

China and the Far East - the Earliest Recorded History

All the way back to the famed ‘Yellow Emperor’ and approximately 2600-2700 BC, there are indications of ‘steppe’ or Aryan inputs in and around modern China—though these remain controversial, contested, and very difficult to prove or disprove considering the near 5000 years that have passed since.

One of these speculations is that the very name of this first great leader and culture hero, the Yellow Emperor, was an ancient reference to his unique hair and beard.. similar to how Indra and numerous Vedic ‘gods’ and heroes were described in a similar manner.

A notable example of this is Wei Juxian's 1933 article, which identified the Xia dynasty, considered descendants of the Yellow Emperor, as having Caucasian-like features. Wei claimed they had deep-set eyes, high noses, and beards, and suggested their language, customs, and clothing were similar to those of Aryans, with an original homeland in the Caucasus. He further described them as a "white and pure race."

The Yin, on the other hand, were ‘red barbarians’ from an area of China now known as Sichuan province. The mixing of white and red had given birth to the yellow Han. Wei Juxian bolstered the idea by locating the source of intermixture: southern barbarians had undermined the original purity of the divine descendants of the Yellow Emperor.

It’s difficult to know precisely what to believe, here..

though we do know that this heroic progenitor’s story mirrors many similar figures almost certainly of Aryan background, said to have brought culture and civilization and technology to a people—to have wholly revamped their manner of thinking and living, and the structures and institutions within which they functioned.

But again, this is heavily speculative. The earliest definitive indications we have of a decidedly Aryan (a term I’m using to describe an ethnic and linguistic family who spread the Indo-European languages) people in the region would be the mysterious Tocharians—whose remains are frequently 6ft+ in stature, with fair hair, and tartan print clothing, who were likely living around the Tarim Basin at least back to 2100 BC.. and were apparently a sizeable, wealthy, and powerful population.

According to historians and scholars such as W.B. Henning1, these Tocharians may be closely related to the ‘Guti’ people who once inhabited the Zagros mountains, a portion of whom would then sweep into Mesopotamia as the ‘Gutians’.2

These Tocharians were an immensely capable people, made wealthy by controlling the silk route trade through their massive region—to my mind it’d not be the least bit surprising if a branch of this population had pushed much further east at an early stage.

We certainly find evidence of a heavily related people family in the area a bit later, likely in the Shang (approximately 1600–1046 BC)3, almost certainly in the Zhou (approximately 1046–256 BC, representing the longest dynasty in Chinese history, responsible for both Confucianism and Daoism), until we come to the state of Zhao (approximately 403–222 BC) who we essentially know now to have been heavily influenced by Scythian/steppe stock, as Christopher Beckwith so well proves in his works on the region.4

Chariot Technology: Archaeological discoveries of chariots in Shang dynasty burials at Anyang, dated to around 1200 BC, resemble Indo-European chariot designs from Central Asia, suggesting direct technological transfer at bare minimum. These chariots, used for warfare and ceremonial purposes, are remarkably similar to those found in Indo-European cultures, such as the Andronovo culture in Central Asia (c. 2000–1200 BC).

Metallurgy and Bronze Work: Advanced bronze-working techniques in the Shang and Zhou, particularly spoked-wheel chariots and weapons, share similarities with Indo-European (and Andronovo and Sintashta) cultures, indicating likely cultural exchange.

Linguistic Connections: The Zhou dynasty’s association with the Qiang people, whose name “Jiang” may link to Indo-European linguistic roots, suggests cultural or ethnic interactions. Edwin Pulleyblank proposed that the Qiang spoke a language with Indo-European features, possibly akin to Tocharian, influencing early Chinese vocabulary (e.g., pastoral terms). Victor Mair (The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia, 1998) similarly explores Indo-European impacts, suggesting Tocharian intermediaries. The Chinese words for both ‘horse’ and ‘wheel’ seem to spring from Tocharian.

Archaeological Finds in the Tarim Basin: The presence of Indo-European Tocharians, evidenced by the Tarim mummies, indicates potential cultural influence on neighboring Chinese dynasties through trade routes.

At a later date of around 250 BC, Beckwith effectively argues that the famed Qin Shi Huang and the royal line he helped create originated from the Scythians, who likely founded the Zhao kingdom and ultimately the Qin dynasty.. but interestingly, before Qin Shi Huang, it’s said that ‘each region had its own customs and culture, although elite culture was identical throughout’. I think this last line is crucial. I suspect the Indo-European elite—who ruled these far eastern territories in a feudalistic manner similar to that which seems to have been so incredibly prevalent in our past and would subsequently go on to dominate much of Europe—were of extremely similar ethnic and cultural stock. Though perhaps some of their armies were composed of peoples of slightly different stock, especially in later periods after approximately 100 BC.

Around this time and just after, we have an explosion of obviously Indo-European peoples in the region, such as the Wusun, the Yuezhi (a title some scholars link directly to ‘Guti’ via its etymology), the Kangju and Yancai, the Dayuan and Saka. The majority of whom remain until finally pushed westward with the rise of the Xiongnu—who themselves seemed to have an Indo-European elite, at least in their early stages, and likely gradually morphed into that people we’ve come to know as the ‘Huns’ over several hundred years.

In short, the Aryan history in the region is obvious, significant, and long-lasting and wide-ranging.. why is it, then, that we still know so precious little about it? Why is it so little discussed, a chapter of history so little known and discussed?

A Mischaracterization of History

When hearing about far-eastern or Anatolian or Mesopotamian peoples, one likely pictures darker-haired/eyed/skinned peoples in extremely foreign and exotic dress, foreign customs and cultures, and little direct connection or resonance is felt by any modern European.. thanks to decades of History channel specials and poorly researched articles or movies or YouTube videos portraying these peoples using the faces of those who live in these regions today, echoing the same narratives of post-WW2 academia, this is our universal caricature of these peoples, almost without exception.

Modern scholarship paints a picture of a world populated by several distinct people groups who were essentially equal in ability and achievement, who rarely moved or migrated, and who each—by sheer lucky chance—had their brief moment in the sun. One people would fall away due to mysterious causes, another people would suddenly spring to prominence equally mysteriously. One day it’d be the Mayans, the next day the Sumerians, the next day the Chinese.. until finally, that barbaric people who’d been aimlessly wandering about in forests chasing pigs and drinking and tattooing one another finally found their legs, very late in history, and experienced their own 15 minutes of fame.

This is completely (foolishly, insultingly) inaccurate. And it’s a lie that desperately needs to be slain, if we care to make any real sense of our collective history. Peoples don’t simply appear and disappear into thin air, and technological developments don’t often occur independently—nor does the creative spirit of innovation arise in all peoples equally, as much as the soft-hearted amongst us might so desperately want it to.

The most capable peoples and cultures tend to stem from the most capable ancestors, and subsequently give birth to the most capable children.. this Jared Diamond-esque idea that lucky and coincidental environmental conditions is what gives rise to greatness is one of the most wrongheaded and subversive imaginable.

If there’s one thing I’ve gradually become the most certain of, in my decades of exhaustively pouring over all of the root historical sources I’ve been able to get my hands on, it’s that the ‘hyperdiffusionist’ model of history is the most correct, the most logical and sensible, and the only explanation that fits and tells a comprehensible and cohesive story. The greatest achievements across the vast majority of history follow a relatively singular and highly connected and intertwined storyline.

It’s no mere coincidence that the Indo-European language is completely unique in its scope and scale of spread and propagation across the majority of the known world. The proto-Indo-European family of peoples proved uniquely and exceptionally capable, adventurous, hardy, and resilient, and any accurate history of the world outside of North and South America will essentially be a documentation of their journey, to the extent that it focuses on innovation and development and great achievement.

I’m aware this is no longer politically correct, but it is correct—and this is all that should matter, to any decent and reasonable person. History can’t be custom tailored to suit the sensitivities of any particular individuals or groups of people, for any reason.. it must either speak its actual truth, plainly and clearly and directly, or it’s essentially worthless and misleading as a ‘discipline’, and becomes a chaotic and unhelpful hodgepodge of dishonest fabrication.

In coming videos and articles, I’m going to do this ever more directly and bluntly.. and in this case, to avoid further digression, we’ll be focusing on the Far East. As we do so, please try to avoid calling to mind the caricature created by modern television and movies, coupled with a recognition that we’ve only recently come to uncover just how connected the Scythian and steppe peoples were to the ruling classes of these far-flung empires. And instead, try to envision them as they were, and as direct kin to the descendants of the Indo-European people family of today.

Qin Shi Huang and the First Imperial Dynasty of China

One of the most fascinating (and telling, and informative) aspects of history is the development of the notion of royalty.. and practically without exception, if we trace the development of ‘royalty’ throughout and across numerous nations, we can ultimately trace it back to a singular people group. The very concept of sacred kingship seems to emerge from this single population—its spread isn’t coincidental or happenstance, it isn’t a case of numerous distinct peoples coming to the idea on their own, but rather it contagiously spreads from a single source that we can trace and track.

This is absolutely and unequivocally true for the earliest royal dynasties of the East.

The prevailing rulership and governance structure seemed to resemble feudalism, with nobles having their land worked by feudal serfs, via a structure that seems practically as old as written history.. perhaps older.

The Qin dynasty was the first imperial dynasty in China.. and as we’ll get into in a moment, the first to unify the warring states, and created a unified and cohesive nation.

Beckwith posits (correctly, I believe) that the man most responsible for this, Qin Shi Huang, originally Zheng, was likely ancestrally Scythian, having grown up as a hostage in the Zhao court, a Scythian-influenced polity.5

Even the Chinese name for China, huá (華), derives from the Scythian term Arya, meaning “noble,” a conception that parallels huá in its connotation of nobility and cultural superiority. The Qin dynasty’s conception of divine kingship, too, seems directly derived from the Scythian tradition of sacred rulership, where kings were seen as divinely ordained.

In his short reign, Qin Shi Huang managed to at long last unite all of the warring states under his singular rule—thus creating the new title of 'emperor' accordingly.

He’s responsible for beginning construction of the Great Wall, for the creation of the Terracotta Army, for standardizing the writing system, currency, weights and measures—even cart axle widths, facilitating efficient trade and administration. His extensive legal reforms centralized power and instilled order, his cultivation of an extensive road and canal system helped the region begin to flourish.. in short, he was an exceptional individual, to whom China owes a great deal of her initial forward progress.

To be fair, some believe him to have been heavy-handed in the process, with some accusations of book burning, presumably engaged in to narrow and unify the scope of prevailing thought—but regardless of how we choose to view his methods, they were certainly effective in bringing order to a region that had only known chaos for quite some time.

When this great man finally passed away, he left us one of the greatest monuments in human history..

The Unprecedented Scale of the Grand Tomb of Qin Shi Huang

The tomb of Qin Shi Huang, located near Xi'an, is a monumental archaeological site, constructed over 38 years starting in 246 BC. It features a 76-meter-tall truncated pyramid and is designed to replicate the layout of the capital, Xianyang, with inner and outer city walls. The Terracotta Army, discovered within the tomb complex in 1974, consists of over 8,000 uniquely crafted figures, including soldiers, horses, and chariots, showcasing remarkable craftsmanship.

This army was intended to protect the emperor in the afterlife and provides valuable insights into the military and artistic achievements of the Qin dynasty.

The tomb's construction involved conspicuously advanced engineering, such as digging through groundwater layers and using bronze for the outer coffin. Historical accounts suggest that the local rivers and seas were replicated with mercury—mercury which some accounts say may still be flowing to this day, and indeed what little testing has occurred on the site shows remarkably high levels of the substance. It’s also said that the ceiling of this massive tomb accurately replicates the starry skies and heavenly constellations.

The discovery of the Imperial Palace in 2012 further proved just how monumental this construction truly was, covering a footprint approximately a quarter the size of China’s 'Forbidden City.'

There were legends that he had been buried inside a veritable mini-city with palaces, carriages, treasures, and anything else he’d need in the afterlife – and through luck, or fate, these farmers hit the jackpot. The site is so massive, that researchers are “going to be digging there for centuries,” archaeologist Kristin Romey told Live Science in 2012.

To this day, we’re told that not a single human being has set foot inside the tomb, with some suggesting archaeologists or the Chinese government are ‘afraid’ of the potential combination of traps lying in wait for the first who attempt to uncover its secrets.

However, I don’t personally see this as the most logical or likely reasoning.. the possibility that several powerful groups don’t want to uncover these secrets must finally be taken seriously, all things considered.

A Scythian Cultural (and Ethnic?) Branch in the Far East

The Qin’s military success, particularly its cavalry, was definitively rooted in Scythian tactics6 adopted through Zhao, allowing Qin to powerfully outmaneuver other states and establish dominance.

Beckwith links the Qin to the broader Scythian-driven “Axial Age,” a period roughly between 800 and 200 BC when significant intellectual and spiritual shifts occurred across various civilizations in Eurasia.. seemingly emerging from a centralized steppe/Scythian hub or central spoke. He claims figures like Laozi, associated with Qin’s intellectual milieu, were Scythian, influencing Chinese thought.

The synchronicity of philosophical developments in China, India, and Greece during the Axial Age, as noted by Karl Jaspers, is attributed to Scythian diffusion. Beckwith suggests Laozi’s Daoism, which emerged during the Warring States period, reflects Scythian monotheistic or philosophical ideas, possibly via Zhao

It wasn’t just the formidable cavalry that the Qin seemed to inherit from the Steppe. According to Beckwith, the Scythian model of governance, too, provided a blueprint for Qin’s autocratic rule, distinguishing it from earlier Chinese states.

Scythian rulers, as seen in later steppe polities like the Xiongnu, maintained a “royal tribe” with divine legitimacy, a practice Beckwith traces to the Qin’s imperial ideology. Qin Shi Huang’s title, Huangdi (emperor), and his Legalist policies reflect a centralized, divine authority akin to Scythian models

So while we have a firm grasp on the connections of the Qin period, again this was likely far from the earliest influence of this Scythian/Steppe/Aryan element—and in fact, it may have been only the latest influence we’re aware of.

In Korea, the Goguryeo and Silla show a strong connection to a steppe heritage, including the traditional emphasis on horse riding, archery, warrior aristocracy, and similar burial mounds and royal headdress. In Japan, the Kofun period and the rise of the Yamato clan (the foundation for Japan’s imperial house) show similar connections.. though these, too, may just be the latter stages of a much broader and wider-ranging heritage.

A heritage that China, more than any other nation in the region, bears numerous hallmarks of… and yet, these hallmarks aren’t touted with pride, or treated with respect, or hailed as the mysterious wonders that they are—rather, they’re hidden away, scarcely discussed, minimized, and mischaracterized, by a modern China that seems devoted to quietly destroying this element of her region’s history.

From the early Tocharians in the Tarim Basin, to the Yuezhi, the Wusun, the Yancai, and Xiongnu, this entire eastern portion of the steppe was once overrun with Indo-European peoples and cultures..

might it be that a modern China with a relatively corrupt communist (and yet vaguely nationalistic) government considers this history an unprofitable and inconvenient threat?

The Pyramids of China

Above is the first widely known sighting of what’s been called ‘the White Pyramid’ of China, an account from 1945, which was soon to be followed by a handful of others—all reporting a pyramid so large (around 1,000-ft high and 1,500-ft wide) that it’d dwarf the largest in Egypt.

However, it was Fred Meyer Schroder, an American trader, that first reported the enigma in 1912.

At the time, he was travelling through the Shaanxi Province with a guide, where he recorded a thorough description in his diary, noting he had seen one giant pyramid approximately 1,000 feet tall and nearly twice that size in length, surrounded by a number of smaller pyramids.

Incredibly, as early as the 17th century, a Roman Jesuit had written about the pyramids in general—and in 1785, the French orientalist and sinologist Joseph de Guignes subsequently wrote ‘An Essay in Which We Prove The Chinese Are an Egyptian Colony’.

Though these specific sightings of the mythical White Pyramid remain mired in controversy—and perhaps justifiably so, as despite seemingly reliable initial sightings, nobody seems able to locate it again today—we know for a fact that at least somewhere between 40 and 100 pyramid (or ‘pyramid-like’) structures exist across China today, with some apparently dating back to the so-called Neolithic Hongshan culture (4700–2900 BC).

You’d think the entire world would be abuzz at these findings, and China herself especially—perhaps enthusiastically leading the charge to study and examine and comprehensively understand these ancient creations, and announce them to the world. In actuality, the polar opposite route has been taken.

The Chinese government and military have placed the most aggressive restrictions on these territories, making them essentially impossible to explore—oftentimes even to fly over, let alone engage in archaeological digs.

Thanks to Google Earth and droves of curious researchers, it’s no longer possible to so easily deny or flippantly explain away these structures.. and so, they’ve opted to go a new, more creative route—planting trees atop them. Coincidentally, trees with root systems that do incredible damage to underground structures.

It’s said that within a few decades, such sites might be dismissed simply as natural hills.. with only ‘conspiracy theorists’ suggesting otherwise.

Most infuriatingly of all, taking a page from the book of Gobekli Tepe, China has begun using the excuse that they refuse to engage in digs and excavation or exploration in the area to ‘preserve them for future research’..

“Xi Jinping’s government say the technology does not exist yet to disturb the pyramids without damaging their contents, citing King Tut’s discovery for reference.”

a maddeningly stupid conception, and an excuse that might presumably be used to kick the can down the road indefinitely—as potentially some of the most important keys to our collective historical past lie just under our feet, untouched and unexplored, slowly being eroded by a government that seemingly cares only to keep hidden whatever might exist below their feet.

The Beauty of Loulan

Of course, it’s not just structures being locked down and facing restricted access by the Chinese government—it’s also the exhumation of burial sites and mummified remains of obviously Indo-European peoples.

The Beauty of Loulan, discovered in 1980 near the ancient city in Xinjiang, China, is renowned for her remarkable preservation, dating back to around 1800 BC. Estimated to be in her 40s at death, her body was preserved by the arid, salty conditions, retaining details like eyelashes. Wrapped in wool cloth, cowhide leather, and linen, and wearing leather shoes, her obviously Caucasian features, including reddish-brown hair, suggest a connection to European ancestry, making her a symbol of the region’s ancient history.7

Citing supposed fears of fanning Uighur nationalist sentiment, China has made it extraordinarily difficult for scientists outside China to engage in any excavation or testing—or even to see the mummies.

Genetic testing conducted in 1993 by Victor H. Mair and Italian geneticist Paolo Francalacci—which proved her European genetic heritage—had to be done using smuggled samples.. and if it weren’t for their courage and curiosity, we’d simply never have known.

How many more remains like these, with the power to help us piece together our history, lie waiting to be uncovered in these regions?

Chinese Scholarly Support of Extensive Indo-European Influence

There’s a reason WW2-era Germany was so interested in the Far East, a reason why they sent such an extensive mission into Tibet to study the people and their culture and history.

Many German scholars believed this wider region was home to a large remnant of Aryan peoples after a major cataclysm—and that Tibet, because of its isolation, may have retained some of the symbology, cultural elements, even aspects of an older spiritual doctrine. And that even the Tibetan priests themselves may harbor some distant (albeit very much ‘mixed,’ over the years) genetic connection to this most ancient family. The branches of whom would later sweep into India, Persia, etc.

Though, importantly, it’s not just ‘Eurocentric’ pre-WW2 European scholarship that has spoken extensively to early Indo-European influence throughout China.

Zhang Guangda and Rong Xinjiang are notable for their emphasis on the role of Indo-European-speaking groups, such as the Tocharians, in cultural exchanges along the Silk Road, suggesting that these groups brought a wealth of advanced technologies and ideas to China.

Rong’s predecessors in the 1930s had emphasized the historical role of the Yuezhi and Tocharians in shaping Chinese trade and cultural networks, suggesting Indo-European influences on early Chinese civilization.. likely spurring Rong’s focus on the Yuezhi’s migration to Bactria and their impact on Han Dynasty interactions, seen as part of a broader Aryan diffusion narrative.

Linguistic studies by scholars like Xu Wenkan highlight the presence of Indo-European languages in ancient Xinjiang, supporting the idea of significant Indo-European influence in the region. Numerous similarities between Shang dynasty artifacts and those of the Scythians indicate powerful mutual influence, especially with regard to harnesses, swords, daggers, etc.8

It’s even thought the fall of Western Zhou may have been due to Scythians sweeping down from the steppes, in approximately 770 BC.

Separating out which peoples were merely heavily influenced by Indo-European and Scythian elements, and which peoples were ruled or governed by these groups (or perhaps fully Scythian themselves) isn’t always simple and straightforward. And in the cultural atmosphere of the present, in which virtually all of academia is now politically and conceptually united to combat a hyperdiffusionist perspective (or even the very mention of the term Arya or Aryan outside of a most narrow and neutered usage to describe only Iranians, or only Indians), progress on these fronts becomes ever slower and more difficult.

To my mind, the broader perspective picture is very clear—from an extremely early date even prior to 2000 B.C., an Indo-European population of considerable size and power and influence was extremely active in the region. And branches of this population almost certainly carried technological advancements and philosophical and spiritual conceptions to neighboring regions, and many of the most exceptional individuals subsequently became the famed philosophers and heroes and legendary figures of old.

There is a beautiful story here, and one that so clearly has yet to be properly told.. and there seem to be forces proactively working against its ever being properly told.

The Sad Case of the Uighurs

It’s not just historical structures or mummies China seems intent on figuratively burying, but the remnants of any cultural and genetic connections that connect this region to its obvious Indo-European past.

The Uighurs have become the unfortunate victims of this push to rewrite history and reframe the present.

Though the ancient Aryan admixture may be slight at this point, after millennia of increasing ethnic mixture containing ever greater portions of modern Chinese blood and ever lesser degrees of Indo-European blood, the Uighurs likely represent the last surviving examples of this ancient Tocharian or Scythic stock—however faintly.9

“Research indicates Uighurs have genetic admixture from Eastern Asian and European populations, with closer ties to Europeans, suggesting Indo-European influence. Historical interactions with the Tocharians, Indo-European speakers in the Tarim Basin, and steppe nomads like the Scythians likely contributed to this. Archaeological finds, such as Caucasian mummies, and genetic studies showing haplogroups like R1a and R1b, support these connections, reflecting Xinjiang’s role as a Silk Road crossroads”

Sadly, it might already be fair to use the past tense and say they represented the last examples, as modern China has done such an efficient job of drastically minimizing the footprint and influence of this embattled minority.

You’re not likely to find a great deal of fair skin or fair hair or fair eyes among this remnant, the majority of whom have entered the Muslim sphere, and now speak a Turkic tongue—but several of their extremely distant ancestors are likely the same as our own, as Europeans.10

“Xinjiang, the Uighurs’ homeland, has been a melting pot of cultures and peoples for millennia due to its position along the Silk Road, facilitating trade, migration, and cultural exchange between East Asia and the West. Genetic research has identified that some Uyghur populations carry genetic markers associated with ancient steppe populations, such as those linked to the Yamnaya culture (c. 3300–2600 BC), which is considered a source of Indo-European languages and migrations.”

By gradually erasing this people, China moves one step closer to an official rewrite of the history of her region, and an elimination of the exceptional impact and influence in the broader region of the Indo-European peoples from the record.

Call out the Corruption, Work Around the Corrupted

As we discuss these topics, it’s always important to keep in mind just how little we still know about this vast swathe of our most distant history. It was only a short time ago that we found the keys to connect the Indo-European language family, and an even shorter time ago that we’ve been able to begin to piece together the spread of those branches we’ve recently come to call the ‘Yamnaya’, ‘Sintashta’, ‘Andronovo’, etc. We have a great deal of work still to do, and this work is, even still, in its relative infancy at the moment.

My fear is that this work is being aggressively hampered by politics and powerful vested interests, and that this needs to be fully recognized and called out, and a separate strain of research and historical detective work needs to be done in parallel to that of a largely corrupted and subversive modern academia—who I suspect would be more than happy to make common cause with nations like China (or India, or Turkey and Gobekli Tepe, or Egypt via men like Zahi Hawass) in obscuring their region’s pronounced Indo-European heritage, if it meant barring the door to any notions of hyperdiffusionism or any exceptional degree of Aryan achievement. Not only this, but many of those involved would do so while genuinely believing they were doing the right thing, having been so deeply conditioned and programmed by decades of subtly effective propaganda.

I say again, history must not be politicized in these manners.

The specter of WW2 hangs over our heads to this very day, in these regards. To rally Americans to fight their brothers across the pond, certain subversive factions created such a wildly dishonest boogeyman caricature of the Germans that we eventually saw fit to toss aside virtually all of their theories and ideas, their earnest research, their painstakingly created picture of the world—unwisely forgetting that Germany wasn’t some nation of monstrous beings, but rather represented perhaps the most advanced and exacting scientists and historians and scholars of their age.

This maddeningly stupid conception that ‘if the 1930’s era Germans embraced it, it’s wrong and dangerous’ needs to die a quick and total death. The predominantly Jewish race-blind egalitarianism and reductionist materialism that so took center stage as a reactionary impulse post-WW2 isn’t just profoundly unhealthy and destructive, it’s quite simply wrong—and it’s so obviously leading us down terrible thought paths, and in many respects directly leading to the destruction of the Western world.

For what it’s worth, next time you research related topics and see some disclaimer about the concept of Arya or Aryan being ‘dangerous’ or ‘discredited’, consider simply ignoring this manipulative garbage, and dive ever deeper, to find truth wherever it might lay. Closing doors and narrowing the discussion on the off chance that it might further protect the most wealthy and powerful subgroup on the face of the earth isn’t compelling enough reason to lie to ourselves and one another about our past, or create a wholly faulty picture of historical reality.

The tide seems to be turning, in this respect.. let’s hope so, and let’s all help make it happen.

So much depends on it.

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It’s relatively easy to attack the status quo, and to see the glaring flaws in the means and methods they employ and the structures and institutions they’ve created. Not simply because they seem so obviously bent on our erasure and disempowerment, but because their ideas seem a chaotic and self-serving mess that have so clearly and directly led to unsafe streets, falling IQ and life expectancy and quality of life, cultural degeneration, and the devolution of our once idyllic Western nations into spiritual wastelands.

It’s far more difficult, by comparison, to suggest alternative ways of thinking and being that might be fundamentally superior to what we’re suffering through now.

And yet, it’s crucial that we understand where we’d like to ultimately head in these regards—that we don’t just seek to tear down the old and sick, but to have ideas as to what we’d like to create in their place—and that those in our circles are collectively (at least broadly) on a similar page with regard to what we seek.

So, this is the excessively tall order I’ve tried to begin to take on here, in a far from perfect or comprehensive way... from a theoretical and philosophical perspective, outlining a collection of ways in which a healthy nation or community might do things differently than we currently do them now—to better maximize physical, mental, and spiritual health, and live much more efficiently and powerfully and purposefully again.

At a passing glance, many of the things below may seem idealistic—even difficult or impossible to the unadventurous or narrow-minded eye... but absolutely none of what I mention below is the least bit impossible. I’d suggest believing it to be impossible hints at a lack of creativity, a poor understanding of how culture and social or economic structures can shift and evolve with time, and that the only thing that would make such changes impossible to manifest is if we’re lulled into believing them to be impossible to manifest.

And these types of discussions, and this manner of thinking, are important.

Many of us are well informed as to much of what we want and seek on a specific, technical, narrow, and political level... yet, philosophy and ideology represent the bedrock and core from which all of this ultimately springs. Understanding the ‘root’ is more valuable than understanding the ‘branches,’ because it allows us to understand not just the branches we’re dealing with right this moment, but those of the past, and those that may emerge in the future. Understanding the former is comparable to being given a fish, while more comprehensively understanding the latter is equivalent to learning how to fish.

I’d ask you to pull back your perspective to the broadest heights, picture a subset of our people striking out in a new direction with a game plan and conscious intention to recreate something new, and picture many of these ideas and conceptions we’re about to speak to helping guide the unique manifestation of that something. As we go, I think you’ll agree, it’s a beautiful vision... and only by actively dwelling on these things, further fleshing them out and giving them concerted and devoted thought, can they someday become realities. And they need to become realities. I strongly believe this is the path to unlocking our fullest potential— both as individuals, and as a people.

I’m going to try to keep this as concise as is reasonably possible. I’ve organized these tenets into several different categories—and without further ado, we’ll simply dive right in to the first:

With Regard to Time/Energy Management

(Rejecting Parasitism for Purposeful Efficiency)

Parasitism—in all of its varied manifestations—must be a fundamental focus and concern.

It represents wasted energy—energy that might otherwise be used in a multitude of extremely positive ways, instead being frittered away and lost into the void... often while enriching and empowering schemers, deceivers, hustlers, and uncreative and talentless hacks. Its long-term net effects are devastating.

A new path:

a conscious rejection of parasitism in all of its forms.
The purposeful cultivation of a structure and social stigma that bars the door to anyone attempting to reap material gains without creating real and fundamental value in exchange. An elimination of as many superfluous occupations as possible, coupled with a consciously stoked social/cultural stigma discouraging purely self-interested profiteering (example: a massively simplified legal code1, aiming to be readily understandable to all, helping eliminate the need for specialized lawyers—a massively simplified market structure to prevent speculators, derivatives trading, or the potential for any investment in a product/service/idea that represents a net negative for the people on the whole2).

a recognition that money and markets are, ideally, intended to be only tools... tools that must be structured and oriented exclusively to serve the people who make use of them, not an excessively small amoral minority class that parasitically feeds off of them. To the extent that our people begin to serve the markets, this represents a failure. If any element of our economic structure isn’t an obvious and straightforward net-positive benefit, representing a creative or valuable use of time and energy, it should cease to be.3

an understanding that, in the long term, money either must function as reward/incentive to those who orchestrate the healthiest and most net-positive functions—or money must be so aggressively and proactively minimized in its power and influence that other goals and incentives play the leading role with regard to what the average person quests toward and considers most compelling.

a conscious prizing of quality over quantity in all aspects of life... a recognition that our time is short and thus immeasurably precious. A push to reduce clutter, to part ways with poorly made products and material possessions, half-baked ideas, low-quality (or outright degenerative) entertainment or art or literature... slowly developing higher standards with regard to what we surround ourselves with and what we take in.

a conscious recognition of the positive power of purity and simplicity in thought and idea and action and speech and structure, and a recognition that every increase in needless byzantine complexity benefits a foreign rootless cosmopolitan cultural element that lurks in these shadows and hides in this complexity.

a conscious recognition that our highest aim and goal must always be CREATION... and that even the most ancient and timeless ideas and conceptions must continually be rediscovered and, in a sense, recreated anew, decked out in attractive clothing, made beautiful and compelling. The lack of creation causes stagnation, then decay and entropy... we need to act as the vanguard standing against this entropy, everywhere winning ground.

one simple all-important credo—everywhere maximize the good, minimize the bad. First, do all in our power to accurately and truthfully collectively define the ‘good,’ and then everywhere seek it out and draw it nearer, pushing its opposite away. This requires an increase in healthy judgment and discrimination and discernment, all-important powers and skillsets modernity has sought to dull or do away with entirely.

a dogged and relentless and never-ending pursuit of health—of mind, body, and soul. A desire to everywhere maximize this health and minimize sickness and the poisons in our collective cultural and spiritual and intellectual bloodstream.

a powerfully concerted focus on physical health, recognizing that our physical, mental, and spiritual health are powerfully intertwined and interrelated. An awareness of the overwhelmingly negative effects of the increasing pollution in our air, water, and food... the deadly and dulling effects of substances like lead on body and mind, the cancerous effects of ‘forever chemicals’ that every man, woman, and child on the planet now tests positive for, the unknown effects of a slew of chemicals and pesticides and preservatives we’re ingesting... an aggressive push to everywhere return to the simple, pure, and natural, and time-tested.

With Regard to art, the Cultivation of Beauty:

(Cultivating Beauty for Cultural and Spiritual Flourishing)

a conscious recognition of the universal value of beauty and an endless dogged pursuit of the beautiful in all realms: in our surroundings, in our art and culture, in our speech and bearing, in our thoughts and ideas and philosophies.

a recognition that the extent to which we’re able to recognize beauty is a testament to our orientation on the deepest levels (and conversely the inability to recognize beauty is a sign of disorientation on a spiritual level).

a recognition that our environment is equivalent to our canvas, our sculpting clay, and that keeping it clean (and beautiful, healthy) is of profound importance. A recognition that though modern ‘environmentalist’ movements may be completely hijacked and subverted and pushing absurd and theatrical causes as distractions, genuinely caring about our environment and the health and well-being of all life on earth is an all-important ultimate responsibility... and one entirely on our shoulders, because nobody else will do it. If international finance or China and India etc. were to win the day, we’re all doomed in this regard—either we prevail, or everyone ultimately loses.

a recognition of our world as the highest of all art projects... as a challenge to order and beautify, positively energize, make to flourish in the highest and most profound ways (beauty standards may slightly shift and rotate, but always around a center point, a mean... where they currently are in relation to that center point says much about a culture and people and point in time. We need to discover and discern and move toward this center point).

a recognition that the creation of great and transcendent art is what cultivates the type of higher culture that stirs the soul to ever greater things... and that this responsibility isn’t some interesting aside, but a central necessity. Cultivating great artists again is all-important to the net-positive reshaping of our existence.4

a recognition that a great artist needs to both be a product of their time, as well as to soar above it.. he needs to speak the current language, but also be timeless (speak timelessly)

With Regard to Culture:

(Unity Through Heritage and Collective Purpose)

a conscious recognition and comprehensive understanding of the importance of shared history, background, culture, etc... an aggressive push to ensure we avoid the possibility of a multicultural environment in which countless different peoples are pulling in countless different directions, requiring numerous different languages, etc... a recognition that diversity is our weakness, and that social and cultural cohesion is crucial to any nation or community seeking to attain its fullest potential. Without this sense of brotherhood and common bonds, without real reason to feel unity and kinship, a nation ceases to be anything resembling a family.

a conscious recognition that a nation is not a ‘sports team’ or an economic structure, and that a nation doesn’t have or lack value according to the degree to which it serves a global economic machine. For a nation to be and become something great and valuable, it must be more akin to a people, a family, a culture, a collective consciously striving toward something greater. A recognition that the desire to frame everything in purely financial terms, reducing everything to the purely utilitarian in an economic sense, completely robs a nation (and life itself!) of its depth and substance, its true inherent value.

a conscious devotion to loyalty as a fundamental virtue—to never betraying your own, being willing to put forth effort to improve their lot and condition, seeking to help refine and improve and strengthen them in every way possible... learning to cultivate and practice a positive tribalism, of a sort that unlocks the power of a people working together in harmony. A conscious rejection of the atomizing (and ultimately racially/culturally suicidal) effects of individualism, with a recognition that multiple energies harnessed in a singular direction can always accomplish much more than any one individual.

a recognition that the tribe or kin group can create a vastly superior environment than an individual in the same way that a construction crew can build a vastly more impressive structure than any one man... a recognition that there are countless benefits to the group and family dynamic, from the microcosm (immediate family) to the macrocosm (race, extended family), and that individualism atomizes us and destroys this cohesion and common cause at a pivotal moment in history in which unity is an absolute necessity, if we care to continue existing.

a conscious redevotion to healthy hierarchy and a culture of excellence and mastery—paired with apprenticeship structures in which students learn their art or craft from the best in the field, and the best of these students then go on to become teachers to repeat the cycle.

a conscious redevotion to strength and courage as prized and respected and proactively cultivated virtues, and a recognition that it’s the lack of these that causes us to collectively stumble into degenerative chaos and an unhealthy and servile domestication.

a conscious recognition that some forms of what we presently call ‘kindness’ are only weakness, cowardice, or laziness masquerading as virtue, coupled with a conscious effort to clearly contrast the two to embrace the one and reject the fraudulent imposter.

With Regard to Leadership and Hierarchy

a recognition that we need to collectively develop a new hierarchy within our own ranks to ensure we make the most thorough use of our best and brightest. A personal suggestion for evaluating individuals and gradually determining rank or influence within a new and healthier hierarchy—a tripartite judgment structure to help cultivate and discern a new aristocracy, of sorts:

1. Character (innate, inborn qualities—personality, gifts)

2. Conduct (actions, deeds, and achievements, stumbles and mistakes)

3. Ancestry (a judgment of both one’s immediate and extended family, lineage)

The combination of these three measures should speak volumes about a person in a fairly predictive manner, and those who fare best here would likely be well deserving of greater ‘reach,’ and we’d all likely benefit from their having it.

a recognition that the most capable and effective leaders are often those who have ‘cleaned their rooms,’ who have their own house in good order—and can thus use the excess time and energy to look outward and help others do the same. This good order in one’s own life represents at least some small proof of a person being able to help manifest this order and organization on a broader scale.

an understanding that as we gradually cohere and begin to see eye to eye and possess an understanding of our ideal philosophical center point, words will gradually become far less important, and actions all-important. It may be a moment before we get here, and we have much work to do to cultivate real unity and the cultivation of a strong foundation underneath our feet, but after we’ve done so, all aspiring leaders would be well-served to heed Codreanu’s words:

a recognition that what we’ll need more than anything in the coming years is men who cannot be bought. This one factor, almost above all else, is absolutely crucial. As we succeed and grow, those in foremost positions will be offered the world in exchange for betrayal or subversion or compromise... we must find creative methods to ensure only those with the most unimpeachable sense of honor and loyalty are allowed to climb this ladder. Anti-corruption should be an intensive focus, with measures taken and structures built to do all in our power to ensure we sidestep these threats as our factions grow and ascend.

With Regard to Philosophical Foundations

(Core Beliefs for Orientation and Growth)

a conscious recognition that there IS black and white, light and darkness, health and sickness, beauty and ugliness... and that the urge to blur the line or pretend none exists at all is the urge of the subversive and inverter of timeless value structures. We may not be perfect in our clarity and accuracy in our attempts to recognize and contrast these, often, but this only represents a temporary failing on our part—not any negation of the existence of these differences. Yes, painting these definitive contrasts is one of the most difficult things to do—it’s also one of the most important, and not something we might just give up on because it’s too hard. If we’re to climb upward, we need to find our bearings, orient our compass, and know which way is up.

a conscious recognition that all of life is an unfolding storyline—and that we can’t possibly be good authors unless we’re surrounded by good stories. A conscious push to create ideas, philosophies, and written works that most positively orient ourselves and one another... that most clearly illustrate the value of thinking and living in healthy and vital ways (that most clearly show the value of one path, contrasted with the lack of value in another contrasting path).

a recognition that, in a very real sense, all is story, and all are storytellers. The best and greatest stories win out and become the collective storyline, the underlying narrative which functions as our center, and orients and directs us—focuses our time, attention, and energy. And additionally, that there’s a caveat: to attain the deepest purchase and resonance, the story must be true... deceptive and dishonest stories can indeed gain purchase in the minds of many, as our age so clearly proves, but only superficial purchase, as much as it may appear otherwise at first glance. Our hearts and minds, just like our bodies, have a natural immune system... and fight the introduction of lies, just as our bodies might fight to expel poisons. In short, we need to cultivate great and truthful storytellers if we care to live amidst a vital and healthy and powerful broader storyline.

a recognition that BALANCE IS KEY, and that wisdom lies here... this shouldn’t be misconstrued or misunderstood to mean the ‘middle ground’ is ideal, or being a political moderate or a lukewarm personality is a goal—far from it—but only because exceptional times call for extreme and exceptional solutions.

a recognition of the absolute importance of ‘Ikigai,’ on both the level of the individual and the group/family. A life without meaning is not worth living.

[Ikigai (ee-key-guy) is a Japanese concept that combines the terms iki, meaning “alive” or “life,” and gai, meaning “benefit” or “worth.” When combined, these terms mean that which gives your life worth, meaning, or purpose. Ikigai is similar to the French term “raison d'etre” or “reason for being”, and is the most apt term I’m aware of that most clearly speaks to this conception.

With Regard to Language and Thought

(Shaping Values Through Language and Concepts)

a conscious recognition that language fundamentally shapes the way we think, and that we can consciously and proactively shape our language if we choose... a recognition that both our understanding of certain key words and concepts, as well as our frequency of usage and degree of exposure to these, shapes us on the deepest levels... and that there’s immense value in consciously and proactively curating these spheres (creating new terms and labels, paying close attention to the developing/evolving definitions of others).

a conscious redefinition of ‘intelligence,’ moving away from the more superficial and technical definition toward one far more fruitful and healthy and creative: An intelligent man is one capable of solving the most pressing problems for the individual or group in a manner that improves conditions fundamentally. Not the mere shrewdness or cleverness of a swindler or the cunning of a huckster, but the engineer who creates a bridge, the artist who creates a strikingly beautiful work of art, the inventor who thoughtfully innovates and creates a product that has obviously net-positive benefit, the thinker or writer that creates positively ordering/orienting ideas or speaks the most life-affirming and healthy/healing words. Intelligence is the power of the mind to improve the world and manifest the good.

a conscious redefinition of ‘health’: All that makes stronger, more capable and vital and energetic, more beautiful, more balanced and composed and serene and mature, more capable of accomplishing necessary things.

a conscious attempt to permanently attach ‘integrity’ to ‘fame,’ to marry the concepts of nobility and goodness with ‘success,’ richness with generosity... in other words, to do all in our collective power to ensure our famous men are our best men possessing the greatest integrity and that those with the greatest integrity become our famous men, and similarly that those most noble and virtuous and generous are most helped to ‘succeed’ and grow wealthy. The miserly, hoarding, deceptive, and self-serving man should have every door blocked and earn nothing but mockery and derision, coupled with a conscious recognition that any structure that allows for the promotion of such men is a failed and worthless structure that needs significant reworking.

a recognition that essentially every account of ancient high civilization speaks to their total conscious orientation toward virtue, order, justice... that those who came before us realized that the only way to maintain such truly high civilization is a consistent and devoted focus on such things. Without this, all innate gifts of natural ability risk becoming net negatives—especially intellect.

a recognition of the immense and unprecedented power of language—should we choose to recognize it and act accordingly. Every word, every sentence, every idea, a bridge from what was or what is to what might be or what will be. A conscious effort to build strong and sturdy bridges in good directions.

With Regard to Modernity, Change, Science, Tech

(Approach to Progress and Technology - Discerning Nature-Aligned Progress)

a conscious recognition that change, in itself, isn’t some universally net-positive thing to be glorified and pursued... change is inevitable, but to the extent that we have control over it, we should take pains to embrace (and help manifest) only positive change and have the strongest aversion to negative change.

a conscious recognition that technology, too, isn’t a universal good in which every step forward in development and innovation down these paths is a net positive—much of the technology we’ve recently developed is now slowly killing us or degrading and cheapening and weakening and softening us. A healthy rule: technology should be embraced only insofar as directly complementary to nature... the nature of the universe, our world, and our own human nature.

a recognition that the purest form/manifestation of genuine science, as well as the most pure form/manifestation of spiritual belief, would be essentially one and the same. The fact that they’ve taken such divergent paths, and that many now believe it’s a choice between one or the other, is a testament to just how profoundly lost we’ve become.

a recognition that, ultimately, we are in complete control of our own destinies... both as individuals and as groups or tribes. This weak, submissive, nihilistic attitude in which we have no control over the development and unfurling of the future is only true insofar as we mistakenly believe it to be—and it’s a philosophy of self-induced paralysis.5

With Regard to Personal Behavior, Thinking, Guidelines

(Cultivating Virtue, Resilience, and Lawfulness in the highest sense of that word)

a conscious recognition that kindness is not weakness, and weakness is not kindness... that, as Seneca stated, all cruelty tends to spring from weakness, and that the most malevolently cruel men tend to be the most petty and small of soul... a recognition that the most fundamental reality is actually the opposite—genuine kindness is the opposite of weakness, and genuine weakness never results in true kindness... a conscious push to simultaneously exercise a noble kindness and magnanimity with a powerful intolerance toward poisons... a recognition that these two are ultimately intertwined. Example: If you care for your brother or your family or children and progeny, you could never justify the mass importation of dangerous third-world elements that would make their lives unsafe, unhappy, chaotic. If you cared about the ‘right order’ of the world at large, you’d not seek to unbalance it in such a way or to level every mountain in some vain and doomed attempt to fill every valley—recognizing that even this Haitian migrant himself needs to be taught to catch his own fish, as opposed to being regularly handed baskets of fish and continually treated like a child.

a conscious recognition that happiness is best viewed as a welcomed side effect of the pursuit of the right path—NOT sought as a path in and of itself.

a conscious recognition that while the pursuit of beauty and health may indeed lead to happiness and contentment, even comfort and convenience and ease of life, the pursuit of comfort and ease and contentment itself is a doomed enterprise. The more we succeed in surrounding ourselves with softness and comforts, the more we then require from this point forth—a bit like a drug addict requiring X amount of his preferred drug each day merely to keep from falling to pieces. Challenge and obstacles and difficulties are capable of building us in the most fundamental ways... physically, mentally, spiritually—yet these needn’t all be terrible and draining. Sport can be ‘difficult,’ yet fun... it’s possible, ideally, to make something of a game of hardening and improving ourselves.

in a world filled with people now striving to cultivate style over substance, to wear a false cloak that they spend their time making ever more ornate as their internal world falls to pieces or becomes a sprawling void, we should aim to be the opposite... instead of working to seem more than we are, we should labor to everywhere be more than we seem. Cultivate innate substance and worth, never the deceptive and self-serving simulacrum—hollowness and emptiness are contagious... if we have no gifts to give those around us, we can’t help but incrementally take, even if just in an energetic context.

a conscious recognition of the immense value of self-discipline and cultivating longer-term value over short-term gratification: at countless turns in life, we’re offered the opportunity to receive one ‘dollar’ now and no dollars later, or no dollars now and two dollars at some random future point in time... the second path is harder, but represents wisdom.

a recognition that “the more you let yourself go, the less others let you go,” and that we should be the ones to rein ourselves in so that others don’t have to.

a conscious recognition of the centrality and importance of LAW, from the macro to the micro—an attempt to structure our laws in accordance with the highest and most timelessly unchanging laws... and a stressing of the ultimate importance of the SPIRIT OF THE LAW over the mere letter of the law. A conscious development of legal structure geared toward the avoidance of creative loopholes and workarounds to ensure its ultimate/genuine purpose and function is fulfilled.

a conscious recognition that we should all strive for the ideal, broadly speaking, as a rule... if we fall several steps short, at the very least we’re further along our way—and the next attempt has a firmer foundation and a better chance. This is so clearly and obviously the path to the fundamental improvement of a people.

a recognition that creative and artful play is the secret to happiness and growth in life... in fruitful and healthy play, we can do hard things, strengthen body and mind, overcome obstacles, often form stronger bonds with others, refine and improve ourselves—and all without tedium, without any of this growth feeling like a chore. A realization that we need to find creative ways to couple the art of play with refinement and improvement of both the individual and the group.

With Regard to Family (Macrocosm and Microcosm)

(Family and Lineage - Nurturing Life and Protecting Legacy)

a recognition that there is essentially no action more valuable or important than the creation of new life, and no devotion of time and energy more fruitful and significant and long-lasting in its positive potential/effects than the care and attention directed toward better cultivating and orienting this new life. Virtually all else passes away in short order—the investment in your progeny is the one with the most staying power, with the potential to be passed on for countless generations to come.

a recognition that our lineage is our tree of existence, of which we are temporary caretakers—receiving a baton passed from on high, with the responsibility to pass it to those who come after us, after having properly equipped them to deal with the responsibilities involved. Despite the multitude of things that now scream for our attention, virtually nothing is more important than this—and we can’t be made to forget it.

a conscious recognition that truly loving something requires you to be dangerous enough to protect it... a focus on the importance of strength, courage, competence, and ability in the face of threats.

With Regard to Social Dynamics and Boundaries

(Navigating Internal Cohesion and External Separation)

a careful embrace of healthy suspicion without unfruitful paranoia... a recognition that our circles are (and will be) under constant attack with countless creative attempts to subvert, hijack, pollute, fracture. A recognition that the most devastatingly effective enemy isn’t he who stands on the opposite end of the battlefield as an obvious foe, but he who pretends to don a similar uniform, to hold a similar banner, and then subtly perverts and twists (or simply cheapens and muddies) your own ideas, and thus serves to create a more negative caricature, manipulating and reorienting those looking on to follow his lead.

a conscious recognition of the profound difference between the scheming predator and the rightful conqueror, and a respect and embrace and emulation of the latter in every respect. One lurks in shadows, seeks shortcuts and backdoors—the other walks through the front door with the confidence of a master. The two are absolutely not the same, merely because they both occasionally enjoy the fruits of their spoils.

a conscious recognition that our good nature has led to a naiveté, allowing us to be taken advantage of by lesser natures—and that the best solution to this is not to lose our good nature, but to consciously break away from these lesser natures and force meaningful separation.

Simultaneously, a recognition that our innate kindness and hospitality among kin and brothers has always been a highly positive thing, helping create genuinely beautiful environments and pleasant living conditions. A recognition that it’d be the most empty and pyrrhic victory if we sacrificed so much of what makes us different to stoop to emulate the worst. Instead of dispensing with this potential strength, we should be seeking to unlock/reestablish the conditions to allow it to naturally flourish.

With Regard to Spirituality

(Rediscovering Sacred Clarity and Reverence)

a recognition that we’re presently in a state of peak chaos and confusion, seemingly by design, in which we’ve lost track of (and lost touch with) a great many of our ancient beliefs, traditions, and understandings. A willingness to have patience—with our surroundings, with ourselves, and with like-minded brothers of a different faith at present—understanding that it may take some time and some concerted and devoted collective effort before we’re once again on the same page sharing a mutual understanding of all things spiritual... before many of us are able to see the face or hear the voice of God, or again walk with him and be certain we’re doing his will.

a conscious recognition that irreverence has an important role to play in tearing down false idols, terrible ideas, undeserved pretentiousness, and arrogance—but that in a world in which all is universally becoming so cheap and mocked and derided, it’s crucial we learn how to REVERE again—and never lose sight of the importance of feeling active reverence for all that’s highest.

a recognition that the macrocosm resembles the microcosm. The sun emits beautiful white light, from which all other colors emerge. White radiates and reflects energy and light; blackness absorbs and consumes. We, too, are meant to radiate and reflect—and in our natural and healthy state, we do this effortlessly. Our aim should be to return to this state of being.

a recognition that the Sun (of God) was ‘worshipped’ or revered so universally because it represents such an obvious and direct manifestation of God’s power and life giving light.. as with so many similar things, it represents both a physical object and a symbolic object—a recognition that such symbolic and analogous relationships are everywhere, and can help us make some sense of our existence.

a recognition of that beautiful conception found in the Oera Linda book of ‘aewa’: eternal principles, rules imprinted into the hearts of good people. Æ-like, water-like, even and smooth, like water not disturbed by windstorm or anything else: eternal principles etched into our hearts by the Creator. In the Kolbrin Bible, we have the similar concept of ‘Awen,’ representing something akin to the spirit or hand of God shaping all of creation. Similar precepts are found throughout Christianity and Christ’s doctrine, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism—in short, we’ve been blessed to have something deep within us that can emerge and manifest insofar as we’re capable of stilling the noise—a something with the power to order our existence and always point us in the proper direction as we seek to do God’s will (and that of our innate self, our ‘Divine spark’) above and beyond that of our superficial self. A recognition that this needs to be our individual and collective goal.

a recognition that a spiritual ‘flow state’ is the peak state of being... just as athletes have a physical flow state, as great minds or artists have an intellectual flow state, the spiritual flow state is the highest of all:

a direct connection to something vastly higher, a connection to source... a recognition that a part of ourselves is a channel or conduit back to this source. This is an ultimate high point of existence. A recognition that this should be what we seek.

a recognition that God is with us—to the extent that we’re with him—and that finding and walking this path should be our ultimate goal. a recognition that we have an immense amount of work to do on this front—but that we’ll get there, eventually.

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I hope some of these were interesting, thought-stirring, or helpful or informative in some way.. and that they helped make it far more clear exactly where I’m coming from, and what type of future I believe to be ideal.

If there’s interest, I’d like to continue discussing these more foundational philosophical and ideological contrasts with our present mode of doing things in a bit more depth, in the (relatively near) future..

I welcome feedback.. this is a fleshing out and refining process we’ll all need to engage in together, and time is now relatively short, considering just how desperately unity and organization are needed.. but the energy and inertia is certainly flowing in our direction.

There’s every reason for optimism.

The moment we manage this unity and organization is the moment everything begins to change—and I think this moment is finally discernable on our horizon...

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“Moreover, almost all of the Alans are tall and handsome, their hair is generally blond, and their eyes are frighteningly fierce; the speed of their attack is heightened by the lightness of their weapons, and in every respect they are somewhat like the Huns, but they are less savage in their habits and way of life. As wandering plunderers they range as far as the land of the Medes and Armenia, usually enjoying the delights of a somewhat civilized life.”

“They do not know the meaning of slavery, since all are born of noble blood, and moreover they choose as chiefs​ those men who are conspicuous for long experience as warriors”

~ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae

The Alans are a mysterious, largely forgotten, yet extraordinarily important people.. mysterious in part because we have essentially nothing about them written in their own words, or from their own perspectives.. but the story we’re able to piece together via the words of others is a fascinating tale.

Their very name speaks to their clear Aryan heritage, with “Alan” almost certainly being a direct derivative of the word Aryan, and they clearly represent a significant branch of this unprecedented people family.

Ranging from the Pontic Steppe and the Caucasus, as far east as China, as far west as Spain and North Africa, and so many regions in between, leaving significant genetic and cultural traces throughout Europe—most notably in the Jászság Region of Hungary and in Orléans, Valence, and the Iberian Peninsula—their history is so wide-ranging that it’s almost difficult to believe.. and even more difficult to cleanly pin them down and quantify them as a people.

Many scholars don’t even try, and joining this modern trend of pretending the ancestors of modern Europeans have little to no connection to the happenings in India, Persia, ancient Anatolia, Greece, Mesopotamia, and the Pontic Steppe, the Alans have joined the Goths and Scythians in being quietly shuffled away into a black hole of history.

In this article, I hope to do them a bit more justice and speak to their fascinating historical journey.

Fractured History

One of the biggest failings of modern scholarship—giving the benefit of the doubt and presuming there isn’t something akin to a malevolent conspiracy involved at some level here—is in this tendency to avoid viewing history through a racial or ethnic lens at any and all costs, even if it’s by far the most helpful, useful, or logical lens. We’re now taught to ignore it.. to pretend it’s unhelpful, or unimportant.

Peoples with the closest possible genetic and ethnic heritage will often be treated or framed as almost totally distinct peoples, despite having so clearly emerged from the same root and stem, making what could be a relatively cohesive and sensible storyline and historical context picture into a hopelessly fractured and exceedingly complex Byzantine labyrinth.

I think it’s obvious why this is the case: the theory that a singular people family was so dominant, powerful, widespread, and all-pervasive, in both a cultural and racial sense, is one that post-WWII scholarship simply isn’t willing to entertain.. even within their own minds, let alone actively communicate to the world at large.

The Scythians are a prime example of this. Once a term used almost universally to speak to the collective sum total of nearly every branch of the Aryan or Indo-European people family, it has gradually been fractured, minimized, and redefined—aggressively in recent decades—to the degree that it’s now frequently used in academic circles to only reference heavily mixed Turkic or Asiatic people groups, and thus they’ve become ever less ancient and less significant as time marches forward and historical scholarship reorients all things in this sphere.

From once practically being a racial or ethnic descriptor, synonymous with “White” or “Aryan,” with Greek, Persian, Indian, and Anatolian sources all openly speaking to their Scythian heritage, it’s being reconstituted into an incredibly narrow term used to refer to tiny, multiracial steppe tribes of the sort that merely occupied the Scythians’ wake after the bulk of them had long since left the areas.

It’s a most aggressive muddying of waters, whether purposeful or not, and our broader history and progression/development can’t possibly make sense until we’re able to sort this out and attain some clarity here, and begin to use these terms as all ancient historians did—in a correct and accurate fashion, unburdened by political-correctness considerations, unaffected by poisonous “anti-racist” Marxist garbage, and the wholesale reorienting of history it encourages.

The Scythian Connection

The Alans were, like so many of their neighbors and peers, a Scythic people:

In fact, according to Lucian, the only significant characteristic distinguishing the two is the way each wears his hair; the Scythians wear it longer than do the Alans.

But they weren’t just Scythic; they were also frequently known and referred to as the Massagetae.

Ammianus Marcellinus, a 4th-century Roman historian, noted that the Alans were “formerly called Massagetae,” and Dio Cassius wrote, “they are Massagetae,” implying an amalgamation of Iranian peoples, including Sarmatians, Massagetae, and Sakas, reinforcing their Central Asian roots.

The prefix “massa-” in Central Asian languages like Middle Persian and Avestan means “great,” “heavy,” or “strong.” This suggests that “Massagetae” could mean “Great Getae” or “Strong Getae.” Many authors of our oldest histories drew this obvious connection:

“The Massagetae are in origin from the tribe of the Scythians, and are called Massagetae, as if heavy, that is, strong Getae.”

Source: Rabanus Maurus, De Universo,

Herodotus tells us, “The Getae are the most courageous and just of the Thracians,” and several other authors, including Jordanes himself in the only surviving Gothic history, connect the Getae directly to the Goths, speaking of them as one and the same.

What this clearly seems to indicate is that Scythian, Goth, Getae, Massagetae, Thracian, and Alan are all vestiges of a singular people family.

To clear up any further doubt, a few more quotes to make these connections—at least from the perspective of those who wrote these histories—undeniable:

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, and it’s something I think is incredibly crucial to grasp to best understand the larger context picture, the Scythian/Gothic/Aryan people family seemed to be a massive conglomerate of peoples, largely independent unless a singular threat forced their unity, with a “Royal” or noble caste frequently at their epicenter.. an epicenter essentially protected by several related peoples on all sides, each willing to muster armies of a characteristic type to combine forces into a larger army, if the situation demands it. I should clarify that at the moment this is my own personal theory, and I’m not sure many academics and historians would yet fully agree—or at least, not phrase or frame it this way—but it’s based on quite a few historical accounts, coupled with a small intuitive leap that makes most sense as the simplest explanation.. and I’m now confident, and think I’ll be fully vindicated here at some point in the future as we’re able to definitively connect more of these dots in a less politically driven and politically charged atmosphere and scholarly environment in coming decades.

The characteristic trait of these Aryan peoples is a simultaneous fierce independence and a going of their own way, but a clear recognition of heritage and kinship, and a willingness to often set this independence aside when threatened by late Persian, late Roman, or late Hun. I add ‘late’ here very consciously - this larger Indo-European and Aryan family seemed to have strong ties with the earliest manifestations of all three of these peoples, before cultural and ethnic admixture caused them to slowly morph into something quite different.

One of the most important factors of all, if we care to learn and understand history through a far more accurate and clarifying lens, involves noting this powerful interconnectedness of peoples that modern scholarship seems devoted to seeing as wholly distinct and separate.

‘Goth’ and ‘Scythian’ is prime example.

It’s not just that countless histories use the terms “Goth” and “Scythian” practically interchangeably, or that Jordanes (of Gothic heritage himself) makes it clear that the Goths are Scythians, or that the Goths appear in the region of the “Royal Scythians” the moment the Scythians largely disappear from history. It’s an overall context picture of history that’s led me to see this Gothic/Scythian connection as simply undeniable.

I say this to make the point that if these Alans are a Scythic people, as they so clearly seem to be, this also powerfully connects them to the Goths—a people who played the most foundational role in the history and creation of modern Europe and its cultural and ethnic bedrock.

To those of us of European descent, these Alans you’re about to hear of are your kin— not some strange, exotic, Far Eastern tribe of wild men who appeared from nowhere and subsequently disappeared from the stage without leaving much trace, but rather a people who contributed immensely to our culture, heritage, and history—and an exceptional people who deserve to be properly understood.

Who Were These Alans?

It might be fairly said that the Alans were among the most truly free people in all of history throughout the vast majority of their existence. They essentially lived under the stars, moved whenever conditions warranted and a better life might be found elsewhere, and took the steppe manner of living to the extreme—likely because they played the foremost pioneering role in developing it:

I’ve spoken previously of two major branches of the Aryan peoples: one who might best be represented by a ship’s helm, representing their long history of ocean mastery, trading, and exploration, and the other by a wagon wheel, as a very much land-focused steppe people. The Alans seem to uniquely belong in this latter category.

They were certainly a bit more rough around the edges relative to what we know of the customs, traditions, and manners of living and being of the “Royal Scythian” population, and seem to resemble a hardy mixture of a Scottish Highlander, Scotch-Irish type, or Appalachian Americans, and were exceedingly courageous and capable warriors accordingly—exhibiting a unique martial spirit that inspired both fear and respect from all who knew them. Yet this unique approach to life allowed them to maintain an energy and vitality and toughness that helped them rise to any challenge, and be more than a match to all around them. In shaping themselves this way, I’d suggest they became the borderland guardians of Aryan culture, in a sense.. the slightly more wild and primal martial element that allowed for (and protected) the development of a more ‘civilized’ kin they so clearly felt common cause with.. which is the very role of a warrior.

To the Alan, it wasn’t violence that was degenerate, but the cowardly inability or unwillingness to manifest this violence where most necessary and just:

And these horses of theirs were undoubtedly some of the best in the world—Caesar himself rode the famed “Borysthenes the Alan,” a small hint of just how strong the demand was for their beasts—exceedingly well-trained and well-bred, rarely would Alans be found not riding atop them, expertly wielding bow or spear with an unmatched proficiency.

The later Winged Hussars would upgrade this spear to a lance and this bow to a firearm, but the level of battlefield dominance would remain a constant.

Raiding gradually became a favored pastime, much like the Vikings, and they’d become expert at it. They were avid and enthusiastic hunters and enjoyed the chase, and were pioneers in the creative employment of help in the hunting process:

“They became known in retrospect for their massive hunting and fighting dog of Molosser type, the Alaunt, which they apparently introduced to Europe. The breed is extinct, but its name is carried by a Spanish breed of dog still called Alano, traditionally used in boar hunting and cattle herding.”

Source: Alans - Wikipedia.

Like other Scythian peoples, the Alans came to dominate the art of steppe warfare, using their incredible mobility coupled with well-crafted weapons to everywhere take fights on their own terms and be able to engage in strategic retreat at the drop of a hat. Several accounts record them being excellent at feigned retreats, as so many Scythian peoples were said to be, only to then turn and massacre their foe the moment the pursuing line became disorganized, tired, or over-eager. Enemies would slowly learn from their mistakes and adjust accordingly, but these techniques proved brutally effective for long periods.

Fascinatingly, they were also experts with the lasso in combat.

During a significant war, an Armenian king is noted to have just barely salvaged his life, possessing the quick reaction time to cut the rope seconds before he’d have been dragged off his horse to his death.

Even still, Armenia, Rome’s satellite to the north, was forced to purchase an Alan withdrawal from its territory with “gifts,” reportedly an exceedingly high price, which was said to be the far more important reason the Alans allowed them to live in peace than any fear of Rome’s military force.

This seemed the epitome of a fearless people, and large groups of individually collected Alans, seeking to make their way in the world, would often be employed as elite guards in camps of kings, princes, and emperors.

Or, queens. The Massagetae branch of this family has gone down in history in large part due to their Queen Tomyris famously leading her people to defeat Cyrus the Great in 530 BCE. According to Herodotus, after Cyrus captured her son through deceit, Tomyris vowed revenge, and in the battle, she killed Cyrus, reportedly dipping his head in blood as a symbolic act.

The Amazons, too, are thought to be strongly connected to the Sarmatians, from whom the Alans descend—a group of women whose men seemed to have marched off to war and never returned, forcing them to make a choice: become captives and slaves to nearby (potentially non-Scythian) tribes or learn to fight. They certainly did the latter to the degree that they’ve become legendary, mentioned by several sources with fascination.

Regardless of where they found themselves throughout their history, they never lost their steppe “edge,” their simple and hardy mode of living that helped them maintain such impressive strength and vitality. It’s said that on especially long rides when food and drink were exceptionally scarce, they were known to drink the blood of their horses—a practice continued by Genghis Khan and his Mongols so many years later.. and likely, an inherited custom.

One of a great many.

Steppe Cousins Become a Problem

Both Hun and Mongol would draw a great deal from these masters of the steppe, not merely cultural elements or aspects of martial expertise, but likely much of their very DNA and lineage. The leadership ranks of both Mongol and Hun had considerable Indo-European blood, and these Alans and their brother peoples in the region were likely the source.

When the Huns would later come barreling toward Europe from the east, the Alans would take advantage of these relationships to form truces—the result being that the Goths then became the foremost target of the rampaging Hun.

Many Alanic peoples that were overrun by the massive Hunnish incursion would even eventually make common cause and be compelled to join forces in their push westward.

Gradually, over time, the intermixture became so pronounced that by approximately the 6th century, historian Vegetius would speak to “the nation of Huns and Alans,” and Procopius, in his History of the Wars, would say, “The Huns who are now known were formerly called Massagetae.” Evagrius Scholasticus would echo this: “The Huns, who were formerly known by the name of the Massagetae, appeared in Thrace.”

The Huns essentially represented a Massagetae core after several generations of intermixture with Asiatic peoples—and the Mongols might well be said to be this same family after several additional generations of admixture. That said, even in the time of Genghis and Kublai Khan, fair skin, eyes, and red or light hair seem to have been relatively common among the leadership (Genghis is often spoken of as having red hair; his mother is referenced as coming from the “gray-eyed” clan).

The More Ancient Aryan Influx into the Far East

There’s considerable evidence linking the Massagetae and the fascinating “Yuezhi.”

Scholars like J.P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair suggested a linguistic connection between their names (“Da Yuezhi” essentially means “Great Yuezhi”—assuming “Massa” is derived from “Great” as well, this is compelling), though a subset of modern scholars now attempt to linguistically connect the Massa to “fish,” a much less convincing theory to my mind, but one that’d help sever some of the ties between these two peoples.

Alexander Cunningham, B.S. Dahiya, and Edgar Knobloch, among several other scholars, disagree and believe they see the most obvious connections between the two. Intriguingly, Dahiya claims the Massagetae and Thyssagetae correspond to the Da Yuezhi and Xiao Yuezhi (greater and lesser Yuezhi).

W.B. Henning, echoing theories proposed earlier by scholars like L.A. Waddell (who believed the “Guti” to be an early branch of the Gothic people), proposed the Yuezhi descended from the Guti and Tukri, peoples inhabiting the Zagros Mountains, who began leading invasions into Babylon and Sumer and the surrounding region from c. 2100 BC. In his 1965 paper “The First Indo-Europeans in History1,” he suggests these groups migrated eastward, becoming significant in Central Asian history.

He states that the Chinese name “Yuezhi” can be reconstructed phonologically as *Gu(t)-t’i, a form strikingly similar to “Guti,” and links the Tukri to the Toχri and Tocharians, noting similarities in ceramic ware between the Zagros and Tarim Basin, and proposing a shared Indo-European heritage.

Further, in the Kuchean language, related to Tocharian, “Guti” would be rendered as “Kuči,” aligning with the native name for Kucha in the Tarim Basin, where Tocharian texts were found.

He also found that Gutian king names seemed to resemble case endings in Tocharian languages—perhaps further evidence of connection.

Henning theorizes that around the end of the third millennium BC, the Guti and Tukri, as closely allied brother nations, left western Persia due to various pressures, migrating eastward to China. They settled over a wide area, from Chinese Turkestan to the west of Gansu province, near the Yellow River, part of the population adopting a farming life, while others remained nomadic, a divergence driven by geographical factors and leading to linguistic isolation.

Much of this is still considered speculative and hotly contested, but we do know the Tocharian peoples (as clearly evidenced by the famed Tarim Basin mummies, tall, fair-haired, with tartan print clothing made with sheep originally from Europe) have the strongest connections to Aryan peoples and Indo-European languages, and that the Yuezhi very likely seem to evidence the same.

We know they controlled trade routes and were suppliers of jade and horses to the east, we know they were quite wealthy and powerful, and we know they boasted significant population sizes.

While the direct ties between Alans and Yuezhi may still be debated, there’s no doubt about the ties between the Alans and the people labeled by an early Chinese history as the “Yancai.”

from Wikipedia:

Kangju was mentioned by the Chinese traveller and diplomat Zhang Qian who visited the area c. 128 BCE, whose travels are documented in Chapter 123 of the Shiji (whose author, Sima Qian, died c. 90 BCE):

"Kangju is situated some 2,000 li [832 kilometers] northwest of Dayuan. Its people are nomads and resemble the Yuezhi in their customs. They have 80,000 or 90,000 skilled archers. The country is small, and borders Dayuan (Ferghana). It acknowledges sovereignty to the Yuezhi people in the South and the Xiongnu in the East.[13]

Qian also visited a land known to the Chinese as Yancai 奄蔡 (literally "vast steppe"), which lay north-west of the Kangju. The people of Yancai were said to resemble the Kangju in their customs:

Yancai lies some 2,000 li (832 km) northwest of Kangju (centered on Turkestan at Beitian). The people are nomads and their customs are generally similar to those of the people of Kangju. The country has over 100,000 archer warriors, and borders a great shoreless lake [perhaps what is now known as the Northern Sea (Aral Sea, distance between Tashkent to Aralsk is about 866 km].

If the people from Yancai so closely resemble the Kangju, and the Kangju so closely resemble the Yuezhi, this seems to indicate a powerful ethnic and cultural tie between all three.

That’s correct.. we were, indeed, Kang(ju)s.

Further, if these numbers are accurate, consider just how large these communities must have been—with the ability to field nearly 200,000 archers between the Kangju and Yancai alone, these can’t have been tiny communities.

The “Wusun” seem to be yet another of these clearly Aryan steppe peoples, who were likely closely related to and interconnected with all of the above. Even the Xiongnu, early on, showed strong steppe/Aryan influences; however, this was likely the first of these peoples to undergo heavy racial and cultural admixture, which perhaps represents the point at which

the Hunnish ball started rolling westward, as the Xiongnu displaced both the Wusun and the Yuezhi in a manner very similar to what the Huns would later do to Alan and Gothic peoples further west.

All five of these heavily Aryan steppe peoples—Yancai, Kangju, Yuezhi, Wusun, and to some degree the Xiongnu—so little known and understood even still, shared linguistic ties, a culture of pastoralism and archery, and similar kurgan burial practices across regions known to be closely connected by trade routes and vassalage relationships.

There’s quite the story to tell here, but to avoid further digression, we’ll return to the “Yancai” for the moment, “who dominated the area between the Don and the Aral Sea and were both a wealthy mercantile people and a powerful military force” (Wikipedia).

A Han dynasty Chinese chronicle, the Hou Hanshu (covering the period 25–220 AD and completed in the 5th century), mentioned a report that Yancai was now a vassal state of the Kangju known as “Alanliao”:

“The kingdom of Yancai [literally ‘Vast Steppe’] has changed its name to the kingdoms of Alan [and] Liao, thus entering the world stage under their new and lasting name, the ‘Alans.’”

And before we leave the Far East to speak to their heritage within Europe, it should be noted that another powerfully related people in the region were the “Sogdians,” which almost seems to be a name for a less mobile and far more permanently settled Scythic/Alan people.

It’s worthy of mention that Alexander the Great took a wife in this region—Roxanne, a woman portrayed in Hollywood films by figures like Rosario Dawson and similarly dark-complexioned actresses. In reality, not only was she reputed to be fair of skin, eye, and hair, but her name likely springs from the Roxolani, a people whose name literally means White/Shining/Radiant Alans.

Famed warriors and frequent foes of the Romans, they represent yet another branch of this sprawling tree.

To add to this list of most closely related brother peoples, we have the Siraces, Aorsi (peak population likely over 300,000), Sauromatae, and the Iazyges.

And it’s the Iazyges, especially, we’ll focus on for this next section… deployed to Hadrian's Wall in the second century AD, they’d have a lasting and outsized cultural impact, that may well have helped birth a legend.

King Arthur - The Indo-European Mythos?

In From Scythia to Camelot, Professor C. Scott Littleton and researcher Linda A. Malcor argue—somewhat convincingly, to my eye—that the famed King Arthur tale is likely owed to the Alans and Sarmatians, more specifically, that it was carried to Britain by a group of about 5,500 Iazyges, as they were sent to Britain as elite cavalry soldiers for Rome.

They point out the multitude of ways in which the stories parallel the mysterious “Nart Sagas,” the “Nartamongae” as equivalent to the sacred chalice or Holy Grail, Lancelot as a name derived from “Alan of Lot,” with both containing magical swords emerging from or being deposited into mysterious lakes.

It’s also intriguing that an ancient and widespread Indo-European custom/tradition is the reverence of a sword thrust deeply into the ground, or into rocks, or atop a pile of wood.. as symbolically representative of God.

L.A. Waddell, too, believes Arthur to have been ultimately an import from the Aryan east, though from his perspective, it was a very ancient one indeed.

In The British Edda, Waddell argues that the Arthurian legends are derived from ancient Aryan myths, specifically identifying King Arthur with King Thor or Her-Thor. Waddell reconstructs what he believes to be the original epic poem of the ancient Britons, claiming it deals with historical human heroes rather than mythological gods, and places Thor and Arthur in a shared narrative.

This is certainly a bold and weighty claim, and not one we can dive into here without significant digression, but it seems clear that several elements of these stories extend back to an ancient Aryan past and perhaps simply found themselves retold and “updated” in moments like Saxon-era Britain.

Were these Alans the foremost vehicle through which this tale was imported into Europe and Britain? At minimum, it’s a question worth asking and worthy of consideration.

The Khazar Connection

I’ve always been fascinated by the stories of two very distinct elements in the Khazarian “empire”: one known as the “White Khazars,” reported to be taller, handsome, capable warriors, etc., the other known as the “Black Khazars,” who were said to be the opposite of these things, for the most part.

The commonly cited description from al-Istakhri, as found in secondary sources like Khazars - Wikipedia, states that the White Khazars were "strikingly handsome with reddish hair, white skin, and blue eyes," while the Black Khazars were "swarthy, verging on deep black as if they were 'some kind of Indian'."

It’s the furthest thing from politically correct, and it isn’t my intention to cause offense, but I think it’s probably a safe bet to assume this distinction is due to the mixture of more purely Aryan steppe peoples with the more modern-Asiatic type represented by the Hun, Mongol, Turk, or modern Turkic and Chinese (even Tamil) populations.

However, I think it’s also probably a safe bet to assume these “White Khazars” were strongly connected to the Alans, whose descriptions so well match one another across several sources.

Until the creation of “Alania” in around 880, the Alans had long been a very independent and fractured people, to the degree that this might even be considered their hallmark trait. They’d frequently serve as elite military forces for nations or empires stretching from Spain, France, and Rome all the way into China, and in between. It’s my educated guess that these “White Khazars” were almost certainly Alanic peoples who’d been roped into (forced or heavily compensated) fighting with/for the Khazars across brief periods.

In fact, based on the differences in stature and martial prowess across historical accounts, it might even be fair to suggest that without these “White Khazars,” Khazaria would’ve likely been a fairly inconsequential blip on the historical radar.

Alania: An ‘Empire’ in the Caucasus

The Alans’ final appearance on the historical stage, east of Europe, was in their “Alania” in the Caucasus region.

They’d frequently spar with their neighbors, especially the Khazars, and apparently joined their Aryan brothers from the west, the “Rus,” in several raids around 1033.

As the only Christian pocket in the entire area, Alania also successfully controlled the Darial Pass, an incredibly important strategic location. The name Darial originates from Dar-i Alān (در الان), meaning “Gate of the Alans” in Persian.

It flourished for about 360 years, from the late 9th century to 1239/1240, when the Mongols destroyed its capital, Maghas, marking its end as a political entity by the early 13th century. Mysteriously, like so much about the Alans, the location of this capital isn’t known for certain to this day. Equally mysteriously, its royal families, especially the Bagrationi dynasty and the famed King David Soslan, claimed direct descent from biblical David and apparently took these traditions quite seriously—though modern scholars dismiss these ideas as fanciful.

Many of their cultural traditions and myths and legends live on in peoples like the ‘Ossetians’, who proudly claim a direct descent from the Alans. Though no longer universally ‘tall and blond’, there’s no doubt a genetic inheritance here in the proud people of this uniquely beautiful region.. a people who have every right to be proud.

The Alans of the West

The Alans settled in so many pockets throughout Europe and Britain across time that it’s almost difficult to trace their influence or impact in any clear and exacting way.. but it’s safe to say it’s significant.

Especially their impact on cavalry and knightly cultures.

Most notably, Polish nobility pride their connections to the Sarmatian element to this day, and it’s thought that the famed Winged Hussars owe much of their legacy and prowess to these unique ancestors. I’ve created a video speaking to their unique impact in the 1683 Siege of Vienna, for those interested:

When considering the Alans, I’m reminded of several quotes regarding similar Aryan peoples around the Black Sea, like the Thracians, with ancient historians noting that should they ever find compelling reason to drop their extreme independence and fully unify along ethnocultural lines, they could’ve accomplished essentially anything they cared to. This was certainly true for the Alans.. but then again, both references may well ultimately be to the same singular family of peoples.

Instead, these seemed to be men who so loved fighting that even fighting for fighting’s sake seemed to intrigue them and caused them to gladly lend themselves out in mercenary or royal guard roles across the world. It was a longstanding Aryan tradition, after all, for young men to seek out capable and competent forces who might yield them the most land or gain or respect, and latch themselves and their energies to that wagon. I’d suggest this structure was most healthy and fruitful in a longer term sense when it was an intranational process, as opposed to international, with the latter causing Alans to occasionally fight their own kith and kin in unique circumstances.

Perhaps this is to be expected for a family of people this unbelievably widespread. Again, consider this incredible fact: They had significant impact in Spain, France, and North Africa, throughout the Caucasus, and all the way into China, not just as the Yancai and related peoples, but it’s even said that a wealthy Yuan Court in Beijing in the 13th century AD, seeking out the most capable royal guardsmen in the world, hired 30,000 Alans into temporary military roles.

This sheer range of influence and impact may be the most significant and wide-ranging of any relatively singular people in history. “Mobile” would be an understatement; this was a people who’d seen much of the entirety of the known world, and left a shaping impact—earning fear and respect along the way. A people so hardy and martially oriented that even their women, in exceptional circumstances, ascended into warrior legend.

Respect, to this mysterious and adventurous branch of the Aryan people family.

Here’s to hoping their story comes to be better known and understood, in time.

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The linguistic heritage alone clearly tells this tale:

No language family experienced anywhere near so great a spread, and it’s not even close.. leaving even scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries to marvel in stunned amazement at the profound connections between languages like Lithuanian and Sanskrit, and begin to perceive the strong connections to elements of ancient Greek and Indian and Persian peoples and cultures.

However, we share more than mere language, culture, or blood.. our history proves we share an innate and eternal desire for new horizons.

For the longest time, we were able to satiate this urge, with sufficient time and energy and effort—our world seemed large, and so much of it remained mysterious, unexplored, unsettled, and there was no greater or more satisfying feeling than setting out into this wild unknown and comprehensively exploring and mapping it, perhaps planting a flag to claim it for King or Queen or Empire, and creating something new and promising where previously no man had been.. starting a ball rolling, with limitless potential, never knowing for certain what might eventually come of it.

There was a great deal of health here.. these urges and our resulting achievements represented the cultivation and manifestation of a highly positive energy.. the exercise of a unique sort of vitality.

Things have changed—powerfully so, and in the most fundamental of ways—and I’d suggest this change has been a foremost cause of a modern spiritual crisis. A crisis of meaning, and purpose.. or rather, the lack thereof. Increasingly, we’re now explorers and pioneers and adventurers faced with what seems to be an empty horizon.. seemingly no new shores, no new adventures, no significant challenges of the sort we’re most attuned to, and suited for.

This is an unnatural, unhealthy, untenable state of being..

The Unfortunate Devolution

My purpose with the following words isn’t to offend, or shock, or vent any personal anger or animosity.. I just feel compelled to state it completely frankly:

I strongly believe we’ve shifted from a distinctively Aryan heroic age of adventure and colonization and expansion, to an age of quintessentially Jewish utilitarian and mercantile exploitation.. and that this shift threatens to make us smaller and lesser men—almost regardless of whether we become the exploiters or the exploited—and turn our lives into something vastly lesser than they might otherwise be.

From an age of explorers and warriors, kings and knights and heroes, to an age of speculators and purely economic considerations, the ascendancy of a unique materialism and consumerism—pushed by a status quo seeking to retain their own power, via fostering distraction and domestication and pacification.

This change represents the most extreme of downgrades.

Across time, we were somehow made to forget our own ‘game’, and throw ourselves headlong into playing someone else’s.. to our profound detriment. Economic and financial structures, money and consumption, were for the longest period in history viewed as something relatively peripheral and tangential to life.. a necessity to help things function properly, but the furthest thing from the epicenter of all existence.

Increasingly, this petty obsession is becoming the epicenter.. and none of the resulting effects will be positive.

Culture Clash

The broad and expansive soul chafes at and is revolted by a world filled with scheming and conspiring ‘hustlers’, a world where men learn to sound like a net-positive rather than be a net-positive, a world now devoting the bulk of its brightest minds to finding out how to best steal and retain the public’s collective attention span, to more effectively market ads, to sell them things we don’t need..

we were men who crossed oceans, settled continents, conquered the oceans and skies, subjugated enemies, created order from chaos—the idea that one might attain significant power and influence via some manipulative profiteering backdoor, by finding clever ways to deceive the public into thinking they want things that they don’t actually want, or seeking happiness or fulfillment from things that can’t possibly provide either of these, is a loathsome one, to this healthier type.

Relatedly, we long prized healthy and fruitful hierarchies, in which men rose to ever greater power according to their ability to accomplish and achieve net-positive things, and according to their innate positive attributes. The proper formulation of this hierarchy was paramount.. it’s fair to say the health of the community and nation largely hinged upon it. Our children would seek to emulate the ideal man, young men would seek them out to join their time and energy to his—it was thus absolutely vital that the higher ranks of this hierarchy were strictly reserved only to those most deserving. Our modern age has served to obliterate this.. consciously, and by design. A lesser sort of men learned to conspire with one another—consider the French Revolution as a prime example and outgrowth of this—to more effectively elbow their way in, into territory they know they don’t belong.

The genuine nobility of western mankind despised the type of parasitic and exploitative mercantile instinct so prominent today, and considered the pursuit of mere ‘wealth’ to be something of a shameful embarrassment. The reasons were obvious—seeking personal gain was considered ignoble, hollow, unworthy of a well-bred man.

To successfully invert our power structures, our perceptions here had to be inverted as well.. and they were, powerfully so, to the degree that many people now equate ‘success’ and ‘achievement’ directly and wholly to financial gain. Suddenly, no longer did a man need charisma or courage, natural gravitas, or cultivate loyalty and honor and virtue and character—he only needed to find a clever way to make a buck, to enjoy great powers and influence.

And our understanding didn’t just shift at the level of the individual, but of the group, community, nation. We began to judge the health and well-being of nations by measures like per capita GDP and GNP.. a profound misread, based on misconceptions and faulty reasoning, and a misattribution of cause and effect. I’d suggest it’s not that wealth cultivates a happy and healthy and capable nation, but merely that happy and healthy and capable people tended to naturally create wealth as a by-product.. because these things so often correlated, manipulative subsets were able to imply a causal link, and claim that of course it was the money itself—and almost exclusively so—that helped produce all of the upsides in the nation, and their quality of life.

One only needs to walk down the street of a San Francisco or Seattle or New York to prove the absurdity of these claims:

Despite average income in such areas being at all-time highs, the streets are dirty, dangerous, ugly and unappealing.. as are a great many of those that now sleep on them. There’s virtually no real sense of community or brotherhood, very little sense of purpose or direction, very little wisdom or balance or physical or psychological health.

Moreover, the metric itself is completely flawed:

A soaring per capita GDP or average income doesn’t mean all things are becoming easier and better for the community or nation.. it often means nothing more than that a small handful of corporations and their handful of employees are experiencing outsized gains, while all of those outside this small circle experience a decrease. Attempting to paint this as a fundamental improvement for the whole is supremely dishonest.

Something is very broken, in our system.. and it’s by design, ‘broken’ in a very specific and clever way to ensure the power increasingly flows to a corrupt and unworthy subset, as the public is even taught to cheer this flow as ‘success’ and ‘progress’..

Ad Astra

Figures like Elon Musk suddenly appear, in many ways wearing the mask and skinsuit of our ideas and culture, and posturing as an ally, fighting against many of the people and factions we’ve learned to most despise and mistrust, and seemingly helping to accomplish lofty and significant things despite this committed opposition.

Most importantly, as he does so, he speaks to a loftier aim that resonates with this Aryan instinct of exploration and challenge and adventure.

Colonizing Mars.. what a captivating idea!

If only we could somehow trust the man, and his aims and intentions, this would be the most beautiful and galvanizing moment… and yet, I think I’m the furthest thing from alone when I say something feels very off, here, increasingly so as time marches on, as it’s revealed that Elon is almost entirely surrounded by Jewish individuals who so perfectly represent the modern globalist economic machine so expertly designed to disempower us, to bleed us dry.

He seems a man wholly devoid of any racial consciousness, other than his love and praise for his sliver of Jewish lineage, and a man who pretends to be oblivious to the history of immense and eternal frictions between Western mankind and this population that so openly and aggressively proclaims our destruction.. and why this destruction is a good and necessary thing.

He also seems a man obsessed with technological novelty to the degree that he often seems utterly blind to its drawbacks and dangers.. and he seems to practically worship our fallible (and often net-negative, destructive) work in these spheres, in place of any understanding of God, or our traditional/timeless understanding of the Divine.

This is ominous, disturbing..

MAGA

Trump is a very similar case. Here we have a relatively WASPish looking man who extols his Germanic heritage and speaks highly of that ‘special blood’, who very publicly and loudly stresses the need to control our borders, and frequently takes positions or states ideas many in our circles can’t help but applaud and resonate with...

and yet, he represents another case—similar to practically our entire political class, in America—of literally or figuratively marrying into the family, and seemingly making common cause with the very forces at the center of all of this mess.. making implicit trust nearly impossible, and stoking the most powerful suspicions regarding ultimate aims.

The Epstein case remains largely untouched and unmentioned, despite an immense amount of hype and fanfare, deportations are scarcely higher than Obama’s numbers during his term, and ‘antisemitism’ laws are now being passed, making certain boycotts or criticisms of this favored people criminal offenses..

he’s a uniquely likeable and entertaining personality, and in some senses he even seems uniquely honest—yet, how are we to trust such a figure, broadly speaking and with all things considered? This man whose cabinet is teeming with ultra-Zionist figures, and men like the exceedingly Jewish Howard Lutnick—a man currently selling citizenship to our nation to anyone willing to pay, and playing an extremely powerful role in the reshaping and restructuring of our entire government..

and he’s just one example of a great many examples.. a situation that demands serious vigilance, and a willingness to speak up.

Our Horizon isn’t Empty

Regardless of where one falls on these two men and those like them, and all of those figures doing their damndest to manage this surge of energy to the ‘far right’ or dissident camps, to ensure it follows ‘safe’ paths that don’t threaten the status quo—what can’t be denied is that a pendulum is swinging in our general direction... and it’s beginning to swing powerfully.

This is a time of incredible promise and opportunity.. it simply demands that we’re awake and aware, and at the top of our game, to ensure we help direct and orient the expression of this energy, in the long term.. to ensure we’re not eternally sold an endless succession of half-steps and half-measures, manipulative hype that ultimately amounts to nothing, and intentionally toothless approaches that don’t have the power to fundamentally change anything.

There are new lands on the horizon, even as we speak.. it might take a bit of squinting and concentrated focus to make them out in the distance, but they’re very much there.

I believe our purpose is higher and greater than most of us could possibly imagine, right this moment, in this broken and cheapened and increasingly absurd world. We’ve been so weakened, so reduced, so rendered impotent and stripped of our energy and vitality, that it’s almost difficult to imagine what a life might be like with such things remedied and cured.

Never forget this greatest of all upsides—there’s virtually nowhere to go but up, from here. We stand near the bottom of a great mountain.. we’ve been pushed, we’ve stumbled and fallen a bit under our own weight and missteps, at times we’ve been so disoriented and our compass has so failed us that we’ve headed in the wrong direction.. but if we can recognize that every step up this mountain provides us with a greater and more beautiful and expansive view, provides us ever more fresh and pure air, and further separates us from all of that most terrible noise that so dominates the areas around the base, consider just how optimistic we have every right to be. We’ve been living life at the smallest fraction of its potential and power, and we have the power to eventually remedy this, and unleash the most incredible positive power.. this is an incredibly compelling and intriguing truth.

Instead of a ravenously parasitic leadership that everywhere and always seeks to take all they can, imagine leadership that has genuine reason to care for their own people, because they are their own people.. instead of hustlers and schemers everywhere seeking any possible avenue to make a quick buck, imagine a culture in which fruitful creation is the priority.. in which the maximization of physical, mental, and spiritual health was the exclusive priority of all involved, as opposed to profit motive. Instead of aggressive ugliness in art, architecture, fashion and entertainment, imagine beauty being a foremost aim and goal across all spheres.. with the shaping and orienting of ourselves, individually and collectively, as our greatest of all works.

It sounds wild to the modern ear, and perhaps even wildly idealistic, especially relative to our current state—but the disgust with the present manner of doing things has reached such a peak, and the benefits of homogeneity and social cohesion are so powerful and multifaceted and multidimensional, that such profound shifts in how we live are absolutely possible.. now, more than ever. Just as individuals often need to hit rock bottom before they force themselves to find ways to climb back out of this terrible rut, groups and nations are similar:

Collectively, we’ve fallen into such a putrid pit that we’ll not simply want to hoist ourselves out, but do everything in our collective power to ensure we never end up in that state again.. to board up the hole, mark it with a prominent sign, and build something vastly better atop it.

I’ll be speaking in much more depth about what I think this future might look like, and how we might get there, in coming posts.. for the moment, I hope you’ll understand that it’s fully possible—even inevitable, I’d suggest—and that we each have some ability and responsibility to help envision it, to cultivate a collective vision that might then attain physical reality.

It’s a mistake to see an empty horizon, as understandable as such mistakes might be right this moment.. we’re faced with the most daunting and high-stakes challenge, the steepest of hills to climb—but simultaneously the most incredible and lasting rewards, from surmounting these obstacles and slaying these dragons.

With some time and effort, and a sufficiently powerful and devoted collective will, we’ll get there.. and it’ll be beautiful. Envision it, and help think and speak it into being.

For thousands of years, the horse had been the decisive factor in combat... from the powerful knightly orders of the European Middle Ages to the highly mobile Scythians, who so easily outmaneuvered massive invading armies due to their unmatched advantage in mobility and reconnaissance—all the way back to the peoples descended from the Yamnaya and Sintashta, and the devastatingly effective war chariots of ancient Arya nobility.. the horse had long represented a core element of martial dominance.

Yet, all things change, with time...

World War I marked a significant shift in military tactics, as trench warfare and the increased firepower of modern armies rendered traditional cavalry charges obsolete— sidelining a force often led by aristocratic and noble officers who could no longer fulfill their roles in recon and rapid assault. The skies became the new frontier, offering similar prestige and adventure reminiscent of the chivalric ideals of their cavalry heritage.

This shift—from piloting powerful beasts on the battlefield to commanding powerful marvels of engineering in the air—has always fascinated and intrigued me. Just as knights of old were revered for their bravery and skill in combat, the intrepid pilots of the First World War emerged as the new heroes, their high-stakes aerial duels captivating a world in flux. In this transformed era, the skies over Europe became the jousting fields where honor and valor were tested, with airmen celebrated like knights for their individual prowess and courage, their dogfights a contemporary joust where skill and bravery crowned the victor.

From the early pioneer aces and teachers like Boelcke and Immelmann, to the legends of Richthofen and Voss, this was a brave new age of aerial cavalry and chivalry.. and an arena in which merit and ability were everything—in which anyone might make his way exclusively via his own talents and skills, with men matching wits and abilities directly against their fellow man in the most forthright and direct manner, in deadly duels in which often only one would be flying home afterward.. and where the best among these might become legends.

In an era of brutal trench warfare, often characterized by muddy, cramped, unpleasant and chaotic conditions, the privilege to soar above it all was a very real one... even if the risks were far greater and the chances of survival were lower, several ace pilots were as thankful for the opportunity as they were to the brave men they soared above—in mutual recognition that each was fulfilling their specific role for the greater good.

In this infancy of flight, in relatively experimental machines they were tasked not just to fly and land successfully—in nearly every sort of environmental or weather conditions, from within complicated types of machines that didn’t even exist a few years prior—but often to evade or shoot down enemy planes as they did so. These were all men of tremendous courage.. and because skill, discipline, and a calm, collected confidence were almost always the deciding factors, those men who became great aces had proven themselves, definitively, to be extremely capable. Their nations were right to honor them, their people right to celebrate them.

Men like the Canadian Billy Bishop, the highest-scoring non-European ace of the war with 72 confirmed victories—an incredible tally for a fearless pilot known to frequently fly alone into enemy territory.

A man who once attacked an entire German airfield solo, shooting down three enemy planes as they attempted to take off, taking heavy anti-aircraft fire but managing to limp back to base in one piece, earning him the Victoria Cross, the highest military honor in the British Empire.

Or the Frenchman René Fonck, the highest-scoring non-German ace of the war with at least 75 victories, who favored a more precise and calculated style.

This methodical style, mastery of aerial gunnery, combined with exceptional eyesight and instincts, made him not simply one of the greatest pilots in aviation history, but led to heroic feats like the downing of six planes in a single day on May 9, 1918, and helped keep him alive to serve his nation after the war. Unjustly attacked in our age for his friendship with ace WW1 German pilots Hermann Göring and Ernst Udet

and his later participation in Vichy France in WW2 (Vichy Foreign Minister Pierre Laval claimed that Fonck had recruited 200 French pilots to fight on the National Socialist side), his attitude simply reflected an almost universal mindset of mutual respect and brotherhood among the best of the best in the sphere:

Among all who’d regularly risked their lives to prove themselves and their courage, honor, and love for nation—and then proceeded to not just survive but to positively thrive under difficult conditions that might break many weaker men—there existed a special camaraderie and kinship.

The respect for excellence often transcended mere politics, or even national borders. It was something in the blood.

There were also several nobles and royalty that took to the skies for their nations—and perhaps, for the adventure of it all.

Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia1 was a German prince and competitive horseman who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal.

His brother Prince Friedrich Sigismund, another expert horseman (widely considered to be one of the best in Germany).

And yet another member of the German (minor) nobility, widely hailed as the greatest ace of them all, will be our main focus here:

Manfred von Richthofen, ‘The Red Baron’.

With 80 confirmed kills (with the actual figure likely much higher, as formal confirmation often became tricky as the war heated up), famed in part for painting his plane the brightest red—as if to openly challenge his opponents with the opposite of camouflage—Manfred is forever ranked #1 among the air aces of WW1... achieving an exceptional legendary status he’d not live to enjoy, and yet would make his name immortal.

Richthofen’s red steed, a blazing symbol of defiance in the skies, not only crowned him the ultimate ace, but also inspired a new era of aerial warfare where individual valor intertwined with national ambitions... his daring exploits, shared through tales of dogfights and trophies, ignited the imaginations of pilots and engineers alike, fueling a relentless pursuit of supremacy in the air. As the Red Baron’s legend grew, so too did the realization that victory in this new form of joust demanded more than courage—it required machines as bold and brilliant as the men who flew them, setting the stage for an unprecedented race to master the skies.

The Race for Supremacy Begins

Air supremacy was a crucially important factor from WW1 onward, leading to an arms race and a race for piloting skills between all nations. A significant part of the equation was the engineering talent—the discipline, creativity, and artistry that went into creating and improving the planes themselves—and the other element in the equation was the aptitude of the aviators themselves.

Germany, naturally, excelled in both spheres.. and is perhaps the most intriguing choice of focus for this article—as the nation with the largest percentage of leading pilots and top aces in both World Wars, and an impressive and well-documented air combat tradition.

Beginning with men like Oswald Boelcke, widely hailed as ‘The Father of German Fighter Aviation’, and Max Immelmann, the first pilot to achieve ace status, a new age was born... and immediately men sought out that type of excellence and mastery that would come to so define the best of the best in this sphere.

Immelmann and Boelcke were the first to receive the Pour le Mérite2 , in January of 1916. Oswald would go on to be revered for his ‘Dicta Boelcke’, the first manual of fighter tactics distributed service-wide...

as well as his expert guidance and mentorship of promising fliers and his reorganization of the German air force to effectively gain supremacy on the Western Front. Max became famed for exceptional piloting and pioneering new tactical innovations, with the trademark “Immelmann turn”3 being a prime example.

It’s said that during Immelmann’s very first engagement, his gun jammed... yet, he somehow managed to clear it while flying with both hands off the controls, showcasing unique skill and a promising courage and composure under pressure.

This victory marked the beginning of the ‘Fokker Scourge’, a period when German pilots, equipped with the new Fokker Eindecker fighter planes, absolutely dominated the skies, inflicting heavy losses on Allied air forces. Immelmann’s success during this time made him a national hero, and earned him the nickname "Der Adler von Lille" (The Eagle of Lille).

Meanwhile, Boelcke’s unique fighting style—whether purposeful or not, it’s difficult to say—frequently saw his opponents falling to earth in a deadly ball of flame, as opposed to the more tame takedown victories experienced by many... yet, on September 2, 1916, he managed to force down the aircraft of one Robert Wilson, a British captain. In a testament to the magnanimity of the age and its great men, and perhaps helping set the tone for the treatment of ace pilots by one another, Boelcke invited him to tea and later to dine with his squadron, treating him with respect before arranging for his transfer to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Immelmann and Boelcke, these two giants of their arena, gradually became beloved national celebrities.. and an amicable and sporting rivalry continually pushed them to new heights as they began trading the title of highest-scoring ace back and forth.

A Torch is Passed

Despite all Boelcke accomplished—forever changing the art and discipline of air warfare and literally writing the book on the topic—it may be that his greatest claims to fame were in the masterful pupils he so effectively tutored and mentored, laying the ground work for the entire German air force to come.

The greatest of these, Manfred von Richthofen himself, was to witness his great teacher die in a tragic collision on October 28, 1916, during a dogfight near Douai, France.

The death hit Boelckes apprentice pilots—and the entire nation of Germany—like a blow. Though Oswald was young, his brilliant students were often far younger, and had gradually come to view him as something of a father figure.. one who was simultaneously a great friend, a model soldier, and quite simply an exceptional man.

Manfred would write:

Among the tributes, the Royal Flying Corps air-dropped a wreath with the inscription, "To the memory of Captain Boelcke, our brave and chivalrous opponent." Another wreath came from captured British pilots, including Captain Wilson, whom he’d treated to tea, reading, "To the opponent we admired and esteemed so highly."

With Immelmann also having fallen in June of the same year, the baton had now officially been passed to their students.. and time would soon tell just how well they’d done their job.

The Red Baron

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, born in Breslau, Germany, into Prussian nobility on May 2, 1892, showed early prowess in horse riding and hunting, later serving as a cavalry officer and earning an Iron Cross for bravery before transferring to the air service in 1915.

He took to it naturally, learned quickly, and had of course been blessed to be shaped and oriented by perhaps the best teacher in the world in Oswald Boelcke, a man who’d immediately recognized something special in Manfred, and tried his best to nurture and cultivate it.

Richthofen’s early writings capture his excitement for flying. "My first flight as an observer was a great experience. I was very excited, but I did not feel any vertigo. I felt quite secure in the aircraft." Marveling at the aerial view, "From above, Cologne and its cathedral looked like toys. I wanted to fly all day." Even his early adventures showed his willingness to take on risk—"We flew over burning Wicznice. The smoke was at 6,000 feet, while we were at 4,500 feet. We nearly crashed, but Holck's skill saved us. We landed in an abandoned Russian artillery position." Once he had a taste for the air, he seemed to want nothing else... he only needed this passion to be honed by masters like Boelcke.

The new star pupil sprung from impressive stock.

Not only would his brother Lothar go on to be a great ace and one of the most roundly competent pilots of his age, but his cousin, Ferdinand von Richthofen, a famed explorer and scholar renowned for his work in geography and geology, is a man so prolific I’ve quoted him myself more than once, in my own historical works.

Often called one of the founders of modern geography, Ferdinand was a giant in his own sphere and, interestingly enough, is apparently the man responsible for coining the term ‘Silk Road’.

Wolfram von Richthofen, a cousin, would later go on to be a respected and accomplished Generalfeldmarschall in World War II, known for tactical air warfare leadership.

Like so many other German pilots, the Richthofens sprung from an equestrian family, with many of the men in their families becoming cavalry officers or athletes in related fields. Like so many of their time, as the utility of cavalry faded, they became pioneers in advancing this new age, this intriguing new discipline.

Under Boelcke’s sage guidance in Jagdstaffel 2 (Jasta 2), Richthofen scored his first aerial victory on September 17, 1916, downing a British aircraft near Cambrai—a milestone that marked the beginning of his ascent as a fighter pilot. In the weeks that followed, he continued to refine his skills, achieving ten confirmed kills by November 1916. His tactical prowess—particularly his method of stalking opponents from above and using the sun to his advantage—quickly earned him a growing reputation as one of Germany’s most promising aces.

As the reputations of ace pilots around the world grew, the public became increasingly enthralled with kill counts, which nations would often publicize for propaganda purposes. Far from a perfect measure4, kill counts provided at least something definitive and quantifiable that the average person could easily understand, offering some indication of how nations were faring against one another, and how individual pilots were performing relative to their peers... and no pilot was faring better than the famed Boelcke pupil, Manfred von Richthofen.

After the death of his teachers and mentors, and after clearly distinguishing himself as a most capable pilot and tactician, he swiftly rose through the ranks to positions of ever greater leadership and influence. This rapid rise and increasing renown set the stage for a defining moment in his career.. and on November 23rd, 1916, he was to face his first major test:

Master vs Master

As Richthofen approached his British foe on a late November evening, he had no way of knowing the caliber of foe he was about to engage. Lanoe Hawker, a Victoria Cross5 bearing British ace with the infamous motto ‘attack everything’, was both powerfully competent and extremely aggressive.. and for the next full 30 minutes—an extraordinarily long time relative to most engagements of the age—the two masters expertly contested with one another in the skies above Bapaume, France.

After using an unusual number of rounds on his skilled opponent, Richthofen’s final burst of gunfire struck Hawker in the back of the head, killing him instantly. Hawker’s aircraft crashed 200 yards east of Luisenhof Farm, just south of Bapaume, on the German side of the front lines.. becoming Richthofen’s 11th victory, and earning his respect.

He’d promptly hang Hawker's gun over his door as a souvenir, and a reminder.

Rising to Command

As of the date in which Manfred took command of Jasta 11 in January 1917, the unit had been struggling... yet it quickly rose to fame under his leadership. Already an ace with 16 victories, he immediately set about introducing new discipline and tactics and freshly reorganized and reinvigorated the unit.

After his 18th victory on January 24, 1917, he made his famed decision to paint his Albatros D.III entirely red..

in part to boost morale, in part as a psychological weapon and open challenge to intimidate his enemies, but in large part because he was a leader who cared deeply about his men—believing that if he were the foremost target, so easily recognizable at a glance, he might use his evasive skills to dodge enemy fire more effectively than many of his men, thereby creating easy targets for his own men to hit as the enemy gave fruitless chase.

Ironically, his men, valuing their leader just as much as he valued them, began to follow suit, with each painting a portion of their own planes red—in large part to take some of this enemy focus off Manfred. This sparked a trend of each ace fighter in Jasta 11 gradually turning their craft into a personalized and distinctive art piece, creating a visually striking unit that became a supremely feared (and easily recognized) force in the skies.

Due to their unprecedented success, April of 1917 became known as ‘Bloody April’, with Jasta 11 claiming an incredible 89 victories during the Battle of Arras, with Manfred himself scoring 21, and his brother Lothar 15. Their fame was beginning to spread well beyond their own national borders.

One can imagine how enemy pilots must’ve felt on seeing this swarm of distinctively painted machines and suddenly realizing the caliber of men they’d become locked into a dance to the death with.. realizing that they may very well not make it home.

In late June or early July of 1917, Jasta 11 joined Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG I), officially forming "Richthofen’s Flying Circus," named both for their brightly colored aircraft and their exceptional use of railway trains for rapid relocation, allowing them to respond rapidly to changing conditions and ensuring these most elite pilots were always where they were most needed and helpful at any given moment... allowing them to strike quickly and unpredictably, significantly enhancing their effectiveness on the Western Front.

The ‘Red Baron’ was now the leader of an entire fighter wing—a collection of many of the greatest or most promising pilots in the nation—and under his expert guiding hand, these units would quickly become the most devastatingly effective air force in the world.

A Bullet to the Head

His tenure as squadron commander nearly ended in its first days, in this July of 1917, as a bullet from an enemy machine gun creased Manfred’s scalp—the smallest fraction away from a kill shot—causing a 4-inch scar that never fully healed. He was able to land his plane safely.. but it’s said that the injury led to a change in his mood and personality, and that as result he’d suffer from frequent headaches and nausea. He was also strongly advised not to fly again by medical professionals,

yet returned to flying almost immediately, demonstrating the type of martial resilience he’d become known for. He’d write about how difficult it became to be grounded, knowing his men were taking immense risks without him.. finding it impossible to endure. Still, the serious injury would quietly plague him, with his most private correspondence confiding that after each combat since the injury, he was in ‘the most wretched spirits’ due to its effects.

Even still, he’d allow nothing to slow his pace—feeling a duty to both his nation and his own pilots, paired with an immense respect and sympathy for the men on the ground in the muddy trenches below.

As his kill count climbed ever higher, he’d begin a tradition of collecting trophies to commemorate his scores: a silver cup, for each victory..

until silver supplies became impossibly scarce during the war, at which point he found himself taking small pieces of his opponents’ downed planes instead.

While Richthofen’s ‘Flying Circus’ dominated the skies, another pilot, Werner Voss, was swiftly emerging as both a worthy rival, and valued friend.. a man whose own legend would soon be forged in a truly unforgettable contest..

Werner Voss, and the Greatest Single Air Battle of the War

One of the things that best pushes men to greatness—and then often spurs them ever further—is a friendly and sporting rivalry with respected peers. Manfred was blessed to have this with his great teachers Boelcke and Immelmann, to some degree with his brother Lothar, but most especially with a unique man he considered his greatest ‘threat’ to best him as the highest-scoring ace of the war: the young Hussar from Krefeld, Werner Voss.

Dodging conscription laws from a desire to serve his nation, Voss joined at 17.. proving immediately proficient and being promoted several times at a mere 18, earning the Iron Cross 2nd class. After graduating flight school, he'd be retained to teach it, becoming the youngest flight instructor in the nation.

Outside of flying, his other love was motorcycling. Since being gifted this at 17,

he’d develop a resulting fascination with mechanics and engineering.. and even after attaining celebrity ace status, he'd frequently be found contravening uniform regulations in the hangar, working on his flying machine beside the mechanics, dressed in a grubby jacket without insignia.

Richthofen quickly came to so respect Voss’ flying abilities that he’d immediately push (successfully) to get him transferred to JG 1.

They’d been close friends dating back to their service in Jasta 2 in November of 1916... and from the first moment, their relationship had been one of immense mutual respect.

Voss, flying his silver-blue Fokker Dr.I triplane on that now famous date of September 23, 1917, represented the living answer to the question of what happens when you create the most well-engineered machine and place it in the hands of the most comprehensively competent pilot.

Taking to the skies just hours after scoring his 48th victory, he was now just behind Manfred in total kills, and currently scoring at a much faster rate... at this pace, he’d soon be the foremost ace in the world, and all around him couldn’t help but recognize the exceptional talent—Manfred most of all. And perhaps this friendly rivalry was some small part of Voss’ driving force, as he took to the air that fateful day…

With both Germany and the Allies seeking air superiority over the developing Battle of Passchendaele (a three-month battle that would result in over 500,000 casualties), the stakes were high... and Voss, due to his reputation, was now also a hunted man.

After takeoff, Voss’ Fokker triplane—its rotary engine roaring, its increased agility and speed representing a marvel born of German engineering ingenuity—was faster than those of his wingmen, and the distance created between the two was immediately pounced upon by a British patrol, who swooped to engage the slower planes, leaving Voss alone with two enemies just ahead. Hardly a problem for Voss—he used the time to quickly take down the two British planes by himself, with the latter surviving to fly another day only because Voss’ eagle eye had suddenly spotted a new threat, immediately requiring his full attention:

Eight British planes on the horizon, speeding in his direction.

At this moment, it’s possible Voss felt little fear... after all, he may well have been the greatest pilot in the world, and even significantly outnumbered, he never felt significantly outnumbered. Unbeknownst to him, this time was very different—this was a collection of some of the greatest Allied pilots in the world. All eight were aces, their No. 56 Squadron being the highest-scoring British fighter wing.

This would be no standard engagement…

It’s said that he could’ve easily evaded the battle had he so chosen... yet he chose to engage, perhaps believing—not knowing the completely exceptional situation he was facing and the quality of pilots in front of him—that he stood an excellent chance, if he kept his wits about him. Or perhaps, the brave young man simply wanted a genuine challenge, at long last.

And so, what would go down as perhaps the greatest single air engagement of the war began, in earnest... one heroic German against eight highly competent Allied aces—who opened the battle shocked at seeing no attempt whatsoever by their prey to flee, but rather encountering a seemingly fearless man who immediately began targeting all of them.

Voss immediately shoots several holes in McCudden’s plane, a Victoria Cross recipient who would go on to earn an incredible 57 kills in the war... and then promptly riddles Lieutenant Verschoyle Phillip Cronyn’s plane so badly that it’s immediately forced out of the fight (and will be later scrapped after he limps back to his airfield, with the man himself suffering a nervous breakdown as a result and being sent home), after he turns into Voss and then throws his plane into a violent spin in a desperate bid to escape more bullets from the German.

For nearly ten full minutes, Voss proceeds to engage in the most skillful dance of attack and evasion, unbelievably putting holes in every single plane on the other side, "never flying in a straight line for more than a second or two, combat so chaotic that every pilot that makes it back to base has a different story to tell in their after-action reports."

Side slips, spins, loops, barrel rolls, zigzagging—Voss seemingly harnesses his every last skill and makes full use of every last trick he might bring to bear, as if possessed, divinely inspired... never holding a straight course for more than seconds, evading British fire and somehow simultaneously spewing bullets at them all individually. He lands a bullet directly into the engine of Keith Muspratt, forcing him out of the engagement... shortly after, Richard Maybery is forced to withdraw as well, with the numerous fresh holes in his own plane making it impossible to fly properly.

During the fray, it’s mentioned that more than once Voss establishes such height and superiority of position that he’d have been free to flee back to German lines... and yet, each time he breaks free, he promptly dives back in.

British ace Geoffrey Hilton Bowman, who’d go on to attain an impressive 32 kills himself, does all in his power to remain in the fight despite Voss’ expert marksmanship and the resulting black smoke pouring out of his SE.5, stating:

As Voss turns hard to charge directly at McCudden in a head-on machine-gun firing merge by both pilots, Voss’ aircraft was suddenly struck by a starboard broadside burst of machine-gun fire from Hoidge, who was probably unsighted by Voss at that moment… and after this, it was noticed that Voss stopped maneuvering and flew level for the first time in the engagement. Pouncing on this opportunity, British ace Rhys-Davids, who had pulled aside to change an ammunition drum, quickly rejoined the battle with a 150-meter (490-foot) height advantage over Voss’s altitude of 450 meters (1,480 feet) and began a long flat dive onto the tail of Voss’ triplane, which failed to react... almost certainly an indication that Hoidge’s bullet had landed, and Voss was now critically injured.

At point-blank range, he raked Voss’ aircraft with his machine guns before breaking off. A few seconds later, Voss’s aircraft wandered into Rhys-Davids’ line of flight again in a strangely becalmed slow westward glide. Rhys-Davids again fired an extended burst into it, causing its engine to stop, the two aircraft missing a mid-air collision by inches. As the triplane’s glide steepened, Rhys-Davids overran him at about 1000 feet altitude and lost sight of Voss’s aircraft beneath his own.

From above, Bowman saw the Fokker in what could have been a landing glide, right up until it stalled. It then flipped inverted and nose down, dropping directly to earth.. finally smashing into the ground near Plum Farm north of Frezenberg, Belgium, at approximately 18:40 hours.

McCudden, watching from 3,000 feet, recalled:

There would be debate later whether Voss dropped out of the inverted triplane.

Arthur Rhys-Davids, who’d hit Voss himself twice in the abdomen during the battle, likely just after Hoidge’s shot to his chest, would later express sincere regret at not having somehow brought Voss down alive. Marveling at what they’d experienced on this incredible day, McCudden would famously state,

Had he somehow survived this singular engagement, he very well may have flown away the top-scoring ace in the world… and yet, it’d be hard to script a more glorious ending to an ace pilot’s career:

Having—by choice!—fought an entire squadron of the most skilled and experienced British aces for nearly 10 minutes, downing several of them and leaving every last enemy plane with significant damage to show for it, Werner Voss had now justly ascended into legendary status... proving quite possibly the most comprehensively competent pilot of the war—courageous, heroic, and duty-bound to the very end.

Richthofen Ascends to Join Voss

One of the greatest unsung pilots of the age was Manfred’s own brother, Lothar, who’d end up with 40 victories, exactly half the number of confirmed kills of his brother—and who, despite having a much more aggressive and brazen style, would somehow end up surviving the war... and his beloved brother.

Plagued by a head wound much more serious than others knew, having to force himself through the motions out of an unshakeable sense of duty, and sheer love for his nation and his men, some feared Manfred quietly harbored something of a death wish.. or rather, at the very least, had lost that unique instinct that makes men want to so cling to life, and aggressively safeguard it.

A clock was ticking.. and its minutes were numbered.

On April 20, 1918, as Manfred soared the skies of Beaumont-Hamel, France—and as a young Adolf Hitler was perhaps quietly celebrating his birthday while fighting in the trenches below, not terribly far away—Richthofen would score his 79th victory, killing Major Raymond-Barker immediately with a short and masterful burst of fire. His second-to-last kill, on his second-to-last day on earth.

On April 21, 1918, Richthofen led a patrol over the Somme River, chasing a Sopwith Camel piloted by Canadian Wilfrid Reid May. May had just fired on Richthofen’s cousin, Lieutenant Wolfram von Richthofen, prompting the Red Baron to give chase. During the pursuit, he was briefly attacked by another Sopwith Camel piloted by Canadian Captain Arthur "Roy" Brown, also from No. 209 Squadron. Brown dived steeply at high speed to intervene and then had to climb steeply to avoid hitting the ground. Manfred turned to evade Brown’s attack and resumed his pursuit of May, flying at an unusually low altitude, making him vulnerable to ground fire... and at approximately 11:00 AM, Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen would be struck by a single .303 bullet that severely damaged his heart and lungs. The exact origin of the fatal shot remains hotly debated, a significant controversy: was it the Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown, or was it—as many believed Manfred was far too skilled a pilot to die to aircraft fire unless exceptionally outnumbered—the Australian ground troops, and Sergeant Cedric Popkin of the 24th Machine Gun Company of the First Australian Imperial Force, using a Vickers machine gun?6

Regardless, the damage was done.

Despite being mortally wounded, Richthofen would manage to bring down his Fokker Dr.I in a field near Vaux-sur-Somme, France—however, by the time Australian troops reached him, the most successful and revered pilot of the First World War had slipped his mortal coil.. dutiful to the last.

Arthur Roy Brown reportedly said, "If it had been my dearest friend, I could not have felt greater sorrow," and would rarely speak of the incident afterward.

The next day, April 22, 1918, he was buried with full military honors in Bertangles, near Amiens, France. This included six officers as pallbearers and a salute, including a wreath inscribed "To Our Gallant and Worthy Foe."

The fall of this most accomplished ‘knight of the air’ served to mark the end of an era... and yet, simultaneously the beginning of countless powerful legends that would stoke the fire in the hearts of generations of young men ever since.

Legends never die; heroes live on as ideals of excellence to emulate.. serving a most beautiful and necessary purpose—lifting us upward, pushing us forward..

Immense respect to all of the greats of this prior age:

Well done.. and may you rest in eternal peace.

in its place, I just wanted to say a few words, and I’ll likely post the intended article in a few days (and resume the one-longer-form-each-Sunday schedule beginning next week).

I wanted to speak to the ideas of hope, optimism, and the importance of maintaining an idealistic vision for the future…

please don’t ever treat these things as cliché or hollow conceptions merely because they’re so often bandied about by the ‘self-help’ circles, and scores of subsets aiming to teach people to get rich, or love themselves. These aren’t conceptions that belong to this crowd, by any stretch; they’re conceptions latched onto by this crowd because they’re so naturally powerful and so obviously true that even a superficial and distorted form of the idea, even when communicated through the vehicle of a charlatan or hack, can potentially change lives. This is just a further testament to their substance, power, and reality.

It’s impossible to exaggerate their importance.. or the degree to which, by forgetting them, we inevitably create our own prisons.

History is so important to fully grasp and understand in part because it stands as the clearest proof of what we’re ultimately capable of. At the moment, we very much resemble a giant tied down with invisible strings—a giant that could simply stand up and ‘break free’ at any moment and do whatever he pleased, if only he hadn’t fully convinced himself that he’s hopelessly tied down.

We make such a mistake when we think that the greatest power on the other side is their financial control, their dominance of our politicians, their wealth of organizations and institutions, their networked clubs, etc.. the greatest power they wield is the manipulative narrative (storyline, worldview) they so effectively push—like a dark spell cast on the Western world, causing us to take these financial structures, these politicians, and these groups and organizations so seriously, and thus everywhere grant them the power and legitimacy they seek.

The truth is jarring, in the most intriguing and compelling of ways:

If one day we collectively decided, all at once, to stop gifting them the power and legitimacy they demand, the nightmare would end immediately—right that moment, in the blink of an eye.

If one person does this, he or she takes on real risk—but if hundreds of thousands or millions should someday take this path simultaneously, their game would be over, in a flash.

Now, I understand this is an extreme example.. difficult for most of us to even fathom, considering there isn’t much historical precedent to point to clearly showing us how this might play out. Yet, it’s the most obvious truth. All aspects of the present system remain in place because we all play along. If we should one day summon sufficient enthusiasm for a new path and find some means to allow people to act in concert, ideally in some creative way with minimal risk, new precedent would be created.

Even if we leave this most extreme example aside for a moment and pretend that causing the entire structure to collapse under its own weight is some total impossibility—what we can do, what we always have the option to do—is simply step aside and create a new structure on a smaller scale, of our own creation and design. Parallel communities, of the sort springing up in the Ozarks or in Orania, are a perfect example of this. The idea has become exceedingly popular, with so many people wanting to participate that there’s often a waiting list to secure plots of land.. and the longer-term potential here is incredible. Picture several such communities, not only across the nation but also across the world, beginning to network and work together—developing their own marketplace and their own culture, planting their feet on solid and friendly ground, securing a safe and beautiful future for their children.

It’s a beautiful vision, and it’s taking shape as we speak. It will only gain steam in coming months and years, as an ever-greater number of people wake to our collective situation.

Yet, even leaving this aside for a moment, I’d like to speak to one last reason why being a hopelessly black-pilled, nihilistic, demoralizing dark cloud isn’t just poisonous and unhealthy and unhelpful—it’s simply wrongheaded, a flat out inaccurate conception of our situation. The all-important thing to remember is this:

Our opponents aren’t just contending against us, but are in a very real sense contending against Nature herself—against the natural Divine order of things.

This guarantees their failure in the longer term.

This is precisely why their efforts require such an overwhelming effort, why they require a near-limitless stockpile of money and resources, and demand such a monopolization of all spheres of influence (media, academia, our political class, entertainment, the shaping of pop culture). Their project is a wholly artificial and unnatural attempt to reorient and rearrange the world—to invert timeless hierarchies, to champion ugliness over beauty, sickness over health, and degeneracy over virtue.

Everything has to go just right to make even slight progress down these paths. Unfortunately, because we so fell asleep at the wheel and completely lost our vigilance, things have indeed gone ‘just right’ for this faction, post-WW2…

and yet, I think we all feel it:

This house of cards is beginning to crumble.

The beauty of this is that while their push to defeat and constrain Nature takes an almost unbelievable effort to orchestrate and then maintain, when this pendulum begins to swing back in the other direction, when Nature engages in a correction and begins healing, the progress in our own direction can be incredibly swift, and relatively effortless.1

This should be our vision, and represent what we prepare for—and the future we all work to help come to pass.

Again, the greatest power the other side wields, by far, is this manipulative spell they’ve successfully cast across the world—this mass deception and illusion, this aggressive manipulation achieved through the mass conditioning/programming of the public at large.. but this spell is now losing its power—and it’s now happening quickly:

Gender exists as a biological reality, and masculinity and femininity are beautiful and natural things. Beauty is paramount, draws us closer to God, and lifts and inspires. Traditional culture is like a book lovingly and painstakingly authored by all who came before us, for our own benefit, and represents a priceless inheritance to be treasured, not discarded—and further built upon, as the sturdiest of foundations. Races exist as a biological and historical reality, possessing unique backgrounds and abilities and strengths and weaknesses, and a true nation represents a larger extended family of shared heritage, not some mere economic construct or random hodgepodge of imported workers. Money is not the epicenter of all things, markets are not the measure of nations, and the most beautiful environments and the most lofty of high cultures can only come into being when the ravenously parasitic impulse is fully quashed and constrained, and true leaders—high minded, and purpose driven—take the helm again. Merit and ability matter; the best and most capable, and simultaneously the most virtuous and self-disciplined, should everywhere rule.. must everywhere rule, because power is never something to be distributed equitably, without discernment or discrimination, in any nation that hopes to survive and thrive. Ability and excellence should have their time and energy harnessed to higher aims than mere corporate profits. The brutal mistreatment of animals and the pollution and trash-rivers occurring in third-world nations is a crime against nature, and need to stop immediately. The pollution of our food and water and air should be reversed by any means necessary, and we must take our physical, mental, and spiritual health seriously again, as foremost priority.

All of this, and much more, is coming. It’ll return with a vengeance, wiping away these past several decades to be looked back on as an aberrant blip on the radar.. a strange nightmare, that we recall only insofar as necessary to prevent it from ever recurring.

We ultimately win this because Truth and Nature and God are on our side—or, better phrased, because we so strive to be on their side. It’s only a question of when, and just how, this victory will manifest.

Envision it, strive toward it.. the black magic spell fails utterly, the moment a sufficient number of us do so—and an incredible future awaits.

Happy Easter, Happy April 20th, and I hope you’re all well.

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Here’s the article in question, a worthy and worthwhile read if you haven’t yet:

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The Road to Hell

Gather ‘round, young ‘uns, and hear tell of the days of yore. When I tell younger people that I didn’t start using the internet until I was out of high school (c. 1999), I’m usually met with the look they reserve for great grandpa’s story about trading in his horse-drawn cart for a rootin’ tootin’ Henry Ford Model T. The internet was a different place b…

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a year ago · 433 likes · 202 comments · Darryl Cooper

I’d like to start by making clear that I’ve liked most of what little I’ve seen from Darryl Cooper (Martyr Made) thus far, and I look forward to a long overdue deeper dive. I was encouraged when I first him explode onto the scene, highlighted by Tucker and so many others, hopeful that there might finally be a voice willing to say so many of the things that so need to be said. He’s intelligent, he communicates effectively, he has an understanding of history vastly superior to the average man, and I’ve certainly appreciated his willingness to provide some counters to the completely absurd (and wildly dishonest) prevailing storyline regarding the Second World War.

I may not agree with his every last take in this sphere, but this is to be expected.. and I’m certainly not infallible—so where I do disagree strongly, I’ll always be happy to take a closer look at my conclusions.

Yet, this latest piece bothered me. Perhaps there’s a misunderstanding here.. though, perhaps not. I look forward to some clarity.

This will be addressed both to Martyr Made himself, and our respective audiences.. I think it’s a discussion worth having, and I hope you might agree.

Darryl—

Firstly, I don’t entirely disagree with what you’ve laid out. As anyone who has read or watched my outputs over the past few years might tell you, I think it’s a terrible thing when we allow ourselves to be utterly consumed by pure hatred—when we find ourselves wishing terrible things on relative innocents merely because they’re part of a larger group responsible for the highest of crimes, or when we find ourselves unable to feel love or psychological and spiritual balance because this hatred becomes our exclusive internal “setting.” As cliche as it may sound, living in hatred really does lower our ‘frequency’, and causes us to experience the universe in a fundamentally inferior way.. it’s far from the ideal, and we should always be working to channel as little of this negative energy as is possible.

I don’t deeply resonate with those who wear a venomous hatred on their sleeve. Speaking personally, I don’t happen to use or enjoy slurs, and I tend to think there’s nothing helpful or fruitful about communicating (or even thinking) down these paths.. it just feels like bad energy, to me, and a crude/inartful manner of expression. We’re largely on the same page, here.

Yet..

what I so object to is the caricatures you’ve created here—not because they entirely don’t exist (it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to find a handful of people who resemble each caricatured type you’ve spoken to in your article)—but because they paint an incredibly distorted, deceptive, incomplete picture.

I, too, grew up frequenting “edgy” forums.. and certainly you’re right to say that within the context of these environments, to get mad is to “lose,” essentially. But when we take this edgy-forums lesson and attempt to apply it to all of life as a whole, we risk making a massive mistake, because life isn’t an edgy internet forum. Apathy and ironic detachment “win” in such narrow environments because they’re unassailable positions in that world: if you don’t truly care about anything, you never take any serious stances and dig your feet in, thus you can’t be angered—and anger is a feeling often felt by those who’ve lost a contest. But outside of these narrow confines, in a world in which we actually face the most dire of threats and the most pressing existential crisis, standing on the brink of completely losing our inheritance, our cultures, our people, and so much that we most love in life, I promise you that those failing to feel a very genuine anger or righteous indignation here are not the winners. They’re the ultimate losers.. and many seem to be men trying to appear cool to the outside world, even if it means taking the path of apathy or cowardice. This is not the type that moves the world forward, and certainly not the type capable of salvaging an utterly broken world and righting this terribly wayward ship.

You mentioned yourself as an “OG” and speak as if it’s the younger, less mature, less wise, less seasoned crowd that now bristles with hatred or anger. I think this represents a misunderstanding—not everyone on the forums you frequented was being edgy just to have a giggle with their friends, or to shock or disconcert onlookers. Many “OG” types from the earliest days of these internet environments actually felt deeply about the issues they discussed. It wasn’t always some mere immature and cathartic tossing of insults into the internet void, but rather the expression of very real—and very deeply rooted—energy that couldn’t be expressed elsewhere. This was because those who spoke too frankly were gradually herded into internet ghettoes as a result.

Throughout that section of your piece, there’s this air of “We were all just joking, right guys? We don’t actually want to meaningfully solve any of these problems. Let’s just have some drinks and watch the fight - you know, the important things in life!”

I hope you’ll give some concerted thought as to how this looks to those of us that view our present situation as an incredibly dire one.. one absolutely deserving of serious, mature, sober attention.

Please understand I’m not accusing you of cowardice and apathy. I can’t see into your heart and mind, or know for certain what makes you tick or where you’re coming from—I’m only asking that you recognize that by saying things like the following:

“If you have started ‘noticing,’ and felt yourself being pulled into the cycle of conflict, just take a step back. No one ever looked back on his life pleased with the fact that he spent so much of it carrying around anger and hatred over things that had nothing to do with his immediate circumstances.”

you’re very much cheering their banner and cause.

I’d suggest nobody ever looked back on his life wishing he’d acted more purely self-interestedly and ignored the plight of his kith and kin, and all that was closest to his heart, to take a less bumpy and contentious or more profitable route.

Claiming that those people openly critical of Jewish power in Western host nations are expressing anger or hatred “over things that had nothing to do with [their] immediate circumstances” seems so wildly off the mark that it’s difficult to know where to begin. Have you not seen the disgusting and crime-ridden city streets that predominantly Jewish NGOs have absolutely flooded with tens of millions of newcomers from the third world? Is it your serious contention that their dominant control over the Federal Reserve, banking and finance, corporate media, Hollywood and Netflix, video games and sports spheres, etc., doesn’t exercise a direct influence on our lives? Have you considered the epidemic of depression, suicide and addiction (as the Sackler family made billions), brought about in large part due to a plummeting average income and an ever increasing sense of hopelessness and despair among White American males, living in a world that increasingly seems to openly despise them?

Do you sincerely believe that Jewish individuals being accepted into Ivy League schools at a rate of nearly 20x higher than White Americans of equal academic performance isn’t a cause for concern? Or that approximately 94% of new hires from Goldman Sachs and BlackRock and similar companies are non-White (and that the remaining 6% is likely overwhelmingly Jewish) isn’t something anyone should be personally bothered by, or that these are things that might affect the average man?

[one could go on for pages listing further examples, but this article is largely directed at those who already know the score]

And even if one were to accept this notion that we’re not personally touched by such things—should self-interest be our core motivator? Or should it also matter what our friends and family are experiencing and will experience, or the type of world our children (and their children!) will inherit? Is there something to be said for taking the more difficult path in hopes that others who come after us won’t have to?

I can promise, with total confidence, that these problems will absolutely not dissipate magically if we choose the path of burying our heads in the sand or looking in the other direction. We may need less truly unhinged malevolent hatred in our circles, fair enough, but we need more passionate righteous indignation—and it seems all too easy to lump the latter in with the former, to toss the invaluable baby out with the bathwater.

We can agree on this:

There is too much low-IQ vulgar antisemitism at present. I hate to see it and very much wish I could see far less of it, and I can only imagine that in your position you’re drowning in an incessant deluge across social media, and it must be irksome. The seemingly manipulative framing that caused me to take issue with your post is that you appear to make the jump from this plain truth to an insinuation that “antisemitism” in general—in other words, criticism of Jewish behavior, or the actions of Jewish individuals or predominantly Jewish institutions—is both vulgar and low-IQ, broadly. In my experience, this couldn’t possibly be more inaccurate. The greatest and most psychologically and spiritually balanced and mature individuals I know are vocally critical, of necessity, here. I get the sense that they feel it’s a duty to speak actual truth to legitimate power, as opposed to taking the vastly easier and more profitable route.

So, when you say the following:

“One of the things you notice is that you almost never meet a moderate antisemite.”

I’d suggest this is because the very conception of “antisemitism” has been manipulatively turned into the greatest of all possible evils, the most supreme of sins, the most immoderate position imaginable… so, in effect, this statement represents you officially embracing this thought framework. I reject it completely. It’s dishonest, it’s manipulative, it’s unhelpful, and it’s simply inaccurate, in my experience.

Again, many of the most thoroughly balanced individuals I know are very much overtly critical of the behavior of both Israel and American/Int’l Jewry—individuals “moderate” in every sense except their “antisemitism.”

Your quip about the Good Samaritan seems to draw a relativistic equivalence between the Jewish people and all others, essentially stating, “Sure, there are bad apples among the Jews—but every people has bad apples” An idea that, in the most overtly technical sense, is true.. yet simultaneously feels incredibly misleading and unhelpful. To give an example, we know that approximately 3-6% of our national population (the young Black male demographic) commits over 50% of our nations violent crime. Under the “all people have bad apples” approach to life, we shouldn’t ever point this out, and thus can’t ever get a clear handle on the problem—which means we can’t ever hope to actually find solutions to it. This is my foremost problem with what I believe to be your stance:

How might we possibly ever solve what ails us if we can’t muster the justified “antisemitism” and righteous indignation sufficient to both fully recognize and speak to the unbelievably disproportionate power and control, and the outright evil way in which it’s so often wielded? How does a people solve a problem if they refuse to actively speak to it or directly combat it?

“Hatred will ruin our souls whether or not our target has it coming. That is not to say that Jews deserve your hatred, only that you shouldn’t indulge it even if you think they do. Even if you’re right, it won’t save you, and it won’t make a difference to the real people in your life who need a spouse, parent, sibling, or friend who isn’t seething with anger and resentment over an abstract issue involving people you’ll never meet.”

I’m very much sympathetic to the first line, but you’ve all but completely lost me with the “even if you’re right” jarring turn. Nobody is expecting to be ‘saved’ by their hatred or animosity, on an individual level—many of us simply recognize that without strength or depth of feeling on these topics, nothing could possibly ever change. Perhaps so much of our disagreement would evaporate if we might perfectly define and separate the most negative extremes of malevolent hatred from the vastly more positive and fruitful conception of powerful righteous indignation.. but the latter is something I’ll defend (and hopefully, possess, if necessary) ‘till my dying day. When someone loves deeply, and sees all that they love being destroyed, they will naturally and inevitably feel a hatred for the dark force responsible for that unjust and ignoble destruction. Further, the final part of your statement seems to caricature this depth of feeling as a purely selfish and self-serving thing, creating this mental image of someone feeling hatred in spite of friends and family and loved ones—as opposed to because of them, or for them, or as a result of them, if this makes sense. Crafting a mental picture of “Daddy, please stop hating everything and come make dinner, we’re hungry!” seems a bit disingenuous when, in many cases, I’d suggest a father feels such intense emotion (emotion that rarely interferes with family duties) because he’s deeply concerned over the future of his son or daughter and the increasingly sick world he’ll soon be handing off to them.

In short, I can’t stand this idea that the two paths we’re forced to choose between are either a life of pure all-consuming hatred or a largely dispassionate apathy in which we watch some UFC, have some beers with the boys, and pretend things are normal. Things aren’t normal, and we do ourselves and our people and nations an immense disservice in portraying otherwise. There is a third path, here.

I think perhaps the majority of our core disagreement is with regard to the scope and the scale of the totality of the problems we face. Should you choose to respond to this, please do correct me if I’m wrong, but you seem to view our current predicament as relatively minor, or relatively easy to solve or fix.. and perhaps you view the overall role of the Jewish people in these problems to be fairly minor, as well. If you truly believe this, I’d suggest you’re powerfully wrong, but your stance here makes far more sense—though I do hope you’ll further examine it.

I’m always a bit stunned and taken aback by individuals with an impressive historical sense who don’t seem to see the broader brushstrokes here—those who seem to miss the larger picture, unable to envision what the world might look like if present trends continue for a few more decades or centuries, and just how much we’ll have lost as a result of being lulled to sleep at the wheel. We all know the Epstein/Maxwell blackmail rings exist, but why? To what end? And considering the near-total power wielded by this tiniest of populations, a power increasing exponentially even as we theatrically lurch back and forth between the “left” and “right” in America, and considering our peoples’ respective history and their openly expressed hatreds and intentions—I’d suggest that feeling strongly and with powerful emotions on these topics isn’t something to be mocked or derided.. it’s the natural response of all good and sufficiently-informed men.. the path of health and vitality, virtue, duty and responsibility.

Lastly, on a separate yet related issue, you’ve expressed something else on “X” more than once that I feel compelled to take issue with. Showing a picture of Dresden after the unbelievably brutal civilian bombing runs that killed so many innocent people in the most terrible manner possible, you clearly suggest that the Germans were to blame for this—a stance that a great many modern scholars and academics share, but it surprised me to see you in their number.

Question:

Would you agree that most Germans in the National Socialist era—regardless of whether they were right or wrong, or whether you agree with them or not—believed they were standing up against a foreign and hostile force, one attempting to essentially take over their nation and reauthor and reorient their own culture and future trajectory by making use of their overwhelming power in finance, politics, media, etc.? Could you recognize/admit that a great many Germans saw themselves as fighting for their own people and their own homeland and culture against what they saw as an encroaching foreign and evil force?

If so, a final question:

If one stands up to what they perceive to be evil, and in their fight against it they face serious setbacks causing immense pain, suffering, and devastation as an immediate-term result, do these setbacks then act as proof that their stand against evil was a mistake? If so, does this worldview also negate all heroism and the idealization of heroism—after all, a hero is likely to suffer and die, and always risks not accomplishing his ultimate aim—and does this broader worldview encourage a passive and submissive approach to the most powerful threats and dangers we face?

There’s something about blaming the German people for the absolutely loathsome actions of mass civilian bombings feels extraordinarily sick and unjust to my eye.. but I’m almost certain I must be misunderstanding you.

In closing, you ended your piece with:

“If you don’t have any strong feelings about this, God bless you. You’re doing it right, and I love and envy you.”

And I’d like to end this article with a variant, to more fully paint the perceived contrast here:

If you do have strong feelings about all of this, God bless you. You’re doing it right.

Don’t ever let anyone convince you to look the other way when faced with the most supreme, daunting, unavoidable threats. And those of you who feel immense anger and righteous indignation arising from a deep love for your people and their future, I genuinely love and appreciate you, and hope to shake your hand someday.. ideally, in better times and conditions.

Care, brothers.. apathy is suicidal, at this late hour, and we have a future to win and shape.

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."

Henry David Thoreau

Modernity harbors within it a strange little disease… often unnoticed, at a passing glance, but made all the more insidious as result.

A disease that doesn’t so much threaten to kill us as it threatens to cause us to live vastly inferior, spiritually and psychologically diminished lives, where much of the beauty, power, and depth of the universe goes wholly unrecognized and unexperienced, and a wealth of what makes life worth living escapes us entirely.

A disease that turns us into petty, cynical, nihilistic, and spiritless creatures who gradually take on an ever lower view of life and our fellow man, until we slowly become incapable of even envisioning or conceptualizing greatness, or the possibility of a higher type of culture, or a higher type of man.

These psychological and spiritual constraints then act like bars of a self-made prison and gradually become a self-fulfilling prophecy. A disease that permanently stunts our growth—not just spiritually or psychologically, but, because the mind-body connection is so strong, a sickness that even threatens to turn us into ugly physical beings.

The "disease" I’m attempting to speak to here defies perfect description via any single term, but "universal irreverence" may come closest to the mark.

Broadly speaking, we’ve drifted into an overwhelming apathy.. a superficial approach toward life where we’ve convinced ourselves that nothing truly matters much, and anything that appears to matter is simply delusion, or something putting on airs, something that deserves to be shot down. It’s like a creeping numbing fog, dulling our senses and shrouding the world in gray indifference. Modernity attempts to sell the idea that to be ‘cool’ is to be dispassionate, detached, and perpetually unimpressed, to see nothing as sacred.. and that all who suggest otherwise are quaint or foolish. We’ve been overtaken by a cheapness and smallness and pettiness that gnaws at the spirit and mind, leaving us spiritually starved and psychologically stunted, blind to the beauty, power, and depth that once gave life its richness.

Ironically, we’ve created a situation where an endless apathetic joking about every aspect of life gradually turned life itself into a joke.

The disease I’ll be attempting to speak to here is more than mere skepticism or reductionism or materialism, certainly more than just nihilistic humor:

It’s a corrosive acid dissolving meaning and connection.. a loss of faith not just in potential and possibility, but in goodness or greatness, and in Divinity itself. It severs our connection to this higher power, it utterly blinds us to the sacred in all things.

In this apathetic haze, we’ve lost the capacity to stand in genuine awe of anything. Our ancestors, who stood before God—or their ancient heroes, their Kings or great men—with great respect and a sincere desire to emulate these ideals, a desire to be good and great themselves, would perhaps be more shocked at this specific modern development than any other.

It’s as if a vacuum opened up, and strength and energy and vitality were mass-siphoned off into a void.

This isn’t progress, of any sort; it represents the most obvious backsliding in the most meaningful sense.. it’s a self-inflicted wound that strands us in a wasteland of our own making—a barren place where every noble aspiration is dismantled, every sincere gesture derided, and every hint of greatness met with a pretentiously knowing smirk. We’ve become largely incapable of envisioning a more lofty manner of living or thinking or being.. or even remembering what it feels like to be stirred by something vast and true.

Sarcasm, irony, apathy, nihilism etc. are often crutches or copes springing from a very real psychological and spiritual weakness or emptiness, which arise from a fundamental misunderstanding and devaluing of life, the universe, and ourselves.. and they’re becoming far too frequent and dominant expressions, even in our circles.

Without reverence, we’re adrift.. trapped in a cycle of ultimately hopeless despair in which nothing inspires, nothing endures, and nothing spurs us to rise. Our lives grow shallow and empty, our bonds become weaker and less deeply rooted, and our dreams gradually shrink to fit the confines of our self-made prison. We become trapped in a cycle of cynicism and despair, mocking the sacred as superstition, intellectually and academically reducing the transcendent to mere chemical reactions or social constructs.

This isn’t just a personal failing; it’s a spiritual catastrophe, with the most supreme existential stakes. We risk blaspheming life and being itself—treating existence as a cosmic joke, rather than an unprecedented gift to be deeply cherished with some spiritual maturity and well justified awe. Without reverence, we’re blind to the beautiful and eternal thread subtly weaving through all things, with distracted focus stuck on minutiae and technicalities.. forever condemning ourselves to a vastly inferior state of existence.

It’s not entirely baffling how we got here..

and it’s not exclusively due to malevolent subversiveness, and that enemy subset so obviously seeking to hijack, reorient, and reauthor our philosophies and worldviews into smaller, weaker, more pathetic forms.

No, much of it is our own doing, and our responsibility.

In a broken and subverted world full of pretentious bad actors—powerful, influential figures demanding respect despite being entirely undeserving of it—it’s no surprise we gradually learned to target every bag of hot air, and take aim at all unwarranted ego. In a sense, it’s a self-defense mechanism: if a hollow, terrible figure, especially one that so obviously hates us, gains immense power, prestige, and respect, this power will (of course) be used to terrible ends. It’s only by mocking, deriding, and savaging such types that we’re able to keep them from becoming the all-powerful figures they seek to be, and thus prevent immense harm to ourselves and all that we love in the process.

It may be a bit immature, but it’s also a spot-on summation and has become something of a well understood cultural meme, so pardon me: so much in our world over recent decades has become, as the expression goes, "fake and gay."

Those allowed access to the main stage of this theater—controlling our news media, playing the leading roles in creating our movies and video games, topping the NYT books lists, or authoring "prestigious" newspapers and magazines—are almost entirely cut from a small subset with strikingly similar political and ideological views, cut from a culture that openly despises us, and so clearly wants us gone. A subset that tends to do abysmal work because not driven by genuine creative inspiration or vital spirit or actual merit and talent, but rather by purely partisan and dogmatic alliances and hatreds.. and yet not just terrible work, profoundly insincere and incredibly soft and weak work.

Yes, this subset may be overwhelmingly Jewish, and this people may indeed lie at the "root" of this subversion, hijacking, and cultural takeover—but it’s certainly not fair to say this effort is entirely Jewish. For every few Jewish individuals, you’ll find a Richard Hanania or James Lindsay type, more than willing to stick the dagger into the back of their nation, people, or culture if it might result in greater wealth or fame; or a Mike Pompeo or Mike Johnson, so blinded by the hijacking of church leadership that they truly seem to believe we exist to dutifully worship at the feet of the Rothschild-created state of Israel; or a Jordan Peterson or Douglas Murray, supremely willing to do all in their power to paint this unique people as a superior race, whom we should be so lucky to contentedly serve without complaints.

Though this unique tribe may be the leading architects of this cultural degradation, such decline wouldn’t be the least bit possible to orchestrate if it weren’t for enthusiastic (and thoroughly corruptible) fellow travelers.. and our own laziness, excess of tolerance, and lack of vigilance.

And so, we’ve learned, from necessity, to tear down the frauds and charlatans, and everywhere be the first to loudly state that the emperor has no clothes.

In short, it’s clear why we’ve become experts at cutting pretentious, insatiable, malevolent blowhards down to size, ensuring their vision never dominates without counter fire.

However…

in the broader picture, we’ve paid an extremely steep price as result of this path. We’re not meant to be in hostile attack/defense mode, culturally and psychologically and spiritually speaking.. and it does something to a person. We’ve become terribly asymmetrical and unbalanced human beings:

Because the body and mind so seamlessly adapt to what we actually think and do throughout our day, our habits and mode of thinking literally shape us. If we look around us and see nothing but sickness on the public stage and spend all day, every day, taking shots to prevent this sickness from fully taking hold, we slowly but surely become a people that only knows sickness and decay, that only knows how to take shots—a culture that knows how to destroy, but not create.. that knows how to take people down, but not lift them up. A culture expert at irreverence, but one that has completely lost the willingness—increasingly, even the ability—to revere.

This leads to an environment in which virtually nothing can take firm and deep root, in which everyone is afraid to be genuine, sincere, or heartfelt, fearing to be shamed by the jaded, sardonic, bitter, and apathetic. In a world so filled with self-interested deceivers and charlatans, we’ve all naturally become immensely wary and skeptical. And because, atop it all, we’ve long seen supposed genuineness and sincerity being used as manipulative tools, many have now taken to mocking even the genuine article, barring its way.. and this is a terrible, ominous development, and one that deserves recognition and attention.

A positive, creative vision is an absolute necessity if we’re to accomplish anything real and lasting. Destruction alone isn’t enough—creation must be the goal.

If we’re unable to create atop the foundation and footprint of what we’ve helped topple, we’ll be locked into an endless cycle: opponents build, we raze, they rebuild, we topple, ad infinitum. What a bleak existence! A war of attrition with no victor, only exhaustion.. because there is no end to the number of enemy individuals and institutions and ideologies our opponents might prop up, with practically limitless monies and a wealth of time and energy, such a war would prove completely fruitless, and represent an endless spinning of our wheels and getting nowhere.

The irreverence that once shielded us has now shackled us, chaining us to a treadmill of negation where every step forward is just another swing of the wrecking ball. We’ve become so adept at tearing down that we’ve forgotten how to plant seeds, how to nurture, how (and why!) to stand in absolute and justified awe of something vastly greater than our own cleverness.

All-importantly, this nihilistic disease even cripples our ability to create and appreciate (even recognize) beauty.

Without reverence, the world is no longer a vast canvas of wonder and potential.. art becomes trivial, nature a mere commodity, the human spirit a superficial and entirely technical puzzle to dissect, not a profound and powerful mystery to honor. We lose the capacity to be stirred by the sublime—to be spoken to on the deepest level, in the most important and powerful language.

This isn’t just an aesthetic loss; it’s a theft of the spirit.

Revered beauty elevates us, reminding us of our wholly unique place in a grander narrative, sparking inspired creation, greatness. Without it, we dwell in a barren wasteland where nothing moves us, and life shrinks to hollow gestures, and the most tired and spiritless going-through-the-motions.

I’d suggest that this is one of the foremost differences between our people, historically speaking, and that powerful foreign tribe currently so dominant on the world scene: Our people have always recognized that we’re an echo or reflection or manifestation of something higher.. ‘sons of God’, children of an All-Father, created by the Divine in his image. By recognizing our fallibility and imperfection in this physical and material realm, and by having some notion of a perfect God in contrast, we’re able to seek and quest and progress from the former to the latter.. we’re able to engage in a constant refinement and improvement, and consistently become fundamentally better for it, for as long as we’re able to maintain this worldview and approach to life. On the other hand, talmudic Rabbis actually speak of defeating God himself in a rhetorical struggle (Oven of Akhnai, in Bava Metzia 59b).. with God finally admitting defeat and proclaiming ‘my sons have defeated me’. Another passage (Pesikta Rabbati 3, a medieval midrash) states that God himself must obey the decrees of the rabbis, saying "Even I (YHWH) must obey their decree, as it is written, you will decree and he will fulfill". Yes, this text actually exists.. and this is what those who embrace this book believe.

Their notion of Divine isn’t just strangely competitive and adversarial, but their conception and vision of the nature and being of God is inestimably smaller than our own.. vastly more absurd, ridiculous, imperfect. Imagine how differently this worldview would shape and orient and ‘develop’ a people!

It’s a materialist and reductionist mindset more common to this people than any other, and I’d suggest the prime cause of it all is the failure to see the face of God and the inability to hear his voice.. and becoming enamored with our own Byzantine sophistry and clever intellects, in his place. It’s roughly equivalent to atheism.

I’d suggest much of our irreverence, our massively cheapened notion of God and Divinity, our increased inclination to everywhere mock and deride and pretentiously and unjustly judge the Sacred, our inability to even recognize or conceive of a higher realm of the highest and greatest things, is to some significant degree a result of the Jewish dominance of modernity, and modern thinking.

This diseased mentality is causing us to lose touch with our natural nobility, and grace.. and our recognition of the immense importance of these innate traits, of just how much they’ve separated us and marked us out as unique, historically speaking. A healthy and capable and spirited people create high culture, and that high culture further nurtures and refines their spirit, and that spirit is capable of creating ever higher culture.. when one increases, so does the other—yet when the one declines, so does the other, and what we’re facing at the moment is the threat of exponential freefall.

The best of our ancestral heritage represents not a barbaric and brutal people who managed to cultivate some nobility, but an innately noble people who allowed themselves to cultivate some ‘barbarism’ and brutality, when and where most necessary.

One of the things I think is most unfortunate in our circles is this misconception that all our people really lack is the feeling of hatred and animosity.. if only we might turn this up to the maximum, our problems would swiftly be solved, and a vastly better world would inevitably take shape as a result. I fully understand why many believe this: our modern policy of extreme ‘tolerance’, open borders, and refusal to fight for our own racial or cultural best interests or the health and well-being of our nations can so easily be misunderstood as an excess of "kindness," causing a casual observer to believe we only need more of the opposite to ‘cure’ what ails us..

yet I couldn’t possibly reject this idea any more strongly. This is an excess of softness and weakness to blame, not kindness. Genuine kindness, from a wise, far-sighted, and broad-minded perspective, would mean acting to create a world in which our children and all future generations might grow up on safe streets and live in happiness, health, and fruitful prosperity of the most fundamental and meaningful sort.

I’d suggest our people were traditionally capable of such strength and brutality because they so loved, not because they so hated. The hatred was simply a result of a truly righteous indignation at seeing all that they loved so threatened, or trampled into the dust, and standing with courage to fight those doing the trampling. In other words, the hatred was a result of love as the primary motivator.

If a thief or random attacker breaks into your home at night, it’s not so much the hatred toward the individual that primarily motivates your immediate defensive response—you don’t know the person, after all—it’s love for your family and a desire to defend them that spurs a hatred of this criminal and unjust action by this lost soul threatening them.

It’s not enough to devote your life to creating traps and pitfalls and clever means of attacking the criminal, intruder, or any enemy force. At the end of the day, the bulk of our efforts need to be toward making the home itself a beautiful and lofty place, and one truly worth defending. Both instincts are needed and valuable: the impulse to destroy enemy threats to protect all you love, and the impulse to further build, cultivate, and refine all that you love and provide it room to grow and flourish.. but the primary emphasis must always be on the latter.

This holds doubly true for our present state of affairs. Those aligned against us have a virtually unlimited and inexhaustible stockpile of capital and resources, allowing for a never-ending succession of enemy figures, ideas, or structures to be propped up for us to wail away at. But the all-important truth here is that all the time and energy spent wailing away at these propped-up figures represents time and energy not spent creating something of lasting value.

At some point in the relatively near future, we need it in us to completely ignore the noise, find a sturdy patch of solid ground in which to deeply plant our own banner, and vow to honor and defend it to the end. This will mark the most concrete turning point.. a turning point our hearts and spirits need to be ready for—a banner and ideal worthy of true reverence, and something we might hold sacred.

Francis Parker Yockey spoke of culture as ‘the total expression of a people’s soul,’ a definition I’ve always appreciated, and something we must create with love and reverence.. I strongly believe we now need to consciously and proactively recreate our culture.. a ‘new’ culture, yet modeled according to old, timeless, eternal themes.

I strongly believe we need to become artists, again.. and collectively work to shape and mold this highest and most important of things: a people, and a culture. Raising a banner—and firmly planting our feet, in defense of it—would represent the first definitive step in this process.

Until that moment, an upside to consider..

the truth of the matter of our situation is an incredibly optimistic and hopeful one: Nature, and the timeless universal order of things, is never actually defeated. Across brief periods of time, it might be held down by some creative artifice or contrivance; it might even appear to the untrained eye to be down for the count and triumphed over. But it always springs back to life, resets the stage, and finds balance and equilibrium again, with an indomitable force no man or institution or financial behemoth could possibly hope to stand against. The extremely unnatural, disoriented, and unhealthy forces that oppose us are destined to fail because their vision and ideas are so objectively sickly and artificial. It’s because of this that it takes such an immense effort from their factions—requiring a near-total monopolization over the flow of information, near-total subversion of powerful individuals, of political and economic structures, of culture and spirit—for their side to make even the slightest lasting gains.

I think we can all intuit that these gains are grinding to a halt, now.. perhaps, even, that this figurative pendulum has now stalled in mid-air, and is about to fly the other way with immense and unstoppable inertia. And when our side begins to make real gains again, I strongly believe they’ll be extremely swift (and perhaps even relatively effortless) by comparison.

Fighting against nature is a slow and arduous task bound to fall, whereas nature restoring her health and vitality and equilibrium can often occur in a flash.

The key to definitively turning this tide is to understand our present state, our current environment, and the threats we face and the weapons being wielded against us.

This contagious spread of total and all-pervasive irreverence—very much like demoralization efforts, and cut from the same cloth—ranks among the most nefarious and brutally effective weapons wielded by those against us. It cheapens all it touches, cheapens and lessens life itself, and makes us small. A prerequisite for all greatness, all high culture, all of the most beautiful architectural creations or works of art or sculpture, or the great heroes of old, was a powerful feeling of reverence—understanding life well enough to recognize the depth and breadth of who we are, what life is, what we’re capable of, and that there is a potent and Divine strain running through this existence, capable of being intuited, grasped, modeled, and emulated.

Crucially, none of this can be forced or faked. It’s not enough just to know we should be holding things sacred. It’s like telling someone ‘just be inspired!’.. it never works this way, because such forces of nature arise naturally, organically, and in their own time… but we do need to leave the door open for them, at the very least, and maintain some recognition of the immense positive power in their arrival. In ideal circumstances, none of this requires any effort or even a conscious decision or the making of a choice.

For those who truly see the universe—its vastness, its hidden divinity—one can’t help but naturally feel immense reverence. It isn’t a chore or a choice; it flows naturally, like a river finding its course. It’s an innate awe that comes as a result of grasping life’s magnificence, but also acts as the cause of that grasping. So we’re again in that strange territory between "cause" and "effect," containing elements of both worlds: feeling reverence causes one to respect and appreciate this unbelievable gift of life, and the appreciation of this unbelievable gift of life causes one to revere.

It’s a strange fact of life—we’re often moving upward or downward at an exponentially increasing pace and inertia. The more we move in either of these directions, the easier it becomes to move in that given direction even more quickly.

The universe further rewards those already enjoying the rewards of moving closer to truth and further punishes those feeling the pain and disorientation of moving away from it. Nature is just, but she isn’t equitable, because these are most certainly not the same things—it’s impossible to be both simultaneously. In short, for those that find ways to take the first few steps down that path, all additional steps will come more easily.

Yet, this is easier said than done. We’re currently all in the midst of a spiritual crisis, stumbling through a dense and disorientating spiritual fog in modernity.. experiencing it both collectively, and to widely varying degrees as individuals.

A crisis further compounded by the fact that so many now conceive of the term "spiritual" as roughly equivalent to "religious," and then we proceed to expend such a great deal of our time and energy arguing over the name of the God we worship, or the technicalities of His origins, history, and attributes, or the minutiae regarding how to best live. The 100 different prominent opinions here seem to often be in a war to the death against one another, causing the spiritual sphere to ever more resemble the chaos of political squabbles. And to be fair, these technicalities and minutiae aren’t wholly unimportant and sometimes represent issues we’d be well served to someday have clarity on, in a cohesive, unified, and widely agreed manner.

That said, it’s my hope that we might try our best to see and sense the power of God on the macro level, and in the broad, until we’re someday able to work together under better and more fruitful circumstances (amidst a more clean and pure air, free from malevolent subversives) to answer many of those more narrow and specific questions.

The overwhelming majority of our ancestors believed in a higher power, and for good reason. This recognition of an ultimate power higher than ourselves helped make life vastly more beautiful, mysterious, powerful, and compelling. It enriched every aspect of our existence.. gave it substance, value, and meaning, and helped provide structure and order.

In the midst of this collective spiritual crisis, and right this moment, we may not all be able to perfectly glimpse the face of God or perfectly define exactly what this gift of life is, why it is, or precisely what’s expected of us. But we can certainly intuit hints and echoes of this power and grace—whether it’s the overwhelming love we feel for our newborn child, a breathtaking vision of nature,

starry skies, or a vast and powerfully surging ocean stretching out beyond the horizon, or that unique and beautiful place within that we’re occasionally able to connect to in our quietest moments, when distracting noise is calmed and something eternal speaks.

The one thing I’m most certain of, above all else in this life: there is something here worthy of the most deep and profound reverence. It completely defies language and quantification, to the degree that even attempting to speak of it risks lessening and weakening our understanding, and moving further from the truth.. but it can be felt and experienced at our most powerful moments—moments I’d suggest have acted as the driving force of all life and the underlying motive force of all of humanity.

The truth here is simple, and striking:

the more profound and lofty our understanding of our universe is, the more lofty and vital and powerful we are able to be, as direct result and consequence. The smaller and cheaper and petty we believe life to be, the more pathetic and impotent we will be, as result.. inevitably.

By learning to revere all that deserves reverence again, we can gradually reclaim all that we’ve lost and help restore that all-important power and vitality to life. We’ll once again be able to see the world not as some battlefield of petty grievances, but as a cathedral of limitless, daunting, boundlessly intriguing possibilities—where every act of substantive creation, every moment of connection and true resonance, every glimpse of beauty is an ode to something greater—lifting us from these tragically barren and stifled lives into something luminous and whole and timeless, acting as a bold reclamation of our birthright.

Reverence isn’t merely some passive longing for a lost age; it’s an active rebellion against the spiritual death of modernity.. a defiant stride toward a world where the sacred is alive. By choosing reverence and sincerity and genuineness, we break nihilism’s grip, and in its place can shape a culture that inspires, endures, elevates… crafting culture and the world around us not out of mere habit, but out of profound devotion, raising monuments—both physical and spiritual—that genuinely reflect the majesty of existence. This is our path out of barren despair: not through endless sniping and destruction and tearing down, but through creation born of awe, through a bold return to the divine thread weaving through all things.

Even amidst the most extreme chaos, degeneration, deception, and ugliness, there are always things worth honoring, worth fighting for, as difficult as they may be to remain focused on at times... we need to consciously take up this task, again—recognizing all that’s at stake, in a world that so effectively obscures the sacred with its clamor.

We need to actively seek out all that’s most worthy, and fully cultivate our ability to revere, again.. as if our lives depended on it—ultimately, in a very real sense, they do.

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"When the Visigothic capital was occupied by Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Christians departed from the city to celebrate the passion of the Savior on Palm Sunday in the nearby Basilica of Santa Leocadia. The Jews, taking advantage of their absence, handed over the throne of Leovigild and Reccared to the Muslims, and the Christians were killed, some in the open air and some within the Basilica itself."

— Lucas, Bishop of Tuy, in his Chronicon Mundi

In the year 711, on the hallowed day of Palm Sunday, the Christian faithful of Toledo, the proud capital of the Visigothic kingdom, gathered at the Basilica of Santa Leocadia to honor Christ’s passion. Unbeknownst to them, treachery stirred within their walls.

Their Jewish population, embittered by Visigothic rule and driven by vengeful spite, had been secretly corresponding with Tariq ibn Ziyad, a Muslim commander with his sights set on Spain, and his army of Muslim and Berber invaders.

As the Christians knelt in prayer, the Jewish residents of Toledo—with stealth and malice—flung open the city gates, ushering the enemy inside. Tariq’s forces swiftly stormed Toledo, effortlessly bypassing all walls and fortifications, and the city—caught completely by surprise by the treason, and thus utterly defenseless—fell almost immediately.

Chaos reigned as the invaders—now aided by their Jewish allies—turned on the worshippers. The basilica, so long a safe haven of faithful, now became a scene of slaughter. Christians were cut down in the streets and within the sacred walls, their blood soaking the stones where they had sought salvation, their cries lost amid the clash of steel and the invaders’ wantonly cruel onslaught.

In the aftermath, Toledo’s Jewish community gained immense favor under Muslim rule, their status immediately elevated from persecuted minority to protected allies. Historical records suggest they were entrusted with governing the city, and frequently granted near total control over several other conquered areas.. further evidence of conspiracy, planning, and close cooperation.

Treachery Marks the End of the Goths

Toledo’s collapse in 711 wasn’t just the loss of a city—it was the death knell for a civilization.

To the Visigoths and their Christian subjects, Toledo was the soul of their kingdom, a sacred capital where kings were anointed, where faith and power intertwined. Its swift and treacherous conquest by Muslim forces, so powerfully aided by local Jews, unleashed a nightmare: the Visigothic nobility crumbled, their storied and ancient bloodlines severed by slaughter or exile; citizens were scattered or slain, and a once-proud realm dissolved into chaos. With Toledo in ruins, Tariq ibn Ziyad swept through Hispania like a wildfire, seizing Córdoba and Zaragoza within months. Each victory echoed the same grim pattern: cities betrayed, Christians subjugated, and Jewish collaborators installed as overseers in their wake.

This was no mere military defeat—it was a spiritual and cultural catastrophe, signaling the end of Visigothic dominance and the dawn of centuries of Muslim rule. The loss of Toledo reverberated far beyond its walls, marking a turning point that dimmed the light of Germanic governance in the Iberian Peninsula and cast a long shadow over Europe’s future, etching a tale of tragedy into the annals of Western history—a day of infamy when resentful perfidy handed the city to the Muslims, signifying the start of Spain’s descent into darkness.

However..

strangely, especially recently, there’s been something of a rewriting of history on this topic. Despite countless Muslim, Christian, and even Jewish sources all agreeing on this Muslim-Jewish alliance and collaboration, modern accounts dare not speak of it directly—almost certainly because such criticism of Jewish behavior would be deemed ‘anti-Semitic,’ and historical truth increasingly seems to take a back seat to protecting the reputation of this powerful subset.

This article aims to prove that this event was once seen very differently.. in the hope that it might be seen accurately once again, despite the concerted and powerful efforts to conceal and bury it.

Accounts of Jewish-Muslim Cooperation

Dutch historian Reinhart P. Dozy stated that the “Jews rose in revolt and placed themselves at the disposal of the Muslims.” Evariste Lévi-Provençal, in his History of Muslim Spain, stated that it was the Jews who opened the gates of Toledo, the Visigothic capital, to the forces of Tariq ibn Ziyad. W. Montgomery Watt, author of a well-known survey on Islamic Spain, writes that “the Jews may have encouraged the Muslims to invade, and the North African Jews were doubtless ready to give what information they possessed,” and openly states that the Jews “actively aided” the Muslim conquest. Joseph F. O’Callaghan and Anwar Chejne, authors of standard texts in their respective specialties of Christian and Islamic Spain, inform their readers of the “collaboration” and “encouragement” given the Arabs by the “disgruntled Jews.”

Spanish historians agree: Claudio Sanchez-Albornoz, in La España musulmana, highlights Jews garrisoning Cordoba, as reward for their covert alliance; Enrique Florez, in España sagrada, mentions their “perfidy”; Pascual de Gayangos y Acre writes that Jews “everywhere made common cause” with the Berbers. José Amador de los Ríos, Antonio Ballesteros y Beretta, Francisco Cantera Burgos, and Jose Orlandis also affirm proactive Jewish support for the invasion. Américo Castro, speaking to the post-war period, admits the Jewish populations were “protected and sheltered” during the reconquest.

Most tellingly, Jewish historians also concur: Salo W. Baron states the “active revenge of decimated Spanish Jewry on their Visigothic oppressors need not be doubted,” echoing claims that Jews opened Toledo’s gates while “Christians were assembled in their churches on Palm Sunday.”

Heinrich Graetz, revered as the “Father of Jewish History,” and Nahum Slouschz, as cited by Norman Roth, join this chorus of affirmation. But it’s Eliyahu Ashtor, the preeminent authority on Jewish life in Muslim Spain, who delivers the most resounding testimony: “Everywhere the Jews rose up and volunteered aid to the Muslims in their war of conquest.” This bold statement, coming from a Jewish scholar deeply immersed in the history of his people, carries immense weight. Together, these voices—Baron, Graetz, Slouschz, and Ashtor—form an unassailable Jewish consensus that their forebears not only supported but actively facilitated the Muslim victory in 711.

Citing the Cambridge Medieval History: “The legal status of the Jews improved under the Muslims. The destructive policy of the Visigoths was succeeded by wide toleration and freedom.” Israel Zinberg sees the Arabs bringing “genuine liberation” from the “fanatical Visigoths.”

This victory ushered in what modern historians have taken to calling the “Golden Age of Spanish Jewry.” Ironically, and perhaps tellingly, the Spanish and European Golden Age wouldn’t begin until the expulsion of these same Jews in 1492.

This, alone, speaks volumes—albeit in a language modern ears are increasingly conditioned not to hear or understand.

Other works, dealing heavily with Toledo and this Muslim and Jewish cooperation:

Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, On the Affairs of Spain (1243)

Archbishop of Toledo and a key figure in the Reconquista, Jiménez de Rada wrote this history to glorify Christian Spain’s past and justify its present. His account of the 711 conquest, too, speaks to Jewish involvement, claiming the Jewish population “opened the gates of the cities to the Saracens, especially Toledo, hoping for better treatment under their rule. And so, the Moors, finding favor with the Jews, entrusted them with the custody of the captured cities.”

Alfonso X, History of Spain (1270–1284)

Commissioned by King Alfonso X “the Wise,” this history synthesizes earlier chronicles, including Mozarabic ones, to narrate Spain’s past. “And the Jews, who were many in the land, seeing the ruin of the Goths, made common cause with the Moors… and in some cities, as Toledo and Córdoba, the Moors left them to guard and govern while they pursued the war.”

Alonso de Espina’s Fortress of Faith (1460)

In his influential Fortalitium Fidei (Fortress of Faith), Alonso de Espina, a 15th-century Spanish Franciscan friar, expands on the narrative of the Muslim conquest of 711. He asserts that Jewish communities provided strategic intelligence to Tariq ibn Ziyad’s forces, enhancing the invaders’ success beyond merely opening Toledo’s gates. Espina portrays the conquest as a coordinated assault by Muslims and their Jewish allies, a profound betrayal of faith.

Maurice Pinay’s The Plot Against the Church (1962)

Written under a pseudonym by a group of Catholic clerics, this work provides a powerful (yet controversial) account of the Muslim conquest of Toledo in 711, seeing the act as just one vestige of a much larger story:

The repeated use of terms like ‘treachery,’ ‘perfidy,’ and ‘conspiracy’ throughout makes it clear that this was not viewed as some one-off isolated incident, but rather part of a broader pattern.

Finally, the aforementioned Lucas de Tuy states they “aided the enemy and were rewarded with authority over certain places, betraying the land of their birth,” and even The Chronicle of 754, written by a Mozarabic Christian, as it mourns the ‘ruin of Spain,’ intriguingly notes a ‘sudden betrayal’ that left Toledo defenseless.

The Attempted Rewriting of History

We live in exceedingly strange times.. times in which a relatively singular social and political narrative—avowedly leftist, anti-White and anti-European, and obsequiously pro-Jewish—now dominates universities and scholastic textbooks. Before World War II, European historians tended to see the Muslim conquest of Spain as an obviously dark chapter—a very foreign invasion that painfully disrupted a European (and Christian, and Visigothic) order.

After WWII, the lens flipped, with Al-Andalus suddenly recast as a multicultural ‘golden age,’ an idea increasingly championed by left-leaning and Jewish scholars.

I’d like to take a moment to highlight the perspective modernity seems to be attempting to bury..

A Shattered Legacy, Waylaid Potential

The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 was not some gentle transition, but rather a violent sundering of a nascent European civilization poised on the brink of greatness. The Visigothic kingdom, heir to Rome’s grandeur and infused with a burgeoning Hispano-Gothic identity, was a culture of immense potential—its laws, churches, and social order a bridge between antiquity and a distinctly European future. The arrival of Tariq ibn Ziyad’s armies, sweeping across the Straits of Gibraltar with Berber and Arab forces, shattered this great potential before it could take shape, imposing an alien creed and dominion that smothered a people’s destiny beneath the weight of foreign subjugation.

Imagine the Visigothic realm in 710: a land of stone basilicas, like San Juan de Baños, adorned with intricate carvings; a legal code, the Liber Iudiciorum, uniting Roman tradition with Christian ethics; a society stitching together Germanic vigor and Mediterranean sophistication.

This was no barbaric backwater but a powerful new culture flowering after Rome’s fall, its kings like Reccared I (who unified the realm under Catholicism in 589) laying groundwork for a fully European Hispanic identity that could have rivaled the Carolingian renaissance.

Instead, the Umayyad conquest razed this promise. Toledo, her famed epicenter, fell not to enlightenment but to internal treachery and secret alliance—its churches repurposed, its elites scattered or enslaved, its continuity severed.

The Visigothic nobility, once the dominant elite of Hispania, faced near annihilation. Historian Roger Collins, in his book Visigothic Spain, 409-711, describes their fate as a “catastrophic loss of power and status,” asserting that “the Visigothic nobility was largely destroyed” during the conquest.

This vivid depiction underscores the scale of their downfall. Similarly, Bernard S. Bachrach notes that “the Visigothic nobility was largely eliminated,” with many killed or enslaved, offering a stark image of their eradication. José Orlandis, in La vida en España en tiempo de los godos, provides further detail, stating that “many Visigothic nobles were executed or forced into exile,” while E. A. Thompson, in The Goths in Spain, adds that “many were forced to flee to the mountains or to other parts of Europe.” These accounts collectively evoke a scene of desperate flight and ruthless purges, as the nobles’ power crumbled.

The chronicler of the Chronicle of 754, a near-contemporary Mozarabic source, laments the “ruin of Spain” as “the Arabs, with the sword, famine, and captivity, laid waste to the land.” This was no harmonious handover but a cataclysm: estimates suggest over one third of the Visigothic nobility perished or fled within decades, their villas and estates confiscated under Islamic land reforms. The imposition of ‘dhimmi’ status on Christians—heavily taxed and fully subordinated—wholly eroded their agency, reducing a once-proud people to tributaries in their own homeland.

This foreign force, hailing from the deserts of Arabia and North Africa, brought not some magnanimous symbiosis, but rather total displacement. The Visigothic scriptoria, crafting illuminated manuscripts, gave way to Arabic qasidas; the Latin liturgy was drowned by the muezzin’s call. Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, the 20th-century Spanish historian, argued passionately that Al-Andalus “interrupted the natural evolution of Spanish culture,” forcing a detour through centuries of alien rule. In his España, un enigma histórico (1956), he mourns the loss of a “Hispano-Gothic soul,” contending that the Muslim yoke delayed Spain’s emergence as a unified Christian nation by 800 years—time spent clawing back its identity through the Reconquista.

Consider the cultural cost: the Visigoths were synthesizing Roman law, Germanic custom, and Christian theology into something uniquely Iberian—potential glimpsed in figures like Isidore of Seville, whose Etymologiae (c. 620) encyclopedized classical knowledge for a new age. The Islamic conquest wholly redirected this trajectory. Edward Gibbon, in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, saw the Muslim tide as a near-fatal blow to Western Christendom, writing that without Charles Martel’s stand at Tours (732), “perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford.” For Iberia, that fate arrived—its native genius stifled, its people yoked to a distant caliphate.

Scholars like Rafael Altamira y Crevea (early 20th century) echo this, viewing 711 as “the great catastrophe” that fractured Spain’s unity and potential. Altamira, in his History of Spain and Spanish Civilization (1900), paints the Visigoths as a civilization on the cusp of consolidating a European identity, only to be “overwhelmed by an external force” that erased centuries of progress.

This was once the dominant narrative, prior to the cultural and psychological shift spurred in large part by the Second World War.

An Aggressive Shift in Framing

Post-war, the storyline began to shift significantly, as much of the Western world lurched in the opposite direction of the ‘National Socialist’ boogeyman caricature, and Hollywood and an increasingly prominent Jewish presence in culture and scholarship worked to frame this ‘victory’ as central to how we define ourselves, as a cornerstone of our collective identity.

Historians began to attempt to justify the supreme disloyalty of Spain’s Jewish populations, framing it entirely as a reaction to Visigothic persecution—loathsome, manipulative behavior.

While Visigothic policies toward Jews did indeed shift between tolerance and harshness depending on the ruler, a dissatisfied minority’s reasonable response would be to emigrate, not to undermine or conspire against the state—not to sabotage and hijack a nation. Observing modern academics fully condone (even applaud!) this seems the clearest indication of extreme bias.

Many can’t seem to contain their enthusiasm for the Jewish and Muslim multicultural environment that developed as its result, heaping the most gushing and effusive praise on Al-Andalus, in powerful contrast to European accounts of old:

David Levering Lewis raves, "The caliphate of Córdoba was a beacon of learning, and the city of Córdoba became one of the leading cultural and economic centers in Europe," and Américo Castro tells us, "The civilization of Al-Andalus was the most advanced in Europe during the Middle Ages, a shining example of what can be achieved when different cultures come together." María Rosa Menocal tell us "Al-Andalus was a rare and radiant moment in history, where the interplay of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions produced a culture of unparalleled sophistication, a testament to the possibilities of coexistence." I could go on, unfortunately, for quite some time..

In his compelling work ‘The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise’, Dario Fernandez-Morera challenges this widespread academic praise of Al-Andalus as a “Golden Age” of harmony, arguing instead that it was a dark and oppressive era for Christian Europeans under Muslim rule.

He portrays the 711 conquest of Spain as brutal, marked by massacres and forced conversions that shatter absurd notions of a peaceful transition, with Christians relegated to dhimmi status—enduring legal and social inequality, the heavy jizya tax, and strict limits on worship and status. Their culture faced systematic suppression as churches were destroyed or repurposed into mosques, intellectual life stagnated, and periodic violence, including brutal crackdowns on dissent and the death penalty for apostasy, fostered an atmosphere of fear and subjugation. He sharply critiques modern scholarship for its willful blindness to these realities, justly accusing historians of promoting a biased narrative of tolerance that downplays Christian suffering while falsely attributing innovations—often simply lifted straight from conquered civilizations like ancient Persia—to Islam. For him, Al-Andalus represents profound suffering and wasted energies, rather than this strange vision of some multicultural multiracial utopia invented in recent decades.. and he rightly states that the refusal to confront this truth reveals a significant distortion of history.

Yet, his is one of the relatively few voices left speaking such truths on a public stage.

(On a related side note, in using AI here to help find sources, citations, and quotes, I can honestly say I’ve never had more problems with ‘Grok’ than I have with this topic in particular. It simply refused to cite older European/Christian accounts in most cases, defaulting to modern accounts almost exclusively—and even the tiniest criticism of Jewish behavior is coupled with so many caveats, justifications, and apologies that Grok practically appeared to be acting as a defense lawyer for the Jewish people. Extremely ominous.. and quite the annoying headache.)

In Closing…

What occurred in Toledo in 711, actions that set a ball rolling that would end Gothic power forever—and essentially destroy both a people and a culture—represents a truly unprecedented stab in the back.. and it’s shocking just how easily this fact seems to get lost in the shuffle in our age.

To attempt to provide a modern comparison, this would be a bit like the Jewish populations within America or Europe—chafing under perceived slights—creating refugee organizations or structural and institutional vehicles for the mass importation of foreign peoples, and proceeding to stream in millions upon millions of individuals (many with no cultural or genetic connection to their host populations, and sometimes with active animosity toward them), and then actively aiding these newcomers to help take over the political and cultural institutions—to their own benefit—to ultimately flip the tables to essentially rule over the people in whose nations they were once (largely kindly) tolerated guests.

Can you even imagine such a thing?

This is not speculation; this is a factual and provable reality. Our inability to easily conceptualize such a thing testifies to the strange modern bias creeping into the shaping of our history—the politicization and sanitization of history, causing us to twist and contort it to fit egalitarian fantasies.

The resulting ignorance surrounding this broader topic is as deeply frustrating as it is astonishing—and it’s one of the many factors that set me on my own journey to dig deeper and share what I’ve uncovered.

Increasingly, since the end of World War II, many academics, scholars, and historians have painted a simplistic, one-dimensional picture of the ancient world, suggesting that its peoples moved and migrated little and implying that the modern inhabitants of regions like Anatolia, Mesopotamia, or the Levant largely mirror those who lived there millennia ago. In doing so, they sidestep the truth—the most captivating storyline of all—often because it’s deemed controversial or politically inconvenient: much of this region, from around 2000 BC onward, was a domain profoundly shaped by Aryan peoples. Entire swathes of territory, stretching from northeastern Anatolia to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and India, were dominated by a ruling caste tied to this linguistic and cultural family. Their kurgans—mounded tombs from Ukraine to Anatolia—dot the steppe, silent proof of their immense reach.

Further, it’s a misconception to assume these groups everywhere simply blended into local populations and vanished without a trace, leaving no meaningful connection to modern Europeans. The reality is far more compelling: over the past 3,000 years, countless mass migrations flowed westward and northward, carrying these peoples and their legacies in their wake. Many of those great figures who played leading roles in places like Troy, for instance, are indeed direct ancestors of Europeans today. Scores of both ancient and contemporary texts affirm this plainly—yet recent scholarship twists itself into knots, dismissing it as invention, dishonesty, or misunderstanding, and seemingly doing all it can to sever this connection that was casually accepted as the most plain and obvious truth, just a few generations ago.

This record demands correction, here.

When we fixate solely on Europe’s modern borders when we discuss the history of her peoples, and subsequently treat events in these far-flung regions as peripheral, unimportant, and unrelated, we make such a costly mistake—and we cripple our ability to grasp the full scope of this history. I’d argue it’s an extraordinarily powerful and engaging story, one we have yet to tell properly.. one that I’d suggest we haven’t even begun to do justice.

I’ll begin doing my best to tell portions of it here, in between video episodes on similar subjects, and so this will be the first of much more to come.

In this specific piece, we’ll focus on four separate peoples who had an outsized influence in the area, the Hyksos, Kassites, Mitanni and Hittites, and we’ll end by discussing their influence on Egypt—as these four peoples largely represent the sources of her Aryan/steppe genetics, of the sort recently discovered in several Egyptian royal mummies we’ve been able to test.

The Aryan Saga Begins

Around 2000 BC, Indo-European-speaking pastoralists from the steppe—ancestors of groups like the Yamnaya—began migrating or diffusing their chariot technology and warrior culture southward. Linguistic evidence (e.g., Indo-Aryan and Anatolian branches) and archaeological finds (e.g., spoked-wheel chariots) suggest these movements reached the Near East by 1700 BC.

This wasn’t a gentle drift but a bold surge of fresh blood and well-worked bronze, as these steppe riders—physically larger, better organized, and of the most impressive martial pedigree of their age—swept into the ancient world’s heartlands, leaving their genetic and martial fingerprints from Anatolia to Egypt. Their descendants, wielding chariots and a knack for rule, didn’t just pass through; they seized power, forging a legacy of dominion over the Near East. Their chariots’ ruts still scar the earth, from Sintashta to Avaris—hard proof of their impressive range.

Timeline:

• Hyksos (1650–1550 BC): Early adopters who wielded chariots to conquer Egypt, their Avaris capital (Tell el-Daba’a) unearthed steppe-style burials. Enjoyed Indo-European innovations (perhaps through contact) hinting at steppe diffusion, with a possible Aryan elite minority among a predominantly Semitic majority shaping their rule.

• Kassites (1595–1155 BC): Opportunistic heirs who used borrowed tactics to govern Babylon, they hint at an Indo-European elite influence through names and technology, and their ‘Kudurru’ stones hint at IE solar motifs, as their horse-breeding terms, faintly Indo-European, hint at steppe origins.. though their core identity remains uncertain amidst a largely non-IE population.

• Mitanni (1550–1300 BC): Purest bearers of an Indo-Aryan elite overlay atop a Hurrian base population, they dominated with Vedic flair, showing a strong, direct tie to steppe-derived Vedic traditions through their ruling class.

• Hittites (1600–1200 BC): Final synthesizers who built an unambiguously Indo-European empire on Anatolian soil, they exhibit a clear linguistic and cultural lineage to the steppe, forging a lasting IE legacy.

The thread begins with steppe migrations (2000 BC), peaks sequentially through each group’s ascendancy, and unravels as regional powers (Assyria, Egypt) reassert control. It’s a tale of martial excellence, wielding chariots as a unifying force, carrying Aryan peoples, ideas, and governance structures—sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively—across the Near East.

Elite Dominance: A Key to Understanding Their Influence

This pattern of small, powerful groups ruling over larger populations is known as 'elite dominance'—a concept where a minority, often wielding superior martial or technological advantages, imposes its culture, language, or governance on a native majority—and across history, Indo-European peoples from the steppe frequently exemplified this, as seen with these four groups: the Hyksos, Kassites, Mitanni, and Hittites, who were not lone actors but part of a vast Indo-European tide sweeping from the steppe between 2000 and 1200 BC. Their long skulls—found from Sintashta to Anatolia—mark their trail.

Whether through conquest, as with the Hyksos in Egypt, or strategic overlay, as with the Mitanni atop the Hurrians, elite dominance explains how Aryan influence efficiently spread, leaving lasting legacies in regions like the Near East and beyond, while across the Aegean, the Mycenaeans—chariot-riding conquerors of Crete and architects of Troy’s mythic wars—spoke an early Greek tied to the same steppe roots, and in Anatolia, the Luwians, kin to the Hittites, carved out kingdoms with languages echoing Nesite, their inscriptions a testament to steppe migrations. Further afield, Phrygians later stormed Anatolia, and Tocharians ventured east to the Tarim Basin, all bearing the linguistic and cultural DNA of the Yamnaya—this was no scattered drift but a singular people family, radiating from a common homeland, their elite dominance reshaping the ancient world from Greece to India—and Egypt, too, experienced the ripple effect, and was (at least for a stretch) heavily influenced. This lens will guide our exploration of their stories.

Anatolia and the Aryan Triumph: A Legacy of Might and Movement

Far from a fleeting ripple, this was a tidal wave of consistent triumph, propelled by the martial prowess and sheer competence of steppe-born warriors who didn’t merely tread across Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and beyond—they conquered and ruled, reshaping civilizations through structural ‘elite dominance.’ In Anatolia, this saga stretches to the dawn of recorded history, etched by Indo-European giants like the Luwians and Phrygians, their languages and legacies carved into the land’s stones long before Turkic tribes ever neared, with the Galatians—fierce Celtic warriors whose presence in the area was recognized at least as far back as 300 BC—serving as a later, fascinating strand of that larger Aryan thread. Proficient bands of these masters of war, from the Hyksos seizing Egypt’s throne with ruthless precision, to the Mitanni commanding Mesopotamia’s Hurrians with Vedic authority, and the Hittites forging Anatolia’s might through strategic brilliance, wielded power that belies their numbers. Modern scholars too often paint these as static peoples, frequently assuming and insinuating today’s Egyptians, Iraqis, or Turks are their direct heirs—but this comforting politically correct fable crumbles under the weight of the evidence.

Remarkably, demographics shifted across millennia via a process very familiar to us today—a phenomenon very much akin to ‘white flight,’ spurred by chaos like the Bronze Age collapse around 1200 BC. Entire populations moved, leaving only traces of their Aryan overlords in royal blood and buried bronze, as the Amarna Letters and Hittite annals attest, not unbroken lineages persisting to modern times. To cling to a myth of unchanged ancient populations is to shroud the truth of conquest, competence, and a singular racial and cultural (and linguistic!) family that marched onward, seeding Europe’s roots.

Linguistic Evidence

The centum-satem separation is vital for tracing the spread of Aryan peoples, as it shows how their Proto-Indo-European language diverged—reflecting distinct migration paths from the steppe homeland (circa 3000 BC). This might be thought of a bit like haplogroup markers (r1a, r1b, I, etc), like a fork in the road indicating populations taking divergent paths.

In Anatolia, the centum-speaking Hittites reveal an early Aryan presence, while the satem-speaking Mitanni elite in Mesopotamia bridge this lineage to India’s satem Indo-Aryans (e.g., Vedic composers), with the Hyksos in Egypt and Kassites in Babylon hinting at this same steppe-rooted influence through subtler linguistic echoes. Together, these four—Hittites, Mitanni, Hyksos, and Kassites—illustrate how Aryan peoples dispersed and ruled across the ancient Near East and beyond, linked by a shared linguistic root despite regional adaptations, a legacy we’ll now explore in their remarkable stories.

We’ll start by speaking, in sequential order, to the lesser-known and more mysterious cases of the Hyksos and Kassites, then move through the more obviously and definitively Aryan peoples of the Mitanni and Hittites.

Hyksos

Aside from the maverick Laurence Austine Waddell, few scholars or historians would consider the Hyksos a definitively and completely steppe Aryan people. Most now outright call them a “Semitic” people, but I see problems with this theory. Firstly, a martial and militarily dominant people sweeping down from the north due to their mastery of horse and chariot is an exceedingly Aryan concept—a story we see told and retold countless times throughout history.

Imagine the Hyksos thundering into Egypt, their chariots a blur of dust and bronze, toppling a kingdom with tactics born on distant steppes—a scene Egyptian scribes cursed as the reign of ‘foreign rulers.

It’s hard to believe a supposedly entirely distinct people might carry these same hallmarks, at a time and in a region where Aryan peoples were routinely this dominant force.

Waddell sees them as another Aryan martial elite, emerging from approximately Sumeria and sweeping in from the east. He argued that Hyksos kings had names with Aryan roots, suggesting “Khyan” resembled Indo-European terms for “king” or “chieftain” (e.g., Sanskrit “kshatriya”), and dismissed Semitic interpretations as misreadings by later scholars. He further points out that the Hyksos were closely related to the Hittites and Mitanni—both of whom he classified as Aryan peoples. Hittite raids on Babylon (1595 BC) preceded Hyksos dominance in Egypt, possibly destabilizing the region and enabling their incursions, while Hittite expansion into the northern Levant (1350 BC) overlapped with Hyksos influence in the southern Levant, indicating a shared sphere. One wonders if there was conscious cooperation here.

Leaving Waddell aside for the moment, Vere Gordon Childe, in “The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins” (1926), seems to agree, arguing that the spread of horse-drawn chariots was a signature of Indo-European steppe peoples, believing this to be a branch of that same spread. Flinders Petrie, in “The Hyksos and Israelite Cities” (1901), echoes these points. The Hyksos’ use of advanced metallurgy, especially bronze weapons, mirrors Aryan steppe innovations, though these might have been adopted through trade or migration networks.

Gaston Maspero, in “The Struggle of the Nations” (1896), agreed that names like “Khyan” hinted at an Aryan heritage, drawing parallels with Mitanni Indo-Aryan names. Archibald Henry Sayce, in “The Hittites” (1888), points to another Hyksos ruler’s name, “Iannas,” as having steppe/Aryan heritage. Intriguingly, about 10% of Hyksos names are clearly Indo-European in lineage, possibly suggesting a minority IE element within a predominantly Semitic population—a mixed coalition, perhaps with an Aryan elite leading a Semitic base. James Henry Breasted, in “A History of Egypt” (1905), hinted in this direction, pointing to the intuitive logic of a northern, chariot-mastering population establishing military dominance, a pattern nearly everywhere else tied to Aryan or Indo-European events.

Kassites

To begin with the infamous L.A. Waddell once again, he argues that the Kassites, who ruled Babylon from circa 1595–1155 BC, were descendants of Aryans from Sumer, whom he claimed founded Mesopotamian civilization. He asserted that their name “Kassite” (or “Kashshu” in ancient texts) derived from “Kassi” or “Kushu,” which he linked to a supposed Aryan tribe mentioned in Sumerian and Vedic records—a ruling elite who migrated from Sumer or the Zagros Mountains to dominate Babylon. He argues that Kassite kings bore names with Aryan roots, tying “Gandash” to Sanskrit “Gandha” (power or scent), suggesting a linguistic connection to Indo-European languages.

Waddell emphasized the Kassites’ association with horses and chariots, which he saw as a hallmark of Aryan steppe culture. In The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons (1924), he connected this technology to his broader narrative of Aryan migrations from the Near East to Europe and Asia. He argued their military success in seizing Babylon reflected the prowess of an Aryan warrior aristocracy, akin to the Mitanni or Hittites, and speculated that the Kassites preserved Sumerian-Aryan traditions, such as solar reverence and various rituals.

Max Müller laid the groundwork for linking Indo-European languages to migratory groups like the Kassites. His framework inspired later scholars to interpret Kassite royal names as potentially Indo-European. Archibald Henry Sayce pointed to names like “Karaindash,” speculating it could derive from Indo-European roots akin to Sanskrit “kara” (action) or “indash” (suggestive of Indra), though he admitted the etymology was uncertain. Still, Sayce saw their ruling elite as likely Aryan in origin.

Hugo Winckler, known for his Mitanni discoveries, drew convincing parallels between the Kassites and Mitanni, arguing that the Kassite aristocracy might similarly reflect an Indo-European heritage, citing their prominence in a region influenced by Mitanni Indo-Aryans. Leonard Woolley, in “The Sumerians” (1928), speculated that their unique military success in seizing Babylon suggested a northern origin, possibly linked to steppe-dwelling Indo-European chariot warriors. Vere Gordon Childe agreed, suggesting their rule in Babylon aligned with the timing and methods of Indo-European incursions into the Near East.

Ferdinand Sommer proposed that the Kassites could be an offshoot of the same Indo-European movements that brought the Hittites to Anatolia, seeing their sudden rise as indicative of a small, militarized Indo-European elite imposing itself on Mesopotamia—a pattern he linked to broader Aryan migrations. Stephen Langdon, in “The Cambridge Ancient History” (Vol. I, 1924), speculated that the Kassites’ foreign origin and long-lasting dynasty suggested an Indo-European connection, possibly from the Zagros Mountains or beyond, aligning with theories of steppe migrations.

At the end of the day, we’re left with a familiar evidence picture: linguistic similarities (particularly their names and possible chariot-related vocabulary), their association with horse-based warfare, and their sudden emergence as a ruling elite. It’s the broad strokes that so many scholars found compelling and convincing. While it’s not a silver bullet, it seems a worthy candidate for Occam’s Razor. I can’t help but feel the simplest explanation is likely the correct one, with the caveat that the Kassites might not have always been—or remained—an entirely Aryan people.

Mitanni

At long last, we move to a much clearer and definitive case in the Mitanni. Their golden age (circa 1450–1350 BC) saw them as a major player among the Near Eastern great powers, alongside Egypt, Hatti, and Babylon.

Interestingly and importantly, the majority of Mitanni subjects spoke Hurrian, a non-Indo-European language related to Urartian, suggesting continuity with earlier inhabitants of the region. Hurrian was the common tongue, used in administration and daily life, while only the elite retained Indo-Aryan names and terms, especially in military contexts—reminiscent of the later Scythian model or Gothic rule of Rome. Scholars propose this elite arrived as a small warrior group, imposing themselves on the Hurrians, a pattern seen in countless other Indo-European expansions.

A significant piece of evidence of the Mitanni’s Aryan heritage involves a treaty found in Hittite archives, dating to around 1380 BC, mentioning names like “Artatama” and “Shuttarna”—names with obvious Aryan lineage.

In a treaty from 1380 BC, the Mitanni and Hittites swore by ‘Mitra, Varuna, Indra, and the Nasatya,’ gods of the Vedic pantheon, binding their pact with steppe-born divinity amidst the dust of diplomacy.

“Artatama” is an especially striking variant, resembling Sanskrit “Arta” (truth) and “tama” (highest). Archibald Henry Sayce further tied names like “Tushratta” (from Mitanni correspondence in the Amarna Letters) to Indo-Aryan roots, suggesting “Tush” paralleled Sanskrit “tush” (to satisfy or strengthen), providing further evidence of Indo-European migration into the region.

Hugo Winckler logically argued that this pointed to an “Aryan” aristocracy ruling over a Hurrian population, suggesting a migration of Indo-European elites into Mesopotamia from the north or east. Ferdinand Sommer, in “Hethitisches” (1920), analyzed a Mitanni text by a horse trainer named Kikkuli, discovered in Hittite archives. This manual used Indo-Aryan terms like “aika” (one), “tera” (three), “panza” (five), and “satta” (seven)—direct cognates with Sanskrit “eka,” “tri,” “pancha,” and “sapta.” Sommer argued this specialized vocabulary, tied to chariot warfare, was a hallmark of Indo-Aryan steppe culture, suggesting the Mitanni elite brought this knowledge from an eastern Aryan homeland.

Vere Gordon Childe linked the Mitanni’s mastery of chariots and horses to Indo-European migrations from the Eurasian steppes, citing the Kikkuli text as evidence of an “Aryan” warrior class, noting that chariotry was a defining trait of Indo-European peoples like those who later composed the Rigveda in India.

The term Arya is used 36 times in 34 hymns in the Rig Veda.. and racial or ethnic descriptors are frequent. Some examples—speaking of Indra, and his foes:

"O Lord of all men, fair of cheek, rejoice thee in the gladdening lauds, Present at these drink-offerings."

"At the swift draught the Soma-drinker waxed in might, the Iron One with yellow beard and yellow hair."

"With him too is this rain of his that comes like herds: Indra throws drops of moisture on his yellow beard."

"Thou smotest down the swarthy fifty thousand, and rentest forts as age consumes a garment."

"... blowing away with supernatural might from earth and from the heavens the swarthy skin which Indra hates."

Their fair-haired Indra mirrors the elite’s steppe stock—tall skulls in kurgans match the tale.

Further Historical and Diplomatic Evidence Supporting Elite Aryan Rule

Stephen Langdon, in The Cambridge Ancient History (Vol. I), argued that the Mitanni’s diplomatic prominence—evidenced by their correspondence with Egypt in the Amarna Letters—reflected an Aryan aristocracy ruling over a Hurrian majority. He pointed to their royal names and Vedic gods as proof of an Indo-European origin, likely via migration from the east or north. James Henry Breasted noted the Mitanni’s interactions with Egypt and Hatti, suggesting their kings’ Indo-Aryan names and deities indicated an Aryan elite, part of the same wave of Indo-European movements that influenced Anatolia and India. Leonard Woolley acknowledged the Mitanni’s Indo-Aryan traits, suggesting their rulers were an Aryan minority who imposed themselves on a Hurrian population, citing their chariot-based power and Vedic connections as evidence of a steppe-derived origin.

Laurence Austine Waddell, in The Makers of Civilization in Race and History, though controversial, argued that the Mitanni’s Vedic gods and names linked them to a broader Aryan civilization originating in Sumer or the steppes. He saw their presence in Mesopotamia as part of an Aryan diaspora, reinforcing the idea of an eastern Indo-Aryan homeland. The Mitanni also celebrated the solstice (vishuva), a practice common in IE cultures, further reinforcing their Indo-European roots.

The Mitanni’s power declined after 1350 BC due to internal succession disputes (Artatama II and Tushratta), combined with opportunistic external threats: the Hittite king invaded around 1340 BC, sacking Washukanni and installing a vassal, while Assyria, under Ashur-uballit I (circa 1365–1330 BC), broke free and seized eastern territories. By 1300 BC, Mitanni fragmented and was absorbed by Assyria and the Hittites, with its last rulers vanishing from record and Washukanni’s site—possibly Tell Fekheriye—remaining unconfirmed.

Hittites

William Wright, in The Empire of the Hittites (1884), argued that the Hittites, whose language (Nesite) was Indo-European, represented a clear Aryan migration into Anatolia. He cited inscriptions from Boğazköy and other sites, suggesting their rulers were part of an Aryan elite. Ferdinand Sommer analyzed Hittite texts and emphasized their Indo-European character, seeing their kings as descendants of an Aryan migration from the steppe regions, pointing to linguistic evidence like the Hittite word “watar” (water), akin to Sanskrit “udán.”

Linguistic Evidence: Nesite as Indo-European

Hugo Winckler, who excavated Hattusa, deciphered Hittite cuneiform tablets and identified their language (Nesite) as Indo-European. He cited words like “watar” (water, cf. Sanskrit “udán,” English “water”) and “eku” (to drink, cf. Latin “aqua”), arguing they placed Hittite within the Indo-European family, distinct from Semitic or Hurrian neighbors. Ferdinand Sommer refined this analysis, noting grammatical features like verb conjugations (e.g., “esmi” = I am, cf. Sanskrit “asmi”) and case endings akin to Sanskrit and Greek. He argued Nesite’s archaic traits suggested an early split from the Indo-European trunk, supporting a steppe migration into Anatolia around 2000 BC. Archibald Henry Sayce also championed their Indo-European identity, powerfully linking Nesite to Sanskrit and Greek. He saw their pantheon (e.g., Tarhunt, a god-hero similar to Zeus and Thor) as reflecting Indo-European mythology, reinforcing a linguistic-cultural tie. Hittite retains archaic IE features, such as laryngeals (e.g., ḫ), lost in most other branches, supporting its early split from Proto-Indo-European (PIE).

Chariot Technology: Steppe Influence

Vere Gordon Childe argued that the Hittites’ mastery of chariots—evident in texts like the Anitta Text and their military success—mirrored Indo-European steppe traditions. He tied this to migrations from the Pontic-Caspian region, seeing the Hittites as an Aryan offshoot. William Wright noted chariot depictions in Hittite reliefs (e.g., at Yazılıkaya) and their role in campaigns like the sack of Babylon (1595 BC), suggesting a steppe-derived warrior culture consistent with Indo-European groups. Early Hittite burial practices resembling steppe kurgans (mounded tombs) suggest cultural continuity from IE migrations. Hittites bred and trained horses, a practice rooted in IE steppe traditions, as seen in their treaties and texts.

Historical Context: Migration Narrative

Max Müller’s Indo-European framework influenced later scholars to see the Hittites as migrants from the north. Though he didn’t address them directly, his model of steppe dispersal underpinned their classification as “Aryan” by Sayce and others. Stephen Langdon proposed that the Hittites entered Anatolia around 2000 BC, displacing or assimilating the non-Indo-European Hatti. He cited their Indo-European language and chariot use as evidence of a northern origin, aligning with Mitanni and Vedic parallels.

In short, the Hittites’ Indo-European heritage is best evidenced by Nesite’s linguistic ties to Sanskrit and Greek (Winckler, Sommer, Sayce), their chariot-based military mirroring steppe practices (Childe, Wright), and their fit within Indo-European migration theories (Müller, Langdon). This suggests they descended from a steppe people who entered Anatolia, bringing language and technology.

Egypt’s Aryan Elements

Excavations at El-Amarna, Egypt, reveal that around the mid-2nd millennium BC, kings and princes with unmistakably Vedic names—Artamanya, Aryavirya, Yashodatta, Suttarna, Dushratta—ruled in what’s now Syria, a testament to steppe blood reaching deep into the Near East. Thutmose IV, pharaoh from 1419–1386 BC, wed a daughter of Artatama, king of the Mitanni in the Upper Euphrates region. A letter from Dushratta, Artatama’s grandson, to Akhenaten brags that Thutmose begged seven times before Artatama relented—a marriage that wove Mitanni’s Indo-Aryan elite into Egypt’s royal line.

[Timeline: Thutmose IV 1419–1386 BC, Amenhotep III 1386–1349 BC, Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) 1350–1334 BC]

This wasn’t a one-off. Amenhotep III, ruling 1386–1349 BC, married Tiy, daughter of Yuaa—a foreigner from North Syria—and Tuau, blending Egyptian and Mitanni ancestry into the 18th Dynasty’s aristocracy.

These unions weren’t just diplomatic; they carried steppe DNA—likely R1b—into Egypt’s veins, a pattern too persistent to ignore. This is just a sampling of Egypt’s ties to these largely Indo-European peoples—Hittites, Mitanni, and more—far too many to list fully here, but enough to show the pharaohs didn’t sit isolated on the Nile.

Importantly, Celtic legends brim with claims of Egyptian roots—tales of Scythian kin or lost tribes, casually dismissed as fluff by modern scholars.

Given the web of steppe migrations and these royal bloodlines, I’ve never been comfortable with the brush-off. The Hittites traded with Troy, the Mitanni sent brides to Thebes, and the Hyksos stormed in with chariots—Egypt was long a crossroads for Aryan threads, not a dead end. To briefly summarize a handful of the connections we can be certain of:

Hyksos-Egypt Connections
Hyksos rulers (c. 1650–1550 BC) adopted Egyptian titles and iconography (e.g., scarabs), suggesting intermarriage with local elites, possibly blending Semitic and Aryan ancestry, marking the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1070 BC) with steppe influence. They introduced steppe-derived technologies—composite bows, bronze weapons, spoked-wheel chariots, and horses—shaping Egyptian military practices and hinting at Aryan cultural diffusion from steppe origins (e.g., Sintashta).

Mitanni-Egypt Connections
Amenhotep III (c. 1390–1352 BC) married Mitanni princesses Gilukhepa and Tadukhepa, and the Mitanni sent additional princesses with dowries, bringing Indo-Aryan elite bloodlines into the 18th Dynasty, though diluted by Egypt’s population, enhancing New Kingdom steppe ties. From the Hittite tale of a great flood to India’s Manu surviving the deluge, these peoples carried a shared steppe myth of rebirth—a story Egypt glimpsed through Mitanni brides. Mitanni dowries (textiles, jewelry), horse-breeding expertise (e.g., Kikkuli’s methods), and chariot gifts (Amarna Letters) embedded steppe aesthetics and techniques, while rare IE loanwords (e.g., military terms) suggest linguistic diffusion.

Hittite-Egypt Connections
Ramesses II (c. 1279–1213 BC) married Maathorneferure and another Hittite princess after Kadesh (1274 BC), blending Aryan Anatolian lineage with Egyptian royalty via treaty, reinforcing New Kingdom steppe influence. Hittite letters, gifts (e.g., silver tablets), treaty language, and heavy chariot adoption introduced steppe-derived diplomacy and innovations into Egyptian culture.

Kassite-Egypt Connections
Kassite Babylon’s 18th Dynasty letters (e.g., Amarna Letters, EA 7–11) suggest elite ties, with speculation of a Kassite princess marrying a pharaoh (e.g., Amenhotep III), potentially adding Indo-Aryan-influenced ancestry to New Kingdom Egypt. Kassite gifts (lapis lazuli, seals) and trade via the Zagros near Indo-Iranian steppe regions brought subtle IE motifs, echoed in Egyptian reliefs.

Considering these ties and the powerful interconnectedness of the elites of these five peoples, it becomes far easier to explain the R1b (Gad et al. 2020, published in Human Molecular Genetics) and similar Y-DNA haplogroup markers—found today almost exclusively in modern Europeans—discovered in Egyptian royal mummies. These studies show that Tutankhamun and his family had DNA markers shared by 50-75% of northwestern Europeans today, yet less than 3% of modern Egyptians.. Tutankhamun’s specific R1b-M269, a marker tied to the Yamnaya steppe riders, clearly speaks to an Aryan elite who ruled, bred, and vanished—leaving Egypt’s modern sons a shadow of that lineage. As shocking as this may be to the average person, it’s entirely unsurprising to those who truly know the history of this region and its peoples.. the entirety of the cultural and genetic record proclaims it.

In short, the region stretching from ancient Anatolia to Egypt, through Mesopotamia and into Persia and India—the epicenter of mankind’s earliest recorded history and civilizations—seems to have been largely dominated by a singular people family across a vast stretch of time. A family of Arya warriors whose blood flowed from steppe kurgans to pharaohs’ tombs, their R1a and R1b threads weaving a tapestry of conquest that still drapes over Europe’s shoulders today. Yet somehow, we’ve largely lost our understanding of this, and our grasp on history in this regard. I can’t help but feel this rewriting and obscuring of history is being done for political and social reasons, and the whole thing strikes me as practically criminal.

Take Troy, perched on Anatolia’s edge—an ancient epicenter of power and wealth, a city of bronze and heroic blood where chariot lords like Hector and Achilles clashed, their feats of greatness an extension of the traditions of the steppe riders who swept south millennia before. Were these the Hittites’ kin—fair-haired/eyed/skinned Aryans whose blood inspired Homer’s epic chants?

Many modern scholars and historians have taken to pretending we can’t possibly have direct connections to these far-flung events—but this is madness, and an outright dismissal of source materials. Our ancestors roamed, adventured, and settled the entire region surrounding Troy and much further afield.. their kurgans from Sintashta to Saqqara still hold their bones. Their DNA whispers in us—R1b in Tutankhamun, R1a in Corded Ware—unbroken from steppe to now. When we lose sight of this, it’s the equivalent of lopping off several limbs of our historical body. There’s no need for it, and it’s an entirely net-negative misstep. To forget them is to orphan ourselves.

We must have a clear understanding of the full scope of our history if we’re to best understand ourselves, our fathers, and our place in the world.. their steppe fire still burns in us, as we hold the baton they’ve passed us—let’s hoist this saga high, a banner for our blood, and march it into tomorrow.

I look forward to speaking to these connections in even more depth in the future.

I'd suggest this is one of the most important broader truths of life and how we experience it—it's our frameworks that so define things, and determine how we perceive and experience and navigate it. We so often engage in fiery debates over the minutiae, the specifics and technicalities within the frameworks, but very rarely attempt to analyze the framework itself to ensure it's still accurate, that it still serves us well. Even more rarely do we decide to throw it off entirely and experiment with new frames of thinking.

This broader level thinking and experimentation isn't just important, it's crucial and necessary. I’d argue it becomes even more critical in exceptional cases like ours, where a relatively hostile minority culture has seized the reins of power and now so dominates the authorship and programming of the collective mind. Our movies, television shows, music, magazines, newspapers—even our teachers and university professors—a staggering percentage of the shaping and programming from these sources has been orchestrated by this foreign culture in recent decades, accelerating relentlessly since WW2.

This gradually causes language itself to shift. The words we use to define various concepts shift, even our very definitions of words begin to change—the ground shifts beneath our feet as we're coaxed and compelled to move away from our own cultural and traditional conception of the world, and further toward another people’s conception… and no man is an island here; no individual is wholly immune from the effects.

Words like 'conservative' or 'Republican', or 'liberal' or 'Democrat', certainly don't mean what they meant several decades ago, and the direction of drift of these terms is always toward the dominant culture, the status quo. Post-WW2, as a powerful reactionary shift occurred in the opposite direction of the Axis powers, much of the world lurched powerfully toward their opposites—friendlier toward the 'left', certainly, but more importantly friendlier toward all manners of Jewish thinking. The Jews—who'd certainly not had the greatest reputation prior to the conflict—were afterward cast as noble victims, frequently portrayed as suffering geniuses, persecuted exclusively by evil people, as result of some terrible mixture of jealousy and malevolence. The Scofield Bible infiltrated our churches, dramatically altering church leadership—bolstered by funds funneled through newly formed institutions and organizations—abruptly placing Israel at the heart of many Christians’ doctrine, and then directly equating the 1948 Rothschild-created state of Israel with the biblical Israelites of 2000 years ago, proclaiming them to be one and the same, and the chosen of God himself. This new form of Christian leadership began making a point of everywhere affixing 'Judeo' as a prefix to 'Christian', consistently, aggressively pushing this idea that the one simply doesn't (or can't?) exist without the other. In short order, you'd have been hard-pressed to find a single Christian leader of prominence that wasn't as powerfully Zionist as any Jewish individual.

The conception of millions dying in an orchestrated attempt at genocide—a topic on which such a massive number of movies and written works wholly center around, so deeply programming and psychologically conditioning the western world—only pushed this gas pedal to the floor. This was a blameless people, so the storyline goes, everywhere persecuted unjustly, who just want to live their lives without being hounded, persecuted, killed—and, as Jordan Peterson and his subset never cease to remind us, they're also brilliant, with a self-proclaimed average IQ of 115!

(though their national average has never topped 97, on any formal testing—a topic for another day!)

The stage was set.. I think it’s fair to say that no group received more exclusively or effusively positive press and uncritical adulation, post-WW2—and our political and cultural and economic spheres inevitably began to drift incredibly fast in this direction, with no checks or balances to slow them, and precious few individuals who dared to try. Courageous honesty here, after all, was likely to cost one their career and make their life exceedingly difficult.

I say this to make the point that our political notions and our conceptions of 'left' and 'right' have both swiftly drifted in this same direction. This new idea being pushed by the kosher right that the left hates Israel is absurd: both parties and factions overwhelmingly support Rothschild Israel (or world Jewry as a whole), only in slightly different ways, with the left more prone to be sympathetic to the vehicles of bolshevism or communism, and the right becoming ever more tied to the vehicle of Zionism. In fact, our political class is perhaps nowhere more united, nowhere more worshipfully dutiful, as evidenced by Netanyahu continually setting records for the longest standing ovation each time he speaks before Congress or Senate.

On a similar note, both wings of this theatrical political bird also tend to support the worst excesses of big Pharma.. the more corrupt elements of our ‘military-industrial complex’, the aims of the largest banks and financial institutions, expansive government surveillance programs, endless foreign interventions and wars, and mass migration—though in slightly different flavors, with the left favoring completely open borders, the ‘right’ increasingly favoring open borders with slight formalities along the way to ensure the ‘legality’ of our demographic replacement.

Because this drift has proceeded so far down its path, a great many of us no longer feel at home in either 'wing'. In many ways, we see a hopelessly corrupted uniparty, with a large gaggle of political prostitutes dutifully serving their hidden masters. In the few ways in which the parties fundamentally differ, often both of the paths they take fail to resonate or inspire or energize us.

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate..”

Long story short, the framework itself is increasingly broken, unhealthy, and no longer cleanly applies, or encompasses all significant modes of thought. It well suits the status quo, especially as a means of keeping the public ‘on the reservation', ensuring we're locked into fruitless battles and energy-dissipating squabbles that ultimately fail to move the ball anywhere—but it no longer suits an increasing number of us, or our aims and goals, in the least. It constrains, it forces a choice between the lesser of two evils, as they grow progressively more evil—a path that drains and carries significant psychological and spiritual costs.

And on the topic of spiritual costs, this is another area in which I believe many of us differ from the other three wings, at present.. who seem to be almost wholly spirit-less, with little to no sense of the truly beautiful or Divine in nature and the universe, little connection to God—so completely opposite our peoples traditional nature and modes of being. We may still have real differences to sort out with regard to what these spiritual notions ultimately were, in our broader circles, and our sorting this out and answering these questions down the line couldn’t possibly be more important.. but I’d suggest this Reddit-atheist reductionist materialist approach, epitomized by men like Yuval Noah Harari and many of the leading players in tech at the moment, is a superficial and empty mode of thinking that feels wholly and foreign and uninspiring to so many in our ranks.

We’ve being incrementally dragged in a direction that doesn’t resonate, and something needs to be done.

I'm suggesting we need to work together to begin to develop a new framework… one that allows for greater philosophical and ideological freedom, and allows us to gradually return to a healthier and more noble and balanced and fruitful ‘Weltanschauung’.

Weltanschauung: the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view.

And this is what I’ll be attempting to do here. Not so much creating any definitive and specific framework on my own, just yet, but rather creating an example of what this might look like—and speaking to the means and methods as to how we might get there. In a sense, I’ll simply be creating a framework through which we might begin to create a framework.. setting the stage for the process, illustrating how it might be done to hopefully spur some new thinking.

I think an excellent way to visualize this new conception and framework is through adding a 'north' and 'south' axis to the existing 'right' and 'left' wing spectrum. One could just as easily go with 'top' or 'bottom'—but something about north and south feels more fitting, for the moment, even if not strictly and technically correct: if we’re blowing apart a framework, after all, why not take a few liberties.

The specific titles we choose isn’t terribly important; the importance lies in how this allows us to visualize and conceptualize our stances and positions in a more formal and concrete and organized manner. Down the line, when such a framework might take firm and confident and more accurate shape, it could be capable of showing, at a glance, the areas of agreement and disagreement with both right and left.. and allowing a new faction to emerge, with firmly planted feet, and a solid unity and sense of self.

Please understand this is going to be a very quick and dirty example, to further illustrate the point and the idea.

To ensure it wasn't exclusively my own personal and subjective reasoning entirely determining the placement of the values on the chart, or the creation of said values in the first place, I've heavily made use of AI to assist here. I've done so in an intriguing way I'd like to share, to hopefully allow others to make use of similar methods. Before I describe them, I feel compelled to include the obvious caveat about AI—I consider it supremely dangerous in the long term, considering the types of personalities at the forefront of its creation, and the heavily modern and egalitarian and 'politically correct' biases it so frequently displays. Use with extreme caution, but I do recommend experimentation and not remaining wholly ignorant of its power and progression, and where this is all headed. There are ways to use the technology in a helpful and fruitful way, and as I'm hopefully about to show—and there are ways to force it to produce the types of data and responses you're looking for.

Here’s the specific method I’ve employed:

Firstly, I wrote down the names of about 30 individuals of significance—writers and thinkers, leaders, sages and philosophers, etc., stretching from the ancient to the modern—attempting to cultivate a balance of healthy, noble, vital, and well-rounded personalities I feel fairly well represent our people historically, and our broader circles presently. I told AI—Grok 3, in this instance—to create a singular personality composite of all of these men (I strongly recommend experimenting with the creation of these personality composites: to answer questions from their standpoint, to speak to controversial topics or explore history in a less biased way, etc.), and then to list approximately 10 core tenets or stances of this composite philosophy or ideology, and subsequently label this the 'North Wing' of the political spectrum. I then asked it to create 10 core tenets of the polar opposite ideas or philosophies, and to call these the 'South Wing'. I then asked it to list forty tenets in all, 10 for 'North', 10 for 'South', 10 for left, and 10 for right, being careful not to duplicate any, and to paint as much of a contrast in the process as is possible.

[I was going to list all of these tenets with their full descriptions in this article, but it’d turn this into a novel - feel free to ask for descriptions of any tenet you may be most curious about]

I then asked for a paragraph of description on each of the four ‘wings’, and asked it to speak in a voice and perspective that was subtly in favor of the ‘North Wing’, to help override AI’s natural bias—at the risk of introducing some of our own, of course. This article is, after all, meant to effectively laud (and contrast) the ideals of a ‘North Wing’, so this seemed the best balance we might strike:

                                                                    North Wing

                                                                    South Wing

                                                                    Right Wing

                                                                    Left Wing

I then added a handful of my own additional tenets/stances/ideas to add to the existing 40, and asked it to classify these too into one of the four factions.

I now had about 50 or so core stances, separated across the four factions.

I then asked AI to score all 50 of these according to how well they fit into each 'faction'. For example, 'feminism' received a high score for 'Left Wing', a low score for North and Right Wing, etc.

I then used these scores to create the visual you see below:

I’ve tried to make the file size as large as is possible—hopefully all tenets are visible. (especially if you save the graphic, open, and zoom.. please let me know if not)

You’ll notice we’ve created a ‘genuine care for nature’ to be paired off against the wholly corrupt and misled form of ‘virtue-signaling environmentalism’, and ‘genuine meritocracy’ to be paired off against the purely ‘economic meritocracy’ of the increasingly subverted Right Wing (for whom men like Vivek and his Alzheimer's drug scam would be a sterling example of merit, because it yielded significant profit). It’s always bothered me quite a bit that the left gets to sit on ‘environmentalism’, and the right (and south, to an extent) gets to squat on ‘meritocracy’, when the former utterly wastes trillions into the pockets of the most corrupt on projects like ‘the green new deal’, and the latter seems incapable of conceiving of ‘merit’ through anything but an economic prism. So, it’s fair to say this visual carries some subjective bias—but as it should, if it’s going to best communicate the intended point.

Anyhow.. it’s the furthest thing from perfect, and in fact I’m only willing to share it because I didn’t create or plot these values myself but instead very loosely guided AI into doing so—in some cases, its choice of where to place them even slightly surprised me—but it is deeply interesting, as a start.. and the idea itself, here, has such immense potential.

I look forward to an ongoing discussion that might help further clarify and refine a four-faction conception:

What adjustments might be made to more cleanly define four distinct archetypes, and contrasting factions? What tenets might be added (or subtracted), or re-framed and reworded?

Firstly, I’m genuinely happy to finally be on Substack—more so than I expected I would be. It’s nice to have this outlet for longer-form text content, to express things that might otherwise become lost in the shuffle on more frenetic platforms like X.

Secondly, I’m certainly no trained writer. I love language, communication, the power of the word, but writing in particular is one of those skill sets that only becomes honed and refined through doing, with consistency. Until I ‘find my legs’ here and hone in on that particular voice and style of content that represents the perfect blend of what I feel is most necessary and important, and what seems to be most liked and resonant with the greatest number of good people, things may be just a bit scattered for a while.

I plan to experiment, test the waters, move between eclectic subject matter, but before long, I hope to write and share some very important things here—things I can be proud of in the long term, and things I hope might be informative, thought-provoking (in the better sense of that term), or have some eventual shaping and orienting power. I look forward to quickly improving, more than anything.. it’s important to me.

Thirdly, I have no idea what I’ll be doing for those kind enough to subscribe. I simultaneously need (and much appreciate!) the support to continue doing what I’m doing in a focused way and have any hope of making ends meet—yet I don’t like the idea of putting much of anything behind any ‘paywall’, if I can possibly avoid it. Currently being of the most modest means myself, I hate the idea of those in similar positions being blocked from reading something accordingly. I hope those who choose to support understand that they may just be supporting my overall work, as opposed to getting something unique in exchange, aside from my sincere appreciation.

(I have been working on something special, writing-wise, for about a year now.. perhaps when this is someday finished I can finally reward those who support.)

Lastly, with regard to the specifics of my activity here:

Expect one longer-form post every Sunday, with consistency, at minimum. I may supplement this with additional pieces throughout the week, but I’m not sure I’ll send these by email if so—I don’t want to spam anyone. Once per week seemed optimal to my eye.

I’ve uploaded a complete ‘Subverted History’ list with working links and will soon upload working links to the rest (all non-Subverted-History videos) of my work. Someday I may upload the specific videos themselves here to this platform, if there’s demand for it or good reason to do so.. but for the moment, I’d at least like all links available in a clear and organized format.

I’ll be finishing uploading the last 10 episodes or so of my audio cast ‘In Pursuit of Clarity’ soon, and then perhaps all of the older episodes one by one—and plan to make more of these in the future, and all will be available in the Podcast section here.

The majority of my focus will remain, broadly, on video content, especially future ‘Subverted History’ content until that series has communicated everything I’d like it to communicate, but I plan to take this place seriously, write with consistency—and see what I can manage over time.

Thank you for being subscribed—and especially those generous enough to support—and I hope you’ll find something of value.

-A