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New Western Man · Underthrow

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SPEAKER_01: The iconoclasts of the Red-Green Alliance aren't just burning down France.
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SPEAKER_01: They're burning down the West.
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SPEAKER_01: Their iconoclasm is a melange of resentment, self-loathing, and nihilism.
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SPEAKER_01: Those who lean red have infinite wants no redistribution regime can ever supply.
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SPEAKER_01: Those who lean green bring a theocratic axe to grind against Western decadence.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet the powers that be have treated even the most militant among them like poor, poor puppies.
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SPEAKER_01: So, in Europe's quasi-socialist countries,
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SPEAKER_01: the Red-Green Alliance doubles down on the idea that destruction brings dignity
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SPEAKER_01: and taking brings tumos.
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SPEAKER_01: The welfare state offers material comfort without demanding meaningful contribution.
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SPEAKER_01: For many,
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SPEAKER_01: work becomes optional,
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SPEAKER_01: grievance becomes their vocation, and belonging is found among rioters.
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SPEAKER_01: They never assimilate.
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SPEAKER_01: They wander and wait,
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SPEAKER_01: becoming the dry tender of a civilization that thought compassion
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SPEAKER_01: and post-colonial self-loathing should order society.
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SPEAKER_01: And now that tender is catching fire.
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SPEAKER_01: Infrared loops.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't always agree with Nick Land of Dark Enlightenment fame,
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SPEAKER_01: but this assessment is worth remembering.
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SPEAKER_01: Quote, social solidarity in precise contrast is the parasite's friend.
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SPEAKER_01: By cropping out all high-frequency feedback mechanisms
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SPEAKER_01: A radically democratized society insulates parasitism from what it does,
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SPEAKER_01: transforming local, painfully dysfunctional,
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SPEAKER_01: Unquote.
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SPEAKER_01: Translation, when societies prioritize vague social solidarity,
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SPEAKER_01: and collective democratic decision making over tight accountability loops,
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SPEAKER_01: they make it easier for people to free ride.
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SPEAKER_01: Small, fixable problems turn into big chronic ones because the costs are delayed,
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SPEAKER_01: diluted, and no longer felt by the people creating them.
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SPEAKER_01: Highly egalitarian or redistributive systems
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SPEAKER_01: that reward dependency can turn free writing from an occasional vice into a way
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SPEAKER_01: of life.
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SPEAKER_01: Tighter feedback loops send faster,
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SPEAKER_01: more accurate signals about value and contribution
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SPEAKER_01: than centralized political processes do.
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SPEAKER_01: Of course, dignity and life meaning come, in no small part, from contribution.
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SPEAKER_01: If you think poor,
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SPEAKER_01: poor developing world puppies should be welcomed but not asked to contribute,
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SPEAKER_01: don't be surprised when many grow up to become wolves that Roman packs.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you steep your elites in a strange mix of guilt and entitlement,
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SPEAKER_01: don't be surprised when they serve up what's left of the West to feed
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SPEAKER_01: the goddamn wolves.
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SPEAKER_01: Fight for it.
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SPEAKER_01: The West is neither a rat race nor a feeding trough.
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SPEAKER_01: It is a set of ideas, and some ideas are better than others.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet the Red-Green Alliance seeks to kill the very idea that some ideas are better
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SPEAKER_01: than others, and they have been wildly successful.
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SPEAKER_01: Just look at all these wayward children.
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SPEAKER_01: But we have to learn to fight again.
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SPEAKER_01: We have to learn to defend the best of the West with confidence and ambition,
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SPEAKER_01: even as we jettison some of its worst excesses.
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SPEAKER_01: We also have to be prepared to make tough decisions and face
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SPEAKER_01: a truth polite society would rather avoid.
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SPEAKER_01: Some cultures and ideologies are incompatible with Western civilization.
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SPEAKER_00: It is not the middle who determine our future.
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SPEAKER_00: It is who among these And some people have no intention of living by its code.
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SPEAKER_00: The West, like America, is not rooted in race.
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SPEAKER_00: It's based on a creed.
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SPEAKER_00: And what's in that creed?
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SPEAKER_00: Let's do a quick top ten.
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SPEAKER_01: One, hold the rights of others,
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SPEAKER_01: their life, liberty, and property, as sacred, in reciprocity with your own.
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SPEAKER_01: Two, recognize your fellow citizens as equals,
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SPEAKER_01: not in the accidents of birth or the exercise of virtues and talents,
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SPEAKER_01: but in the eyes of the law and of your creator.
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SPEAKER_01: Three, ground all law in the consent of the governed,
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SPEAKER_01: and claim your rights of secession,
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SPEAKER_01: establishment, and association through real social contracts, not theoretical ones.
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SPEAKER_01: Four, practice personal, social, and civic
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SPEAKER_01: Five, defend yourself,
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SPEAKER_00: your family,
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SPEAKER_00: and your neighbors against criminals,
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SPEAKER_01: tyrants,
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SPEAKER_01: and anti-Western iconoclasts,
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SPEAKER_01: taking up arms if necessary to guard freedom and civilization.
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SPEAKER_01: Six, be sovereign, creative, and industrious in your own way.
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SPEAKER_01: So that society benefits from your service and you benefit from your service.
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SPEAKER_01: 7.
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SPEAKER_01: Prioritize your community over your country because you must live
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SPEAKER_01: among your neighbors and the principle of subsidiarity should mirror that priority.
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SPEAKER_01: 8.
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SPEAKER_01: Associate with others in compassion, charity, and free collaboration.
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SPEAKER_01: Lift your neighbors when they fall, and they should lift you.
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SPEAKER_01: 9.
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SPEAKER_01: Refuse to be a slave to the mob, and refuse to be a slave to any victim mentality.
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SPEAKER_01: 10.
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SPEAKER_01: Pledge loyalty to your creed and live by its code,
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SPEAKER_01: which includes uniting with others in reciprocity between Jesus and Nietzsche.
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SPEAKER_01: Friedrich Nietzsche called himself the Antichrist,
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SPEAKER_01: then wrote that there had only ever been one Christian, and he died on the cross.
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SPEAKER_01: The philosopher with the hammer could never stop orbiting the carpenter,
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SPEAKER_01: so perhaps we should take the hint.
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SPEAKER_01: From Nietzsche, the new Western man must take the hammer.
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SPEAKER_01: He must learn to smell that sour stench on every mob that has torched a cathedral
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SPEAKER_01: and called it justice.
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SPEAKER_01: He will not make weakness a virtue or grievance a religion.
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SPEAKER_01: He says amen to his fate, his labor, and his share of suffering.
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SPEAKER_01: He wills himself into something greater than he was before.
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SPEAKER_01: From Jesus, he takes the basin and the towel.
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SPEAKER_01: He kneels to wash the feet of those who walk away from him.
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SPEAKER_01: He will cross the road to the stranger in the ditch,
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SPEAKER_01: He forgives those who wrong him, but he knows the difference between forgiveness and surrender.
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SPEAKER_01: Each falls short in isolation.
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SPEAKER_01: Nietzsche without Jesus might inspire a strong man willing to climb on others' necks
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SPEAKER_01: to greatness.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus without Nietzsche,
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SPEAKER_01: at least the Jesus of bureaucrats and moralists,
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SPEAKER_01: gives us a pity party on a grand scale.
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SPEAKER_01: Compulsion masquerading as compassion becomes policy.
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SPEAKER_01: Guilt becomes a tax.
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SPEAKER_01: The poor get paid to stay poor so the comfortable can feel upright with their I voted stickers.
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SPEAKER_01: Europe tried that second coming and look at all the fires.
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SPEAKER_01: The synthesis was hiding in Zarathustra.
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SPEAKER_01: Nietzsche designated the gift-giving virtue the highest, the one that overflows.
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SPEAKER_01: A soul full enough must give, the way a cup set under a fountain must spill.
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SPEAKER_01: The Samaritan answered to no ministry and carried no guilt.
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SPEAKER_01: He had oil, coin, and a strong back.
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SPEAKER_01: He was the kind of man willing to spend them on a stranger.
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SPEAKER_01: But never forget,
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SPEAKER_01: charity must come from prosperity and personal choice, not from guilt or grievance.
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SPEAKER_01: Strength must serve love, but a love So the new world,
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SPEAKER_01: The western man is an ubermensch who kneels.
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SPEAKER_01: He is a Templar knight willing to fuck his woman.
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SPEAKER_01: He kneels to lay foundation stones.
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SPEAKER_01: He can fight, but he'd rather plant.
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SPEAKER_01: He's strong enough to destroy, yet chooses to build.
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SPEAKER_01: And he gives because he's full.
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SPEAKER_01: He asks his neighbor to contribute because he respects him too much to pity him.
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SPEAKER_01: If his neighbor seeks to tear down what he has built,
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SPEAKER_01: he must gird his loins and turn no cheeks.
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SPEAKER_01: The new Western man will rise from the ashes left by the iconoclasts,
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SPEAKER_01: and he will take away their torches.
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SPEAKER_01: The new Western man practices human respect first,
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SPEAKER_01: but otherwise defends and retaliates against those who refuse to reciprocate it.
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SPEAKER_01: So together we will fight as we must.
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SPEAKER_01: We will win, and our children will inherit the Renaissance.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm Max Borders.
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