Hello everyone. As you can see above, this week was one filled with achievements — including my first interview with Konstantin Kissin & Francis Foster on TRIGGERNOMETRY.
We discussed how augmented reality will entrap those following algorithmically-generated incentives in a Plato’s goon cave of VR pornography and dopamine overdoses.
I also spooked the two hospitable hosts with warnings that Generation Z’s revolutionary appetitive will likely not be sated in time with the necessary cultural rejuvenation, reduction in immigration, and transformation of economic circumstances. Thus, we must pick our flavour: Woke liberalism or reactionary Christo-pagan traditionalism.
The evidence of this is with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador: who disregarded the egalitarian universalist post-War regime of “human rights”, which refuses to draw value distinctions between law-abiding citizens and Satanic cartel gangs, by locking up any MS13 member and making his country safe again.
The self-described ‘Philosopher King’ was re-elected last week with 83% of the vote, and holds a <92% approval rating among his people.
He is in fact the Vibe that the nationally-particular patriotic Right must embody to revive their traditions and protect their people. Bukele seems to agree, given he retweeted me when I noted this.
There’s another name to add to the long list of my aspirational interviewees…
But I digress. Due to their industriousness, both gentlemen at TRIGGERNOMETRY have recorded a month’s worth of interviews ahead of mine; so expect a few weeks before it gets released.
I’ll be sure to link to the full discussion once it’s out.
But, speaking of Vibes…
Vibe Supremacy — Our Post-Literate Politics
As my (hopefully) final word on the Taylor Swift saga, I wrote about how the Right being consumed by the nonsensical notion that her popularity is an inorganic ‘psyop’ shows the Boomer establishment has failed to adapt to how politics is done online.
By vibe-based politics, I mean that, to most people, aesthetics and moods take precedence over abstract ideas and study citations. This dictates whether or not someone will be persuaded to follow a movement, or belong to a political tribe. This is driven by how much of our time is spent online, especially on image-based platforms. The internet hive-mind has democratised how media is received. Interpretations can become runaway memes — against the intentions of their creators.
For a defense of Hot Girl™ culture, a novel interpretation of Barbie (2023), and an explanation of why the Right shouldn’t embrace the downwardly-mobile criminal aesthetic of face tattoos, read my latest piece in The Critic.
The Cowardice of Britain’s Politicians
On Monday, I made a debut on Sky News Australia, after Rita Panahi was gracious enough to invite me on her Overtime show.
We discussed my friend Douglas Murray’s event, raising funds for students abducted don October 7th in Israel, having its venue cancelled by pro-Hamas agitators; the insidious cowardice of politicians like Mike Freer MP & Gillian Keegan MP, attempting to ignore the threat of Islamists and blame ‘social media’ for the murder of Sir David Amess; and Sadiq Khan’s unaccountable deceit over the ULEZ and a plan to charge London’s motorists by the mile.
You can watch the full discussion below — either on X, Instagram, or via the Sky News Australia YouTube channel.
For more coverage of the Mike Freer resignation scandal, and politicians’ unwillingness to own up to having imported the problem of radical Islamism:
The Powder Keg Beneath Parliament
I wrote my first essay for The European Conservative this week, on the brewing backlash against politicians for betraying the British public on mass immigration.
As London’s weekly pro-Hamas protests show, multiculturalism in Britain operates less like a melting pot and more like a blender. Incompatible ingredients are combined in population-dense cities, producing indigestible sludge that is sold to us as a nutritious smoothie. But the strongest ingredient always overpowers the others, leaving a bitter aftertaste.
Point being: illiberal elements will always exploit and subvert permissive sensibilities and upend secular liberalism. There are two solutions: either we abandon the neutral pretences of apathetic liberalism and assert a competing comprehensive doctrine of the good, or the state grows ever more authoritarian as it insists the clashing civilisations it brought together must get along. I believe we are experiencing the latter.
I elaborated on this, in light of the Clapham acid attack by sex-offending illegal immigrant Abdul Ezedi, on this week’s Podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
For more coverage of the goings on in the Conservative Party, I also attempted to lift the veil on former Prime Minister Liz Truss’ PopCon launch — which I believe is an effort to bring the Right beneath one banner, and prevent Michael Gove continuing the Cameroon agenda while in opposition.
That’s all for this week. Expect more articles, interviews, and TV spots in the days ahead.