Some of us remember the film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. From 1967. Yeah, it’s been going on a looooong time.

Only an immensely intelligent and articulate human being “can just turn on the mic” and produce these insights. Very impressive individual.

sadly, not one thing will be different no matter which one of those puppets were elected. so who cares?

One can find happiness, and also weirdness, in adaptations of older materials where the underlying geology pokes through. Example: the ABC Murders on Netflix (starring John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot). As a BBC adaptation of two separate novels by Agatha Christie by some modern woman, there are the usual “Modern Audiences” (echo by “critical drinker” on YT): black Catholic priest, Poirot no longer being an observant Catholic. “Anti-immigrant” marches in 1933 Britain — with semi-fascist symbols (never happened, there were neither immigrants nor threats of immigrants in 1933 Britain nor were Mosley’s Black Shorts anything before 1937 and even then his followers numbered less than 10,000 in Britain).But there is weirdness of the Old poking through. Women do not come off well in this limited series (other than a few). There is an upper class gold-digger secretary, a lower class sloot, and a working class woman who abuses/whores out her own daughter. Think about that — criticizing female slootiness, prostitution, and gold digging. Heck Gold digging even existing. Its inconceivable now. Its as if Monica Lewinsky belonged to an alternate universe.As Steve Sailer noted, you don’t see either real life or fictional gold diggers much anymore. Other than Elon Musk (who is now just HATED by the women at the FT hilariously) no tech mogul has been able despite the money to get a hot girlfriend. Your average drug addict / bike messenger pulls hotter women than those big shots. Look at Sam Bankster-Fraud, with all his loot he could only pull a human-turtle hybrid, the younger female version of Turtle Mitch. Same with Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos (who had to settle for some aging used up cougar).Gold diggers just don’t exist in the modern world. That’s a huge clue to the big shift. Our world is so insane because women neither want or need male support. This produced a massive shift to the left, in everything.Even so, the old stuff does poke through the landscape, so to speak, at odd times.

Off topic thoughts on Russell Brand:He seems to have started out as an unthinking leftist but the big profits of the pharmaceutical companies from Covid seemed to make him critical of big business, big science and big media. Now, he’s dissident right, even if he doesn’t realize it.I don’t doubt that the women who are complaining are describing incidents that actually happened.Russell’s escapades occurred at the cusp of consent: women want to be overpowered by a dominant, successful man. Yet if, after the domination, the man abandons the woman, then she wants revenge.The woman was fully willing in the moment to be taken and dominated, but is bitterly disappointed and vengeful afterwards, if he goes on without her.

Movie recommendation “My Mam Godfrey” William Powell/Carol Lombard

Listening to the podcast made me think of the bending of the knee the McCaskey Clan did in the last year. Kevin Warren – President and CEO Ryan Pokes – General Manager Tanesha Wade – SVP Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Why, with all those Magical Kneegr00ws, the Bears should be solid for years to come! (I almost forgot, the Magical quarter back) Spoiler alert; they may not win a game all season. Although I don’t think the league would allow that. I look forward to the hand wringing and gnashing of teef when they fail miserably.

I have now listened to the show. One comment springs to mind.A feeling of general dissatisfaction with the world is not necessarily the result only of the intrusion of woke or progressive ideas into the entertainment space. A similar feeling of disgust would eventually be produced simply by the discernment of mere human insufficiency and mixed motives. For instance, it is not possible to enjoy movies or sporting events once you realize that actors and athletes use their fame principally as a vehicle to advance tawdry aims. If black monks hadn’t soured you on Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein should have sufficed all on his own.There is no way out of this. It is not possible for a sufficiently advanced person to simply enjoy a movie or a sporting event, as if his ultimate end could be satisfied on the earthly plane. Only simpletons can take such things unironically; an advanced man must take them ironically or not at all.You might even say that the wokeness has done everyone a favor by serving as amemento mori.It makes it all the more easier to detach from things which should not be heartily embraced anyway. But once you begin to detach from human culture, it leads to a depressive mental crisis that can only be resolved by embracing the transcendent God, and realizing that this world is a vale of tears that can never provide lasting satisfaction.Spiritual maturity means taking up the cross. You can never go back. You can only advance towards God and care for the world as it is, laboring in charity, knowing you will never be happy this side of heaven.

Great article and comments. Some say its the (((liberal media))) pushing this on us, and theres truth to that, but even if we deported every (((usual suspect))) tomorrow, we’d still have that awful voting behavior of… women. Working with them in marketing and advertising, in my experience, theyre the ones pushing for diversity and inclusion everywhere. They love their gay friends, and the token black woman coworker who’s there to make them all feel kind and cosmopolitan. They were also quick to put their pronouns in their work bios, and the pipsqueak liberal guys who fawn over them follow suit. I cant watch anything anymore without imagining some liberal spinster in her 50s at a script meeting saying “theres too many white men in this story!” Deep down, she’s angry at all the white chads who banged her out and dumped her for a church girl over the course of 30 years. Unfortunately, She wont see the error of her ways until Shaneequa stuffs a pillow over her face in her retirement home. “But i voted for democrrrrrrrr…”

I had forgotten the black monk in Name of the Rose . . . for some reason it still doesn’t bother me even after you point it out though, not in the way a scene does from the film 1917 does, the one near the film’s beginning showing British World War I Tommies as background characters. It just didn’t happen. The blacks weren’t highlighted but definitely were for some reason more noticeable to me in that film. Spoke to a fellow WWI history buff who saw the film and knows all the various correct buttons and helmets from WWI about it. He claimed to have not noticed the black faces at all when he watched the movie, and sadly I think he was telling the truth.

I live in football country (southeast). I appreciate your unscripted podcasts. In our area, football players, specifically black ones, are elevated to Godhood. The college next to my town had a black player rape a drunk white girl over the summer and it was filmed. Now I know women who put themselves in that situation shouldn’t expect anything other than that. But to this day, he’s seen no jail time and was suspended for only ONE game. Things like that make it impossible for me to even watch a game without wanting to destroy the television. I have an old family friend who has been a large part of the athletic circle in my area. He was so enraged about it. “If that where my daughter…”. He’s on the verge of FINALLY crossing the great divide. Or so I thought. He seems to think things like this happening are ALL joe bidens fault. I don’t have the heart to tell him that he should also look in the mirror, as he has played a huge roll in running cover for these animals, even though it was unintentional. He can’t bring himself to even acknowledge race as a factor. Its frustrating. He has a voice in our community and could actually help the cause if I could just get to him without coming off as a white sheet, pointy hat wearing “nazi”. Any advice would be appreciated from anyone. He’s on the edge, I’m just not wise enough to get him over.

Wanting wholesome entertainment at the end of the day, my ex-wife and I watched a lot of television shows from the 1950s and 1960s, like Leave it to Beaver and Andy Griffith.As enjoyable as the Munsters were, it was the first TV show where the subversion was noticeable.First, the family was creepy yet people were expected to accept them nonetheless. The message was “always accept outsiders even when your instincts warn you.” This theme of always accepting outsiders was a constant in Little House on the Prairie. (In my opinion, accepting outsiders that our instincts warned us about is probably the single greatest cause of our current predicament.)Second, the father, Herman, was the first idiot husband, foreshadowing Homer Simpson.The same people that created the Munsters earlier created Leave it to Beaver and surprisingly, they were not “typical” Hollywood people, as far as I can tell.

Roddy Randy Piper I’m here to chew gum and correct names, and I’m all out of gum….

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait…(if youth only knew, if old age only could…)

Dude, you’re reading my mind again. My wife loves old Hollywood films, and I find myself biting my tongue sometimes as we watch them together–“The Searchers” just a few months ago. As the old Liberty Lobby newspaper, “The Spotlight” used to say, “the mind, once expanded to the size of a new idea, never returns to its former dimensions”, or something like that.

Speaking of subversion, is no one going to mention the Cohn’s Hail Caesar?A whole subplot revolves around the Communist writers, during which the disgruntled bastards go on and on to George Clooney explaining how they have for years filled their screenplays with The Message.Meanwhile the heroes of the story are the intensely Catholic and family-focused studio boss and the straight-shooting working-class cowboy star. His horse is named Whitey. At one point as the studio guy needs to make a big career decision and asks his wife (in the kitchen, as she prepares a late dinner for him) what she thinks he should do. Our blonde beauty replies “Gee honey, you know best.”I don’t think this was a spoof. More like an homage.Are the two Jewish boys from Minnesota secret dissidents?

What if the tradition is liberal? That is the true dilemma of American conservatives. America was founded as a liberal, secular country, so you end up defending some sort of liberalism if you stand up for tradition (the Republican game plan).

Although my wife is far closer to the divide than she was twenty or even five years ago, it’s not likely to be a river she’ll ever cross. And because of what I see now, there aren’t many shows or movies we can watch together anymore due to my, some would say, commenting or sighs or eye rolling, thus I just typically go read a book or some such. She’s happy watching hers, I watch mine and there are a scant few we watch together. It works. It’s too bad, but it’s hard to unsee once you’ve seen…

There are som things I know now that make it hard to find much satisfaction in normie stuff.It is clear that we ae ruled over by very dangerous people who are in the control of an international group of some kind that intends to herd what’s left of us into concentration camps called “15 min cities” after they rid the world of a huge number of us . springing Covid on us was their grabbing of all the power worldwide that they didn’t already have. jsince then , it will not matter who we vote for, the machines will put their puppet in charge. the media and their fake polls befor the election will convince us it happened because outr fellow citizens are completely insane. The WEF is real, and they tell us where they are going because they believe we are hackable annimals, to paraphrase yuval Haraui. The tools they hack us with is the media and culture. they have complete control of it. someone somewhere wants a lot of us gone.on that happy note, have a great weekend.

While listening to the show I though of the second Jurassic Park movie. I first was good but the second was saturated with PC. Not surprised coming from Spielberg. A strong woman character and a black girl who was completely out of place in the movie. In a silly part of the movie, the girl does gymnastics and takes out a few dinosaurs, and the step-father says, ‘and you didn’t make the gynastics the team?’ Of course, we are all supposed to think she didn’t make the team because of racism. Then they ruin the part of the great white hunter, making him effeminate man with an earring in his right ear, and very close to his east Indian helper.

Reagan was not a great prez (unless you compare him to Biden). What I remember about him is that he was not hostile to the country and the people he ruled, in sharp contrast to our current rulers.

Thank you for not ruining High Plains Drifter.

Here is another take on the film The Searchers, addressing the race issue: https://counter-currents.com/2021/04/the-searchers/

You don’t have to be a dissident to question whether Harper Lee really wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. Many non dissidents have. But this is beside the point.If you’ve ever read the book, as I did long ago, you know it’s not very good. Certainly no page turner. Not the kind of thing that would get normie charging to the bookstore. Normie charging to the bookstore at all, for anything, a questionable concept in itself. Yet we are told this mediocre (at best) book, written by an unknown, sold millions immediately upon publication, and was translated into ten languages within one year of release. Even Danielle Steele and Stephen King, much easier reading more page turnable authors, with name recognition and huge fanbases, never had a hit quite like this. That year of release being, coincidentally, 4 years prior to the passage of the CRA.Then you look at the title again and realize the answer was right in front of you all along. Kind of like Alphabet Inc.I’ll probably have to do a separate post, some other time, about 50 Shades of Grey.

OT: The GAE has pissed away so much of its industrial base and human capital that it is struggling to manufacture new icebreakers, much less hypersonic missiles: https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/knowledge-is-now-lost-the-west-is-forgetting-how-to-make-things-as-china-and-russia-rise/news-story/e7f70698a599ea0d90b98bbe0e019e74

Well Z, I know you tried to turn a black pill into a didactic call for clarity about the future by re-envisioning the past. But I guess my spirit is too broken to undertake the exercise. It seems to me that once you’re wise to the cultural agenda in “mere” entertainments, you’re left with two choices. You can hatewatch the filth and boil with inexpressible anger and loathing; or you can jump past that unpleasantness directly to the “cocktails and banter” as another commenter put it. But as others of our ilk have noted, being on this side of the Great Divide is often a lonely place; so what that means for me is a bottle of cheap bourbon to rinse the bitterness from my soul. Yes, treasure the moments of genuine joy. But they now seem so fleeting and rare that the truly necessary precursor is hope. Yet from my vantage point, there never seems to be enough folks who will actually say “Enough” and back that up with their money, their choices, or a swift kick in the ass./lament

Another good show Z. I concur with much of what you have said in this weeks episode and I don’t have all that much to add tbh. I will say that, when I look at old movies, especially movies from the 40s and 50s, that portray city life back then I get at first nostalgic and sad but then rage starts building and I end up having to turn it off. When I see these films I lose track of the plot and I just look at how much BETTER everything seemed to be then. Feels bad man.

“You notice the little bits of subversion in them that has led to where we are now. You cannot enjoy them as you once did because you see what you did not see the first time.”Interesting point. I watch old movies, but usually not for (predictive) signs of future societal degradation, but for validation/proof of the way things were. You can also describe this as an old man longing for times long past as well. I freely admit to this tendency also.For example, I often refer to old pre-60’s movies and crowd shots when describing just how *fat* a society we’ve become. I also note things in movies with scenes of airports and passengers in the people’s manner of dress. One step down from church attendance attire. Today we hear of female passengers (Southwest Airlines used to hold the line here) who dress so imprudently that when sitting down, their crotch shows and the women must have towels put on their laps. Whores are more modest.Of course, the “essential Negro(s)” of any modern program cast need not be compared to the movies of 70 years ago. The ridiculousness of the casting is obvious to anyone who can critical think. There are programs now that cast the *majority* of authoritarian roles with Blacks—even when the lead roles are played by White actors! For example, there are a couple of shows on Netflix that star White actors as lawyers, but every encounter with the courts, or police have Black actors playing detective, judge, SEC or opposition lawyer—all showing extensive skill and knowledge, without a trace of accent or mannerism we’ve come to associate with being Black in America.As has been noted, a “space alien”, or any non-American, would think that the USA is majority Black, and of course, that Blacks play a essential, constructive role in this country’s society. Sigh.

At some point it just hits you – everything (from man) is a lie.

Good show Z, in my life seeing how the world really works changed everything, the first step was a bit of anger at the subversion and just how long the subversion has been ran on us, then it’s thinking I must wake others up to our situation, which is true, but the danger is being consumed by just how far gone our culture is now and it can make me look more negative to outsiders than maybe I really am.Getting together with other dissidents encourages me but I have kinda of come to the conclusion that in most circumstances it’s going to be a lonely endeavor the rest of my life and I must prepare myself for it, the way I am going to prepare myself is pulling back from the current culture and it’s world when the opportunity arises and as you said find some joy in the little things of life.

A classic example of the dissident culture of critique, as it were, is my viewing of The Magnificent Seven (1960). Early in the film the nasty old racists of some western town refuse to allow “Injun Joe” to be buried in the town cemetery with white folk. Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen then intervene on the side of goodness and light. They say hookers and killers are buried in that cemetery, so why not an Injun, whereup they procede to integrate the cemetery on pain of possible death for anybody who attempts to stop them. As they are transferring Injun Joe to the boneyard, the viewer hears somebody bawl out, “Injun lover!” Very subtle, huh?Here is an early instant of the pathologization of freedom of association. I see no reason whatsover whites–or negroes, or Indians–shouldn’t be free to have their own cemeteries if that’s what they want. But the Hollywood Finkels, very early on, thought otherwise, and used their considerable cultural power to stigmatize the entirely normal desire to live, socialize, die and rest in peace among one’s own.Great movie, The Magnificent Seven, but this single odious scene taints the rest of the film for me.

“They aren’t going to trick me anymore.”Exactly. This is the essence of what animates most of us.I’ve never been a fan of Westerns although those with moral ambiguity sometimes were an exception and made for great art. Most came from a radical leftist perspective because of who made the films. The Peckinpah gorefests are an excellent example. Looking back at those, they were not explicitly anti-white but quite critical of American culture, extremely well done and a master’s lesson in subversion. THE WILD BUNCH is the best example. The very rare ones that were not leftist actually were the most subversive of all. It took a foreigner, Sergio Leone, to take hammer and tongs to the American Civil War and reveal it as needlessly violent horror with THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. The vast majority of previous films romanticized the war, usually from a Union standpoint, as the triumph of morality, ridiculous on its face for anyone who knew even a bit of history and who could be objective. Watching that film many years after it was released was my awakening because it was my first realization of how much propaganda there was in popular culture, ironically because it was subversion that did not damn me, my people, and my culture, something exceedingly rare for anyone who came of age after the Sixties.Not being tricked is the realization we swim in a sea of lies.Not being tricked is more important than what comes next. Living with eyes wide open in this psychotic age amid transparent lies, contradictions and absurdity will inform us as to what must be done, with survival paramount. Not being tricked is the first step and the most important step, and more and more people are taking it. This may explain the frenzied and ham-handed deception, which is so ridiculous even Normie notices it now and then. It is a brutal and stupid time but one that makes self-deception more difficult.

Does anyone know who does the hiring for actors in commercials? Whomever they are, they seem to think we live in Africa. We don’t.

The old movies were not our culture any more than a Hollywood feature today is the culture of the Chinese, even though the movie may do well in China. They enjoy the movie fully understanding that it’s not China’s culture. The movies are foreign entertainment no matter where they are produced. They are no more our culture than the endless holocaust films and books. If we made a movie about God, it wouldn’t be with a Jew or a black playing God. There are some books and movies that are ours, but most are not.

For all the pain and distress caused by losing one’s cultural touchstones from the past and present, it helps to see the silver lining in all of this: such things no longer have the power to maze our thinking. What was lost was not worthy in the first place and it frees us to pursue better. One element markedly missing from modern lives is positive group athletics (especially for men) and social clubs (both men and women). The modern workday habituates all of us to ever more sedentary and force-fed recreation. Let us do what we do best: be creators of new forms of conviviality and fellowship unblemished by the Agenda.

” If you are not careful, you cut yourself off from your fellow citizens with regards to the popular culture….”During the fake pandemic I started removing from my little world the stupid people, also known as POS, because I also ended up noticing lots of other things about their character I had a low opinion of. I have found that my personal happiness and tranquility have jumped several levels since then.I’ve pretty much accomplished my disassociation, including the Russia ! Russia! fucktards in my own family. I don’t miss them at all. They always were stupid assholes.Before the collapse of the American Empire is complete, you will consider any Democrat, neoconservative, and uni-party apparatchik to be on the level of septic tank sludge, and will immediately notice improvement in your own sanity once you disassociate from them. All of them. Some day there will be none in your life, especially after they decide that we’re all “traitors” and that they need to eliminate us for “our own good.”Those days are coming, and i don’t think it will take much longer.

Z – have you seen thunderbolt and lightfoot. I think it’s a good movie for people who think westerns are square. You could call it a “modern western”

I just had a conversation with my lady about this. I am not watching TV anymore, and I won’t go to the movies. In July she asked me if I wanted to go to a play – Cathedral of Notre Dame. I told I would think about it. I immediately went to ensure the cast of this play set in 15th century France had only whites – maybe a legitimate Romano/Gypsy. Of course, there was one. As we hadn’t gone out to see culture in quite a while I decided what could be the harm. The night we attended happened to be night four of the anti-white, anti-French race riots of this summer.We got to the Koch Center and it was like an airport. Of course, the place is funded and attended by those who have been the most ardent backers of TGR. There were security guards, gun/bomb/metal detectors and pat downs to get in. It was astounding that these people have no compunction, not the slightest twinge of unease, with living this way. It is as if it makes them feel special that they can go somewhere where security is at their behest. It is absolutely alien.Inside I read the program and had instant regrets. In 15th century France the gypsy, criminal vagabonds were described as, “undocumented immigrants.” Many liberties were taken with the text. In the second act the negroid cast as a Gypsy literally pronounced that his war against the evil priests, church and France herself was a race war. The third act was the climax. There was the police crackdown where their tenements and crime centers were destroyed and the criminals and vagabonds were arrested. I was tempted to stand up and loudly clap and cheer. I composed myself. The very next tune was the climax. The vagabonds led by the negroid declared that someday they would return in the millions and claim the land for their own. The rousing climax was a tortuous near minute of cries for, “Amnesty! Amnesty! Amnesty!”I stayed in my seat while the mostly foreign, (looked like a lot of East Asian tourists), clapped and the people for whom the center is built and run stood and whistled and clapped overjoyed.I am not going to any other plays. First there is the economic support. I won’t pay for the propaganda that enables the subjugation, ethnic cleansing and ultimately genocide of my people in our homelands. The next is avoiding the rage these things rouse. The point of enjoying entertainment is to be entertained. The point of enjoying low-brow art like a musical is to be entertained and impressed by an excellent performance or two and some good production before a nice evening of cocktails and banter. The point of enjoying a concert or museum that features high art, is to be placed in awe, looking upward to the higher in a state of transcendence.This agit prop doesn’t do that. I’ll only go to something now that is a high art form where the performer is one of our people, and I won’t look at the program. I seek out smaller productions and series over the corporate funded ones. It is even impossible to shop. I was in an Old Navy in a near 100% white town recently and you would have thought I was in Eritrea or Somalia by the brutal physiognomy of the photos save for the red haired young woman surrounded by gap toothed Somalis.Well, I have riled up my angst. Of course, nothing makes me angrier than white people submitting to New Age unconditional love rites and lifestyle in the face of this onslaught.As for my lady and I, I have set my boundary. No more TV, movies … We are playing cards, having more conversations, and as an accomplished musician I play for her more often. Our quality of life is going up. I think more of our people should support our kind who are making music, film … … We have many talented people out there, and being on the margins is conducive to a freedom to experiment and express that real talents can thrive in. Even just simple self entertainment is very empowering and even without the agit-prop, way more transcendent than passive watching/listening. We can take this as a way to constantly be agitated and in a rage, or use it to better ourselves and support some of our folk who might otherwise be ignored. As censored as the Internet is, you can find and enjoy anything made by anyone, and they can’t stop that.A jewel I recently found and who I have been enjoying in the presence of my nieces and nephews is:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IImakFsEHL8&t=563s

There is great utility in many old movies, even old movies that carry The Message. Most of those movies, even ones written by blacklisted writers under pseudonyms who were out for blood, feature mostly white casts. The actors—even the ones delivering their strident moral sermons—are not fat or slovenly and are dressed like adults. They’re not being lewd sexually and they are observing gender norms (i.e. reality.) It allows people to see that we once had more dignity, and understood there was such a thing as reality and society and moral obligation. Sometimes, when watching these movies with normies, I’ll feign a normie’s ignorance and just say, offhand, “Man, San Francisco used to be really white.” I can get away with that, because if someone checks me, I can shrug and say, “Hideously white.” Even with that antiwhite subterfuge/taqiyya dissembling on my part, there is liable to be someone in the room who thinks, “Yeah, it was too white…But it was so beautiful, and there were no junkies on the streets. Maybe it was better?” They’ll keep the thought to themselves, but I’ll have planted the seed.I’m convinced that’s actually what white “liberals” get out of shows like “Madmen.” The women can pretend they’re watching it with an ironic sense of detachment, glad to have been liberated by feminism, but man…the men at least seemed like men back then. White guys are at least seeing white men doing something besides being demeaned by their wives and daughters (and matronly black women) in commercials for using the wrong stain remover or pain reliever.Go to “PeriscopeFilm” on YouTube. Watch his old home movie footage of various American cities. Most of the comments are from normies saying it used to be beautiful when they were kids and has been ruined (“it” being Detroit, San Francisco, wherever.) They won’t tell you how or why it was ruined, but they at least know, and are admitting as much. Who knows how much they secretly know, how much they’re hiding even from themselves out of fear of having their Crimethink become public knowledge?We’re daywalkers and open confrontation is suicide. It also does no good to come off as a grouch or a paranoid, as Z points out. I gave up on the “Reel Bad Whites” series of articles over at The Occidental Observer because I didn’t want to read a five-thousand word scholarly essay about how Jackie Mason in “Caddy Shack Two” represents the ascendant arriviste Jews pushing aside the old WASP country club set. Maybe he does, but I’m not watching “Caddy Shack Two” to confirm that.

I first took notice of the “Smart Black/Stupid White” commercials back in the late 1990’s. I’d probably been watching them for years but never noticed the message. Once I did, I found dozens, if not hundreds of them over time. I never once saw a reversal of these smart/stupid roles. The media brainwashing to make whites hate themselves and be ashamed of their ancestors used to be more subtle. Now it’s “in your face” and they don’t even care if some of us notice it and call them out on it. That’s because they’ve won and they know it.

“If you are not careful, you cut yourself off from your fellow citizens with regards to the popular culture….”Ehhh? You’re saying that is a BAD thing, Z?The sad truth is that most of the stuff out of Hollywood is crap, and almost always has been.This lecture should be a cautionary tale to the dissident; politics is a game of incrementalism. I was getting banned off the old message boards and forums in the late 90s for saying that if Lefty let the queers out of the closet, in twenty years the pedos and other stripes of sexual perverts would be out too… and I was shouted down or censored. Our leaders got us here thinking that if a small dose of something is good, a bid dose is better.I am now predicting racial genocides, or major race based atrocities right here in the US and Canada within the next 20 years. I see faggots flying off the rooftops, pedos going into the woodchipper, and liberal commies thrown from helicopters. Times will get interesting soon – in fact, they already are.

I heard somewhere the happiest people are those who expect the least. The plague years were probably the most disillusioning of my life, but I’m happier on the other end. Probably lowered expectations, but also I feel free to speak my mind.

I too have lost most interest in tv sports. Golf is the exception maybe because it’s an individual game and the politics and other nonsense is less obvious. (I find LIV Golf fun to watch) I can peek at college football in very small doses. I find all the pro leagues just unwatchable now. Politics is part of it. Following my son’s sports journey through school is part of it too. Nothing better than watching small town high school football games – the purest form of the sport with none of things I’ve come to hate about tv sports.

“…it does bring the risk of turning the dissident into someone incapable of feeling joy. You cannot watch a movie or television show without getting angry about the subversion.” Well, one way to deal with this tis to watch old Clint Eastwood movies like “Dirty Harry.” Another way is to feel joy by detaching from society — hunting, fishing, hiking, riding motorcycles.

When streaming became a thing, my old man would binge watch TV series that he only had a cursory interest. We’re talking 5-6 seasons, which probably adds up to 30+ hours of T.V. watching just to have something to talk about at work. I was perplexed with this at the time and still am, but this was an aspect of culture twenty years ago that is forgotten. People used to have common cultural experience where there were only a few TV stations and people watched more or less the same stuff.It’s not like that anymore, and I would argue the reason you see the over-he-ttop diversity is to try to instill the same dynamic of everyone watching basically the same thing, even if there are a thousand shows. You could swap the actors and use chatGPT to write the script and have twenty “new” shows that are all the same thing. It’s essentially what we have now.

In terms of media subversion if you arent watching Devon “Black Pilled” Stack on Odyssey, what are you even doing? He’s pretty much the essential right wing media commentator.

Travel. I occasionally fly from Asheville or Greenville airport to Newark and back. The little airports in the Carolinas are almost completely staffed by friendly white people (except the TSA bottleneck). They are just pleasant – so is the Allentown airport in PA if I can find a flight there. Newark has new buildings, but it feels like trying to navigate a third-world bizarre. Everything is an expensive hassle.

Go back and watch Star Wars (1977) and notice there is zero attempt at “representation”. Just white people saving the galaxy.My wife has finally picked up on the fact that I won’t watch the gays on HGTV. She’ll stream a program, I’ll listen to the guy talking or see the haircut and tell her, “lemme, guess, more gays?” And I just leave and she turns it off. Everything is gay, I joke, and I’m just not going to watch it. Don’t care.Baseball has been hard for me to give up. Last year the World Series featured two teams with no black starters for the first time in decades. TBH, I enjoyed how upset the media was.

This week is one of those shows where I just turn on the mic and talk for an hour off the top of my head without knowing where I am going with it.So, just like every other week, then?Seriously, I’ve never listened to one of these “Power Hours” that ever seemed like it had a conclusion. It’s always all introduction; it’s all exposition. The Z Man grabs onto a subject, shakes it and chews through it in a terrier-like manner, and then, after leaving a bunch of slobbery rawhide crumbs all over the carpet, departs with his customary, “Well, that’s enough of me gassing on…”The reason this is a big deal is because you sometimes have to take into account someone’s personal style in weighing the accuracy of their reports. With Z, there is an exacting and excessive literalism in certain areas combined with its opposite—nebulous nonknowledge and precipitate conclusions—in others. Correspondingly, “Motte and Bailey” is his signature rhetorical approach. The staggered retreat from nebulosity to legalism is his method of waging war. It ought to be renamed “The Z-Maneuver.”I also note with some “wry detachment” that Sailer seems to be having some minor meltdowns in his most recent threads. I can only hope that the accumulated weight of three years of abject failure to come to grips with the true dynamics of society—and having this pointed out to him by unenthralled commenters—is finally getting to him.

I’ve been a dissident most of my life. What jaded me, and can be evidenced from the Ronald comment in the OP and general depressive OPs like this one, is that though the dissident right has come around, by chance, to some of my opinions, they still fall into only a few narrow categories…For this place, the relevant category is ex-griller who secretly pines for the Return of the Ribeye. This includes Z, unfortunately. We can seize our destiny at the future buffet line once again! We can get the condiments right this time if we’re in charge! Don’t worry!Oh sweetie. You have no idea what’s happening.Anywho, that’s a little irritating for me. However, for yall here and myself, there is a point to this comment…I say this as a regular dude…Don’t be afraid to fire up the grill this weekend. Go fishing. Drink a beer standing in your garage with the door open overlooking your modest world as it hums by.Fuck, I saw the ruling uniparty for what it was in the 90s and knew voting was probably a waste of time. Glad to see someone caught up.Life is short tho. Let’s enjoy each other’s company now and again. There ain’t a fucking thing wrong with raising our glasses to each other today. There ain’t shit wrong in enjoying the moment either.So enjoy it.tl;dr yall grillers, just grill a moment. Feels good. We here. Also, Michael Anton’s articles were solid reads, even if Z don’t like them.