Several voices on the Right have raised the analogy of what is going on in the West and in America particularly as akin to how the European civilization in the Iberian Peninsula (current day Spain and Portugal) had to survive the Moorish conquest and then reconquer their homeland back.\u00a0 Now the fact that the Moors occupied it for almost eight hundred years (711 A.D. to 1492 A.D.) does put a bit of a damper on the party if you try to draw too strict a comparison between the two things.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think anyone would want to hear that twenty-five generations of Americans would have to endure being lectured on how many genders there are and which pronouns you are allowed to use for the man in the sundress.\u00a0 Far from it.\u00a0 I have no doubt that the insanity that is currently taking place will bring about its own correction.\u00a0 The levels of insanity on display will complete the polarization of our population into the sane and the insane.<\/p>\n
But what is true is that there will be large areas where the insane will run things.\u00a0 Look at Seattle and Portland as examples of what it looks like when the lunatics get control of the asylum.\u00a0 And those are just the most egregious examples.\u00a0 Most of the large urban centers in this country have devolved into a hostage standoff where the urban poor and their woke co-conspirators are in constant negotiation for whatever ransom they can extort against the lives and livelihood of the middle class who are trying to exist in the constantly deteriorating conditions of these cities.<\/p>\n
That will go on for a very long time.\u00a0 The good news is that you don\u2019t have to be a part of that.\u00a0 In the future you will learn to navigate around the crazy people and the places they rule.\u00a0 And that includes the companies they run.\u00a0 Sometimes that means you will avoid working for or with the truly insane.\u00a0 Maybe instead of working for Google you will find an IT department that\u2019s more interested in your skills than your politics.\u00a0 Or maybe you will decide to work in the \u201cbelly of the beast\u201d anyway despite the oppressive environment and survive by living clandestinely.\u00a0 Either way you will hone your skills as an inhabitant of the checkerboard landscape that is present day America.<\/p>\n
The first thing to do is stop denying that it exists.\u00a0 No one is going to snap his fingers and bring us back to fifty or a hundred years ago.\u00a0 The crazies and the elites have struck a bargain and the crazies were given ownership of the schools, colleges, churches, courts and the HR departments of all the major corporations.\u00a0 In exchange, the elites were allowed to offshore all their industries and import enough cheap labor to take care of whatever jobs were left.<\/p>\n
Once you acknowledge where we currently are, you can begin to adapt to your environment and then thrive in it.\u00a0 Situational awareness is very important.\u00a0 Never play to their strengths.\u00a0 Unless you have an armed bodyguard of special forces men you probably shouldn\u2019t show up at an antifa rally in Portland, Oregon and declare your political beliefs.\u00a0 If you want to start a fraternal society then make it a religious society that has protected status that can\u2019t be shanghaied by social justice warriors and turned into the next Boy Scouts.\u00a0 But be sure not to do it in a blue state.\u00a0 In those areas everything will have to be on a clandestine personal basis.\u00a0 And a personal basis is the best way to live your personal life anyway.\u00a0 Know your friends and spend your time with them.\u00a0 And it doesn\u2019t even have to be your next-door neighbors.\u00a0 You can make friends on-line and enjoy that experience too.\u00a0 A shared point of view makes a good basis for association.\u00a0 Nowadays free association only exists on a personal basis but you can make that work very well for many of the interactions you can choose to have.\u00a0 This website is a perfect example of free association.\u00a0 It\u2019s very unlikely that Leftists would want to spend much time here since they\u2019re not interested in the things I like and disagree with more or less 100% of what I believe.\u00a0 Whereas people who hold similar beliefs with me will feel as though they belong here.\u00a0 By congregating here we get to spend time with like minded individuals and also pass information back and forth.\u00a0 Some of it is trivial like a book or a movie that\u2019s interesting. \u00a0But maybe one day you hear about a job opportunity or a place to live or a politician that\u2019s helping our side.<\/p>\n
And then there are business opportunities.\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 Opportunities abound to provide cultural and entertainment choices that currently don\u2019t exist for normal people.\u00a0 A world that\u2019s growing tired of woke comedies that aren\u2019t funny and strident feminist superheroes that aren\u2019t exciting might be a good market for someone repackaging (or curating as the hipsters now say) old books and movies for young and old alike.\u00a0 Vox Day is doing that with his book and comic book publishing business.\u00a0 And several other writers are separating themselves from the hyper-liberal publishing companies and producing normal reading material.\u00a0 And with the technology changes happening in video it might even be possible for movies to be produced outside of the Hollywood studio system.\u00a0 With on-line businesses becoming so dominant a network of right-wing people might open up business niches that are currently going unfulfilled.<\/p>\n
So what have I been trying to say?\u00a0 Basically I\u2019m saying we\u2019re living in a complicated world that has some very dangerous and dysfunctional areas and people in it that will be there for the foreseeable future but that with the right strategy they can be effectively bypassed to allow you and your friends to live your lives the way you want.\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty good news.<\/p>\n
Long live the Reconquista!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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