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Mr. Kief says: "Left wing authoritarianism and - - -narcissism are highly correlated," citing Jordan Peterson citing a recent study.

The study says:

"Considering these results, we assume that some leftist political activists do not actually strive for social justice and equality but rather use political activism to endorse or exercise violence against others to satisfy their own ego-focused needs."

What does it say about "us" that the forces running the West today use such people, knowingly, willingly and gladly?

The Charlottesville protestors of 2017 were attacked by mobs of exactly these sorts of people, but the Regime and its courts has cracked down on the victims (the pro-Lee Statue protestors and Alt-Right activists), which empowers and legitimizes this kind of toxic politics.

U.S./Western 'Regime' signals have been in this direction (empowering cynical supposedly-left-wing toxic-narcissists) for years and years. When the social momentum of the Corona-Panic happened and took over society in 2020, it allowed them to do a large-scale anti-White "pogrom" with near-total impunity.

I remember well the days of the anti-White "pogrom" riots, three years ago ('well,' not fondly; the results, combined with the ongoing strength of the Corona-Cult, were terrible). I have written of how I witnessed some of the riots up close. I can still hear some of the sounds and see some of the sights of those nights. It was a surreal period, but something drew me to the scene. There are so many scenes that cannot easily be captured through photography or even video. One I will sketch here, because why not? ---

Four or so Black females were parading down a street, amidst some hundreds of people loosely marching or wandering, protesting White-police racism, the murder of George Floyd by White Racism, the genocide of Blacks by Whites by Institutional Racism (or whatever). All traffic had been stopped. In comes a hot-headed White male in his twenties, who stupidly rode a bicycle in amongst these people. He said little but did seem to be challenging them. He was alone. A one-man resistance, even if just symbolic. One of the Black females seemed to sense this young White man's spirit, then exchanged some brief words, then he replied but it was something not to the Black-female's liking, and -pow!-, she slugged him in the face -- punched, not slapped. The White-male bicyclist counter-protestor fell down, but offered no physical resistance. He was stunned. Feeling completely alone and hopeless, he said something I remember hearing at a distance but cannot now recall the exact words -- it was a pathetic version of something like this: "If you're going to kill me, get it over with."

The Blacks went off, not really laughing nor taunting, just moving on -- as if the bicycle-victim was a stray cat they had "shoo'ed" away, to be ignored. He got up and collected what little dignity he could, and left. Before he had left, though, a Woke-White-female had also sensed something of the scene and come over to yell at him to "get out of here and don't come back!" --- It was all over quickly. Within a stone's throw of the site of this little attack, there were many Woke-Whites as well; but only a few people had seen the incident, as things were going on everywhere. I saw it because I happened to be well placed to do so.

The victim was fine, alas, and left the scene before I had any chance to say anything to him, if he'd needed real help I'd have given it. It was best for him to make a dignified exit and he did.

There is symbolism in that little scene. Similar incidents were going on by the millions in mid-2020, followed by institutions all using their power and influence to do the same.

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More notes of (more-than-)historical interest on F. Roger Devlin ---

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(1.) see what may be Steve Sailer's earliest reference to this man, in a blog entry published at the old isteve.com, circa late May 2004:

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Victor Davis Hanson, Classicist vs. Victor Davis Hanson, Polemicist

(by Steve Sailer)

Speaking of the Ancient Greeks, the article "The Case of Victor Davis Hanson: Farmer, Scholar, Warmonger" by F. Devlin Roger in the Occidental Quarterly is terrific.

The first half consists of an appreciation of Hanson's profound contribution to understanding the crucial question: Why the Greeks? What happened during the Greek dark ages (roughly 1100 to 800 BC) that transformed the fairly conventional culture that produced Achilles to the unique culture that produced Homer and a host of great men in his wake? (...)

https://web.archive.org/web/20040602184421/http://www.isteve.com:80/Web_Exclusives_Archive-May2004.htm

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(2.) See Steve Sailer's 2010 blog discussion of a Weekly Standard magazine article that profiled Devlin and his theories on the marriage-relationship-sexual marketplace in the West that had evolved by the 1990s and 2000s (which I mentioned earlier)

https://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/02/weekly-standards-cover-story-new-dating.html

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(quote from Weekly Standard, Feb. 2010) "(...) F. Roger Devlin...Trained as a political philosopher—he has a doctorate from Tulane—Devlin holds no academic post, and his oeuvre, besides a published version of his doctoral thesis on Alexandre Kojève, consists of a series of essays and reviews concerning relations between the sexes for the Occidental Quarterly, a paleoconservative publication whose other contributors tend to focus obsessively on the question of which ethnic groups belong to which race.

“The sexual revolution in America was an attempt by women to realize their own [hypergamous] utopia, not that of men,” Devlin wrote. Beta men become superfluous until the newly liberated women start double-clutching after years in the serial harems of alphas who won’t “commit,” lower their standards, and “settle.” During this process, monogamy as a stable and civilization-maintaining social institution is shattered. “Monogamy is a form of sexual optimization,” Devlin told me. “It allows as many people who want to get married to do so. Under monogamy, 90 percent of men find a mate at least once in their life.” This isn’t necessarily so anymore in today’s chaotic combination of polygamy for lucky alphas, hypergamy in varying degrees for females depending on their sex appeal, and, at least in theory, large numbers of betas left without mates at all—just as it is in baboon packs. The aim of Mystery-style game is to give those betas better odds." (end quote from Weekly Standard)

(begin quote from Steve Sailer) By the way, Devlin recently reviewed at VDARE.com Tatu Vanhanen's The Limits of Democratization: Climate, Intelligence, and Resource Distribution. (end quote from Steve Sailer, end of blog entry.)

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Steve Sailer blogged about Roger Devlin about four other times in the 2010s according to the archives.

Devlin, meanwhile, became a semi-regular feature of VDare beginning in early 2009, although between mid-May 2012 and mid-November 2017 he published only four specifically VDare articles. (see https://vdare.com/writers/f-roger-devlin?page=3).
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-Sailer vs. Devlin divergence -

I don't know how old Devlin is, but maybe he is roughly the same age as Steve Sailer himself. These two men were in much the same milieu in the 2000s, and into the 2010s; but by the late 2010s and especially early 2020s, they have diverged.

We see Devlin embracing ethnonationalism (whereas he avoided it before), whereas Steve Sailer now engages in what seems to be hobbyism, with less of the kind of sharp and fearless commentary he made back when he (Sailer) was gathering fans and loyal readers in earlier years.

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Re: No. 2 to Mr. Hail's Tik-Tok/Narcissim remark - -
Left wing authoritarianism and - - -narcissim are highly correlated - new study finds, thatJB Peterson tweeted out - haven't read yet though

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1662273373555118080?s=20

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Mr. Hail - - - now comes a detail ---
I want to elaborate on your : Tik-Tok-Self-Centeredness (Our Über(=Latin super)-Me-Decade) Cocaine-reference - : - - Peru is now making Cocaine with the word HITLER imprinted on the full length of the 5-Kilo Chunks. The flip-side of the Cocaine-chunks shows a Swastika.
End of the story: Custom officials who detected it found out it's supposed destination - - - Bruxelles/Brussels - where the EU and its huge beauraucracy is located - - - .
Btw. - - since you also mentioned Hegel: He did use Marihuana at times. Schelling (and quite some other romantics) - - Opium.

https://www.morgenpost.de/vermischtes/article238510573/nazi-drogen-kokain-hitler-fund-peru-hakenkreuz.html

PS: I also don't trust the truth of the charges as Fox News reported, Dieter. They may be officially "conservative", but they're still part of the Regime media, IMO. Yeah, "democracy as we want to call... our Regime", as Alarmist puts it, though slightly differently.

Mr. Blanc, it's important for normie Conservatives to realize that those rights don't mean much. They need to make their plans accordingly.

Mr. Hail, you have a very good memory. The post, from almost 2 years ago, is:

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1952

"Site note and excellent VDare article'

I called Roger Devlin "based" in that post - he was criticizing Charles Murray in a book review for not wanting White people to get tribal. The post I referred to is:

https://vdare.com/articles/charles-murray-s-facing-reality-ruling-class-must-accept-race-differences-or-provoke-the-disaster-of-white-identity-politics

Charles Murray's FACING REALITY: Ruling Class Must Accept Race Differences—Or Provoke The "Disaster" Of White Identity Politics

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-- Thoughts on Dr. Devlin and his place in early-21st-century Western --

Do you remember when you first heard of F. Roger Devlin?

You may have mentioned this somewhere in the Peak Stupidity archives back a few years; if so, a link would also be of use.

I remember him from the late 2000s as a writer, associate with the Occidental Quarterly (and Occidental Observer), and he was then primarily a kind of early Men's Rights Activist talking about divorce culture and the problems of male-female relationship stability and quality in the West by the 1980s-1990s-2000s era.

He was a popular writer from the start, at least in the relatively small circle of Occidental Quarterly-type readers---which means long-form intellectual analyses and political essays.

He also wrote something I remember reading that was like a more-serious approach to the End of History idea, which is virtually always brought up, attributed to Francis Fukuyama in the early 1990s, and always mocked. Dr Devlin wrote a long article about the real philosophical origins of the End of History ideas back to Alexander Kojeve and even Hegel, I think. It is exactly the kind of material that would cause a Tik-Tok watcher to be shocked at its boringness for dealing entirely with ideas and not snorting lines of outrage-info-hits. The Tik-Tok'er would swipe onto something else, be it a cool hot-take by someone like Richard Hanania or any number of people, including cheap info-thugs like Alex Jones or A. Anglin. (The former, Jones, would likely bring up the End of History book only to allege it was a globalist conspiracy to kill billions, and/or was published by satanists, and/or that the money for publication funded by child-sacrifice rituals; and that he has the documents that suggest this is all true, believe him).

The latest output from Dr. Devlin makes it seem he is willing to embrace White-racialism more openly than had been the case in the 2000s, at which time he hung around racialist circles but kept an academic distance. This is my impression.

PS There’s little to be gained by lamenting the disappearance of the 1787 Constitution. Those Who Rule Us do what they want, when and as they want, with little regard to anything but what they want. The Constitution isn’t going to stop them. Their behavior is, ultimately, self-destructive. Those of us who are around when that destruction occurs will have an opportunity to see what can be reconstructed of Western civilization in North America. The Constitution will have little to do with whatever they are able to accomplish.

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Dieter, whenever you hear one of our elites, US and EU alike, talking about protecting or defending “our democracy,” it means prexcisely that; they wish to protect the “Democracy” that has ensconced them as our overlords and masters.

Democracy for the rest of us is the freedom to work, sacrifice well more than half of the fruits of our labours (far more than was demanded of Medieval Serfs) to support the parasite elite class and their hired hand enforcers in the military, police, and bureaucracy.

“15 Minute Cities” is just a catchy way of saying the intent is to once again binsd us to the land and force us to work for its owners. Serfdom.

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Amit P. Mehta's praise of the law-enforcement has a wording that rises my suspicion, I'd have to admit: He thanked for the defense of "democracy as we know it." - Uh -huu. Aha - ok. - That's what's up: The defended his democrycy? Nightingale I hear your claws - torturing the ground - -