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Very good article. I think that two points in particular should receive particular focus:

1. The importance of the human element. People have behaved in recent decades as though all humans were interchangeable and as long as you have the right system/ideology you will secure a good outcome. This isn't true at all. Capitalist apologists on the moderate right like to point to the failures of Soviet Communism, but let's not forget that because of the quality of the Russian people, they managed to get a man into space even under the enormous disadvantage of Communism. An African country, labouring under the same system, would never have achieved this, because the human material simply isn't good enough. So the system is important, but you can't get anything good out of any system unless the human beings working within it are of high quality, because they won't be equal to the tasks set for them.

2. The importance of the focus on education. Our opponents dominate all of the major educational institutions in Western countries. We need our own educational theory, resources and institutions to counter this, otherwise we will be leaving the shaping of the minds of our kinsmen to people who can only harm them. If you don't indoctrinate your children, someone else will, and they likely won't have your children's interests at heart. For some idea of what a radical right educational theory would look like, we should turn to figures like Ernst Krieck and Alfred Baeumler, who were both accomplished as educators and as theorists. Their holistic theory of education is very useful, and I will make more of their works on the subject available as time goes on. As far practical means of education, we should focus on publishers, online academies, and homeschooling curricula for now, and we can later develop something more comprehensive.

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"The first stage of the life of a great nation … is a period of amazing initiative, and almost incredible enterprise, courage, and hardihood. These qualities … produce a new and formidable nation. These early victories, however, are won chiefly by reckless bravery and daring initiative." —Glubb, The Fate of Empires.

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Btw one sci-fi author who did get the future seemingly right was Joe Haldeman with his 'Forever War'. Written in the 70s, I vaguely recall it features a dystopian future quite similar to ours, which include things like a completely disintegrating/decadent society of violent crime and multiculturalism but identity politics and LGBT pushed to such a degree that it becomes 'illegal' to be 'straight' and in fact everyone in society has to by law be 'gay'. There's a lot of things like that

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Excellent points: as far as the first is concerned, this is why I despair of the situation in the West ever really improving. The mass importation of the Third World into western nations, and the mixing of highly incompatible cultures and peoples, has been a historical disaster of the worst kind. How can a civilization plan for a future among the stars when it’s constantly dragged to earth by the indolence, criminality, and demands for reparations and cultural affirmation of the masses of low human quality that are swarming in ever greater numbers?

The second point is one I am very interested in. Of course the educational institutions in Western countries ought to be burned to the ground; I see no way of salvaging them. I think their model is outdated anyhow, and that a new paradigm should be established. I agree with your method—for now, publishers and homeschooling curricula are a good beginning. I look forward to reading further translations of the men you mentioned—it’s fascinating, but not surprising, that previous generations have had to wrestle with these same problems. It just seems so daunting to have to unlearn all the propaganda and miseducation that we’ve been inculcated with over the last several decades…but I think the dissident Right is making a very good start of it.

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