The Fix: Series of Posts – Part I
The below post by Riding the Tiger is truly quite an introduction to the very concept of HOW to begin to escape Clown World for good. Not by simply moving country/town, and in effect retreat (though a strategic retreat in order to regroup is certainly a very valid strategy and one that could be argued I chose myself). It is a worthwhile read, however it merely describes the problem, it doesn’t offer solutions. Nevertheless, it is very much a needed piece, and even if you do not read it in full (I recommend you do) I try to parse it in a simple but very clear way for my readers here, because before you can FIX a problem, you need to understand what the nature of it is.
There is an underlying theme through the post that identifies the nature of different types of men, and any observer of life will have concluded very similar things. Vox Day’s Social Sexual Hierarchy has come to somewhat dominate the discourse regarding various types of men, from Gammas (the ever secret kings) to Sigmas, the now culturally ubiquitous “cool dudes”. But as the post above demonstrates very well, Aristotle had concluded a certain core aspect of men already more some 25 centuries ago, and I had myself developed my own hierarchy of men (Alphas, Betas and Scouts) long before I encountered Vox’s ideas or indeed had read any Aristotle. Each model is slightly different, but perhaps Aristotle’s is still the best in a way, and it could be said it embodies the true epitome of at least three archetypes, the Sigma/Alpha types, the Beta/Delta/Good Slave types and the Gamma/Nasty Slave types.
From the post above, we can see what I would call the essence of the Sigma/Scout:
The just man therefore possesses an ordered hierarchy within himself. Reason governs, while spirit lends force to its command and brings the lower elements of his nature beneath its discipline. Plato accordingly describes him as having become “one rather than many”: his conduct proceeds from an inward principle of rule. The unjust man, however great his outward power, remains inwardly divided, a house at war with itself and subject to forces he cannot master. He may possess Machiavellian cunning, even genuine intelligence, yet he lacks sovereignty over himself. His reason has become the servant of appetite, furnishing arguments for desires he lacks the strength to restrain.
Aristotle gives the Platonic account of inner order a harder anthropological form. What Plato describes as a hierarchy among the powers of the soul appears in Aristotle as a distinction between kinds of men. The capacity of reason to govern is no longer treated merely as an achievement of psychic order, but as a natural faculty distributed unequally among men. Some possess the principle of command as their own and are capable of directing themselves and others toward an end they have rationally conceived. Others participate in reason only through their recognition of it in another. They encounter command as an authority imposed from without because its governing principle does not reside fully within them.
The difference is nature (core, immutable mostly) and nurture (training, discipline that can overlay, but not overcome nature for the most part).
Aristotle therefore cannot accept legal status as proof of natural rank.
Because it doesn’t! And never has. My upbringing was eclectic enough that at a very early age I observed that the inner nobility of a man most often had little or nothing to do with his social status as perceived by the supposed trappings of success that society implies a man has. Cowardly people in positions of power, brave men in abject poverty, it was rare enough to meet a very wealthy man that had genuine courage that I took notice of it.
Victory in war may give one man possession of another, but conquest cannot establish that the victor is by nature fitted to rule or that the defeated man was born to obey. An unjust war may place a free soul in chains.
Indeed.
The free man is ordered from within. His governing power remains firm when appetite or fear presses against it. Reason does not bargain with passion or become its advocate; it gives measure to the whole man and subjects his competing impulses to a settled order. Such a man is not held upright by external restraint. His capacity to rule rests upon his mastery of himself, and his freedom becomes the expression of an inner sovereignty. He is a law unto himself because law already lives in his soul. Through this strength, he shapes the circumstances of his life rather than being shaped by them.
Precisely.
Now a conglomeration of such free men, or men who are masters of their own inner world, united for a common purpose can change the world. But there are three problems to overcome:
- The common purpose must be common and as total as possible for each of them at the individual level. Traditionally this has been religion mainly, honour secondly (even without religion), and courage. So the united purpose ideally allows and integrates all three. The Catholicism of the Crusaders and the Knights that defended Malta in 1565 was such a religion, such a bond of honour, and such a prioritising of courage over even wisdom (as it is correct that it should be, however valuable wisdom may be, courage sits above it in the hierarchy of virtues)
- Many who are attracted to such a community and who fancy themselves as such free men, are in fact impostors. Some consciously so, gammas aspiring to secretly becoming powerful within the confines of a powerful community; while others are impostors even to themselves, fancying themselves free men but not possessing the internal level of integration required to truly be so. Their fragmented internal lacunae making them impostors. Nietzsche himself being the classic case in point, the describer of the Übermensch, the will to power, the supreme mastery of self… dying of brainrot due to syphilis contracted because his fractured internal aspects made him repulsive to ordinary women and especially so to the one he pined after with incel rage for years.
- The conscious choice and reason to order one’s life, family, and affairs so as to become part of and co-creators of such a community somewhere in the world.
The natural slave may therefore ascend to the highest office without ceasing to be what he is.
Observant men have seen and known this throughout human existence, without ever having come across the SSH of Vox or having read Plato or Aristotle or even knowing who they were.
The vulgar error of our age, hardened into the conventional wisdom of the plebeian mass, is to mistake position for rank. It assumes that the visible order of the present world reflects the natural hierarchy of men, and that those who occupy its commanding heights must therefore possess the qualities of rule.
They do not.
Indeed.
We pass through an Age of the Wolf in which appetite has cast off measure and cunning has usurped the place of wisdom. It raises inwardly servile men to power, men who imitate the gestures of command while lacking its principle within themselves. They occupy office and direct the machinery of the modern world, yet none of this makes them free in Aristotle’s sense or in any true sense of the word. Power cannot bestow mastery upon men who remain enslaved within. Whatever titles they bear, they remain what they are: slaves.
And here is defined the nature of the gamma:
Their outward authority only enlarges the reach of their disorder. What remains confined within an ordinary man becomes, in the ruler, the fate of peoples and civilizations. The appetites he cannot govern acquire political force. His inward dependence is imposed upon the world as a demand for universal submission.
Precisely so. And the solution too is simple to see. Such free men as exist (insofar as they continue to exist), eventually, inevitably, regardless of the obstacles placed before them, will rebel. Singly, en masse, at different times, but rebel they must and will, for it is their nature and immutable as such.
Therefore, as one such man, and with very little desire to lead anything, I nevertheless have ordered my life, and my family, so as to become the core, the start, the spark, for at least one such community of men. Yet, jealous of my privacy and independence, I have tutored, helped, and also been helped in return of course, by such younger men as may have gained from my perspective, view, help, and instructions.
It is time for others of our kind to come together and form such communities. Join me or create your own where you are, but DO so.
Do it. Don’t just imagine, talk about it, pretend.
And no, of course, no man is perfect, no community is either. Nevertheless, the Crusaders held back Islam for two centuries, and 600 men saved Christendom from being overrun in its totality in 1565.
Just as 300 men of honour held off the Persians at the Hot Gates almost 500 years before Christ was born. They did so because they were united in purpose. And had courage well beyond any common wisdom. In fact, it could be said it takes a truly uncommon, perhaps even supernatural wisdom, to understand and see why and how courage is far more important than wisdom in the daily affairs of Men.
So… assuming you accept the concepts above, and are even willing to act upon them, what then?
How to fight and win against the onslaught the pedovores of Clown World unleash upon us all daily?
Returning to the past is not doable, nor practical, but, elements of it are and must be taken from it and adapted to the current conditions, and this applies to every sphere of life, of which there are principally three:
The personal . The marriage, the family relationships, the friendships and relations with your physical neighbours, which are the core of life and community.
The practical . Self-sufficiency, food, water and energy production and consumption.
The political . The governing, rules, laws, and enforcement of same in the specific geographical location you reside in.
And above and intertwined between all three of them, the system of finance, capital, money, wealth, and transfer of same for goods and services, and how it operates and who and how it is controlled, as well as why. We will cover this later in a separate post, but it is a very important issue.
The political is broadly speaking the most important but it also fluctuates and changes rapidly (for the worst, everywhere) so while it is imperative to choose a decent starting position geographically, you should not count on it remaining that way. In fact, you can count on it degrading rapidly unless you take it over yourself.
The personal is the fundamentally and specifically most important of all, and most people barely understand that concept, never mind understand how to actually achieve it. It is the singularly most targeted area of for damage by the Clown Worlders, and therefore the most difficult to attain. Most people struggle their whole life to achieve it, and few do. Therefore we must rely for broader solutions on two types of men primarily: the young ones still seeking and starting out (everyone under age 30 can fit in this category) or the older ones that have it figured out. In between will be those who hope to have done so, those still trying, and those in the fight of their lives trying to salvage some of what used to be their family. The most productive category will be the young men, the most instructive and correct to guide will be the older men (not the boomer class though, so we are looking at the genXers who are not apathetic, which is a small number within an already small generation).
I, by definition, fall into this latter category, and the young men now starting and building families, into the former one, and transforming into the middle category where a man’s focus is (rightly) on his immediate family (be it creation, maintenance, or attempts to salvage it from collapse).
There is a fourth category of man but these are usually so broken as to be mostly unable to contribute much, the survivors of catastrophic divorces or family tragedies and so on. Nevertheless, such people would benefit indirectly by becoming part of such budding new communities of free men intent on rebuilding a just society. Being in such company gives them healing, hope, and eventually also prospects for rebuilding, which ultimately every free man inevitably does. You can kill a man that is internally congruent and master instead of slave, but you will never defeat his innate ability and nature to build and push back against chaos, failure, weakness, and nihilism.
What about the practical then? In a way that is the easiest one to deal with as it will simply form part of your day to day organising of your life and will grow over time naturally and organically.
So, in practice now we can see precisely the elements required to build such a community, and they are, in order of importance:
- A metaphysical belief system that is superior to a merely materialistic, hedonist, or personal (selfish and/or ego centered [what’s in it for me, or look at how great I am as a leader]) one. This implies religion, or at minimum a sense of honour where one’s word is one’s bond even unto death, and justice is supreme in it. For the record, I have concluded that of all human systems tried in the world, none even come remotely close to what today must be identified as 1958 Sedevacantist Totalist Catholicism, but that used to he called simply Catholicism certainly in 1095 AD or 1565 AD. You can research the topic yourself, or read some of the books I wrote about it, and find exponents of it here: https://www.unamsanctam.org/home but don’t confuse it with Bob and his pedophiles currently squatting in the Vatican.
- Either a functioning, ordered family, or the absence of one to date.
- The willingness to move to a specific geographic location and build the community there, or join an existing one. Currently I am only aware of mine (which is at the very beginning of becoming something) and the much older establishment in South Africa called Orania (which glad as I am that I was wrong about it ever becoming functional, as I thought 30 years ago, I also could not, and would not want to live there. I wish them the best, but Afrikaans, their culture, and their bastardised Protestant Heretic version of “christianity” is definitely not compatible with me).
I have already written rather extensively about the practical concerns considering geography, and even the politics of a place, see for example the series of posts nested at this pinned post at the OG blog site (scroll down to the heading labelled CONCEPTS – SERIES ).
I have made an impact on the metaphysical aspect mostly with the very short book Believe! Which resulted in many conversions to proper Catholicism and some lifelong friendships, and with Reclaiming the Catholic Church which gies into the depths of real Catholicism. You can find both here or on Amazon.
And I certainly have put my money where my mouth is by buying a farm in rural Italy and doing my best to make it a self-sufficient producer of clean food and water.
It is not yet, because the time and money required to get it where I want it to be is considerable, and also because I am alone in making it happen, with a large family to cater for while I do, and other work to bring the money in, (including this blog, which is free for all but I do appreciate those who contribute a paid sub to support my efforts) but it will get there. It currently provides a modest amount of some food and some income, (roughly at only a little above break even for the expense to do it) and with people moving nearby and willing to form such a community, it will eventually thrive, because the reality I experience is that farming communities become more than the sum of the efforts of any one man.
THE QUESTION
So. Now, if YOU too are a free man, internally a master and not a slave, I have to ask you, sir, will you not build your own city state to fight the attempts at wiping men like us out that the slaves that eat children who are currently running things want for us?
Will you not join me?
Either physically by moving here and becoming part of what I am building, while retaining your own mind, your own independence, and your own or property, or by building one where you are, or where you will move to?
Will you do it?
And if you know you are not a free man but a slave, will you not also contribute?
You too can move here. You too can help. Free men are a tiny minority, and while it is true that slaves are mostly directed, their sheer numbers create vast changes. Accepting what one is in life is not giving up, it is fulfilling our role. I can no more be a slave than I can flap my arms and fly. If I tried to be one I would fail miserably and cause only untold harm to everyone near me. Similarly, some men can no more lead others than they can fly by flapping their arms.
But all men CAN be a help or a hindrance.
However, most men today, unfortunately, are neither a helpful slave nor a driven free man building for the future they wish for their children.
Most men today are slugs. NPCs that lie on the couch and binge on TV and fast food. Men who may as well be robots, devoid of the spark of life and a soul.
Whatever you do, don’t be one of them.
Subsequent posts will deal with the monetary aspects, the social aspects based on a common metaphysics of belief, and the effects of modern technology on all of it, from personal relationships to warfare and the projection of force.
In due course I will also put this series of posts at the OG blog, under the same pinned post. We’ll title this series: The Fix, so you can easily search for posts related to it.
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
