Category: culture, Page 106
Fitzgerald, Hemingway and American Existentialism
Occidental Dissent - Nov 1st 2020 6:32pm ESTIn the 1920s, the old Victorian values broke down and Modern values emerged in art, music, film and literature even as American mainstream politics under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover reverted to the conservatism of a bygone age. The alienation of young Losters from the mainstream of American culture and politics led them to begin to […]
Moral Collapse In The 1920s
Occidental Dissent - Oct 31st 2020 1:30pm EDTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. A few years ago, I decided that I wanted to write a book about the collapse of morality. I wanted to dig into the subject and trace the intellectual roots of the moral catastrophe that occurred at some point in the 20th century. How did morality become […]
The Real Babbitt
Occidental Dissent - Oct 30th 2020 11:19am EDTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. In studying the Victorian-to-Modern transition, I have come across this remark about the Victorian “custodians of culture” several times. The following excerpt comes from Roderick Nash’s book The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930: “As self-appointed custodians of ideals and fundamental moral principles, pre-1910 American intellectuals believed it […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 545 | The Great Retcon
Jared Howe - Oct 30th 2020 6:41am EDTIf it looks like an Antifa, talks like an Antifa, smells like an Antifa, and behaves like an Antifa, chances are that it’s probably an Antifa. That’s the rule of thumb I would personally apply to the so-called “Boogaloo movement” — an Antifa-adjacent phenomenon comprised of mentally ill leftists who stand behind Antifa, BLM, and […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 544 | Only Getting Worse
Jared Howe - Oct 29th 2020 6:38am EDTThe walls are closing in on the Biden Crime Family and its various apologists and enablers. With less than a week to go before the election, Joe and Hunter Biden have become the subject of multiple bombshell scandals stemming from the latter’s laptop, including foreign conclusion and sexual impropriety — some of which may be […]
Filter’s Murica
Occidental Dissent - Oct 28th 2020 7:06pm EDTA few months ago, I predicted on Twitter that America’s thin popular culture would become completely polarized and would break up: social media, big brands, spectator sports, movies, music, etc. Alt Press: “Who are you aiming at in the near-last sequence of the video? RICHARD PATRICK: The character in the video is a Trump-supporting, gun-loving, unmedicated, […]
The Myth of the 1920s
Occidental Dissent - Oct 28th 2020 12:54pm EDTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. This can be highly confusing. It makes perfect sense to me though. The memory that we have of the 1920s is the memory of the American elite. In nearly everything that I have written about the subject, the South has been invisible. The “Roaring Twenties” never existed […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 543 | Taking Money from ChiComms
Jared Howe - Oct 28th 2020 6:29am EDTIf there’s one thing we’ve learned from the Biden Crime Family scandal, it’s that Chinese foreign relations work in pretty much the same way as Israeli foreign relations: When they aren’t buying someone off, they’re blackmailing them with evidence of sexual misconduct. North Carolina governor Roy Cooper is perhaps the most recent example of an […]
Christianity and Youth Rebellion In The 1920s
Occidental Dissent - Oct 27th 2020 12:11pm EDTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. We’re continuing to explore the Victorian-to-Modern transition in America which as we have seen began in the 1910s and accelerated in the 1920s. In previous articles, I have explained at length how at the end of Victorian era there was a consensus in America on national identity, […]
The Damned and the Beautiful
Occidental Dissent - Oct 26th 2020 2:04pm EDTAs I have argued for several months now, Modernism arrived in the United States in the 1910s and went mainstream after World War I in the 1920s when young Losters rebelled against the Victorian values of their parents. The Losters were the first Modern generation. The following excerpt comes from the chapter “The Children of […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 542 | The Eurasian Sandwich
Jared Howe - Oct 26th 2020 5:54am EDTPeople don’t think factional globalist conflict be like it is, but it do. Many people believe that globalists exist on a unified front (since a unified political front is, after all, the entire goal of globalism). This isn’t the case, though. To borrow language from crypto-Bolshevik and all around charlatan Aleksandr Dugin, there’s a geopolitical […]
American Crucible
Occidental Dissent - Oct 24th 2020 1:51pm EDTThis is going to be an interesting book. It is a history of the clash between racial nationalism and civic nationalism in 20th century America. I’ve really enjoyed tuning out of current events and politics to focus on history and culture. I don’t think that I missed out on anything by not paying as much […]
The Adversary Culture
Occidental Dissent - Oct 23rd 2020 8:16pm EDTHow are you spending your evening? I’m grilling and chilling … and sharing some highlights of my research. The following excerpt comes from Eric P. Kaufmann’s book Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities: “Enlightenment individualism, which consisted largely of the rational, cognitive individualism of Descartes and Locke, gave way in the nineteenth […]
Cultural Reunification
Occidental Dissent - Oct 23rd 2020 4:56pm EDTIn the Victorian era, America had been in the cultural orbit of Britain. In the Modern era, America became much more influenced by continental Europe and vice versa. From the United States, jazz, rock, rap, eugenics, the American bathroom, Hollywood movies, Fordism and Nordicism were exported to Western Europe. From Western Europe, anarchism, communism, socialism […]
Explaining America’s Cultural Degeneration
Occidental Dissent - Oct 23rd 2020 12:26pm EDT
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 541 | Risking Life and Limb
Jared Howe - Oct 23rd 2020 9:03am EDTMedia outlets and Democrats are finding out the hard way that it’s kind of difficult to make the Hunter Biden story go away. Debate moderators might be able to keep Trump from asking Joe Biden about it, but that doesn’t stop Hunter’s former business partners from coming forward, albeit at great risk to themselves. Tony […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 540 | Trump Versus the Establishment
Jared Howe - Oct 22nd 2020 9:22am EDTWhen every corrupt power center in the country is aligned against a single man, you know he’s doing something right. That might explain why NBC news contributors and Media Matters are helping “journalists” unmask anonymous Trump supporters on social media who are critical of pedophiles. Seems to be part of a pattern of behavior over […]
Pope Francis Endorses Homosexual Civil Unions
Occidental Dissent - Oct 21st 2020 5:06pm EDTUPDATE: I was right. Reminder that this account is 100 percent loyal to @Pontifex_ln.— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) October 20, 2020 Well, the mental gymnastics from Sohrab Ahmari and the “post-liberal” Trad Cath crowd in reaction to this development ought to be interesting to watch. AP: “ROME (AP) — Pope Francis became the first pontiff to […]
Margaret Sanger, Free Love and the Birth Control Movement
Occidental Dissent - Oct 21st 2020 12:10pm EDTAs we have already seen, the cultural revolution of the 1910s and 1920s which was the end of Victorian America and the beginning of Modern America transformed almost every aspect of American life. Nothing was left untouched by it. I could write a book alone on how “antiracism” triumphed over “racism” or how cosmopolitanism triumphed […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 539 | Hunter Biden Caught with Child Porn
Jared Howe - Oct 21st 2020 9:26am EDTWe all knew this moment was coming. Rudy Giuliani, Delaware Police, and an unnamed inside source have all confirmed that Hunter Biden’s laptop contains several “suggestive photos” of underage girls, one of whom is apparently a relative of Hunter’s. Acting like a creepy pedo toward younger family members apparently runs in the Biden family. The […]
Review: Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
Occidental Dissent - Oct 21st 2020 12:01am EDTEditor’s Note: I also wrote this review back in 2015, but I am taking a second look at the book in light of the Victorian-to-Modern transition that I have been been researching. In hindsight, we can attribute the fall of marriage and the family to the two waves of Modernism that swept through America in […]
Review: A History of The Wife
Occidental Dissent - Oct 20th 2020 1:21pm EDT
Marriage and Modernism
Occidental Dissent - Oct 20th 2020 11:49am EDTAfter spending the last several months researching Modernism, I now have much better insight into some of my older posts on the decline of the American family. The following excerpt comes from Andrew Cherlin’s book The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today: “The newer form of individualism, which Bellah and […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 538 | Manufactured Threat
Jared Howe - Oct 20th 2020 9:20am EDTShow me a “white supremacist” or “far-right” terror plot and I’ll show you an FBI glow-op that was manufactured by the intelligence community to substantiate a baseless political agenda that seeks to dehumanize and disarm white conservatives for the odious thought crime of disagreeing with the radical left. It’s not just a few bad apples, […]
Modern Women
Occidental Dissent - Oct 19th 2020 6:34pm EDT
