Category: culture, Page 107
Jews and Early American Modernism
Occidental Dissent - Oct 19th 2020 6:13pm EDTIn the crossover in the Liberal Club between Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side in New York in the 1910s, we’re looking at the embryo of the Modern mainstream. Specifically, we are looking at Jewish radicals from the Lower East Side like Emma Goldman, the alienated Anglos from the Midwest like Floyd Dell, Sinclair […]
The Liberal Club
Occidental Dissent - Oct 19th 2020 12:08pm EDTVictorian America was controlled by a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite. This is arguably the biggest difference between Victorian America and Modern America. Protestantism used to dominate American culture before the rise of the mass media and mass culture in the 1920s. The following excerpt comes from Robert M. Crunden’s book A Brief History of American […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 537 | Wray of Reckoning
Jared Howe - Oct 19th 2020 9:25am EDTWhy didn’t the FBI act on Hunter Biden’s laptop a year ago? Why didn’t they act on terror threats from Antifa and BLM six months ago? Why did they plot terror attacks of their own and blame them on so-called “white supremacists”? All roads lead to Christopher Wray. He should have been fired a long […]
American History Series: Review: Rebellion Against Victorianism
Occidental Dissent - Oct 18th 2020 1:44pm EDTStanley Coben, Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America Stanley Coben’s book Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America is a brief account of how the Victorian culture of 19th century America broke down in the 1920s and was replaced by the Modern culture of 20th century […]
The New York Avant-Garde and Vitalism
Occidental Dissent - Oct 17th 2020 2:56pm EDTWhere did America go off the rails? You could make a plausible case for a number of different periods. Was it 1619 when the first black slaves arrived in Virginia? Was it 1776 when Thomas Jefferson inserted the line “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence? Was it 1865 when the North […]
The Second Klan and Victorianism
Occidental Dissent - Oct 16th 2020 10:58am EDTEditor’s Note: This is a work in progress. What was the Second Klan about in the 1920s? The following excerpt comes from Stanley Coben’s book Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America: “The early twentieth-century assaults on Victorianism provoked a strong organized defense by fundamentalists, Prohibitionists, and various conservative and patriotic […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 536 | Big Tech Overreach
Jared Howe - Oct 16th 2020 9:01am EDTYesterday, it was the Alt Right. Today, it’s the New York Post. Tomorrow, it will be everyone to the right of Kamala Harris. This censorship slope sure is slippery. And since censorship is the topic of the day, what better person to discuss it with than the most censored dissident on the internet, political prisoner […]
Resistance To Modernism In The 1920s
Occidental Dissent - Oct 15th 2020 11:18pm EDTIn this video, the Red Scare, Second Klan, Prohibition, Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, nativism and immigration restriction are covered which were all fronts in the culture war. Note: As I learn more about this era, my sympathies are completely with the Victorians. American culture was never made worse by abstinence, modesty, piety, fidelity and sobriety.
100 Years of Beauty
Occidental Dissent - Oct 15th 2020 6:06pm EDTWhat is Modernism? Check this out. This is women’s fashion in mass culture over the past century across multiple countries. Observe how it has homogenized the world. USA Ireland Germany France Sweden Italy Russia Mexico
American History Series: Review: New World Coming
Occidental Dissent - Oct 15th 2020 1:23pm EDT
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 535 | Exposing the Biden Crime Family
Jared Howe - Oct 15th 2020 9:12am EDTPayouts and scandals and crack pipes, oh my! Rudy Giuliani and the New York Post brought us a whopper of an October Surprise: hard evidence that Trump was right about the Biden corruption scandal all along, and that he was perfectly justified in asking for investigations into the Biden Crime Family. Which is to say… […]
The Party Is Over
Occidental Dissent - Oct 14th 2020 4:47pm EDTWhy is our world so screwed up? In the early 20th century, we went through World War I, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression and World War II. The Victorian culture of the 19th century died in this tumultuous crisis period and the Modern culture of the 20th century emerged from the wreckage. The key […]
Sigmund Freud, Moderns and the Lost Generation
Occidental Dissent - Oct 14th 2020 2:05pm EDTIn the Victorian era, sex was the ultimate taboo. As we have seen, the Victorian generations saw sexuality as “a hidden geyser of animality existing within everyone and capable of erupting with little or no warning at the slightest stimulus.” Nothing posed a greater threat to the Victorian ideal of self-control than human sexuality which […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 534 | Epstein Plot Thickens
Jared Howe - Oct 14th 2020 8:53am EDTIt’s almost getting to the point where it’s harder to find a billionaire or a philanthropist WITHOUT ties to Epstein than it is to find one who sent him money for “financial services.” Leon Black is the latest disgraced private equity manager to get caught transferring millions to Epstein, even as recently as 2017. He […]
The New Era, The Modernist Intelligentsia and the Development of Modern Culture
Occidental Dissent - Oct 13th 2020 12:08pm EDTIn the 1920s, a bunch of different threads that we have been tracing came together and crystallized as the Modern liberal intelligentsia which replaced the Victorian mainstream. The following excerpt comes from Paul V. Murphy’s book The New Era: American Thought and Culture in the 1920s: “By the 1920s, then, intellectuals had witnessed a society […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 533 | Hillary the Pan-Eurasianist
Jared Howe - Oct 13th 2020 8:52am EDTIt turns out that Hillary is a fiscal conservative and a non-interventionist who prefers diplomacy and domestic development over bomb dropping and sabre rattling. She’s apparently pretty bummed about how expensive the military is and thinks the money would be better spent on “bringing jobs back from China.” Who would have thought? Not me. I […]
Gods of the Upper Air
Occidental Dissent - Oct 13th 2020 2:06am EDTCharles King has a new book out called Gods of the Upper Air about Franz Boas and his students and how they changed American anthropology. Note: I haven’t got the chance to read this book yet or Robert Putnam’s new book The Upswing. I’m going to try to read and review both here.
Modernists and American Historiography
Occidental Dissent - Oct 13th 2020 1:54am EDTThere are few things that I find more aggravating than listening to conservative liberals prattle on about the deracinated civic nationalism of the Founding Fathers. Victorian America was a White, Anglo-Saxon (in culture), Protestant nation with liberal and republican principles. It was not a “Nation of Immigrants” or a “melting pot.” The conservative liberal vision […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 532 | Hillary Goes Full Dugin
Jared Howe - Oct 12th 2020 9:00am EDTIt’s getting hard to tell the difference between Richard Spencer and Hillary Clinton. If you thought that Hillary’s illegal and unsecured private email server had disqualified her from being taken seriously on matters of national security, you could be forgiven. In a 5000-word essay on the topic, Clinton urges the permanent Washington foreign policy establishment […]
H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche and the Culture War
Occidental Dissent - Oct 11th 2020 5:48pm EDTModernism arrived in the United States in the 1910s. The culture war between Moderns and Victorians began in the 1920s. If we were to go back to the 1920s, we would find that H.L. Mencken was unquestionably the single most important figure in defining the culture war. Who inspired H.L. Mencken’s culture war? The following […]
Jazz and Black Politics In the 1920s
Occidental Dissent - Oct 11th 2020 12:58am EDTThis is interesting. The following excerpt comes from Stanley Coben’s book Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America: “The Victorian color caste system was challenged most comprehensively during the 1920s by Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois. Despite their sound ideas and vigorous efforts, neither man accomplished much to raise the […]
Civilization in the United States
Occidental Dissent - Oct 9th 2020 2:08pm EDTIn Civilization in the United States (1921), Harold E. Stearns and the Moderns summed up their indictment of American culture. The following excerpt comes from Nathan Miller’s New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America: “A Harvard graduate and contributor to intellectual journals, the thirty-year-old Stearns was, in the spring of 1921, […]
H.L. Mencken, The Scopes Monkey Trial and the Culture War
Occidental Dissent - Oct 9th 2020 10:58am EDTH.L. Mencken was a journalist, an atheist, a libertarian and a Nietzschean. He shared Nietzsche and the Modernists contempt for the masses. No one in the 1920s had a greater negative impact on shaping the values and beliefs of young Losters in college rebelling against their Victorian parents than Mencken. The following excerpt comes from […]
S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 531 | Just an Idea
Jared Howe - Oct 9th 2020 8:52am EDTYou ever notice how Antifa is just an idea until they get arrested by the FBI for plotting to do shit like kidnap the governor of Michigan, at which point they become “white supremacists” and “far right extremists”? At least one of the thirteen “white supremacist militia members” taken into custody by the FBI appears […]
The New Era
Occidental Dissent - Oct 8th 2020 4:04pm EDTAs I have argued, Modern America emerged in the 1920s. The Victorian consensus on identity, culture and morality began its long term decline in this period when the Losters rebelled against their parents after World War I. The rifts that began to open up in the 1920s were temporarily overshadowed by the mirage of unity […]
