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  • Late Victorian Women’s Fashion

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 8th 2020 2:25pm EDT

    Queen Victoria died in 1901. Technically, we are looking at women’s fashion in the Edwardian era to put this shift in perspective. King Edward VII died in 1910 and was succeeded by King George V. Victorian culture ended around 1914 at the start of World War I. Women dressed much more modestly before the big […]

  • The New Woman and 1920s Fashion

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 8th 2020 11:56am EDT

    As we have seen, the “New Woman” who smoked Torches of Freedom was a literary creation of Modernism that originated in Henrik Ibsen’s play The Doll House (1879) and was popularized by Henry James in his novels in the late 19th century. In America, the New Woman became known as the Flapper in the 1920s. […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 530 | Meet the NEW New World Order

    Jared Howe - Oct 8th 2020 9:01am EDT

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — but more EtHniCaLLy DiVeRsE. When Commiela Harris brags about having the support of “seven former Bush cabinet members”, she’s signaling to the world that she’s a globalist and she doesn’t care who knows it. If it seems like the Deep State and the Moneyed Elite […]

  • The Hays Code

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 7th 2020 10:08am EDT

    In the 1920s, millions of Americans began watching Hollywood movies and movie theaters spread across America. Almost as soon as film developed into the preeminent art form of 20th century mass culture, some Americans began to worry that mass entertainment was corrupting morals. The following excerpt comes from Nathan Miller’s New World Coming: The 1920s […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 529 | Everybody Knew

    Jared Howe - Oct 7th 2020 8:52am EDT

    The DNI just declassified handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan which reveal that Hillary invented the Russia collusion hoax out of whole cloth to distract the public from her email server scandal, and that everyone from Obama to Biden to Comey to Strzok were briefed on the matter. Wait… what? If they all […]

  • America Is Having a Moral Convulsion

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 6th 2020 3:33pm EDT

    David Brooks has a long new think piece at The Atlantic in which he tries to explain the social breakdown that we are witnessing: The Atlantic: “American history is driven by periodic moments of moral convulsion. The late Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington noticed that these convulsions seem to hit the United States every […]

  • The Rise of Hollywood

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 5th 2020 9:55am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. When did our age begin? What distinguishes Modern America from Victorian America? The transition between the two began in the 1910s, World War I was the rupture and was complete by the Roaring Twenties. The Lost Generation was the first Modern generation. On one side of this […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 528 | Not That Kind of Pizza

    Jared Howe - Oct 5th 2020 9:09am EDT

    Buying pizza for the President’s supporters can sometimes mean different things, depending on who is in office. Trump is rumored to have purchased large quantities of meat lover’s pizza from Little Caesar’s for his supporters who gathered in a “flash mob” outside of Walter Reed Hospital to show their support as he recovers from the […]

  • The Sun Also Rises

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 3rd 2020 2:32pm EDT

    In the 1920s, Franz Boas and his students in the social sciences challenged traditional Victorian beliefs and values in race, sexuality and gender roles in favor of cultural egalitarianism. Meanwhile in the arts and literature, Modernist poets, critics and novelists simultaneously challenged Victorian beliefs and values in manners, morals, beauty, sexuality and gender roles in […]

  • Antiracism, Social Science and the Revolt Against Victorian America

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 3rd 2020 12:40pm EDT

    In the 1910s, Modernism arrived in America. The first Modernists established enclaves in Chicago and Greenwich Village in New York City. Most of the Chicago group ended up moving to Greenwich Village in the years before World War I. In America’s first truly bohemian enclave, anarchists and socialists mixed with progressive liberals and the Modernist […]

  • The Second Klan and Modernism

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 2nd 2020 10:44am EDT

    In the 1920s, the Second Klan was on the other side of the culture war between Victorians and Moderns that I have been describing in recent weeks. In fact, the rise of the Second Klan was more about national identity and this cultural and moral breakdown than it was about race. The Second Klan appealed […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 527 | Theft Through Inflation

    Jared Howe - Oct 2nd 2020 8:18am EDT

    For today’s episode, I’m bringing you a recent discussion I had with columnist Paul Tripp of the Unz Review at Unz.com regarding the Federal Reserve and the degree to which it facilitates wealth consolidation in the hands of those who have privileged access to its money printer going brrrr, all at the expense of workers […]

  • Towards a Definition of American Modernism

    Occidental Dissent - Oct 1st 2020 5:07pm EDT

    This is an excellent article. It lays out how the Victorian culture of the 19th century had divided the world into sharp hierarchies and spheres – in race, sex, class, gender roles, civilization – and how the Modernist culture of the 20th century violently reacted against its predecessor and set about dismantling all of those […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 526 | Organized Jewish Terrorism

    Jared Howe - Oct 1st 2020 9:54am EDT

    Never let it be said that Antifa isn’t Jewish or organized. That’s the takeaway from a new article from the Jewish Forward, which details the explicitly Jewish history of the Antifa ORGANIZATION, including the founding documents and principles it created in 1934 in opposition to the British occupation of Palestine. It’s as true now as […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 525 | Stand Back and Standby

    Jared Howe - Sep 30th 2020 3:01pm EDT

    …did Trump just threaten to deputize the RWDS? The Blue Checkmark Mafia is in an uproar over the fact that President Trump wouldn’t condemn wHiTe SooOpReeeeeemiSts or the Proud Boys last night during his debate with Biden, who was dragged over the finish line by Chris Wallace. When prompted by Biden and Wallace to disavow […]

  • From Babbitt To Bateman: The Bohemian Origins of Consumer Capitalism

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 30th 2020 10:39am EDT

    The Victorians had prized religion and morality and an ethic of self-denial, thrift and industry. They also restrained sexuality. The Moderns rejected all of this as bourgeois, repressive and philistine. They wanted to live their lives in the moment and devoted to the religion of art and experience. If you lived a bourgeois life like […]

  • The Greenwich Village Idea

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 30th 2020 2:37am EDT

    What is Modernism? Why are we spending so much time on this? Who were the Moderns? Who were the Victorians? What was the nature of this culture war that broke out in America in the late 1910s and early 1920s? How did it lead to the creation of our world? The following excerpt comes from […]

  • George Babbitt, Main Street and the Origins of the Culture War

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 29th 2020 5:34pm EDT

    In the 1910s, Modernism arrived in America. In the 1920s, the culture war began between Moderns in the cities who repudiated traditional religious and moral values in favor of self-expression and cultural liberation and Victorians in the small towns and countryside who clung to them. Prohibition was the first big flash point in the culture […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 524 | Cantwell Convicted

    Jared Howe - Sep 29th 2020 9:48am EDT

    As you may have already heard, political prisoner Christopher Cantwell was convicted yesterday on two of the three charges against him – one count of extortion through interstate communications and one count of threating through interstate communications. …and yet there’s every indication that this was the end result of a political fishing expedition, the likes […]

  • The Young Intellectuals and Nietzsche

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 28th 2020 10:54am EDT

    I’ve been getting some pushback against my argument that Friedrich Nietzsche had a major formative impact on the people who created modern American liberalism. The hallmark of modern liberalism is social liberalism or cultural liberalism. It is left-libertarian. It is driven by the transgressive impulse to tear down cultural norms. It is an aesthetic form […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 523 | A Wolf Guards the Hen House

    Jared Howe - Sep 28th 2020 9:07am EDT

    Here’s a thought… If you emphasize “wHiTe SoOpReEmiSt eXtReMiSm” to the near total exclusion of ACTUAL terrorism being committed by Antifa and BLM, maybe you can’t be trusted to run the country’s top law enforcement agencies while our cities burn as a result of their terrorism — or ever. Chad Wolf, like FBI Director Christopher […]

  • The Lost Generation and Modernism

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 27th 2020 5:27pm EDT

    I finally watched the whole documentary. In the 1910s, there were only a few Moderns in the United States who were living what at the time were eccentric lifestyles in a few bohemian enclaves in Chicago and New York City. The catastrophe that was World War I which sent 2 million American soldiers to France […]

  • Randolph Bourne, Modernism and The New Woman

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 26th 2020 3:05pm EDT

    The “New Woman” of Modern America rejected what it meant to be a woman in Victorian America. In the 19th century, women were either respectable and devoted to their families or were whores and prostitutes. The overwhelming majority of women got married and chose to live a respectable life. The Victorians thought that women were […]

  • Hidden Hands: The CIA, Modernism and the Cold War

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 25th 2020 8:06pm EDT

    During the Cold War, the CIA used jazz, rock and abstract expressionism as weapons to subvert and degenerate the culture of the Eastern Bloc and to promote liberalism and free-market capitalism. Michael Jackson’s music was banned as degenerate art in the Soviet Union. If you look deep into the history of the avant-garde, the neocons […]

  • This Side of Paradise

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 25th 2020 12:38pm EDT

    Victorian America ended in the catastrophe that was World War I. 2 million American soldiers had fought in France. 130,000 of them never came home. The Wilson administration imposed a suffocating conformism on the country which exceeded anything in American history before or since. We have already seen how The Masses was shutdown and anarchists […]