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  • Major Turnings

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 6th 2020 12:32pm EDT

    If we start taking culture seriously, we will notice these periodic breaks in history when the whole mood of our culture shifts into a new phase which lasts for over a century: Reformation – 1520s, 1530s, 1540s This is an easy one. It was an extremely fertile period in European history that set the tone […]

  • No-Go Zone: Beirut Blast Aftermath, Oprah & George Floyd

    Red Ice TV - Aug 5th 2020 10:31pm EDT

    Henrik cover the aftermath of the blast in Beirut, Oprah is once again charging poor white people for White privilege. We also talk about the 12 year old girl that was shot in Sweden, Chicago-Area leaders call for abolishing history classes & someone decided to grow the mystery seeds that was sent from China, this […]

  • No-Go Zone: Beirut Blast Aftermath, Oprah & George Floyd

    Red Ice TV - Aug 5th 2020 10:30pm EDT

    This is the audio version of the show. If you want to watch the video version go here. We have RSS/Podcast feeds available here. Henrik cover the aftermath of the blast in Beirut, Oprah is once again charging poor white people for White privilege. We also talk about the 12 year old girl that was shot in Sweden, […]

  • The Death of Modernism

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 5th 2020 5:03pm EDT

    Have you ever wondered where we are at in history? It is easier to think about the past and the people who lived through it. We think of previous generations as having lived through Antiquity or the Middle Ages or the Modern Era which we divide into Early Modern and Modern. We further divide the […]

  • Adolf Hitler and Modernism

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 4th 2020 11:01am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. At least that is how I am starting to think about modernism. We are now living in the degenerate Age of Modernism. It triumphed after World War II. The free love ideal that anyone should be able to have […]

  • The Modernist Age

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 3rd 2020 11:00pm EDT

    In recent weeks, we have been exploring the idea of historical cycles in which each age of Western history is dominated by its Zeitgeist which fundamentally reshapes our civilization as it works itself out over the course of about 80 to 150 years before collapsing in exhaustion in a crisis. It seems that each age […]

  • When Persia Ruled The World

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 2nd 2020 8:38pm EDT

    Is progressive liberalism the summit of human history? I’m going to spend the rest of the evening watching the latest History Time documentary.

  • The Wrong Side of History

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 2nd 2020 1:44pm EDT

    I woke up this morning with this idea. Progressives are on the “wrong side of history.” I can’t tell you how many times that I have been told this over the past two decades. I’m on the “wrong side of history.” It is the modern progressive form of the old Whig theory of history. The […]

  • Undercurrents

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 1st 2020 8:05pm EDT

    U.S. Marshals spoke with NBC about the antifa violence perpetrated against officers protecting federal property in Portland. Some have been badly injured by explosives, rocks, concrete & much more. Rioters are trying to break inside the courthouse & burn it down. pic.twitter.com/lNRDzo6JNq— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 1, 2020 Left-wing protesters scream and shout at police […]

  • Rebellion

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 1st 2020 1:41pm EDT

    Why have our efforts come to naught? Why is the Black Lives Matter movement which burned the American flag and the Bible last night in Portland the most popular and celebrated social movement of our times? The answer is an elite consensus. Black Lives Matter and Antifa are officially backed and sponsored by established progressive […]

  • King George III and the American Revolution

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 31st 2020 7:58pm EDT

    Oh George … If only you could see us now … a few trivial taxes? That was tyranny?

  • Extremism Is Inevitable

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 30th 2020 9:48pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. I will flesh this argument out after supper. We shouldn’t be concerned about the rise in “extremism” because radicalization is inevitable and a historically necessary development after a period of degeneration. It is a natural process that dissolves a dying social order. The growth of “extremism” is […]

  • Historical Cycles

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 30th 2020 1:22pm EDT

    I’m continuing to have some fun play around with the idea of broad historical cycles each of which have their Zeitgeist and terminate in a Crisis. Reformation Cycle – 1517 to 1648 – Thirty Years War (Wars of Religion Crisis) Enlightenment Cycle – 1648 to 1815 – French Revolution (Wars of Revolution Crisis) Romantic Cycle […]

  • Reactive Nomads

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 30th 2020 4:36am EDT

    I’m continuing to enjoy reading The Fourth Turning. According to the theory, each generation has an archetype. Nomad generations are born during Awakening periods of religious and cultural upheaval and are neglected as children. They are cynical, independent minded hell raisers who are used to going it alone, wild youth who age into hard nosed […]

  • Gray Champions

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 28th 2020 4:45pm EDT

    Here is an interesting take on the otherwise dull 2020 election. It comes from The Fourth Turning and describes the very climax of Boomer ascendance in America when the country is plunged into a fiery ordeal on the scale of the Civil War or World War II. “At each of these great gates of history, […]

  • Generations

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 27th 2020 2:45pm EDT

    I started reading The Fourth Turning last night after I discovered that there was a copy of the book online a few days ago: “In fact, at the core of modern history lies this remarkable pattern: Over the past five centuries, Anglo-American society has entered a new era—a new turning —every two decades or so. At […]

  • Turning Points

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 26th 2020 2:29pm EDT

    The Zeitgeist of the post-World War II era is clear. It has been a mood of “antiracism” or self hatred that has haunted us ever since 1945. Western civilization has been in a funk ever since World War II. This idea has dominated the last 80 years of history. This lack of self confidence in […]

  • An Intellectual History of “Woke” Left Modernism

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 1:14am EDT

    Left Modernism is ubiquitous. It is synonymous with American mainstream culture which is a composite mix of liberalism, modernism and cosmopolitanism. It is essentially what we are against. Modernism rejects authority and tradition in favor of self-interest, self-expression, self-achievement, self-realization, self-fulfillment and self-advancement. It rejects the past in favor of the future. It is always […]

  • The Spanish Flu & How The World Recovered

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2020 9:57pm EDT

    History Time has a new documentary on the Spanish Flu.

  • American History Series: Cosmopolitanism and the Postwar Consensus

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 20th 2020 5:26pm EDT

    Conservatives must take a stand on Demographics @NickJFuentes pic.twitter.com/FMisovfV0q— Zoomer Patriot (@PatriotZoomer) July 20, 2020 I see that Nick Fuentes is banging his fists against the postwar consensus. Have you ever wondered why American conservatives are unable to defend themselves from the -isms and -phobias which are critiques and therapies which grew out of the […]

  • The Needless War

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 19th 2020 1:02pm EDT

    As I read Peter Turchin’s book Ages of Discord and follow current events, it couldn’t be more clear to me that Avery Craven and James G. Randall were correct in their interpretation of the War Between the States. More recently, David Goldfield has resurrected the Blundering Generation thesis. Slavery was not the cause of the […]

  • American History Series: Critique of Colin Woodard’s Union

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 16th 2020 1:16pm EDT

    Enjoyed speaking with ?@keratx?’s. ?@kerathink? about the struggle to forge a story that could hold the young United States together. https://t.co/xON19aQDwj— Colin Woodard (@WoodardColin) July 15, 2020 LISTEN HERE. I’ve already reviewed Colin Woodard’s new book Union. As I have listened to his radio interviews though, I have thought more about what was wrong with […]

  • Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on The Sickness of Free Society

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 15th 2020 11:14am EDT

    After the events of the last month and a half, I am continuing to reread George Fitzhugh whose critique of liberalism and free-market capitalism have shaped my views toward our current social order. We’re moving on now to his second book, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters. “My chief aim has been to shew, that […]

  • American History Series: Review: Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 13th 2020 6:51pm EDT

    George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society The 1840s and 1850s were a time much like our own. In the wake of the Second Great Awakening, an endless tidal wave of moral condemnation of the South poured forth from the Eastern press and Eastern politicians. Inspired by George Bancroft’s vision […]

  • John Locke and The American Founding

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 11th 2020 4:52pm EDT

    Jonah Goldberg makes an important point. The Dispatch: “Embedded deep in this idea is a recognition that talking about freedom is a winning issue with Americans because Americans actually value freedom a great deal. This goes to the heart of one of my main disagreements with Deneen and Hazony, who seem convinced that John Locke […]