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  • “Ethan Is Supreme” Has Died Of a Drug Overdose

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 7th 2020 2:18pm EDT

    [BREAKING] Leaked video shows Social Media influencer “Ethan Is Supreme” suffering from a seizure moments before his death ? We send our condolences to his loved ones. pic.twitter.com/LdAunsx5mK— ?MISS DIOR? (@MlSSDllOR) September 6, 2020 He originally went viral for this video https://t.co/PYWEozFyFW— Sadie Longs Protégé (@ForgottMyName) September 7, 2020 I had never heard of this […]

  • Practical Applications

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 6th 2020 6:28pm EDT

    Is there any practical benefit to studying all of this and tracing its history aside from satisfying my own morbid curiosity about the origins and causes of our decline? Let all of this soak in: So my brother @RickyRebelRocks ???????? Adore ?????#Repost @brokebackUSA ???BLM held a “peaceful protest” in Beverly Hills so @rickyrebelrocks showed up […]

  • The Origins of the Modern Left

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 6th 2020 2:24pm EDT

    What is the “mainstream”? Where did the modern Left come from? In The Birth of the Mainstream and The Death of the Victorian Mainstream, I began to pinpoint its emergence in the years around World War I. It was the moment in time when the Romantic or Victorian sensibility that dominated the 19th century – […]

  • James Lindsay Lashes Out At Conservatives

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 4th 2020 12:49pm EDT

    While I was on vacation, one of the things that you missed is that we finally had enough of James Lindsay’s dishonest shilling for liberalism: James Lindsay couldn’t handle the criticism. He quote tweeted and blocked everyone who pointed out an inconvenient historical truth: the idea that liberalism is somehow opposed to wokeness is laughable. […]

  • The Birth of the Mainstream

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 2nd 2020 5:15pm EDT

    I’m sure the recent articles about Modernism are confusing to a lot of our readers. I started by reaching back deep to Charles Baudelaire in the mid-19th century in France. I moved on and briefly looked at Nietzsche and D.H. Lawrence before describing Nietzsche, Darwin and Baudelaire as proto-Moderns who prepped the European intelligentsia for […]

  • Modernism and Capitalism

    Occidental Dissent - Sep 1st 2020 3:29pm EDT

    This has been a strange road. My research into the subversive nature of Modernism has led me to Daniel Bell of people. Art Zoo: “The realm of culture is the realm of meanings, the effort in some imaginative form to make sense of the world through the expressiveness of art and ritual, particularly those ‘incomprehensions’ such […]

  • The Moderns

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 28th 2020 1:38pm EDT

    I’ve been a White Nationalist, a Southern Nationalist, Alt-Right. Above all else though, I have been on a journey to fully understand what has gone so terribly wrong with our world and what can be done to fix it. There are few people in our circles who have more exhaustively researched this subject. I’ve been […]

  • American History Series: Review: The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 27th 2020 4:08pm EDT

    Eric P. Kaufmann, The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America Why did Anglo-Americans relinquish control of the United States to ethnic outsiders? In The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America, Eric P. Kaufmann seeks to explain this curious global anomaly. Throughout the world, it is normal for dominant ethnic groups to assert their control over their respective […]

  • How Did We Get To 2020?

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 10th 2020 3:57pm EDT

    I would like to begin by recalling a highly symbolic event that happened two years ago: “Around 9 PM Pacific Time on August 10th, 2018, a 29-year-old man named Richard Russell, stole a Q400 airplane from Seattle Tacoma International Airport and went for a joyride into the abyss. Two F-15 fighter planes were scrambled to follow […]

  • Isaiah Berlin: Romanticism – The First Attack on Enlightenment

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 8th 2020 7:17pm EDT

    Now watching. Note: Isaiah Berlin didn’t like Romanticism.

  • Sunset

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 8th 2020 6:31pm EDT

    I need to brush up on my Hegel. I’m beginning to develop a theory. Please entertain this idea for the sake of argument which I admit could be complete nonsense. I’m just being creative and having some fun. Joe Biden could be on “the right side of history.” Modernism could potentially last forever. It could […]

  • Modernism and Protestantism

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 8th 2020 2:16pm EDT

    The following excerpts come from Eric P. Kaufmann’s book The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America and illustrate the degree to which the rise of Modernism was transforming American Christianity in the first three decades of the 20th century. In the early 20th century, American Protestantism became obsessed with ecumenicism and cosmopolitanism and began to splinter. […]

  • The Federalist: American Left Is “The Only One In The World That Hates Their Country”

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 7th 2020 6:41pm EDT

    Chris Bedford made some good points last night on Tucker Carlson’s show, but failed to provide any theoretical context which makes sense of the problem: FOX News: “We have that insidious phrase, that ‘You’re on the wrong side of history,’” Bedford said. …” What does that phrase mean? “It is 2020.” “You’re on the wrong […]

  • The Modernist Crisis

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 7th 2020 2:22pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: Above “Left wing parliamentarians dressed in the colours of the rainbow pose in front of the Polish Parliament (Sejm)” In the New York Times, I think David Brooks has a good summary of the present moment. New York Times: “For decades conservatives were happy to live in that paradigm. But as years went […]

  • Could America Split Up?

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 4th 2020 2:25pm EDT

    Possibly. Maybe not though. The Week: “All week I’ve been haunted by a brief few seconds of video posted on Twitter late Sunday night by a student journalist in Eugene, Oregon. Two men face off at a protest — the one standing on the left is demonstrating for Black Lives Matter; the one on 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 […]

  • THE END Unveiled In Trafalgar Square

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 1st 2020 3:44pm EDT

    What do you think of London’s new artwork on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square? It’s by the artist @h_phillipson and has been unveiled this morning. It’s called THE END… #4thplinth pic.twitter.com/dgDv9ybWyV— BBC Radio London (@BBCRadioLondon) July 30, 2020 Sure, it is a catastrophe, but I would leave it up. It is a fitting memorial […]

  • Antifa and Black Lives Matter Burn American Flags and Bibles While Rioting Against Portland Police

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 1st 2020 3:04pm EDT

    More flag burning at the antifa/ BLM gathering in downtown Portland. Video by @FromKalen. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/okngG7eRYK— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 1, 2020 Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland. pic.twitter.com/lYWY0x8n8P— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 1, 2020 ‘F*ck Trump!’ | Bible and US flag set […]

  • 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 […]

  • The Reactionary Revolution

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 28th 2020 6:43pm EDT

    Damon Linker thinks conservatives are drifting toward authoritarianism. The Week: “The conservative intelligentsia keeps returning to authoritarianism.Back in June of last year, I wrote a column about how the intellectual right was talking itself into tearing down American democracy. The occasion was a debate between David French, a social-conservative defender of the right to religious freedom […]

  • Shrugging Off The Burden of the 20th Century

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 25th 2020 7:49pm EDT

    In The Burden of the 20th Century, I identified the building blocks of our present dystopia, which came together and have been institutionalized in the post-World War II era. Many of these key ideas like neoliberalism, antiracism, cosmopolitanism and modernism had been gestating in the decades before 1945, but it wasn’t until after World War […]

  • The Burden of the 20th Century

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 24th 2020 5:34pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: I apologize for not being quicker to approve comments. I have been working on this article. If you are a devoted fan of this website, then chances are you are a dissident who resents the crushing burden of the 20th century, particularly the West as it has existed in the post-World War II […]

  • Thomas B. Edsall: ‘The Whole of Liberal Democracy Is in Grave Danger at This Moment’

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 7:27pm EDT

    In The New York Times, Thomas B. Edsall warns that the Right is drifting away from liberal democracy and toward authoritarian democracy. New York Times: “In the continuing debate over whether liberals or conservatives are more open minded, whether those on the left or the right are more rigid in their thinking, a team of […]

  • Woke Supremacy Is Surprisingly Unpopular

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 2:10pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. The first data point comes from The Washington Post which shows a huge retreat in public support over the past month from the so-called “racial justice movement.” As the reaction to woke supremacy has gathered momentum, there has been a 15 point decline in support for seeing […]