Category: Liberalism, Page 9
Lady Gaga Compared To Effie From The Hunger Games!
Occidental Dissent - Jan 20th 2021 3:12pm ESTlady gaga looking like she ab to announce who will be in the next hunger games pic.twitter.com/4ssvRaZ1SS— cassi? (@cassismoonlight) January 20, 2021 I’ve got it. Lady Gaga is wearing the mockingjay pin to symbolize the commencement of our own Hunger Games. In the books, the Games are a punishment for the districts after they attacked […]
The Chicago School
Occidental Dissent - Jan 18th 2021 5:20pm ESTNow watching.
Transgenderism’s Romantic Roots
Occidental Dissent - Dec 2nd 2020 6:40pm EST
Michael Brendan Dougherty: Why Identity-Politics Pushers Are Winning the Culture Wars
Occidental Dissent - Nov 30th 2020 10:34am ESTThis is a good question. I spent several months before the 2020 election answering it. National Review: “There is a question that bothers many political conservatives today. It bothers us so much that the progressives and reactionaries take great delight in making us wince by asking it again and again, in their gloating and glowering […]
American History Series: Review: The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-1930
Occidental Dissent - Nov 2nd 2020 11:56am EST
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dissecting Modernism
Occidental Dissent - Oct 25th 2020 9:16pm EDTEditor’s Note: If you want to listen to the second hour, subscribe to Keith’s podcast. It was a very productive day. I spent two hours this morning doing a podcast with Keith Woods about Modernism. I spent two more hours this afternoon doing a podcast with Richard Spencer about the 2020 election.
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
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 […]
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 […]
Modern Women
Occidental Dissent - Oct 19th 2020 6:34pm EDT
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 […]
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 […]
Macron Decries Beheading of French Teacher
Occidental Dissent - Oct 17th 2020 5:24pm EDTThe United States isn’t going to be the only Western country that will fall apart one day because its liberal and modernist values have severely eroded its social fabric. AP: “PARIS (AP) — For the second time in three weeks, terror struck France, this time with the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a […]
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 […]
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.
