• ABORT THE MISSION! ABORT!

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 30th 2022 10:20am EDT

    I gather from the recent hysteria that the Supreme Court has just ordered all 72 million American women of childbearing age to get pregnant and carry the baby to term. This is big news, if true. I’m not at all surprised that every female journalist, activist and politician is threatening to burn down the Supreme […]

  • Aleksandr Dugin on the Alien, Substantially Jewish Elite in the U.S. and Its War Against Traditional American Individualism

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 29th 2022 12:05pm EDT

    A translated version of an article by Alexander Dugin has appeared on KATEHON, an anti-globalist, pro-Russian website. (When I tried to post a link to the article on Twitter, they said that “the link has been identified by Twitter and its partners as harmful” and blocked it.) Dugin’s article indicates that he has a solid […]

  • Martin Christopher Rojas, RIP

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 27th 2022 6:50pm EDT

    Martin Christopher Rojas has died unexpectedly at age 29. Jared Taylor has written a beautiful, deeply felt tribute to him. Martin wrote a very interesting account of life in rural West Virginia for TOO under one of his many pseudonyms, Christopher Martin. I met him a couple times. Great guy, and reading Jared’s obituary, one […]

  • 西洋文化をユニークにしたものは何か (“What Makes Western Culture Unique”)

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 27th 2022 2:15pm EDT

    What Makes Western Culture Unique? 翻訳 Kevin MacDonald 西洋文化をユニークにしたものは何か 原文:http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/west-toq.htm   一般に、文化のユニークさは自然由来か教育由来かのどちらかである。これは昔から変わらない二項対立である。 しかし我々は現在これらの問題について昔よりもより良く扱える立場にあり、そして自然由来説と教育由来説のどちらも重要であることを説明しようと思う。 西洋文化は、どのような生物学的/進化論的理論でも予測がつかないほどの独特の文化的変貌を経験してきたが、同時にユニークな進化の歴史もあった。 西洋文化は、世界の他の文明や文化を築いた人々とは遺伝的に異なった人々によって構築された。 西洋文化が他の伝統的文明と比較してユニークな文化的プロファイルを持つことを以下で論じる。 1. カトリック教会とキリスト教 2. 一夫一妻制の傾向 3. 核家族が基本のシンプルな家族構造の傾向 4. 結婚が両性の合意に基づいており、相互の愛情を基本にする傾向が強い 5. 拡大血縁(extended kinship relationships)とその互恵関係の重視を避け、エスノセントリズムが比較的弱い 6. 個人主義へ向かう傾向。国家に対する個人の権利、代議制政府、道徳の普遍主義化、自然科学へ向かう傾向 私のバックグラウンドは進化生物学の分野であり、性の進化論を扱った時に最初に感じた疑問の一つは、「なぜ西洋文化は一夫一妻制なのか?」だった。 性の進化論は非常にシンプルである。女性は生殖に多大な投資が必要である。妊娠、授乳、そして育児は大抵膨大な時間を要求する。 その結果、女性の生殖には厳しい制約がある。最高の条件を用意してもらっても、最大でも20人程度の子どもしか育てようがない。 しかし、男性にとっては生殖のコストは低い。結果として、男性は複数の配偶者から恩恵を得ることも可能で、富と力を持つ男性はそれを活用して可能な限り多くの配偶者を確保することも期待できる。 要約すれば、富と力を持つ男性による集中的な一夫多妻制は男性にとって最も適切な戦略であり、個々人の男性の生殖の成功にとって最も適切な振る舞いである。 この理論は十分に支持されている。世界中の伝統的な社会では、富と生殖活動の成功との間に強い関連性がある。裕福で力のある男性は非常の多数の女性をコントロールできる。 中国、インド、イスラム社会、新世界文明、古代エジプト、古代イスラエル等の世界中の全ての伝統的文明のエリート男性は、大抵数百人から数千人にもなる側室を持っていた。 サブサハラ・アフリカでは女性は一般的に男性の扶養なしで子どもを育てることができるので、結果として、男性はできるだけ多くの女性をコントロールするために競争する低レベルの一夫多妻制になった。 これらいずれの社会においても、これらの関係から産まれた子どもは合法的だった。彼らは財産を相続することができ、世間から蔑まれることもなかった。 中国の皇帝には数千人の側室がおり、モロッコのスルタンは888人の子どもを持つことでギネスブックに登録されている。 勿論、一夫一妻制が標準の社会は他にもある。生態学的に課せられた一夫一妻制と社会的に課せられた一夫一妻制とを区別することが一般的である。 一般に、生態学的に課せられた一夫一妻制は、砂漠や寒冷地等の非常に過酷な生態的条件への適応を強いられた社会で見られる。 このような過酷な条件下では、各男性の投資は一人の女性の子供達に向かわざるを得ず、更に多くの女性をコントロールすることは不可能である。 基本的考え方としては、過酷な条件下では女性は一人で子どもを育てることが不可能で、男性からの手助けが必要である。 このような条件が、進化論的に意味を成すほど長期間続いた場合には、人口は一夫一妻制に向かう強い傾向を発達させると予想できる。 実際に、一夫一妻制の傾向が強くなりすぎると、生態学的条件の変化に直面した場合でも一夫一妻制に向かう心理的・文化的傾向へとつながることが予想できる。 私はヨーロッパ人の進化で正にこのことが起きたのだと提案しており、以下で詳述する。 Richard Alexanderは”socially imposed monogamy” (SIM)[社会的に課せられた一夫一妻制]という用語で、過酷な生態的条件なしの一夫一妻制を定義した。 過酷な条件とは男性が直接子供を養育せざるを得ない条件のことを指す。それ以外の状況では、男性は自分にできる限り多数の妻を持つために競争すると予想でき、一般的にもそうなる。   西洋のユニークさの最初の例 世界の他の経済的先進地域の文化は、成功した男性による一夫多妻制が特徴であるのに対して、西洋社会には古代ギリシャ・ローマから現代にいたるまで一夫一妻制の強い傾向がある。 […]

  • A Fascist Fun-Day: Enrichment for Whites, Ethnocentrism for Jews

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 27th 2022 1:05pm EDT

    “Hideously white.” That was what a righteous White leftist called Greg Dyke called the BBC in 2001. Dyke was actually the Chief Commissar of the BBC at the time. And did he then resign in protest at his own “hideous whiteness”? Or did he vow that, henceforth, he would donate at least half of his […]

  • Comrade Krieger and the Kiev Campaign, Part 2: A Small Victory

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 25th 2022 11:15am EDT

    We pick up where we left off with Comrade Krieger and his unit making their way south during the Kiev campaign. If you want to follow the hero of our story, you can follow him on his freshly-minted Gab account. The next day, after the counter-attack that never came, we left the field because it […]

  • They’ve Learned Nothing and Forgotten Nothing

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 24th 2022 10:30am EDT

    Bill Barr, two-time attorney general and one of approximately 2.5 members of the Trump administration to leave with his reputation intact, has also written one of only two books about that administration worth reading, “One Damn Thing After Another.” I’ve read ’em all. At least partially. Most did not merit more than a quick skim. […]

  • Degas and the Jews

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 23rd 2022 11:10am EDT

    Edgar Degas: Self Portrait 1865-66 It is customary in our political circles to link cultural modernism (and its negative social consequences) to Jewish influence. While there are strong grounds for this stance, things are sometimes more complicated than this narrative would suggest. Take, for instance, the group of painters who made up the French Impressionist […]

  • The Great Russian Restoration X: A Purge in the Russian Orthodox Church

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 21st 2022 12:05pm EDT

    The Russian Orthodox Church has been affected by recent events as much as the rest of Russian society has. Now, more than ever, the Church is being asked to support the government and this has had ripple effects on church politics. The biggest story is the unceremonious demotion of Metropolitan Hilarion. Once the Russian Orthodox […]

  • Heretics and Halfwits: Furedi’s Freedom-Fighters and the Lethality of Libertarianism

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 19th 2022 11:45am EDT

    Enigmas. I’ve been beset by them recently. Last week, I added six piranhas to my big tropical-fish tank. The piranhas were going to look magnificent, sliding in a sleek silver school between the gleaming, multicolored shoals of gentle neon tetras and guppies. But I didn’t have time to watch the piranhas right then. No, I […]

  • Jews and their Long History of Hysteria and Overreach

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 17th 2022 11:40am EDT

    Jews and their Long History of Hysteria and Overreach By RockaBoatus If you’ve been around Jews for any period, you’ve likely discovered their tendency to exaggerate whatever they feel passionately about. Hyperbole seems to come easy to them. The sky is always falling. Doom is right around the corner. And, of course, it’s always directed […]

  • Dinesh’s Stupid Movie

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 16th 2022 9:40am EDT

    As much as I’m enjoying the January 6th committee’s careful assembly of evidence proving former President Trump is a douchebag, I wasn’t seeing much in the way of a criminal offense until this week’s underreported story about how Trump used his “STOP THE STEAL” fundraising appeals to grift his supporters out of $250 million, none of […]

  • Looking Over the Wall to See What a Stranger is Up To

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 15th 2022 11:06am EDT

    These days, very near the end, images from long ago pop into my head, seemingly on their own; I don’t know what prompts them, and I let them take me where they will.  A couple of days ago, it was of a moment from the mid- to late-1980s in Burlington Vermont. In another life, I […]

  • California’s Homelessness Magnates

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 14th 2022 5:17pm EDT

    Well, that didn’t last long. Chesa Boudin, the “progressive” district attorney of San Francisco, was recalled in a landslide election on Tuesday. Evidently, even that city’s progressive voters finally got tired of replacing their car windshields. (On the upside, once out of office, Boudin can keep prosecuting as many criminals as he did while in […]

  • Paul Edward Stephenson Interviews Andrew Joyce

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 13th 2022 11:31am EDT

    Andrew Joyce was interviewed recently on Odyssey. I can’t figure out how to get it to play here, but here’s a link.

  • Joseph Goebbels’ Battle for Berlin: The Beginning (1934)

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 12th 2022 11:32am EDT

    Translated and with an introduction by Alexander Jacob Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) was born in Rheydt, near Düsseldorf, in a Roman Catholic family and studied literature and history at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg, Freiburg and Munich. He obtained his doctorate in philology from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He became interested in Adolf Hitler’s […]

  • Interview with Blonde in the Belly of the Beast

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 11th 2022 11:03am EDT

     

  • Comrade Krieger and the Kiev Campaign

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 10th 2022 11:31am EDT

    I’d like to introduce “Comrade Krieger,” a soldier who was deployed into Ukraine in the early days of the special operation. Comrade Krieger is, quite obviously, a nom de guerre of this young man. I spoke to him to get his account of what went down during the push to Kiev. He is currently not deployed […]

  • Heroines of the Hive-Mind: How Two Slush-Brained White Women Unconsciously Expose the Idiocies and Evils of Leftism

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 8th 2022 12:08pm EDT

    When you look in the dictionary under the word “airhead,” you won’t find a photograph of the Guardian writer Zoe Williams. But there should be one. If the right-wing Ann Coulter is the witty, insightful, tough-minded exception to the rule of female punditry, then the left-wing Williams is the vapid, conformist, slush-brained quintessence. On the […]

  • In Search of The Western Bushido

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 6th 2022 2:32pm EDT

      Bushido: The Soul of Japan Inazo Nitobe, 1899.  Warrior Race: A History of the British at War Lawrence James Little, Brown & Co., 2001. The recent release of The Northman, along with my reading of two fascinating books, Bushido: The Soul of Japan and Warrior Race: A History of the British At War, has […]

  • Dreams of a Racial Utopia

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 4th 2022 8:30am EDT

    Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America Duncan Bell Princeton University Press, 2020. Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds chronicles the largely forgotten efforts to unite the British and American empires during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. What I found most interesting, however, was not the core narrative, but the broader historical continuities and […]

  • The Great Replacement Switcheroo

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 2nd 2022 1:34pm EDT

    Whether true or not, the left has decided that black people are as easy to play as Donald Trump. While frantically replacing African Americans with immigrants, they announce: “Replacement” is a white supremacy theory! Pay no attention to the Latino immigrants doing construction and Indian immigrants getting all the “diversity” jobs. Employers in need of cheap labor […]

  • The Nature of Women and the ‘Woke’ Problem

    The Occidental Observer - Jun 2nd 2022 1:34pm EDT

    Anyone who is perceptive of current social and political trends in America knows that women — especially White liberal women — play an inordinate role. They are almost always at the forefront of any protest lecturing others about ‘systemic racism,’ ‘white privilege,’ ‘toxic masculinity,’ and the need for ‘equity’ in every sphere of life. These […]

  • The Generational Divide in Eastern Europe: the Stability Generation (The Youth)

    The Occidental Observer - May 31st 2022 12:02pm EDT

    I readily admit that “Stability Generation” isn’t a moniker that will ever stick in the public consciousness. But, I chose the term to highlight the stark difference in society that the younger generations grew up in. Those who spent their conscious, formative years in the Putin period of relative stability are quite different from the […]

  • Jewish Media Ownership and Management—An Update

    The Occidental Observer - May 29th 2022 1:38pm EDT

    As recently as last month, I was struck by the similarity of a headline on the popular Children’s Health Defense website to the headline of an article I had read elsewhere some years ago, dated 2012. The CHD article was titled “6 Companies Control 90% of What You Read, Watch and Hear. Here’s Why You […]