Postmodernism, Intersectionality, and the Decline of the West.

The current political discourse in the West has been corrupted by the progressives and the language they use in debate is sophistic, eristic, and completely toxic.  Both sides of the political isle are at loggerheads and there seems to be no compromise.  Most of this comes from one side, the Left.  They are caught in a mass psychosis, and this is manifesting itself in the political and social sphere.   Currently there is no strong counterforce to oppose it.

The theory of Intersectionality and postmodern philosophy in general has intellectually collapsed the West.  The ideologies that these philosophies have inspired have diminished the intellectual and spiritual capacity of the West.   Intersectionality is a toxic form of Marxist racial hierarchy, but instead of being an ideology of racial hierarchy based on genetics, race, blood, and soil, its an inverted hierarchy of oppression.  It creates a hierarchy of race with black people at the top, Hispanics second, Asians third, and white people last, with Jews and Semitic races as a sort of outlier.  In its descriptions of oppressions and marginalization, races besides whites are viewed as an “Other.”  The concept of “white privilege” asserts that Indo-Europeans have “unearned privileges” in society based on skin color, and that any successes that our civilization may have had was because it was stolen from or done by manipulating and oppressing the “Other.”  This theory is a mass generalization, a form of sophistry with presupposed assumptions and a pernicious rewriting of history with a historiography based in emotion and the postmodern concept of “no truth.”   Intersectionality and the theory of systemic oppression also does not take into account cultural and genetic differences that contribute to different outcomes.  This theory has collapsed our education system and has dumbed everything down.  It is hostile to reading, especially reading the classics of Western literature and philosophy.   It is a racial caste but inverted, whose Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras all play out racial oppressions that do not exist in the modern world, enacting a cluster B psychodrama upon the population.  The aforementioned hierarchy of oppression is in reality a hidden form of racial superiority.  Everything about Intersectionality is hidden in reversed meanings.  Blacks being the “most oppressed” is a code for being the most “racially superior.”  Kimberlee Crenshaw disguises her black racialism in legal theory.  Instead of focusing on the intellectual, spiritual, and familial causes of the dysfunction and violence in the black community, she ignores it, and asserts a sort of inherent blackness that is being hemmed in by a totalitarian “white supremacist system.”  They use the history of the institution of slavery, which was ubiquitous in all cultures around the world, as a moral cudgel in their political fight against Western civilization.  What was once 10,000 skinheads is now mystical overarching tyrannical system of oppression.

None of these theories have assisted any so-called “person of color” in their material and education circumstances.  Rather it has demolished standards in the education system based upon “equity.”   It has also made blacks and Hispanics incredibly racist towards whites, Asians, and Jews causing violence in our schools.  Our schools of Higher Education have turned on the Western classics.  Nobody is learning about the foundations of our civilization.  There is a similar issue with a few on the Right, but those are marginal people.  Most of the destruction is coming from the Left.   They have a complete misunderstanding of European culture, the founding of the America and the genesis of our cultural myths.  Also, they have a romanticized view of the so-called “other” thinking them as more morally righteous and spiritually pure than the average Indo-European. 

This is all preposterous and Rousseauian, and it has spread throughout academia because of Affirmative Action where no one white person can criticize a so-called “person of color” or give them any peer review without being called “racist” and having one’s career destroyed.  Many of these “scholars” will plagarize, avoid peer review, etc.   All of this has connections with Marxism and socialism.  Its Marxist influence comes through postmodernism, particularly the work of the Frankfurt School and the French Post-Structuralists and Deconstructionists.   This has also influenced a number of hodgepodge fringe anarchist and racial justice theories that advocate violence against America and the State of Israel.  All of this has completely divided our country.  Americans who still believe in liberty and the ability to be a master of one’s life is given over to a bureaucratic Intersectional apparatus in our government and corporations under the banner of DEI, “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”  None of this has anything to do with equality of opportunity.  Diversity means anti-white.  Equity means “equality of outcome,” meaning the diminishing of standards in hiring and in education to create equal outcomes of ability and qualification, taking no account of natural ability, intelligence, work ability, etc.  It is all about quantity over quality.  Inclusion means “exclusion of whites.”  It is about having an equal number of Asians, Hispanics, Blacks, and other non-whites, while discriminating against Whites and Jews (Jews are not “white” but since WWII there has been a movement to assign them this label though the Semitic cultures in the past were not viewed as European) to atone for past wrongs against the Other.  None of this takes into account families such as mine who migrated from Germany and Hungary in the early 1900s.  We had nothing to do with any sort of colonial past, but we are assigned this mystical “white privilege” by dint of their appearance.  These theories have driven those of European descent who are liberal and leftist completely mad.

The whole discourse about Native American genocide is particularly specious, as it takes the Rousseauian “noble savage” notion as a sort of gospel when it analyzes the history of Western culture’s conquering of the North American continent.  Native American tribal societies were fierce warrior cultures.  These tribes fought bloody wars over territory and resources for centuries.  They also viewed war as their highest calling.  In my hometown of Crandon Wisconsin there were two nearby Tribal Reservations, the Chippewa Reservation in Mole Lake and the Potawatomi Reservation just outside of Crandon near Stone Lake.  The Chippewa Tribe at Mole Lake had a story about when the Lakota came in from Minnesota and North Dakota to seize the rice fields in Mole Lake.  500 warriors died.  Dozens of infants were thrown into Mole Lake.   The Potawatomi originally resided in Maine, but the Iroquois and the Oneida drove them all the way up into Northern Wisconsin.  The Comanche were the most formidable fighting force in human history and had an empire that went from northern Mexico all the way up into Utah and Wyoming. 

They conquered the continent coming down from Siberia, and Indo-Europeans conquered it when they came centuries later to settle the continent.  These are the forces of history.  This is not genocide.  A warrior race met a superior fighting force.  They were not completely wiped out, but rather were given reservations.  Yes, the government often broke treaties, etc. but the arc of history is not black and white.  The same goes for slavery.  African blacks sold their own into slavery and not just to Indo-Europeans, but Asians, Arabs, and other blacks.  Indo-Europeans abolished slavery in their cultures.  Many of these non-European cultures still practice forms of slavery.  This is truth.

Intersectionality is a Marxist racial cult, similar to Nazism, but the blood and soil narrative becomes one of constant diaspora but with no overarching spiritual principle other than resentment and hatred.  It calls for the abolition of borders because the spirit of the movement is stateless and anti-culture.  It is a politicized version of Nietzsche’s ressentiment, the Untermensch unable to navigate the world due to invisible oppressions.  This ressentiment manifests itself in various lies told by Intersectional activists (Sub-Saharan blacks were pharaohs and built ancient Egypt, Native Americans were peaceful and lived in harmony, boys and girls are interchangeable and one can change sex, Islamic migrants want piece, illegal Central Americans contribute to our society, differences between racial groups don’t exist, etc.) which exist to confuse and numb people to the Marxist agenda by denigrating the achievements of the West, though there is no evidence any other culture would have achieved what we have without our intervention due to cultural, genetic, and environmental differences.  This has had a deleterious effect on the public consciousness in the West, and has turned the average Indo-European into a mindless automaton, medicated and sedate.

All throughout the humanities departments in our universities, the theory of Intersectionality and postmodern philosophy has a stranglehold on our discourse.  It has infected our public education system and has taken over all of the arts, the worst case of which is the American Theatre.  All art and culture is postmodern now.  There is no semblance of Tradition in art, nor an avant-garde that is willing to take Tradition and redefine it.  All art now exists as socialist realism, even if it is abstract.  It is devoid of any history unless it is a pastiche of art in the past as a form of cynical self-reference.  All art is now purely didactic and exists either overtly or covertly as propaganda for race and gender politics.  There is no transcendence, no beauty, and no sense of the sublime.  The esoteric mysteries of the West are no longer present in the arts as they were in the classical world, the Renaissance, and in expressionism.  The Western esoteric Tradition was even present in the modern contemporary world.  Now it is all kitsch and political word games.  There is no high and low, and no Universal Truth, just micronarratives of power, oppression, and identity.  This is pure cultural collapse.

The denigration of “dead white men” in our literature and philosophy departments has been particularly damaging.  French postmodern literary critics such as Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida posited that language creates reality, not biology, nature, or culture and that the Western literary canon had hidden signifiers of oppression, that there was no such thing as genius and then proclaimed “the death of the author.”  This was to assert that one could have any interpretation whatsoever of a text and that the author’s voice was not privileged within the analysis.  Derrida, a Deconstructionist, analyzed the meaning of the text as a conflict between the sign (the word or descriptor) and the thing signified (the object).  He posited that language was inherently ideological and that Western literature itself hides racism, sexism, and other ideologies within its text.  His “deconstruction” of texts would analyze the “slippage” between sign and signifier, where the sign itself, the word, would obscure the hidden intent toward the thing signified.  He created the word differance to describe this “slippage.”  Herein we see how critical theory has influenced academics and students to denigrate the great works of the West, looking for non-existent racism and sexism in them, utilizing a hyper-puritanized presentism in analyzing these texts rather than putting them in their cultural context and analyzing the beauty of the language and the richness of character and emotion.  These philosophies have also denigrated religion, classicism, and the entire edifice of the West without applying any sort of the same critiques to the art, religion, and philosophies of cultures outside the West.  Its pernicious intent through its solipsistic and pedantic language is the destruction of the West through pure resentment.  Nietzsche predicted this when he proclaimed the death of God.

Postmodernism is influenced by a distortion of Immanuel Kant’s concept of the Thing in Itself, the knowledge occurred with the union of Subject and Object.  Hegel takes this further with his Dialectic where two opposing ideas become unified.  This is thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.  The Post-Structuralists and Deconstructionists take their cue from Marx’s inversion of the Hegelian Dialectic called Dialectical Materialism.  Hegel’s synthesis exists in the idea.  It is similar to the consciousness achieved with Kant’s union of Subject and Object.  Marx’s dialectic abandons the idea as synthesis and attempts to reconcile contradictions in society via economic and political means.  Hegel’s Dialectic is not inherently bad, but it is reserved for the realm of philosophy and consciousness as we meditate upon the contradictions inherent in life.  Postmodernism is an atheistic anti-metaphysics that creates contradictions and chaos as it attempts to reconcile dualities in society by abandoning the search for truth with an inverted logic of critique.  It denies the meta-narrative for micro-narratives but this in itself becomes a metanarrative.  No Truth being a Truth within itself.  The inherent contradictions in this theory cannot be reconciled.  The contradictions in society can only be reconciled spiritually in art and spiritual individual achievement.   The inversion of the Hegelian Dialectic is responsible for the catastrophes of the 20th and 21st centuries.  Much of the fault of this current attack on Western art, philosophy, and literature can be traced back to Theodor Adorno, whose Critical Models of Theory at the Frankfurt School in the Weimar Republic looked to criticize Western literature to find its hidden power dynamics.  He is famous for saying “there can be no more poetry after Auschwitz” thus assigning Western art and literature and the mysticism imbedded in it that goes back to the classical world and the Nordic-Germanic culture as being synonymous with mass hypnosis, fascism, and genocide.  He aimed to critique the Western “Culture Industry” with its hidden intentions of racism and sexism which results in events such as the Holocaust.  This is why you see young activists on the left calling Jane Austin “racist” and smashing statues.  Much like early Christianity with its notion of idolatry and sin, “woke” Intersectionalists use Dialectical Materialism and the hyper-critique of postmodernism to wreak havoc on our greatest works of art for the “original sins” of slavery, racism, and patriarchy, yet leaving us in replacement nothing more than insincere kitsch and race and gender agitprop.

Intersectional Feminism has been a particularly vicious ideology, as has Intersectional “Queer Theory.”  These ideologies have poisoned even basic courtship between the sexes, looking for hidden power dynamics in every interaction between men and women, even to the point of calling great art sexist and in extreme circumstances sexual harassment when an “objectifying” painting is on a gallery wall.  These concepts are of course absurd, but Intersectionality creates a mass hypnosis and hysteria, so things that may have once seemed outlandish to consider become a hyper-puritanical witch hunts where people look for nefarious hidden intent in everything. 

               Women on our college campuses are being taught wildly expansive definitions of rape which include having a single drink, which apparently makes a woman “unable to consent.”  As mentioned, even paintings are considered a form of sexual impropriety, especially if made by the dreaded “straight white male.”  A number of young women now thing a man asking you out for drinks is “sexual harassment.”   On a college campus, a heterosexual Caucasian male is viewed as a potential rapist until proven otherwise.  Some may call this hyperbole, but campus speech codes and Sexual Assault Tribunals act like Kafkaesque kangaroo courts, with Intersectionalists lined up to condemn the “straight white male” with a priori assumptions and fabricated evidence.  He is guilty by dint of being white and male.  There has been a plummet in the number of young people dating and having sex.  Intersectional Feminism is clearly a psy-op to destroy our society.  This form of Marxist Feminism has also given way to “Queer Theory” which denies gender binaries, calling them socially constructed and pushes the concepts of gender “non-binarism” and the cult of Transgenderism, where children undergo puberty blockers and genital mutilations to approximate an appearance and vibe of the opposite sex they were born as.  This is the sexual disorder auto gynephilia being forced upon our children and young adults.

               Perhaps the greatest tragedy is the implementing of Paolo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.”  Freire hailed from Brazil and developed a Marxist system of education that dispensed with the “banking method” of knowledge where the teacher dispenses information to the students and instead relied on a “collaboration” between student and teacher.  This “collaboration” involves the student telling personal stories of oppressions they experience in Western society as a “person of color.”  The person of European descent, the “colonizer,” is forced to listen and not talk.  This cultish education practice has destroyed all standards in the Western public education system and has allowed the Intersectional cult to take over our universities.   It is based on specious reasoning and understanding history.  It is a form of racial activism in favor of ethnic minorities to basically “make things up” as they go along and change history.  Postmodernism, Deconstruction, Intersectionality, and the theories of Paolo Freire are responsible for a catastrophic downturn in reading in the American public.  If the text is devalued, then the act of reading lacks value, so people don’t do it, become lazy, and seek information and entertainment elsewhere, thus lowering all intellectual standards and during the average citizen into an empty shell open to suggestion.  Freire’s theories collapsed the Brazilian school system and had to be abandoned, yet they proliferate here.  As we can see Intersectionality exists as a subtle drive to enact a cultural genocide on the Indo-European people and condition them to accept their replacement by Third Worlders in an act of retribution for historical events which have exaggerated themselves into mythological events with requisite blood rituals of sin and redemption.

               What can we do to prevent this decline and collapse?  An alternative to the theory of postmodernism has not been able to gain foothold in our academic institutions.  Conservatives abandoned the academy during the 1980s when Evangelical Christians took over the Republican Party and brought a sort of medieval anti-intellectualism to American conservativism that didn’t really exist before.  Conservatism was about liberty and the ability to be the master of one’s life.  Conservatives once understood the Classical principles of the Roman Republic that our country was founded on and its political and intellectual structure.  They understood the concepts of the Enlightenment.  However Christian dogma took conservatism over for a number of years.  It is time for a complex, Nietzschean and spiritual philosophy to replace postmodernism to revive Europe and the Anglosphere.

               Perennialism, the concept that all religions come from a common source along Theosophy, Hermeticism, and the Classical Pagan Philosophies must merge to form a “Fourth Way” of politics and culture, devoid of the puritanism of Nicene Christianity, particularly Protestantism.  These philosophies must be influenced by Nietzsche and Heidegger along with esotericists such as Aleister Crowley and Julius Evola.  This is a modern, heightened revival of Indo-European Pagan Culture.  A new praxis of thought must emerge on the Right.  I intend with my work to provide a philosophy for spirituality, culture, and politics for the future.

               It is clear that Leftism and Intersectionality are destroying the West.  Something needs to give and a new current of thought must emerge to combat it or all we have to look forward to is Third World collapse, chaos, and the complete obliteration of Indo-European culture.   The Western Occult Tradition and the Nordic-Germanic Pagan Tradition are the only paths forward for our society.  The Great Work of the alchemists, the perfection of humanity, is the goal of this work.  All are welcome in this endeavor.