The Right Hand Path

Wrath, Pride, and the Desire to Win

The Suppression of Wrath

A couple days ago my wife and I were invited to a beach event by a mutual friend. What I didn’t know (until we got there) was that this was a “Pride”- themed event. Fortunately, this wasn’t a depravity-soaked event like what was seen in several cities this month, with men in bondage gear dancing in front of children. The degeneracy was relatively tame and was limited to a couple of dudes in banana hammocks dancing to shitty pop music.

So I floated on a beach float, talked to our (straight) friend and her (straight) friends. (These events invariably attract straight women. The psychology of the “fag hag” is another topic that probably merits discussion.) There were also quite a few straight men. Some, most likely there because their wives/girlfriends brought them there and others because, most likely, there were straight women there.

I had a drink or two, and tried to have a good time despite the very notion of a celebration of “Pride” being fundamentally distasteful to me.

Regardless, as I looked around, I realized that I didn’t hate the people in attendance. I didn’t get into any arguments or debates. It wasn’t that kind of venue, and I didn’t want to, well, be a dick.

I will, of course, point out that I do possess quite a large amount of animosity towards those that actively do or promote sexual things to or in front of children, but none, thankfully were in attendance.

But no, I didn’t hate them. I held them in the same regard as I hold drunk girls twerking at a bar. The same regard as people who are captured by consumerism or reality TV or porn or communism or mask-wearing or any other variety of soul-crushing activities that NPCs engage in.

It was pity. Not from a haughty, holier-than-thou place (OK, maybe a little bit. I did call them NPCs after all), but from a place of sadness that these people were not awake to the bullshit that was being fed to them.

The Necessity of Guidance

During my “awakening”, I spent no small amount of time on /pol/ and no small amount of time on Odysee and Substack and other “alternative” outlets listening and reading things from people who dare to stray outside of confines of the continually shifting Overton Window.

Regarding religion, I’ve been exposed to arguments for a seemingly endless variety of Christianity from Orthodox to Catholic to (the even more divided) Protestant to Mormon. I’ve been exposed to arguments regarding Christianity as a Jewish psyop meant to sell the goyim on pacifism. I’ve been exposed to arguments regarding the Church as a supreme evil for the forced conversion of original Pagan Europeans. I’ve been exposed to (and have espoused myself for over 20 years) arguments for atheism and rationalism.

My previous essays were all about the rejection of materialism, but that isn’t enough. The big question was “How should one live?”, and simply affirming that there’s something “more” doesn’t answer that question. Thankfully we’ve been given guides.

Still, while I have not yet made that complete leap of faith into full-throated worship of Christ, I find myself leaning ever closer to it. When I was in Spain I felt compelled to pray, for some reason, in one of its beautiful churches. The word of Christ and his story just get to me, somehow, in a way I can’t rationally explain.

Aside from the intuitive notions, several rational reasons for leaning in this direction were also considered. Namely, that the opposite of what our opponents say is most likely the truth.

Atheism is pushed hard by the establishment, and moreover, Jesus is often the only religious figure that is an acceptable target for ridicule. Nearly every “edgy” show and comedian since the 70s would dunk on Christ and His followers, and it was pushed and promoted and put on TV. Today, jokes at the expense of Jesus are mainstream.

I wrote before about how TV and film are essentially, literally, a brainwashing device that creates plausible alternative realities to give you the impression of things being a certain way when they are not. The people who put things on TV and who make films will not greenlight a project unless it comports to their mission statement.

And who are those people? Well, the vast majority are Jewish. If Christianity was a psyop, then the Jews are really bad at recruiting Christians. Yes, I know about how many modern Christians have been brainwashed into foaming-at-the-mouth love for Zionism (namely the evangelicals), but if you listen to or read any Jewish-sourced media (almost all of it), you’ll find that Jews outwardly, passionately hate Jesus Christ and Christians. They despise Him and His Church and are not shy of expressing this vociferously and often. He is not spoken of kindly in the Talmud.

One example I can recall is an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry David is to give a eulogy for another Jewish comedian (who is still alive, watching his funeral in another room. That was the bit). Larry, naturally, decides to roast him instead of giving a heartfelt eulogy to get under his skin. The insult that cut him the deepest?
He called him a Christian. “A huge lover of Christ".

So no, I don’t buy that the story of Christ was invented by the Jews to take the fight out of Europeans. If that were the case, it didn’t work very well. Jews have been expelled from Christian Kingdoms for (alleged? lol) subversion and malfeasance on numerous occasions.

But the main reason that I am leaning into it is because what Jesus says is true, on a fundamental level. The truths he tells are echoed in other traditions throughout the world and throughout human history. I have also written quite a bit about this, and since I have only become more convinced of it after reading the Bhagavad Gita. The commission of sin and the susceptibility to klesha are fundamentally the same thing, and they produce the same results.

So as of now, I might be sitting on a fence for now, but it is a fence which includes teachings of both of these traditions (and arguably many more, though I have not yet studied them). I argue that they’re both stating a truth about humanity that has been known for thousands of years and is constantly being suppressed by our capital-E Enemy. It is exactly these truths which, I believe, will serve as a fundamental guide to how we should live and act in this world. It is how, I believe, we are exactly how to deal with our Enemy and how it will eventually be overcome.

The following is a prime example of how this works.

Division, Pride and Wrath

I was inspired to write this after reading this article by The Prudentialist commenting on a Twitter shitstorm that another favorite author of mine,

Kruptos

, had instigated. You’ve probably heard about it already, but if not it’s worth a read. Long story short, Kruptos was telling the Dissident Right that they shouldn’t look down on a trailer-trash single mom, who was later revealed to have an OnlyFans account because she represents “our” base. The “our” is in scare-quotes here because, much like the previous “Alt-Right”, the DR doesn’t seem to have clearly defined boundaries. The best definition I could come up with is “The guys the media keeps calling ‘far-right extremists’”, which is probably not a great definition because to them Ted Cruz is a “far-right extremist”, and he most definitely does not belong in this camp.

The Prudentialist’s article (and Kruptos’ argument) hit home for a few reasons. For one, I am of the working class stock that this girl is from. My dad was a fuel service technician. This is a fancy way of saying he wrenched on fuel pumps at gas stations for a living. He came home smelling of diesel fuel on a near-daily basis. He, though, was not an idiot, and exposed me to no small amount of culture. One of his friends was a musician who played in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. My uncle went on to med school and became a doctor . My stepmother’s father is an old-school biker who used to roll with a club.

I spent a good deal of time with people from many walks of life, but many of them were the types that got dirty. That waited tables and tended bar. That’d sit down at the local dive for “lite” beer and gruff talk. As I went on to university after the Marines, I credit this upbringing of seeing real men and real women doing shit jobs and making shit pay for keeping me grounded. It opened my eyes to the face of true elitism as I sat next to 20 year old kids (who still had their mom do their laundry for them and still gave them an allowance and had their entire college “experience” bankrolled by mommy and daddy) give mundane, idiotic answers about the world’s problems as if they knew anything about the world.

When my wife, who is middle-class and Dutch, met my family and some old Marine buddies, the culture clash was a bit of a shock. After spending time with them, though, she saw the kind of honesty and fortitude that made them worth being around. It was kind of fun watching it dawn on her how this “crazy gun-owning American” she was going to marry came to be.

We are fortunate to have academics and thinkers on our side. We are fortunate to have people who have spent their life studying history and the classics and theology and philosophy. But they, too, are highly susceptible to letting Pride get the best of them. I’ve read much about how Pride is omnipresent in our opponents, but we must make sure we don’t let it get the best of us.

Even if you espouse elite theory and don’t think you need the proles, know that it’s always easier if they’re on your side. The OnlyFans thot that dwells in the trailer is far, far more likely to be swayed to our side than the deluded hedonists at Pride, as white working class people are the target of elimination for our foes.

Regardless, we must understand that all of them are victims in the war we are fighting. They have fallen into the grip of delusion and materialism. They are ensnared in a trap. I know it’s passé to quote The Matrix now, but I’ll repeat the quote anyway:

That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.

The people inured to the current wretched moral paradigm are those we are trying to free. It is true that many of them will not wake up. Many of them will fight us every step of the way. Some will not.

I find it hard to believe that Christianity implies pure pacifism. This certainly wasn’t the case when Christendom was Deus Vult-ing all over the place back in the day. To me, it seems, that the messages about surrendering wealth and turning the cheek had more to do with the type of stoicism and non-attachment that Aurelius and Krishna had also espoused, not a literal commandment. I am not against fighting back when appropriate, but Christianity also teaches grace, and for good reason.

It’s not like I expect the entire DR to embrace Christianity, but maybe they can learn a thing or two from it. If you think you can put every normie to the sword, it’s not going to work out well for you, and you will be sorely disappointed at the results.

I know it’s easy to be disappointed by the masses, but let’s focus our wrath on the generals here, not the soldiers. It’s easy to get mired in despair and cynicism and wrath. This piece by Academic Agent is an example of such misguided wrath, and one that I felt the need to comment on because yes, I was one of those “Trump guys” before I saw the whole picture, and no, I was not a “sub-90 IQ right-wing populist”. If anything else, my support was one of sheer desperation. A futile hope that Trump’s presidency would actually do something to shake up the system.

Of course, it wasn’t long for me to figure out that the game was rigged and that democracy and “civic nationalism” is a sham. AA is one of the guys that helped enlighten me on this.

I’m not insulted or offended. I know why he feels the way he does, and now share his frustrations, but even the more rabid MAGA types may eventually come our way once the folly of the Boomer Truth Regime and the failure of Liberal Democracy make themselves even more evident. We do not all have to be Evola, who deliberately avoided writing for “the masses”. It will not take elaborate or sophisticated philosophical or political or religious discussions to win over those who are already on the edge.

Trailer park girl and the majority of white working-class Americans for the most part still hold on to some small sense of virtue, albeit one that has been perverted due to living in a world full of lies. They are not unlike an alcoholic family member. Yes, they have been deluded by addiction but they are still your kin. Do not let yourself forget that they are our countrymen.