The article has an interesting quote by one of my favorite novelists, the late Ian Fleming: “once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.” And so it is. The loose confederacy of White Supremacists, 'race realists', alt-Christians, Game/PUA Manospherians, etc. are the avowed enemies of our nation, our faith, our civilization, and our freedoms. They are, in essence, the 21st Century/Tech-Age version of past threats like the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks, the Nazis/Fascists, and the Wahhabi Jihadists.
What many people don't understand about this whole Red Pill movement is that it is not a homegrown ideology. It's base of operations, funding sources, and most of its ideology is from Europe: primarily Hungary, the Baltic States, Western Ukraine, England, and Italy. Whatever they call themselves here, they are at bottom an offshoot of radicals congregating over there. Many of the Red Pill bloggers are headquartered in Europe. Among them are Vox Day, Matt Forney, Paul Ramsey, and it's believed, the old Daily Stormer gang. From those places, they feed anti-Americanism and other toxic ideologies into this country, buoyed by lots of ready cash from foreign-based radicals.
Here's a look at some of the figures behind the curtain. The readers can judge for themselves about the 'Americanism' of the Red Pills:
Daniel Friberg, a Swedish billionaire:
Friberg is the heir to a huge Swedish mining consortium, Wiking Mineral. He served for a time as CEO of the company and packed its board with others of his political bent. Friberg was largely responsible for starting up much of the 'alternative' media; including Arktos Media. In his youth, Friberg was a skinhead and jailed briefly on weapons charges. He was attached back then to so-called 'White Power Heavy Metal' bands. Friberg saw the potential of music and other modern mass-media to promote the Red Pill in popular culture.
Friberg is a firm believer in the Marxist strategy of Metapolitics, and believes in taking over societies in the same way that the Cultural Marxists do. He said recently that: "You can't change politics at the polling booth, you have to change the culture, you have to have people who can write, speak and produce art and media to go out and change culture before you have a political movement...{we are fighting} a war of social transformation, fought on the level of worldview, thought, and culture". To this end, Friberg founded Arktos Publishing, AltRight.com, Red Ice Radio, and subsidizes several Red Pill media outlets.
Jim Dowson is a British billionaire:
Dowson initially studied for the ministry, but later became attracted to the occult. He found a group loosely based on the Knights Templar---a historical organization, but one which has more recently become an occult motif. Dowson made a fortune as head of a marketing firm and has used those marketing skills to promote the Red Pill online. "You're got to remember, most political parties don't know their a**e from their elbow." he boasted once to the Belfast Telegraph, "You bring in a professional marketing team, you know I trained in America {nota bene} ... "If you apply professional marketing techniques and fundraising to a political situation it's a gift."
Dowson was being investigated in the UK for potential ties to right-wing terrorist groups in Eastern Europe. and attempted to emigrate to Hungary. In 2017, the Hungarians ejected him as an Undesirable Alien. While there, he founded Patriot Media, and is known to be orchestrating and funding much of the White Supremacists' social media programs.
Theodore Beale, a.k.a. Vox Day is an American national who emigrated to Italy in the 1990s.
Beale's wealth is not known, however he is the son of Robert Beale, founder of the Comtrol Corporation---an early leader in Electronics technology and software management. The elder Beale drifted into far-right US politics and ultimately went to prison as a tax protester. However, Beale's fortune is still controlled by his family.
Vox Day engages more with the public than do most of these other foreign provocateurs; but as regular readers here realize, he has extensive connections both the US and abroad. Beale is especially useful to the movement because of his understanding of the American political and cultural system. He's made several forays into infiltrating Red Pill ideology into the Mainstream American Media---none of which have been financially successful but all have garnered considerably publicity for the movement. Some have even theorized that Vox' goal wasn't even necessarily to succeed, but to carry out these projects as publicity stunts.
Alexander Dugin is Russian national with extensive ties to the old Soviet oligarchy:
Dugin was the son of a KGB General. His wealth is unknown, but he funnels considerable cash into Far-Right causes abroad, including America. He has appeared on Alex Jones' show, and is known to be good friends with Mike Cernovich, Richard Spencer, and other Red Pills. Despite what the MSM tells us, he is not connected to President Putin. He founded a Russian political party with the very telling title of The National Bolhevik Front. Dugin, true to Bolsheviks of any flavor, is fanatically anti-American.
Just like he favors a synthesis of Bolshevism and Fascism politically, Dugin favors a New-Age religion which is a fusion of Christianity and Gnosticism. "We must rely upon Eastern theology and mystical currents." he said recently, "for the development of our Fourth-Wave Political Theory."
A final word needs be said about Frenchman Alain-Marie de Benoist.
De Benoist is a French academic who coined the term "The Alternative Right." All of the people mentioned above and numerous American Red Pills reference de Benoist as one of their major philosophical influences. De Benoist has spoken at some of Richard Spencer's events. He has a very typical Red Pill ego and often boasts about his superior intellect. When President Reagan was elected, de Benoist remarked: "Better to wear the helmet of a Red Army soldier, than to live on a diet of hamburgers in Brooklyn." Some Conservative.
De Benoist has denounced the American ideal of the 'Melting Pot'; as well as other of our cultural values like free markets and democracy. In fact, some of his anti-American rhetoric reads like a secular version of Iran's 'Great Satan' motif. As for his views on Christianity, de Benoist thoroughly despises it. Thomas Sheehan, an American Professor Emeritus of Religion, wrote of de Benoist: "To summarize: De Benoist's fascism is at odds with Evola's metaphysics but agrees with his social and political philosophy.... [F]or de Benoist, the organic State is an ideal that men can set for themselves and perhaps, with force, establish." Sheehan references here Julius Evola, whom de Benoist often cites as an influence. It's noteworthy that Evola was an Italian Fascist---frequently quoted by Red Pill writers as well.
Judging by the list of philosophical influences which de Benoit claims besides Evola---names including Herder, Pareto, Gramschi, and Nietzsche---it's fairly clear that his writings are a synthesis of what has become standard Red Pill thought in the US.
The important thing here is: Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that these extremists really represent Americanism in any way, shape, or form. Nothing that they teach is based in either Christian Tradition or the US Constitution. Their whole philosophy is based on nothing but a hodge-podge of the detritus of failed European 'utopias', discredited pseudosciences and psychologies, and long-vanished religious heresies.
The National Review is right: we need to recognize this threat to our freedoms for what it is.
What would they have done in life without their trust funds?
ReplyDeleteThey have never worked a day in their lives.
I hear Beale lives off Daddy's offshore cash.
If that's true, it would be act of social good to throw them all in jail: that way they could still be social parasites but nobody would complain about paying for their upkeep!
DeleteThis whole discussion about the Red Pill movement has been quite enlightening - but also a bit confusing. I still see the Left, the communists and that whole miasma of Soros-promoting lefty uglies as the REAL (or most) danger to our society. Surely the dimwits following on the Left are more numerous (and dangerous) than all the Red Pills combined! Can you provide some sort of comparisons?
ReplyDeleteI've often said here that the two biggest threats to Western Civilization today are Western Liberalism and cultish fanatics. Groups like the Red Pills are dangerous because they offer a false 'alternative' to the Whacko Left. They also tend to take action in a different form: they resort to direct violence, usually. Don't forget that the two greatest mass-murders in American history were by these types of people: 9/11 was committed by adherents of the Wahhabi Cult and Oklahoma City was committed by a White Supremacist. The same is true BTW for the worst mass-murders in New Zealand, Norway, Spain, and Britain.
DeleteThe Red Pills are dangerous cult too because they are backed by billionaire foreign ideologies---like Soros does with the Left. Cults also pull strings on the Left, like the Scientologists do in Hollywood. The MS-13 gang is deeply rooted in Satanism---which also has a fairly high presence in the MSM. The Moonies have placed people in policy-making positions too as have radical groups within the Mormon sect. These groups, like the Red Pills to some extent, share some political goals with Conservatives which tends to make us blind to their true aims and intentions. As Conservatives, we pretty much know what the Left is doing, but we need to be circumspect about infiltrators within our own ranks.
What is even remotely "conservative" or right-wing or "red pill" about Islamic fanaticism - i.e., Wahhabism, which is out of Saudi Arabia (Sunni Arabs), but, IMHO, ALL of Islam is more allied with the political Left than the Right, or Conservative. And although you indirectly disparage Alec Jones, I'm still a follower (at least I subscribe and enjoy many of the reports that he and Paul Watson present).
ReplyDeleteI used to follow Alex Jones, but recently he's gone off the rails some. He was doing a really good job back in the 90s exposing Bohemian Grove and uncovering various complots of the Deep State. He kind of lost me on the Sandy Hook issue, though.
DeleteAs far as the Wahhabis go, it's more like the Left is supporting them, but they're on their own side. My point was that Wahhabism is another form of radicalization. On the political Left in the US groups like Antifa are also radicalizers. The concern is that radicals usually have their own agendas; and whether they temporarily align with the Right or Left, they've always got plans of their own.
I have to admit that I, too, of late don't open Jones' emailed reports very often - and one BIG reason is that ever since he's been deplatformed on various social media (and losing $$), he's been hawking all that way overpriced "health" food.. The pitch is constant; and even if I actually used some of those products, I'd try to get them from another source! But I don't use them and I'm not interested, so his pushing that stuff constantly is irritating!
ReplyDeleteThe marketing thing was a big turnoff for me too. Back in the 90s, Alex was a citizen crusader. I remember the Info Wars website back then used to be filled with stories and credible links. Now, it seems that he's become kind of a shock-jock.
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