Suggestions on the Thomas Carlyle Club

(H/T Mark Citadel)

From Henry Dampier’s site: http://henrydampier.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/drafting-plans-for-the-thomas-carlyle-club-for-young-reactionaries/

1. We need to make a list of concrete ideals that all splinter cells and men within the group must adhere to.

2. On criticism: the only people who we should care about being criticized by should be those within the ranks or those individuals who are far more likely to adopt our ideals than the general population but haven’t joined our ranks. Who cares if some college liberal/antifa compares us to the SA or calls us heterosexist or cis-centric? Our movement is not for them.

3. Each splinter cell needs to recruit from the local police force and try to have insiders within their respective police forces to be able to have access to documents and hardware in case the time for the Revolution for the Nation has arrived. Recruitment will be easier once more Ferguson-type events occur.

4. Recruitment must extend towards the rural populace and small-farmer and rancher types in small-towns and other rural and semi-rural areas.

5. For those in major Northern industrial cities, there should be an Urban Plan in which displaced and betrayed working men are heavily recruited. This is the group hit hardest by ultra-capitalism, illegal immigration, and outsourcing.

6. There needs to be a creation of various “front” organizations that we do not acknowledge having any ties while being intimately involved in their matters. These groups can be anything really from hunting and fishing clubs, charities, and political groups. The last one needs to be our emphasis however. There needs to be a proliferation of local third parties in the territory of each cell, each one promoting a single or small number of issues. These issues together will be the same as those that are apart of our entire political platform.

7. For those who are able stomach it, some members will have to get involved in party politics for two reasons: subversion and intelligence. There needs to be plants in local versions of both the Democratic and Republican parties. The Democratic plants should be there to do two things: promote even more outlandish and ridiculous ideas(i.e. out liberaling the liberals) to galvanize the local population against that party and another faction of plants needs to try to revive the Old Democrat populist platform. The Republican plants will be there mostly to observe and try to move the local parties further to the Right.

8. There needs to be a more clandestine way of communicating within and between cells. We need to go offline at one point.

Chilton Williamson Jr. on Modern Cities

“Metaphorically, modern cities are medieval princes who steal all the food their starving serfs produce and, having eaten themselves to a grotesque corpulence, suffer an apoplectic stroke and live out the remainder of their days in impaired mental and physical condition.”

– Chilton Williamson Jr.

Jack Kerouac’s Conservatism

Jack Keroauc is an interesting figure. He was the unwitting godfather of the 60’s counterculture(something I have no doubt he would denounce) but he was deeply conservative:

“I began to understand that the city intellectuals of the world were divorced from the folkbody blood of the land and were just rootless fools, the permissible fools, who really didn’t know how to go on living. I began to get a new vision of my own of a truer darkness which just overshadowed all this overlaid mental garbage of ‘existentialism’ and ‘hipsterism’ and ‘bourgeois decadence’ and whatever names you want to give it.” (The Vanity of Duluoz, 1968)

 

 

 

“Kerouac’s sad final years were spent in an increasingly frantic quest to find a true home for himself and his mother. On an almost yearly basis he oscillated between Florida and New England, always following the same cycle: purchase a home, move in, grow restless, sell it; purchase another one, move in, sell it; and so on. Tragically, even when he returned to Lowell for a brief time, he found that the nurturing community he had written about so fondly for so many years now existed only in his books. He yearned, as the fictional Odysseus had during his wanderings, for the familiar, for something real and stable in his life. His mistake lay in looking for these things outside of him. Nevertheless, that desire is a good, true, worthy desire, and it permeates all of Jack Kerouac’s writing. It is the reason why the Beat movement could not last. Allen Ginsberg, the poet visionary, pined for utopia and spiritual revolution. William S. Burroughs, the outlaw libertarian, pined for anarchy and gay liberation. Neal Cassady, the exiled cowboy, pined for girls and cars. Jack Kerouac, the mystic, pined for God and home.” 

H/T: The American Conservative

There is nothing more heartbreaking than a man failing in the search for a home. 

Love You For Loving Me – Stoney Larue

Dressed-Up Warhorses

 

Colt 1911 and Walter PPK

Triple Deuce

 

Clyde N. Wilson on Patriotism

“Patriotism is the wholesome, constructive love of one’s land and people. Nationalism is the unhealthy love of one’s government, accompanied by the aggressive desire to put down others – which becomes in deracinated modern men a substitute for religious faith. Patriotism is an appropriate, indeed necessary, sentiment for people who wish to preserve their freedom; nationalism is not.”

– Clyde N Wilson

While I, as a Romantic, think that nationalism is a good thing, my view of nationalism is in line with Dr. Wilson’s view of patriotism.