Monday, December 2, 2019

Ida Davis: Coming Home to What Is Ours - Reviews: William S. Lind, Retroculture: Taking America Back





William S. Lind is an American paleoconservative author best known for Fourth Generation Warfare Handbook, in which he predicted that the 21st-century will see fewer conventional wars, and more guerrilla insurgencies. These would be waged by non-state actors seeking power by winning the loyalty of the people they want to dominate. If that book was meant to help soldiers understand this new form of combat, his latest book, Retroculture, is a “sequel” to help civilians survive in an age of psychological warfare, in which our culture becomes a battlefield, and our minds are under siege. ...

Very fine review of an exciting book that I will purchase. Discussion of the Fifties makes me think of one way we might possibly do more to, not to coin a phrase, 'unite the right.'

There are those in the alt-right, particularly within some of the loftier rarefied intellectual circles, who seem to assume that anyone is an idiot who stresses any different areas of our problems than they do. For example they will say or imply of anyone who admires the Fifties, 'These idiots don't know that a lot of today's problems BEGAN in the Fifties!' Or those who concentrate on trying to do something about our open borders, 'These morons think that closing the borders would solve all our problems!'

Well, I admire the Fifties very much and one of my main concerns is trying to bring about a migration moratorium. But, yes, rest assured, intellectual giants of the alt-right, I am fully aware that some of our biggest problems began back in the Fifties or earlier. Additionally, yes, I am totally mindful of the fact that slamming the doors on migration would not magically solve our demographic and other major problems.

https://www.amren.com/features/2019/11/coming-home-to-what-is-ours/