This week’s post is a guest piece by my good friend NotMeNotYou. He has some very interesting points to make about what young men should do in modernity, specifically our warriors. Please enjoy, and if you are interested in more of his work you can find a link to his Odysee channel here: https://odysee.com/@NotMeNotYou:d
In Academic Agent’s Cigar Stream #129: Social Conservatism and Nature (Part 1) a point was made by content creator and member of our sphere RedHawk about us needing more warriors in the movement. I won’t spend any time elaborating on what he meant by that as I will assume everyone reading this will understand the archetypal Priest/Warrior/Merchant/Slave class distinctions of Tradition we all speak so much about. While I do agree with him, it must also be addressed simply having warriors is not enough; they must also be utilized. A movement (if that’s what we want to call our ever-tightening association of dissidents) is only as good insofar as it can have real-world impact and it is the warrior who directly shapes the reality we’re all looking to change. This is obvious, but we are currently in a position where our warriors sit idle, and an idle warrior makes mischief.
I recently had the pleasure of making friends with an Indian man a little bit younger than myself. He and I bonded swiftly, and he has since become the newest member of my tight-knit friend group. As a bit of a social butterfly, and owing to the area in which I live, I have an opportunity to make the acquaintance of many (mostly Brahmin caste) Indians. None of them, however, seem to have the personality that I am drawn to. During one of my earlier conversations with this new one, he mentioned that he was of the Kshatriya (warrior) caste. Over the course of some weeks it slowly dawned on me: the reason he fit so well into my social group is because we are, spiritually and physically, warriors as well. Without delving too deeply into my personal life, I’ll mention that the men with whom he fits in so well are high-powered business types: aggressive and hungry. One of them a skilled martial artist, another the survivor of a genocide, and so on. This also led me to consider the political sphere that I have a (mostly) parasocial relationship with and who will, presumably, be the main audience of this piece.
I was fortunate enough to both attend and speak at the inaugural US Scyldings event, during the course of which I was able to meet at least a portion of the 100 or so attendees. I can personally attest that there was no small number of warrior types among the attendees. These were young, fit men with alert eyes who seemed comfortable regardless of who they were talking to. They were a more mature sort than the type I met from Don The Pleb’s sphere but he had more action-oriented men around him as well. Don and his followers put on display the need for putting warriors to their work: when they aren’t fighting they’re still fighting. In the case of our less academically-inclined brethren the fight is also taken to those they see trying to hold them back. Like the drunkard who slugs his friend trying to stop him from getting into a fight he cannot win, indolence causes the warrior type to lash out even at allies.
E-drama aside, this presents us with a real problem: whatever warrior types we are able to attract that don’t have the inclination to waiting for the time to be right to seize power still need a constructive outlet for their nature. After all, forming an intellectual vanguard around which a political movement can coalesce won’t mean much if we lack a martial element. Why is this, though? Is it not that case that, should our vanguard get a hold of the levers of power following some sort of vacuum, the military and law enforcement fall in line as they do every other time the person who writes their paychecks? Well, yes. However, this is not the only use for the warrior caste, nor is it the best use of our warrior caste.
As The Distributist has pointed out on several occasions, the people in this movement/sphere/whatever do not have the luxury of resting on their laurels and collecting millions from deranged benefactors in the way our enemies do. For the most part, our content creators, our philosophers, our priests, our Brahim work regular jobs and push the boundaries of our political ideology in what spare time they have. This is no different for our Kshatriya but what is different is how their free time should be spent. The theory-crafting should be left to the nerds. The time sitting in front of a computer hammering the keys to refine some point should be left to those best suited for it. The warriors need to be in meatspace making problems for our enemies directly.
From here, I will be speaking to those of us that are more suited for action than theory crafting: it is not enough, though it is a requirement, that you build real-life networks of like-minded individuals and meet with them. It is not enough, though it is a requirement, that you take responsibility for your physical and spiritual forms through exercise and some form of meditation. You must confront the enemy’s power apparatus head-on like the warriors of old confronted their enemies on the battlefield. This does not mean throwing your time and energies away on political rallies. This does not mean getting in punch-ups (however fun those may be) with purple-haired zombies acting out their latest programming. What it does mean is you get involved in your community. Oh shit, did I just lay the most banal and boring advice on you? Only if you lack imagination. Join your local town council and take it over. Join your local Knights of Columbus and take it over. Hell, join your local Masonic Lodge and take it the fuck over. Just be sure to nix the kiddy diddling.
“The organized minority always rules the disorganized majority” has almost become a cliché in our circles, but it is no less true. All it takes is a few friends, a few sympathizers, to get the reins of such organizations. The boomers that run most of these things are literally – and I have seen this with my own eyes – begging to pass the torch to a younger generation. The hot blood that flows through your veins is wasted screaming into the void and jousting online. Since we do not have the numbers or organization yet necessary to combat any sort of physical force the current entrenched elite could throw at us, we need to start in the only places available to us. This is action. This is the action that we can actually win by taking. It is often marveled how there are more constitutional carry states in the USA now than there have been since the Civil War and this is largely a result of a small group traveling the country and taking it to the state courts. You can do this in your own locality.
The battles our warriors will face will likely never be physical ones. That isn’t the time we are in. I know, I know, how fucking lame, but this is how we make change. Town charters can tell states to fuck off when they come with megamart plans or low-income housing. Charity organizations like the KoC act like any fraternity and use in-group preference when it comes to things like getting and holding positions of power in smaller organizations. If this sounds like what the left did with the “long march through the institutions” that’s because it is exactly that. When people poo-poo the idea it is because they are thinking on too grand a scale: how do we take the universities? How do we take the federal government? How do we take the unions? We don’t. We take small, local organizations that can trade on their name locally and we grow them to having outsized influence in our direction. And if you want to take a small gang of Knights to the bus station every night and bounce the dealers… Well, I ain’t gonna stop you.
Really good article. Joining and setting up organisations - especially fraternal organisations - will be critical going forward.
Great stuff! But I expect great words from NotMeNotYou, it was an honor to meet him and I consider him a friend now. o7