A Very Exciting Project

After mulling over it for well over a year, rewriting outlines over and over again, I have decided to finally write a book that encompasses everything I put on this blog. My goal is to have it done by the end of the summer, but I acknowledge this to be very ambitious. Luckily, since I have been writing for years, there are lots of notes for me to work with. In light of this, my writing here might be spotty…but maybe it won’t. There is a good chance that with my extra down time I will knock out articles left and right.

Regardless, I am very excited to announce this project. For all you gremlins out there who have supported me, I present the first draft of my book’s introduction.

            There is a great deal written about political theory, political philosophy, current events, and economics, but very little encompassing all four. What is even rarer is a text outlining the issues of the age, their origins, and providing concrete, actionable, solutions. Having been involved in dissident politics for years, taking part in varied forms of activism, writing for numerous publications, and appearing on podcasts, I became disillusioned with the right’s inability to form a unified narrative which not only explained the current age, but also provided solutions that are in reach, opposed to fanciful daydreams.

            What follows is an attempt to offer such a unified narrative. It should be said that the narrative offered here can be expounded upon in many directions, but this does not take away from the base narrative. Truth, by its nature, can always be understood more deeply, and be applied in new ways, and the absence of a detail does not negate the value of the base picture. To whom is this narrative addressed? While hopefully enjoyable to consumers of political literature, I am primarily addressing the shakers and movers of America: politicians, staffers, church leaders, board members of non-profits, and business owners. You have the desire to change the country for the better, and the means, but how to most effectively wield your power is an open question. As Machiavelli wrote The Prince, as a guide for holding power, so I write this to teach you how to exercise your power to help make your country a better place.

            First, we will take German Idealism, the belief that reality is dependent upon the human subject, to be indicative of the spirit animating the LGBT+ movement, third wave feminism, Tavistock styled social engineering, and the Popperian “Open Society”. This will involve a brief summary of German Idealism, its connections to political revolution, Martin Heidegger’s critique of the Idealist position, and how Heidegger’s critique, while true, opened up space for the anti-humanism of Michael Foucault, Jacque Lacan, and bolstered the ecological vision of The Tavistock Institute for Social Research. Finally, we will look to two great saints, Saint John of Damascus and Saint Maximus the Confessor for providing an alternative metaphysic. After seeing how the subjugation of reality to the human subject provides justification for the social ills mentioned above, we will turn to the theoretical answer. Taking Brooks Adams’ thesis in Theory of Social Revolutions, that economic revolutions make social revolutions possible, the case will be made that conservatives must first become the economic center of the American economy before they can wield effective political power. Once the theoretical answer is explored, concrete, actionable, strategies will be laid out for those in a) politics b) church leadership, and c) business management, making the theoretical solution realizable for your specific situation. Before reaching the end, we will then examine competing visions on the right, namely Curtis Yarvin’s inaction imperative, Caesarism, and variations upon Rod Dreher’s “Benedict Option”. After clearing away false solutions, “solutions” that would only cripple the right, we will end by arguing that alongside economic revolution, which would make social revolution possible, the right must abandon the idea of culture war, and embrace a culture vanguard.

            Though this book contains philosophy, it is primarily a manual for political change, and as such it should be judged in the same way a manual for putting a desk together is judged. If what is written here leads to a change in the economic center of the country, then it is a success, but if it does not, even if its arguments are sound, it fails by its own admission.