The core philosophy of Brett Stevens consists of a transition from active nihilism to a notion known as parallelism, which (1) refers to how to assess the truth of pattern causality, (2) resolves the tension between dualism and monism, and (3) asserts an independence of method from the universal, allowing multiple human groups to have their own semi-arbitrary methods of adaptation.
This includes a notion of futurist traditionalism, or the idea that tradition is eternal but needs orientation toward the future in order to arise, since most traditionalism so far has been reactionary and therefore unstable. It also notes that the reason for the failure of the Right has not been the Right, but the inherent tendency of the lower 90% of humanity to favor illusions over realism.
Consequently, the first job we anticipate is to rediscover realism or the idea that reality exists, is independent of our desires, and is consistent even if we perceive it unequally. We then have to get away from the combination of individualism and social pressure which claims that we perceive the world equally, creating a universal standard that is both accepting of all and enforced on all, a form of control masked as “freedom.”
You may find more of interest in the Amerika mission statement, but this outline should give you the core ideas of Brett Stevens.
Table of Contents
The problem with being conservative: 99% of your victories consist of saying “no” to the ideas that idiots want to adopt.
What is the value of sensitives? Look around: we live in a ugly and stupid world which could have been prevented if sensitives had been present, and had the power to influence things.
If the Best don’t oppress the Rest, the Rest will oppress the Best
Some people may be smarter than others but together we are a mighty moron.
Social morality follows the utilitarian idea that whatever most people will vocalize approval of must be what is right, even when it is not — or especially when it is not.
Bad rich people are created by thoughtless idiots buying scammy products.
Modernity is a race to the bottom in order to expand the customer pool.
In the hands of the crowd, any idea becomes perverted.
The individualist is beholden to the Crowd for his power. Individualism corrupts and reduces individuality, creating empty people.
Equality makes everyone into a prostitute for social influence points or status.
To all you defenders of democracy, I’d like one answer: all of us acknowledge there are hordes of stupid people out there. Why do you want to give them political power?
Democracy is the most popular political system because it demands nearly nothing from the citizen and gives them the ability to pretend to be anything.
I don’t care what 2+2 equals in some idealized, objective, universal, and absolute sense. I want to hang out with the people who think that 2+2=4, whether right or wrong.
Good education tests depth of perception not memorization and jumping through hoops.
Meritocracy: the idea of making people jump through hoops to gain approval, instead of merely doing it by mob rule.
Work Hard – millions of bureaucrats earing $200,000k/year depend on you!
Most of our failures in love involve self-deception.
Life is improvement. At some point, one transitions, much as we do when we grow up. If life is good, death is good, too, and not as deathy as we think.
1 Updated through (https://www.amerika.org/politics/bureaucratic-methods-wreck-everything/) May 29, 2011 (https://www.amerika.org/page/217/).
2 Created by user Diana de Poitiers on May 28, 2021.
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