Today’s guest
is a pro-white intellectual from the mountain west who describes himself as a “Scholar of American Nationalism, Purveyor in organizational operations, essayist and bloviator on many topics.”In this call we discuss the history of the Late Alt Right through the modern Dissident Right and debate a number of issues pertaining to why Walt left white nationalism.
Topics include:
Walt’s exit from the Alt Right shortly before Charlottesville
Long term consequences of Charlotteville
Did MAGA / the Alt Light exploit the Alt Right at Cville?
How the optics debate emerged in the Gamergate movement and brought it down
Gamergate, Manosphere, & Libertarianism as pipelines into the Alt Right
How the Alt Right worked as a catalyzing term for many disparate factions
The artistic and symbolic significance of a name
“Norm’s” adolescence on /pol/
George Zimmerman trial as pre-Alt Right
Charlottesville as turning point against real life political action
“Norm’s” origin in the pacific northwest
Midwesterners as parochial hobbits
Walt’s disgust with living in Omaha, Nebraska
Historic wanderlust of white people (“Faustian Spirit”)
The Trump Wall as a catalyzing image and the “Soul of Maga”
The “Beautiful Loser” mentality of conservatives
Nick “the Knife” Fuentes and his gladiatorial rise to the top
Millennials never had the chance to lead the Alt Right
Walt and Norm debate immigration
Norm opposes high IQ immigration for altruistic reasons and supports non-migratory cultural exchange
IQ vs “national character” - intangible qualities of a nation’s people
Can the cortisol associated with diversity provide a level of vitality that strengthens a civilization?
White people need a “wilderness” to struggle and not become hobbitish
Norm is in favor of hospitality towards visitors but not immigration
Intersectional nature of identity
Identitarian “software” vs “hardware”
Genetic level of “nation”
America as an empire instead of a nation
White subgroups have important temperamental differences
Where do you draw the line in restricting immigration? Transhajnals vs. MENA?
Norm’s proposal to heal Black-White racial strife via racial separatism
Walt’s pushback that Blacks are our relatives and have a legitimate tie to the land
Possibility of CRISPR turning everyone into an Aryan superman
Technology as inevitably causing genetic decline
Religion as mechanism for enhancing free will and agency
NoFap as will to power
Episode 14 : White Identity with Norman Eckart