If I could like this essay a hundred times I would, for it precisely and passionately expresses what I have felt for several years now. The Right's abandonment of culture lies at the very heart of why our present day society is so sick and vulnerable; its politics so desperate; its institutions so utterly craven. A friend on the Right even said to me once that fiscal policy creates culture. I was so taken aback, I didn't even know what to say! But it is emblematic of the utilitarian, globalist mindset that has taken over the Right and led to its moral collapse. We need to rediscover what conservatism really means, beginning with a renewed appreciation for matters of beauty and truth and goodness. Just respecting the creative white man for his talents would be a good start!
I believe that in 2024 70% of novels published are from women. Are women writing more? Reading more? Do women want to read books written by women? Close to 70% of college graduates are now women. Men are doing poorly by almost every metric. Why is the question.
Your critique of the right brings to mind Andrew Breitbart and his statement that ‘politics is downstream from culture. For the last twenty years (‘cause I’m 77 and have been paying attention), the right considered Sean Hannity and Anne Coulter conservative writers. On Rengery there was NO fiction category. The right wasn’t down with story. And now as a result we have hardly anything in the book culture that is real and unbiased. It’s all woke shit.
I’ve reached out to the Right, actually managing to get my books into the hands of Pat Buchanan, Paul Gotleib, and a few others I’ve forgotten. It was always the same, a promise to ‘take a look,’ and then, silence, or a sorry, ‘I’m too busy with my own book to look at this. Sorry.’
Only now is the Right beginning to look at the art of the right, the books. But one or two publishers is not enough.
“Bringing these men back into the fold…” Fuck yeah! Read my books. I’ve been writing them from the right and getting no help of recognition from the right.
My latest book, The Fake Memoir of a Fool in Love, says ‘fuck you’ to the sensitivity police, the new moral (amoral) commissars and ferocious feminists who have taken over publishing. My book says, this is a man’s life. Love it or hate it, but let it live and let it be if it offends you.
Watch for my book. After 20 months of sending it out and being ignored by Big Publishing, I will wait another month or so and then self-publish. I will be telling all in a short few months.
Reenchant the culture then you will get people seeing archetypes and then the big story that makes up western civilisation then then rest is history, starting a publishing business or media company can only do so much.
I'd suggest finding one of the burgeoning right-wing creative scenes and approach them. I'm thinking of the New Write guys at New Ritual and Terror House, but I'm sure there are others.
Very good stuff. On I, and VI, I think in so far as political figures are able to inspire people, it has mostly been through their mastery of rhetoric and performance, which has nothing other than the creative spirit at it's core.
Your point that any movement will only ever be a flash in the pan if it doesn't have a creative heartwood is important. And fortunately, with the left's structural incapacity to speak to white men anymore who haven't been thorough neutered, that creative force is there for the taking.
The new right simply needs leadership that recognizes this.
I paint landscapes. I discovered I had a bit of a knack for it at the age of 45. If you are a degenerate and create slop, you have a much better chance of getting noticed and promoted than an artist focused on the good, beautiful, and true. For some reason the right does not support artists the way the left does. I would bet that 90% or more of the curators and gallery owners are lefties.
the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
people say I look like Jack Black, a homeless guys asked Jack Black on steroids or autism?
think he wanted to fight? or was he flirting?
Does that make me a white creative? or in the same way Vivek is a staunch conservative?
No one can stop creativity, that's why they try to ban it. Republicans don't need accolades, just a piece of land, a family, and a couple guns to defend it. They definitely don't see Vivek as anything worth supporting.
That’s why I’m doing Breakthrough the musical. Broadway is very gay and hates everything Jesus Christ. I’ve never seen or heard of a musical that had a Christian theme.
"A civilization without a creative core cannot sustain itself, let alone aspire to anything higher. Without them, the Right will continue to speak in borrowed words and fight in borrowed myths."
"[The right] no longer remembers that culture is a kind of governance, that beauty disciplines people more profoundly than fear. A people without beautiful things becomes easier to manage and harder to inspire."
"The Right cannot continue to treat culture as an afterthought. It must see it for what it truly is — the architecture of meaning that makes power intelligible and worth wielding. . . . Cultures build civilizations. The Right’s reluctance to build anything lasting explains why it keeps finding itself living inside the stories written by its enemies."
This is great stuff. We need to bring back patronage. We need to take power in society, and then use it to once again produce great culture, like Christendom once did - "Western civilization still produces these men. You can find them painting in basements, writing on obscure blogs, composing music that no orchestra will play. They are not gone. They are simply excluded. Neither side of our cultural divide wants them."
When enough people tell you to to take a break it’s time to take a break whether you actually need one or not. At best you get to rest, hear some other voices, understand the context/audience better, and come back with something better. At worst you save yourself from embarrassment and get a chance to regroup before wearing out your welcome. White men have exclusively had the microphone forever and the world is asking to hear some other perspectives. I’m happy to spend some time hearing how other people do it and refining my craft for the day people are ready for it. But white dudes as a percentage of the population are still pretty well represented in writing. We’re being asked to share not to leave.
You’ve got a point that I spend a not insignificant amount of time thinking about: I have things to say and the right has a weird relationship with art while the left is tired of hearing from white dudes. I wasn’t part of the generation that wore out our welcome but it’s also pretty clear exactly how we did. We have to get our shit together and we’re doubling down rather than listening. But art is a compulsion, everything is worth a portrait, and all you can do with art is put it out there to see what people say.
This is delusional. The creative white man is cosplaying artist; he has no depth nor insight nor perspective. His life is devoid of struggle, so he has no wisdom nor anything to offer the world but his imitation of dead men. Even when his work is technically excellent, it’s empty and useless.
Let me explain something to you which you are far too stupid to understand:
What you call "white privilege" just means "being able to understand consequences more than 5 minutes away." You dumb Ns can't do that, and think that all the good things we accumulate by doing so are just magically dropped on us.
If I could like this essay a hundred times I would, for it precisely and passionately expresses what I have felt for several years now. The Right's abandonment of culture lies at the very heart of why our present day society is so sick and vulnerable; its politics so desperate; its institutions so utterly craven. A friend on the Right even said to me once that fiscal policy creates culture. I was so taken aback, I didn't even know what to say! But it is emblematic of the utilitarian, globalist mindset that has taken over the Right and led to its moral collapse. We need to rediscover what conservatism really means, beginning with a renewed appreciation for matters of beauty and truth and goodness. Just respecting the creative white man for his talents would be a good start!
I believe that in 2024 70% of novels published are from women. Are women writing more? Reading more? Do women want to read books written by women? Close to 70% of college graduates are now women. Men are doing poorly by almost every metric. Why is the question.
Your critique of the right brings to mind Andrew Breitbart and his statement that ‘politics is downstream from culture. For the last twenty years (‘cause I’m 77 and have been paying attention), the right considered Sean Hannity and Anne Coulter conservative writers. On Rengery there was NO fiction category. The right wasn’t down with story. And now as a result we have hardly anything in the book culture that is real and unbiased. It’s all woke shit.
I’ve reached out to the Right, actually managing to get my books into the hands of Pat Buchanan, Paul Gotleib, and a few others I’ve forgotten. It was always the same, a promise to ‘take a look,’ and then, silence, or a sorry, ‘I’m too busy with my own book to look at this. Sorry.’
Only now is the Right beginning to look at the art of the right, the books. But one or two publishers is not enough.
“Bringing these men back into the fold…” Fuck yeah! Read my books. I’ve been writing them from the right and getting no help of recognition from the right.
My latest book, The Fake Memoir of a Fool in Love, says ‘fuck you’ to the sensitivity police, the new moral (amoral) commissars and ferocious feminists who have taken over publishing. My book says, this is a man’s life. Love it or hate it, but let it live and let it be if it offends you.
Watch for my book. After 20 months of sending it out and being ignored by Big Publishing, I will wait another month or so and then self-publish. I will be telling all in a short few months.
Good luck. We need to beat on this door until it goes down.
Reenchant the culture then you will get people seeing archetypes and then the big story that makes up western civilisation then then rest is history, starting a publishing business or media company can only do so much.
Artists always had a rough time.
I'd suggest finding one of the burgeoning right-wing creative scenes and approach them. I'm thinking of the New Write guys at New Ritual and Terror House, but I'm sure there are others.
There's Upstream Reviews here on Substack.
Very good stuff. On I, and VI, I think in so far as political figures are able to inspire people, it has mostly been through their mastery of rhetoric and performance, which has nothing other than the creative spirit at it's core.
Your point that any movement will only ever be a flash in the pan if it doesn't have a creative heartwood is important. And fortunately, with the left's structural incapacity to speak to white men anymore who haven't been thorough neutered, that creative force is there for the taking.
The new right simply needs leadership that recognizes this.
Right on. That's my project.
Excellent, Gene. I couldn't agree more.
I discussed the disenfranchising process and a reintegration proposal from my perspective in my recent post too
https://open.substack.com/pub/abdestack/p/on-men?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I appreciate the effort. It’s always good to know others are thinking toward a solution.
Not just a failure of taste but a failure of strategy 💯
A most enlightening, edifying, and entertaing essay. Thank you — and continued success with your Substack writing.
I appreciate it.
I paint landscapes. I discovered I had a bit of a knack for it at the age of 45. If you are a degenerate and create slop, you have a much better chance of getting noticed and promoted than an artist focused on the good, beautiful, and true. For some reason the right does not support artists the way the left does. I would bet that 90% or more of the curators and gallery owners are lefties.
What you count as creative work?
I never met a person named Vivek in real life.
my favorite quote,
the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
people say I look like Jack Black, a homeless guys asked Jack Black on steroids or autism?
think he wanted to fight? or was he flirting?
Does that make me a white creative? or in the same way Vivek is a staunch conservative?
No one can stop creativity, that's why they try to ban it. Republicans don't need accolades, just a piece of land, a family, and a couple guns to defend it. They definitely don't see Vivek as anything worth supporting.
That’s why I’m doing Breakthrough the musical. Broadway is very gay and hates everything Jesus Christ. I’ve never seen or heard of a musical that had a Christian theme.
"A civilization without a creative core cannot sustain itself, let alone aspire to anything higher. Without them, the Right will continue to speak in borrowed words and fight in borrowed myths."
"[The right] no longer remembers that culture is a kind of governance, that beauty disciplines people more profoundly than fear. A people without beautiful things becomes easier to manage and harder to inspire."
"The Right cannot continue to treat culture as an afterthought. It must see it for what it truly is — the architecture of meaning that makes power intelligible and worth wielding. . . . Cultures build civilizations. The Right’s reluctance to build anything lasting explains why it keeps finding itself living inside the stories written by its enemies."
This is great stuff. We need to bring back patronage. We need to take power in society, and then use it to once again produce great culture, like Christendom once did - "Western civilization still produces these men. You can find them painting in basements, writing on obscure blogs, composing music that no orchestra will play. They are not gone. They are simply excluded. Neither side of our cultural divide wants them."
When enough people tell you to to take a break it’s time to take a break whether you actually need one or not. At best you get to rest, hear some other voices, understand the context/audience better, and come back with something better. At worst you save yourself from embarrassment and get a chance to regroup before wearing out your welcome. White men have exclusively had the microphone forever and the world is asking to hear some other perspectives. I’m happy to spend some time hearing how other people do it and refining my craft for the day people are ready for it. But white dudes as a percentage of the population are still pretty well represented in writing. We’re being asked to share not to leave.
You’ve got a point that I spend a not insignificant amount of time thinking about: I have things to say and the right has a weird relationship with art while the left is tired of hearing from white dudes. I wasn’t part of the generation that wore out our welcome but it’s also pretty clear exactly how we did. We have to get our shit together and we’re doubling down rather than listening. But art is a compulsion, everything is worth a portrait, and all you can do with art is put it out there to see what people say.
Gene: (Sees comment. Checks profile.)
Profile: "Eastern Ontario..."
Gene: Canadian. Checks out.
Gonna take that as a compliment.
This is delusional. The creative white man is cosplaying artist; he has no depth nor insight nor perspective. His life is devoid of struggle, so he has no wisdom nor anything to offer the world but his imitation of dead men. Even when his work is technically excellent, it’s empty and useless.
Does anything good come from you?
Truth. 💅🏽
"His life is devoid of struggle."
Kindly go fuck yourself, you stupid bitch.
*white privilege enters the chat*
You have no actual thoughts. You just have hate rhetoric handed to you by others with 30 more IQ points than you.
You lead with “go fuck yourself” and then criticize me for hate rhetoric, white privilege? Okay.
Let me explain something to you which you are far too stupid to understand:
What you call "white privilege" just means "being able to understand consequences more than 5 minutes away." You dumb Ns can't do that, and think that all the good things we accumulate by doing so are just magically dropped on us.
Also, you're horrifically violent.
I don’t understand this.
On behalf of Cannon Hinnant, burn in Hell.