Men and the City 53: On the Edge of Chaos or Order? (Hobbesian Moment Part 3)

Masses of men are being pushed to the edge of a new order.

Any Moment Now.

Men in the city are on edge. Like the rolling thunder before the downpour or the viral tweets of conspiracy theorists on chaos media chasing national scandal there is a sense that any moment now something big will break. Such a sentiment is not universal but it is percolating in the imaginations of men. Even the Gerontocrats in the White House, the Ponzi-schemers on Wall Street, and Silicon Valley’s Techbros are feeling the pressure, a little. So-called soft economic data tabulated from the vibes on the street has turned fearful and pessimistic. So far, bleak public perceptions remain abstractions - invisible forces yet to materialize in hard data - but the specter of “something wicked this way comes.”

Conflict creates clarity.

Conflict creates clarity. Reading through comments on YouTube, SubStack or X reflects a clash of perspective unified only by mutual distrust, paranoia, and hostility to opposing view points. Opinions always vary as well they should but today’s cacophony echos irreconcilable universes that can no longer coexist. Pleas for “unity” and “rising above differences,” or more sinister censorship of “extreme” voices fall on deaf ears because acrimony has seeped into every public space, however neutral and anodyne. The only way forward is direct confrontation.

What exactly are we confronting and what sides are clashing? As I said, conflict creates clarity and jagged battle lines are becoming sharper and bloodied: West confronts East (the Global Majority if you prefer), native confronts migrant, voter confronts citizen, elite confronts plebeian, old world confronts new, so on and so forth. Ironically, the greater the suppression of these realities the more explosive they become. Race realism and the JQ are mainstreaming in the West, and in the East a multipolar world is emergent, one retrenching around historic regional, civilizational, and economic spheres of influence. Boundaries are hardening and the long-anticipated collision on all sides is imminent.

So many, too many, see the residue of design in the anarchy. However, the Rothschild bankers, beta-technocrats, and Zionist donors are not maestros of mayhem but idiot kings and degenerate kleptocrats. It is the festering masses of men on the street who will decide the fate of nations. Remember, arsonist burn and saboteurs sabotage while builders build and leaders lead, you are what you do. Legacy power is descending into a Hobbesian moment when economies collapse, institutions burn, wars rage, governments fall, and power changes hands, violently. However, for the huddled masses gathering outside the halls of power desperate for wages, sex, faith, community, and the humble dignity of national identity it will be a time of succession. The rise of a new order led by a new vanguard is upon us.

Living on Edge

I am writing this essay from Washington DC, a place I know well. America’s “recession proof” city has become spectacularly wealthy over the past 20+ years. In 2017 Amazon spurred a bidding war among metros across the US when it announced it would build a second headquarters. Amazon settled on Crystal City Virginia, right across the Potomac river from Washington DC; go where the money flows. According to US News and World Report, the DMV (DC, Maryland, and Virginia) area boasts 4 of the top 10 richest counties in the US, including the wealthiest - Loudoun County - where Porsches, Lamborghinis, and Lucid Airs swerve between giant, multiplying data centers.

It is virtually impossible to pierce the money bubble once you have achieved generational wealth, and for the DMV elite that is what has happened. For the rich cantillionares like key Trump advisor Howard Lutnick who bought a DC Chateau for $25M (from none other than Fox News anchor Bret Baier) there is no real concept of economy, nation or society, only disdain for the way we lowly peasants live and think. DMV’s high earners have amassed so much money that the skyrocketing prices of a McDonald’s quarter pounder with cheese or a dozen eggs is an innocuous statistic of whimsical curiosity, little else. As out-of-touch with street level reality as they are, they also hold self-destructive views that threaten their reign. Beyond tax evasion and IPO exits their top priorities are climate change, human rights, universal basic income, and antisemitism task forces etc., things that convicted felon Sam Bankman-Fried called “effective altruism” as cover for his Ponzi Scheme.

Virtually everyone else lives on the invisible edge. Even the nominally upper-middle-class are making hardship withdrawals from their 401Ks to make ends meet. It gets much worse as you move down the income ladder where record numbers of Americans are struggling:

• Buy Now Pay Later is a popular way to afford groceries

• Many are choosing pickup over delivery from Dominos to save a few bucks

• 80% of Americans think fast food or Starbuck’s lattes are “luxury items”

• Higher prices have led to “tipping fatigue” from consumers stretched to the limit

This amidst viral TikTok videos showing layoffs hitting younger Americans hard, many of whom secured their first remote job during the tumultuous days of Covid lockdowns. Gen Xers are buying homes for multiple generations (Baby Boomer grandmas and Gen Z kids), picking up a little bit of the slack in housing demand because Millennials cannot afford homes, what a mess! All this begs the obvious question: What will break the system and push so many on edge into desperation?

Breaking the Spell

The causes of great wars, economic crashes, or mass movements seem obvious in retrospect, at least according to mainstream narratives. Careers are made and Nobel Prizes awarded based on identifying causality but the truth is that forecasting the future is virtually impossible because human behavior is too unpredictable. Things on the extreme edge, the “fat tails” of public consciousness upend world politics and shatter global economies. One day, regimes are stable and populations are docile, the next, a Tunisian fruit vendor sets himself on fire and the Arab Spring topples governments like dominos (not the pizza). Where will the psychological dam break in the West?

Fear is pressing on the minds of men. Fear of inadequacy, fear of losing a job, fear of divorce, losing parental custody, and on a grander scale fear of losing your community, your homeland, your nation. Abraham Maslow identified another, perhaps more powerful kind of fear in what he called the Jonah Complex, fear of one's own greatness or potential. It is the main thesis of Men and the City that deep down in the recesses of their souls that Western men from Berlin to Paris and London to Chicago, and Vancouver to Sydney fear the power they wield more than anything else. They fear the power vested in collective racial consciousness.

Deep down in the recesses of their souls Western men fear the power they wield most of all.

That fear is all that stands in the way of revolutionary change. It is in the alchemical transformation of white consciousness where fear will suddenly melt into fiery rage. As much as this process is psychical and spiritual it is equally emotional and visceral. It is in the “animal spirits” where the collective archetype will awaken. It is in human tragedy where the cages will rattle and unrestrained feelings will finally escape from self-imposed imprisonment. In recent months, the barbaric murder of Austin Metcalf in Texas, the stabbing of three English girls under 10 in Southport, and violence in a German Christmas market killing a 9 year old and injuring hundreds more are the rumblings before the quake.

What breaks the spell of restraint will be something small and unpredictable. There will be a kind of “initiatory act” - an act of defiance that rallies the masses - that dumps kerosene on a simmering fire. Those on edge will be nudged into feverish dissent and chaos media will winnow “the general arguments down to street level.” Fools, Frauds and Firebrands will twist and distort facts as damage control but in its terror whatever happens will be so gruesome it cannot be ignored or denied. Eventually, after much friction and frenzy run their course new leaders will whisper to the masses what must be done, what direction we must go. Governments will fall and in the void a power struggle will commence.

Succession not Secession

America has a history of rebellion and reconstitution. President George Washington led a militia into Pennsylvania to crush the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 at the dawn of the Republic. By doing so he instantiated the power of the national government and executive power. Three decades later in 1831 an enslaved preacher named Nat Turner incited a slave revolt in Southhampton Virginia, and three decades after that the radical abolitionist John Brown seized the arsenal at Harpers Ferry in the hopes of fomenting a mass uprising. Often forgotten is the Bonus Army of 1932 when some 40K veterans and their families rioted in Washington DC, violently clashing with police until General Douglas MacArthur burned their encampments and expelled them from the capital.

The American penchant for backlash against central power leads many to believe the US is headed for secession, a national breakup. GMU professor FH Buckley addressed this theme in his book American Secession. Like many mainstream conservatives and classical liberals Buckley interprets US troubles as a Constitutional crisis and the loss of liberal values. His diagnosis is below:

“The icons of American nationhood are the liberal principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Other countries have their common cultures or religions. What America has is an idea that constitutes our identity as Americans, and that idea is liberalism in the classical sense. American nationalism therefore is necessarily liberal nationalism. If we are to resist the call to secession, it is our allegiance to our country’s liberal principles that will unite us.”

American Secession - FH Buckley

Setting aside the obvious fact that the masses of foreigners colonizing the West today are overtly hostile to liberal values, Buckley’s assessment misses the mark. Principles do not make nations, people, founding races make nations, and it is the rise and fall of the founding demographic that times their lifecycles, and America is no exception. The Constitutional Republic has fallen because the social contract that binds nation and people together has shattered, the institutions of power have betrayed the ethnos. Constitutions are not mere words on paper, they reflect the unique demographic, cultural and spiritual content of the founding race so what we are witnessing is the invalidation of the constitutional order. The succession of a new, reconstituted State will follow.

Four Eras, Four Conflicts

So what does this mean for our dubious future? To answer this question lets briefly review the past. There are four distinct American eras and conflicts:

• Founding Era (1620’s-1770’s) - Revolutionary War (“War of Separation”)

• Jeffersonian Era (1780’s-1860’s) - Civil War (“War of Federalization”)

• Lincolnian Era (1870’s - 1960’s) - Civil Rights (“Cold War of Disintegration”)

• Post-Republic Era (1960’s - 2020’s) - Hobbesian Moment (“War of Integration”)

Notice that the four distinct eras of US history terminate in conflict, hot or cold. The first began more or less in 1620 when the Anglo-Protestant founders Samuel Huntington referred to as “settlers” established the 13 colonies and birthed the national consciousness. This lasted until 1776 when revolution broke out and a War of Separation split the colonies from the British Empire.

Civil War punctuated the middle two eras. Southern professor Donald Livingston characterized the Civil War as a conflict between Jeffersonian and Lincolnian America, a nation of sovereign States (plural) against a sovereign State (singular). Union victory subsumed Jeffersonian America into a Federalized Republic. This commenced the Lincolnian period lasting roughly a century from 1870 to 1970. Lincolnian America ended with the Civil Rights Movement in the Sixties.

America’s true national identity is now a direct threat to pluralism and the Post-Republic order.

From 1970 to today we have lived in a post-Republican period of disintegration, what elites deceptively call pluralism. Pluralism is the methodical erosion of the constitutional order by means of demographic replacement and the ascension of the demos over the citizen. The discord and fragmentation Americans (and westerners) feel culturally, linguistically, racially, religiously etc. is a direct byproduct of pluralism, a reorganization of the State in service to immigrants, refugees, minorities etc., and against the founding demographic. At all levels of society (government, corporate, community) America’s true national identity is now a direct threat to pluralism and the Post-Republic order, which is why nationalism is outlawed by the State.

What kind of America?

While the situation appears complicated it is actually becoming a simple binary - ethnos against State, less a civil than a revolutionary conflict. The situation is similar across Europe and North America. Politicians, institutions, Fortune 500 companies, academia etc. cater to the growing non-native demos while legacy citizens are marginalized and suppressed, systematically. Again, the social contract has been broken. Mainstream parties that try to reconcile pluralism and constitutional order under the guise of “conservatism” are fast going extinct because the two are incompatible.

The ethnos is being forced to renationalize, to reassert its collective power based on survival instinct alone.

The Post-Republic era has brought us to the Hobbesian Moment when legacy authority collapses in on itself, root and branch. However, far from dissolving into division or national breakup, the ethnos is being forced to renationalize, to reassert its collective power based on survival instinct alone. Renationalization is the precondition for a reconstitution of the State, a realignment of national-societal institutions with the founding ethnos, what I call the succession of a new order.

What exactly that order entails is pure speculation at this point. However, given America’s Anglo-roots, it is likely that the centralizing force of a Neo-Leviathan fueled by Masco-Nationalism will be a temporary phenomenon. Sort of like Cromwell’s reign in England, the interregnum will necessitate a concentration of power to reset the system, but the Anglo-American temperament will not long sustain it. The climax ahead is some combination of the violent storming of the Bastille and Japan’s Meiji Restoration, a revolutionary overthrow and subsequent modernization project wrapped in one.

At the center of succession stands young men.

At the center of succession stands young men, some of whom are reading this essay now. We are the vanguard, we are the future elites but our mission is not to tear down as much as rebuild. It is not simply to restore order and stability but to reconstitute, to reorganize and realign the United States with its true identity (a similar reorg will happen across the West). The success or failure of the Neo-Leviathan will determine what kind of America we remake. The clarion call for mobilization, the pebble that starts the avalanche is close at hand. Will you be ready when it finally comes crashing down?

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