I’ve probably told the story about how I’ve become a right winger a million times, but I often don’t mention that my introduction into the Dissident Right was via the NRx movement. At some point towards the end of 2014 after having been accepted into the Orthodox Church, my godfather took me out to a cigar lounge. Having previously been a “leftist,” but having my World View flipped upside by Orthodoxy, I was open to suggestions politically. My godfather introduced me to the NRx movement that night. After months of romanticizing ancient Orthodox Emperors and Monarchs, the anti-Democratic and anti-enlightenment ideas within NRx appealed to me. I was enthralled. I dove into reading Mencius Moldbug’s “Unqualified Reservations.” It always bothered me that Curtis Yarvin was an Atheist, but his blog did in part help shred any semblance of “liberal” that I had left in me. I began to question the enlightenment philosophies. I read a lot of his source texts, which are much better than his texts, and is frankly the best reason to read his work. The link to very good reactionary works from the past, such as my favorite political book, On Power by Bertrand De Juvenal. Eventually, I was brought into an NRx organization called The Hestia Society, and helped to establish a local Baltimore Chapter. My godfather was the President, and I was his 2nd as the Chapter grew. We called this the local “mannerbund.” I was in the national slack chat, and ran a Twitter profile with my Pseudonym, Gabriel George. My profile pic was a goat which I had taken a picture of at a Hermitage. Mostly due to my organizational skills displayed in helping build our chapter, and the influence of my godfather, I was fairly well respected in the community and sphere. Eventually though, somehow my Twitter page was doxxed. I believe this was around 2018. Someone hacked into my account, and revealed my identity in a tweet, and called me a racist. This was done by a spouse of one of the men in our Chapter, and a fellow parishioner at our Parish. This should be a caution for dissident groups, to take spousal relationships into consideration when allowing people into your circle. Anyhow, this security breach led to me getting kicked out of the National Slack Chat for Hestia. Fair enough I suppose. I drove on with my real name, and abandoned the Pseudonym, and began my public life creating video content, and podcasting. During my time in NRx, I went hiking with Nick B Steves, was introduced to race realism, the Jewish question, Holocaust narrative questioning, and all of the topics that characterizes the right wing. My podcast however, Hearth & Fire, enabled me to network with people from other segments of the right, and opened up opportunities for political involvement on the more active side of politics. As issues such as demographic replacement grew in importance to me, I became active in politics, working on various campaigns. I was eventually kicked out of Hestia, entirely, at the behest of Warg, who as he said, “wasn’t very impressed with my intellectual work.” For those who don’t know, Warg was at that time the Pseudonym for Wolf Tivy, the editor and chief of Palladium Magazine.I’ve personally never found any of his work on Palladium very insightful either. The feeling is mutual. I think he’s the biggest mid-wit in the entirety of right wing politics. Perhaps my public association with Nick Fuentes was the final straw. Or maybe it was that I had written for The American Sun, a publication of a rival NRx faction. Or maybe it was because my critiques of the enlightenment and Popular government were increasingly less grounded in secular utilitarian arguments, and more from an Orthodox Christian metaphysical Worldview. There were developing ideological clashes brewing for sure, however I always was hopeful that the NRx movement would eventually be successful in their mission to establish a post-enlightenment system of government. However, in pursuit of that goal, the NRx movement has made some fatal errors that I believe will only further American decay.
Hestia, and I suppose NRx at large had several ideas as part of their plan to create parallel institutions to the “Cathedral.” For those that don’t know, “The Cathedral” is what Curtis Yarvin (Moldbug) referred to as the overarching progressive institutions of power in our Liberal Democratic society. These would include not simply the government and its “deep state,” but also Universities, mainstream media, think tanks, and any sort of institution with significant power in society. The Hestia Society wanted to both build a new Aristocracy of sorts, which is the idea behind the mannerbund network of local chapters. That’s fine and dandy, no objection with building a network of good men with a common objective and unified political beliefs. Hestia however, also had the ambition of courting elites to their cause. They believed that this was how they could eventually affect the Sovereign peaceful transfer of power. They believed that if they could convince enough elites that their ideas would be more beneficial and advantageous, then the elites would give their support. They even shut down their infamous website, Social Matter. “Not your grandfather’s conservatism.”
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