Message from @Alex Kolchak - NY
Discord ID: 515992063456575488
From IE Literature Club team:
@here **6PM (EST) this Sunday the 25th, the voice chat will host Chris Robertson, a noted essayist for Counter Currents. I will conduct a 30-60 minute interview with him about his two books—In Defense of Hatred and Letters to Anwei—and then the voice chat will open to a general question format between members and Chris Robertson. My interview will be critical because I have several disagreements with Chris, but remember to be respectful; do not interrupt the guest, keep on topic, and mute your microphones when not speaking.**
Join us tomorrow! It's going to be a ton of fun!
It’s Lit! (Club)
Can't wait for the interview tomorrow. First time reading along with the lit club too.
I know Chris irl. He's a cool guy, this is worth listening in on.
Watching college football depresses me because my school is awful at football lmao
Football and other games like that are just simulated warfare anyways. It gives people the 'us vs. them' mentality, sort of like how the olympics were originally meant to spread peace. It was a substitute
It gives people the tribalism they crave, it gives them a way to be explicitly chauvinistic for something that is socially acceptable
Exactly
my guys are better than your guys
But with all the switching, trading, etc. it's no longer people from your town against people of other towns
It's whoever is the best against the best the other team has to offer
Like my family is more into college football then I am and they never went to college. I just started going to this college this semester too 😂
@Isabella Locke-MT Ironically enough, the Olympics is one of the biggest indicators of the biological/anatomical differences between races.
I agree
huh, it’s almost like there’s a metaphor in there about regional identity being destroyed for the sake of profit <:galaxybrain:366743669484683264>
the trading players thing, that is
College football is the same as fraternities and sororities I suppose. People naturally desire identity and fraternity. They want a clear "us" and a clear "Them"
Its simple that way
My brother is like that. Completely obsessed with this one team
It's probably 90% of his identity and he's a husband and father. He watches every single game, has lots of merch, etc.
I'm pretty sure he's an NPC.
@Brunswick people always make it sound like “us vs them” is wrong, but our assumptions and observations of “the other” tend to be correct most of the time
^
I agree Alex
I’ll take the 70% solution that offends a few people over the 0% solution where no one’s happy
All of these are surrogate identities for lack of identification with blood and its actual heritage. Whether it be a sports team, a subculture, for liberals POC and sexual deviants, or for conservatives Israel
And they're all very shallow identities compared to the real thing, and prone to relapse into dissociation and nihilism
Even political affiliation, and even ethnonationalism un-acted upon, is this surrogate much of the time
I follow/interact with a bunch of women on Instagram who've built their identities around their aesthetic, basically flowers and daintyness
I guess that's better than most as it's essentially traditional femininity, but it does seem to tend towards consumerism at times
It's easy to fall into the trap
I follow a few SAHM vlogs and they are always showing off the products that they have (mops, certain cleaners, etc) and I was jealous that they seemed to have it all together. I bookmarked a few of the products they were endorsing. But at the end of the day, I don't need a $40 fancy mop in order to keep a clean home
Forty years ago.
Yeah, MP is great. Wouldn't be aired today
Cleese has said some pretty nationalist things in the past
Strange guy looking into it - pro brexit, anti-globalist sentiments yet..anti-Trump.
Probably just doesn't like his personality enough to be anti Trump?