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Alaric The Barbarian
@0xAlaric
Warrior-Poet lifestyle advocate. Historical research and martial arts poasting. Founder @Dissident_Rev. Read my book!
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Oct 21 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Aella is a really odd figure. She’s clearly not just dumb, which is what many people say; and her thinking is just close enough to the “dissident sphere” so as to make people feel like she’s engaging with it.

Outside of people falling for bait, “so close, yet so far” is a common reaction. She does accurately diagnose a lot of things about sexuality and lust, and the odd forms of self-consciousness around it today. Female desire inherently involves being objectified, male desire is in many cases performative or competitive for its own sake, popular sexual morality is pretty bizarre and contradictory, the culture lies that women don’t enjoy sex, etc.

But as close as she can get, there is an unbridgeable gap. She extrapolates strange morals from those observations, weird and off-base personal norms. Alien desires.

As far as I can tell, Aella was raised as some flavor of ultra-fundie, and as a result she experienced “sexual liberation” in a direct and unselfconscious sense. She Actually Went Through It. Now she hosts rationalist orgies as a way to extend that revolution — a continual exercise of the same process — the process of ritually disabusing oneself of “traditional sexual morals” — of seeking more “philosophically true” or “essential” pleasure.

But this is *not* the popular experience of “sexual liberation.” Most of the people on here were born far after the Sexual Revolution proper, and experienced it as a continuous mass-cultural ritual. Young women, for example, are expected to ritually experience and reject traditional sexual morality, to act in a stage-play of the Endless ‘70s that includes both the shame of “traditional morality” and the activist anti-eroticism of the new. Young men are beaten into neuroticism about their sexuality, a similarly-staged process *in which the “traditional view” is a key player even long after its death* and desire is used only as a social-political signal.

So even though many people share language and concepts with Aella, and she even touches on some wrongthink truths about sexuality, there’s this unbridgeable gap.

Aella exists unknowingly as a tulpa of the sexual-cultural ritual “unbinding” that she Actually Underwent, but her audience only pantomimed; she is pure Process; she is a human representation of the bizarre stage-play that is modern sexual-moral instruction. That people alternately treat her as a weird pet or a demon only demonstrates this. She is the Noble Savage of the Sexual Liberation Cinematic Universe made manifest, and I don’t think she realizes it because no one in her audience (or her critics) has identified the process they’re both participating in, surrounded by even, as they engage with it. Whenever anyone engages with Aella, positively or negatively, they are participating in the same mass-cultural ritual that produced Aella, she is a memetic construct manifested by the fact that “sex discourse” is the actual goal of popular sexual morality
Oct 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Women will post this captioned “me and who???” and then go on the Tea app to ruin a guy’s life for being a little too pushy at a bar. They are a fundamentally unserious species and our customs should reflect this Extrapolate this to traditions, laws, social customs
Oct 9 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
AI is a bubble because tech is a bubble, in turn because data is a bubble, in turn because institutional investment is a bubble, in turn because US macro policy has been deranged for ~15 years

Emergency wordcel thread

1/ AI in itself is the most overleveraged industry in recent history; capex is in the trillions and revenue in the low billions. Every major AI company is operating at a vast loss, which is justified by media histrionics about AGI bringing the apocalypse.
Jan 11 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The “work” debate is mostly people talking past each other, but it’s very clear that old-type “bootstrap” discourse is just done. Sandblasted into nothing each time it encounters reality. The “deal” for young people only gets worse with each passing day. Doesn’t mean you should just become a NEET, obviously. But I don’t think most of the people arguing on that side are NEETs, or want to be NEETs. It’s just the premise.
Jan 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The passive nature of so many young people is the result of a lifetime of this. Every event has been used as a way to further harangue and limit them. Responding to ie violence is out of the question. If you do, the typically helpless authorities suddenly have infinite power. Image Kids aren’t dumb — they know who is protected vs who isn’t. It becomes obvious as early as grade school that some groups have free rein and others do not; the incentive/punishment system exists for normal whites and not for others.

Tyler has a Permanent Record. Tyrone does not.
Jan 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
US public schools consistently underpunish nonwhite students and overpunish white students. It’s where people learn the rules of anarcho-tyranny, and has been far longer than this has been the legal status quo. This isn’t spread via policy or law. Disparate impact suits are usually brought up in this discussion, but all they did was codify the existing state of affairs.

It happens because “educators” — most people, really — are totally mindcaptured by media.
Jan 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The main point of this post is pertinent and good — and of course it’s insane that we have to live like this — but I am begging people to drop the “bullying” frame, really the entire word.

What’s happening is not 80s movie shenanigans, it’s racial gang violence. In the US, the equivalent is white parents talking about “bullying” from black students, which is really not the case. The cultural image of “bullying” is exclusion, mean names, minor/funny harassment. What’s happening is often attempted murder.
Jan 2 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
ON THE ORIGIN OF MARTIAL ARTS

How people “learned” to fight is a contentious question. In many cases, it’s very tied into ethnic pride. Here’s a rough sketch of my hypothesis.

In short, I think the better question is when people *forgot* how to fight.

1/ Image There are many competing claims to being the “originator” of martial arts.

We’re going to define the term as systematized methods of fighting, whether unarmed or with weapons, but particularly hand-to-hand — i.e. archery or atlatl throwing is not a “martial art.” Image
Dec 28, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is ripped from David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water.” I know this because a middle school teacher made us watch it on repeat and do (many) assignments on it. Even as a kid, I found it juvenile and stupid. 150 years ago, students at that age would have been reading Latin. When people brag about their “success” in K-12, it betrays a lack of depth. Basically, that they were good at repeating these kinds of platitudes, and getting pats on the head about it felt like a great achievement.
Dec 27, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I think Elon vs. Everybody is more of a result of information and language disparities. People are too quick to forget the past two years. Vivek has burned a lot of good will today, but will hopefully come around. Either way, he’s not running immigration policy. I still stand by my original take; the system is broken both for the American people and (tbf, less importantly) for CEOs who want actual elite talent from other countries.

Instead it functions as The Great Replacement-inator in white collar fields.
Dec 26, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is an utterly insane thing to say to a person whose country you migrated to for better work opportunities and quality of life. You don’t even need HBD or economic arguments to expose these people as harmful. They just… come out and say it themselves.
Dec 23, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’m a “kid” and I go out. I’m very social.

Nightlife “exists” — but it’s ridiculous to pretend that the social environment of 2024 is just as lively as it always has been.

As it exists now, it’s a pale imitation of 2002-2012. The bars and nightclubs are socially stilted, suffocated. Part of this is downstream of COVID, and another part is downstream of MeToo.

Pretending that nothing has changed and everybody “normal” is “chill” is an absurd thing to do. Everything is either different or just a rehash
Dec 21, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
You’re not gonna believe this…

1/ “Aboriginal America” wasn’t just one unified blob of heya-hoya red men. I know that this is what you were told we believe, but it’s not true. Pre-Columbian America was home to a wide array of vastly different races and ethnic groups, which helps to explain their disparities. Image
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Dec 20, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The existence of the term “POC” is affirmation of the white man as the sole historical protagonist; it essentially translates to “NPC” in world history. I don’t know why any nonwhite person would accept this framing. Grouping themselves in with ie subsaharans, solely contra European history and civilization. Comes from a lack of pride, and major resentment.
Dec 19, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It’s difficult to understate how aristocratic medieval warfare was. Single combats, small skirmishes. A knight could often count the men across from him.

Thus each man was worth much more — trained from childhood, wildly expensive armor, riding a well-bred horse… 1/ Knights, especially prominent ones, were often captured rather than killed because they’d fetch a large ransom.

It wasn’t unusual for a castle to have a few long-term prisoners, often treated quite well by POW standards.

A handful of mercenaries made their fortunes in this way. Image
Dec 19, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
People increasingly can’t understand criticism of fiction.

They see fictional worlds as ruled by Iron Laws, and pride themselves in Understanding The Rules of said world. The characters make decisions of their own accord.

1/ This tracks with the centralization of fictional media into “cinematic universes.”

In this frame, the Marvel Universe *exists*, and the films involve us peering into it for a moment.

Writers increasingly function the same way — playing dolls with established IP.
Dec 12, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This thinking is reduced to absurdity with “gotcha” questions of degree. For example — “why rebuild the Notre Dame instead of saving 40,000 African malaria patients?”

Because it’s here, and it’s ours. Buying a bike for my brother is better than buying 500 meals for Africans. It’s parasitism. There is always someone more wretched than you, always some population somewhere that’s worse-off. This is used as a moral cudgel to strip you of your goods, labor, and affinity.
Dec 12, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is a bizarre way to think about the world. It’s masturbatory — “I value things based on first principles, not petty concerns like blood. I am very smart.”

I value my family more than others because they’re my family. That’s the justification. They have my blood. Once again, like everything else, Nietzsche talks about this. It’s an appeal to some contorted, contrived version of universal morality, a rejection of the obvious truth of Nature.

Mostly it’s just used to hijack other people to support their own “blood.” Parasitic “morality.”
Dec 11, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Huxley was crucified by literary critics for predicting this 100 years ago. The past century has served to slowly affirm him as a prophet; the end state of this vindication is the total rejection of his work, in progress now. Image Today Brave New World is taught as a high school book, which serves only to trivialize and neuter it. Its deeper and more salient points are lost — absorbed into transient, interchangeable, and contrived Discourse, not unlike the disposable world of its characters.
Dec 10, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
“The Affliction caused me to do porn, nothing else. You must now respect me as an Intellectual.”

Even if this was true at face value (it’s not), would it not be a good reason to disqualify someone from being taken seriously? After all, it could be The Affliction talking. Image Porn is often presented as the female version of young male crime. Nobody ever “wants” to do it, they’re forced into it by Purely Systemic Factors. “He wuz a gud boy!” is here translated into therapyspeak. Image
Dec 7, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
What is the end goal of a “fraternal network?” A serious one, that is.

It is the undertaking of great things: campaigns, conquests, coups. You don’t do that by farming chickens with your butt buddies. You do it by boldly taking the levers of power.

1/ “Telling you to go die in a rich man’s war” — this is just dumb. All wars involve dying and in some sense are “rich man’s wars.”

The rhetoric is drivel, and has been for centuries. It’s the same excuse used by people who ie could have gone with Cortés but backed down. Cowardice.