Crabs in a bucket, the problem with right-leaning influencers
In a world where status is becoming more and more confused with actual fulfillment, it is no surprise the people have this strange socially approved desperation towards becoming an influencer - rather than having actual influence. It is understandable to a degree, having the blue check mark by your name is liken to having the right wrist watch or suit after all. It is social proof and peacocking for the modern man that carries quite a bit of value in both the professionally creative and sexual selection market.
The problem however is that most of these influencers and social media stars are adolescent pranksters, low value women and agents of social justice. The sad reality is that the Left owns all of the mainstream channels that the creative class spends its time in, therefore the attention market is dominated by degenerates and harlequins that hold the same personal depth as the click bait titles they publicize.
In other words the Right has a scarcity problem, for a lack of a better word, the scarcity of cool. Now its often self defeating to talk about what is cool in the first place, but in the interest of thoroughness lets toss up a word salad of the term here. By definition cool is being unapologetically confident in oneself with the implied embracement of ones own edge, without feeling antithetical to their own sense of morality. That goes a long way especially for teenagers undergoing their normative identity crisis to project their values onto. Whats happening is in their ritual defiance of authority they are unconsciously vetting for non-standard modes of authenticity, and this is perfectly reasonable and natural. So when someone like Milo Yiannopoulos or Gavin McInnes enters the stage they become immediate rock stars of the Right due to the rarity of iconoclasts in the conservative sector. Many like myself were thrilled to see their meteoric rise if only to expose the Left’s inability to categorize the outspoken charisma of these men, as figures like these are an absolute net positive towards maintaining cultural order in the grand scheme.
But what happened to these freedom fighters?
Milo went from exhibiting the hypocrisy of identity politics across college campuses to becoming an intern at the office of Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Southern Poverty Law Center deemed Gavin’s fraternity organization the Proud Boys as a white nationalist and alternative-right extremist group, today many of these patriots still continue to suffer behind bars for defending themselves against violent anti-American thugs.
Where was the Right?
We can go further back to when Lauren Southern comically identified as an attack helicopter to point out the absurdity of the gender narrative whilst regularly commenting on the blatant white racism in South Africa. She was held high in the public eye for her honesty, correctly so, only to be consistently lambasted and banned to the point where she disappeared for an entire year like a ghost.
Where was the Right?
Or when Stefan Molyneux brought forth the largest philosophy platform of our time teaching anarchism and voluntarism. Only to be totally shut down by the big tech overlords followed by an ominous silence from a large percentage of his own audience.
The majority of those who vote red are unfortunately liken to crabs in a bucket that can’t see the big picture.
Yes - the nature of conservatism is to preserve tradition and boundaries, but in retrospect we’ve become blind by our own hard lined stance. The reason we lack headliners in our talent pool is because we are so quick to press the eject button when anything non-standard is brought into the picture. Unlike the Left we don’t admit our own bias and shame our public figures that don’t stand up to the impossible standard of messianic perfection. The Right must learn that the preservation of tradition is further solidified by enfranchising their own stars to continue producing content in a creative sphere lacking any semblance of masculinity, patriotism or honor.
As long as it doesn’t cross the line and the consequences were based on the pursuit of truth, we must fight for our influencers. Molyneux was not wrong when pointing out the abstract racial differences in IQ and the relationship between single motherhood and the welfare state. Today this is almost common knowledge, but boy was it dicey only four years ago. More dangerously, Yiannopoulos was never condoning pedophilia but pointing out in a booze infested late night video call that homosexuals on average have much less chastity than heterosexuals. Which is true, as much as I disavow the anecdotal manner he argued from. And in every instance the Proud Boys were acting on self defense, it is sheer ridicule to call them a terrorist group. In its aftermath every men’s organization or conservative fraternity owes gratitute to McInnes and the lot for being the first at the door to receive the brunt of the force.
Perhaps what we need is our own Studio 54, a place for the weirdos and dissidents to congregate. A place where social cohesion can be aesthetically promulgated and supported by a community that has the back of others unlike the current ladder of our political influencers and followers dragging others down to climb up.
Until then, we need to extend our range of acceptance when it comes to right-leaning creatives and influencers. So long as lines are not crossed, we must publicly stand up for our stars for the preservation of Western culture. Because the old Republican party is dead, an extinct dinosaur that has no say on the matter.
The new Right as a cultural movement was created by figures like those mentioned above and will only continue by the passing of the torch to new and upcoming influencers and artists, and just know the radicals will find dirt to be dug up as it is human to err. And if there is nothing controversial they will simply conjure a false narrative into existence for their utility.
So in turn, we must be prepared to stand up for whats right by standing up for our public figures - we must stop the infighting and tossing important arrows in our quiver.
We all go up together.