Localism

Another short comment, inspired by some of the comments on Nothing ever happens – Rintrah about the interesting future that awaits us:

After decades of failure, people are starting to wonder about alternatives to the status quo, which is clearly beyond fixing. We don't just need repairs here or there, but a whole new set of values and goals, a whole new vision of how to run society, since the current one has proven to be a false promise. This opens up space for competing ideologies, on both the left and the right. The question is: which one can deliver the goods, or at least avoid apocalyptic breakdown?

I think the natural alternative to hyper-extended globalism is localism, rather than white nationalism or green environmentalism (which I see as the competing alternatives).

First, why I don't see the latter solving the problem, and therefore don't align myself ideologically with them, despite agreeing on many basic points:

Both of these left and right versions share a similar awareness of the problem, emphasizing different aspects of it according to their values. Right-wingers point out that the globalized mega-culture has destroyed group identities and national cohesion, in favor of a degenerate rootless form of individualism. Left-wingers don't really mention social cohesion (which has become one of those dangerous spooky fascist words) they instead emphasize the reality of physical limits and material limitations, as opposed to the foolish techno-optimism of today's experts. Today's experts can't see that the world is physical / material, not digital or abstract, and that limits and constraints can't be made to disappear by changing the definition of words or winning debates on social media, they simply exist, and you have to adapt and plan for them. Left-wingers are also more aware of wealth inequality, which right-wingers usually rationalize through Social Darwinism.

On most of these issues, I'd say both are correct.

However, neither of the ideologies offer any way out of the problem. The right-wingers ultimately seem to want to petition the oligarchs and mega-corporations to produce a new version of globalism, just with right-wing values and propaganda instead of degenerate leftist ones.  The core aspects— corporate greed, monopolization, rent-seeking, elitism— remain untouched, but they will be accompanied with based right-wing memes instead of degeneracy at worst or boring corporate sludge at best. They can't understand that those Darwinian values and practices in the economic domain are perfectly compatible with the sleaziness and individualism in the personal / social domain, which is why entire approach fails so pathetically at solving those problems and always will. Left-wingers don't worship billionaires, but they also can't offer anything. For them, it's austerity at worst (you'll own nothing, and you'll be happy), something we already have under neoliberalism, or at best unlimited and deregulated access to drugs and porn, maybe with some supplemental income thrown in, so you can crawl into an opium-den and drown out the extinction of your entire culture and way of life through cheap addictions. Obviously, nobody will ever accept a deal like that, which is why their movement also goes nowhere. 

In many ways, both ideologies have devolved into online impotence, crawling back to the same establishment that never loved them / abused them. It's become 'how I learned to love neo conservativism, as long as I get to own working class chuds' and 'how I learned to love neoliberalism, as long as I get to laugh at leftists'. Sad!

In order to reverse these awful trends, while solving the problem effectively, I think we need to bring back the pre-neolib idea of autonomous regions, ie localism and local cultures, effectively breaking up the doomed mega-system into much smaller independent chunks.

We shouldn't even be aiming for America 1st, let alone creating some giant mega-race (like the white race, the Aryan race, what have you) but rather much smaller semi-autonomous regions. Nor should we stoop to peddling lies and delusions about going back to the golden age, the wonderful years that lie ahead, and all the rest of it. Instead, we should simply say that there will be hard times ahead (the truth, which everyone is aware of by now) but that if we do things right, we can attain stability and survival and continuity, rather than an apocalyptic breakdown. 

Social cohesion and wholesomeness under localism would be organic, ie coming from below, not imposed by mega corporations or propaganda campaigns, let alone based memes and owning leftoids on Twitter. Most modern degeneracy is fundamentally the result of people trying to adapt their brains to an unnatural, unsatisfying, way of life, where there are no material prospects and at the same time no thriving communities, not the result of having bought into "incorrect views". So, they can only really be fixed by returning to a more normal, humble, life. Satisfaction, not perpetual addiction and endless treadmills. 

Regionalism or localism would also solve the problem of over-consumption, but without blowing the whole thing up like the leftists want (again, nobody is settling for austerity). We should aim for the different regions (Southwest / West, New England, Midwest, Deep South, and so on) to produce their own things, for themselves, not depend on massive over-extended supply chains. Of course, some stuff is going to be made better in particular places, some resources are only found in certain countries or grow under certain conditions, which is what trade is for, but the goal still should be for 70-80% autonomy for the things that fall outside that category, reducing the demands that the current system makes on finite resources.

Both of these require shrinking the system. Some natural consequences / policies as a result of implementing this vision are: 

Bringing back factories, which have all been moved to the 3rd world. Related to that, we would have to refocus on building lasting appliances, rather than endless plastic crap, useless gadgets, and made-to-break everything. We need stuff to last as long as it can, in a world with finite resources and hard limits, and the current arrangement is somehow the WORST and least efficient, a total disaster that will leave lasting damage.

Ending immigration, even deporting immigrants. Not for high-minded abstract racial reasons, but in order to rebalance a system that is too large. We need a smaller population. The silver lining will be a higher standard of living, once we're no longer trying to max everything out.

Breaking up the massive cartels that have formed within the elite class, another source of the current breakdown. Same reason as immigration: too many rent-seekers, just in the upper classes, and not enough room for them all. They have to go, in the interests of the whole nation.

All of this stuff requires hard work, none of it will be fun or easy, but it simply has to be done if we want some kind of future. The more time passes, and the less is done to solve these issues, the more ruthless we will have to be. 

Anyways, (for now) that's the basic idea. Maybe not so much of a short comment, LOL, which is why it's going up here.