Nonsense Terrors

Ridiculous fears the Right must cease trembling over.

“Ivan, I don’t want to be on a list.”

I hear this fairly often, normally from men who are making their first real foray into the activism and work of the Hard and Dissident Right. They are not yet militant in character or posture; their new and incipient transformation triggers certain fears that arise in the normal course of this crucial development.

Fears within new operating environments are oft inflated. The unknown becomes more terrifying as the stakes and risks become higher in tandem with the rewards that only committed actions bring.

Yet they frequently depart from reality. While I’ve called out some specific fears about specific organizations in earlier posts, today we’re going to look at the more basal and certainly more ridiculous inflations that men unnecessarily subject themselves to.

Let’s understand something important here.

Whether you are a militant or a civilian, an insurgent combatant or a grandmother who inoffensively spends her time knitting, you’re going to end up the same way:

Life is dangerous and you are going to die.

Get used to it and stop being tremulous.

Death is already racing towards you and there is no avoidance.

In the meantime, you have work to do.

Ridiculous fears don’t help you get your work done.

We’ll examine this “list inclusion” terror that is so common as to be routine; as if there really were Stalinist gulag managers nodding grimly as they scribble down another name for later kinetic handling by the sword and shield of the Party.

It’s nothing more than a foolish canard right now.

“Ivan, the Nazis and the Communists made lists!”

Yes, they did. And they shot those people the moment that list was complete.

Today’s regimes in the West are not National Socialists rampaging under the Enabling Act, nor are the openly explicit tenets of Bolshevik terror used as operating principles today by the collectivist apparatchiks of our governments.

When real lists are drawn up by real tyrants, those listed people are dead within days.

Such lists are not made and maintained “for later”.

Do you witness people being shot?

Are dissidents and patriots in the West disappeared in the night, transported in trucks to distant forests, and blown through the back of the head by dispassionate gunfire in an overarching reign of obliterating terror across the length and breadth of the nation?

Do you believe that if there is reason to arrest you, that the the organs of the State will defer the timing until there is a mass roundup of people “on a list”?

You must strive to understand that reality does not work that way.

And by reality, we speak here of the very specific reality of murderous totalitarian action. In those cases, such lists are used for immediate roundup and execution.

More importantly, they are issued and backed by a State officer or executive whose simple directives are lethal command outside the process of law.

We are not at that point.

Under the governance - even the illusion - of lawful process, States do not simply jot names down on lists for later. Short of arrest on the spot for probable cause, they instead build cases against individuals, organizations, and institutions over time; there is not a central “list” of “people to capture” or “people to watch”.

If you warrant arrest, they will simply come and get you.

If you don’t warrant arrest, you may be surveilled if your activity is sufficiently dangerous to State security or includes unlawful conspiracy; but that is not the case where your topics of discussion are mere political dissatisfaction.

State resources are not infinite. And the harsh reality you must recognize is that your mild dissident conversations do not rise to the level of expenditure of those resources to maintain “lists” of people “to monitor” or “round up later”.

If you’re not being shot tomorrow, rest assured that this is a ridiculous fear.

“But Ivan, you never know when they could start that!”

Yes, you will. You’ll see it coming long before, and by that time you’ll either exist in subjugated safety, having surrendered your conscience, freedom, and dignity to the regime - or you’ll be long past the foolishness of amateur sophistry.

Therefore, my friend, where “lists” are concerned your fears are inapplicable and far more self-important than you deserve. Grow up and mature into a militant who observes reality without romance, without drama, and does not inflate his own self-regard into ridiculous terrors that infect the ranks of which he is a part.

If you’re important enough to be driven into a forest and shot without delay, you already know it and you’re already engaged in action far more consequential than a mere sort of conversation you aren’t used to having yet.

A similar fear, expressed not as trepidation or uncertain timidity but as faux sophistication, is the proclamation that this-thing or that-other-thing is a “psychological operation”.

People see secret wizards behind emerald curtains by default when they are confused and afraid but for reasons of social self-aggrandizement wish to appear wise and profoundly observant. It is annoying to professionals and destructive to their work.

Clout-chasers are unmanly, reprehensible, and contemptible.

It’s very stupid and it’s a terrible drain on momentum for the Hard and Dissident Right, especially when those who put duty ahead of ego are faced with the gasping, cynical profundity of nonsensical would-be influencers who have zero experience with delivery of senior leadership at enterprise scale.

It’s really and quite simply a matter of rationally thinking through the costs and benefits where the question of psychological operation comes into being.

“How much work would it take to conceive, test, validate, plan, present, approve, fund, organize, train, execute, correct, redirect, monitor, document, manage, and report this as a formal State-supported psychological operation? What earned value would it deliver in the face of professional risk management?”

There is a reason the term “conspiracy theory” is so effective.

That effectiveness stems from the observable reality that lurid secret plots are the exception, rather than the rule. While plots certainly exist, they are far less common and certainly not under every pillow in the night.

Officers and executives of the State are charged with enormous and incessant responsibilities, regardless of the type of regime or the nature of the culture they oversee and manage. They do not, above all things, have the time to sit around and plot ways to merely bedevil you.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

“Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity” is the famous and quite accurate admonition of William of Ockham, who left his philosophical razor for you to apply when considering the actions of unfriendly and/or hostile individuals, organizations, and institutions.

Do psychological operations in fact take place?

Yes, of course they do. But their conception, testing, validation, planning, presentation, approval, funding, organization, training, execution, correction, redirection, monitoring, documentation, management, and reporting are not trivial.

The reality is that a psychological operation conducted by the State requires expenditure of time, effort, and resources at a number of levels. And while Government waste is a feature of its spending, it nonetheless will have an object in mind that goes beyond prankster shenanigans or gluttonous delight in trickery.

Dismissal of patterns, trends, and events through assertion of “psychological operations” should not take place unless one has an objectively observant basis for recognition of direct hostile action, which is exactly what a true psychological operation is. Direct hostile action is to be responded to with militant consequence and not dismissal as cover of fear for one’s own inadequacy to face the State as a dissident or actor on the Hard Right.

Therefore those who dismiss something as a “psychological operation” are engaged in the bizarrely self-contradictive action of saying “that’s not real” and at also the same time “that’s a deliberate hostile act” that “we should ignore”.

Armchair strategists are obnoxious. Get over your anxiety of incompetence and cease laudation of every knee-jerk espousal of ludicrous pronouncements!

Become useful to your people and your nation through your own committed and determined expenditure of time, effort, and resources as a trained and competent militant who seeks to drive hierarchy, order, and beauty into reality!

Bloviating on social media about one thing or another being a mere psychological operation, and that you’re probably on a list for calling that out in public, is the height of self-aggrandizing, stupid immaturity.

If that is your conduct, you are a drain on the morale of the People.

If that is your posture, you are a blatant and unrequited fool.

If that is your belief, you belong nowhere near either the vanguard or the levers of power. For you will hobble the first, and misuse the second, and prove yourself a dead weight of liability who does not lead, follow, or get out of the way.

I am Ivan Throne.

I tell you this day that yes, you will risk hostile State scrutiny if you place and declare your conscience above your obedience to tyrants. But anything else is cowardice.

I tell you this day that yes, you will face existential risk of shooting if you uphold and fight for freedom in the face of totalitarian hostility. But you’re going to die anyway.

I tell you this day that yes, you will be subjected to shame, harassment, castigation and cancellation once you decide dignity is incompatible with lies. But that’s life.

C’est la vie, c’est l’amour, c’est la guerre.

That’s life, that’s love, and that’s war.

Be smart, not ignorant.

Be brave, not terrified.

Be rational, not an embarrassment.

Be an asset, not a liability!

Be a Man on Earth under Heaven, who knows the value of his Raw Human Capital and never subordinates himself to idiocy or simply accepts correctable ignorance.

We have a world to win. The Left has lost not only the initiative in this clash of civilizations; they have lost the plot. As they flail and gasp in hope that their increased repression and oppression, inflated lies and protestations of moral probity, will secure their forward march of success against the peoples of the West - get to work.

Be the future that comes!

Seize the future by right with all your capacity, coherence, and competence!

Come under the Standard of the Company and join the Movement.

We will teach you the necessary realities and lead you directly into absolute victory, won with rational and unremitting cruelty.

That is how you win this Third World War, and how you make full and proper use of your options in this dreadfully lovely Age of Militants.

That is your choice, and you must make it quickly.

Never again allow yourself to be lulled into complacency by cynical masquerades.

There will always be cold and pitiless truth underneath the blandishments of Men.

Fuck you, find out.

And with that, get to work.

Grand rising!