This was said a week ago on Telegram by Imperium Press.
I've noticed many people saying roughly the same thing for a while now—the excitement of discovering the radical right is waning, the ideas are becoming stale, people are hardening into echo chambers, the spirit of intellectual exploration is going away.
The past decade saw an intellectual renaissance. Inside the academy is rot and sterility, so people outside it took up the burden of serious humanities scholarship. Through open, rigorous, and sustained debate, over time the solutions emerged: we must discard liberalism, we must revive in-group preference for our folk, we must restore those timeless structures that built everything. At first, the machine thought it could ignore this renaissance. When that proved disastrously wrong, it tried to suppress it. Finally, when that didn't work, it tried to absorb it—this is the Trump 2.0 play.
2015 is not coming back. The period of discovery is over. We now know the solutions—the debate has mostly concluded. We are not where we were pre-alt-right, we are somewhere else. The R&D stage is concluded—now begins the implementation stage.
This is in some ways harder than the theoretical stage, and it is definitely more dangerous. Now is the time to build institutions and real-life structures that will occupy territory and establish spaces into which the regime cannot penetrate. This comes with risk, not only to reputation but to life and limb.
I think that some of the pining for the days of theoretical discussion is a mask for cowardice, to put it bluntly. Is there more intellectual work to do? Absolutely. But theory was never the goal, it is a tool. When your house is about to be set on fire is not the time to settle in with a dense 700-page tome (though you should be reading those tomes obviously). It is the time to act, in real life.
We are not where we were. We should not be nostalgic for a time before we could actually move the needle. Anyone who isn't a child and still doesn't know what needs to be done by now is beyond help. It's time to occupy space.
I've bolded the important parts.
Some of us are no good at putting things into action. Those folks need to rotate off stage and let those better suited for that work take over, take some time off to recover, and then return to the think tanks to theorycraft the next step for the implementers to put into action.
This is not a game for Lone Wolves. This is, like it or not, a team sport with high stakes and thus a high price to pay for failure; we cannot afford to fail- merely being killed is the least of the bad outcomes if we do.
Now is the time to take your ego out behind the woodshed and beat it into submission; this is not about YOU; this is about US and if you can't do what needs be done then you are better off being cut loose before you become the millstone that drowns us.
We are never going to get our ideal win scenario. We do what we can with what we've got; we benefit from being better-able to react swiftly, to better know the enemy than they know us, and--at present--we have the memetic high ground and (believe it or not) we have the momentum behind us. The chimpouts are necessary, but not because they have any influence over what's done; it is necessary because it gives permission by Trump and his allies to tard-wrangle the squishies around him into doing what he already decided shall be done with political and social cover while baiting the enemy into wasting their resources and time trying to deal with us instead of him.
That's right, we're the Off Tank in the raid group; our job is to take aggro from the boss and hold it just long enough for any debuffs on the Main Tank to drop off and reset, then he takes that aggro back and we go back to helping the DPS burn down the boss.
Play your role so Empire will fall.