How to Defeat the American Cultural Revolution

A Tradition-Oriented Approach

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One point I have made before and stand by is that the histories of Rhodesia and Virginia are remarkably similar.

Both were founded and settled by a mix of adventurers and second sons who wanted to take advantage of a new world’s opportunities to permanently better their station. Both had a unique ethos of excellence rooted in the sort of men who built them, and turned that into both just and effective governance and a status as notable producers of cash crops. Both were also aristocratic in nature despite not having native peerages, with the tendencies of those who built them culminating in a flowering of domestic commitment to the values of the Old World’s best adapted to the harsh conditions of frontier settlement. And both were destroyed by those who held equality as the ultimate good, regardless of the benefits of patrician rule.

Such struck me yet again as I read two books—Rhodesia: Beginning to End by Ron Morkel and The Virginia Dynasties by Clifford Dowdey (both of which provide excellent information, though one of which is notably better than the other)—particularly in how they elucidated the unique formation patterns of the respective polities. But that is something about which I have already written, and so it needn’t be the focus of yet another article.

One point, however, did strike me as particularly important: the twin lessons provided by the histories of Rhodesia and Virginia show the path forward for those who aim to defeat America’s cultural revolution. Two lessons stand out as particularly important and notable.

So, in this article, I’ll first show what the founding cultures and histories of Virginia and Rhodesia can teach us about defeating the cultural revolution, lessons true and useful despite the untimely end of each. Then, I’ll show you how to apply this to your own life. Finally, I’ll review the two books that formed the foundation of this article.

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Defeating the Cultural Revolution; We *Don’t* Call It Zimbabwe Now

What Cultural Revolution?

The original Cultural Revolution, of course, took place in communist China and lasted for a full decade, only concluding in the mid-70s with Mao’s death. It was the process by which that Red demon murdered millions more of his subjects and cemented his power by purging what supposed elements of tradition and capitalism remained in the country. It was, in short, a total war on anything that even hinted at not being in total ideological conformity with the most radical egalitarians and Year Zero types amongst the ruling clique.

Such was, essentially, what America’s communist terrorists in the 1970s wanted to achieve. Furious over “racism,” “patriarchy,” and like terms that translate to “being a normal person who doesn’t want to be eaten by a crack-addicted cannibal,” they carried out thousands of bombings in the hope something would change, as Burrough covers in Days of Rage.

In some ways, they got what they wanted: the America of the 1980s had a much softer stance on race than the America of the ‘60s, lewdness and lasciviousness of the sort they love became broadly tolerated, and NYC had turned out into a bombed-out hellhole of the sort they and their third-worldist ideology idolized.

But, though their violence delivered unto them some ill-gotten gains, they didn’t quite succeed in effecting a real cultural revolution. The sort of cultural upheaval in which every old symbol was destroyed in the name of equality, radical thought entirely replaced common sense in the name of commitment to equity, accused wrongthinkers were barred from any access to due process or justice when accused of such, and all the rest didn’t really happen.

That all came later, in the 2010s.¹ Just think: before the suffocating atmosphere of complete ideological rule and conformity that came with the “Great Awokening” period, birthed as it was sometime in the first half of the 2010s,² could you have even conceived of what followed it?

Of professors chased out of tenured positions because they dared to speak basic truths, churches clothing themselves in the symbols of sodomy and gender dysphoria, bizarre race communist apparatchiks lecturing the entire employee base of the Fortune 500 on the evils of “whiteness,” the King of England bowing before Islam, and much more?

Maybe, if you were exceptionally prescient. The signs that we were headed toward such an outcome existed since the communist takeover of America through the FDR regime.³ But until the 2010s, some of it remained hidden.

The darkest corners of leftist thought—the desire to mutilate the genitals of children, raise the black power flag atop federal buildings, send those dressed as demons to propagandize to children, etc.—were kept somewhat covered up. Then, with the Obama regime, they weren’t. Chaos came as the whole apparatus of leftist thought shifted to a Maoist-style campaign of eradicating every vestige of tradition in the name of some demented concept of “progress.” We finally learned what nation of perdition Samuel Johnson had in mind when he caustically quipped, “I have always said the first Whig was the devil.”⁴

Since then, every tradition, norm, and deeply seated belief has been overthrown in the name of said “progress.”

Biblical marriage replaced by a joke of a contract between any two parties that can be gotten out of at any time. Churches becoming foul dens of terrmagents gesticulating wildly as they impress the need of accepting gay race communism upon browbeaten parishioners. The FBI kneeling before the false idol of George Floyd and the racial egalitarianism he represents. Colleges and companies basking in their refusal to admit whites, and then mercilessly libeling and destroying anyone who dared to utter contrary opinions. South Carolina’s Gov. Nimrata “Nikki” Haley ripping down the Confederate flag that had long flown outside the state capitol in the name of anti-racism. It might have been less violent than China’s Cultural Revolution, but it was just as broad, merciless, and destructive of tradition.

We now finally have a respite from such madness. “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg is no longer destroying random bridges in the name of anti-racism nor “chestfeeding” with the baby boys he and his “husband” bought. Or, at least, we don’t have to hear about it. Same with the border, the race communism in the schools, and much else.

But the devilish spirit remains.