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This might be a little culture war-oriented, but I know we have some dissident right folks on here. I'm trying to learn/understand their viewpoint more. Does anyone have a list of blogs, twitter, (insert medium of distribution) of folks that I could read to get a handle on the beliefs/narratives/ideology.

I know of Yarvin, but he's the only one I consistently remember. The others are I partially remember but am unclear on are McIntyre(?) Fuentes, BAP(?) Sargon of Akkad, Kulak(?? is he DR?). There was a bunch of internal drama posts here awhile back on this area that I might try and dig up.

EDIT: Thank you all this will keep me nice and occupied for awhile with some reading.

For a comprehensive list, try "Heroes of the Dark Enlightenment", or one of these charts.

My personal recommendations:

How spicy do you want to go? At maximum spice levels (with Chemical X included) you could try therightstuff dot biz or Red Ice radio(redice dot tv).

In addition to what DradisPing has mentioned, I would recommend two blogs:

  1. Spandrell (aka Bloodyshovel) essays - presently at spandrell.ch (has a book/ebook too). Eg post is BioLeninism.
  2. Aidan's blog - can check on internet archive. The text without the comments is also available.

Dissident Right includes a bunch of sub groups interested in various things, I'm not sure if this nails the correct people you're looking for. These are more from about ten years back than what's probably current.

But here are some books I'd recommend.

Michael Malice - The New Right
Steve Sailer - Noticing

Sailer is a quite important idea person, but his writing is scattered over a series of blogs. Noticing is a handy anthology. Otherwise he's currently writing at http://www.stevesailer.net and https://www.takimag.com/contributor/Steve%20Sailer/6/

John Derbyshire

Collects his writings at https://johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/page.html, has an anthology of essays coming out soon: https://passage.press/products/john-derbyshire

Curtis Yarvin

These are probably the two most important articles to read, https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/05/castes-of-united-states/ https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/05/bdh-ov-conflict_07/

Currently writes at https://graymirror.substack.com/

He has a book "A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations" that is less accessible than the title would suggest.

Christopher Caldwell - The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

He's not a dissident right thinker, but the book captures important points

Tucker Carlson - Ship of Fools

Not a deep make you think book, but it lays out the grievances well

Ann Coulter - Adios America

Really only included because it does a good job documenting how the government chooses not to collect a lot of obvious relevant data about immigration, which the left turns into an argument "there's no proof of X, therefore I'm right"

The one that’s always passed over who was just as influential as Yarvin in the beginning is Nick Land, and specifically his blog Xenosystems (which is now available in book form on passage press.)

That’s the thing that really convinced me; before I read that I was more of a reluctant paleo-libertarian. It’s very arcane but ironically if you’re a high systemizing blue tribe type it might be more legible than even Yarvin.

He’s a former Marxist so he’s much more haute academic that some of the punters you get on X; no offense to them, I’m just as much a schlub compared to Nick Land as the most low rent dissident rightist.

Interestingly enough I found Scott Alexander sort of backwards from Nick Land; Land brought me to Moldbug who was critiqued by Scott. So I’m in this forum mostly because of Nick Land.

Nick Land is the true OG for me, tbh.

I can highly recommend Keith Woods who has been a major influence for the dissident right. He is also seen at a number of activist events and conferences.

As an older more stable influence in the dissident right checkout counter currents. It focuses on long form articles and more cultural stuff.

Where does he fall on the spectrum, I imagine there are different camps of thought?

Keith Woods?

He is more of a traditionalist and deep right thinker. He has gained a fair amount of traction on twitter. Keith is less interested in the day-to-day politics and more interested in bigger issues. Since he is Irish he has a clear influence from Irish nationalism yet is not catholic.

Thank you!

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