It was a tad ironic, to put to mildly: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, that famously phony anti-Semitic “document” purporting to provide the details of the worldwide Jewish conspiracy straight from the Elders themselves, not only helped to inspire and rationalize the vicious Nazi campaign against the Jewish people; it provided the Nazis with a blueprint for their own underhanded actions.
“The Protocols was required reading for the Hitler Youth,” Stephen Eric Bronner notes in A Rumor About the Jews, his history of The Protocols.
The pamphlet served to illustrate “how it could be done,”or how the seizure of power might be accomplished. The fictional conspiracy of the Jews was employed as a model by the Nazis.
This meant a lot of pretty underhanded shit:
Intimidation of opponents became a favored tactic along with the assassination of public figures. Perversion of the public sphere, concerted use of propaganda, and use of the big lie all became elemental tactics. No charge was too outlandish, no tactic too outrageous, no goal too ambitious.
Has Roosh Valizadeh, the noxious “pickup artist” and wannabe prophet of “neomasculinity” who favored us a few months back with his thoughts on “The Damaging Effects Of Jewish Intellectualism And Activism On Western Culture,” been reading The Protocols recently?
Because it seems as though he’s trying to beat the imaginary Elders of Zion at their own game.
In a grandiose and ethically bankrupt manifesto posted on his blog yesterday, Roosh sets out what he sees as the path forward for “neoreactionaries” like himself to bring about the return of patriarchy over the next half-century or so.
In his mind, it will be a five stage process.
In the first stage, already completed, people like him set up blogs and built “Red Pill”
internet communities that serve to help men meet women, teach them entrepreneurship skills, improve their health and bodily strength, and enlighten them with counter-cultural truths.
In Stage 2, which Roosh for some reason calls “Seed Resistance,” these Red Pill dudes will basically start acting like utter douchebags to everyone who disagrees with them, launching “counter operations” in the form of “attack pieces against far left narrative bots” (?) as well as cruder “public shaming” campaigns against enemies “through humorous images and comics.”
This stage, he explains, is ongoing.
But it’s in the third stage, which we are just entering into, where things start to get wildly underhanded and unethical.
This stage begins with a pulling together of a new coalition of patriarchy lovers made up of elements from
the men’s rights sphere, religious conservatives, liberal gamers, and even white nationalists.
These groups, currently “probing each other for common ground, loyalty, and commitment” will ultimately assemble into “a huge fighting force” and launch an all-out “Culture War” against the “far left” ideologues who, like the fictional Elders of Zion, supposedly run the world.
Culture war will involve sustained, asymmetrical, and intense informational warfare against the enemy that starts to damage their way of life, happiness, and disposable income. They will soon have sleepless nights just like I did in Canada when the full force of the establishment came down upon me.
The strategies Roosh suggests that this ragtag army use against the evil “establishment” seem to be copied straight from Supervillaining for Dummies. You can almost hear a loud “muahaha!” as Roosh spells out his devious plans:
- Acute divide and conquer campaigns that target weak-willed individuals who are not ready to fight without being part of the herd.
- Sustained criticism of individuals to encourage meltdowns and bad decisions, facilitating their descent into illogical madness that makes them lose support or prestige within their group.
- Psy-op campaigns to undermine the word of women and other alternative groups by painting them as pathological liars or mentally insane
- Creation of pressure groups (i.e. mobs) to target small companies that are sensitive to even small amounts of negative publicity and profit loss.
- Stealth infiltration into intellectual circles and various institutions such as universities, media, military, and government bureaucracies.
As he sees it, the first shots in the Culture War have already been fired: he counts GamerGate, the Hugo awards fiasco, and the “cuckservative” meme to be some of the victories so far.
It’s at this point — in stages four and five — that Roosh’s manifesto starts to sound a bit like the supposedly foolproof plan of South Park’s Underpants Gnomes.
After a decade or so of “Culture Warring,” Roosh thinks a giant “cultural vacuum” will form, allowing neoreactionaries like him to, well, suck up those no longer convinced by the establishment’s evil narrative. And then, somewhere in the 2045-2075 time range, the patriarchy itself will magically return, triumphant.
Over the course of a generation, there will be a gradual return to the patriarchy as at least 50% of the population believes in traditional ideals and have the voting power to usher in non-bought leaders who see patriarchy as the only way to maintain cohesion of society.
PROFIT!
I have no doubt that stages four and five are little more than the grandiose visions of a PUA guru who desperately wants to become a full-fledged cult leader; they will never come to pass.
It’s stage three — all that underhanded shit — that’s more troubling. Roosh’s plans to bring back the patriarchy is doomed from the start, but energized “neoreactionary” trolls can cause a lot of damage to individual people while traveling down their particular road to nowhere
Or at least, merely ignorant (due to being all of 15 years old on average), as opposed to deliberately and elaborately stupid, like His Rooshness.
I’m pretty sure this is in part a declaration of intent to do at least some things that are not legal.
“Liberal gamers” Leave us out of this, Roosh.
I have two reactions here.
The first reaction is really this is just him jumping on a larger bandwagon of “emergent assholism”, that ranges from Gamergate to Trump – where people are enjoying the so-called liberation of being assholes. Roosh’s jumping on this is more of a man running with (or manifesting) a current trend.
But let’s look a bit deeper at what he wants to do in his war – and it’s really his own fears.
* “Target weak-willed individuals who are not ready to fight without being part of the herd” – coming from the manosphere of insecure individuals banding together.
* “Sustained criticism” is something his twisted little subculture faces as they’re a-holes.
* “Psy-ops” to undermine the word of women? From a man who’s own subculture undermines itself.
* “Creation of pressure groups?” There are already people that take him and his kind on as assholes.
* “Infiltration?” From a man prone to conspiracy theories.
Really his manifesto is just “doing what we think’s being done to us.” combined with revealing fears that his part of a small, weak-willed group of a-holes that have to band together for strength.
Sad little man, with nothing to show for his life, hated for being a scumbag, grasping for relevance.
I think pure uninterrupted failure is more respectable than that list of so-called victories. The “cuckservative” meme alone might be the saddest fucking thing on earth.
The full force of the establishment came down upon you in Canada? Like fuck it did, Roosh. I heard masculinity involved strength, perseverance and fortitude, but all I can see from you is pathetic exaggeration as if a few people calling you out was some sort of struggle against power. When the full force of the establishment comes down on you, you won’t have time to whine about it at length, you pathetic loser.
@Fang
“I’m here, I’m an asshole, get used to it, you Mexican rapists losers.”
http://on.cc.com/1KnPIlj
As a side note, if someone traveled backed and told the Trump-hating 1980s version of me about his role in the 2016 Republican primary I probably would have put my copy of Spy magazine down and exploded with despair. This Trump nightmare is not funny.
How convenient that the plan calls for all the assholes of the world to go around being assholes. Presumably Valizadeh’s next master plan will be to show how patriarchy’s return depends on water being wet.
This is just sad, really. Valizadeh wants so badly to be in charge of some larger movement that he’s slipping into deliberate self delusion. It’s like a small child going out in the rain, pointing a toy wand at the sky and reciting a rain spell; and then claiming that he must be a sorcerer because look, it’s raining.
The interesting thing is that guys like this wouldn’t necessarily consider that inconsistency a problem. It’s right when they do it and wrong when their opponents do it, because they are right and their opponents are wrong. Same philosophy as, for instance, torturing terrorists for information. They’re the bad guys, so it’s not wrong to do bad things to them.
That’s why I always try to be very careful about using the same standards I apply to other people (eg, it’s wrong to doxx anyone, even if they’re a really terrible person). Because once morality becomes mitigated on who you’re doing it to, it’s basically a free-for-all.
And still, somehow they think that they are “real men”. Of course, the concept itself is stupid, but if we assume, for a moment, a “real man” (in concepts they seem to prefer), like physically and mentally strong, independent, etc.etc. – would we expect to find this “real man” behind a keyboard, sneaking into forums, trolling and talking shit about women? But still, somehow they don’t even notice that they are heralding the whole “real men” nonsense but behaving like “sneaky, slimey worms”, something a “real man” (if they were to construct one, according to their definitions) would probably be disgusted about. Or can anyone imagine one of the cliche movie macho heros of the 80s say “Well, I killed two mob bosses today, what did you do? Oh, trolling on the internet, lying about yourself and pretending you are someone else? Well done, that’s almost as good as the killing-really-bad-guys thing. Totally something I would do…”
life, happiness, and disposable income
How positively inspiring and noble.
This is the thing though – people like this are often convinced that they’re just misunderstood when others don’t give them the respect and admiration they believe they deserve, no matter how terribly they’ve behaved and how badly they may have treated someone. Many of them essentially believe that if they just behave terribly enough, if they just announce their worldview as fact enough, if they keep treating people like dirt long and often enough, then somehow a lightbulb will go off in other people’s heads and everyone will understand that they are completely right and justified and should be catered to at every turn.
It’s essentially the adult version of the kid who keeps asking their guardian if they can have something they’ve already been told ‘no’ about, because they hope to wear the guardian down to the point where a no becomes a yes for the sheer sake of some peace.
A question: Is there a sensible, moderate, individual or group with a manifesto?
“internet communities that serve to help men meet women, teach them entrepreneurship skills…”
The way Roosh has formulated this sentence makes it read as if men should go out and teach women entrepreneurship skills etc. It’ll be funny if all the PUAs interpret it that way. “Hey girl, those hipster glasses don’t make you look too ugly, and have you thought about taking out a small business loan?”
“patriarchy as the only way to maintain cohesion of society.” I love how the same groups will say patriarchy doesn’t exist and then it slips out that they want to reinstate it…
In 50 years time…. won’t misogynist men be too busy humping their sexbots to do any real oppression of women?
Also, thx. Rooshy, now I have a perfect response to any bs claims neoreactionaries make about women or other “alternative groups” – a link that proves they are just lying to advance their “master plan”.
Also, Roosh declares neoreactionaries must lie to make women look like liars or mad (his words, not mine)… isn’t this him admitting that women are truthful and sane enough that forcing them under men’s control is NOT warranted? Meaning even HE doesn’t actually believe his own crap about teh females, he really just wants the power to dominate women, for the sake of his boner and ego.
@caro
So funny. So sadly true.
And don’t we all have a phase 2 in our lives?
Phase 1: Smoke weed (or gamble or watch soap operas, etc.).
Phase 2: Black box.
Phase 3: Sittin’ pretty!
Of course, most of us don’t have “Harm others” as our phase 1.
I’m pretty sure the “liberal” in “liberal gamers” is for all of the Gators who say things like, “Of COURSE I believe in equality for women, BUT…” It’s for people who pat themselves on the back for thinking literal slavery is pretty icky stuff, and who think that makes them a liberal (a “real” liberal, not like those feminazis, amirite).
I think you forgot the part where he’s only tweeted gamergate six times in the entire year.
Hardly makes him associated with it. He is his own mess, nobody elses.
Does Roosh just need to join the frickin’ Army given all this militaristic language? But that just might to real-life and risky for him.
To me the system already in place is not such a bad thing in it own rights. Only have to follow it.
Shorter version of stage 3: harassment.
I’ve got a mental picture of Roosh, dressed as Captain Ahab, Waterskiing over multiple sharks representing his increasingly ridiculous efforts to troll the world into paying attention to him.
I really wish I could draw better. (Starting a course at the end of this month)
Translation: Roosh’s book sales and click revenues are flagging, now that people are realizing he’s a rapist, fraud, and all-around scum. Time to burn the world!
(I like how “disposable income” is lumped in with the other inalienable rights…)
Oh, the “establishment”? You mean like the police, who you ran to to file charges when you got beer thrown on you? Yeah, the Man is really down on you, man.