Why Conservatives Need To Embrace Idealism

when you think of the terms utopianism and idealism what are some of the first things that come to your mind and unrealistic World dangerous ideas anti-intellectualism and so forth there are definitely many opinions and emotions regarding these ideas depending on where you stand politically some completely embrace them others interpret them in a more restrictive fashion like for art and music and others specifically those within right-wing Circle Les particularly conservative ones see them not too favorably conservatism within the political landscape can have many definitions depending on the variant of it you have paleo conservatives neoconservatives classical

conservatives and so forth with them all having a decent amount of differences between them but despite all of these differences there is one thing they all have in common one fundamental principle they all agree on and that is anti- idealism and anti- utopianism conservatives have been among the most vocal critics of utopian thinking arguing that it's dangerous impractical and even naive conservatism by its very nature is grounded in the belief that Society should be guided by rationality and logical thinking firmly rooted in what is realistic this has made it a fundamentally anti-utopian ideology deeply skeptical

of grand schemes to create a perfect world and that die was completely one of them always believing that rationality is superior over everything else and always getting annoyed when emotions get in the way of people analyzing and looking at something objectively and I always complained about it this is what I call the cult of rationality the aim being to create a world that is dominated by rational and logical thought while making sure emotions do not interfere in this process the classical Ben Shapiro line of facts don't care about your feelings but the more I started

thinking the more I realized that perhaps this completely one-sided approach is more of a burden to conservatives than an advantage when it comes to actually winning in the modern world as controversial as this statement may be among fellow conservatives I believe that instead of fighting it like the plague perhaps conservatives should take a note or two and even Embrace idealism and utopianism with within their own ranks again what I am proposing here would be considered Blasphemous to my ideals and I can already see many of my followers picking up their pitchforks which wouldn't be the

first time I had my fan base turn on me but I firmly believe that it is an approach we must take if we truly want to Prevail this goes back to the fact that conservatism has always been more or less an elitist ideology because of the fact that they were always in power back then intellectual debates among officials and intellectuals was much more important regarding policy decisions and what approach the government was going to take but then came the era of mass politics where now the masses I.E every citizen of the country is involved in

these political games while other ideologies have adapted to this new system conservatives stubbornly stated their old strategy trying to appeal to the masses solely through reason the problem conservatives don't want to face today is that we don't live in an era anymore where governance was completely up to an educated and Noble class now the masses from the factory workers of the peasants are players as well and in order to achieve the changes we desire we are going to have to play along and adapt our strategies even if you see K returned to the old ways

where power was in the hands of an educated few and deeply despised the current state of Mass politics trust me that is something I sympathize with you cannot stick your head in the and hope that your old ways are somehow going to save you that is why as uncomfortable as this may seem to some quotequote intellectuals if we are serious about wanting our ideals to Prevail in the modern world we are going to have to learn how to ride and tame the tiger of emotionalism so in this video I want to showcase just how important

things like style Aesthetics and avanguard ISM are when it comes to pushing a certain narrative and trying to change the Society rationality alone today will not destroy the lips and bring us back to the good old days and for that reason it is time for conservatives to adapt so sit back and relax and enjoy another lavater monologue first things first it's important to recognize that emotions are a key part of what makes us human For Better or For Worse and at any given time we are experiencing some form of emotion even if we are watching

pain try and the same thing is true about certain opinions whether they are political or not we are all to some degree emotionally attached to the views we hold whenever we see a person attacking an opinion we agree with it naturally evokes an emotional reaction within us like anger even the most rationalistic people who can and will accept when they are wrong on a topic will still feel an emotional hit to their ego there is not a single person in the world who can act completely r Al without the interference from emotions this is a

very obvious observation one can make when watching debate bro streams like Vos Destiny Hassan and so forth all of these figures have been engaged in numerous debates yet even when they walk away completely humiliated and proven wrong in the end they are still going to hold the same beliefs as before due to the inherent emotional reactions when you walk into a debate knowing that your opponent is challenging your worldview that automatically Ally places your emotional guard up and even pure rationality cannot break through it an anarco capitalist won't suddenly walk away from a debate as

a communist despite being proven wrong at every Point changes in opinion are slow and gradual because emotions are always intertwined in the process the truth is that people by Nature are driven more by feelings of self-importance and belonging than by abstract reason when faced with floods of conflicting and hard to digest data and arguments all claiming to hold the Monopoly on Truth they will usually choose the easier path and the emotionally and socially more comfortable option for example the truth offered by one side could mean easier social integration and higher rewards this means that at

the end of the day the question of quote unquote truth becomes secondary to the question of life design especially in a materialistic Society if you live in an area where a certain belief is taboo and you could face serious consequences for expressing it like being ostracized and losing your property you are naturally not going to go out into the streets screaming about it because your basic survival ins thingss tell you otherwise point being emotions are always present and always active and when it really comes down to it in the end they will almost always overpower

rationality and this is where idealism and really utopianism comes in because it shows how one could get people to support a certain ideology and get them to consider it solely through the power of emotions and Aesthetics even being able to go as far as to get people to act completely against their rational self-interest many right-wing authors and figures spend most of their energy analyzing and criticizing modern dystopia while necessary it's not enough pointing out that we have ended up at the wrong station and pointing out that we should be elsewhere without saying where to go

only shows their failure to get things moving a clear commun iable goal is needed a sort of Utopia of the movement the full realization of the vision and the dreams of a Utopia give this Vision but let's be completely honest here Utopias exist only in the imagination convey through ART or literature at best they are only partially or imperfectly realized and at worst they are extremely unrealistic and impractical but and here comes the big butt this doesn't mean utopianism is useless it is essential for initiating change and getting people to act in the pursuit of

it the driving force of utopianism is not scientific accuracy but its ability to release a massive emotional power in large groups the challenge for avanguard ists Pioneers dreamers and artists is to free us from cognitive cages and break the hypnosis imposed Upon Us by the status quo which makes us believe that anything marked as taboo is Unthinkable and I can definitely see why more rational people such as myself often get frustrated with these dreamers finding them impractical eccentric and unreasonable but creative people are a unique breed and those who are truly Innovative and Avant guard

are less Bound by convention and realism this obviously has both good and bad sides but we need to emphasize the value of the creative process in pushing a certain idea or even product and there is absolutely no better example of this than consumer Society now I want you to imagine that there are two trailers marketing the next big Blockbuster movie The First One features all the fancy visuals beautiful lighting and camera angles breadcrumbs for the audience and small Cliffhangers of the story making you wonder what will happen next and then these beautiful shots of all

the characters looking amazing and cool and stuff and then in the other trailer you have just a normal guy sitting there with a white wall behind him telling you what you can expect like uh yeah we have Batman Robin facing off against the Joker maybe there will be a mystery villain they will fight a top of volcano maybe in the finale now my question is which one of these trailers is going to make you want to go and see the movie I I don't think I need to answer that now both of these trailers tell

you what you can expect from the movie but when it comes to actually catching your interest and making you want to go see it only one of them will succeed in that that because the way this message is conveyed will be the deciding factor you can create the absolute best movie of all time so good that it will make Martin's coresi cry but if you do not Market your movie in such a way that it will make the cinema halls completely packed then no one will know how amazing the movie is and what's the point

of even making the movie if no one's going to show up and see it consumer Society isn't based on utilitarian logic but on romance and Daydreams St symbols and utopian ideas these things work because people invest large sums of money in advertising to boost human consumption consumer psychology shows us how style and Aesthetics can be used to consistently create the desired Behavior I.E consumption in a consumer society and when it comes to political ideologies it is absolutely no different and the exact same rules apply my favorite example of this point are the Libertarians now followers

of mine would know that I am not exactly the biggest fan of the entirety of their ideology and philosophy but I can't deny that the libertarian Community is home to some of the smartest and most enlightened people I have seen and they are able to defend their ideas and challenge other ones with such Vigor and knowledge as they do have so many things like science logic and data on their side particularly when debating socialists but good Lord they wouldn't be able to sell their ideas in such a way that would resonate with people even if

they had a gun to their heads Libertarians are naturally very frustrated that despite the fact that they have all the data and arguments to back them up on why socialism never works people still choose to follow communism and socialism but their Aesthetics and approaches are grounded in such a objectivist realist and rationalist way that there is nothing that inherently drives people towards their ideas socialists completely obliterate them when it comes to these things they have such a way in history of colorful art depicting the struggle of the working class and the oppressed this distinctive and

unique atmosphere that you feel when entering their neighborhoods For Better or For Worse and a way to reach out to people to get them hooked on their values and some of the absolute hardest hitting music that will ever grace your ears and these things are going to be more attractive to the average Joe and he is naturally going to gravitate towards it Libertarians have pretty much none of this because they reject any form of utopianism and stick to the cold hard facts no sugar coating and [ __ ] on top it's literally the trailer example

I gave but for political ideologies so it's no wonder why so many people are still socialists even if you throw all the facts and data in their face this alone should make it clear that people need more than facts to change their behavior or opinions yet many on the right still cling to the illusion that only Enlightenment and rationalism is needed political campaigns are absolutely no different sure policies and such can be important but ultimately style and Aesthetics are going to be what will make or break your campaign look at United States life presidential debates

I have not seen a single person who tunes into these things expecting to see the two candidates debating policies but rather expecting some Grand highlights and roast I mean the true reason why anyone tuned into the first presidential debate of this year was to see how awaken functioning Biden was going to be and well we weren't disappointed on the the the total initiative relative to what we can do with more border patrol and more Asylum officers president Trump I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence I don't think he knows

what he said either look TV debates about policies rely on flashy visuals and engaging sound the important thing is not what a candidates say but how they appear while discussing supposedly important issues now does all of this annoy you do you hate the state of Mass politics that we need to rely on these things well so do I but we need to face the fact that there is no cure for it they work even if we want to go back to the good old days we need to adapt our strategies to even have a chance

of succeeding we live today in the era of mass politics and sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming la la la la la is not going to help you or your cause I think there is a very fascinating form of irony we can take from all all of this one could rightfully say that the dreamer the utopian who can appeal to people with his dreams is more pragmatic than the self-proclaimed pragmatist who seeks to convince through pure reason the former understands human Nature's irrationality in plays with it like a cat with a mouse while

the latter dreams of abstract humans who always act based on rational self-interest and that is in of itself kind of utopian considering all this it's really not that hard to imagine just how easily these Styles and Aesthetics can be weaponized and utilized to make the masses react and act in a certain way another and honestly the most prominent example of this can be music culture especially if it is a niche or underground sub genre and through them you can easily identify the various stages of how individual Consciousness changes in the beginning an individual gets to

know a particular genre of music through contact with a friend or group the reaction can be negative or positive usually direct and instinctive if the reaction is negative well too bad but if the reaction is positive a process of exploration and collecting begins what other kinds of music has this band produced what genre is this the more positive the reaction the more intense this process will be potentially leading to a complete immersion in the subculture a associated with a band or genre you know how a random song can suddenly get stuck in your head from

just hearing it the first or second time and then you get obsessed with it and keep playing it on Loop over and over again and never get bored of it yeah that is what I am talking about music centered youth cultures are easily identifiable by their distinctive Styles and symbols they have their own ideologies so to speak whose values are often reflected in the music and must be conveyed sometimes these values align with generally accepted mainstream ones other times they oppose them and could be considered counterculture sometimes the ideology is superficial sometimes not but fans

moving within the respective subcultures will at least partially adopt and internalize this ideology depending on the nature of this ideology members of a subculture May undergo a radical shift in Consciousness sometimes proudly expressing their Outsider status and carrying this change within them as they outgrow their scene there is a good reason why so many teens had those goth and emo phases of their lives and the music they listen to definitely had an impact on that according to a psychopedia journal study on this topic on the relationship between music preference and personality quote a person's personality

is shaped by their thoughts emotions and perceptions of the world since music has shaped our culture and identity in many ways it also has an impact on our personal personalities everything that a person does feels or perceives reveals something about their personality when someone has been exposed to a particular musical genre on a regular basis it can greatly impact who they are and the kinds of things they may enjoy people use Music to express themselves and to identify with themselves and all this was achieved solely through athetic means I.E through ART again I cannot stress

this point enough the intensity with which certain values are internalized has absolutely nothing to do with logical or scientifically correct presentation but solely with Artful attractive and aesthetically appealing forms of communication that can evoke strong emotional reactions in people when the last book of the Harry Potter series was released people stood in line for hours in the cold and Rain just for the chance to get a first edition copy and this is a relatively mild example we are all aware of the videos of women acting hysterically at the performances of their favorite bands and fantasizing

in a worrying way about their favorite band members and willing to go through any lengths to get their attention in some way anyone with a sense of popular culture's power knows just how powerful its ability is to trigger extreme emotions and mobilize masses to the point of acting irrationally even violently and against their rational self-interest it's really not surprising to see why conservatives are scared of this this is something any rationally minded man would be horrified of and this brings me to the last part of this video what do we do I have outlined why

these things are important sure but not how we could use them and again how we can tame this tiger still utilizing it in our struggle but putting a strong leash on it to make sure it is not get out of hand and cause chaos and Untold damage what is to be done when it comes to the rightwing in general there is one type of conflict that I've always been seeing fought between the quotequote activists and the quot quote intellectuals the activists are the kinds of people who are all about action going out on the streets

giving fiery speeches rallying people and getting their hands dirty if necessary they are the ones who indulge in Revolutionary fantasies about a day when the liberal system collapses the masses rise up and the evil doers are hanged from lampost they are all about action and expression and not much thinking the intellectuals are the exact opposite and I have already talked about them extensively in this video they like to sit around read write essays and engage in debates but when it comes to concrete action they are a bit spineless they are all about thinking and not

much action it's not surprising to see what why these two like to clash with each other frequently one views the other as being nothing but bookworms and eccentrics who prefer to engage in obscure intellectual squabbles instead of being active in the real world and the other sees the former as Hooligans and animals who run solely based on emotions and rage but there is one thing both of them have in common both in some way are escaping from reality this escapism in my opinion is a manifestation of their feelings of powerlessness both groups have Avant card

Tendencies this means they both seek to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in unique and unconventional ways even though their methods differ greatly what I'm trying to say is both groups despite their differences are avoiding practical engagement with reality and instead are indulging in either radical revolutionary fantasies or intellectual Pursuits and they believe their sole approach is enough to bring about change the uals do not see the value of action and having troops on the ground and choose to stick their books and pens while the activists think rioting and trashing shops is somehow going

to bring the status quo to heal and don't see the value in developing their ideals intellectually but what if these approaches don't have to be mutually exclusive why would it be impossible to think that we cannot combine both of these approaches into a coherent strategy both of these groups need to embrace each other a successful strategy must therefore have both style and content a substance that gives style a form a strategy that knows how to convey the nature of its content and use it to emotionally connect with people and draw them towards the cause and

at the same time has the means to intellectually develop ideas and theories and give the activist something to work with I like to view it as a campfire you can have all the logs and coal you want for the campfire to last for several weeks but without the proper means to ignite the fire your logs are completely useless and the same goes for fire if you ignite a piece of paper you are going to get that spark but after a few seconds the fire will disappear as the piece of paper is not good enough for

the fire to keep burning but by combining the logs coal and then the spark you will establish a campfire that will burn on for many years to come without the style and Aesthetics of utopianism you can never truly ignite your ideas but if style overextends its lack of content in a clumsy way like relying more on being the reaction without having any sort of depth it backfires so what is the formula here how can we establish an effective synthesis of both approaches I believe there was one political group that in my opinion has managed to

perfect this formula and that we need to learn from them I am talking about none other than the Bolsheviks in his fous famous pamphlet what is to be done Lenin talks about two kinds of mass strikes that took place in Russia in the 19th century there were the Primitive revolts as he calls them in the 1860s and 1870s these earlier strikes were characterized by spontaneous unorganized outbursts of violence and destruction workers were primarily reacting to their immediate oppression by destroying Machinery trashing the factories and rioting in the streets and in the end these strikes ultimately

failed and did not achieve anything you would think that Lenin would be praising them but no he does the exact opposite according to lenon the Consciousness during these strikes was in its earliest form meaning that while workers were starting to sense their oppression they did not yet have a clear understanding of the need for Collective organized resistance against a broader political and economic system they thought that they could challenge the system with sheer numbers alone and that is why they ultimately failed as he would write this shows that the spontaneous element in essence represents nothing

more nor less than Consciousness in an embryonic form even the Primitive revolts Express The Awakening of the Consciousness to a certain extent the workers were losing their agel long faith in the permanence of the system which oppressed them and began I shall not say to understand but the sense the necessity for Collective resistance definitely abandoning their slavish submission to the authorities but this was nevertheless more more in the nature of outbursts of desperation and Vengeance than of struggle I found that last line from Lenin most interesting this was more in the nature of outburst of

desperation and Vengeance than of struggle because it applies perfectly to many events that happened in recent times the most recent being the riots in the United Kingdom after the tragic murder of three young girls in Southport by an individual of one in descent the riers thought they could organize on telegram group chats with no real plans in advance and had absolutely no support from anyone significant Tommy Robinson tweeting from Cyprus does not count and as of writing this I predict that they will achieve absolutely nothing and if anything The Establishment is going to use them

to further crack down on anti-immigrant rhetoric the same way the American establishment did after January 6th while the riots were going on I made a community post giving my thoughts on them and said that they will inevitably fail and not make any progress because of their spontaneous nature and several of my followers were criticizing me for not wanting to go with the flow once again Outburst of desperation and Vengeance than of actual struggle then there were the other Russian strikes in the 1890s these were still spontaneous to a certain degree but this time more properly

organized with an actual goal and while not completely successful they still had some of their demands met lennin would write quote the strikes of the 9s revealed far greater flashes of Consciousness definite demands were Advanced the strike was carefully timed known cases and instances in other places were discussed Etc the revolts were simply the resistance of the oppressed whereas the systematic strikes represented the class struggle in embryo but only an embryo and this is where Lenin's doctrine of Vanguard party rule comes in the Vanguard is structured as a centralized body organized around a core of

experienced intell ual and professional revolutionaries because the proletariat alone cannot spontaneously develop the Revolutionary Consciousness necessary to overthrow the existing system the Vanguard party therefore takes on the role of guiding and educating the proletaria towards this goal and the Vanguard would oversee all other activities from strikes political philosophy and general activism to make sure that they are properly organized and timed correctly and to control spontaneousness for all their faults this is something I will always praise the Bolsheviks for their ability to very efficiently harmonize and unite both the activists and the intellectuals within the scope

of its movement and cause under vanguardism both of these groups differ completely within their approaches to changing society yet they all understood the importance of the other and we can all recognize this marxists can be very active in the real world by organizing strikes issuing propaganda and giving fiery speeches that resonate with the masses but it also has a very deeply intellectual side with a whole scope of Marxist theory being a field of study in of itself there are hundreds of thousands of Articles and books written by prominent communist revolutionaries about many aspects of society

and this is a hill I will die on Marxism does have a very deep intellectual side to it and this harmonization of both approaches and them actively working together is definitely one of the reasons why communism has managed to take control over half of the world at one point so how can we apply Lenin's doctrine of vanguardism to the right and establish something similar of our own the role of the Vanguard is twofold developing the movement intellectually and then translating everything the metaphysical that is the foundational ideas beliefs and cultural narratives into the political and

eventually allow the avanguard to enter the mainstream now what do way exactly mean by all of that at the Forefront and at the top you have the intellectuals or the vanguards so to say they are again in charge of developing the movement and ideology intellectually by writing essays and books doing research and engaging in intellectual debates with other people they are the center and Source because from them and their writings and ideas everything starts to trickle down without a precise Theory effective action is impossible you can't afford to waste an idea and most importantly you

can't hitch Your Wagon to a dead horse if you look at all the great Revolutions in history you will see that they have done nothing other than put into action an idea that had already slowly matured in people's minds you can't have your Lenin without first having your marks and that is the irony here the ones who appear to be the greatest Losers of History will end up being the driving force in the future and this is where the activist come in the activists with their creativity expressionism and potentials of rallying the masses will weaponize

Aesthetics like art style and visual representation to strategically influence political and cultural landscapes by weaponize I mean using the means of artistic expressions like music and design to create connections that help transform these abstract ideas generated by intellectuals into actual political movements or actions in I guess simpler terms suggest that by embedding these political ideas within art and culture these ideas can become more mainstream and widely accepted allowing avanguard Concepts to penetrate and influence the broader Publican political discourse this process can eventually lead to significant cultural political shifts and eventually a cultural revolution activists utilize

theories and philosophy derived from the intellectuals transform them in unique and creative ways and apply app them to Art culture and Aesthetics which will draw in more and more people and if someone is the more nerdy type they can always engage with the more intellectual side pamphlets books and other sources should readily be available at any time for those who seek to engage and even contribute themselves there are a lot of things we can learn from the Socialist regarding these things this also means that the two sides need to be in communication frequently especially when

it comes to more daring organizational events like protests and other forms of activism the intellectual should be there to effectively plan out how things are going to go with the activists like choosing the right moment location and message that will project the best results and make sure that the spontaneous element does not get out of hand while still utilizing the benefits of a mass movement instead of running away from it keep in mind in any movement seeking fundamental changes to an increasingly unmanageable system Avant gardism plays a key and Central role we must not forget

that the left hasn't always been in a superior position there was a time when their views were shared only by small French groups while the overwhelming majority of people saw them as foolish evil and crazy and they utilized these approaches to slowly but surely over the decades creep into the mainstream until eventually taking over and now we are in the place where they once were and it is now up to us to learn what they had always known to have a fighting chance and the first step towards that is finally abandoning The Cult of rationality

and embracing utopianism alongside the Aesthetics and creativity it brings with it do I believe it will work perfectly and there will not be any issues of course not taking this approach is most definitely a risk and there are numerous things that could go wrong and many critics of utopianism point out but that's exactly why it's necessary if we cling to the old wayte and refuse to adapt will only continue to fall behind the world is changing rapidly and we must be willing to evolve our strategies to keep Pace embracing utopianism and its Associated Aesthetics might

seem dangerous or even foolish to some but without taking this risk we will never tap into the emotional power needed to drive our movement forward forward it's about learning from the past understanding the Dynamics of human nature and using these insights to forge A New Path we cannot afford to be static adaptation is not just a choice it's a necessity for survival and success in this ever evolving landscape