Power is really quite easy to understand. Thomas Hobbes framed it quite perfectly in Leviathan:
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Power is the ability to bring about what is fantasy, into the material world. It is really quite simple, but the procrastinatory “becoming” people will always put they and their goal as far apart as possible, as to feign an illusion of inevitable hard times, and how they will never be able to get what they want. They don’t realize that the only thing between they and their goal is themselves.
Something the intellectual likes to do is overintellectualize every process in life. It is why they are generally quite insufferable people who are hard to work with, and because of this, they can never get anything done. It is identical to how the psychologist pathologizes every aspect of human character. If you materialize, and “stepize” everything you do, you will never get out and actually do something.
This is the issue with intellectuals, and more broadly, an issue with modernity, as there are more intellectuals than there are callused-hand engineers. The soft-palmed, pale-skinned intellectual is so fixated on the status of eminence that it becomes an unhealthy infatuation. And, due to our societal worship of intellectuals (both lib and con intelligentsia), the ability to make progress towards a goal, and actually realize dreams (which is important) is stunted because when the magic eight-ball of an intellectual is shook, and their hand is forced to have a question answered, they inevitably give vague ideas of what actual “progress” looks like, or give a nihilistic blackpill about how nothing can get done because everything just sucks.
This is the folly of the intellectual, not because of his temperament, nor even his wisdom, but his actual life experience. This is where the anecdotal becomes more important. Without experience, without the scars, calluses, trauma, mistakes, and chronic pain, the intellectual has no shape or form - just system and mythology. Where the brute, without any intellectualization, has no made-up blockade, and can accomplish more for himself and his people, than the intellectual could ever hope for.
This is why faith is so much more important than endless critiques, manifestos, and scientific papers that overlycomplicate simple events or processes. The intellectual’s head is permanently stuck in the clouds, and what keeps him deluded, is a mind infected with too many modi operandi that further complicate his ability to accomplish. It becomes men of action who take his ideas, and create a world in effigy of these ideals. Without the intellectual, surely there would be less definition, but glorification of his status, and recognition of his eminence, is what leads to Robespierre.
The intellectual is obsessed with himself, and at the same time, so unaware of his own power and ability to further his utopian visions, that he remains endlessly writing and musing on justification for his own idleness.
This is why the right, and furthermore, the transcendental movement within the right (us) have been so stunted: we fail to recognize our innate power, what Hobbes described as carnal/natural power, and how it can, and inevitably will be utilized against the Leviathan! It is a sick notion to think we are just ultimately chained to the beast, and that there is this Platonic permanent inseparable connection to this beast that makes our own positivist infrastructure null. What blackpill crack do you have to be smoking? How up your own ass do you have to be to realize how useful you could actually be to the construction of your own ideals in reality!? It truly is sick.
This is the doom porn of the right - how we are just rooting for whatever Populist Republican Caesar can topple the evil that we hate, and bring about, what would inevitably be, a repeat of the same issue because it is the same infrastructure, and the economy is still in shambles.
The only reason we do this is because we glorify infantile intellectuals who want to do fuck-all with their innate power. Because of their own self-hatred, and lack of recognition of clear goals that could be achieved in a matter of months or couple years, they obsess over the next decades. The steps to be taken can be made now.
We have the Basketweavers, we have the internet, we had the event - there is a clear network being made. Now act on it, and start building businesses and parallel institutions, and better yet - parallel communities. This is what Hobbes described as power, but likewise, it is what he described as the permanent civil war that already exist in all committee-led commonwealths.
However, it is really quite easy to manufacture our own defense if Jesus Christ is Our Bedrock. If our Foundation is not in his name, but in the name of survival, or in the name of a wignat state, then we will be made immediate enemies and shut down. What we clearly need is to embody what makes us inseparable, and what has fostered high-trust communities worldwide, which is FAITH in JESUS CHRIST. Or at least metaphysical parallelisms.
This lack of a cohesive story is what breaks us apart, surely, but what keeps us from even taking the first step is glorifying this twisted, infantilized, high-chair tyrant leadership within the right. If all we can do is look to intellectuals as the real leaders, then we will forever be sniffing our own farts until we get carbon monoxide poisoning (methane poisoning?). The first step must be separating ourselves from this permanent echo chamber of doom and dread, of philosophizing until we are blue in the face, of overanalyzing every aspect of the collapse as the collapse is in full swing.
The intellectuals are needed, they just aren’t your leaders. We have full capability of buying land together, building our own church or community center, farming our own food, using our own money - there is no law that prohibits that, but even more-so, it’s not like we have time to be pussyfooting about decision-making. Instead, we have to be focused on where we are going to go, who we need, what we are willing to sacrifice, and what seeds we must plant, if we are to foster a future for our people, our children, and our spirituality, in the world of tomorrow.
Edward A. Pollard didn’t fight in the civil war. Thomas Hobbes didn’t lay brick to any building. Julius Evola didn’t forge any tool or weapon. These men are essential, but they are a tumor to your cause when you listen to them for too long, or ask them for guidance to your thing. To Our Thing.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut