On 1st of October 2016, I made an "experimental" vlogcast on YouTube. This involved me filming myself through a vaporwave filter as I talked about "the issue" of the day -- Milo Yiannopoulos's apparent attempt to define and hijack the Alt-Right, of which I was then a founding and leading member. The early Alt-Right was a serious and radical intellectual movement but, by 2016 (U.S. election year), it was in the process of being hijacked and subverted by various Feds, bots, foreign agents, suspicious actors, and useful idiots. Milo was quite possibly one of these, but he could also be viewed as a counterweight to the Russian-backed trolls who were attempting to turn the Alt-Right into a Neo-Nazi caricature.
Transcript
Hello readers and followers of the Alt-Right. This is Colin Liddell. the chief editor of Alternative Right. As you can see, I've been experimenting with visual presentation and, you know, I've thought long and hard about this, and I've come to the conclusion [that] it's a bit boring to just sit in front of a camera and talk to people. I think you need some kind of visual hook, some sort of little gimmick that makes people at least kind of remember you for a few seconds after they switch off.
Some people have something in their hand -- cigar, a glass of brandy. Some people smoke, some people emote, there's various methods used. Somebody with my dashing good looks doesn't need to try too hard, but I thought I should at least try try to do something a little bit different, and also, I think, I didn't want to be too intimate with the audience. I think an element of distance -- wow that's nice effect -- the element of distance, a kind of masking effect is quite useful, because the thing is not to rely too much on human-to-human emotional connection. Now some people do that very, very well, and it has pros and cons, it has good points and bad points. Generally I prefer to to communicate with a little bit of distance. That's probably why I prefer writing. But, you know, we live in this the current year. Podcasts, blogs, all those kind of things, are seen as much more important or much more immediate forms of communication now than the written word, which a lot of people are starting to have difficulty with in this kind of Twitter age, this low attention span age, so you need to... Basically we'll eventually all have to be like juggling balls and shooting flames out of our arses to get any attention in a few years time.
Now, let's see, as a topic, as a topic for the this first vlog or vidcast, I think I should probably address the issue of Milo Yiannopoulos. Now Milo Yiannopoulos, this... I think he's quarter Jewish, 100% gay, if that's possible, and very, very interested in black men's sexual organs. Now the idea that this person could ever be the leader of the Alternative Right is of course an absurdity, which is what makes Milo so useful.
There are certain other people who could very, very well be able to infiltrate and co-opt the Alt Right in certain ways. in the past I've been very, very suspicious of the "stormf@g" tendency, which seems to have gained strength, you know, especially in recent weeks. But in the case of Milo... Now Milo's... In my case I would say that Milo kind of counterbalances the stormf@gs, but in a way he's less dangerous because he's so absurd that his ability to be taken seriously at the heart of the Alt Right is extremely compromised.
Now, but on the other hand he's actually more useful. Now I think the the stormf@g tendency, the extreme Nazi memes, they may have a certain utility in attracting very young and emotionally incontinent people to the movement, and then those young and emotionally incontinent people may or may not, but they may, some of them may mature emotionally, and so they might become more serious, more balanced in their "counter-Semitism." But a lot of them won't obviously, a lot of them are here for the the cheap thrills, and they'll probably just get worse and worse, as certain group dynamics kick in.
But in the case of Milo, he's much more useful, because he's got much greater reach. Of course, it helps that he's connected with Breitbart, which is practically a kind of mainstream media organization now, and you know he brings a lot people in. Of course he brings them in on the false premise that the alright has nothing to do with race, [that] it has nothing to do with counter Semitism, which are both false ideas, but nevertheless he brings in a lot of young people -- maybe some of them are not even young -- but he brings a lot of people, and he swells the numbers, and he gets this term "Alternative Right" or "Alt Right" out there, and because he does that a lot of people come into the movement, and, you know, then they're swimming in the same water as us, and, as I've often said before, you know, when when their ideas touch our ideas their ideas die. Our ideas are founded much more on objectivism than any other ideology's ideas. So just getting those people in the same water as us is an enormous service to the Alt-Right. Now, a lot of people are being very, you know, recently "purity signalling" a lot, and they've been coming down quite hard on Milo.
Noticed the Daily Stormer has launched a mini crusade against him. People like Red Ice Radio have kind of signed on board with that. Yeah, the Counter-Currents, Greg Johnson, he's also very concerned about how Milo might "pollute" or "tarnish" the brand -- lovely cup of tea!
But anyway, you know, the thing is I think, first of all, you're not going to be able to regiment the Alt-Right. There is no centralized control structure. People will do what the fuck they like, so trying to, sort of, you know, excommunicate people from the Alt-Right is not an option. We don't have a Pope, and even if we had a self-declared Pope, we'd probably have several anti-Popes, and they would never agree, and even if they could agree and excommunicate somebody, somebody just has to say "fuck you, I don't accept your excommunication," and, you know, what are they gonna do? Send around the death squads, the hitmen? Those don't exist at the moment, and, looking at the kind of people who talk about them, I don't think they ever will.
So, you know, whether you like him or not, Milo's gonna be there, and in my opinion I think he's actually quite a useful, you know, bridge to the Normie world, and if we were able to somehow take Milo down and eliminate him, you know, basically we'd just be paring the Alt-Right down to a kind of grim white nationalist core. And, you know, that would be quite good in terms of, you know, logical consistency and not having too deal with so many complexities for a lot of people in the Alt-Right, but it would all be way too cozy, and it would be very convenient for the establishment. They'd be able to isolate us more easily, put a "cordon sanitaire" around us, and eventually, you know, they'd be able to sort of eliminate us in some way, either by purging us from social media or the internet, or whatever.
You know, there are moves being made along those lines, so, therefore, keeping people like Milo in the picture, keeping people like Stefan Molyneux, the kind of Alex Jones people, the Infowars people, keeping those people in the picture as part of the big tent Alt-Right, is actually I think it's a great gain. The more people that we're sort of, like, connected to, the harder it is for them to sort of circumscribe us and contain us. And also, the greater the number of people who come into contact with our, you know, I think very sane rational, middle-of-the-road ideas, basic human common sense about, kind of, group identity, looking after your own, protecting, you know, some of the most inventive and positive cultures around. So I hope I've said everything that has to be said here, and, as usual, welcome a few comments, trollish or not.
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