Alexander Macris (who writes "Contemplations from the Tree of Woe" here on Substack) is a game designer. He wrote and published a comic to help market one of his games, making the deliberate choice to play it straight and turn aside from the Alan Moore school of comics. His heroes are sincere, genuine and wholesome. The villains are not misunderstood or damaged, but wholly evil.
He polled his readership on their favourite characters, fully expecting the rather colourful villains to top the list. Surprisingly, the winner by a large margin was the lead hero, a Superman character who has a family and faith. Macris concludes that the cultural zeitgeist has shifted. People have not seen a genuine, archetypal hero for decades and when presented with it they drink it up like a man stumbling into an oasis in the desert.
I think the Achilles' heel of the elites is demographics. The 3rd world migrants will never kowtow to the Western elites, no matter how many crumbs and pennies are thrown their way. Third world migrants are, by their very nature, a pack of ingrates and, for the most part, lost to them. Where will the depraved elites find allies now? Tucker Carlson is ripping them apart from the right, and a host of leftists are tearing at them from the left.
We have entered a new era.
And it doesn't necessarily end with the triumph of good over evil.
WW3 is on the horizon, and I see the country boys (like me) are disillusioned and angry. We are the men who not only fight the wars, but the very ones needed to win them. And we are not stupid. Not even the draft, conscription, can bring us out now.
I would rather enter a new dark age than submit to these animalistic sociopaths living stolen lives. I'd rather die and take my piece of the taxbase and competency with me.
Soldiers are idealistic, which must be aspect of us/the class we come from? However we’re not fools and we can see we’ve been lied to , turned on and betrayed by a class of psychopaths. How can they appeal to honour when they have no honour of their own?
In my opinion they’re not anywhere near as smart as they think they are. They need us to fight their wars … that isn’t happening this time.
Ordinary folk have always loved stories of honourable men in a bad world, unfortunately it has never stopped them from being ruled by the scum of the earth, and perhaps it is precisely because we have always been ruled over by the scum of the earth, that we long after such stories.
Aye it probably has been, it is hardly like our 'betters' in time past were any 'better', whether they were sacrificing us as fodder for the cannon, down the mines, or sending our kids to their deaths in factories, the parasitical elite have always fed on us.
This is a myth. Popular, competent kings are replete in European history. Elites with kinship to the ruled rule with a much lighter touch than foreign, parasitical elites. Until Napoleon, warfare used to the the occupation of nobles and volunteers. Battles were tiny and restricted to fields in the middle of nowhere.
You could view history in that way, and it is easy to cherry pick good and evil elites, both local and foreign, and yet for the vast majority of ordinary folk, life was shite, and it was shite, because the elites used them and abused them. Regarding battles before Napoleon, have heard of the 30 years war? The English Civil War or the Nine Years War? to name a few. These were population-level catastrophes, not gentlemanly skirmishes in isolated little fields. Talk about Myth!
You write like a whipped dog. The idea that all power, everywhere, is a relentlessly abusive process that grinds people into fine powder in all times and places is not true. This is nihilism, bereft of hope.
You accuse me of cherry picking and then immediately recite the largest episodes of warfare, ignoring the normative background hum. Europe has 2000 years of documented history. The norms of warfare are easily established. The *continent-wide* average for war casualties for a millennia was 25k p/a. Contrast to the annual average of wars in the democratic era.
"and yet for the vast majority of ordinary folk, life was shite, and it was shite" No. They worked 20 hours a week, had a third of the year as holiday, paid between 3-5% per year in income tax and hanged criminals by the neck until dead in numbers so large that it led to permanent genetic change at a national level. The idea that the past was a permanent hellscape is a lie fed to you by people who hate you.
Very good, for one, I didn't accuse you of cherry picking, I said it is easy to cherry pick history and find good and evil elites (so I also did not state that all power everywhere is/was relentlessly abusive.) 2, I was not cherry picking by highlighting the largest episodes of warfare prior to Napoleon, I was merely showing that your assertion was false, which it clearly was. I could have mentioned Cromwell in Ireland, the Harrowing of the North, enclosures, the lowland and Highland clearances, and on and on, so again your assertion that before Bonaparte that battles were tiny is just wrong. The average war casualties for the millennia at 25k p/a is pretty good, but what is that in percentage of population? and how would that look today with Europe current population? So say the 500 years from 500-1000AD with a European population of say 40 million? How would that translate into a population of Europe's 4000 million today? would that translate into 250k PA? not so Idyllic. Regarding being a whipped dog, no mate, not me, but I know enough history, and the history of my own people to know that even with how bad things are today, I would rather be alive today, even with Epstein and the scum that rule over us, than perhaps almost anytime in the past 2000 years.
This is quite the timing for me. I recently started watching "The Boys" (I've since stopped) thinking that it would be alright. Boy, was I wrong. It's the most degenrate, subversive filth I've seen for a long time.
It is an anti-fa w@nk fest, and is just a critique on whyte America to be honest, where everyone's a racist, homohobe blah blah blah.
I had the same feeling when watching it that I had when I used to listen to Frankie Boyle; just this heavy, degraded, dirty feeling. I also noticed that I had a morbid curiosity about what happens next in the series, I knew it wasn't good for me (The Boys) but I just kept watching it, and it took some will power to stop it.
I've noticed that beautiful art, music etc. makes me feel energetic, upbeat, more "can do" etc.
And left-wing slop makes me feel heavy, lethargic, dirty and apathetic.
Does anyone else experience these feelings when "consuming" left versus right-wing art forms?
"It turns out that truth actually is a powerful weapon, more powerful than ideology." I could not agree more. Which is why it is so important for our guys to always stick to the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it may be or how inopportune it may appear in the moment. But just in the last few weeks we have seen that not everybody has stepped up to this challenge - though you Mr. Morgoth have, of course. As you yourself pointed out in one of your most memorable streams, the question of truth is an ethical question.
I enjoyed reading the Dunk and Egg short stories and am looking forward to watching the series. The Song of Ice and Fire notoriously remains unfinished, with some people - in my opinion correctly - pointing out that it is its nihilistic ethos itself that stands in the way of a satisfying conclusion. As it turns out, GRRM did have it in himself to create a hero for Westeros. But why did he not place Dunc - or someone like him - in the greater narrative of the Song of Ice and Fire? Perhaps Dunc would not have only saved the downtrodden around him but also the novel series itself.
Why have we started thinking in terms of left and right paths? I know it’s supposed to come the French Revolution but is that where it really comes from?
Any lingering questions or doubts about why these types would engage in sadistic replacement migration have been answered. They hate us and revel in our suffering. This passage in particular highlights their truly vile and demonic nature:
"______ said she felt gods (sic) presence next to her when she was in bed...she knows jesus watches over her. and he saved her life. Whoops."
(from Epstein to someone whose name has been redacted for...reasons)
We've been propagandized about the "banality of evil" for a long time by those who exemplify it. They also exemplify the "banality of depravity," if that was not previously included, because they somehow have made perversion banal with a few rare exceptions such as the above excerpt.
Heroes indeed are coming to the fore now, and poseurs and frauds are being unmasked. Have any respectable academics or thought leaders or religious denominations that so gleefully denounce "racism" managed a bad word about those who do whoopsies to goyim children? Of course not. The only courage displayed has come from unexpected corners, and those have been limited. Let me as an aside note my profound happiness that Noam Chomsky has not only been exposed as Mossad but also as a hate-filled, monstrous bigot.
The political and media avoidance of the central issues is all you need to know about the old order, which is going away with both bangs and whimpers. Good on you for calling out the minimizers; the silents are too numerous to name.
The tools they have to surveil us, along with an army of foreign and domestic mercenaries to swing the truncheon if needs be. Yet they are the lowest form of life who are completely exposed, probably more than ever.
They remind me of Machine in 8mm when he confesses why he kills people
He says "what do you expect? a monster?........
.....I wasn't beaten. I wasn't molested.
Mommy didn't abuse me. Daddy never raped me.
I'm only what I am.
And that's all there is to it!
There's no mystery.
Things I do, I do them because I like them!
Because I want to!"
This is what I expect they would say if you met them.
Another great read. I was wondering when AKOTSK would make its way onto your radar—I’ve been really enjoying it so far. The pacing and storytelling, with their mix of simplicity and sincerity, have been a breath of fresh air. I honestly think it’s already better than House of the Dragon and easily a contender with the early seasons of GoTs. I’m not sure how much of G.R.R.M.’s original canon there is to draw from, so later seasons may risk suffering the same fate as the original series. That said, one beacon of hope is the production staff, who are—let’s just say—very European, with the notable exception of the showrunner, Ira Parker.
Some people are talking as if the next government of our islands are going to settle everything for all times. I think our outlook in the short term will be much what it has been the last 80 years.....caught between lunatic leftists (Zack Polanski) and neolibs sell your grandmother for a few Bob (Farage et al). Same shit, different pile.
When one of these two get elected and inevitably end in failure, this will be more consequential, particularly if it is Farage.
Human nature always reasserts itself against progressive utopian narratives. There is a lot of evil for evil's sake lurking in the heart of man, but by accepting that you gain an even greater appreciation for heroic figures who shine a light in the darkness. I think the common man has always cherished the stories of knights and cowboys and samurai, and I'm happy to see them coming back in fiction.
I'd also note that Warhammer 40k has an interesting fluidity of being able to be popular as both a cynical shithole and a heroic tale of struggle against darkness. It has an appealing story to tell the audience both when they want the cynicism or the sincerity.
On watching A Knight of the 7 Kingdoms, I wonder if it also resonates so well because the “Ser Dunc” character straddles the feudal and pious order of Westeros in a way we admire as part of a system. He is part of a feudal order but not a Royal, a noble, or even landed gentry (the establishment). He is skilled at arms but is not a paid guard/soldier of a House (a Cop), nor is he a “sell sword” (a Merc). He isn’t “common folk”, but even with his arms is still not a robber knight. “Dunc” as a “Hedge Knight” fulfils a part within the system of Westeros which is alien to us, maybe - if transplanted to our universe - like a royalist marshal or a lord lieutenant (with actual powers). In our world, with bureaucratic policing structures and “democratic” governance there are no hedge knights or anything remotely similar, but I wager many would think our society would be better if a good King (Rupert, first of his name!) could oversee an order of knights who could be charged to “deliver the King’s justice” to the grooming/rape gangs in a just and speedy fashion.
Another great read. I was wondering when AKOTSK would make its way onto your radar—I’ve been really enjoying it so far. The pacing and storytelling, with their mix of simplicity and sincerity, have been a breath of fresh air. I honestly think it’s already better than House of the Dragon and easily a contender with the early seasons of GoTs. I’m not sure how much of G.R.R.M.’s original canon there is to draw from, so later seasons may risk suffering the same fate as the original series. That said, one beacon of hope is the production staff, who are—let’s just say—very European, with the notable exception of the showrunner, Ira Parker.
Alexander Macris (who writes "Contemplations from the Tree of Woe" here on Substack) is a game designer. He wrote and published a comic to help market one of his games, making the deliberate choice to play it straight and turn aside from the Alan Moore school of comics. His heroes are sincere, genuine and wholesome. The villains are not misunderstood or damaged, but wholly evil.
He polled his readership on their favourite characters, fully expecting the rather colourful villains to top the list. Surprisingly, the winner by a large margin was the lead hero, a Superman character who has a family and faith. Macris concludes that the cultural zeitgeist has shifted. People have not seen a genuine, archetypal hero for decades and when presented with it they drink it up like a man stumbling into an oasis in the desert.
Having written quite a bit of fiction myself, I can relate. There's something truly dreadful about implacable, unknowable evil.
When CS Lewis wrote "The Screwtape Letters" he had to keep a bucket by his desk to vomit into.
I think the Achilles' heel of the elites is demographics. The 3rd world migrants will never kowtow to the Western elites, no matter how many crumbs and pennies are thrown their way. Third world migrants are, by their very nature, a pack of ingrates and, for the most part, lost to them. Where will the depraved elites find allies now? Tucker Carlson is ripping them apart from the right, and a host of leftists are tearing at them from the left.
We have entered a new era.
And it doesn't necessarily end with the triumph of good over evil.
WW3 is on the horizon, and I see the country boys (like me) are disillusioned and angry. We are the men who not only fight the wars, but the very ones needed to win them. And we are not stupid. Not even the draft, conscription, can bring us out now.
I would rather enter a new dark age than submit to these animalistic sociopaths living stolen lives. I'd rather die and take my piece of the taxbase and competency with me.
Been there and wouldn’t do it again.
Soldiers are idealistic, which must be aspect of us/the class we come from? However we’re not fools and we can see we’ve been lied to , turned on and betrayed by a class of psychopaths. How can they appeal to honour when they have no honour of their own?
In my opinion they’re not anywhere near as smart as they think they are. They need us to fight their wars … that isn’t happening this time.
A powerful piece, Morgoth. And uncharacteristically positive.
As AA said, if the Epstein files are not your line in the sand then there’s no hope.
I've made my views on the downplayers and minimizers very clear for everyone over the last week or two.
Yes you have, unequivocally so. Thank you so much for that.
Ordinary folk have always loved stories of honourable men in a bad world, unfortunately it has never stopped them from being ruled by the scum of the earth, and perhaps it is precisely because we have always been ruled over by the scum of the earth, that we long after such stories.
Has it always been as bad as this, though?
Aye it probably has been, it is hardly like our 'betters' in time past were any 'better', whether they were sacrificing us as fodder for the cannon, down the mines, or sending our kids to their deaths in factories, the parasitical elite have always fed on us.
This is a myth. Popular, competent kings are replete in European history. Elites with kinship to the ruled rule with a much lighter touch than foreign, parasitical elites. Until Napoleon, warfare used to the the occupation of nobles and volunteers. Battles were tiny and restricted to fields in the middle of nowhere.
You could view history in that way, and it is easy to cherry pick good and evil elites, both local and foreign, and yet for the vast majority of ordinary folk, life was shite, and it was shite, because the elites used them and abused them. Regarding battles before Napoleon, have heard of the 30 years war? The English Civil War or the Nine Years War? to name a few. These were population-level catastrophes, not gentlemanly skirmishes in isolated little fields. Talk about Myth!
You write like a whipped dog. The idea that all power, everywhere, is a relentlessly abusive process that grinds people into fine powder in all times and places is not true. This is nihilism, bereft of hope.
You accuse me of cherry picking and then immediately recite the largest episodes of warfare, ignoring the normative background hum. Europe has 2000 years of documented history. The norms of warfare are easily established. The *continent-wide* average for war casualties for a millennia was 25k p/a. Contrast to the annual average of wars in the democratic era.
"and yet for the vast majority of ordinary folk, life was shite, and it was shite" No. They worked 20 hours a week, had a third of the year as holiday, paid between 3-5% per year in income tax and hanged criminals by the neck until dead in numbers so large that it led to permanent genetic change at a national level. The idea that the past was a permanent hellscape is a lie fed to you by people who hate you.
Very good, for one, I didn't accuse you of cherry picking, I said it is easy to cherry pick history and find good and evil elites (so I also did not state that all power everywhere is/was relentlessly abusive.) 2, I was not cherry picking by highlighting the largest episodes of warfare prior to Napoleon, I was merely showing that your assertion was false, which it clearly was. I could have mentioned Cromwell in Ireland, the Harrowing of the North, enclosures, the lowland and Highland clearances, and on and on, so again your assertion that before Bonaparte that battles were tiny is just wrong. The average war casualties for the millennia at 25k p/a is pretty good, but what is that in percentage of population? and how would that look today with Europe current population? So say the 500 years from 500-1000AD with a European population of say 40 million? How would that translate into a population of Europe's 4000 million today? would that translate into 250k PA? not so Idyllic. Regarding being a whipped dog, no mate, not me, but I know enough history, and the history of my own people to know that even with how bad things are today, I would rather be alive today, even with Epstein and the scum that rule over us, than perhaps almost anytime in the past 2000 years.
Maybe it’s just obvious now?
This is quite the timing for me. I recently started watching "The Boys" (I've since stopped) thinking that it would be alright. Boy, was I wrong. It's the most degenrate, subversive filth I've seen for a long time.
It is an anti-fa w@nk fest, and is just a critique on whyte America to be honest, where everyone's a racist, homohobe blah blah blah.
I had the same feeling when watching it that I had when I used to listen to Frankie Boyle; just this heavy, degraded, dirty feeling. I also noticed that I had a morbid curiosity about what happens next in the series, I knew it wasn't good for me (The Boys) but I just kept watching it, and it took some will power to stop it.
I've noticed that beautiful art, music etc. makes me feel energetic, upbeat, more "can do" etc.
And left-wing slop makes me feel heavy, lethargic, dirty and apathetic.
Does anyone else experience these feelings when "consuming" left versus right-wing art forms?
I just researched who wrote the show: Eric Kipke, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen.....and yes, yes they are.
Everyberg. Singlestein. Timeowitz.
"It turns out that truth actually is a powerful weapon, more powerful than ideology." I could not agree more. Which is why it is so important for our guys to always stick to the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it may be or how inopportune it may appear in the moment. But just in the last few weeks we have seen that not everybody has stepped up to this challenge - though you Mr. Morgoth have, of course. As you yourself pointed out in one of your most memorable streams, the question of truth is an ethical question.
I enjoyed reading the Dunk and Egg short stories and am looking forward to watching the series. The Song of Ice and Fire notoriously remains unfinished, with some people - in my opinion correctly - pointing out that it is its nihilistic ethos itself that stands in the way of a satisfying conclusion. As it turns out, GRRM did have it in himself to create a hero for Westeros. But why did he not place Dunc - or someone like him - in the greater narrative of the Song of Ice and Fire? Perhaps Dunc would not have only saved the downtrodden around him but also the novel series itself.
Why have we started thinking in terms of left and right paths? I know it’s supposed to come the French Revolution but is that where it really comes from?
Any lingering questions or doubts about why these types would engage in sadistic replacement migration have been answered. They hate us and revel in our suffering. This passage in particular highlights their truly vile and demonic nature:
"______ said she felt gods (sic) presence next to her when she was in bed...she knows jesus watches over her. and he saved her life. Whoops."
(from Epstein to someone whose name has been redacted for...reasons)
We've been propagandized about the "banality of evil" for a long time by those who exemplify it. They also exemplify the "banality of depravity," if that was not previously included, because they somehow have made perversion banal with a few rare exceptions such as the above excerpt.
Heroes indeed are coming to the fore now, and poseurs and frauds are being unmasked. Have any respectable academics or thought leaders or religious denominations that so gleefully denounce "racism" managed a bad word about those who do whoopsies to goyim children? Of course not. The only courage displayed has come from unexpected corners, and those have been limited. Let me as an aside note my profound happiness that Noam Chomsky has not only been exposed as Mossad but also as a hate-filled, monstrous bigot.
The political and media avoidance of the central issues is all you need to know about the old order, which is going away with both bangs and whimpers. Good on you for calling out the minimizers; the silents are too numerous to name.
The tools they have to surveil us, along with an army of foreign and domestic mercenaries to swing the truncheon if needs be. Yet they are the lowest form of life who are completely exposed, probably more than ever.
They remind me of Machine in 8mm when he confesses why he kills people
He says "what do you expect? a monster?........
.....I wasn't beaten. I wasn't molested.
Mommy didn't abuse me. Daddy never raped me.
I'm only what I am.
And that's all there is to it!
There's no mystery.
Things I do, I do them because I like them!
Because I want to!"
This is what I expect they would say if you met them.
Yes
Another great read. I was wondering when AKOTSK would make its way onto your radar—I’ve been really enjoying it so far. The pacing and storytelling, with their mix of simplicity and sincerity, have been a breath of fresh air. I honestly think it’s already better than House of the Dragon and easily a contender with the early seasons of GoTs. I’m not sure how much of G.R.R.M.’s original canon there is to draw from, so later seasons may risk suffering the same fate as the original series. That said, one beacon of hope is the production staff, who are—let’s just say—very European, with the notable exception of the showrunner, Ira Parker.
Some people are talking as if the next government of our islands are going to settle everything for all times. I think our outlook in the short term will be much what it has been the last 80 years.....caught between lunatic leftists (Zack Polanski) and neolibs sell your grandmother for a few Bob (Farage et al). Same shit, different pile.
When one of these two get elected and inevitably end in failure, this will be more consequential, particularly if it is Farage.
Human nature always reasserts itself against progressive utopian narratives. There is a lot of evil for evil's sake lurking in the heart of man, but by accepting that you gain an even greater appreciation for heroic figures who shine a light in the darkness. I think the common man has always cherished the stories of knights and cowboys and samurai, and I'm happy to see them coming back in fiction.
I'd also note that Warhammer 40k has an interesting fluidity of being able to be popular as both a cynical shithole and a heroic tale of struggle against darkness. It has an appealing story to tell the audience both when they want the cynicism or the sincerity.
On watching A Knight of the 7 Kingdoms, I wonder if it also resonates so well because the “Ser Dunc” character straddles the feudal and pious order of Westeros in a way we admire as part of a system. He is part of a feudal order but not a Royal, a noble, or even landed gentry (the establishment). He is skilled at arms but is not a paid guard/soldier of a House (a Cop), nor is he a “sell sword” (a Merc). He isn’t “common folk”, but even with his arms is still not a robber knight. “Dunc” as a “Hedge Knight” fulfils a part within the system of Westeros which is alien to us, maybe - if transplanted to our universe - like a royalist marshal or a lord lieutenant (with actual powers). In our world, with bureaucratic policing structures and “democratic” governance there are no hedge knights or anything remotely similar, but I wager many would think our society would be better if a good King (Rupert, first of his name!) could oversee an order of knights who could be charged to “deliver the King’s justice” to the grooming/rape gangs in a just and speedy fashion.
I've been waiting a long time for a new show to watch. A LONG time!
"there was also the total dominance of Baby Boomers"
Remarkable how that's become such a meme in the space of two years. Reminds me how white women "Karens" were the target not so long ago.
Another great read. I was wondering when AKOTSK would make its way onto your radar—I’ve been really enjoying it so far. The pacing and storytelling, with their mix of simplicity and sincerity, have been a breath of fresh air. I honestly think it’s already better than House of the Dragon and easily a contender with the early seasons of GoTs. I’m not sure how much of G.R.R.M.’s original canon there is to draw from, so later seasons may risk suffering the same fate as the original series. That said, one beacon of hope is the production staff, who are—let’s just say—very European, with the notable exception of the showrunner, Ira Parker.