Trailer Park Mom: A Reflection (Link to Arktos)
Chad Crowley of Arktos.com approached me to write a piece for them. It seemed a perfect time to reflect on a recent viral Tweet of mine.
Arktos gave this introduction to my piece:
“Kruptos explores the power of condensed symbols, the societal disdain for the trailer park lifestyle, and the disconnect between dissident right politics and the realities faced by the working-class poor.
Condensed symbols and archetypes are powerful. They can be like wrestling monsters, dragons or other mythic beasts. But they can be sources of great energy if we have the courage.”
Click through to read:
Trailer Park Mom: A Reflection
A thanks to Constantin von Hoffmeister for his editing work.
I will be doing a podcast reading of the piece.
Great work and very thoughtful. I remember seeing this and the commentary and thinking it was all a very stark illustration of the difference in Christian vs Nietzschean nobility. I wouldn't say pagan for the latter, since even a heathen Roman like Caesar understood that his high position was contingent on his being a benefactor; he was a patrician in the truest sense, a father. The Nietzschean nobleman, or the internet approximation of him, is a self-centered creature driven to dominate from a sense of inner weakness; he recoils from women like the one in the video because her own vulnerability is terribly comprehensible. Our society lacks fathers. This is the main thing everyone involved would benefit from more of most obviously, and the main thing any aspiring noble should aim to be for his people.
I spent some time in a trailer park, as my folks were down and out and couldn’t afford much else.
Fast forward to the age of Twitter, and I get drive by attacks from various dissident accounts either accusing me of being a communist, for discussing things from a wage laborer perspective, or from real whack jobs, who believe everything is about race and the fact I never discuss things in those terms makes me a traitor to the cause.
This was a great essay, Kruptos, and the reactions you received to that tweet were illustrative of the fact that so many dissident rightoids are just as much the same as the LibTards they spend so much energy critiquing.