Nick Fuentes' Latest Advice is Wrong
I rarely go on X, but occasionally I scroll through. One of the latest threads I saw involved Nick Fuentes. Generally, I never punch right. I agree with some things Fuentes says. I disagree with a lot of things he says. I find it odd that an asexual Mexican guy from Chicago is the face of much of the Dissident Right, but I do not care. However, his latest advice to young men is simply naive and wrong.
Fuentes recommends that young men return to elite colleges and universities to retake the institutions from within. It sounds smart enough, but it betrays a general lack of understanding those institutions. Any attempt to take the institutions in that way ultimately leads to the ruin of the individual. Let me explain.
I went to two of the most elite universities in the United States. In fact, one of my thesis advisors was a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School (where I took some coursework). In means nothing.
Those institutions are built like ideological fortresses. Securing an advanced degree requires the individual to submit and embrace policy, cultural, political, and even spiritual positions that undermine the individual. They are designed to intentionally weed out dissent and identity potential dissidents. The hard sciences and business schools (of which I went to one) are a bit different, but even those universities require ideological allegiance.
Thankfully, the business school to which I attended was a Good Ol' Boy elite Southern university. My fellow alumni are primarily cigar chomping, scotch drinking, meat eating men who are very racially conscious and hire accordingly. The Yankee school, on the other hand, just sent me a mailer asking for donations for transgender academics. Since my other degree was in Islamic Studies & Law, I was able to avoid much of the leftist propaganda of more subjective disciplines because Islam does not lend itself to subjective leftism, but I could never advance much further than a Masters in Islam.
Going back to Fuentes' advice, he simply does not understand the level of entrenchment. The world is changing and the Yales & Harvards of the world are dying. They hold power for now, but local power is really where it is at. We are quickly becoming a fractured society where tribalism and hyper local connections will serve men best. These webs will have a few regional power elites who help communicate among networks.
My advice to young men, therefore, would be the following: learn real skills (trades), join churches and local civic groups, get married, and take over intersecting lodges, church groups, and political machines. Embrace careers that do not just pay the bills, they offer time to dedicate to local networking and volunteerism. This builds power and it is organic.
The guy who gets a PhD out of Columbia will not do much in a rapidly changing world. A.I. may even replace him. The guy who fixes toilets and gets men to act on behalf of a candidate or cause will lead the future. Win the future by embracing the past - get local, tribal, and resilient.
Basically what I got from this is an exposee on communkst infiltration into all education institutions.
What I think would help ground and give a comfortable future to our youth is;
Why go in debt for a college education that may not help finding work, when you can get paid to get an education in a trade that will be needed for everyday life to keep society working.
What do you think about this?
The Tradesman
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