Our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) has been on a real tear during his last few Darkstreams, turning multiple sacred cows of both the Left and the legacy Right into cheeseburgers. Here are the relevant live streams, which build one on top of the other into a comprehensive case against listening to anything stated by the strawmen of the approved opposition:

These streams are each an hour long, and perhaps not everybody has that kind of time. So let me summarise:

Essentially, as His Voxness says, there are a growing number of wizards out there, who act like Saruman the White from The Lord of the Rings saga (which is of course the greatest work of high fantasy ever written). As anyone familiar with The Master’s work will recognise, Tolkien’s character was a silver-tongued charlatan and deceiver, whose words sounded extraordinarily beautiful and reasonable, and whose powers of persuasion were astonishing to behold.

But Saruman spoke lies, and eventually sold his soul and his power into the service of Sauron the Deceiver – but was himself deceived. Saruman believed that he could control the power of Mordor, and the Ring of Power, to his own ends – foolishly failing to understand that lord of all evil does not share power.

In a similar fashion, there are plenty of wizards among us today who use the powers of rhetoric and dazzling wordplay to blind us all to their true intentions, which are much darker and more nefarious than we realise.

Tangentially, one of those wizards is, of course, Prof. Jordan B. Peterson. More and more of us on the Hard Right, and probably elsewhere, are beginning to see through him – not least because of the sterling work of Voxemort the Malevolent in uncovering and exposing the strange and in many ways downright dangerous philosophy of the High Priest of Jordanetics.

It turns out that Prof. Peterson almost surely does not have the exceptionally high 3+ SD IQ that he claims. In fact, his IQ is around that of 120 or so – not stupid, most assuredly, for this makes him smarter than about 90% of all people, but not nearly as smart as me, or His Voxness, or most of my readers. (I am most fortunate to have a highly intelligent, erudite, and unusually argumentative readership by the standards of most blog writers.)

And that is the key to the next point about such wizards: they are almost always nowhere near as smart as they pretend that they are, and they preach things that are really quite astonishingly stupid once you examine their ideas closely.

The quality that makes them dangerous is the fact that they are very, very good at disguising their words with excellent emotionally charged rhetoric, and obscuring the worst of their fallacies with a sort of elaborate word-smog. In Prof. Peterson’s case, this is known as “bafflegarble”; in the case of others, like many of the New Atheists, or the Littlest Chickenhawk Ben Shapiro of the Intellectual Dark Web (the SDL’s version, “Intellectual Dork Weasels”, seems to be a more fitting term these days), they have more sophisticated methods of disguising their logical ineptitude.

And in the latest Darkstream, His Voxness points out that even we nationalists have some serious problems with fake nationalists, who pretend that they believe in the rights of separate nations to exist.

Vox Day picks on the specific example of Dennis Prager, a Jew whose YouTube channel, Prager University, is one of my personal favourites. I watch almost all of their videos whenever they release them, and I find their content to be excellent, if generally rather boilerplate mainstream conservative.

As Vox points out, fake nationalists are nothing more than entryists into the Hard Right, and must be swiftly and summarily expelled for precisely that reason.

In some ways, the Fake Right is much more dangerous than the Left. It is far easier to fight against a known enemy that is readily and easily identifiable, and clearly hates you and everything that you stand for, than against a wolf dressed up as a sheep. You will find it rather difficult to spot the zipper on his costume. We have seen the exact same problems with spotting tradthots, and for the exact same reason: bandwagons are easy to jump on and can be very, very lucrative if you get your timing right.

There is one mistake in Vox’s analysis, and it is one that he constantly urges all of us to refrain from committing. It is the “genetic fallacy”; as he states plainly in his latest video, anyone who talks about “Judeo-Christianity”, or “civic nationalism”, or “ethnonationalism”, is peddling nonsense – and you should not trust anything that comes out of his mouth afterwards.

The first part of this statement is unobjectionable. Dennis Prager himself is guilty of precisely this mistake – as was I, many times, right here on this blog. I used to talk about “Judeo-Christian” values, and so did a number of people who now read my work. I used to be a civic nationalist too. So was Vox Day, as he very candidly admits.

The concept of “Judeo-Christianity”, or “Judeo-Christian values”, is plainly utter nonsense, as anyone who understands anything about the true differences between Judaism and Christianity can recognise. Jews regard Christianity as an abominable heresy of the Law of Moses and of the Lord, and believe that Christ Himself is the absolute vilest of all traitors to the Jewish race.

(It should be noted that Dawn Pine, a former fellow colleague of Roosh’s in one of his online ventures, posted a superb set of comments to that last article of mine. It is worth reading in full to get an Israeli Jew’s perspective on Talmudic and modern Judaism. I plan to do a follow-up to parts of his comments later, as they are worth addressing more closely.)

Ask any devout Jew, off the record, whether he worships the Lord, the Father of Christ, the King and Saviour of Mankind. Use that exact language. You will quickly realise that your Jewish friend absolutely hates Christ and everything that He represents.

So Judeo-Christianity is every bit as ludicrous as Islamo-Hinduism, or the fictional Zensunni/Zenshiite religions from Frank Herbert’s Dune universe. The two are quite simply different religions, faiths, and traditions, that just happen to share a common heritage, and agree that the Ten Commandments are the Word of God and must be obeyed. While they are not completely incompatible, the modern understanding of Judaism is not the Judaism of the Pentateuch, as it is commonly understood; it is instead Talmudic Judaism, and that is quite a different thing.

So that is the first part of our Supreme Dark Lord’s statement is plainly correct: anyone who conflates mostly incompatible concepts under one umbrella is making a very stupid mistake, and thoroughly deserves to be called out and corrected.

It is the second part of Vox Day’s statement that I object to, and with good reason.

You see, it is one thing to argue that someone who says that anyone can “become” an American, thanks to the power of “magic dirt”, is simply factually and historically wrong. It is another thing entirely to say that one can never trust another word from that same person’s mouth.

This is known as the genetic fallacy, and it is one to which Vox himself has been subjected endlessly. The error derives from the notion that just because one thing that someone says is wrong, therefore everything else that person or source says, is wrong.

We all make this mistake. I do it all the time. If you show me an article on anything even remotely related to politics, science, current events, or cultural affairs from, say, The Huffington Post or The Guardian or The New York Times or The Washington Post, I will almost certainly laugh at it and toss it aside as being unworthy of my time. That is because the people who write for these outlets lie so often, and so flagrantly, that if any one of them told me that the sky is blue, I would flatly refuse to believe them until I had checked on it myself.

That is the power of the genetic fallacy; the fact is that even the NYT or the WaPo do actually produce useful information quite a lot of the time. It is just that most of their writing is so appallingly bad, so much of the time, and written from such a heavily Leftist perspective, that we of the Right naturally and inevitably tune it out.

To succumb to the genetic fallacy, however, can result in ignoring valid, if not necessarily sound, points of view. And this can be almost as detrimental as listening to wizards and their devious words.

To take a more personal example, let’s look at a case that Vox himself references in his third video, with respect to his interactions with a certain retired ex-Army LTC and erstwhile Castalia House author.

LTC Tom Kratman is an occasional reader of my work. (Which, by the way, is an endless source of wonder for me, personally – it’s a bit like being a drummer and then having Scott Travis from JUDAS PRIEST personally call you up and say that he really digs your drum fills.) He used to be a reasonably active commenter over at Vox’s blog. And he is of the persuasion that people like me, who come to the USA, live quietly, respect American laws, and generally behave themselves, can be considered Americans in due time and will eventually become better American citizens than the natives themselves.

This is the civic nationalist’s position. It is unobjectionable in the details – except for the fact that it only works in a very small minority of cases.

Moreover, it is utterly incompatible with the vision of the Founding Fathers of America. And it is utterly incompatible with the definition of the nation-state.

Civic nationalism simply does not work. There is no getting past or around this. It just doesn’t. Even in the relatively tiny minority of cases where it might work – such as, perhaps, my own – it still does not fully apply.

The Founders had a very, very precise definition of “posterity” in mind when they wrote the Constitution. They intended it to work for the descendants of free-born Protestant Englishmen and Dutchmen – in other words, men very much like themselves and their kin – and not really anyone else. This was and remains Vox Day’s position – that a nation is the people, not the soil, and not the state.

The Founders did not have people like me in mind when they defined “posterity”. They had people like them in mind. It simply does not matter that I hold the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America to be the next closest thing to Holy Writ; they were not designed for people like me.

And Vox Day proved this so brutally, and so publicly, that – to hear his telling of the story, anyway – a friendship and valuable collaboration with one of the best military sci-fi authors around today was destroyed in the process.

Now, I have great personal respect for both of these men. But one’s reasoning is merely valid – while the other’s is sound. And in this case, I have to state clearly that the civic nationalist case is deeply and fundamentally flawed. No amount of wizardry, no clever layer of sophistry, can hide the fact that civic nationalism simply doesn’t work.

There are tens of millions of “Americans” living in the USA today who are culturally more or less identical to their ancestors from Asia or Latin America or Europe. Their allegiance to the very specific and particular rights of free-born Englishmen is skin-deep at best. This conclusion is inescapable the moment that you spend a few days in the ethnic enclaves that are to be found all over the so-called “melting pot”.

If you actually bother to explore America within the big cities, you will quickly realise that people self-segregate spontaneously and naturally into the very same ethnic groups that we keep being told by the wizards are not supposed to exist. Yet, they do.

And if you actually bother to do some driving around America, particularly in “flyover country”, you will realise just as quickly that the suburbs and small towns and villages are ethnically uniform because they want to be.

America has been subjected, largely without the true knowledge or consent of its people, to the single largest and most pervasive mass invasion in all of human history. If this is true – which it indisputably is – and immigration leads to war, then the ancient equation of “Diversity + Proximity = War” is true by way of a very straightforward logical syllogism.

And not one word of rhetorical wizardry can change this fact, for it is a coldly dialectical deduction from sound first principles.

The simple fact is that rhetoric which is not rooted in truth can fool anyone for some time. It can fool almost everybody for a very long time, as anyone who used to be a civic nationalist or an atheist can attest. (I used to be both.) But eventually, the wizard words are always shattered by Truth.

And when the lies shatter and the Truth shines through, inevitably there will be pain, suffering, and humiliation. It has to happen. The bigger the lie, the worse the inevitable correction.