Tragedy and Hope
Where I go from here
Since my last post here at my Substack, I’ve uprooted everything to move my family across the country; and it’s been a whirlwind. Naturally, there’s not a high demand for my soulful reflections on leaving my homeland, so I’ll keep it to a few sentences before moving on.
I’ve never moved before and my family has deep roots throughout Northern California. I also very much have a rooted frame of mind in which a significant aspect of my own identity is mixed with the pine tree-laden periphery of my childhood. I thus left my soul in the forests of the West, but felt a strange conviction that I needed to do it. So we packed and left. And here I am.
Here I am in Middle Tennessee, taking part in a regional vision where my friends and I are betting on meta-trends that will reinforce a natural cultural segregation. This segregation is such that conservatives will seek to live peacefully with conservatives and liberals will seek to live—elsewhere—with liberals. America is ideologically and culturally bifurcating and I am here to set something up that might last beyond my own life.
Since I’ve been on the ground, certain internal trends of my own mind have been allowed to release and express themselves into my real life—something that wasn’t really possible where I was. I look forward to being more involved in a local SACR chapter—which is a civil renewal organization— that we are starting in Middle Tennessee and considering further how I might be involved in the broader reinvigoration of the American Right.
I was able to bring my business out here and jumpstart the whole thing into a new market on the East Coast and the Southeast. I am excited to be growing it and challenging myself to be a good steward of employees, hard assets, manual labor, and so forth.
Things are growing quite swiftly with the Contra Mundum podcast I do with Andrew Isker—we have just this week announced an official partnership with New Christendom Press. NCP will serve as our production partner and will platform our various media endeavors on their network as part of a broader initiative to unite the New Christian Right. Our site has the specifics on support and new media release schedule.
Here is a recent promo for our new series:
I’ve also been given an outlet to develop myself theologically into more of an Anglo-Lutheran direction— away from my 1689 Federalist past. I am able to do this through my participation in a new (small—for now) podcast with Jared Lovell, by serving in a layman capacity at a local church (more on this later), and by helping to publish the physical edition of the North American Anglican journal.
The other big news is that Stephen Wolfe and I have just signed an editor’s agreement with New Christendom Press for a new volume on the New Christian Right. More on that soon—but it will be a rallying cry for our group, as a vanguard of the blossoming American Christian right wing. We look to a political ethos of renewal and reinvigoration of our heritage; we seek to be forward looking, yet well founded on the heroes of our past.
And by the way, the Paul Gottfried biography continues—slowly, but surely. Hope to have the draft finally completed end of summer.
I will also be on panels at the New Christendom Press conference in June and the Right Response conference in April, and will be speaking again Grace Anglican Church’s October conference—this time on the theme of vocation and work.
Our age is one of a mixture of tragedy and hope. The America of our fathers remains unrecoverable, yet there also exists an exhaustion of the postwar American Regime such that it is possible to carve out for ourselves—and our posterity—something that may indeed thrive. The technological system at the center, I am convinced, will actually grow worse in several aspects. But the nature of this new system will allow manifestations of the Network State for those that can break out.
The future remains perilous in many ways, though I believe strongly in a return of a Heroic Dynamic--that may yet allow for various regional fortifications. And that’s what I’m doing in middle Tennessee—far away from the American promised land of California, yet with eyes fixed on the future stage of our human drama.
Perhaps I’ll have the time to write more about it as I go.
Super excited for your partnership with NCP!
I followed the liberal lie that we are just interchangeable cogs and moved from my homeland many years ago for better job prospects. While I don't regret leaving, as the country I left is trying to outcompete California in ruining itself, I do understand that you never really leave, Dave Greene did a great essay on this. However, I really like the reason that you are moving. It's a reason that is full of hope for a better future (not in an economic way) for yourself and your family. You are now able to build this into something worthwhile. Unfortunately for me, the country I moved to is doing exactly the same things as my original country, just quicker in an attempt to catch up. It really squashes the hope and desire to build. Keep up the good work!