In the marketplace of ideas, Vannoken culture would primarily fit the demand generated by people from originally broken homes and declining cultures. For instance, that’s why we did it: the males of our tribe. What was the statistic, what like 70+% of African-American homes are without fathers or something like that? A crazy high number, though I can’t remember exactly…
The Vannoken mask, called a váruðekon, is an artistic expression of the residual self-image, the ideal self. This is a short thinkpiece on what it means to fall out of sync with it, and what it takes to keep in sync with it “We are all of us, what we do,” was a famous line from Sir Ridley Scott’s The…
Vannoken culture is not a product of cultural marxism.
A cultural theoretician is a kind of contemporary anthropologist; it’s a term that I invented to describe a multifaceted body of knowledge pertaining to the constituents of culture. It’s the marketable right-wing version of what students study of the cultural Marxist degrees. The bodies of knowledge that it covers pertain (but aren’t limited) to economics, linguistics, metaphysics, (non-revised) history, psychology…
When thinking about what makes the individual, we can get into genes. We can get even get so granular as to go into quantum and astrophysics. There is not yet an objective and final answer for what makes the consciousness of the individual. Neuroscientists, theologists, philosophers, mathematicians, and physicists all have their varying, and sometimes overlapping, answers. Though, what we…
Vannoken culture functions because of high trust between the people that form it. All of the Vannoken families are scattered throughout the world, many of us on military deployments; yet, we somehow manage to have very tightly knit trans-familial bonds from shared culture, experiences, and beliefs. We attribute much of the intrinsic development of this cultural attribute to our own…
What is the box from within which so many of us seek to escape: to become something else; to become something more; to become anything other than what we are? To the old thoughts of Heraclitus, “No man steps in the same river twice,” there is a natural state of change as a universal constant as we grow older and…
The downside of Vannoken culture, traditional Vannoken culture, anyway, is this: the elitism. It’s probably the ugliest part of the culture, since everything has a downside. It’s not elitism based on race, but rather elitism based on content of character. But, the elitism is a byproduct of the pursuit of continually bettering the content of one’s own character. The pursuit…
When I disagree with Dr. Jordan Peterson, that is not to discount all the other good work he does. It is only a specific, isolated thing, here or there, that catches my attention. Tiny details are very important, and connect into other aspects of their work. Though, that is not to say that the entirety of their work is wrong,…
