The Dark Side of "Game"
The concept of “Game” has been much discussed over the last few years in the altRight blogosphere. For those unfamiliar with Game, it is perhaps most commonly defined as the (crimson) art of picking up women. But at a deeper level, it involves accepting that there are genetically determined rules of attraction and that both women and men are hard wired to compete in the sexual marketplace.
Pick Up Artists (PUAs) manipulate these rules to score with lots of women through a sort of sexual jiujitsu whereby women are made to chase the men who desire them. Entering the best known of the Game blogs—Chateau Hartiste (formerly known as Roissy)—is to enter a world of “alphas,” “negging,” “white knighting,” “day game,” and other terms unfamiliar to most people.
As if this is not controversial enough, Game presents other insights such as the fact the women lie about and for sex, women universally desire alpha males over beta males, women very easily cheat with alpha males, and other unflattering aspects of the female psyche.
For the most part, the young altRight male writers realize there is much truth to the Game concept—but stop short of advocating what they perceive as a hedonistic lifestyle.
Paul Kersey, the talented and prolific young writer of Stuff Black People Don’t Like, puts it best:
I tried to live the Roissy lifestyle, well, I did live that lifestyle. The stories I could share... and I have nothing to show for it.…
Chasing after girls is fun, just as going on that first date with a girl is an enjoyable experience where endless vistas of possibilities potentially await you.
But on a day like Father's Day, I remember how my siblings and I would run into my parents room and give my dad breakfast in bed and the joy he'd have in his eyes.
Roissy (a writer I enjoy reading) and a lot of people believe bedding a ton of random chicks is a revolutionary act in a world dedicated to promoting and celebrating abnormalities. It's on this Father's Day in 2011 that I realize the truly revolutionary act is being a committed father.
As someone who became a father later in life, I can second this emotion. Most people cannot see a hedonistic lifestyle though to the end. Eventually, age takes its toll and clubbing and picking up women loses its appeal as friends and siblings have children and “something to show for it.”
In Search of Identity
The publication earlier this year of Jared Taylor’s White Identity was quite a milestone. In essence, it was the sequel to his Paved With Good Intentions, which was, as National Review remarked upon its publication in 1992, “the most important book to be published on the subject [of race relations] in many years.”
White Identity has already been ably reviewed in AltRight by Derek Turner, and there is no need to rehash the book's arguments. What I will do instead is reflect on what has happened the to pro-White movement in the almost two decades that separate the publication of these works—and how this history portends for the growth of a White racial identity in the United States.
The main difference between Taylor's two books is that while Paved focused almost exclusively on Black-White relations, Identity has separate chapters for Hispanic and Asian racial consciousness, in addition to ones on Blacks and Whites. Multiracial America is here, and while Asians and Hispanics will not be forming a rainbow coalition with Blacks, they are also not going to integrate like the Italians, Irish,and Jews of last century either. Indeed, with the reality of affirmative action, changing demographics and the racial spoils system, it is of no benefit for non-Whites to integrate into the existing White society. (One important point in Identity is that Asians, once the “model minority,” are increasingly shunning assimilation for an identity of their own.)
Reading Identity, it is hard to avoid the feeling that things look bleak for White Americans. Taylor sums up the situation as follows:
The demographic forces we have set in motion have created conditions that are inherently unstable and potentially violent. All other groups are growing in number and have a vivid racial identity. Only whites have no racial identity, are constantly on the defensive, and constantly in retreat. They have a choice: regain a sense of identity and the resolve to maintain their numbers, their traditions and their way of life – or face oblivion.
The fate of the two books tells a negative tale of the last two decades. Paved was published by a respected, mainstream publisher (Carroll & Graf) and sold roughly 45,000 copies. It was reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Washington Times and many other mainstream publications. White Identity was self published after getting numerous rejections from mainstream publishers. As Taylor notes, “this book is unfit for commercial publication in the United States.” It was reviewed in no mainstream publications.
