Author: NC Scout

A Monopoly Of Violence, or, Why the Era of the Martial Civilian is More Prescient than Ever, by NC Scout

The concept of the Citizen-Soldier is one of American originalism. Two hundred years prior to the Articles of Confederation and later the Bill of Rights, every Man’s task was security and maintenance of order in the colonies, not just those of the British, but the French and Spanish as well. The New World was a hostile, feral place. Rival civilizations sought to eliminate the others’ presence and the brutality of the era was well documented. Like all things, it is a reality relegated to history books, a thing which modern civilization fancies a complete separation, and one which we are rapidly revisiting. The world is the same as it ever was, no matter how fancy the Potemkin village we pretend exists may be.

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Two Minutes To Midnight, by NC Scout

“The golden goose is on the loose and never out of season”

Recalling the memories of my interesting youth was Iron Maiden, a staple of the early-80s New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWBHM), alongside Judas Priest, Motorhead, Witchfinder General, Venom, and a mountain of others that have aged fairly well over time. Here I was listening to it in the late 90s with many of the references of the era going over my head, more concerned with the guitar riffs, incredible rhythm sections and a stage presence that cannot be matched in the modern age of garbage music.

But those teenage years would give way to chasing phantoms in the desert for good ol’ Uncle Sam, and here we are, two decades later, revisiting some of the same pieces and listening to them with a very, very different ear.

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Hubris, by NC Scout

(NC Scout / Americanpartisan.org) It has been said the Left is a loose coalition of fringe elements, often at odds with one another, allied only in the recognition of a utopian end state. Nobody really likes anyone, isolated to their own identity groups with “allies” in common cause, until infighting and fractures fizzle one movement or gives birth to another. Like any movement seeking its own identity, the actors of today try in earnest to recognize what the see as their forebears. The tactic of esprit de corps grants motivation for the future through respect to the past.

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Nothing Sacred, by NC Scout

(NC Scout / American Partisan) Much is made of the rapid decline of the American Empire. Behold the creature in its final form, decadent, full of hubris, and approaching its twilight economically as much as culturally. There remains questions inherent in the minds of many. How did we get here? How much further do we have to fall? The questions to ponder are rooted in the problem itself; an answer cannot be generated because the problem cannot be understood.

The older generations in the West clinging to relevance view the world with a drunken stupor, only able to blame the younger generations. Their descendants’ answer in turn is to blame them. And they are not wrong. Laying blame, however, cannot resolve the issue of moral decline, nor will it reverse the destruction. The concept of western civilization itself is to blame and specifically the concepts of egalitarianism and freedom, both perverted to suit the conditions we find ourselves in today. Those moral constructs laid the foundation for subversion on part of the Left and will continue to do so mostly unabated, so long as those moral constructs remain unchallenged.

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The Return Of The Gunslinger, by NC Scout

The term Gunslinger. It conjures a mythos, surrounded by Western lore rooted deep in the American psyche. Reflective of a uniquely American trait of celebrating the anti-hero, no image of the American West can be envisioned absent the dusty, leather-clad horseman clutching big iron. But that image comes from a unique time of transition in America struggling to move on from the destruction of the Civil War, pushing westward in a race to capture the resources necessary to cement its place as a rival power to the European nations, culminating with the Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt. Indeed the American Gunslinger is part and parcel of that era and for good reason. Justice.

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Welcome to Appalachistan, by NC Scout

(NC Scout / American Partisan) There’s few pleasures in life like having a conversation with an old friend. An intellectual equal, an open mind, and a counterpoise juxtaposed to any position I might hold. At least in some respects. Not a mental clone, and a radically different life philosophy than the one I live, replete with a well aged Che Guevara-turned-Guy Fawkes face inked on his upper arm. A free thinker and a beer drinker, an American original, and very much a product of a harsh upbringing. In another life he could have been leading any guerrilla force with a natural charisma and matching high intelligence; an insurgency’s wet dream and a security force nightmare. A person who recognizes the false charms of the Left, dangling Liberation in place of Liberty and begging you not to realize words have meaning. He’s an example of life on the eastern side of Appalachians.

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Problems with the ‘Dirty Bomb’ Narrative, by NC Scout

(NC Scout / American Partisan) Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI, has now pointed out in a piece done by the Washington Examiner that there’s not just been angry calls against the DOJ and FBI specifically but that those threats are becoming more specific, mentioning the term ‘dirty bomb’. That in and of itself is quite interesting.

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A dirty bomb is a low-grade weapon of mass destruction designed to spread radioactive material rather than the all out drama of of a full scale nuclear detonation. They’ve been in the public parlance since at least 2001 and was even the major plot device in George Clooney’s terrible late 90s action movie, The Peacemaker. Like that dumpster fire, everything in DC is also fantasy land, with a cursory preview to the coming attractions playing out before your very eyes.

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THE FOUNDATION OF POPULIST REVOLT, by NC Scout

(NC Scout / American Partisan) Frustration is a common theme among conservatives, and has been for some time. Its certainly understandable, as what draws people to conservativism is a desire for stasis. The ‘system’ works in their favor, more or less, and while they may grumble about the goings on of the day to day affairs of the polis, the social equilibrium remains largely unscathed. Much of what one sees online and elsewhere is reflective of this reality and is, for what several personal friends frequently lament, the reason we rarely saw ‘conservatives’ collectivizing in public forms of protest.

It is equally important, while we’re defining terms, to recognize what the term populism means. Almost exclusively a left-wing connotation, populism is, to the laity, when a people have had enough of the status quo. The proverbial system, the social structure and arching hegemony which provided that stasis of comfort to conservatives, is failing. Populism is a direct reflection of cracks in the ruling hegemony; a challenge to the order of things. The fact that populist revolt is present in a social entity is evidence that not all is well in the body politic. Taken to its extreme, populism seeks revolution; an overthrow of the status quo in lieu of new ideas, new blood, new thinking. Sometimes it works, often times not. It is for these reasons we find the would-be Woody Guthries of the world singing their old Wobbly tunes while asking questions conservatives never thought to ask. The vagabonds, the artists, the drifters; all social outcasts that Merton would label Rebels.

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The Bolivarian Hurricane and America, by NC Scout

(NC Scout / americanpartisan.org) Nearly everyone in the US has ignored the political disasters to American foreign policy in South America. Conditioned by the five day news cycle, hapless conservatives and liberals alike have paid careful attention to a phony insurrection, forgotten about a fraudulent election, lost a war in Afghanistan, left our allies behind, provoked a war for political corruption, and hated Russia for it to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. In doing so American foreign policy, built upon the hubris of Ivy League know-betters, erased any credibility the nation has for rewarding allies and reinforcing hegemony. Outside the US, people have long attention spans and even longer memories.

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