"Trad" Trap

White Women are Known to Enjoy Frolicking in Wheat Fields

All the "trad" values in the world and $5 will get you a cup of coffee. "Values" and "Virtue" won't save you, because they never have. Panic about virtue is a good sign that your society is in a crisis. Machiavelli's distinction between virtue and virtu is a pretty good one to think about when somebody is promoting cultural virtue as an antidote to what ails. (But his concept proved to be every bit as flawed in practice.)

A few years ago, simultaneously and  seemingly ex nihilo a bunch of alt-media "personalities" started promoting "white nationalism". This was an apparent grass roots (though certainly planned and staged) reaction to muslim migration into Europe, which was  almost certainly planned as a follow on to the non-stop wars in the middle east. The same themes are promoted  in the United States via latin immigration. Every social media personality promoting this is a fraud.

One of the themes for the nationalist promoters is "trad" life, which apparently involves white women walking in golden wheat fields and also venerating dead and dusty medieval christianity the same way some religions venerate the bits and pieces of their dead saints.

Ideological themes are seeded out into the public by promoted alt/social media personalities. The "trad" theme is one such theme that took off, probably because it tugs at the heartstrings by playing on shared dreams of a golden age--a never ending harvest time, and a just social order in the face of a world of chaos, and malignant, corrupt leadership.

"Society" is really incapable of doing anything; it's essentially passive. Ideologies, like trad life, are a hall of mirrors or a box canyon. As those themes gain popularity, though, the ideology becomes a platform for a phony leadership to make proposals on behalf of their real masters who lurk in the shadows.

There are certainly significant culture differences that make mass migration untenable and prone to cause the worst kinds of violence. Also the economic causes of mass migration are  generally pretty stupid and easily solvable. In spite of  cultural differences, the typical person within any given group shares many of the same goals.

In many ways our time, as a result of years and years of stability in the western world, starts to have characteristics of unstable times. Much better models for what to do in response to the instability are to be found through study of colonial north america and the actions of "the people" versus the corporate entities that sought to control them than in appeals to a phony traditionalism.