An introduction to Regime Theory
We live in a time of synthetic toleration and fraudulent liberty.
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What does it mean to live under a regime? The Czech freedom fighter and statesman Yaclav Havel described, superlatively, the everyday symbolism of one's subjugation. In Havel's fable, a shopkeeper places a sign in his window that reads 'workers of the world unite'.
In our time, simultaneously more sophisticated and barbaric, the sign is in every window. It is on every television set, in every cinema, bar, cafe and stadium. Aggressively we are told to love and coldly we are commanded to accept. Yet it is a shallow acceptance and a patronising love, rooted not in virtue, truth or beauty, but in one's victimhood and symbolic value.
The protagonist in Havel's writings did not believe in the uniting of all the world's workers, yet it adorned his window day-in-day-out. Why? The shopkeeper had a choice: obedience, or ostracisation. You, or I, or anyone else in the street may not believe in the dissolution of family life or the nation, the ritualistic tutting at church and faith, the feminisation of men or the masculating of women, the defenestration of normalcy in favour of mandatory hypochondria; yet our choice is that of the fabled shopkeeper. This is the nature of life under a regime.
Our regime is not one of firing lines, death camps or sweeping agrarian reform. Instead it is one of interdependence, layering, and duplicity. It is a regime which seeks to destroy without building, to replace beauty with depravity and endless appetite, to weaponise children against their parents and the sexes against one another, to denigrate the past while refusing to study it in good faith. It is a regime of low culture and low standards, leaving behind a trail of decimated heretics, torn limb-from-limb by contrived and seditious scandal. It is a Cultural Regime.
It was Baron de Montesquieu who said that there is no crueler tyranny than one which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. One doesn't have to look much further than our time and the current administration of our decaying civilisation to see the manifestation of this sober warning.
We live in a time of synthetic toleration and fraudulent liberty. Where, despite the belief that freedom and justice is baked into our societal DNA, we have become a parody of the Western model. The internet and social media have broken down every wall between us as humans, yet we are more alone than ever. The institutions and traditions which dragged sense out of confusion and direction out of chaos have become weakened and conquered to the point of an insipid, stuttering crawl from one day to the next. An imposter of the truth reigns supreme, crushing all who dare to tell the emperor that he is not wearing any clothes.
Yet there is no emperor. No singular name, face, or body that one can point at and say 'there, him'. By design we live under a tyranny without a tyrant. We fought a war, but were too late to take up arms. As I have said before, the Culture War is over, and now we live under a Cultural Regime.
Regime Theory, that being the study of the current ruling class in the West, is a field of study that I believe all individuals of a dissident mindset should engage in. Rather than laughing at the ‘wokies’, or berating a Covid Marshall in the street; engage intellectually and come to truly understand your tyrannisers.
To better understand what we face, one must break down the constituent parts of The Cultural Regime, and how each part interacts with its superior, and its subordinate. One must know where the regime came from, what it wants and how it intends to get it. To this end, there are ten general rules to Regime Theory.
1. The Cultural Regime is an all-encompassing force, made up of technocrats, managers, cultural elites, corporations, intellectuals and professional activists who masquerade in different professions. Ascending in the zeitgeist of the 1960s, it has gained momentum consistently since then, undermining and subverting traditional institutions while its adherents rise to higher and higher positions of power and authority.
2. In the early twenty-first century, it has metastasised and infected every facet of public life: advertising, entertainment, the public and private sectors, mass communication, and education. As such, everything you interact with is propaganda, by whole or in part, consciously or unconsciously.
3. The Regime is made up of three elements, operating in a chain of being. At the top is the architect class, who are responsible for designing and funding the ends of The Regime. In the middle is the minion class, who act as a mouthpiece of The Regime, consolidate the rhetoric within mass culture, and silence its critics through weaponised scandal. And at the bottom is the demolition class, who use violence and destabilisation to create a climate of fear in which The Regime can consolidate power by offering a peaceful solution. The demolition class have no idea that they are part of The Regime. They ostensibly, and sometimes authentically, rebel against The Regime while serving its interests.
4. While the precise ideology of The Regime is difficult to pin down. It can be generally explained in a single word: progress. Progress in absolute is destructive by constitution. The Regime seeks explicitly to destroy the old regime; that consisting of monarchies, churches, nation states, and family-oriented, patriarchal societies.
5. One does not succeed within the current culture without the consent and support of The Regime, as it can destroy anyone at any time with or without a justified reason. Dissidents should distrust anyone ostensibly conservative who succeeds within the culture and is not routinely slandered by it. The rules of the regime are kept deliberately broad and vague for this reason. It was a tactic used by the USSR, where laws were likewise vague and laws were sometimes contradictory to each other. It meant that somebody could always be found guilty of something. A present example is social media rules. They are vague and broad, and leave much open to judgement; this is to ensure that anybody who steps out of line can be removed at any stage.
6. The Regime is not necessarily behind global catastrophes, but it profits from them shamelessly; both financially and in terms of raw coercive power. The Regime had improved its position significantly during the Covid-19 crisis.
7. The Regime places no value on objective truth and contradicts itself on a daily basis. It is inherently and openly hypocritical, but this is not a weakness as the minion class is pathologically loyal. Rather, it is the socially and politically advantaged class displaying its dominance.
8. Any threat to The Regime must be tarnished, and its supporters must be painted as a cause for moral panic and a threat to the false safety and prosperity of The Regime.
9. The Regime has a monopoly on protest. Only platforms approved by The Regime (think so-called Black Lives Matter or Extinction Rebellion) can avoid the condemnation of the minion class. Protest movements that actively counter Regime narratives will be attacked without mercy.
10. The Regime is fundamentally evil. It will destroy you, your children, and your nation without a second thought.
Arm yourself with this knowledge, and add to it with your own. Observe those who tell you they are here to help you, observe them very closely. You, as a dissident, are not under any obligation to play nice with those who have destroyed your country, poisoned your children’s minds, medicated you when you are not sick and stolen your sense of normalcy without a flicker of remorse. You might think it hyperbolic, maybe even hysterical, but if you want your old life back, then you have a moral duty to rebel. I wish it were not so, but we have regrettably entered the stage where it is us or them, freedom or control, humanity or oblivion. Please, for the love of God, pick humanity.
