Something to think about gentleman: The overall picture and the long game. This isn't 2010 anymore. It's almost 2019 and in just under a decade, things have changed drastically. We need to realize this and truly understand what that means.
We aren't
"retreating". We are
redeploying because of the situation we find ourselves in.
A New Hope
ROK was perfect early on because the internet was different. Going viral meant triggering uber progressive types. It brought about viral traffic which could be monetized. Included in that package was essentially free targeted advertisement for the 1 of 15 men who came across ROK because haters exposed them to the site.
It was the peak of a golden era that had really started in 2010. Dissident thought and small "red pills" have seeped into mainstream culture and even mainstream conservatism. Tucker Carlson just recently questioned if Diversity was our strength. Basically, we've gone from YouTubers questioning progressive dogma to it happening in small amounts in the overall mainstream.
The Empire Strikes Back
However around 2015 on, especially after Trump, things started to change. The same tech bros who grew up in progressive dominated academia, culture, and campuses relinquished their ideas of free speech for hate speech. The progressive establishment and its backers started calling in their big guns and utilizing their places and ivory towers of power.
Essentially, the establishment especially progressives realized that needed to make use of the strongholds of culture, media, academia, and political might they've built up since the late 60s.
Look back at just the last few months and you see everyone from CNN to professors at elite colleges calling for censorship and banning of Dissident Thinkers. The students they've groomed and influenced dominate places like Silicon Valley and doing what they've been taught via a progressive worldview: to retain power and crush dissent.
You see all these purges and bannings, but the real key is control over platforms like Stripe, Paypal and the financial centers of power which apparently goes as far as MasterCard. That's a big deal.
Unfortunately, it means that we are in no position to be preaching a Dissident message in the way we once did. Get just a bit too much attention and it's suddenly all over. Very few of us are actually "self-sustaining" and to pretend that we can all be is blissful deliberate ignorance. (Yes, we can all improve ourselves and our situations greatly, but we still have to be realists.)
Look at the progressive might out there. Everyone from the lowest foot soldier protesting at Chic Fil A and the Senate to "journalists", activists, and gender studies majors have jobs lined up for them somewhere in some slot so they aren't starving and homeless on the streets. Theirs all sorts of special departments, jobs at Buzzfeed, tech giants, etc for them.
We DONT have anything like that resources wise. If we are honest with ourselves, it will take at least a generation. Progressives have been doing this since the late 60s. We have a TON of catch up work to do. So what do we do in the meantime?
We have to form our own kind of
"passive" resistance. NeoReactionaries are correct when they state, "There is no point to being open or public before you can win openly and publicly."
We have to adapt our thinking and strategy.
Channeling Our Von Clausewitz
Look at the armada arrayed against us. They aren't just consumed by their own hubris; their victories are something like ROK getting shut down or some dissident figure getting banned from twitter. Sure there's bigger moments and victories they have had and will have. Doesn't matter. Let them gloat, praise "de-platforming", etc.
While it's much harder to build any real platform these days, guys like Vox - love or hate - are building their own platforms from comics to publishing houses. Quintus Curtius has been re-translating the classics and putting out incredible literature. That's what we need to be doing and we need to be wise about it. We don't need attention at this point. The return of investment is far more negative than positive at this time.
We need to hunker down and form networks. There's no need to "evangelize". Men - hell women too - will start digging deeper. They either will double down on their current worldview or will have that "red pill" moment. Each one will find their own path. In the meantime many of us have found the starting point of our journeys down that path depending where we are in life. (Different men are in
different stages/seasons as Quintus so eloquently has talked about.)
As I mentioned earlier, our enemy is deep in their hubris. They glorify killing their kids. Let's bring back the joy, honor, and respect that society one showed for having them and raising sons and daughters in this worldview. I and my wife have two young sons and we plan on having several more children. This is my path.
For those of you who can, I encourage you to do go down a similar one. (I believe most men are called to have a family.) For those of you who are not, do what you can to bring about a culture that places value on the important things in life. This will take a long time. But there are plenty of resources here to aid in this pursuit and the long game.
Guilds, "brotherhoods", Mannerbund, tight knit bonds and communities, etc aren't built from scratch. They require a group of people who TRUST each other. Thats something the diversity obssesed zealots will never see and why they will always eat each other. You don't need to evanglize. Those who come will come. Meanwhile we build something that they can come to.
The foundation for any new culture is one of trust. That's why the meetups were an important thing and why we should be doing them often - on the down low if need be. You don't know a man till you've met him, seen his body language, his behavior, and his charater. Yes, this is harder than it sounds. I've haven't been able to make a meetup of the guys from Chicago in over 3 years now. (Toddlers are alot of work and our budget is tight.)
For those of you who can meet, bond, grow, and let your iron sharpen one another, I encourage you to do so. Don't just limit yourself either. People out there sense that's something is wrong.
They are searching for an identity.
Let's build one that speaks softly and quietly, but is slowly building resilient fortifications. Focus on becoming proficient, building needed skills across the industries. Make yourself indispensable. Build networks of fellow men who can build a business. Hell, raise up kids of your own to help you in this effort. (Bring back the family business.)
I think plenty of us here are at this point. We don't need any attention or recognition from the mainstream and people who sway with the ever-shifting winds of culture to acknowledge the validity and importance of what we are doing. We already know.
One last thing I'd like to stress is being careful how much we stare into the abyss - which ROK did pretty much every other day. Sure it made important points, but you can't look at monsters every day and not start to become them - both in how you combat them and what you do during and after the combat.
The Right - which I consider most of us to be -
need joy; especially in a day and age where people are lonely, frantic from the 24/7 news treadmill, and the next "cultural battle". Forget about "libtard meltdowns" and how dumb SJWs and progressive feminists are. Stop making schadenfreude the entirety of what brings enjoyment to your day. Look deeper. I think that's what Roosh's next project may be all about.
Kudos Gentleman.