The Great Canadian Renaissance
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Canada is in crisis. A darkness casts its shadow over the land. The past is shrouded in fog; the future is uncertain. All hope seems lost: the country is in shambles, the nation struggling to remember who it was and who it was meant to be. A feeling of heaviness in the chest and an invisible chokehold stifle the young, vital energies of those still vying to carve out their own destinies.
There is no shortage of blows. Canadians are facing economic destruction, a mass migration of demographically threatening foreigners, and an incompetent, illiterate, sadistic elite who survive on credentialism, gatekeeping, and an endless managerial bureaucracy intruding into every ingrained notion of sovereignty for all Canadians, whether Anglo or French.
At the time of writing, a few weeks ago, I was invited to speak at an event in Toronto. The venue, located in the heart of Canada's Rome—founded by the great Loyalists on a journey like Aeneas leading the Trojans—a city of red brick, marble, and unmistakable Anglo-Canadian character, was, to everyone's surprise, totally sold out. All six of us speakers had an incredible time, educating, and engaging in the Canadian tradition of exchanging and debating ideas: the history of the past, the present situation, and the possibilities of the future.
It was there, after such a long time, that I felt the spark of hope—a light at the end of the tunnel. Bolstered by strength in numbers, I felt in my heart a burning inferno—a fire into which the Canadian people were born. The strength, courage, honour, and competence of men like Sir John A. Macdonald, our nation's founder; conquerors like Samuel de Champlain; brave explorers Anthony Henday or Pierre Radisson; and stalwart administrators like Wilfrid Laurier or Henri Bourassa.
In the great Canadian darkness, there is something happening—something that feels so unprecedented, but also only possible under the pressures of existential struggle.
A Great Canadian Renaissance
A convergence of bright minds, passionate hearts, and steel wills fuelled by righteous fury, laying the intellectual foundations and first principles for a Canadian future. This convergence does not stem from Canada's conservatives, who have conserved nothing, mentally stuck in 2004 and totally impotent in representing Canadians; nor from its populists, who have popularized little, half of whom are statistically open to the idea of ending their nation's sovereignty—a modern allegory of the blind leading the blind. These groups have no first principles. They claim to speak for "values"—always vague, never defined. When forced to elaborate on those values, it all goes back to a single place: different shades of liberalism, whether the left-liberalism of the Maoist-style cultural revolution instigated by Lester B. Pearson and his successor, Pierre Trudeau, or the American-style right-liberalism of rootless neoliberals in the old Reform movement.
These groups are stagnant, incompetent, and out of touch. They cannot define a Canadian beyond a liberal proposition, rejecting entirely the reality that Canadians are two homogeneous ethnic groups who banded together to reject the all-consuming liberalism of the American and French revolutions. Seeking to be inclusive of all, they wilfully wash away Canadians' deep heritage—some odd 417 years back to the first permanent Canadian settlement of Quebec City—ignore their conservative instincts, and dismiss the history of Canada. These groups remain hooked into the post-WWII liberal consensus, an underlying belief of individuals like Francis Fukuyama in his book The End of History and the Last Man, or more recently Klaus Schwab's The Fourth Industrial Revolution. If "a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian," then nobody is a Canadian. Nations are rooted in exclusivity and made up of people who share ethnic, historic, and cultural ties. They are immutable blocs of human beings, not casual pieces of paper defined by arbitrary borders. To embrace the liberal idea of a proposition nation is to quietly embrace Trudeauian post-nationalism.
No—an indomitable cohort is coalescing. As the late Jonathan Bowden has said, the pressure against the existence of the nation will only channel into a select few, because all elites of any society "nevertheless represent an ultimate redoubt, an ultimate salient, or a bridgehead from which their population can go forth and from which it can gain energy and succour."
Many of the reasons our people do not seem to have a sense of solidarity amongst themselves in relation to the degree that some other groups could be said to have is because a significant number of them have never been kicked, have never felt what it is as a group to be disprivileged in a society. Unfortunately, in certain areas of life that process for some, and certainly not at the top or middle of the society, is beginning. They’re beginning to realize what it is like to be a minority or what it is like to be culturally disprivileged or what it is like to be dispossessed in a way. People need ultimate resources. They need absolutists, and they need semi-fundamentalists who will stand up for them at least in a conceptual way. Even if they can’t stand up for themselves, don’t want to, or wouldn’t even know how to.
What’s little known and understood—especially by Canadians themselves—is that Canadians have always punched above their weight. This is true not just in their historic economic competitiveness, the tenacity of their diplomats, or the fanatic heroism of their armed forces. In the 1990s and 2000s, Canada produced some of the most renowned cartoons enjoyed by billions around the world.
Notable Canadian cartoons include ReBoot, The Adventures of Tintin, Rupert, Angela Anaconda, Beetlejuice, 6teen, Total Drama, Cyberchase, Atomic Betty, Class of the Titans, and Redwall, to name just a few. It isn’t just cartoons—Canadian films have also left their mark. Ginger Snaps, the famous horror film, remains a cult classic. The critically acclaimed series Vikings, starring Travis Fimmel as Ragnar Lothbrok, is another Canadian production. This legacy of colossal cultural influence from such a small nation—despite living in the second biggest country on the planet—persists today in ethnic Canadians concerned with their posterity.
The Great Canadian Renaissance is spearheaded by bright minds, burning hearts, and passionate souls. Canadian podcasters, essayists, polemicists, video essayists, commentators, entertainers, economists, and analysts form the vorpal edge driving the Canadian spirit forward—and you can find most of them all here.
We will start with the speakers at the event in Toronto, and move on. If you're interested in voices and content by Canadians, specifically with a Canadian focus, these are the people to follow:
In no particular order, we have.
Ben Fleming,
, @fleming_benn- , Blood Satellite Podcast & Vanguardist Journal, @legallyironic
Fortissax, Fortissax is Typing & Fortissax Écrit, @FortySacks
- , Postcards from Barsoom @martianwyrdlord
Wilhelm Apologist, popular Youtuber
- , The Distributist, Letters from Fiddler's Greene, @GreeneMan6 (Honourary Canadian)
These other great Canadian heroes, podcasters, essayists, polemicists, video essayists, commentators, entertainers, economists, and analysts:
7.
, Seeking the Hidden Thing, @_kruptos8.
, popular historian and Youtuber9. The Laughing Man, Sunflower Society ヒマワリ会, https://t.me/sunflowersociety @HimawariSociety
10. Winklersmeat, Eschatonic - The End Eternal, Musician, @TheEndEternal https://t.me/TheEndEternal
11. Greg Wycliffe, Save Free Speech, @gddub
12. A.J.R. Klopp, The Thirteen Fathers: A Series, @ThirteenFathers
13. Gord Mcgill, @GordMagill
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, Anarchonomicon, @FromKulak15.
, @TheC_of_E16. Gio, of @giantgio
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, Stares at the World, @Aurini18.
, Private Thoughts, @LiquidSwan
The strongest steel is forged in the hottest flame. We have been through difficult times. We are currently living through our own Soviet era, our own Weimar.
But for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Canadians have felt this pressure building for so long there won't just be renaissance, but a revolution.
Eachday I see more and more Canadian shields as profile pics, more and more Canadians rejecting multiculturalism.
When the next Canadian movement arrives it will be everything the Americans wish their little MAGA party was
Cheers for the list. This whole movement and events of the past half a year have been such a welcome white pill for me.