Making your own luck in the coming 4 years
The scale of history is swinging rapidly to the hard-right, take advantage of it
With the election of Donald Trump after the attempted assassination, I feel confident to make the call: The scale of history has been tipped and momentum is building. There is an inherent momentum in history and the momentum of the United States has finally been built towards inevitability. From 2014 to 2024, there was a perpetual question about if things would change. If things even could change.
Those questions are no longer being asked. Now, it seems, change is properly inevitable. For better or worse, we’re no longer bounded by the evils of progressivism. It seems that the conflict between the Left and the Right is changing forms. A righteous victory from the Right has left many socio-economically displaced. Now is the time to take advantage of the changes we’re witnessing.
So let’s discuss how to do that.
SHOW UP
My father once gave me some advice that I’ve never forgotten: “If you want to change the world, start by showing up.” This is absolutely critical, and one of the reasons why Libertarians don’t succeed in pushing their ideas: they want to be left alone, so they don’t show up.
The United States is on the precipice of conflict, however the coming century will see that conflict resolved, and present us opportunities to build something new. This brilliant analyst discusses a possible post-culture-war America. This is the future that’s up for grabs to those that take the initiative. You’ve got about a year before the dust starts to settle on the 2024 election.
You, reading this, can meaningfully effect that future by showing up for it. Show up to meetings, show up to local political events. Show up to the local old mans bar where a bunch of old men are looking for some one to pass forward their legacy. Real power comes from connections made with other people, and those connections require time and maintenance. Put in the time.
I’m aware of the inconvenience in doing so, especially in the modern era where survival is difficult and where it seems like you’re getting nothing done. But you have to show up if you want the next century to be ours.
Build: industries, platforms, brands, history
Industry and business are going to change a great deal in the coming decades. We’re going to be in a position where those who take the initiative will seize major advances. Some random youtube analysts are more respected and better paid than PhD historians. Make connections with local venture capitalists (remember those old-men in the bars?). Start working for them, volunteer if you have to.
If we can take advantage of these radical cultural shifts, then we’ll be positioned to command the economy for several generations going forward. Just as the boomers have effectively imposed their will upon multiple future generations. Younger Millennials, and Zoomers have the opportunity now to rebuild a civilization that was pilfered by boomers and unmored by progressives.
Make Your Own Luck
A lot of people just “get lucky.” A sentiment I fully understand. However, some people seem to be consistently lucky, while others aren’t. As one of those consistently lucky people, it’s due to mindset and a lack of risk aversion. Generally “luck” in life takes one of two forms:
The Right Connections
The Right Opportunities
A willingness to seize those opportunities
Being “lucky” requires not only that you been in the right place at the right time. It also requires that one be willing to radically alter their own life to take advantage of new opportunities. Work to know useful people, find the right bar sit down there for an hour every day for the next six months. Make friends with the guys there, meet them, learn from them. Then when one offers you a job or position of power, seize it.
Humans have a natural predisposition for consistency and risk aversion. Unfortunately that gets in the way in modern society. Create as many opportunities to be “in the right place at the right time” as possible. Importantly; be willing to make a move on those opportunities when they present themselves. We’re talking “give me a few days to sell my car and I’ll buy that truck of yours” or “I’ve got time tomorrow to help out, where do you want to meet?” The difference between those who show up, and those who don’t, is that you never hear about the latter.
Maximize the number of (potentially useful) people whom you know. Develop a relatively unique set of skills (construction, coding, chemistry, mechanics, 3D modeling, etc). Then when one of those guys you know says “hey, I’m thinking about starting a thing,” make the time to give it a shot.
Those with wealth find this easier than those without. Wealth creates leisure time which can be used to perform the above. The zoomer generation is hyper-atomized and the millennials are hardly any better, so those who build connections are going to be massively preferentially selected in higher paying positions.
I have never once in my life gotten a job by “applying online” as they say. The only types of employment I’ve ever gotten are because I knew some one who knew some one who needed some one like me to work. Nepotism is how the world works. Many of our parents did us a tremendous disservice by attempting to pretend that wasn’t true.
When you do succeed, and establish yourself somewhere, remember: you now have the capacity to be the guy who has a friend that can do the job. You have the power to share the wealth, so to speak. You also have a political impetus. The radical Left didn’t get into power by accident, they hired their own. Banking leaders hire guys like Epstein for a reason. We can build our own networks. All the HR managers in the world can’t keep the boss from hiring his buddy. We seize control by: showing up and making friends, then getting ourselves into useful positions, then getting more of our friends into useful positions… then purging the Woke progressives in every field (they’re generally stupid and lazy, eliminating them once we have the levers of power will be a matter of due course).
A slow march doesn’t have the glory of a hot war or a riot. That fact is both unfortunate and well understood. Still, this is how we achieve victory. That’s how communists, and other hostile and parasitic groups seized power across the West. That’s how we can take our homeland back. With the coming cultural instability in the United States and across the world by proxy, there will be numerous opportunities. Opportunities for us as individuals, opportunities for the New Right as a whole. If we don’t seize them, some one else will.
You make your own luck; let’s have our guys be the luckiest.
6 years ago I left a comfortable job to step into a parallel world of contracting. Only had 6 months guaranteed employment. Since then I’ve built a reputation for hard work, efficiency, and no drama and I can’t keep up with the job offers. Working three full time gigs and turning down others.
It’s all about who you know and how you conduct yourself
I recently read a book called "The Defining Decade" which emphasizes spread out "soft" ie casual / secondary social connections for attaining jobs and status. Basically having a friend of a friend recommend you in some industry.