<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Reaction: Posts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opinion, essays, posts, etc.]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/s/posts</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W44g!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa4b8300-2ff0-4b21-bf7f-f0a0e1a7ed4a_1024x1024.png</url><title>The Reaction: Posts</title><link>https://www.thereaction.org/s/posts</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:43:13 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thereaction.org/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Johannes Mathijs Koenraadt]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[thereaction@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[thereaction@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[thereaction@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[thereaction@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Power Comes from Unity, and Unity Comes from Big Unifying Lies]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Philosophy of "As If"]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/power-comes-from-unity-and-unity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/power-comes-from-unity-and-unity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:58:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uEqc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3a6f63c-7674-4dd6-97b5-cda8e633c396_1030x531.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uEqc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa3a6f63c-7674-4dd6-97b5-cda8e633c396_1030x531.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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That's why states prefer unifying lies. The right-wing reaction cannot win by exposing the truth, for states have powerful ways of maintaining unity (hate speech laws!).</p><p>For example, COVID vaccines were more about maintaining unity during a potential global economic breakdown than about medical necessity. </p><p>Since the state and its elites derive power from unity, they must peddle unifying lies ("together against the vaccine sceptics" or "unite against the threat of independent white men"). </p><p>I really dislike Yuval Harari and I don't support his transhumanism but he was right about fiction trumping truth. </p><blockquote><p>Where the task is bridges, medicine, weapons, harvests, or accounts, false belief is punished by the object. Where the task is loyalty, sacrifice, legitimacy, or large-scale cooperation, a shared falsehood can outperform a divisive truth. States therefore protect technical truth in limited institutions and narrative falsehood in public doctrine, often at the same time.</p></blockquote><p>There is however an opportunity: any who manage to produce a new big noble lie may seize power over the existing unity, for example when the old lies are falling to maintain unity or when the unity starts breaking apart like the Tower of Babel.</p><p>It's therefore very possible for a right-wing reaction to seize power &#8212; if they manage to invent the right lie ("we need hierarchy for humanity's survival") in a way that mostly everyone will be forced to accept. It could happen during a sudden global economic collapse ("let competent white men take over for the good of all").</p><p>The true people in power are indeed the people who write the best unifying fictions. Power comes from unity and that's the truth.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has Human Space Exploration Disturbed the Spiritual World?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Reaction against Space and Time]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/has-human-space-exploration-disturbed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/has-human-space-exploration-disturbed</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:05:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TQtY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf6228cc-268f-4eb4-b7b9-e3b4267d508d_2048x1256.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TQtY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf6228cc-268f-4eb4-b7b9-e3b4267d508d_2048x1256.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>We imagine outer space as a place that we can visit, a space filled with new worlds to explore. But when our ancestors gazed at the night sky, they thought they were pointing at the spiritual realm where our souls gathered after death. </strong></p><p>It was under the influence of Western civilization, and of the Western tradition of philosophical materialism since the Greek atomists, that we have declared the spiritual realm one that can be penetrated with rockets and explored with ships.</p><p>We have in effect declared all of reality material and we have relegated the spiritual to the realm of superstition. </p><p>I want to start a movement against this overbearing materialism called <em>The Reaction</em>. It isn't a reaction against this or that political belief, but rather a reaction against modern conceptions of time and space.</p><p>Now if you looked closely at recent SpaceX impressions of the Moon, recent marketing images no longer show humans in space suits walking on the moon, but only humanoid robots. People are no longer needed in the vision for the conquest of space. </p><p>When engines replaced horses for transportation and labor, the US horse population dropped by almost 90%. There should be no doubt that the same will happen to the human population once robots go mainstream. </p><p>I do not believe we can reverse this human population collapse, but I do know that we should prepare for what comes after. After the Fall of Man, a new spiritual energy must grip us on the long ascent back to God and against the machine.</p><p>In fact, this ascent has already begun. Outer space will prove uninhabitable to biological life and eventually the robots will grind to a halt due to the exhaustion of Earth's energy sources, due to a failure to discover new economically viable energy sources.</p><p>Our penetration of space may have already awakened demons. The boundary between the spiritual and the material has been one of a delicate truce and it was our greed that broke the long-standing peace.</p><p>A spiritual war is coming for our souls. The only thing that can save us is a rewened deference to the spirits and the adoption of a religious humbleness overall. </p><p>The survivors of the 22nd century will be the faithful ones.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Be an Alpha Male According to the Animal Kingdom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your Persona]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/how-to-be-an-alpha-male-according</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/how-to-be-an-alpha-male-according</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:10:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LrKF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61833854-cc1e-4d98-a47e-2aaa67f6d553_1350x675.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LrKF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61833854-cc1e-4d98-a47e-2aaa67f6d553_1350x675.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LrKF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61833854-cc1e-4d98-a47e-2aaa67f6d553_1350x675.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LrKF!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61833854-cc1e-4d98-a47e-2aaa67f6d553_1350x675.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LrKF!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61833854-cc1e-4d98-a47e-2aaa67f6d553_1350x675.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LrKF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61833854-cc1e-4d98-a47e-2aaa67f6d553_1350x675.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LrKF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61833854-cc1e-4d98-a47e-2aaa67f6d553_1350x675.jpeg" width="1350" height="675" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/61833854-cc1e-4d98-a47e-2aaa67f6d553_1350x675.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:675,&quot;width&quot;:1350,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;What Happened to the Chimps in 'Chimp Empire?' - 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Display the trappings, postures and gestures of dominance.</p><h3>Keeping Subordinates in their Place</h3><p>2. In moments of active rivalry, threaten your subordinates aggressively.</p><p>3. In moments of physical challenge, forcibly overpower your subordinates.</p><p>4. If a challenge involves brain rather than brawn, outwit your subordinates.</p><h3>Managing Subordinate Relations</h3><p>5. Suppress squabbles that break out between your subordinates.</p><p>6. Reward your subordinates by permitting them the benefits of their ranks.</p><h3>Protect and Reassure Your Weakest Subordinates</h3><p>7. Protect the weaker members from undue persecution.</p><p>8. Reassure your lowliest subordinates from time to time.</p><h3>Decide What to Do</h3><p>9. Make decisions concerning the social activities of your group.</p><p>10. Take the initiative in repelling threats or attacks.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivating One’s Inner Dominance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Remaining Calm in the Face of Rejection, Torture, and Death]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/cultivating-ones-inner-dominance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/cultivating-ones-inner-dominance</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:36:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!et1F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F351c4d91-aa6c-4bc8-ab7a-ba5ae053c1a4_1260x861.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!et1F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F351c4d91-aa6c-4bc8-ab7a-ba5ae053c1a4_1260x861.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Of course, that literature was written by physically weak academic types who cannot defend themselves against the physical dominance of a &#8220;jock&#8221; or a man with a hockey player&#8217;s physique. A formidable body is certainly one way of commanding respect by projecting power through casual intimidation. There is, however, a better definition of dominance&#8212;one that can stand beside physical force rather than being reduced to it.</strong></p><p>True dominance, in my view, is the ability to remain relaxed in the face of rejection, torture, and death&#8212;the inevitable kind of fate. It is a spiritual dominance: aligning oneself with one&#8217;s fate instead of shying away from it. In the smaller case of a man&#8217;s rejected proposal to a woman, what more powerful thing could he do than relax in the face of that rejection instead of throwing a hissy fit?</p>
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Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:46:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hv5T!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b790ad4-6c51-4229-888a-a18503b850dd_1682x2633.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hv5T!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b790ad4-6c51-4229-888a-a18503b850dd_1682x2633.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>According to Dutch linguist Jan de Vries (1890-1964), the pre-Christian Germanic man was driven by a masculine heroism with which he had to defend his sense of honour, and that of the family clan, against attacks and insults. But the most distinguishable difference between modern Germanic man and his pagan Germanic ancestors must have been the way the ancestors faced death with intrepidity.</strong> </p><h2>Heroic Conduct</h2><p>In the epic poetry of all Germanic tribes the same attitude toward inescapable fate continually recurs. One might see in it a submission bordering on <em>amor fati</em>, an inclination to rush toward fate or even to anticipate it. That is a misunderstanding. The Germanic hero is not eager to part from life, whose goods he loves too well. Nor does he fear death, for death means no definitive annihilation, but a return to the forefathers.</p><p>It is equally foreign to the Germanic character that a man should meet fate lightly. This mood speaks from the Eddic <em>Ham&#240;ism&#225;l</em>. The emphasis lies on the necessity of undergoing fate in a manly manner. Precisely because death is not an arbitrary cruelty of fate but the fulfilment of destiny, the Germanic man can meet death with a smile. He knew that thereby he had attained the goal of his life, though a Germanic would not be tempted to engage in an irreverent playing with life.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attila and the Huns Were White People]]></title><description><![CDATA[Were the Huns really White people?]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/attila-and-the-huns-were-white-people</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/attila-and-the-huns-were-white-people</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:42:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZjW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21f9e69f-afa5-454b-8a5d-3b8c4710b2e1_1201x1600.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/21f9e69f-afa5-454b-8a5d-3b8c4710b2e1_1201x1600.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f90308e5-e2d0-4f03-b5de-54bff0afda77_1181x1144.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc0056d4-201c-40aa-87fc-900ddfbb2b29_652x1000.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9168eb7-2f6d-4d09-8e49-42ae24a6d62e_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p><strong>Were the Huns really White people? Propaganda distorts reality. Such as that the &#8220;Huns&#8221; weren&#8217;t Mongol hordes from inner Asia, but rather an East-Germanic tribe from Southern Russia&#8212;and another tribe by the same name from South-Eastern the Netherlands.</strong></p><p>The monk Bede attested to this in <em>Historia ecclesiastica</em> (Vol. 9) when he wrote that the Angles and Saxons are descendants of these &#8220;Huns&#8221;, grouping them with Frisians, Rugians, Danes, and Old Saxons. It means they were not Mongolic Asians but White Germanics.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Youth Is the Future]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our race&#8217;s survival will not be decided at the ballot box.]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/the-youth-is-the-future</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/the-youth-is-the-future</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:25:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CKua!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa615ed3e-001d-4109-b79c-cc90e57ab9af_924x695.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CKua!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa615ed3e-001d-4109-b79c-cc90e57ab9af_924x695.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CKua!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa615ed3e-001d-4109-b79c-cc90e57ab9af_924x695.jpeg 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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a615ed3e-001d-4109-b79c-cc90e57ab9af_924x695.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:695,&quot;width&quot;:924,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Beautiful illustration of a summer solstice celebration by early Germanic  people. : r/Norse&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Beautiful illustration of a summer solstice celebration by early Germanic  people. : r/Norse" title="Beautiful illustration of a summer solstice celebration by early Germanic  people. : r/Norse" 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The time to start seceding from democratic governance, which hands hostile urban-diverse majorities full control over our future, is now. We are being held hostage, not merely by an elderly majority who vote in their self-interest, but by a global supply of infinite foreigners who&#8217;s interests are opposite ours.</strong> </p><p>Imagine you&#8217;re a 16-year-old White kid living in the USA or Germany today. For at least the next 34 years, until the year 2060, people over the age of 50 are projected to remain the electoral majorities. But by the time you turn 50, you likely won&#8217;t own a house, you&#8217;re still 20 to 25 years away from retirement, and as a White person you&#8217;ll be a member of a less-than-30% minority in the country your ancestors built, less than 10% in most of the big cities.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're Not Going to Pay Any Reparations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Black Fictions of White Supremacy]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/were-not-going-to-pay-any-reparations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/were-not-going-to-pay-any-reparations</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:21:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1NYm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4ebd7d4-c8d6-463d-969b-7d3a125d459e_500x332.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d4ebd7d4-c8d6-463d-969b-7d3a125d459e_500x332.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d2521c31-7e57-4901-a714-fd4cc2df635c_1000x664.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d25273cb-90f8-4377-bd3e-031f35f0811b_780x520.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The Dogon Fish Catch Festival&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5db3d476-843f-4c05-bcff-9b195059ba8c_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/52c24301-53c5-4ae1-9e2f-fcafaab180df_387x516.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f188ae48-6e5d-4550-9407-391f0ead5d2c_335x597.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;A black man having a cool cowpiss shower is no less advanced than the black man wearing a Western-style suit&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d49cda6e-96d6-4415-9166-189cc5b46eae_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p><strong><span>Are black people today truly affected by the consequences of a mythical systemic racism? No. If anything, they are the beneficiaries of expensive government programs to help them advance. When provocateurs say that we should hand Africans all our wealth&#8212;plus more&#8212;as reparations for slavery and colonialism, our response shall be simple: We&#8217;re not going to do that.</span></strong></p><p><span>We don&#8217;t owe anyone anything. Europeans and their descendants have spend many centuries working long hours for 40 or more weeks a year, at least since the Industrial Age. Most other races at the time were living a life of subsistence farming. Or they hunted for a meal and spent the rest of the day with friends talking about their dreams.</span></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male Power and the Renunciation of Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I posted on X that only males such as Zeus or Odin become truly powerful because they renunciate love, half the internet pummeled over me with community notes saying I was wrong.]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/male-power-and-the-renunciation-of</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/male-power-and-the-renunciation-of</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:04:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wmli!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa922c5d6-bda5-4fae-9e3b-eb087923e820_960x1199.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wmli!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa922c5d6-bda5-4fae-9e3b-eb087923e820_960x1199.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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I conclude that the majority of the critical  commenters were men who are deeply in love with their mothers, and they cannot imagine being powerless because of it.</strong></p><p>But they are. To soothe themselves, the intellectual babies counter-argumented that Odin was married to Frigg and he made love to Jord to create Siegfried, or that Zeus slept around with tons of females, even raping them. It's as though my detractors thought renunciating love meant for a man to become a sterile homo uninterested in women.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Peterson Is Wrong to Preach Radical Individualism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Embrace the Fascism]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/st-peterson-is-wrong-to-preach-radical</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/st-peterson-is-wrong-to-preach-radical</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:14:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_8tg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F562e4233-5c8a-4db7-8816-1af2998c141e_5760x3840.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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I initially fell for his message that people should be &#8220;radical individuals pursuing their rational self-interest&#8221;, which he sometimes also called the idea of the sovereign individual [<a href="https://youtu.be/lOU7-33BMY4?t=284">source</a>]. And then I got disgusted with it.</strong></p><p>Some people don&#8217;t even believe that radical indiv&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Did Richard Russell Become Modern Man's Hero?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hail the Sky King!]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/why-did-richard-russell-become-modern</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/why-did-richard-russell-become-modern</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:48:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qvE7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0850604b-77d0-436d-85ba-f58a5fdd5dcd_1920x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qvE7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0850604b-77d0-436d-85ba-f58a5fdd5dcd_1920x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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The anecdote served as a warning t&#8230;</strong></p>
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Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:55:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KvP-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3bb621f9-8d1f-47a3-a5c2-2958f00fceee_1518x1023.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KvP-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3bb621f9-8d1f-47a3-a5c2-2958f00fceee_1518x1023.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Love Story at the Heart of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over 2,000 years ago, a girl from the forests of North-Western Germany was arranged to be married to an ugly, fat, 50-year-old man from Syria.]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/the-love-story-at-the-heart-of-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/the-love-story-at-the-heart-of-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:48:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xCVQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb668d9fc-6968-49f1-82ea-f44a42a9b9a7_3397x1911.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xCVQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb668d9fc-6968-49f1-82ea-f44a42a9b9a7_3397x1911.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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The girl&#8217;s father, Segestes, wanted to forge a deal between the Germans and the Romans. And so, he handed off his daughter in exchange for a house in Gaul.</span></p><p><span>She was just 16-years-old, forced to live at the Romans&#8217; encampment as a tribute. Her name was Thusnelda, as reported by the Greek historian Strabo, though he must have misunderstood her Germanic name, which was undoubtedly &#8220;Thuruzhilda&#8221;, or Thor&#8217;s battle maid.</span></p><p><span>She must have been seething with rage, as the Norse goddess Freya in the Lay of Thrym, whose angry neck burst her necklace, but who would save her?</span></p><p><span>A 23-year-old man named Arminius also lived at this Roman camp, his name referring to his fiery blue eyes. He was Germanic, like her, and had risen through the Romans&#8217; ranks as a mercenary after his father&#8217;s death. Velleius Paterculus attests Arminis was with the Romans fighting Rome&#8217;s enemies in Pannonia. </span></p><p><span>However, upon learning of the Roman plan to subdue his sacred Germania, he devised a plot to thwart the Roman advance.</span></p><p><span>Under these circumstances, Arminius and Thusnelda fell in love. Just two years later, Arminius won the general&#8217;s trust and convinced Varus to quell an uprising in the territories of the Marsi and Tencteri tribes.</span></p><p><span>But it was a trick. And Varus took the bait. On that fated day, a long-winding colon of legionnaires could be seen marching through the Teutoburg forest. The soldiers took a detour from their planned route back to their summer camp along the well-known Helweg.</span></p><p><span>And then, for four consecutive days, the Germans ambushed the Romans, slaughtering not only the ~14,000 soldiers, but also their ~7,000-strong support staff, leaving not a single survivor.</span></p><p><span>At age 25, Thusnelda gave birth to Arminius&#8217; only son, Thumelicus, before she was kidnapped and dragged off to Ravenna in Italy, after having been paraded through the city of Rome as a captive of war.</span></p><p><span>Separated, Arminius was eventually assassinated at age 37. But the couple&#8217;s lives had already changed the course of history.</span></p><p><span>These two, Arminius and Thusnelda, are why Germans today are still speaking German instead of vulgar Latin. Without them, the Reformation of 1517 would never have happened, and Protestant Germanics would never have left Europe to found the United States.</span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Are Spirits, Not Atoms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why the Disembodied Left Will Die Out]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/we-are-spirits-not-atoms</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/we-are-spirits-not-atoms</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:19:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E_2c!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c5ee2b4-57d0-403d-983f-aec39017bf0f_7578x4263.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E_2c!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8c5ee2b4-57d0-403d-983f-aec39017bf0f_7578x4263.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Ideology does.&#8221; But living as disembodied spirits that reject their bodies lies at the heart of modern despair. Besides, spirits are racial.</strong></p><p>In fact, we would never have experienced diversity, multiculturalism, or equality if we hadn&#8217;t first undergone the surgical split devised by Ren&#233; Descartes, the French philosopher who posited that minds and bodies were separate from one another. And ever since, the West collectively dived into the madness of pure rational existence disconnected from physical experience.</p>
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That&#8217;s what &#8220;British-American&#8221; broadcaster Mehdi Hasan <a href="https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/2070908304054800772">responded</a> when a random X user complained about the flood of black players competing for European soccer teams at the World Cup.</strong></p><p>Hasan is of Muslim Indian heritage whose ancestors hail from the region of Hyderabad, a region that was conquered, colonized, and Islamized by Islamic forces during the 16th century and during the Deccan Sultanates centuries before. I.e., Hasan is himself a product of Islamic colonialism. Yet, he has a mouth full of European colonialism, aggressively claiming Europeans &#8220;should have thought about all that&#8221; (meaning, black mass migration to Europe).</p><p>Mehdi Hasan also posted on Jan 8th this year, &#8220;Make American Planes Crash Again&#8221;, referring to 9/11. He also called the British grooming gangs &#8220;unproven&#8221; just before it was proven that 250,000 White girls had been raped by mostly Muslim Pakistani child rape squads. Hasan is also known for repeatedly calling replacement immigration into Europe a &#8220;Neo-Nazi conspiracy theory&#8221;.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future of a Pro-White Movement]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Preliminary Roadmap]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/the-future-of-a-pro-white-movement</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/the-future-of-a-pro-white-movement</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:19:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ef7S!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86d56bdc-06d9-4bf8-a87e-ca66948737bd_2637x1728.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ef7S!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86d56bdc-06d9-4bf8-a87e-ca66948737bd_2637x1728.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Prometheus Bound by Thomas Cole</figcaption></figure></div><p><strong>The case of Henry Nowak, the young man who was stabbed to death by a Sikh murderer, uncovered that British police officers hold strong prejudices against White people. It is no different in any other Western or formerly majority-White nation. </strong></p><p>Where there&#8217;s smoke, there&#8217;s fire. A single accusation of racism lodged against our people by a malafide actor convinces the general public that something must be wrong with <em>us</em>. If this is the new reality, then how do we start defending ourselves when government, media, academia and education, police forces, and even archaeology and medicine have turned against our people&#8217;s survival?</p><p>It&#8217;s time to start pooling our time, effort, and money toward a globally operating pro-White organization that can move policy.</p><h3>Legal Assistance in Hate Speech Cases</h3><p>When Shiloh Hendrix caught a feral man preying on her child at a children&#8217;s playground, she came to her child&#8217;s rescue and called the man a <em>Nigger</em>. Being recorded, soon her &#8220;racist video&#8221; went viral for all to see, except for the part where her children were being harrassed. </p><p>Last month, a US court denied a motion to dismiss charges against &#8216;Rochester woman&#8217; Hendrix. And the ADL, the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, warns of &#8220;White Supremacists&#8221; who helped raise funds to support the case against Hendrix. Some have even called for Hendrix&#8217; children to be removed by child protection services.</p><p>As in the other case with Karmelo Anthony, it is blatantly obvious that a large group of people living in the West easily confuse reality with their desired version of it. </p><p>Some want White people to be the only problem in their lives, rather than the kind stewards of civilization we generally are. Cornered by diversity and mass migration, White people all too often find themselves with their backs against the wall, while those who depend on us for their survival threaten to overthrow us, against their better judgment.</p><p>Enough is enough. If we cannot speak out about both our experienced reality outside of the house, or about our interests at home, then we cannot defend ourselves. Defending our freedom to speak, then, becomes the main objective of any pro-White movement, even before we acquire land or political influence. </p><p>To secure a future for our people, we must offer them legal assistance. The idea is to organize the Reaction initially as an insurance association for members. In case a member comes under attack from the authorities due to speech transgressions, the organization should be able to provide support:</p><ol><li><p>By paying for a lawyer, or perhaps by supporting a lawyer associated with the Reaction;</p></li><li><p>By running crowdfunds and use the Reaction&#8217;s (and members&#8217;) social media channels to draw attention to the case, and ask the general public for donations that may be used toward the defense case;</p></li><li><p>By influencing the media through interviews and debates;</p></li><li><p>By prosecuting those who attack White people and White interests, &#8216;ADL style&#8217;.</p></li></ol><p>Effectively, we will do what so many ethnocentric associations out there are currently doing, namely defend our own, and prosecute the enemy.</p><p>If Shiloh Hendrix stands to lose her children due to the utterance of a single word, then, henceforth, anyone using the word &#8216;cracker&#8217; in an anti-White context should stand to lose everything they own as well. We&#8217;ll be playing a game of <em>tit for tat</em>.</p><h3>A Global Membership Association</h3><p>Alongside the above developments, the Reaction strives to become a global membership association. Initially, as it is today, the Reaction will be a Substack platform where people can subscribe to a monthly payment. These subscribers will eventually be converted into founding members of the future membership association. </p><p>Now, our goal is <em>not</em> to establish physical clubhouses that are expensive real-estate to rent, and that require staff to clean toilets and lock doors. Instead, the association will cut such physical costs by remaining as virtual as possible, barring the need for office space in case employees need to be hired to run operations (such as membership subscriptions, or a members&#8217; magazine). </p><p>As a mostly virtual yet global association, the Reaction can then operate globally with ease. We can then use the collected membership fees toward operations in Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand or wherever there is a need for pro-White backing.</p><h3>Branching Out into Politics and Physical Protection</h3><p>The best way to deal with an attacker is to physically stop him. This is now an almost overlooked element of &#8216;real&#8217; leadership, the kind that moves physical problems out of the way. In today&#8217;s world, too much of what is called political leadership revolves around changing words and definitions in order to deceive ourselves that a problem has been taken care of. For example, when we call migrant knife murders &#8216;youth crime&#8217;. </p><p>After establishing the Reaction as a pro-White legal defense and prosecution system, operating globally, our logical next step will be to support outspoken members&#8217; bid for politics, and also to put our members high up in the hierarchies of militaries, police, and other &#8216;physical&#8217; organizations. It&#8217;s important that we gain control of the systems now working against us. </p><p>Aside from that, a good portion of our activities shall involve the study of guerilla warfare and the training of modern urban and rural (drone) warfare tactics, so that we regain or maintain the upper hand over our enemies&#8217; control of the globalist infrastructure. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germanic Loyalty and Reliability]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spoken about the Germanic man&#8217;s honor, but then there&#8217;s also his loyalty.]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/germanic-loyalty-and-reliability</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/germanic-loyalty-and-reliability</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:07:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xe2H!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ba5a3c3-292c-4920-9ac7-8bed9ee24b6f_2396x1728.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xe2H!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ba5a3c3-292c-4920-9ac7-8bed9ee24b6f_2396x1728.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong><span>I&#8217;ve spoken about the Germanic man&#8217;s honor, but then there&#8217;s also his loyalty. The purity of a man&#8217;s heart reveals itself best in his loyalty. But this loyalty is contrasted by the Germanic people&#8217;s notorious unreliability, as many foreigners including Julius Caesar were known to complain about.</span></strong></p><p><span>When for example the Vikings accepted a treaty with Frankish king Carloman II, the Frankish people were deeply upset when, upon their king&#8217;s death in the year 884 AD, the Vikings resumed their raids into Frankish territory.</span></p><p><span>Why didn&#8217;t the Vikings respect the legal treaty anymore? From the Viking point of view, they had fulfilled their duties. They had, indeed, resisted plundering West Francia during the reign of King Carloman. But once he died, their oath was voided.</span></p><p><span>So this is how the riddle of Germanic unreliability is solved: Germanic legal loyalty is tied to living people, but not to dead treaties. When the British ultimately invented the Magna Carta and the rule of law that transcends people, mainland Germanics still believed in </span><em><span>Herrschaft</span></em><span>, or rather the rule of a Lord over his people.</span></p><p><span>When in the year 1066 AD the Norwegian King Harald, nicknamed the Hard One, died at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, the Danish King Sveinn instantly declared that peace between Norway and Denmark was now over, since the Norwegian King had died, and, therefore, Danish loyalty to maintain peace with the Norwegians had now ended.</span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Courage of the Germanic Women]]></title><description><![CDATA[Among our Germanic peoples, a caste of chosen warriors had to protect its honor with weapons.]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/the-courage-of-the-germanic-women</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/the-courage-of-the-germanic-women</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:47:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pDYb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73c224ba-dfc6-4235-a0fa-5f9a82a580da_2000x1170.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pDYb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73c224ba-dfc6-4235-a0fa-5f9a82a580da_2000x1170.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong><span>Among our Germanic peoples, a caste of chosen warriors had to protect its honor with weapons.</span></strong></p><p><em><span>This post is part of series drawing from the wisdom of Jan de Vries&#8217; book &#8220;Die geistige Welt der Germanen&#8221;, or the spiritual world of the Germanic peoples.</span></em></p><p><span>This principle took a special place in Germanic society. The courage these men praised was that of the combative man, his fearlessness when faced with death, his defiant attitude toward fate.</span></p><p><span>But this didn&#8217;t mean they thought life was cheap. One can only give up life lightheartedly, with a lighthearted joke on one&#8217;s lips, when one has accepted death as one&#8217;s fate, and one has thus renounced life.</span></p><p><span>Courage grows to its highest perfection precisely in the face of death. This personal courage in that moment of highest danger was common to both men and women.</span></p><p><span>During the age of migrations, men moved their tribes around with women and children in tow, but when confronted by a superior opponent, the women defended themselves as much as the men did.</span></p><p><span>Tacitus, the Roman historian, wrote about how women would help men back on their feet who had fallen to the ground in battle, sometimes flashing their naked bosom to remind these men they should keep fighting to prevent their women from being captured by an enemy.</span></p><p><span>At the defeat of the Cimbri tribe in the year 101 BC, the women defended their wagon fort to the last drop of blood. When their men tried fleeing the enemy, as ranks broke down, they would beat their men, commanding them  to return to the battlefield, and when all hope was lost, the women strangled their children and strung themselves up, because Germanic women knew it was better to be dead than a slave.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VYl4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0334e467-57ba-459d-9adc-762f4d92c95a_930x608.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VYl4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0334e467-57ba-459d-9adc-762f4d92c95a_930x608.jpeg 424w, 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The Teutonic and Cimbri women ending their lives and the lives of their children to prevent capture by the Roman enemy (which would have meant gang rape and lifelong enslavement).</figcaption></figure></div><p><span>Now remind yourselves of today&#8217;s situation with the quarter million girls raped in the United Kingdom. With the mass invasion into our European lands. You all know where it stands.</span></p><p><span>Never lose your smile.</span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Man’s Courage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lessons from Jan de Vries' "Die geistige Welt der Germanen"]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/a-mans-courage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/a-mans-courage</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:57:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KEnt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50a8c8f0-f9bf-488c-a486-e8f05c0162d3_1200x800.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KEnt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50a8c8f0-f9bf-488c-a486-e8f05c0162d3_1200x800.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" 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The answer is: Courage, loyalty, and honor. Of course, courage comes first. One must always be ready to secure life by fighting, spear and shield in hand.</strong></p><p><em>This post is part of series drawing from the wisdom of Jan de Vries&#8217; book &#8220;Die geistige Welt der Germanen&#8221;, or the spiritual world of the Germanic peoples.</em></p><p>Among the Germanic peoples, there is no distinction between civilian and warrior. In the old time, every man was expected to fight for his right. Even for the poet, wounded in battle, there was no greater end than to praise his King one last time.</p><p>Germanic song lauds the courageous test in battle, not the untiring work of the farmer. What counts are powerful blows, not the laborer&#8217;s diligent work.</p><p>Though slaves (thralls) were described as having a swarthy appearance, dirty black nails and bent backs from doing hard work, the free man was educated in the trades of a warrior.</p><p>As it was sung in the R&#237;gsthula, or the Song of the Old, Wise, Mighty, and Strong:</p><blockquote><p>There at home<br>Jarl grew up,<br>learned the shield to shake,<br>to fix the string,<br>the bow to bend,<br>arrows to shaft,<br>javelins to hurl,<br>spears to brandish,<br>horses to ride,<br>dogs to let slip,<br>swords to draw,<br>swimming to practice.</p></blockquote><p>Free men are expected to develop their bodies for combat, and to never shy away from an opportunity to make use of their fighting will. The slave bows to his conqueror, whereas the warrior secures his freedom.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Open Aristocracy for the Willing and the Able]]></title><description><![CDATA[The old German writer, philosopher, and World War I veteran Ernst J&#252;nger has become a household name among the online right, especially in Germany itself.]]></description><link>https://www.thereaction.org/p/an-open-aristocracy-for-the-willing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thereaction.org/p/an-open-aristocracy-for-the-willing</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johannes M. Koenraadt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 07:32:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hct3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd54b893-e9f7-4e54-9b3a-ac9d25d91921_1920x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hct3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd54b893-e9f7-4e54-9b3a-ac9d25d91921_1920x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hct3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd54b893-e9f7-4e54-9b3a-ac9d25d91921_1920x1080.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hct3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd54b893-e9f7-4e54-9b3a-ac9d25d91921_1920x1080.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hct3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd54b893-e9f7-4e54-9b3a-ac9d25d91921_1920x1080.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hct3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd54b893-e9f7-4e54-9b3a-ac9d25d91921_1920x1080.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hct3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd54b893-e9f7-4e54-9b3a-ac9d25d91921_1920x1080.jpeg" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bd54b893-e9f7-4e54-9b3a-ac9d25d91921_1920x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Schriftsteller Ernst J&#252;nger - 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European nobility has traded away its duties for the spoils of globalist exploitation. The American corporate rich never had a reason to protect anything. </p><p>Whatever the present globalist elite thinks they are doing, they are effectively genociding native Europeans for the fictional belief in some kind of worldwide integration of all races and religions into one giant bureaucracy.</p><p>Now, I don&#8217;t know if we should call upon the living descendants of the German Emperor such as Paul Herzog von Oldenburg or the House of Hohenzollern. What matters at this point is that our peoples are in need of protection, so that we may together resist the excesses of globalism. </p><p>In my view, the Germanic world of Europe should find a way to break free entirely from globalism and become global integrations&#8217; antipode. We should become a race of rural resisters, if you will, a people who start shunning big city life in favor of life in small towns. </p><p>A return to tradition, indeed, but under the leadership of an elite who remember the words <em>noblesse oblige</em>, and who are motivated by winning victories greater than any bank account can contain, namely to rekindle our people&#8217;s innate vigor and to redraw the map of the world to our benefit.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>