Our society believes in NOTHING—it's a soggy cardboard box that most prefer hiding inside rather than facing reality. As one of the few influencers shaping the emerging digital right's ideology, I'm offering principles for what I call the "not left" coalition. This 2.5-year project aims to give men something worth dying for as our meaningless, suicidally depressed culture continues melting down around us.

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