The Order

For the first time today, I watched the 2024 film The Order, which six times mentions my favourite novel, The Turner Diaries and even mentions “The Day of the Rope”: the day I most long to experience, although I don’t think my dream will come true…

Surprisingly, on June 13 Counter-Currents published a good review of the movie that shows that not all is lost in that webzine: there is still a residue of revolutionary thought although, like reviewer Ondrej Mann, I believe that for now any jihad must be internal (since the conditions for an armed revolution will still be a long way off in the US).

I don’t have much to add to Mann’s review. But of the eighty-four comments in the discussion thread—which, as I said, surprise me since revolutionary thought still persists, albeit without a call to arms—I’d like to quote a passage from one of the latest threaded comments:

Here’s the thing about the movie The Order. It’s blatant propaganda, it is full of factual inaccuracies, it horribly mixes up the history, it exaggerates the violence, but this movie in the final analysis is good for us. It functions as what Greg the other day called a kind of social proof; meaning that the mainstream media takes us seriously, so seriously that they made a relatively big budget film, with big name stars [e.g., Jude Law—Ed.] and so inescapably they spread the gospel of William Pierce. Also, the movie is really well made and well-acted, it has thrilling scenes in it and is a pleasure to watch. All in all it constitutes a Victory for our side.

The truth is that I didn’t feel pleasure because of the propaganda.

And I think you are also correct too that eventually RJM [Bob Matthews] will become a folk hero if he already is not one. Shades of Paul Bunyan etc. His story has an almost mythological and legendary character to it right down the fiery Wagnerian ending. He held them at bay for 30 hours after all in his final redoubt, one man against many many more!

Indeed, but in a certain sense Bob Matthews and I—a sort of post-Nietzschean philosopher who like Friedrich’s Zarathustra wants to start a new religion—are antipodes. I believe that, for the moment, any jihad must be internal in order to purge ourselves of Judeo-Christian ethics. On the other hand, like most white nationalists today, Matthews apparently knew nothing about the Christian Question. (I understand that of The Order, not Hollywood but historical, only David Lane understood what we call here the CQ.)