Atop The Cliffs - Occidental Poetry Journal

Chabal was always this hulking giant of French magnificence

https://arthurpowell.substack.com/p/a-life-without-heroes-or-villains "Hannah Ardent coined the phrase the banality of evil but what about the banality of the modern centrist? What is a life without heroes or villains? Is it even a life worth living - a blandness of moral ambiguity where hand wringing dominates and people are just sad about the bad things?" At that gut moment you are without any ambiguity if you are in touch with your folk. Everything else falls away, especially the modern liberal interpretations of the conflict. War and conflict are inherently brutal and murderous. The only answer to such madness is always found in heroes and villain

This bout's gonna be sick fam!

This is worth reading from Alexander Adams: https://alexanderadamsart.substack.com/p/bad-painting-folk-art-and-localism Two parts that cut to the core of what he is writing about: "This is the crisis of localism. Localism is an approach which many people (including myself) have championed as an antidote to globalism and the proliferation of State Art production. If localism were to gain ascendancy, we would get a tidal wave of dreck, more modern than ancient. There would be more Cardi B than King Arthur, more memes than Medievalism, more nostalgia for Wimpy than wassailing. Demographic change, cultural depletion, expansion of Americanism and the hijacking of national symbolism have been so complete that any opening up of culture will likely result in an art (undirected by an elite) consisting of a broken vernacular of foreign pop culture and half-remembered liberal shibboleths. It would be an inadvertently Post-Modernist kind of Folk Art." "If we want artists to paint nature, we need to be teaching youngsters the difference between a chaffinch and a corncrake. At the moment more teenagers could give you a detailed break down of seasons of an anime but couldn’t tell you the difference between an oak and an ash. The groundwork for a new art based on local knowledge and pride has not been done. Today’s artists who emulate Renaissance portraits have never worn a suit of armour nor handled a sword; perhaps they have only never seen them in real life. I’m not arguing that we should return to an agrarian age and foreswear use of the internet to make local art truly local. What I am arguing is that in the foreseeable future, our deracinated hybrid culture will (and already does) give rise to Folk Art that is full of pop culture, foreign influence, borrowed idioms and political banalities. Whether or not you find that prospect any worse than our current state, is a matter for your taste and convictions."

Just had one of my Twitter posts go minorly popular, 70k views or so. It was a review of The Green Knight - and I'm critical of the film - you can read the full review here: https://arthurpowell.substack.com/p/squatting-in-our-mythology The more views it got the more midwit responses it attracted. Notably from people who'd never read (or even heard of) the original poem. This is a lesson about 'democracy' and populism....

Unpopular opinion: Class differences explain 90% of disagreements within the right.

This image is a test. If you aren't on the white guys side in the background you're an anti-white. It's that simple.

https://twitter.com/TuckerGoodrich/status/1785649451702337543 I’m bullish on a continued slow collapse. I think an automated AI future is still the unlikely outcome.

This King left us 30 years ago today.

"I am for the blacks. White civilization, its cultural achievements, its lying, anti-human model of the world, constructed by it, did not validate itself. Everything is heading towards the beginning of anti-white pogroms across the planet. Russia will only be saved by the fact that we are not purely white." Latest Dugin book looking par the course!

Reminder that you need to reject Duginism.

Calvary of Omen Galloping they charge ahead Riderless and lost, Streaked with a blood so red The pale steed clatters past. Portentous omens of black and white You taste their fear Understand their desperate flight.

Happy St George's day - A stanza of mine from a poem of the same name: "Remember them all In your veins, power Passed on and onwards. May England never cower."

Looking for a Sunday night movie? https://arthurpowell.substack.com/p/film-review-against-the-ice-2022 "...This is a film that is fundamnentally about Nationalistic triumph and pride. Alongside it bravery, sheer grit, and elements of Nietzschean overcoming also soar as a supporting cast. Whilst the film is far from perfect it does offer a genuine reprieve from the horror of modern cinema in today’s day and age. This film was written by Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau of Game of Thrones fame. Waldau is clearly a Danish patriot, who also plays the role of Mikkelsen. This film comes across as an attempt to bring this remarkable story to a wider audience. To generate feelings of respect and awe for these brave Danish adventurers from the past. The story is fascinating in its own right as a tale of survival but what underpins this tale of survival is the national pride present. These men were attempting to find out what happened to another expedition. They were also attempting to secure evidence assumed recorded in that expedition that countered US claims about portions of Greenland..."

Night Operations The rain came down Extinguishing the forest's sound. The blackest of nights - 13 percent illum, Don the NODs - embrace the green gloom Weapons hoisted and goodbyes said Team 1 now heads to bed. We step out and into that darkness, Embracing life's true starkness. Simulated murder is order of the day Select-fire songs break the silence Shouted yells as we make them pay Fortune favors fighting fastest.

I would personally pull the trap door lever at the gallows for the people behind this and sleep like a baby.

“The Beatles” offspring look like some of the most soyfaced ‘men’ you could imagine.

My friend MCC interviewed me recently. He asked some really interesting questions I did my best to answer. https://montanaclassicalcollege.substack.com/p/arthur-powell-interview