Mike Maxwell

“It’s truly a paradox that great things have humble and obscure beginnings, whereas ostentatious beginnings usually attach to insignificant things. The French Constitution of 1791—announced with a great trumpeting forth of praise, long deliberations, longer revisions, made for all time—lasted less than a year. It’s the thing that dignifies the name, not the other way around. We began this book talking about Aeschylus, the great tragedian of Greece. His art is one of the most elevated expressions man has ever produced. The very word tragedy brings to mind such titans as Sophocles and Shakespeare, and yet the word comes from a root that means “goat song”. Where tragedy would go could not have been planned by the first tragedian, only brought about by fas, by the work of circumstances.”
― Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought

“Darwin is often taken as the enemy of tradition, but traditions are just those social institutions that have weathered selective pressures. The longer a thing has survived, the more likely that it serves an adaptive purpose; “racism” is held up as the cardinal modern sin, but ethnocentrism is deeply rooted in our brain structure, therefore ancient. [...] Natural selection is anything but the liberal’s friend. Darwinism is the nail in the coffin of the Enlightenment, which is why you’re not allowed to apply it to anything except bees and cuttlefish.”
― Mike Maxwell, The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought