On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with
, who publishes here on Substack at . Give him a follow on Twitter here.You may recognize Dan’s name from his seminal essay Traditionally Horny, which was published late last year and quickly grew prominent in our circles for advocating that the Right reclaim the mantle of license and libertinism from the Cultural Left. This work greatly influenced my own thinking in subsequent months, and played a large role in motivating me to write my right wing defense of slutty women.
More recently Dan is the author of NUTCRANKR—a hilarious and punchy novel that might be seen as a modern Confederacy of Dunces for the incel-adjacent right wing autiste. If you enjoy Houellebecq and
you’re sure to be a fan.From the Amazon description:
Life hasn't been easy for Spencer Grunhauer. Fired from his NYC nonprofit job for writing a "reactionary" manifesto during work hours, he drowns his sorrows with high-end liquor and online porn while raging against the "Davos Daddies" and their plans to crush Western civilization. But when he meets a young woman on a BDSM dating site, Spencer takes it upon himself to indoctrinate her in the tenets of "the Project," leading him down a rabbit hole of public humiliation and mental illness, culminating in a ill-conceived plot to take the "Davos Daddies" down once and for all.
NUTCRANKR is a comic examination of fringe ideology, social atomization, and sexual dysfunction in modern America. Dan Baltic's debut novel is a sardonic look at a certain type of Extremely Online character we're all too familiar with and what happens when their delusions and flights of fancy come into contact with the real world.
I read the entirety of NUTCRANKR in one sitting after enjoying a review by my dear fren
, and would strongly urge all of my listeners to purchase a copy for themselves. You’ll laugh, you’ll rage… and you might even learn something.Topics Include:
The absolute state of the modern publishing industry—why is it so ideologically captured and unwilling to give any light to authentic male interiority?
Why Houellebecq has never been cancelled and always retained cultural prominence compared to similar authors in the Anglosphere
Lots of men are more capable of expressing vulnerable / honest thoughts in audiovisual format vs. in a written format, where subtext is more easily lost and things can be taken out of context and distorted
Accurately capturing youthful male interiority will typically require incorporating crass and offensive things like rape fantasies and racial slurs, especially given how pornbrained young men are these days
Baltic’s treatment of the BDSM community in NUTCRANKR—is the feminist culture of that sexual subculture a flimsy pretext for a more substantial yearning for patriarchal gender roles?
“The woke are more correct” — social situations frequently interface with identitarian factors and brutalist power dynamics in ways that normie centrist types are blind to but both wokeists and right wing autistic guys can easily spot
In NUTCRANKR Spencer’s desire to establish a more substantive dominion over his art hoe girlfriend Crystal was mostly a skill / confidence issue, as libtard girls usually get turned on by a self-possessed racism / sexism
In practice the libtard hipster art hoe archetype is far better suited for an autistic Alt Right weirdo than the average conservative woman
Women are fantastic at picking up on your insecurities—oftentimes spergy men create an ick out of thin air by fixating on a minor misstep or awkwardness
High functioning autists are prone to reductively hyperfixating on status hierarchies and power dynamics in a self-limiting and uncharismatic way
The manosphere insistence on constantly “holding frame” is less useful than learning how to tumble effectively / recover gracefully from losing frame
Instead of trying to be Patrick Bateman it’s more effective for spergs to find or create an ecology where he can easily dominate the status hierarchy
Why Walt related heavily to the protagonist—without having gotten prominent in the Alt Right as a kid he easily could have turned out like that
Spergy dudes need to play for variance instead of for expected value; you need to cast a wide net and cast a bright signal to nab amenable wahmen on the fringes
The subversive twist ending of NUTCRANKR where Spencer becomes a Picciolini
Vectors for maintaining cultural salience in a post Alt Right era—Walt contrasts Spencer’s “deradicalization expert” path with his own method
Why does anyone come to their beliefs? Does it come down to self interest? And does it make sense for the highest status white guys to be woke to pull up the ladder against other white guys to ensure the competition is substandard?
Dan’s upcoming sequel NUTCRANKR 2, which will show Spencer’s evolution during the Vibe Shift era and his attempts to become a Dimes Square celeb
Walt argues that in many respects the early Alt Right was culturally Jewish
Neurotic wordcels and artists often fetishize Jewesses in the same way STEM nerds will fetishize Asian broads
Philosemitism and antisemitism are a horseshoe
Art scenes are inherently degenerate—respecting this as a fringe cultural seasoning is necessary, but degeneracy is ruined when it’s no longer taboo
Gender bending / BDSM / swinging can’t handle participation from non-elites
You can’t police “right wing artists” for ideological or behavioral conformity and still build a community that produces high quality art
The temperamental factors that make conservatives bad at art
Conservative women are typically a lot more masculine than liberal women
It’s easier to have a “trad” relationship with a liberal art hoe or an intellectual Jewess than your typical right wing Dagny Taggart-type bih
How can a degenerate wordcel help to create a society with good general norms but also an outlet for people like themselves?
Genetic drift ensures that some people are born with an r-selected impulse and we need to ensure they have an outlet where they keep it among themselves
Art that isn’t a little degenerate / subversive usually feels kitsch
You can’t have high culture without a degenerate art scene and an intellectual atmosphere that tolerates ambiguity and dissent
It’s inherently difficult to wear multiple hats simultaneously as an artist / public intellectual / professional, but Dan manages this by using his legal name vs. his pseudonym in different domains
Does “professionalism” have to entail cultural sterility?
Substack as a mechanism for serial publication a la 19th century writers
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