2024—The Only Way Out Is Through
Much has accelerated in the past year 2024. At least in the right direction.
At the outset of 2024, there was a bit of a rush. For production and planning reasons, my two announced small books were published within just six weeks of each other.
Books 2024: Education Over Enthusiasm
It all kicked off with Neoreaktion und Dunkle Aufklärung, my introduction to NRx published by Jungeuropa. When I jotted down the key points for my lecture on the topic at the GegenUni in the fall and winter of 2022 (!), neither I nor the other participants could have guessed that the topic would become hot again in 2024. So hot, in fact, that shortly after the book was published, the big chief of transatlantic German media had to defend his sauna club in an offended manner (and still has not calmed down a year later).
A little later, as part of their 30th kaplaken installment, Antaios published Incel. Fatale Strategien. It's a bit of a shame that the book received so little publicity from the publisher. This may be due to the other two volumes in the installment. One is rock solid, but on an uninspiring topic. The other is highly topical, but from an esoteric point of view with no added political value. This may also be because I didn't want to incorporate or cure the alleged “Incel” subculture, but rather deconstruct it. The audience's reaction to a lecture on the book, for which I was invited to Vienna in July 2024, showed that I succeeded. My colleagues from Jungeuropa also understood the content of the book much better than some readers, who complained that the book was not for “Incels” at all.
In general, the thin-skinnedness (or the inability to read sensibly) seems to be increasing. For example, a peeved reader of Neoreaktion ... wrote to the publisher that it was cheeky to let someone publish on a topic that they were not enthusiastic about. And mind you, this was long before the 2024 US presidential election. Well, this reader and many others will have to prepare themselves.
Commentary 2024: MAGAlomaniacal
As the year 2024 progressed, it was hard to avoid having to talk about America constantly and everywhere. Whether in Germany …
or in Austria.
It was downright refreshing to bring up other topics from time to time. For example, talking about guilt politics in the context of the European New Right in Brussels in February 2024. Or with “Achtung! Amerikaner” to discuss German expellees. Or appearing as part of the “Germanosphere” contingent on “Milleniyule 2024” (by
) at the end of the year.