WHAT FREUD GOT RIGHT

The following passage is excerpted from Andy Nowicki's collection of essays, Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 1, now available on Kindle and in paperback.

NOT wrong about everything.

                                 by Andy Nowicki

For me, an essential part of growing up was realizing and accepting that I wasn’t, and could never be, my father.

Such a discovery is perhaps, in a sense, a universal characteristic of every young man’s experience. If Freud proved to be off the mark, and more than a bit pervy, in his promulgation of the notion that sons secretly seek to boff their moms, he is not nearly so wrong about the less-commented upon aspect of his “Oedipal complex” theory: that is, it is assuredly true that one must metaphorically “kill” one’s father in order to find one’s own way. To successfully complete his transition into manhood, a boy eventually finds it in his interests to eradicate his childhood-formed dad-veneration in order to fare forward as a man with a truly independent heart and a mind cleansed of undesirable colonization by outside elements.

CHARLOTTESVILLE AS MALIGNANT METAPHOR (NAMELESS PODCAST)

                                                       

In his first "Nameless" Podcast post-Charlottesville, Andy ruminates upon the fanatical machinations of a malignant, out-of-control corporate Cult-Marx police state, and asks where this rabid (and officially sanctioned) crusade against "wrongthink" will potentially lead us.

Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/jnow1101/charlottesville-as-a-malignant-metaphor

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"The Daily Shoah" Episode 184

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Andy Vs. the Police State, part 1

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Andy Vs. the Police State, part 3

THE BABE, THE SCHLUB, AND THE SWIMMER

The following passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's new collection of essays, Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 1, now available for a low low price from Kindle and in paperback.

by Andy Nowicki

In Confessions of a Would-Be Wanker, I argue that corruption stalks the soul through the looming specter of sexualization. I don’t wish to repeat myself here; I only note that the attainmentf of status only becomes a goal in one’s life after one has begun seeking to impress the opposite sex. 

Status, after all, is generally inextricably tied to sex appeal. A high-status male is wanted by women, though it isn’t always clear which is the cause and which the effect in such a circumstance. Sometimes his sex appeal boosts his status, and sometimes his obtainment of status via external means (say, through accumulating wealth) ups his appeal.

The low-status man attempts to hold onto his pride and not allow his dignity to be besmirched; yet the corruption of his degradation is never far from his consciousness. He still finds himself pining for status long after comprehending the ignobility of this state. And it shadows him everywhere, never seeming ever to leave him behind, a humiliating reminder of the shame that surrounds his mind like a malodorous halo of filth.  

"ABOUT THE AUTHOR"

The following passage is taken from Andy Nowicki's new collection of essays, Ruminations of a Low-Status Male, Volume 1, now available for a low low price from Kindle and in paperback.

by Andy Nowicki

I am not a successful man.

I don’t say this because I’m eagerly soliciting assurances to the contrary. I’m not courting your flattery. I’m merely reflecting upon an observable fact.

As always, refuge can be found in semantics. Yes, the question of what constitutes “success” is of course contingent upon how one defines the term. And yes, there are less successful men in the world than me. But I don’t claim to be below all others; I merely, and quite rightly, declare myself to fall well short of the “success” bar.

THE CHARLOTTESVILLE 'STAND DOWN' SCAM IN FIVE EASY STEPS

"Standin' down in C-town": Whoa there, boys! Careful you don't work too hard! 

by Andy Nowicki

Now that it has been confirmed that the Charlottesville police were given a "stand-down" order on August 12, in order to provoke a state of violence and thus create a pretext to cancel the #UnitetheRight rally, the appreciative video viewer can trace the shape of how this whole sick joke went down.

SALUTING GENERAL LEE

Which of these two is the true "hater"?

                           by Andy Nowicki

Successful brainwashing through indoctrination can have the most extraordinary effects on the human consciousness.

Indeed, indoctrinal brainwashing, once it “takes,” can fundamentally alter one’s perceptions of his surroundings, much in the manner of a psychedelic drug. Being brainwashed can make a person unaware of what’s right under his nose, and, conversely, can cause him to hallucinate wildly.

THE DISCRETE WIT OF WHIT STILLMAN

                         
                                                              by Andy Nowicki

(This article was originally published at Counter-Currents in October 2012. It is republished here to serve as an introduction to Andy Nowicki's upcoming review of Stillman's latest film, Love and Friendship.)

In a previous life, before I pledged fealty to the art of the written word-- a pursuit for which I have subsequently won fame, fortune, and unbounded acclaim-- a different calling beckoned for a time. 

I enjoyed reading as a kid, but I also loved the cinema, while at the same time generally detesting everything savoring of "Hollywood" glitz, glamour, and celebrity; by my late-teen years, I'd found a number of films with which I felt I could identify, which spoke in a unique way to my restless young heart.