The problem with Jones, then, isn’t that he was simply perceived as a con man or a lunatic. The problem was that he does a phenomenal job discrediting the evangelical left as legitimate and moral, and this is something that the Cathedral cannot bear.

Sorel is best known for his 1906 book Reflections on Violence. In this he takes on some of the more spurious claims that law-and-order types need to hold true. For example, many conservatives claim that “terrorism doesn’t work.” However it is certainly true that after a certain point terrorism does work in some sense. The attacking of Hiroshima and

This thinking is also why the evangelical left is so often hostile to conservative Christians: it’s not the Christianity that bothers them so much as the repudiation of progressivism. Being explicitly Christian is one of the few things that gives people social cover to freely espouse antiprogressive views. The conflict is a sectarian one and

Cernovich is perhaps the best member of the New Right when it comes to understanding how the Cathedral works and exploiting its own rules. In November 2017, Cernovich uncovered proof that John Conyers—who had served fifty years in Congress—was a “serial sexual predator.”

In other words, even imaginary worlds that literally don’t exist must still be remade to fall in line with the edicts of evangelical progressivism. Not only is there nowhere on earth to escape it, but adherents to the creed insist upon controlling the worlds people go to escape the earth. Whether sci-fi, fantasy, or some video games, it doesn’t

Whatever the technique, a counterstrategy was developed—and gamers and trolls had fun doing it.

But Gamergate was an important moment in proving the existence of the Cathedral, the idea that what is being presented as fact is actually a carefully coordinated movement by elites to establish and impose their view of what reality is and how it should be.

the increasing shrieking of the evangelical left can be seen not as a function of their domination but of their decreasing power. Those driven by emotion (children, the mentally ill, hormonal men and women alike) don’t freak out when they get their way; they freak out when they’re not getting their way.

The tactic is a simple one: persuade people that a certain prejudice is unacceptable, and then redefine that prejudice to include any distinguishing negative behavior whatsoever.