What is The Triumphant Will?

The name of this blog, which is a riff  on Leni Riefenstahl's 1934 Nazi propaganda film The Triumph of the Will, is meant to be incendiary. The writers here at The Triumphant Will think that there are many things that are very, very wrong with the world today, and it is our intention to share as best we can what we think are the most pressing problems facing our planet. Much of what we have to say is politically incorrect, offensive, abrasive, and caustic to the standing order. The reader should take care to check his or her feelings and presuppositions before glossing over our pages.

What exactly is wrong with the world? This is a question we will explore intensely in the time we will soon spend together, but to start we could provide an over-arching, but insuffiencient, list:

Capitalism is dehumanizing man and destroying the biosphere
Global socialism, considered by most to be capitalism's antithesis, perverts the natural order and undercuts the excellence of the highest human acheivements
The ideaology of democracy has convinced a bulk of the world's people that morality is to be found in the majority, when nothing could be more firmly stated to the contrary
Consumerism has sapped the spirit of creativity and transcendence from our species
Technology, including political and economic techniques, threaten to displace human values and, eventually, man himself
Globalization is destroying our connection to history and heritage
As a species, we have largely lost our connection to the earth, and by extension the moral truths that the earth and its vast web of life had programmed into us through three billions years of adaptation and selection
Swaths of our universities examine the world ideologically, rather than scientifically or spiritually
The weak and stupid reign while the strong and intelligent toil to support them
Political correctness makes it difficult to address these problems honestly and openly

An incomplete list, to be sure, but a good one to start with. You may find that, as we address these issues, we come off as derisive, cyncial, or even misanthropic. Well, to this charge we attest that a healthy dose of misanthropy is exactly what we need to initiate the discourse necessary to address the sicknesses that are afflicting us. But such misanthropy is born out of a belief that we could achieve so much more as a species, that our future can be bright indeed if we can simply shake free from the delusions we have been feeding ourselves.

To quote the iconic Howard Beale from classic 1976 film, Network: "First, you've got to get mad!"