Jack Donovan - A More Complete Beast

Copyright 2018 by Jack Donovan

All Rights Reserved.

PAPERBACK ISBN

ISBN-10: 9780985452377

ISBN-13: 9780985452377

Cover and Interior Artwork and Design by Jack Donovan.

Published by Jack Donovan and Brutal Company, LLC.

DISSONANT HUM

An Imprint of Brutal Company, LLC.

HOOD RIVER, OR 97031-1087

www.jack-donovan.com

TABLE OF CONTENTS

For reactionaries...

The ideas in this book were introduced in a speech titled, A More Complete Beast that I delivered at the 21 Convention in Orlando, Florida in 2017. Im proud of that speech, and 21 Studios released a video recording of it which is currently available online. Id encourage anyone reading this to watch that speech as the best and most dynamic possible introduction to this book.

A More Complete Beast is dedicated to reactionary men, and presents my solutions to many chronic problems I noticed while traveling in various reactionary circles over the years. The biggest problem with reactionaries is that they are always reacting always taking a conservative, defensive position, always losing a war of attrition against forces of change, instead of becoming creative forces of change and innovation themselves. All they do is throw out jabs while stepping backward. They struggle with and are stymied by resentment and hatred. I see Nietzsches thoughts on ressentiment , master morality, and nobility as philosophical tools they can employ to overcome this reactionary negativity and begin moving forward again. Only by moving forward can they become more like the great men of the past whom they admire.

Youll get even more out of this book if you read the first essay in Nietzsches A Genealogy of Morals , then Beyond Good and Evil , Thus Spoke Zarathustra , and The Birth of Tragedy . In that order. You dont need them to understand this book, but they are worth reading.

However, you wont understand what I mean when I talk about masculinity much less The Empire of Nothing unless you read my books The Way of Men and Becoming a Barbarian .

As a formatting note, after checking various translations of Nietzsches work against the original German, I saw the value of numbering sections and passages. Several of my books have already been translated, and I dont know why people stopped doing that. It makes finding thoughts and quotations much easier. So I have numbered sections of this book, mostly to identify natural breaks and transitions of thought.

I realize that Nietzsche was anti-Christian, and many Christians will find these ideals unreconcilable with Christian ideals. However, while as a pagan the hows and whys are of little interest to me personally, I do believe that what lies ahead will still be of interest to my many Christian readers. We face similar challenges.

Finally, if this book leaves you wanting more, that is by design. This is an argument for overcoming ressentiment and for taking a more creative approach to life not a guide or a how-to. This book is a transitional spring forward to the next thing. My next project will be a journal of becoming a themed, magazine-style compilation of essays, interviews, artwork and photography published two or three times a year.

START THE WORLD!

Jack Donovan Cascadia, North America

A MORE COMPLETE BEAST

At the commencement, the noble caste was always the barbarian caste: their superiority did not consist first of all in their physical, but in their psychical powerthey were more complete men (which at every point also implies the same as more complete beasts)

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Absolute masculinity is a lodestar in the human mindan untouchable navigational point indicating the farthest imaginable distance along a particular longitude mapping the way that men, as beasts, conceptualize their world. It represents a perfect formthe most masculinea cluster of physical, behavioral and spiritual qualities that, in their most extreme expression, differentiate human males from human females.

The Way of Men leads toward this flickering and elusive point of absolute masculinity. This path of conflict, this never-ending challenge to demonstrate strength, courage and mastery, to win and defend honor, is a product of human evolution. Human masculinity is a hypertrophic development of the body and psyche in response to external pressureto the looming threats of predation, intergroup conflict, environmental stress, and resource scarcity. In the absence of external pressure, masculinity either fails to develop in the first place, or slowly atrophies.

When people wonder if the men of their age are less manly farther from the most-masculine than the men who preceded them, this absence of development is generally explained by a corresponding absence of pressure.

Within the boundaries of The Empire of Nothing, most men experience very few of the survival pressures that shaped the masculinity of our ancestors.

The primary role of a man has always been to fight to defend or expand the perimeter of his groups control, to build and maintain an ordered world within that perimeter, to venture beyond the warmth and safety of its nuclear fires to secure necessary resources and to hunt and kill animals to feed his people.

Today, hunting is a luxury, not a necessity. Its an expensive hobby. No man needs to hunt game for a living. He can purchase farmed meat, killed by strangers, far more easily and in most cases in exchange for fewer assets.

A good citizen of the Empire need not venture far to secure the resources necessary for his own survival or the survival of his dependents. There is no dangerous unknown he must travel through. He travels public transit or drives a car down well-travelled roads and highways to work in offices and factories and stores, in most cases performing tasks that could be done better by a machine if it were more cost effective. The only dangers he faces are social dangers the threat of being accused of some trending moral infraction by ambitious nihilists, self-aggrandizing shrews or their shrinking cuckold yes-maams.

Even this job-hunting is in many cases only necessary as a matter of tenuous custom. To those unconcerned by the withering social disgrace associated with collecting government assistance, a paupers leisure can be ensured for a lifetime by submitting the proper forms. This appealing grift need only be interrupted by provisional periods of symbolic employment.

The role of men has always been to deal with violence, but the majority of men living well outside of failed state no-go zones will never experience the threat of real violence from anyone but the police to whom they have outsourced their roles unwittingly, helplessly and without consent. The bodies of citizens are continuously scanned by an unknowable number of surveillance cameras designed to deter or prosecute acts of interpersonal civilian violence. A Byzantine and equally unknowable system of laws regulate every aspect of human existence. The streets and highways are swarming with law enforcement officers who restlessly issue petty citations as they wait for opportunities to cuff up any real or perceived threat to public safety and shuffle offenders through corrupt courts into concrete memory holes.

The state isnt a threat that you can fight off in the way a man would fight off a raiding clan. Few of the same principles or tactics apply to protecting yourself against it. All of the strength, courage, mastery and honor in the world are irrelevant in this conflict. When the red eye in the sky locks in on a target, it will just keep sending more drones until even the best men are overwhelmed and subdued. This sense of utter futility helps many men rationalize their undeveloped virility as a way of making peace with powerlessness. Why bother?