Fabian Strategy, Pyrrhic Victory, and Canadian Truckers
Fabian Strategy, Pyrrhic Victory, and Canadian Truckers
In December of the year 535 A.U.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal and his army won a resounding victory over the Romans at the Battle of Trebbia. In June of the following year, the Romans were once again routed by this wily invader and his horde of Iberian and Gallic warriors, with an estimated 25,000 Roman soldiers slain or captured. The invaders moved unopposed into central Italy, pillaging and looting as they pleased, killing at will.
Quintus Fabius Maximus was the man Rome called upon to save her. He was named dictator and given the charge of defeating these brutal barbarians. Fabius knew that there was little chance of beating Hannibal on the open battlefield, so he devised a strategy which consisted of slowly grinding down the invaders through the use of hit-and-run tactics, constant small scale skirmishes, and the targeting of Hannibal’s supply lines. It should not be understated just how novel this idea was at the time.
The strategy was a success by any military standard, but unpopular. The people clamoured for a quick and famous victory. Fabius was even removed from his post. His replacement promptly led an army to confront the Carthaginians at Cannae and again Hannibal’s forces crushed the foolhardy Romans. Finally, Rome had learned its lesson and implemented, to full extent, what we know today as ‘Fabian Stategy.’ The invaders were worn down and demoralised, and what was once a great threat found itself reduced to an afterthought.
The Fabian Society based its name and its strategy on this famous Roman leader.
The Fabian Society was founded in the year 2637 A.U.C. (that’s 1884 A.D. if you must know). It remains an influential force for left-wing socialism and technocracy, its members share the goal of shaping the world into a ‘global society’ in which equality and democracy reign and ‘multilateral international cooperation’ is promoted. We can see that the language of globalism is nothing new.
The Society has also fomented ideas such as using ‘pharmacological method[s] of making people love their servitude’, as stated by member Aldous Huxley. The Society’s original symbol was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. How very cheeky. Some of the Fabian Society’s most illustrious members include Tony Blair (oh, sorry. Sir Tony Blair.), Gordon Brown, and Sadiq Khan. In fact, Khan is a Chairman. Intriguingly, the hero of traditional Catholics everywhere, G.K. Chesterton, was also a member.
In distinction from other left-wing socialist revolutionaries, the Fabian Society believes that the key to achieving their vision of a New World Order lies in gradual reforms rather than violent attempts at taking power and changing society. The shift to global governance, technocracy, and indeed transhumanism should go unnoticed, according to the Fabians. Looking at the course the West has taken since the end of the Second World War, one would be hard pressed to say that the patient strategy of the Fabians has been fruitless.
In stark contrast to the cold and calculated Fabian Strategy, there is the Pyrrhic Victory. As you might already know, the name comes from King Pyrrhus of the Greek state Epirus. At the Battle of Asculum, the King’s army managed to defeat the Romans, but at such a great cost that the victory was in effect a defeat, as due to the immense casualties his army suffered, Pyrrhus was forced to abandon his campaign against Rome.
So what does all this have to do with Canadian truckers? As I type, tens of thousands of truckers have rumbled and honked their way to Ottawa and set up camp in the heart of Canada’s capital. Cries of jubilation and indeed relief, relief that finally the people have had enough and are rising up, have greeted the truckers. Support is immense. The truckers’ GoFundMe is over 10 million dollars.
And yet…
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and I take no pleasure in being the party-pooper, but there are many reasons why we should show the better part of valour.
Let’s begin by analyzing the facts of the trucker protest. Ostensibly, the truckers are protesting the implementation of vaccine mandates and the digital ID and tracking technology that is undeniably linked to these injections, also known as the vaccine passport. The truckers say they are standing up for freedom.
Are they though? As many Canadians have pointed out, the vaccine mandates are not a question of federal policy, but rather provincial. While few things are better than watching the oleaginous Justin Trudeau scurry and squirm, he’s not really the man forcing the truckers to get vaccinated. Some respond by saying that federal employees are required to get jabbed in order to remain employed by the State. Fair point, but it is not the federal employees who are protesting and shutting down the capital city. Furthermore, many if not most of the truckers are ‘owner-operator’, a fact which leftists and outright communists have pointed out. According to their logic, the truckers are not working class heroes, they are actually the petite bourgeoisie, because they own and operate their own rigs. As it pertains to the vaccine mandate, being an owner-operator means that no employer is coercing you to get injected or else. The only obstacle these mandatory vaccine policies place in the road of a Canadian trucker is the requirement to show proof of vaccination at border crossings, and as the screenshot above alleges, the owner-operators who do not wish to be vaccinated have simply been pulled off the routes that involve such crossings. So who are the truckers really standing up for? Will their rebellion result in the vaccine mandate being scrapped for federal employees? Will their cause spread to the private sector, resulting in the elimination of these coercive and shameful policies? We can certainly hope. Hope is cheap, however. Much better to be realistic, and ruthless.
Then we come to the leading figures, the public faces of the trucker rebellion.
The vast sum of money that has been raised, in what I’m sure donors believe is a way of supporting the truckers, is under the supervision of the man you see pictured. I’ll let the caption and the image do the exposition.
Joe Rogan, a hero of free speech for many and a monster of misinformation and fascist enabling for others, has made very clear his support for the truckers.
Elon Musk, whose Neuralink chips are perhaps months away from human trials and whose company has already built a fleet of electric trucks which Musk himself stated will ‘high likely’ be fully autonomous, has also backed the truckers.
Canada’s most famous and certainly most dapper public intellectual, Jordan Peterson, has also given his support. So we have the most famous podcaster in the world, a man who espouses blue-pilled egalitarian liberalism to his immeasurable audience, the richest man in the world, who is doing perhaps more than anyone else to push humanity towards the destination of transhumanism, and a professor who is known to go to great lengths to extinguish any sparks of pro-White collective identity and who helped construct U.N. policy on immigration into European lands, all publicly throwing their lot in with the owner-operators.
It has become a truism for the Dissident Right: if your movement is supported by every institution, every celebrity, every corporation…maybe your movement isn’t ‘The Resistance’. It should not, therefore, be much of a stretch for us to be wary of a movement that has garnered the support of Canada’s feckless conservative politicians and prominent members of the wealthy and elite class.
Qui bono? So why is a man like BJ Dichter getting involved with stubborn Canadian truckers? Why is a multibillionaire who has funded the very technology that will replace Canadian truckers, getting involved? One could argue that it’s nothing more than naked opportunism and grifting. Ride the wave of populism, Donald Trump style. I can’t speak for the motives of Rogan, Musk, and Peterson, nor any of the members of Canada’s ruling class. I simply think their presence is something that should raise the eyebrows, if not the hackles.
Of greater concern are the consequences of the truckers’ rebellion. Let us start with the most obvious and most serious.
One doesn’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to recognise that the trucker blockade has caused huge problems for supply lines. In terms of forcing the Canadian government to sit down at the table and listen to the truckers, one could say that these breakdowns are precisely the point. But who will suffer because of choked supply lines and empty shelves at the supermarket? Not the ruling class, that’s for sure.
‘Yes, but when the people start to go hungry, they will turn their ire at the politicians,’ some might say. To which I respond with two points. First, so what? As the past two years have made clear, governments do not respond to the public in any meaningful way. Second, the politicians have the most beautiful sacrificial scapegoat in the truckers and their actions. It’s not really the politicians fault, you see. Any P.R. doctor worth a penny on the dollar will be able to spin supply line breakdowns into a direct result of the trucker rebellion. The peoples’ ire won’t be directed at the politicians. It will be directed at the truckers. Even though these supply lines collapses were already happening and were only going to increase, regardless of the truckers’ blockade, the fact is there is now a direct line from the blockade to families going without certain foods, a line that even Norm Normie will be able to trace.
And then there is the matter of public support. Obviously, the truckers have attained hero status in the eyes of many Canadians. But there are many Canadians who aren’t convinced that this is the right course of action. Many others, especially those living in the revving engine that has become Ottawa, are downright disgusted with the truckers. While it may be a source of infinite mirth to watch the urbanite libtards squeal in discomfort and frustration, especially after all the pain and cruelty they and their ideas have inflicted on everyone else, it’s worth remembering just how annoying protestors can be.
It’s almost entirely unnecessary, but I’ll give some examples. The Extinction Rebellion protests throughout Britain, for starters. Their sit ins, their traffic blockades, their littering (oh the irony), have rendered them absolutely hated by most of the British public. Need I cite the various ‘peaceful protests’ of Black Lives Matter? Of course, there is little comparison between what the Canadian truckers are doing and what Tyrone and LaQueesha got up to in America’s cities, but put yourself in the shoes of a mother and father living in a small flat, trying to put their baby to sleep, and thousands of truckers keep honking their horns even at 3:00 in the morning, the decibels shaking the flat’s windows, waking the baby. I don’t know about you, but it would be a struggle for me not to go out to the truckers with a baseball bat in hand. This isn’t about muh optics. These are objectively annoying tactics and behaviour. A few more weeks of this and fewer and fewer Canadians will be on the side of the truckers.
The jubilant feeling of victory, of owning the libs, of sending Trudeau into hiding with his tail between his legs, will eventually come at a heavy toll, a toll that will so outweigh whatever ‘victory’ was won. Keep in mind, as of writing this, the truckers have not achieved any of their goals. The Fabian Strategy of the ruling class is holding fast. Maybe things will change. I hope they do. Don’t be surprised if they don’t.
I am presenting two ways of looking at the truckers’ rebellion. The first perspective is that of King Pyrrhus. The only way to destroy the machine, think the truckers, is for all of us to throw our bodies onto the levers and into the crushing gears. It’s an act of desperation, an act of a people so profoundly fed up with it all. Or, perhaps it’s the act of a people manipulated into a committing a disastrous error, walking into a perfect trap.
On the other hand, one could say that what is happening in Ottawa right now is a stand off between two sides implementing Fabian Strategy. Between the truckers and the Canadian government, who do you think can hold out the longest? I don’t discard the ingenuity and generosity of the Canadian people to keep the truckers sustained as long as possible, but then that brings us right back to the Pyrrhic nature of the truckers’ endeavour. It will come at much higher cost to the average dissident Canadian than it will to Canada’s ruling class.
There is another way. I’ve said it so many times lately, and I’ll continue to repeat it. Dissidents, conservatives, Whites, whatever group that comes to mind when you envision those who are opposed to the Regime, must learn to be much more cunning, more ruthless, more Machiavellian. We must learn from the strategies and victories of our enemies. The Fabians win because they believe in small-scale reforms, in unnoticeable action, just as Quintus Fabius Maximus believed in small-scall skirmishes, in the unglorious, ‘unnoticeable’ strategy of cutting off an army from its supply line.
We need to realise that this great machine won’t be defeated in a Pyrrhic battle. It will be defeated by constantly sticking a spanner in its gears. I wish it weren’t so. I long for the days of times forgotten, when men could heed the call to arms, don their armour, and march together to the battlefield, when values like honour and bravery spurred men on, and skill and excellence in combat won the day. We don’t live in those times. We live in a time when an obese Latina sitting hundreds of miles away from danger can guide a drone strike which obliterates dozens of hardened warriors sleeping by their mountainside campfire.
Collective action against the machine is vital, probably necessary, but there are different ways of effecting collective action. Let me leave you with one more example.
Barbarian Aesthetics (now called Ancestral Muscle) is a small business based in Australia which provides gym apparel for based muscle men. The owner of the company found himself in the precarious position of either getting the jab or losing his main job. The screenshot above recounts how events transpired. In my view, this is the way. Individuals taking a stand, supported by their peers and brethren, taking on the edicts of the Regime. No one goes hungry. No one has to put up with semi-truck horns blaring at all hours. Clear and achievable objectives are met. Victory is won. It’s just one example, I know, but it came to me as I was pondering effective ways to take on the Regime without risking infiltration, subversion, and collateral damage to our countrymen.
The Ancient Greeks understood the delicate balance between individual merit and collective merit. We should understand and accept the individual responsibility we have in this fight, and rise to the challenge for the good of our communities. It’s good to keep in mind that, increasingly, the matter is no longer one of fighting for our civilization and our kin. Our civilization does not deserve our efforts to defend it, nor do many of our fellow countrymen, sadly. No, the matter is ensuring that we are as independent of this system, this machine, as possible. That is why small-scale acts of rebellion are more effective. Why risk losing almost everything in a Pyrrhic, and perhaps even hollow, victory? Every individual situation will be different, but I believe that we should learn from our enemies as much as possible. Our rebellion should be Fabian in nature. Slow, steady, cold, calculated. It might not garner the memes and the lolz, but it might garner something much, much better.