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Post by aarvoll (INTJ) on Sept 21, 2018 16:30:02 GMT
My research team for this round is aiming at distilling a mission statement for the project, and the reason for this is to be able to then produce a concise elevator pitch for recruitment and marketing. If someone asked you what this project was, what would you tell them? Well, many of us would call it by different names in the first place, which is problematic. I might call it the "Deepright Academy Project" another might call it the "Perennial Perspective Project" etc. I think it's a good idea to arrive at some consensus as to what we call ourselves and how we describe ourselves.
To my mind this is step one toward developing a recruitment strategy. There are several things I could try myself that I've been holding off on. I could donate superchats on the shows that read them as advertisement, I could post on other right wing discussion groups about this project, I could approach people like JF or RamzPaul asking for a chance to be on their shows. I think it would be premature to rush into that level of very public marketing without even a clear definition of what we are. More targeted recruitment is another strategy, but that calls for multiple active recruiters.
If, for instance, you come across a well written comment somewhere that demonstrates a perennialist orientation you could send them a private message inviting them to participate in the forum. A template for that kind of message is something to develop and share with potential recruiters.
Feel free to share your thoughts on recruitment and marking in this thread, it seems to me that it is time to start talking about this.
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Post by Napoleoff (INTP) on Sept 21, 2018 17:58:51 GMT
I will post here a link to the sample mission statement I have composed.
I think it should not be called the "Deepright Academy Project" because it would sound aggressive or clandestine to some people and could end up dragging in all kinds of characters and attention from groups you don't want attention from. More importantly I don't think it's correct from a teleological perspective because I see us as being somehow (to paraphrase Nietzsche) "beyond left and right"; in being the "Deepright" we cast ourselves into the fray rather than remaining serene and aloof from it and might get sidetracked and end up like the "Alt-Right". In my sample mission statement I just called it the name of this forum, "Perennial Perspective". I suppose you could call it the "Perennial Perspective Project", although I don't personally like the word "project" in this context because it seems sterile or something. I think "Perennial Perspective" is both apt and nice-sounding, and it encapsulates more information than "Deepright"; "Deepright" suggests nothing necessarily perennial, but "Perennial" suggests right wing things without forcing you to say you're right wing, and it could be argued that everything philosophically "perennial" is right wing by default or implication.
I suppose you could also call it "Perennial Perspective Academy" or "The Perennial Perspective Academy" or "Academy of Perennial Perspective(s?)". Another idea would be "The Perennial Perspective" (think Ryan Faulk's "The Alternative Hypothesis") or "The Perennial Academy". ("Academy" is apt but might sound pretentious).
Another one I have thought of that has a nice ring to it is "The Academy of Perennial Wisdom", "Academy of Perennial Wisdom" or "Perennial Wisdom School", although "wisdom" sounds more pretentious and preachy and less democratic than "perspective", which might deter some people; people like to hear different "perspectives" but many are leery of anyone who seems to be presuming to hand down "wisdom" to them.
In summary regarding names, I think you should stick with "Perennial Perspective" or "The Perennial Perspective" or "Perennial Perspective Academy" or similar because after all the discussions we have held and distillation we have done it remains highly apt. Varg Vikernes called his YT channel "Thulean Perspective". Anyway those are my thoughts on the name.
If you're promoting through well-known Youtubers I think you should be judicious in who you choose, since some of them are clearly unbalanced, opportunist, sensationalist or nutty in some way and pull in the wrong audience. Some of the concepts we deal with here are of a superlatively-high level in rightist terms and not everybody (a) can understand them, and/or (b) possesses the temperament/philosophical balance or tendency of mind or honesty/humility necessary to contribute constructively to the truthful harmonized and cogent worldview we aspire to create. For various reasons, some people would just lower the tone.
I am undecided on the superchat idea but I like your right wing discussion group idea, but I especially like the idea of approaching by private invitation people who post well-written comments. The latter idea could act as a great quality control and perhaps even coax, for example, intelligent traditionalist, civic nationalist, nationalist, National Socialist or white nationalist minded people to reconsider their views and develop their minds more along the "Perennial Perspective" vein. I think we should deliberately refrain from advertising openly in right wing comments sections (baddies lurk on those along with many idiots), although this might be controversial and I am willing to accept disagreement on this point.
If I think of some sort of private recruitment message template like you mentioned or if I have any other thoughts I will put them in a new post below in this thread.
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Post by Napoleoff (INTP) on Sept 21, 2018 18:52:21 GMT
I suppose you could also call it "Perennial Perspective Academy" or "The Perennial Perspective Academy" or "Academy of Perennial Perspective(s?)". Another idea would be "The Perennial Perspective" (think Ryan Faulk's "The Alternative Hypothesis") or "The Perennial Academy". ("Academy" is apt but might sound pretentious). Thinking it over again, the pretentiousness factor of the word "Academy" is not nearly as bad as I initially thought, plus that's what we are, an academy. |
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Post by Napoleoff (INTP) on Sept 22, 2018 13:21:01 GMT
Another thought: if you see this forum as being just experimental, exploratory or preliminary and you want to save a different/better name for the actual final-form academy then I don't think you should use the words "Perennial Perspective" because those IMO are the best words in this context.
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Post by Napoleoff (INTP) on Sept 23, 2018 22:14:56 GMT
I have another few thoughts about recruitment:
I'm not sure what we want out of this project in terms of average quality. Do we want it to be highly stratified with content from very high-level and low level producers and every level in between, or do we want it to be very high-level across the board? Maybe we want it to be an elite project with smaller numbers which can later create offshoot projects aimed at wider sections of the right wing while retaining a different, smaller high-level core organization. Or maybe we don't want that.
Also, as I mentioned, your idea of targeted recruitment using active recruiters seems a good idea if you want to fill this board with talented people. I think we could expand and vary on this theme of approaching intelligent sympathetic people ourselves rather than advertising and waiting for them to come to us; the trade-off would be smaller numbers and more effort expended in recruitment but with potentially a higher average level of intellect and the chance to grow under the radar because we aren't broadcasting our presence through public advertisement. The alternative (with open public advertisements) would be less effort expended in recruitment and probably larger numbers but with potentially a lower average level of intellect and much greater inconsistency in quality of content along with the fact of having broadcast our presence far and wide thus attracting interest from many quarters including those from whom we would rather not receive attention.
Plus, if we are growing under the radar with a core group of talented people, it will allow us to experiment with our organizational structure, refine it and test it for weaknesses without the risk of a very public and humiliating failure or attracting people who wish to sabotage this project in its infancy. Once our structure is in place, we can think about expanding more broadly if we want to, including with public advertisement or else we can as I mentioned start founding offshoots of the core organization that are structured similarly to our parent organization.
As far as methods are concerned, I think actual video-making Youtubers could also be approached privately. Many of these people are quite dedicated to the cause but again we would have to choose them judiciously; for one thing, they might simply not be on the same page as we are (one example of this would be pagans who don't want to discuss Christian ideas and are hostile to Christians and Christians who don't want to discuss pagan ideas and are hostile to pagans, whereas we on the board are more open-minded about discussing a wider range of ideas). Recruitment on high-level right wing discussion groups. Maybe we could private message people on the DS BBS discussion board who write intelligent traditionalist perennially-minded comments.
I think I know more or less what our telos is by this stage, but I am (and I think we all are) less sure of what kind of organization with what kind of people we want as members initially. I know the goal is to extend our influence throughout all levels of society but maybe the best way to prepare for that in the initial stages is not to recruit lots of random people who can just "wander in off the street" so to speak, so in addition to the points I have made above I think us choosing people ourselves gives us more control in a general sense over our likely membership and early growth.
I also think these speculations belong in organization but whatever. If anyone has any response as to what approach they favor I would be happy to hear it.
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Post by flimp (INTJ) on Sept 25, 2018 2:32:30 GMT
 I think the best way to get people on the website is for a representative of the community to arrive as a guest on peoples youtube channels. Preferably the youtube channels with the largest and most connected nodes as shown in the picture. Examples would be sargon of akad, warski, millenial woes, stefan molenux, britannie pettiebone etc... edit: we should get on this soon because the left has analyzed the most influential people on the alt right on youtube and are now setting up the works to dismantle the network. |
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