At The Liberum, we are enthusiastic to make our readers part of a great project that stands before us. Our new publicist, Dr Sid Lukkassen, also known as ‘Dr. Sid recently wrote about Marxism, Liberalism and Fascism. Our chief of staff, Arthur Blok, invited him to “insult whoever he wants, and Dr Sid took on that quest exactly as we expected.

Now he announces three major pieces, connected to a crowdfunding project. You can watch a short video he recently uploaded. In this piece, we highlight how this project benefits our readers.

Sid Lukkassen describes his Next Big Project (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r56JYU1Nw80)

Introducing the Project
Sid grew fatigued with all the cuts, edits, and attempts at manipulation by other editorial teams that occurred when he wrote an essay about the ongoing ‘War Over the Soul of the Right’ among Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, and others. Editors at other websites made his life too hard; Dr Sid snapped, he exclaimed: “f*ck it! I’ll get my own funds together to write. Thus, he is now hosting a crowdfunding campaign to
Anyone who reads this is welcome to contribute.

While fund-raising is progressing well, the question remains: what platform would be suitable to host and disseminate the fruits of his much-revered yet aggrieving writings? And that is where your beloved platform and voice of the Levant – the Liberum – comes in.

We will begin with the article on the ‘Right-Wing Civil War’. Once Sid’s crowdfunding is completed at the end of this year, we look forward to hosting the other pieces he intends to write with these funds.

The collapse of the Netherlands – unavoidable?
First, an analysis of whether the fall of the Netherlands is inevitable. Our author corresponded with a military officer before relocating to South America to escape the opinion police. This conversation was about the strategic viability of the Netherlands and the imminent systemic failures.

The military, neglected while Mark Rutte was Prime Minister but ramped up now that Rutte is head of NATO, is apparently preparing for large-scale operations in the East. Yet this officer described his concerns to Sid. Because the Netherlands is a small, densely populated nation with many strategically important assets to defend, and given that jihadist networks are better organised than ever, the military would be strained beyond its capacity.

That situation – troubling enough in itself – is tied to other strategic concerns, such as the economy, energy supply, food security, an ageing population, and a decline in literacy and work efficiency among younger segments of the population. These people bear an enormous responsibility to keep the ageing country afloat, yet their social development and education have been severely affected by COVID-19. Meanwhile, policies related to the EU, climate, and nitrogen are smothering everything that once made the Netherlands an economic powerhouse.

An analysis of Liberalism
Secondly, he aims to produce an analysis that builds on his writing on Liberalism, as mentioned earlier. We are constantly told how ‘liberal’ our society is – but what does that mean in practice when there is so much information asymmetry between corporate tech giants and citizens as users of services?

The nation-state is fracturing over issues of culture and identity. In a globalising world with competing power blocs, the idea of a citizen democracy that wields something like ‘national sovereignty’ is just a fiction that keeps the masses in check.

These issues set the landscape in which Sid wants to examine if there is a way to get out of this swamp and unearth the ideal of the autonomous, self-directed individual that was initially the founding belief of Liberalism. Or is it too late for that, and are tribalization, polarisation, and a totalitarian surveillance state just inevitable at this point?

Founding Myth
To round it all off, a question might now be on the reader’s mind. “How do you reconcile all this? None of it seems connected...”

But you would be wrong! All these issues are connected at the level of the Founding Myth. The Liberal order is, in essence, the Post-World War II order: a negative theology in which the West derives its identity from being the exact opposite of everything that Nazi-Germany represented. That is: non-nationalistic, non-culturally conservative... In essence, the only positive thing about the West is that it is open and welcoming to what is alien to the Self. “Everything great about Sweden comes from immigrants, as a Swedish minister stated.

This Founding Myth of self-denial explains all the craziness, such as having to be ‘inclusive’ towards enclaves of fundamentalist Muslims whilst being forced to wave rainbow flags at the same time. It is the liberal ideal of Poppers’ open society, driven to an extreme, fuelled by trauma from World War II. This is what people like Fuentes rail against: he is an iconoclast who seeks to dismantle the established mythology, to create space to breathe for the younger generations – especially young men.

And Dr Sid is here to ask the question, whether anything of the Liberal principles can be preserved in this great smashing, this metaphysical re-orientation, and if so, at what cost?

You don’t want to miss this! Support Dr Sid’s project and keep your eyes trained on The Liberum! Where you will find these great topics covered without censorship.