On Blackpilling

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”

~ Henry Ford

Morale is extremely important for any kind of “movement”. Without it, men do not have the will to continue a struggle. It should be clear to anybody who looks at the radical right, even if one does not belong to it, that morale is quite low, at least among a significant portion of its members. To an extent, this is to be expected among people who find themselves living under a system that is governed by completely different principles than their own, and which therefore produces outcomes which diverge greatly from the ones they want.

But there have been many times throughout history where men have similarly lived in systems they deplored, and yet they did not sink for any great length of time to the sheer depths of despair that can be observed across the radical right. This suggests that something else may be at work here. In order to find it, we should look within the radical right itself.

Those who have read my previous article on harmful tendencies on the right will know that I singled out blackpilling as one of the major tendencies to counter.¹ It is this that I want to propose as the major cause of the right’s low morale. Perhaps it will be difficult to accept, but the main things that are holding the right back are generated from within the right itself. But this is no cause for despair, since it’s within our power to correct this trend, as it is with the others.

The Essence of Blackpilling

Blackpilling is often presented by those who engage in it as a necessary activity, the imparting of “harsh truths” to the audience. However, investigation will reveal that it is not the activity of presenting harsh facts, nor is it primarily informative in nature, and it is not “realism”. The essence of blackpilling is the inculcation of a feeling of hopelessness and despair in the audience by presenting a negative depiction of the present state of the world and the prospects for the future.

When faced with an undesirable fact, as we frequently are in life, various attitudes can be adopted: one can shrug it off as unimportant, or of no practical bearing for one’s conduct; one can take effective action to counter, reverse, or prevent it; one can find some potential good in it; or one can fixate on it needlessly, thereby wasting one’s time and damaging one’s mental health. The effect of blackpilling is to push people towards the final attitude.

It should be clear from the list of previous options that a fact in itself, however undesirable it may be, is not necessarily a blackpill. In itself, a fact, a description of a true state of affairs in the world, is neutral. A fact becomes a blackpill when a particular state of mind is adopted towards it, or a particular interpretation of it is advanced by the person who shares it. This interpretation is necessarily negative, or it would not be a blackpill. The essence of informing someone is imparting facts to them; the essence of blackpilling is to shape attitudes in a negative direction. Thus, blackpilling is not essentially an informative activity. It should be noted that blackpilling need not even be based on a fact, and can instead be based on falsehoods or misleading narratives. There are a few ways in which a blackpiller can mislead:

a) They can deliberately select all of the worst happenings of the world and concentrate them in one place so as to present a worse impression of reality as a whole.

b) They can make a point that is literally true but misleading. For example they could point to the fact that Whites are a global minority, thus making us feel weak and threatened.

c) They can take facts and draw unnecessarily pessimistic conclusions from them.

d) They can spread misinformation, such as an incorrectly-translated article, or a post that refers to events that didn’t occur.

The Blackpiller

A blackpiller is anyone whose primary activity is blackpilling. His purpose is not to educate, inspire, or entertain you, but to make you miserable. Perhaps he incorrectly believes that he is somehow helping people; perhaps he is mentally ill or perverse, and wants to create a community of people like him to associate with; perhaps he deliberately wants to derail or undermine a political movement. Regardless of his motivations, the effect of his activity is the same: to lower morale. The blackpiller is doing more than the system could ever do to lower morale on the right, because he is perceived as being on our side, and therefore what he says is more likely to be taken to heart. The blackpiller could be anyone from a major influencer to a random individual in a Discord server. In the pre-internet days, he probably would have been the guy that had to sit alone in the corner of the pub, nursing a pint, because everybody was tired of hearing his miserable life story. Now, because he has identified himself with a “movement”, he can get an audience of thousands to be as depressed as him.

Undermining the Blackpillers

Blackpilling is one of the major issues on the radical right. It encourages us to think of our opponents as unbeatable, and to believe our chances of success to be negligible; it saps our will to fight or leads us into unhealthy habits of thought which can lead to self-destructive behaviour. Blackpilling is one tendency among several that prevents any serious praxis from emerging on the right. It therefore must be fought wherever we find it.

In order to overcome blackpilling, we can first correct habits within ourselves. Firstly, a positive attitude must be developed, because this is the only basis on which we can make progress. This attitude can be cultivated partly by changing the content you consume. When watching a video or reading an article, always stop yourself and ask: does this actually help me? In many cases, because of the prevalence of blackpilling on the right, the answer will be no. Personally, I have unsubscribed from almost every major radical right figure, because their content is not worth the investment of time required to consume it, and is definitely not worth any money.²

We already know that demographic replacement is happening, that our elites are traitors, and so on. There is no point dwelling on these things unless some solution, or an insightful analysis that could help to formulate a solution, would emerge from this. We are evolved to worry about things, but only so that we devote time to guarding against the danger or solving the issues that lead to this worry; when no praxis derives from this worrying, it is rational to simply focus on something else that you can change. You do not have a duty to consume radical right content simply because the creators are supposed to be in agreement with your principles. In many cases, they only harm the cause.

Secondly, we have to stop associating with blackpillers. It is often said that you are the product of the people you hang around with most. This is an exaggeration, but there is some truth to it; and since people spend so much time on the internet today, those with whom they associate on the internet can strongly shape their attitudes. Nonetheless, these random people on the internet really aren’t very important, and you can and should stop associating with them if they make your life worse. Hours of complaining in a Discord server won’t move us one step closer to securing the kind of society we want.

1. See “10 Tendencies to Combat on the Right”, available here:

2. This will of course result in one having a much smaller circle. We should always strive for quality over quantity. A 100 sound men are better than a disordered rabble numbering in the thousands.