Just a head’s up, I’m going to shut down this blog now. I don’t think it’s conducive to my own mental well-being and probably not to other people’s either. I also no longer identify with a lot of what I wrote.
I don’t think this should come as a shock to anyone. I want to give you all an opportunity to exchange contact details with each other though, so I’m leaving this page up for now.
I wish you all the best.
You should leave it up as a worthwhile endeavor. Road marker for the journey. Seriously, got a lot of value out of this. And privileged to have been reading you for the past year or so, on the tail end of things. Keep it up man, everyone’s got to figure things out on this journey of life. Including life crises!! I think you’re doing just fine… God bless you.
Indeed. I made an page listing Honorable authors, group, pages that shedded light on covid, with references to their pages, so that people can read and learn.
RR is one of the authors and rintrah.nl is there, as a source of great insight.
It’s a pity that RR has to close it now.
Anyway, thank you for everything, Rintrah, people will remember you and what you shared.
Thanks for all, please send a mail when you start up again
i agree with daft, you should leave the old posts up there’s lots of interesting stuff to mine.
Aw fuck. Well at least we’ve had some good times. You can contact me via email, substack, or furaffinity.
https://vlajdermen.substack.com/
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/vlajdermen
tell me if there’s a way to DM you for my email.
Probably for the best. Thanks very much for all the great blogs, I have learned so much from your website. I have enjoyed being a regular commenter since the Summer of 2023. Hard to believe that it’s been 2 years already. If I ever want to reminisce, I will use the Wayback Machine. Sending you good wishes and good health Rintrah (and everyone else who reads this).
Yes, can you please leave up your old posts? They added real value to the world and are something great that you achieved. I wish you luck and good times, and also wish to thank you for this remarkable blog.
Dear Radagast,
couldn’t you at least leave the site open, even if you don’t continue to write? There’s so much important information in your posts, which can’t be found anywhere else. It also doesn’t seem to be saved in the Wayback Machine. Thank you for all you have written, and all the best!
I seem to be finding it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250226155912/https://www.rintrah.nl/why-everyone-is-now-so-hostile/
Unfortunately, it turns out that the Wayback Machine is missing some of his content. Many of his posts from the period of last Christmas are missing. As others have suggested, if Rintrah could consider reposting the COVID/vaccine articles, that would be great. I printed a few of them out, but not nearly enough. There was a really great one from early September 2022, but unfortunately I can’t find it on the WM. I think it was titled something like “A look at the mechanisms that caused the COVID vaccines to backfire”.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240418233159/https://www.rintrah.nl/a-poor-strategy-a-look-at-the-mechanisms-that-caused-the-sars-cov-2-vaccines-to-backfire/
Thanks 🙂
(Ok, this time it is REALLY my last comment on this website)
Farewell:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cw6zrT_K_vM?&t=32
Would be nice if you left the COVID posts up as a chronicle and resource. It’s your intellectual property, you don’t owe it to us.
I hope you find peace and fulfillment. I believe you are a genuinely good person. Find a good woman to fall in love with. Have a child or two together. Engage in a creative hobby and find a job that will not kill your spirit. Unreasonable to expect a job that you will love.
You are still a young man. You can expect to encounter another major metaphysical paradigm shift in a couple of decades if you continue to grow.
Avoid pharmaceuticals. Have a beer. A beer gut is preferable to the result of the medications.
Take care, hope to encounter you again someday.
Great movie, hopefully Tarantino shelves retirement plans and directs a horror movie (I don’t include Death Proof in that category even though it is pretty good).
Farewell LSWM Lives Matter. You’re a legend mate. Everyone on here is legendary. Goodbye everyone even though I wasn’t a regular poster. I doubt I’ll ever encounter a blog as searingly honest and brilliant as this one.
Sad to hear this. You have a fine, analytical mind. Thanks.
Kermit, how do you live with yourself after what you did to Rudy Tomjanovich?
(Ratty, this reference alone justifies leaving this forum open for posterity.)
NVM I’m brain damaged, the reference only applies to ‘Washington’, not ‘Johnson’. Maybe you should take the site down purely to keep me from posting again.
Thank you very much for all your posts. I enjoyed your take on the world and the insults 🙂 All the best
Good luck and nothing but the best to you. Thank you for challenging my assumptions.
The journey will only get better and better.
All the best, man. Also, kudos for having the guts to challenge your own assumptions/beliefs.
Who knows, maybe one day you even get over your love for Greta. 😉
Warmest wishes to you and your family.
I hope that someday you are well enough yourself to blog about health matters. It would be of great benefit.
I post sometimes on naked capitalism and ZH under the same name, so I guess I could be contacted that way if someone wanted to enough. Or maybe if Igor leaves his comment section up.
This saddens me immensely; very long time lurker here. Your posts have been integral to my development as a person, and with them being pretty much scrubbed from the internet, I happen to be experiencing a hollowness within my very being unlike ever before. Nevertheless, I hope for the best for you and all the regulars of this place. Farewell.
To new beginnings, good luck Rada!
You deprive us from your records because now you feel aversion to what you were. How unfortunate, as I truly appreciated some of your pieces. Mark my words: You’ll regret “ghosting” your writings.
I hope you don’t chicken out from life itself.
Semper ibi.
Correct decision.
You’re moving on and up and leaving childish things behind – and that’s what this blog was. Kudos. For what it’s worth I’d delete all the old posts too, if it was my blog.
You’re a fine young man with a fine mind and you’ll do great in life, whatever that means to you.
My parting words of advice are:
1. Find a male mentor you respect.
2. Get into the bush. Touch grass and water. Anywhere in rural Europe is good.
3. Find a mission to inform and direct your adult years.
4. Do the hard yakka over the next year or two to get well. A personal note that I’ve not shared before here: I’ve done it. It was hard. It’s doable. I’m a better man for it.
5. Leave the fucking recreational drugs alone.
Be well bro, we love you.
Ik denk dat je gewoon je zelfvertrouwen kwijt bent en in reactie daarop niet weer weet wie je bent..ik maak ook zo iets gelijkaardig mee momenteel, je moet die oude gedachtes niet negeren, dit lijkt op een paniek reactie, ik heb veel van je geleerd zoals zovelen hier.
ik wacht wel nog steeds om mijn persoonlijk knutselwerk van jou te mogen ontvangen.
altijd welkom in Lummen België want het lijkt alsof ik je goed ken na al die jaren.
Wens je het beste maatje
I can’t say I agree with disappearing the archives. Maybe the feeling that you need to do so is another manifestation of the impulse to go all the way in one direction or another that, having read your work, has seemed to drive you in some unhappy directions? So after a while, please reconsider that.
You’ve said goodbye after a fashion before, and always come back, so I don’t know if this time it’s for real, but regardless there’s no harm in having an opportunity to say it’s been great to get to know you, or some part of you, and I wish you all the best!
Thank you
For anyone interested, I comment on Substack as “kapock,” and can usually be found trudging around Upper Manhattan. You’ll know me because I’m the only one still carrying a newspaper.
Wow.
I am also the author of a paused blog. The reasons are not exactly the same. I identify with most things I wrote (I was careful). I was mostly ashamed of the company of other authors that I found myself in.
How about you start to write new stuff that you do identify with? I enjoyed hanging out here.
Igor, if you can spare some of your time, it would be nice if you made another substack where we can meet (maybe for health advice).
I know I’m asking too much..
Since I am a LSWM, and this blog is a designated LSWM safe space, it’s only fitting that my last ever comment be stereotypically LSWM style:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0q5_lkIyZY
This company/stock (3350/DN3/MTPLF) has an EXTREMELY HIGH chance of tripling/quadrupling/quintupling its share price by end of year.
Hey, it’s not my fault that the ratio of median home price to median annual salary was like 3 to 1 for the baby boomers, but is now like 10 to 1 for millennials and zoomers. I don’t make the rules.
“No fair way left to win the game.” – Rintrah Radagast
Much better investing in Metaplanet than Palantir, that’s for sure.
Farewell, fellow autists.
*** DISCLAIMER: Not financial advice. Do your own research. ***
<3
It is a season of change and conflict. I hope you write again, though I wouldn’t much blame you if you decided to bury the past a bit if it no longer represents you in this season of life. If all I did in this whole journey was to convince you to renounce v-ganism become a pescetAryan, it was a worthy endeavor.
I wish you clarity and luck, however you move forward in life.
I’m sorry to hear this. I’m impressed by your generosity in allowing this place to stay alive long enough to allow commenters to share their contact information. Much better than nuking your site in a fit of pique. I will chalk this up to your Scandanavian bent. (Any commenters here whom I might care to hear from already know my contact information from previous hints I’ve dropped. I’m not inclined to provide further breadcrumbs to any vultures who might wish me harm me at this time) I will confess: The “pandemic” was a welcome respite from my “real life.” I eagerly consumed terabytes of online information over the years attempting to make sense of things. I still have a web browser full of “favorite sites” of all the “dissident voices” attempting to push back against the Herd Narrative. You were one of those. I can’t quite remember where or when I first became aware of you, I think it may have come from my reading of JMG’s site. Over the past year or two, it slowly started to dawn on me that most of these people were grifters, victims of “audience capture” and not to be trusted. I therefore stopped… Read more »
>As Rust Cohle put it: “I can be hard to live with. I don’t mean too, but I can be…critical. And sometimes I think I’m just not good for people. You know, that it’s not good for them to be around me, you know…I wear ’em down…and they get unhappy…[…] I used to think about it more, but when you reach a certain age, you know who you are […] I know who I am. After all these years, there’s a victory in that.”
https://youtu.be/Taf4P1uXR6Q?si=QQ41qD8ujw9j4J9m
A few other points.
I agree with the other commenters who wish that you keep your older posts alive.
I’m sorry to say that I never bothered to reach back into your archives to learn more about you. I regret this. I kept telling myself “I need to learn more about this person” but I never took a single look into your archives after I first learned of you. I simply jumped into the fray and operated from the present moment. I would very much like to read those old posts, but I realize you are distancing yourself from them now.
Someone else mentioned drinking beer. I endorse this. Don’t become an alcoholic like me, but realize psychedelics tend to drive one towards psychosis and “ideas of reference” unless one is stout and solid and can straddle the Two Worlds between Heaven and Earth.
Lastly, you should remember that moments of existential despair are never continuous.
Life follows a sine-wave where your figurative head bobs and both sinks and swims above and below the waves.
It won’t surprise me if you find yourself hearty and hale in the near future.
How dare you define all my shortcomings by describing yourself?!
Oh, this makes me sad. You really are a unique writer, one of the top blogs in my rotation, and have introduced me to a lot of very cool and unique music. Any chance you could give us a pointer to what you’re listening to now before you go?
I really do hope you’ll leave the archives up! Many of your Covid posts have info I can’t find anywhere else! Please don’t take those down.
The saddest thing about the internet is that so much truly unique writing has just disappeared.
>The saddest thing about the internet is that so much truly unique writing has just disappeared.
Can confirm.
Get ready for the ground beneath you being pulled out like a rugpull
This is where Rad’s wisdom shines: knowing how to behave when there is no common baseline of Reality
I too hope you’ll leave this blog up and available to others, even though everything will be archived and further comments will be disabled.
FWIW some of the other sites I’ve found useful since the madness began in 2020 have been (people’s names, not blog or website titles): Gail Tverberg, James H Kunstler, Dr Nate Hagens, Dr Tim Morgan, Tim Watkins, John M Greer, Dr John Day, John Ward, Dr Mike Yeadon. I read a very wide range of sites.
Thanks so much for your work.
Radagast, I’m sorry to see you go. I’ve learned so much from your covid and flu analysis and I know I’m not the only one who will be wishing for your insights as the viral landscape keeps changing. I hope you will consider posting at least a few times a year to share your analysis with us. Your insights have been unique and essential, and not replicated by anyone else anywhere on the internet. You don’t owe us anything, so thank you for what you have already given us. We are grateful. Everyone has the right to grow and to change their minds. It’s ok to say you see things differently and you don’t agree with prior ideas. You could remove the posts which you feel are the most divergent from your current views. Or you could put a banner at the top of those old posts saying something like “I’ve changed my mind, I think all this stuff below is wrong. Read my recent stuff starting at _______ date.” Just an idea. You do what feels right. Putting a banner on old posts has the added benefit that you are showing others they can change thier minds too. I… Read more »
I’m sorry to hear this, I think you’ve written some very important articles. Please do restore at least some of them, those that you feel are the best, I especially think “What Nobody Wants to Hear About Bird Flu” is very important and merits consideration and comment from the most credentialed experts. If you don’t want to restore it here then perhaps you can email it to me and I’ll post it somewhere people can be referred to, I could post numerous articles if you like.
I hope that you will change your mind. If you don’t, however, then thank you for your great work and the very best of luck!
I’ve really enjoyed reading your thoughts whether I agreed with you or not. I hope you can find that measure of peace that it seems you’re looking for. All the best Rintrah
That’s a pity. I try to read a cross-section of blogs to get different viewpoints. Your unique opinions will be just about irreplaceable.
I have enjoyed your posts, especially the covid ones. That’s when I found your blog, during those insane (more insane? As if the world is not now) covid era years, through Igor’s stack actually. There’s a wealth of knowledge and insight from you and the comment section. Our worldviews change through age and experience. It’s only naturaul; otherwise we won’t grow. Take a long hiatus, but don’t give up or delete this blog. Revisit and post from time to time. Have a nice long rest and I hope you recover from whatever is troubling you.
thank you for all your posts. your insights and analysis will be missed. i wish you well.
Why shut down so drastic? Why not trying with a pause for a while and then continue?
Rintrah, I have currently a bad time too. But I don’t give up. I will go into the hospital again soon for another wodka addiction cure. I will try Lithium as next to do something against my depressions.
I would really miss you if you go. But I respect your decision whatever it is.
Anyway, we had a good time and you are one of the most impressive persons I met in my life.
Good Luck
Diogenes
Diogenes, you and Mehen really need to stop drinking. A glass or two of wine a day is all you should have. Vodka is terrible stuff. I pray your hospital stay helps with this.
>Diogenes, you and Mehen really need to stop drinking.
Of all the sorrows which conflict mankind, the bitterest is this: that one should have consciousness of much, but control over nothing.
— Herodotus
Two words: Beer
Your Covid posts were original an very important knowledge.
If this is lost, its like the bukning for the Alexandrian library, for humanity:(
Is it possible to get a backup and keep it somewhere out of public view?
I would like it a the knowledge base for a research foundation.
Thanks for letting me hang out in your treehouse Rintrah. It’s been interesting, I’ve learned a lot (including about myself), and I’ve enjoyed having company in these dark times. The worst is yet to come, so good luck to everyone and all the best. I feel like injecting some optimism into things, so here goes nothin’: To those of you who are young, fit, healthy and are only just now discovering that we’re fucked, please don’t feel compelled to torture yourselves and agonize over trying to unfuck things. Instead, just accept them if you can, find a community of likeminded souls, then strike out for the wilderness. Put as much distance as you can between yourselves and this doomed shitshow called modernity. And remember, humans survived for millennia with nothing much more complicated than a hand axe. If they could do it, so can you. To those of us who are too old to make that trip, well, if we live to see this thing through to the end then our experience will help us face its dangers stoically, and we’re probably a little better off materially than most younger people, so our resources might ease our journey. And with… Read more »
I’m not gonna lie – the end of this blog does sadden me.
You need to give us a few hints to find you, Wombat..
I know Australia is far 🙂 but we need an online medium, at least, for reaching you.
If anyone has suggestions for another place to hang out, then I’m more than happy to hear them as I’m looking for a new venue.
Sites/people I visit/keep an eye on, but don’t comment on (in no particular order): – The Honest Sorcerer substack – Gail Tverberg’s Our Finite World – Sam Mitchell’s Collapse Chronicles on Youtube – Fast Eddy’s substack – Kunstler’s Clusterfuck Nation – Zerohedge – Paul Kingsnorth – Garland Nixon on Youtube, especially his interviews with Joti Brar – her ideology is so pure and sexy. – the Duran – SmoothieX12 – the Military Summary Channel – Resilience.org (rarely) – the Consciousness of Sheep – JMG, but I’ve gone off him. I find some of his ideas/mannerisms annoying. For example, he maintains that everyone should get ready for collapse, but then mocks everyone who says collapse is imminent. On the issue of slow vs fast collapse, I find his utter conviction that it’s going to be slow to be lacking in solid evidence (if not simply totally unsupported) and based instead on weak inductive reasoning. – Dr McMillan (Vejon), especially anything to do with Geert – Dr Campbell on Youtube Basically, I don’t seem to like joining things, or subscribing to things. I am paranoid about keeping my personal identity and my online identity totally separate, so not very likely to share… Read more »
That’s not everything I look at, but it’ll do.
This is an interesting time.
There was covidworld, not to mention all of the rest of the horrifying persecution for wrongthink – it has been risky and challenging enough to dare to point out obvious facts, like you cannot have infinite growth in a finite system, or question this or that policy, or dogma, etc. but now it looks like we could be entering WWIII.
Not a good time to be identifiable online should your views not align with TPTB.
It seems the only way to retain some contact is if we find another common blog/substack to hang out.
I like the Duran too. I mean, I like watching the youtube videos of Alex Christophorou and Alexander Mercouris. If they had a blog, I would hang out there.
(Do they?)
“If they had a blog, I would hang out there.
(Do they?)”
I don’t think so.
I’m feeling like blogs where it’s easy to comment, like here, seem surprisingly hard to find.
Damn son we gonna miss your shit. Rest up, feel betta, and we’ll see you in a different eon.
Bye Rintrah. Thank you for the experiences over the years. Maybe it is possible to love and care about a stranger on the internet, and maybe glimpse into them as much as possible through their unfiltered writing, and in turn have them touch your life in some way? You are loved by many here. Happy to have spent time here. I think you helped many. Now work on getting better and live a full life.
Take it easy Rintrah. I agree with everyone else that it’s a shame the older posts were deleted, but I think this decision is a good one.
What about starting a forum?
Does anyone have any experience with that, or know how much it would cost?
We could do a “collective” Substack.
One way: One of us would manage the account, and the others would send the articles.
I mean more a place for people to post whatever’s on their minds, react to events, off-topic but interesting subjects, etc.
Sadly all of the major ones like Reddit and 4chan are (like enum4 said) unusable, plus they have too many users.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5t5ps-bwc&pp=ygURYWxpIGcgdGVjaG5vbG9neSA%3D
0:33
The Anarcho Primitivist Forum?
xD
Many commenters here were very prolific (not me), so I was thinking of a blog in the legacy of this one, but easier to make (hence, substack platform).
That would allow us to keep interacting…
It seems that collective substacks are a thing.
If anyone is interested, you can mail me (see my first comment).
Sounds interesting, count me in.
I was also thinking of joining coronacircus.com, because back then their posts were excellent. Not on a scientific level like Rads posts but about the structure behind, the kayfabe. Unfortuntately at some point, when they did a website overhaul and created a forum instead of just a blog, they paywalled everything except their old articles which I still recommend. Still hesitant to pay that much though.
I’ll miss this blog very much.
The output has been prodigious and the quality excellent.
It was, in a way, foreseeable. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but if you read one of my recent posts, you’ll see that I had a sense this was coming.
As Mehen so aptly put it, this site was also my last remaining connection to the era of the COVID resistance.
I will deeply miss not only your brilliant contributions, but also the thoughtful and discerning community that thrived here. In my offline life, I don’t have friends or acquaintances who are able to engage with such intellectual nuance and depth as many of you have shown.
I wish you all the very best — farewell.
This hurts like losing an old friend.
>I will deeply miss not only your brilliant contributions, but also the thoughtful and discerning community that thrived here. In my offline life, I don’t have friends or acquaintances who are able to engage with such intellectual nuance and depth as many of you have shown
Thank you for the mention.
I feel exactly as you feel.
I will miss this place. It’s been a wonderful distraction from my own personal hell. Take care of yourself, Rad.
Does anyone have a solid recommendation for an online space with a similarly thoughtful community and diverse range of topics as we had here?
With Rintrah shutting down, I feel a bit lost — I don’t know where else to turn. Platforms like 4chan and Reddit are either too toxic or flooded with disinformation.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
godlikeproductions.com
it’s the worlds central of all crazies
Reddit Lockdown Sceptics tends to have useful comments. It’s been going since about early 2021 = peak Covidia.
(P.S. I hope this comment gets through.)
Demand that your glowie handlers continue your funding.
They must allow the project to continue.
How will I be able to be retarded anymore?
I love being the retard.
Your posts on the C19 shots, are a resource. Please leave those up.
You’ve said this before but think you’re serious this time. Truly the end of an era.
Wishing you all the best with wherever life takes you. Happy to have shared a universe with you.
It is very sad, bc of the connection that grew between us. However, the logical step for that level of connection was a physical meeting. That’s why people who are online “friends” make yearly meetups. Like the various “Comicons”. There’s also PyCons, for Python, or for other languages. Not just programming languages (I can think of Esperanto conferences). Or (speaking of constructed languages) Tolkien conferences! Rintrah would like those. We should do something similar. Maybe a LowStatusWhiteMaleCon (lol). But ladies like Karen should be allowed. Think of something, bc I’m not good at this. Or maybe not (?) It’s just that, whether we like it or not, people do make acquaintances online. And there needs to be a follow up. Exclusivelly online isn’t good. If you think of something, you can find me by email if you combine my name.surname at gmail. I will miss Rintrah, and commenters from here, but I will try praying for everyone. I have looked for a couple guys here (and found them), and I shall look for a few more (not just guys). Think, think, think of something that connects us and can be fun too. (Karen’s idea of a health blog by RR… Read more »
> Maybe a Club for Disillusioned Former Trump Supporters (lol)…
Because of the warmongering against Iran, basically.
Some of Rintrah’s essays that I thought were especially valuable and worth rereading in the future I saved.
He had already been doing this for years when I discovered him during the covid insanity. A very impressive body of work.
Do you have the covid articles? They are really essential references.
Godspeed good sir.
Rintrah,
I have learned a huge amount from your covid posts. Your skill at clearly explaining complicated topics is rare.
Its sad to think of this blog being shut down. I’d like to see it stay up as a resource for learning.
However, you have to do what is best for you. You put a huge amount of work into this site, and if it’s no longer working for you, you need to do whatever is best for you.
And if, in a dark, dreary winter, you find yourself wishing you were on a boat in a tropical paradise, you have my email address.
Rintrah, no matter what you do with your blog and your life, I wish you good fortune and happiness.
I would like to add that in a very difficult and troubled time, you put yourself out there, daring to argue intelligently with consensus opinions, and got people to understand things they would not have learned on their own.
You will never know the extent of who you made understand what, but you made an impact–and it was a positive one. That’s something to remember, no matter what you do next in life.
All the best, hope you feel better. Going to really miss your writings, not just the covid articles. You’re a very talented writer.
You wrote extremely informative content on covid and the vaccines. I learned a lot and thank you. I hope you reconsider and leave the blog up even if you never post again.
Much of what you wrote on covid was far super to the “experts”.
Thank you and best wishes to you
I always found you to be an exceptional and brave soul. You will find your way, I am confident of that. I wish you the best, I will miss you, this place and these people.