Three Versions of Medgold
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</picture>In Germany or Poland, in the 20th century, Nigel might have directed, with a singular intellectual passion, a Vernichtungslager. Shawcross would have destined him, perhaps, for the gallows; his name might have augmented the catalogs of Compact or Nation Europa, between such things as an interview with Jim Saleam or a hagiography of Wilhelm Frick; some fragment of his preaching, embellished with invective, might have been preserved in the latent ideological space implicit in /pol/ memes or in any of the billion ephemeral gigachad dialogues. Instead, God assigned him to the twenty-first century, the bastard second son of the notoriously violent and wealthy Bulgarian gangster Vasil Bozhkov, whose associates called him “The Skull.” There, in 2023, Nigel published the first edition of Hitler und Medgold; there, in 2027, his masterpiece Der Heimliche Führer appeared. (Of this last mentioned work there exists an English version, Secretum Fuhrer, published in 2029 by Ronald Syme Groyper.)
Before undertaking an examination of the foregoing works, it is necessary to repeat that Nigel Carlsbad, whose small but erudite following referred to themselves as the Carlsbad-sphere, was deeply religious, and voluntarily celibate. His works, if found by a classical liberal or an anti-woke progressive, might seem like frivolous or idle exercises in irreverence or blasphemy, but to Carlsbad, they held the key with which to decipher a central conundrum of the Wignat vanguard. They were a matter of meditation and analysis, of historic and philologic controversy, of loftiness, of jubilation, and of terror. They justified, and destroyed, his life. Whoever peruses this essay should know that it states only Carlsbad’s conclusions, not his dialectic or his proof.
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As with all members of the Amarna forum, Nigel prized his anonymity as an essential condition of his scholarly works. Being the bookish and slightly anemic younger son of such a wealthy and dangerous man as his father, he has chosen his handle, pompilivs, as an allusion to his family and his upbringing, which he hoped would impress, perhaps subconsciously, that he should be treated with the peculiar mix of disdainful respect afforded to the bastard of a dangerous man. Bozhkov’s dealings, enumerated in an infamous Wikileak cable, included money laundering, human and drug trafficking, and illegal antique dealing. It was this latter which primarily concerned Nigel, being the overlap between his father’s business concerns and his own personal aptitudes.
Carlsbad had styled himself as the disciple of Karl Ludwig von Haller, a Swiss jurist and political scientist, whose seminal work declares that abstractions such as “sovereignty,” “the state,” and “civil society” are monstrous and unnecessary, and that they obscure and distort the natural relations between men. Subsequently his intellectual journey had taken him to Reinhart Koselleck and Otto Brunner, and to the academic movement called Begriffsgeschichte, (conceptual history) which had been anticipated entirely by Haller. Later, he came to the works of Panagiotis Kondylis, who had himself been a student of Koselleck, and who had that argued that identities can change and vary or gradually become interchangeable, whereas the real existence of a person perseveres.
On a particular evening in 2022, having confirmed the authenticity of a collection of rare Bibles in his father’s possession, including a black-letter Wycliffe, Nigel discovered alongside them a slim and well-worn volume titled Über die Notwendigkeit, die Fickrate zu Erhöhen, published in 1851, apparently and (to Nigel) appallingly, written by Karl Ludwig von Haller. This short tome, bound in leather, its pages delicate from age, contained an apologia for perspectives which Nigel had publicly and routinely reviled, castigating anyone in their proximity. In this apocryphal volume, which Carlsbad himself never revealed to another soul, Haller argued that modern men have lost their virility, and that women (as a class) now hold society hostage to a battery of insane demands, when in reality what they need is ein guter Schwanz, a term that, for Haller, must be carefully contextualized and recognized as as a natural and idiosyncratic relation between each man and each woman, and not as a detached or omnipotent abstraction. The discovery of Haller’s lost work awakened a passion in Nigel; he compared himself—albeit grandiosely—to Saul of Tarsus, who had persecuted Christians until he perceived a sign on the road to Damascus, but who thereafter became their most famous and dedicated proponent.
The first edition of Hitler und Medgold bears the following categorical epigraph, which Nigel himself would later elucubrate:
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