Readers of The Fourth Estate,
I have been contemplating over the past several weeks on what to do about The Fourth Estate. As it stands, everything that I had been researching throughout the 2010s was already explored and compiled into something coherent or readable. I do not have any plans to write another Treatise because everything I wanted to write about has been written. A fifth Treatise would be too excessive, as I had pointed out several months ago.
The usual people that I interacted with over the past two years are no longer active on WordPress anymore or have since moved on. And I also do not want this Blog to become a dumping ground for advertisers more interesting in trying to sell something than spark genuine conversations. Allowing the Blog to become a place for advertisers would pervert the original purpose for its existence.
Zero Hour, that short story I tried writing for Beautiful Monsters, was simply an attempt on my part to contribute to another Blog besides my own, even if it was on Substack. Since Gio from Beautiful Monsters decided to go back to his roots, and he is no longer accepting submissions from anyone, I felt that it was unnecessary for me to continue. Besides, I was never good at writing fiction to begin with.
And what about Hamiltonianism, which I had touted with the Work-Standard in mind? Its relevance in 21st century America will not depend on WordPress Blogs maintained in the obscure corners of the World Wide Web. Instead, it will have to come from the establishment of new institutions, new organizations, and new groupings that can someday coalesce into a broader movement that could eventually become a new Federalist Party. Such a possibility cannot be realized by one person, no matter how wealthy they may be. It depends on committed cadres of party-comrades who believe in something far greater than their mere themselves. The kind of people who can create that movement are too scattered and few in number to make any serious headway. That might change someday, however.
Therefore, I have decided to cease all writing on The Fourth Estate and keep it active for anyone who may someday stumble across the Blog or the Work-Standard. The Work-Standard is still one of my prized contributions in this Life, so I will do everything I can to keep the vision alive. If I do decide to blog again, it will probably be about something else, something that has no connection to the Work-Standard.
If anyone wants to contact me, they are more than welcome to comment on anything or use the Contact page to send me messages. I may no longer be blogging, but I do read the various messages that I had received from various people over the past four years. I can still respond to those messages, assuming they are relevant to the Work-Standard.
Signed,
–Duty and Honor
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The Fourth Estate 
Dear, DAH
I am sadden to hear that your blog has ended but I understand their is only so much one can write and a blog can go only so far. The reality is that American conservative socialism is still in its very early stages of development only being made up of scattered blogs and small internet communities that have little impact on the American sphere at least for now. That said I do not think your efforts or mine for that matter in writing out our ideas has been in complete vein. After all I’m sure both blogs have reached thousands of viewers due our insightful and original takes. My own blog for example has recently reached 10,000 thousand views despite not publishing anything since February and no doubt your blog has way more than mine. After all your articles are all very insightful and I just recently read one of your older articles on Berry Goldwater Green Conservatism. I had no idea Goldwater had an environmental streak to him. No doubt like anti-capitalist conservatism that has recently seen some small revival in the last several years a needed revival of a green conservatism of some sort is also needed. After all what is more conservative than conserving the natural beauty of ones community and country? I no doubt believe your blog has played a role political discussion and has build some basic foundation of a conservative socialism. And who knows maybe this blog will blow up in a few years its would be the first time a random like you or me has blown up to mainstream attention, Curtis Yarvin is good example of this despite me having sympathy for NRX.
Like my last comment to you I have continued to write privately on political subjects with one essay being completed with two more being worked on. I still have no idea what I want to do with them weather to post them on Authenticity, publish them on a new blog or a more formal publication or compile all my unpublished essays into a book. Also have you heard anything from the individual who runs ARPLAN? I hope he is okay his translations are extremely valuable in understanding 1920s to early 1930s German anti-liberal politics and I am sure their is much more that could be published in English on that era, luckily the Junger Translation Project is still publishing so were not in a complete dry spout on this subject atm.
Anyhow were ever you go from here I wish you the best of luck and hope to see you come back to writing in some shape or form in the future. You deserve a long break their is no doubt about that!
Signed Albino Squirrel
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Dear Albino Squirrel,
Honestly, this was going to happen at some point. The philosophical and theoretical journey that I went through as a Political Scientist during the 2010s had to end eventually. When I started this Blog back in 2020, I knew that I was going to reach the stage where I had exhausted everything researched in the past decade. The question was whether it was going to take the entirety of the 2020s or less than half of this decade. Earlier in the present year, I had confidently reached the conclusion that it had taken me less half of a decade to compile and collate everything into something presentable.
I am also glad you mentioned Bogumil from ARPLAN because he was the one who convinced me to start this Blog as a means of conveying the research I had accumulated in the last decade. I have not heard anything back from him for over a year now, so I have no idea what happened to him. As much as I do not wish to dwell on that subject, I had taken it upon myself to not only preserve the writings on my Blog but also the comments that I had contributed to ARPLAN.
But because Bogumil is no longer around and because I had exhausted every subject researched throughout the 2010s, what else is there for me to write about? Also, have people moved on from WordPress in favor of Substack? I had decided that it would be wise on my part to preserve this Blog, parodically check up on it, and answer any and all questions from you and anyone else with serious inquiries on the nature of my research. I should note that I do intend to keep writing, except everything will made be available on Substack as opposed to WordPress.
I have yet to decide on what to do once I make the jump from WordPress to Substack, Albino Squirrel. It also does not help that I had recently been making some crucial career changes, which makes finding the time to write about anything these days more difficult. Unfortunately, due to the sensitive nature of the work involved, I cannot delve into those details here. If I do make a decision, I will write another post containing the link to the new Substack on this Blog just to let people know that I have not disappeared.
Signed,
-DAH
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