Greg Johnson on the Prison Notes

The Legionary Movement is key; is anyone listening?

Read here.

Codreanu's Prison Notes

Something useful.

Read here.

The "movement" can learn a few things from the Legionary Movement, but I doubt it is paying any attention.

Spengler, Race, and Counter-Currents

My response.

Article here.

My response:

There need not be incompatibility between a racial preservationist approach per se and a forward-thinking approach to race.  One can draw a line at certain maladaptive scenarios that imperil preservationism and EGI: miscegenation, mass immigration, dysgenics, too-rapid changes in genotype/phenotype even if “positive” and within a homogenous population.  As long as certain requirements are met, as long as a foundation of genetic continuity is in place, then one can pursue prudent eugenic goals and one call follow an upward path to racial progress.  One cannot forego progress in the name of static conservative preservationism; on the other hand, one cannot dispense with continuity and genetic interests in order to pursue ‘transhumanist” objectives that would radically alter racial identity and the genetic interests of generations of a population with their posterity.  

The same applies to “spiritual race” concepts.  One can identify with, and value, such traits only insofar as one has first taken care of the material, biological, “zoological” aspects of race.  True enough, biology alone is “sterile zoology” -  but spirit without physical form is a self-destructive and self-defeating abstraction.  You need both.

Lords of Chaos

Chaos theory.

Like many on the Right, I generally support the concept of Order; I am an Apollonian type who is an acolyte of Science and Technics.  So, it is interesting that I am, in my various blogs, I advocate the utility of Chaos for advancing the cause of racial nationalism.  And not only as a short-term destabilizing tool, but as a long-term approach to instill virile instincts to our objective if instilling a healthy sense of Order.

Looking at the passivity of the White race, its capacity to accept abuse unlimited, it is quite clear that Whites – and here we can focus on White men – have become over-civilized, effete, and degenerate, and easy prey for the more barbaric peoples of the Third World.  Too much order, too much abstraction, too much Apollonian rationality is as destructive as the other end of the spectrum: too much chaos, too much barbarism, too much Dionysian emotion.  Pure Order and Pure Chaos both lead to the Last Man. Pure Order leads to the Last Man decried by Nietzsche: the Last Man of comfort, of stasis, of effete stagnation.  Pure Chaos leads to the Last Man of Third World savagery and colored backwardness.  There needs to be a balance. And since the White Man of today is over-civilized, too much in the direction of Order, then some sort of Chaos is necessary.  Nietzsche, the champion of the Dionysian, said that you must have chaos in yourself if you want to be a “dancing star.”  For those more interested in fiction, I am reminded of the story told by Gene Wolfe in his The Book of the New Sun, how humans gave up the “wild part of themselves to reach the stars,” not realizing that it was that part of themselves that had initially allowed them to be fully human.  And in Wolfe’s universe that Empire built on pure Order collapsed. The barbarian values can never be ignored or eschewed. Chaos leads to creativity, chaos leads to fertility, Chaos – paradoxically as it may seem – provides the foundation for a lasting and balanced sense of Order.

                                                                                                                                

There is of course the old idea that vigorous barbarians revitalize decadent cultures (the Germans/Romans/Western civilization paradigm is popular within the “movement”), and we can recall Hamilton’s idea that a type of daring, self-sacrificing altruism, linked to creativity, dies off in advanced civilizations, and such a culture requires the fresh blood of barbarian pastoralists to restore the proper genetic-behavioral balance.  Frost’s ideas of genetic pacification fit here as well. But we’ve run out of the barbarians of our own race, and those of others, even if we wanted to tolerate the EGI-destroyed admixture (and we do not), lack the altruism and creativity that is the hallmark of European Man.  There are some in the “movement” who look to Russia, but even if we put aside the realization that these folks over-idealize Russian potential in this regard, the fact remains that Russia can be considered to be of a different High Culture at present (many Russians certainly think so), and even if Russia can shake off the domination of the Putinian Eurasian multiculturalists, the fact remains that, in the last analysis, the Western Core needs to save itself, it cannot depend on others, who have their own agenda.  Certainly, in the future, the Western and Eastern halves of the race can combine to form the new Overman High Culture, but that will require the participation of all Europeans, not a scenario in which Russians impose their own cultural development on everyone else.  So, regardless of the future, today, the West needs to save itself.  We need to become our own barbarians, to the extent possible. I do not believe that the genes have been completely extinguished yet.  There is still hope.

Here I would like to distinguish between the Orderly Chaos of the System and the Chaotic Order that we would like to be its replacement.  The System has as its objective the creation of a Third World hellish Chaos and they use the technics of Order to achieve that: Orwellian social controls and a managerial elite, analogous in a way to Francis’ Anarcho-Tyranny. This is Orderly Chaos: an organized system to create chaos.  On the other hand, Chaotic Order is a scenario in which creativity, fertility, strategic emotion and irrationality, barbarian virtues are all used to create Order, using Chaos as the fertilizer to grow a true and balanced Order.  Chaos can be used not only to impose Order, but also to maintain it.  Thus, contrary to what some may believe, the chaos is not simply a tool used to destabilize the present System, after which we will have an orderly stagnation.  No, using chaos has to be an ongoing process, a permanent revolution so to speak, to allow us to be “dancing stars” and not effete slaves, Overmen and not Last Men. We need to be the Lords of Chaos in order to be the Champions of Order.

Further Development of Avant Garde Memes Required

Avant garde politics, racialism, and science?

An introduction.

Crude ethnic stereotyping may lead one to conclude that an emphasis on art, culture, and aesthetics in the creation of fascist ideology was (and is) a particularly “French” phenomenon. Of course, other fascist movements were concerned with these issues, sometimes to a significant extent, but none of them incorporated such memes into the core of the political thinking as did French fascist thinkers. Indeed, the cultural-aesthetic emphasis of the French strain of fascism is a breath of fresh air after immersion in the more focused political thought of the Italian Fascists and the racialist ideals of the German National Socialists.  

In fact, all three areas of focus – cultural-aesthetic, political, and racialist – are required for a complete memetic complex to promote fascistic ideals. As a biological reductionist, I would emphasize the racialist first of all, but doing so with respect to modern genetic science rather than the sort of quackery that passed as “racial science” under the Nazis. However, biological racialism by itself is not enough. Without an edifice of political and cultural-aesthetic memes, the foundation of ultimate interests will go nowhere.

Advocating avant garde memes should not be construed as some sort of pretentious, pseudo-intellectual, “artsy wine-and-cheese” mindset, but rather a fundamental appreciation of the need to break with old ways – ways that are proven failures – and experiment with fresh approaches to the problems of race and civilization.  Therefore, we should advocate avant garde approaches not only for art/culture, but, equally so, in politics, for our view if race, and, to the extent possible, in science.  It is too easy to fall back into bad habits, whether these be artistic, political, racial, or scientific. True enough, new doesn’t always mean best or right (this is where I disagree with the dogmatic futurists – extreme dogmatism should be viewed skeptically*), but we won’t know unless it is tried. We are all familiar with avant garde art (which means, perhaps, that now even newer forms require experimentation), but the precise manner in which avant garde politics, racialism, and science will be actualized remains to be determined.

 *I don’t say that dogmatically.

Remembering Marinetti

Western Destiny endorses Futurism (without eschewing our traditional culture).

Read here.

My essay on Avante-Garde Fascism. 

This is the type of art I'd like to see more of. 

Comments on Religion and Suprahumanism

Replying to comment.

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I thank the commentator for his input. I must respectfully disagree on Christianity.  A minor point: contrasting the Duggar family with Nietzsche is cherry picking at is finest, not a proper argument.  I will agree however that Christian believers likely have higher fertility than non-believers.  But, have all confounding factors been taken into account?  I truly mean no offense, but what if believers are, on average, less educated, more gullible, and with a lower IQ than non-believers? We know that fertility tends to be inversely related to intelligence and educational attainment.  Is the higher fertility due to Belief or are both Belief and fertility both correlated to other factors?  A similar argument can be made about "happiness."  In our current age of degeneration and decline, can we not make the argument that "higher levels of happiness" (physically healthy, no doubt), may be indicative of ignorance? What informed White person should be "happy" in the Winter of the West?

A more important point: Faith and Belief cannot be turned on and off like a faucet.  The commentator notes that the Duggars are "true believers."  Good for them.  IF - as the commentator wants to argue - fertility and all the other "good stuff" is caused by Belief, then the Duggars' fertility is due to their strong Christian faith.  But - most educated Whites are not believers.  The Faustian Whites are not believers.  I am not. I'm sure Forrest is not, nor is Greg Johnson. Most Science/Technics folks are not. What Nietzsche meant by "God is dead," is that modern science and rationalism "killed God" by eliminating belief.  If all the good stuff of spiritual fulfillment and fertility depends on Faith and Belief, then we have a problem, because, on average, it is the less educated and intelligent who are using this "power" and reproducing their kind.  

I really don't understand the Christian argument here. Do they think that Faith and Belief can be used instrumentally?  That non-believers should pretend belief?  That fake, pretended, forced "belief" and "faith" (an oxymoron, indeed!) would have the same effects as genuine Faith?  Of course it would not.  Any person who spent their life pretending like that would waste their mental energies and be filled with self-loathing - hardly conducive to "happiness" or fertility.  And, are Christian believers so desperate for more support that they would actually want folks who are fake believers?  They really want such folks sitting in church, secretly filled with contempt and loathing for the proceedings?  Do Christians hold their own beliefs so cheaply that they would see those beliefs tarnished by having them peddled about like some sort of "self-help" cult of "happiness and fertility?" One can argue - as I did - that Christianity can in theory serve for the masses now, as a stop-gap (albeit at the risk of having genetically hard-wired, less Faustian and intelligent believers demographically swamp elite non-believers - a dysgenic outcome).  In the long term, if we want to achieve our goals, that's going to fail. Again, no offense, but a population hard-wired to "believe" religion is also hard-wired to "believe" multiculturalism - as we see today.

On top of all that - as Forrest (and I) argue - Christianity is anti-Faustian, anti-Suprahumanist, opposed to all the aristocratic values of strength folks like us admire and believe (note: Belief!) is necessary for the Future. In the long run, do we really want to promote a hostile creed, even instrumentally?  Can we avoid the fact that Christianity - stripped of Faith and Belief - has a secular core of egalitarianism?

Again: it is up to Christians to demonstrate a pro-White Christianity TODAY, not cite the past.  And, even if they do, they have to accept that a large fraction of the educated White elites will not be believers.

That the Duggars are reproducing is good for them, and, in a very general sense, good for Whites. If survival is the ultimate good, better more Duggars than less Duggars (or no Duggars). But still, do we really want a society full of Duggars?  Full of Christian true believers?  Full of evangelicals?  Full of folks who think the Earth is 6000 years old and that advanced Science/Technics is some sort of "sin?" Folks who would think that Suprahumanism is some sort of "prideful blasphemy?"  I don't.

And given how easily Christianity has been corrupted by the Left, given the egalitarian foundation that underlies the creed, how general is the Duggar case anyway?  Christians may have somewhat higher fertility than non-believers, but, among Whites, that's still less than non-White fertility.  After all, the Duggar family is an extreme case.  I can assure you that the vast majority of Christian families are not having 19 children. If a slighter higher fertility rate is correlated to a belief system that embraces egalitarianism, that has no stronger foundational defense against race replacement, then it is a net negative. After all, even if Christianity says "marry and multiply," it doesn't specify who exactly you should marry and reproduce with.  I know some folks get all excited over the Duggars as a large White family of "good racial stock" (as defined by the folks getting excited).  But - that's one family. What stops a good Christian White man from marrying a good Christian Korean female?  A good Christian White woman from marrying an upstanding, religious, Christian Negro male?  Citing practices from the past doesn't tell us what is happening today. Can racialism be somehow fused to the anti-racist, egalitarian, diversity-loving Christianity of the 21st century?  Sure, one can argue that atheism is no barrier to miscegenation either.  But, if we need to begin to put together a racialist philosophy for the 21st century, I see it as better to start fresh, with an untainted foundation, than to try to push a square peg into a round hole, and convince people to be racialist while all their priests and reverends are telling them the exact opposite - when the bible that forms the basis of their Belief can be cited to promote multiculturalism.  When tolerance and meekness are celebrated.

I can't shake the feeling that there are folks associated with the "movement" for whom Christianity, Faith, and Belief are more important than Race and Culture.  I'm obviously not one of them.