One reviewer of James Burnham's work pronounced him an excellent diagnostician but a less than perfect prognosticator. His assumption that Soviet Communism would endure was based on a prior assumption that things would remain as they are. And, of course, they rarely do. It is good to be reminded that accurate diagnosis is not the same as predicting the future.
Flashing back to the alternative future Covington draws in his Northwest novels, the White Apocalypse is provoked by the steady increase in all the liberal movements we are now so familiar with. They not only do not stop or get derailed, but increase both in extent and power. And if you follow the Seven Pillars to their logical conclusions --the replacement of one set of powerful groups with another set-- the bizarro world he describes is not off the mark. A recent wag described a big segment of these people as "Red Guards on tofu." After all, who would have thought that a plea for the decriminalization of sodomy would, within a single lifetime, lead to a national debate on same-sex marriage, and the default identification of its opponents by the culture's elite as h8ful bigots ?
Even now, if you keep your eyes and ears open and know where to look for information, you can see that every Official Sacred Victim Group is only emboldened to pursue more power, status and resources, using more State coercion and social control, by every new victory. "Progress" never stops. So why is Covington's nightmare so unthinkable? And why then would his extreme alternative reaction be so surprising?
There are moments when I constellate a variety of events into something larger. I am aware that I am naturally a glass-half-empty type and that I am paranoid...or at least suspicious...about groups, but that does not mean I am automatically wrong. Take the incidents of Blacks, alone or in groups or in flash-mobs attacking Whites. Certainly the MSM wants to avoid telling us about them while it froths things up with the St Trayvon Passion Play and Soap Opera. But since the Internet has broken the hold of our media masters, you can discover all kinds of things they don't want you to know. And even as cool-headed a man as Thomas Sowell wonders if there isn't an undeclared (and censored) race war going on. If there is, what would stop it? And if, after 50 years of White America's post-MLK obsession about bettering the state of Blacks --including electing a "Black" president-- Black resentment is still spilling out in anti-White violence, what signs are there that this "intifada" will calm down?
But predictions are tricky, as Yogi said, especially when they are about the future.
Flashing back to the alternative future Covington draws in his Northwest novels, the White Apocalypse is provoked by the steady increase in all the liberal movements we are now so familiar with. They not only do not stop or get derailed, but increase both in extent and power. And if you follow the Seven Pillars to their logical conclusions --the replacement of one set of powerful groups with another set-- the bizarro world he describes is not off the mark. A recent wag described a big segment of these people as "Red Guards on tofu." After all, who would have thought that a plea for the decriminalization of sodomy would, within a single lifetime, lead to a national debate on same-sex marriage, and the default identification of its opponents by the culture's elite as h8ful bigots ?
Even now, if you keep your eyes and ears open and know where to look for information, you can see that every Official Sacred Victim Group is only emboldened to pursue more power, status and resources, using more State coercion and social control, by every new victory. "Progress" never stops. So why is Covington's nightmare so unthinkable? And why then would his extreme alternative reaction be so surprising?
There are moments when I constellate a variety of events into something larger. I am aware that I am naturally a glass-half-empty type and that I am paranoid...or at least suspicious...about groups, but that does not mean I am automatically wrong. Take the incidents of Blacks, alone or in groups or in flash-mobs attacking Whites. Certainly the MSM wants to avoid telling us about them while it froths things up with the St Trayvon Passion Play and Soap Opera. But since the Internet has broken the hold of our media masters, you can discover all kinds of things they don't want you to know. And even as cool-headed a man as Thomas Sowell wonders if there isn't an undeclared (and censored) race war going on. If there is, what would stop it? And if, after 50 years of White America's post-MLK obsession about bettering the state of Blacks --including electing a "Black" president-- Black resentment is still spilling out in anti-White violence, what signs are there that this "intifada" will calm down?
But predictions are tricky, as Yogi said, especially when they are about the future.
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Haven't Truman and the Mahatma and a bunch of other people asserted that a civilization is judged by how well it undermines its ability to benefit its weakest members? If so, presentday America is sitting pretty.
I saw a Democrat news report yesterday about how federal government spending under President Obama has increased only 1.4%. This is to be consider'd good news, because federal government spending increased by far greater percentages under previous Republican presidents, especially Reagan, apparently. So Democrats are now opposed to government spending, I guess.
Anyway, these are percentages, right? The bigger government spending gets, each additional billion constitutes a smaller percentage.
But I'm not opposed to "government spending." The sad thing is that when liberals accepted to participate in or lead government spending by borrowing -- which puts an ever-increasing great burden on the future -- they help'd arrange the increasing inability of government to spend money.
No doubt this inability restricts the government's ability to be a customer of military production corporations, it also restricts government's ability to spend on social programmes for the weakest -- and to spend money to lift the economy out of recession.
The upside of it all is that desublimation has rejected "civilization," and accordingly the unspecify'd thus perhaps non-existent judge of civilizations will be flummox'd by Ango-Saxony and Europe. No civilization, no 'members' whether weak or strong of civilization, no danger of condemnation on any sort of Judgement Day.
Covington's alternative reaction scenario for a whites-only North West Republic is unrealistic presumably because of the use that post-liberal white hierophants would make of rational interests logicking.
No need to found a whites only republic because the POC directorate won't want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs but will obviously logically prefer to maintain the white minority for their dynamism etc and tax the results.
Perhaps such reasoning was used in the last years of Rhodesia. It won't be "rational" for Mugabe to destroy Zimbabwe and drive productive white citizens out of the country. But what Schumpeter reveals of capitalism's intentional destructiveness (cf Hinduism's Shiva) presumably holds also for socialism, communism, etc -- though without the productive aftermath that capitalism seems capable of. ... Reducing America to ruin Mugabe's way may even be preferable to reducing it to ruin the European way 1939-45 (including the massive bombardment of cities by Anglo-Saxony's air power Ziz js2123).
Chinese, Russians, Europeans (1914-18, 1939-45), Cambodians, Africans, etc all get to do self-immolations. We must suppose that Anglo-Saxons also have the right to destroy their own stuff and personnel for transcendence.
The way I recommend -- Nietzsche's proposal to bring war of spirit up from the underground and into the world cave -- seems more valuable, more transcending, since in any event war of spirit in the underground is what gets written in destructive terms such as WW1 in the world cave.
But the easy path still beckons, namely assuring whites that a POC America will see that destruction isn't rational. This assurance is absurd since obviously whites have been directly, intentionally ruining (desublimating) Anglo-Saxony and Europe since the 1950s. (As if destroying morals will help lift POCs to equality of achievement with Gentile whites.)
With whites driving America to ruin, why should we expect a whites-only North West Republic not to be a trap? -- a Killing Fields for whites like the plains of northwestern Europe 1914-1918.
Re: »if you keep your eyes and ears open and know where to look for information, you can see that every Official Sacred Victim Group is only emboldened to pursue more power, status and resources, using more State coercion and social control, by every new victory. "Progress" never stops.«
Perhaps so, but this must be expected since "nature abhors a vacuum" and white 'higher man' has been withdrawing from the world, not contributing culture, civilization, art, religion, philosophy to the world. Or at most the civilization contributed by white higher man to the world has been the anti-civilization of desublimation. Racism sexism and homophobia (class division as 'fear' of accepting sameness) have been only for the sake of repression for the sake of moral cowardice re one's true polymorphously perverse demands for satisfaction.
Re: »Official Sacred Victim Groups« sc Esau's mouth (OShV js6215 + G as usd peh)? The alternative Nergalian 'tribes of yahweh' (Genesis 36) landing upon earth via Isaac (Isaac is in Jove's Merodach ego's position in the planetary line from Abraham Ninurta Chronos). ... One may wish to bring in the tribes of Ishmael (Genesis 25) to suppress the red, shem, spirit hypertrophy of Esau (Genesis 36:7f).
It would be obviously 'rational' for a black administration of the city of Detroit to hire and amply pay efficient managers of whatever colour (white or Asian if need be) to run the day-to-day operations of the city -- thus making black rule seem and indeed be congruent with modern administration. When blacks mismanage institutions, or when Indians mismanage their own reservations, the worst prejudices of white (and Asian) racists are confirm'd -- totally against blacks' and Indians' own ostensible material and prestige interests. Mugabe's management of Zimbabwe confirms these prejudices too -- and quite obviously. (Perhaps the average intelligence of blacks is less than that of north Asians, and even less than that of ordinary Gentile whites. But Mugabe himself is very intelligent. He doesn't do what he does because he is unable to notice the results.)
P.S. Epicurus did not want Lucretius to employ superb, glorious poetry to draw attention to his philosophic withdrawal from the world. Epicureans wish to dominate the world without glory or legitimated kingship. ... Strauss notes that Lucretius "be-long'd" to Epicurus, who presumably didn't wish for beingness, but only obscurity in grand, behind-the-walls nothingness. ... Yet Epicurus wrote 300 (repetitive, un-musical, etc) books stating his philosophy (Nietzsche BGE 7). Epicurus desired and yet was not courageous enough for such glory as Lucretius was to give him among the Romans.
BGE 7. Epicurus's designation of Platonists as "Dionysiokolakes" (flatterers of the tyrant Dionysius) sc more seriously Platonists introduce a conscious i [only one eye, though: no depth perception, as would come in coöperation with a friend's ego or i] to Dionysokolax, dramatic actor on the Dionysian all-the-world's-a-stage of tragedy and comedy. Dionysos, Noah: Self as vine planter, vintner, for improvementing into Canaan the son (filioque: Spirit proceeds from the Father as reveal'd by Ham, but also from the Son. Shem must weave proceedings from both these thread sources).
Maybe we should see "lackey" (German Lakai) in Dionysiokolakes. sc a 'servant leader' or judge, since etymologically lackey is from Arabic al-qadi. js3921 LKD capture (?from js392 deceitful sun shower).
Judgeingly leads how? Via the preceding kol" sc kohl (women's eyeliner or mascara; al-cohol, the subtle part [of wine]). from js3615 KLH consume, end, perfect, complete; 3605, 3634? and js3557 KWL to contain, nourish?
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