Monday, January 19, 2015

Shedding Another Idealism

"I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one's opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Open Treason

It's one thing to question the conduct of operations in Afghanistan; it's quite another to desert a combat unit, then beg for rescue. Bergdahl is a traitor. And this was clear before he was rescued. But, then, it was also clear that Obama was a traitor before we voted him into office. DOD allows itself to be humiliated by the Leftists once again. It has suffered ideological capture at the highest level.


It is interesting, as a matter of PR strategy, that they have not wished to push this incident in our faces. The media ignores it--and we know they do not ignore issues just because they are on the wrong side. They were on the wrong side in Ferguson, yet they continue to push it. But, they submerge the Bergdahl story--maybe because they cannot think of a spin that even the typical Leftist would consider sane.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Unshacklings

Beware the website, it's a bit unstable and slow, but Spengler's worth reading. He's a former Reagan official, author, music critic, I-Banker, and Jewish "religious nationalist" supporter of Israel.
http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/01/08/what-can-france-do-now/?singlepage=true

Of course, all of western Europe face much the same problem as France. But, the integration experiment looks ever more dubious even to conventional conservatives. To those of us who understand something of human biological diversity (HBD), it never even rose to the level of dubiety: it was a bad game at inception. Algerians, Moroccans, Somalis--and all the rest--are fundamentally discordant with Europeans at the biological substrate. Their intelligence levels and their personalities are quite different--and for purposes of what we recognize as productive civilization--markedly inferior. The Islamic factor is the enzyme catalyzing disaster out of this contrast of substrates. The conventionalists, Left and Right, only see this enzyme, Islam, and wonder how it could turn so vicious. They imagine themselves, in a fit of empathy, as converts to Islam, and perceive only the most reasonable aspects of the religion and culture. But, they are not North Africans nor Arabs nor Blacks. The enzyme reacts differently upon their substrate, not positively to be sure (or we might see rather more converts in the intellectual classes), but not disastrously either. Their attempt at empathy fails because they refuse The Knowledge of evolved differences between human groups. They lose themselves in evasive mazes of circular rhetoric and pathological social status competitions with their nihilist peers.


For a bit more of an HBD focus, this young Irish American woman writes well and extensively about the variety of human types:
https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/category/what-is-human-biodiversity/
https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/category/diversity-doesnt-work/

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Techno-Art

I was curious about the history of color cinema.

Brief Summary:

They started with hand coloring of negatives in the 1900-1915 period, then gradually moved to the two color (red and green) process, which was naturalistic, but lacking the third color that would give a full color range.
Some 2 color movies:
The Black Pirate 1926: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWY4_6emHz8
Vikings 1928: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lclmtdq9JU
Something strange from a 1930 color movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9YEelZSuTc


In 1932 Disney made the first full-range 3 color film, a cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BniCEQO1X2s
Since Disney bought exclusive rights to full color for 3 years, the first live action color film was delayed until 1935, Becky Sharp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpzVU7p6afE This was an expensive filming system and required very bright (and hot) sets.


The development of both the 2 and 3 color systems was led by Technicolor, founded in 1914. The Depression delayed color development by several years, since the film industry was less flush and more risk averse. The last American Technicolor film was The Godfather II, 1974. China operated its own Technicolor film production until the 1990s. They were the last. Many people, including me, think Technicolor had a unique look, a special level of saturation, not achieved with other technologies. It was obsoleted mainly because it took too long to produce film reels for thousands of theaters. 

The Curse of Islam

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.


No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.



Sir Winston Churchill, The River War



A British politician was arrested about a year ago for reading precisely this prophetic and diagnostic passage in the public square. He was charged with incitement of racial/religious hatred. Islam does indeed disintegrate civilizations when it overtakes them. It knows only how to spend cultural capital, not how to perpetuate it--certainly a creative culture is inconceivable within the Koranic interpretation of life. The celebrants of "Islamic Golden Ages" fail to apprehend the causes of such periods: they only occur when Muslims vanquish superior civilizations and ride their cultural momentum for a few generations, until virtually the entire population converts to Islam and their vitality is sapped. This is the main reason Europe is more endangered than America. The conversionary, goal-oriented weight of Muslim numbers poses a much more precipitous threat than America's Mestizos do--since, like the blacks, they lack the capacity for group autonomy and predictably suffer themselves to become mere puppets of the Left.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Epigrams and Aphorisms from the Right

I must, alas, confess that I failed to note the various authors of these strikes (many were Twitter posts)--but I will publish them anyway:

The more one learns about Charlie Hebdo, the more you realize it's a vile magazine totally supportive of a non-white future for France.

Muslim immigration into non-Muslim nations: the worst idea of the 20th century, after communism.

It isn't whether the French will have the freedom to practice satire. It's whether France has the right to stay French.

When zoo animals get loose and harm people, the question should be to find out WHO opened the cage not to get mad at animals...

So much for the magically transformative power of geography. Two of the three Muslim killers in Paris were born in France.

"There are good Muslims." Yeah, great. Now guess what happens when the bad Muslims win battles? The good Muslims fall the fuck in line.

Lie of the Day: "They aren't Muslims, they're terrorists." You may not believe in tribalism, but tribalism believes in you.

Allow me to encapsulate the mentality of white decadents right now: "There are still plots of non-vibrant land I can retreat to!"

Charlie Hebdo won't wake up the white man. Only the white masses stringing up the white elite will wake up the white man.

I'm coming to think that white European civilization (and outposts) can't survive without a return to a vigorous religious belief.

I think it was a smart attack from the jihadist perspective. Sure, people will pound their chests and declare I AM THIS SHITTY FRENCH MAGAZINE, but back in reality the point has been made. Because it is an attack on the media. It exposes the weakness and insecurity of Western elites. I'm sure there will be a crackdown of some kind, some cells will be rolled up, security will be tightened in some respects. But the impression has been made. Your freedom is meaningless against someone who hates you totally. And now you are surrounded by them.
So for now there will be a crackdown, solidarity, speeches. This will last maybe two months. Then, gradually, a growing concern about those who are always going around upsetting these volatile people. Now these can be talked to, cajoled, threatened. Unlike the men with AK-47s. The recent EU Joint Statement enacts exactly this response: restrict citizens' speech, spy on citizens, disarm citizens, propagandize citizens--and, of course, continue current immigration policies. Overall, it looks like a big, big win for the Islamists.  

Friday, January 9, 2015

The Dream of Unity

http://blog.jim.com/economics/the-trichotomy/

This summary of the interrelations of the trichotomy closes in on outright idealism. It would, though, be very wise for each side to refrain from conducting wanton assaults on the others. The Cathedral forms a far more suitable target. I wrote about this before in the Anatomy of Reaction.

Jews Subvert the World

http://newobserveronline.com/jews-demand-open-borders-for-usa-but-use-dna-to-keep-israel-racially-pure/
http://newobserveronline.com/racist-jewish-hypocrites-start-shipping-african-refugees-from-israel-to-sweden/


The Jews are unique: the smartest ethnic group in the world, the oldest, the most cohesive--and today the most powerful tribe in the world.


They are the last people to be trusted by any outsider. The principles upon which Israel is governed are eminently defensible, including the discrimination against immigrants based on racial and religious characteristics. However, the Jews in America (it may be doubted whether the phrase "American Jews" is ever apt)--are virtually unanimous in demanding that America refrain from enforcing these same principles that Israel and any other sensible nation enforces. The Jews in America are obviously a fifth column--obvious if one has access to the facts of the situation. But, since they have tremendous influence over the media and education, and their universally enforced speech codes service their convenience, very few know the facts and everything is spun in their favor. Their own holy books demonstrate perpetual war against the rest of the world for 3,000 years. They are a tribe; their religion simply reinforces tribal identity. They have no friends and they know it. They perceive only two categories outside the tribe: enemies or useful idiots at their disposal.


The ancient world knew their nature, before their nature was obscured by the distortions of Christianity (that ingenious Jewish invention): they are the people born for slavery, as Tacitus said. And slaves, being powerless, do not dislike or despise their enemies, they hate and resent and envy: they have no emotional distance, but succumb to these gnawing emotions and brood upon them. This was a major element in the formation of Jewish character: hundreds of years of suffering, slavery, and brooding upon revenge. The vicious character thus evolved led to their diaspora experiences: sooner or later they make themselves so unpleasant to the host nation that they are forcibly evicted or slaughtered. There is no exception to this rule. Dozens of very different nations have expelled them for much the same set of reasons. Perhaps, though, America is someway unique and never will expel them.


America was founded by the Puritans, a cult that pointedly sought to be more Jewish than the Jews, a cult that slowly evolved into Transcendentalists, then Abolitionists, then Progressives, then Socialist Progressives, then Cultural Marxists--each iteration of idealism more insane than its predecessor and the last, the Cultural Marxists, a finale that merges the last-gasp, doom-eager insanity of WASP culture with the shrewd and sharkish, reflexively overreaching, ever-insecure and ever-aggressive culture of the diaspora Jews. So, while we have on the one hand in Israel an ethno-religious capitalistic state with a reasonably healthy culture (meaning a culture that plans to survive, that sees a future for itself)--on the other hand we have the Western nations who are, with Jewish money and propaganda urging them on, destroying their ethnic foundations, surrendering their religions, suffocating their economies. Hypocrite is not a sufficient term for this contrast: I prefer predator. Those who, in the past, called them parasites had a point, but they underestimated the slave-bred malice and the brain-bred power they wield. America, then, has the same sorts of reasons that the expelling nations have always had; but America, when the Jews arrived en masse, had a severely compromised immune system, soft from a century of geopolitical safety and from incubating the idealistic madnesses to which such a strange safety had led. Instead of expelling the intruder, America, the power of the world, transported a still more virulent, but closely related intruder to its susceptible allies in Western Europe, Canada, Australia. The successful Jewish invasion of America foreordained The Fall of the West.



By the way, America and Europe both give the wrong answer to the question: Israelis or Arabs? The right answer is neither. Let them shift for themselves. The Christian world was denuded of its tribes by the Christian churches a thousand years ago. What have we to do with tribal warfare?