The Cost of Progress

http://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/bullied-and-badgered-pressured-and-purged/#comment-4454

"Handle" is one of the active neo-reactionaries, well-versed in our political realities, a frequent commenter on some of the main right-thinking blogs. He conceived the excellent idea of documenting the course of the Leftist purges in the Western world. The chronological presentation of so many examples, high and low, may produce a more comprehensive understanding of the pace and scope of this phenomenon. The early years are thinly covered here, starting with Birch Society co-founder Revilo Oliver, with whom the craven Buckley broke ties in the late 50s--and running through, to note my sense of the highlights, Enoch Powell, Arthur Jensen, Richard Herrnstein, Pat Buchanan, Joe Sobran, Peter Brimelow, Larry Summers, Larry Auster, James Watson, Lou Dobbs, John Derbyshire, Ron Unz, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Charles Murray, Donald Sterling, Paul Weston, Condoleeza Rice. But have these sacrifices done more than whet the appetite of this amorphous alliance or merely prompted further predations?

American Jews and Israel

I've noticed some complaints recently among Zionists that Israel's military actions are held to a much higher standard in the press than are those of its neighbors. But I do not perceive anti-Semitism here, at least in the American media. It is anti-Israel because the all-knowing American Jews who run "our" media consider Israel insufficiently progressive, especially since Israel gave up the dream of Jewish communism 25 years ago. Obviously, American Jews avail themselves of the luxury of neglecting the real issue of whether a highly progressive Israel would end up with any Jews in it. That's beside the point. Also beside the point, as they well know, is their propaganda on this issue: the Israelis ignore it, meaning our Jews can have their cake and eat it--blabbing their usual prog-blab, while Israel goes on being Jewish and sufficiently reactionary to survive.

I am mighty suspicious whenever I see the anti-Semitic claim spouted in the media. It's just one of those words used by the leftist elite to control thought. Outside the Muslim world, its use is generally unjustified. The Jews have worked incessantly for over a century to ensure that they can criticize everyone else, while any criticism of the Jews is defined as anti-Semitism, the unholiest of sins. Yet, there is no special reason to trust them, and when one is shot at, the only sane response is to shoot back. This is an inward-looking, narcissistic tribe hardly free of certain manipulative, malicious tendencies--and, at this advanced stage of history, America is virtually the only country naïve enough to play host to them in effective numbers.


I was just thinking recently whether it's a coincidence only that the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution all successively occurred--mainly in Italy, France, England, Holland--with so little apparent Jewish involvement. England had almost no Jews during the crucial years, France very few. In Italy and Holland they had little political power. And, in any event, each of these unique developments in world history were accomplished largely without the assistance of Jewish talent. When the Jews came on the intellectual scene in the nineteenth century they immediately began to politicize every field susceptible to politicization, which is almost all of them. Many intellectual fields were thereby destroyed--anthropology, for example, now a sub-field of Marxist studies. Despite their superior talents in many mental pursuits, there's no evidence that any field of legitimate inquiry would have stagnated without their involvement. Slowed, yes, but not stopped. There is every evidence, however, that many fields which now lie in ruins and remain guarded against any revival to this day by these same ruiners, would be much more functional without Jewish involvement.

Only the Jews in Israel are in process of recovering a healthy human perspective. American Jews, still exiles, remain stubbornly unhealthy by continuing the tradition of exiled Jews: through talent, tribalism, and deception they achieve a position of socio-economic superiority over the native population, then use their position to their own benefit, whilst smothering and discouraging native talent. In Israel, only talent avails. Deception, deemed a necessary evil by exiles, is discarded there, since power and responsibility, never united in exile, finally find each other. The exiles often possess power, but never feel responsibility--it is not their homeland after all--and many forswear any homeland, eternal exiles. It may even be that the American Jews now wield such power and sense so little responsibility, that they are, as an incidental effect, destroying themselves, losing tribal coherence, declining in numbers and quality. All around, it's a bad dynamic, not only in their radiating destructive tendencies, and the misapplication of their talents, but in the prospective loss of Ashkenazi talents through internal collapse.

The Rotten Core of Modern Leftism

 http://www.unz.com/isteve/slavoj-zizek-on-kevin-macdonalds-culture-of-critique/

Zizek is one of the prime exhibits for the hollowness of modern leftism: a clever clown praised extravagantly by Leftist propaganda organs, hoisted up as the philosopher par excellence of his generation. But, Sailer's right: Zizek offers here a summary of The Culture of Critique probably more clearly written than anything else I've seen from his hand. If I were McDonald, I'd use it as a blurb on the book's back cover.

This book, despite its flaws, offers up some crucial historical analysis not elsewhere to be found. It competently investigates major socio-political phenomena, and it fights free of the censorship and abuse inflicted in America upon all criticisms of the Jews. Its two main flaws are the dubiousness of its guiding theory of group evolutionary strategy as the prime motivator of the Jewish assault on Western culture and its relative underweighting of the powerful groundwork for such destruction which had previously been laid by such thinkers as Machiavelli, Hume, Rousseau, Voltaire, Paine, Bentham, Nietzsche. If the evolutionary theory were subtracted and more intellectual context added, I would have little to say against the book. Its most important aspects demonstrate the high degree of Jewish involvement in many destructive trends in the West and how the Jews may have or did interpret the destruction as beneficial to themselves. Per Derbyshire's review: the book focuses on "six distinct intellectual and political phenomena: the anti-Darwinian movement in the social sciences (most particularly the no-such-thing-as-race school of anthropology associated with Franz Boas), the prominence of Jews in left-wing politics, the psychoanalytic movement, the Frankfurt School of social science (which sought to explain social problems in terms of individual psychopathology), the "New York intellectuals" centered on Partisan Review during the 1940s and 1950s, and Jewish involvement in shaping U.S. immigration policy." All of these Jew-dominated phenomena were fundamentally damaging to American and Western traditions and cultural coherence. And more examples could readily be added (Hollywood, in particular, ought to be added--the pornography industry--America's Israel-warped foreign policy).

Given their immense success in America, the Jews ought to be held to a higher standard of decency than the majority--instead, the "chosen people," who ironically are much more atavistic and racially conscious than the Gentiles, hide and lie and censor and shamelessly persist in self-serving attacks. They use their immense success to ensure that no one has the power to measure the Jews by any standards. The Jews have become the arbiters of moral standards, and grant themselves flagrant exemption from moral judgment by any exogenous, any non-Jewish force. I do not condemn them as a monolithic tribe of traitors and subversives, since they have contributed uncounted victories to science, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, economics, technology, aesthetic pursuits, and other fields. And many believe their efforts constitute universal wisdom. Nor, per Moldbug, do their efforts easily disentangle from America's homegrown Super-Protestantism/Ultra-Calvinism/Univeralism tradition. Also, in either an American or a global accounting, these Jewish assaults arose almost exclusively from the Ashkenazi Jews, not the Sephardi or Mizrahi contingents. Indeed, the latter groups were drawn into the Zionist project mainly by Ashkenazis, and found themselves expelled from Muslim nations in its wake. Yet, a list of nations in which Jews once resided, now absent Jews, might instructively be compared to a list of nations in which they currently reside. The former list is much longer than the latter--and for good reason. A good reason which also explains why these lands of Europe and North Africa and the Middle East, despite the known talents of the Jews, are not to be seen competing with each other for Jewish immigrants. But, America, a nation never in serious geopolitical jeopardy, a nation whose survival instincts are much dulled through a long and easy sojourn in safety, in short, a comparatively innocent land, America is the richest opportunity the Jews have ever met with, nor have they hesitated to attack her on all fronts and to cut out the largest pieces of pie they could manage. But, even America, someday, will lose her innocence and take measures against this predation, just as other former hosts of the Jews have done in their time.

The Last Man

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex?commentpage=1

If we shipped 10 million blacks over there, some vigor might just return as they responded to the threat of violence and miscegenation. This is perhaps the only possible positive effect of Europe's importation of blacks/Muslims--threat to survival causing reinvigoration of the thin-blooded natives. Of course, they might collapse and surrender instead. It's a risk.

The Observable Musical Universe

Every Noise at Once

On the White Man and the Injuns

Benjamin Franklin talked about this. “When an Indian Child has been brought up among us, taught our language and habituated to our Customs, yet if he goes to see his relations and makes one Indian Ramble with them, there is no perswading him ever to return. [But] when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by the Indians, and lived a while among them, tho’ ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail with them to stay among the English, yet in a Short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it, and take the first good Opportunity of escaping again into the Woods, from whence there is no reclaiming them.”


Ben Franklin: The Indian Men when young are Hunters and Warriors; when old, Counsellors; for all their Government is by Counsel of the Sages; there is no Force there are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment.—Hence they generally study Oratory; the best Speaker having the most Influence. The Indian Women till the Ground, dress the Food, nurse and bring up the Children, & preserve & hand down to Posterity the Memory of public Transactions. These Employments of Men and Women are accounted natural & honorable, Having few artificial Wants, they have abundance of Leisure for Improvement by Conversation. Our laborious Manner of Life compar’d with theirs, they esteem slavish & base; and the Learning on which we value ourselves, they regard as frivolous & useless. An Instance of this occurr’d at the Treaty of Lancaster in Pensilvania, anno 1744, between the Government of Virginia and the Six Nations. After the principal Business was settled, the Commissioners from Virginia acquainted the Indians by a Speech, that there was at Williamsburg a College, with a Fund for Educating Indian youth; and that if the Six Nations would send down half a dozen of their young Lads to that College, the Government would take Care that they should be well provided for, and instructed in all the Learning of the White People...their Speaker began by expressing their deep Sense of the Kindness of the Virginia Government in making them that Offer, for we know, says he, that you highly esteem the kind of Learning taught in those Colleges, and that the Maintenance of our young Men while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinc’d therefore that you mean to do us Good by your Proposal, and we thank you heartily. But you who are wise must know, that different Nations have different Conceptions of Things, and you will therefore not take it amiss if our Ideas of this kind of Education happen not to be the same with yours. We have had some Experience of it: Several of our young People were formerly brought up at the Colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences; but when they came back to us they were bad Runners ignorant of every means of living in the Woods, unable to bear either Cold or Hunger, knew neither how to build a Cabin, take a Deer or kill an Enemy, spoke our Language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for Hunters Warriors, or Counsellors, they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the less oblig’d by your kind Offer tho’ we decline accepting it; and to show our grateful Sense of it, if the Gentlemen of Virginia will send us a Dozen of their Sons, we will take great Care of their Education, instruct them in all we know, and make Men of them.


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On 1984 and Brave New World

 "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one." - Neil Postman

The witch hunters are banning books; a drugged-up, hyper-entertained Idiocracy will render them unwanted.

A Nice Takedown

http://takimag.com/article/the_solipsism_of_john_edgar_wideman/print#axzz31O0o0ueE
Of course, Obama was in the same line of work as this professional whiner. It suited him.

An especially good line: "The unexamined life is, we are told, not worth living. If, like Mr. Wideman, you are one of modern liberalism’s pampered pets with a plush affirmative-action sinecure teaching a made-up pseudo-discipline so that some university can darken up its brochures to the degree required by federal regs, the over-examined life is worth a neat 200 grand a year, plus tenure."

On Leftist Socio-Moral Incenctives

 http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/the-economics-of-political-correctness

This is rather an old notion on the Right: Leftism is driven largely by social status competition among its leaders, success being determined by achieved and sustained moral superiority. The moral nirvana toward which they strive is to out-Christian Jesus and out-communize Marx. The internal logic of Leftism drives it toward total insanity (for example, Mao's Cultural Revolution). Some Rightists have dubbed the culmination of this process the Left Singularity.

Jim has done considerable analysis of this crucial phenomenon: http://blog.jim.com/tag/left-singularity

Surrealism

 http://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/04/obama-nsa-to-refocus-away-from.html

Also special: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/traditional-college-debate-white-privilege/360746/
A development like this marks a small decline in civilization itself. A running tally of such declines, which in these days come ever thicker and faster, would be instructive, I've no doubt. Those who think the utter dominance of Leftism in American discourse is a mere nuisance do not understand how culture evolves. The resentful hordes and the egalitarians, two mainly separate groups, are religious fanatics in action. Inferior people and groups are naturally resentful--what has changed is the increasing unwillingness of the naturally superior to defend their privileges--because the superior have mostly succumbed to the ideology of egalitarianism.

But, there is no equality either between individuals or between groups. Even the ancient philosophers knew that the only way to approach human equality is to level down. Considering just how far down certain groups are, that way lies civilizational collapse. Black Africa has never manifested the capacity for civilization; neither has Black America nor the Black Caribbean. Native Americans (including Mestizos) have demonstrated very little capacity for civilization. Neither race knows what achievements of civilizational consequence are. Neither race has ever produced a significant philosopher, theologian, prophet, composer, painter, architect, novelist, poet, playwright, inventor, scientist, engineer, mathematician, general, king, president, explorer. Not even one. Consider that the wheel had to be brought to them--neither of these peoples invented it themselves, no one in all the vastness of the Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa could conceive it, though Asia and Europe had had it for at least 5,000 years. Both the climate and the presence of civilization alter human evolutionary paths--and in both respects aboriginal Americans and Blacks are disadvantaged. Their lack of any meaningful achievements as peoples is unsurprising: consider how far they lag Europeans and East Asians in evolutionary adaptation to the requirements and the opportunities of civilization. I do not believe America can survive intact the psychological and ethnic shift currently underway toward Mestizos and Blacks. Technology and democracy-limiting political structures (such as we have already in abundance) might well suffice to contain effects of the ethnic decline. But, the psychological side of the game, political correctness (egalitarianism interpreted resentfully), assures ruin.