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2005-04-26 04:31 | User Profile
Note to all high skool & college drones: Use the information in this article at your own risk!
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Democracy, Birds, And Snails
Oh...Hell
April 7, 2005
I wonder whether liberal democracies do not follow an ordained trajectory into the muck, ripening like fruits, having their arteries harden, and falling, plop, to be eaten by birds and snails. (That was a two-animal medico-vegetative ballistic metaphor, not so much mixed as homogenized, almost colloidal. Patent applied for.) I note that the English-speaking countries are doing to themselves exactly what the United States is doing, and the Europeans, though better educated and more cultivated, follow. Maybe there is a pattern.
Now, any time I refer to the United States as a democracy, I get mail, from people vaguely remembering high-school civics, who tell me that the US is not a democracy but a constitutional republic. In fact it is neither. A democracy is of course any governmental system in which ultimate power rests with the people; direct democracies, parliamentary democracies, and constitutional republics are all examples of democracy. In America, the people are nearly powerless, in large part without knowing it. The trick has been done by giving them furiously fought elections that donââ¬â¢t mean anything. This distracts them and gives them a sense of participation, while maintaining their proper role as consumers.
The United States is not the country it thinks it is. It moves fast toward a curious comfortable despotism. This is of course precisely what people want. A few observations:
America does not have a free press. The media are big business and speak for those who own big business. They lie and distort and always have. Now, however, they all lie and distort identically; here is the rub. Their function is to herd the sheep. The public knows only what it is allowed to know, except for the tiny few who go to the internet. ââ¬ÅPolitical correctnessââ¬Â is not an annoying fad. It is a deadly serious means of preventing public discussion of things that those in power do not want discussed (for example, race, affirmative action, illegal immigration.)
In the words of the great political philosopher Fredwitz, democracy is communism continued by other means. Pretty much, anyway.
Though it may run counter to intuition, the press itself has little interest in freedom of the press; this is why freedom is so easily denied. Journalism is first a job. It is second a job with rich perquisites: A reporter travels abroad, attends exciting events, enjoys privileges unheard of among mere citizenry. Itââ¬â¢s a racket. Only a cantankerous few would risk these wonders for the sake of telling the truth. They are soon weeded out.
The will of the people? Hardly. Americans do not determine any policy that matters. (E.g., regarding race, affirmativeââ¬Â¦.) The techniques for guaranteeing an unnoticed helplessness are simple but brilliant. First, people are never permitted to vote for policies, but an only for one of two essentially identical presidential candidates who prate identically about Getting the Country Moving, and No Child Left Behind. The results determine not policy but patronage. Second, power is concentrated in remote anonymous bureaucracies, rendering policy impervious to attack. Third, there is the federal tactic of taxing the states and returning the money in exchange for obedience.
The people do not rule. Nor do they have freedoms inconvenient to the government. But then, they do not want freedom.
We are seeing I think that letting people govern themselves doesnââ¬â¢t work. I donââ¬â¢t say that it is undesirable, but merely impractical. (Letting them think they have power, however, is splendidly sensible, as it keeps them quiescent.) More succinctly, democracies arenââ¬â¢t stable. They tend toward well-fed dictatorship. Why? Because the bright, grasping, and conscienceless inevitably rise.
The people lack the intelligence to govern any entity larger than a very small town. Particularly in the United States they read little, think less, know almost nothing of history, geography, the nature and politics of the world beyond the borders. They are thus easily swayed, frightened, enraged, gulled, and led into dog-pack patriotism by those, far smarter and more aware, who understand the levers of power. They so quickly give up liberty to those who offer to protect them. They are eager to do it. Look around you.
I have seen it said that the national character of the United States safeguards the country against despotism. I doubt it. National character may exist at a given moment, but it is easily changed. A spirit of hardy independence, of ââ¬ÅDonââ¬â¢t Tread On Meââ¬Â and so on, cannot outlive the independence itself. America is no longer a nation of rifle-toting frontiersmen or self-sufficient farmers. It is a nation of employees. On average they are heavily indebted, imprisoned by the retirement system, unable to farm, fish, hunt, defend themselves, change their spark plugs or build a shelter. They cannot live without the state, which leavesââ¬Â¦who in charge?
A curious phenomenon, of uncertain provenance though I have heard many theories, is the national promotion of psychic weakness as a virtue. Some of it surpasses parody. I see that teachers are eliminating red pencils for grading papers because the violence of the color might shock the sensibilities of the students. There is much of this. Presumably the effect, and perhaps the intention, is a cowering race of pitiable and self-pitying weaklings unable to withstand, well, much of anything. A red pencil, for example. Dreadful things, those pencils.
People want neither freedom nor democracy. They want a soothing mother domestically and an outlet, preferably overseas, for anger.
While political democracy does not exist, cultural democracy does. It can exist because it does not threaten those who govern. The common run of humanity has no interest in learning anything or in any sort of intellectual betterment. They resent anything they see as indicating superiority in others, though, and want assurance that, as kids used to say in Alabama, ââ¬Åyou ainââ¬â¢t no gooderââ¬â¢n me.ââ¬Â The degradation of the schools serves to eliminate obvious distinction, improve docility, avoid unwanted study, and make people consumers of witless amusement provided from above, as for example terrible music and awful movies.
All of the foregoing I believe serve to make the public a somnolent mass paying taxes, buying things, and directing little attention to larger matters. The only freedoms most want are the freedom to drive nice cars, watch 300 channels on the cable, drink beer, and take an occasional vacation. Freedom matters to intellectuals. For most, prosperity suffices.
A friend recently returned from China and told me, ââ¬ÅAs long as you donââ¬â¢t screw with the government, it doesnââ¬â¢t screw with you. Itââ¬â¢s not Burundi. I hate the bastards, but the economy is getting better and people go along. It could be lots worse.ââ¬Â
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2005-04-26 13:13 | User Profile
Yup, that's right.
2005-04-26 13:52 | User Profile
That essay is unfortunately right on target.
What's the long-term answer? I don't know -- there may not even be one. But there's something that every single person can resolve to do, and that's adopt, cultivate, and maintain the attitude of a free man. Walter's signature expresses it very well, in fact:
"They can jail us. They can shoot us. They can even conscript us. They can use us as cannon fodder in the Somme. But we have a weapon more powerful than any in the whole arsenal of the British Empire and that weapon is our refusal. Our refusal to bow to any order but our own, any institution but our own."
Michael Collins
A free man recognizes no master but himself. If he's religious then he can have his God as his master, but no one else. Give no mortal man your unquestioning obedience. Follow the laws if they make sense to you, since it's generally easier to go along to get along, but the final authority on whether or not you comply must be yours. Be armed to the teeth, and prefer to die fighting against even the entire world rather than meekly submit to any odious law. This might seem like an extreme mindset, but to adopt anything less is to submit to slavery. Even a well-treated slave is still a slave. Freedom isn't something you ask for; it's something you take by yourself.
Does that all sound clichéd? Probably. But it's true nonetheless. Anyone who doesn't own such an attitude isn't worthy of it.
2005-04-26 17:59 | User Profile
As far as concrete actions, I think that we need to take our "refusal" as far as we can:
Be white, Christian and English-speaking without apology. Read Shakespeare. Marry white. Surround yourself with white friends. To the extent possible without doing yourself irreparable social damage, associate only with whites. Live in the whitest area you can.
Have kids. The Regime doesn't want you to have kids, and really hates it when you do. Every white kid you have is a finger in the eye of the Regime. Stick it to them good. If at all possible, give your kids a fulltime mom.
Homeschool, if at all possible. If not, get your kids into schools that teach your religion without apology (a tough one for us Catholics). In general, Do as Yggdrasil says and check out culturally as much as possible, taking control over what we watch and who we pay for content.
Get as educated as you can and earn as much money as you can. Go as "high and inside" the power structure that you can without losing your soul. Use your wealth, power and position to network with likeminded whites, and to promote likeminded whites. The pipeline Patrick Henry College has into the CIA, FBI, military and other services is a very, very encouraging sign. Remember Stalin's slogan (the one he used to purge the Jews) "The Cadres Determine Everything." The question is not whether we'll have an army or a CIA, the question is who will control those institutions. They need to belong to us again. We need to be high and inside. We need to chair every meeting of every power institution. We need to infiltrate and subvert the Kosher Regime just like the Koshers subverted the WASP regime and turned it to their own purposes.
If possible, even better than #4, start your own business and hire family and other whites. Get stinking rich and tithe to your church or other institution that believes in the Founders' vision of a white, Christian and English-speaking America. Be a pillar of your community.
Get a place in the country and raise some of your own food. Buy a 20 gague pump shotgun and learn how to use it. Not that you have to live there (although that would be nice) but I think that we all need a place of refuge for when the CRUNCH hits.
Support political measures, even if they masquerade behind universalist slogans, that assist whites in checking out of the Regime's institutions. These include:
school vouchers for religious schools and I think also medical insurance. The entire educational establishment is firmly in the hands of our enemies, we must defund it, kill the bureaucracy and the teachers' unions. We must remove all direct state funding to all institutions of higher learning, and put the money directly in the hands of students or their guardians. This would be a devastating blow against the Jews and their allies.
-Resist things like the income tax that tax white earners and transfer their wealth to blacks, browns and Jews for their wars. Work instead for consumption taxes that give Christian homeschool families the right to control how much tax they'll pay by choosing to change their consumption patters. -
-Support guys like Tancredo and the Minutemen. Subvert the Republican Party, taking it over one precinct at a time.
Be kind to a fault to your own, be a cynical, grasping prick to all outsiders.
That's the Walter Yannis Program for Racial Survival!
Of all the above, I only approach perfection on #8.
2005-04-27 04:19 | User Profile
"Democracy" = Blacks, Mexicans, Jews, women and homosexuals voting and serving in public office.
2005-04-27 15:57 | User Profile
You are only a free man for as long as you do as they tell you and the way you can tell how free you are is by how much "privacy" you have.
"Now days all we have is the illusion of freedom for we no longer have privacy"... Ponce
2005-04-29 13:39 | User Profile
Walter, your "Manifesto for White People" should be required reading by all whites, every day!
How far we have strayed is evident by comparing any of the drivel from our present overseers such as "They hate us for our freedom", as compared to the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson:
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If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses;
And the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers;
And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...
And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
~Thomas Jefferson
2005-04-29 13:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]As far as concrete actions, I think that we need to take our "refusal" as far as we can:
Be white, Christian and English-speaking without apology. Read Shakespeare. Marry white. Surround yourself with white friends. To the extent possible without doing yourself irreparable social damage, associate only with whites. Live in the whitest area you can.
Have kids. The Regime doesn't want you to have kids, and really hates it when you do. Every white kid you have is a finger in the eye of the Regime. Stick it to them good. If at all possible, give your kids a fulltime mom.
Homeschool, if at all possible. If not, get your kids into schools that teach your religion without apology (a tough one for us Catholics). In general, Do as Yggdrasil says and check out culturally as much as possible, taking control over what we watch and who we pay for content.
Get as educated as you can and earn as much money as you can. Go as "high and inside" the power structure that you can without losing your soul. Use your wealth, power and position to network with likeminded whites, and to promote likeminded whites. The pipeline Patrick Henry College has into the CIA, FBI, military and other services is a very, very encouraging sign. Remember Stalin's slogan (the one he used to purge the Jews) "The Cadres Determine Everything." The question is not whether we'll have an army or a CIA, the question is who will control those institutions. They need to belong to us again. We need to be high and inside. We need to chair every meeting of every power institution. We need to infiltrate and subvert the Kosher Regime just like the Koshers subverted the WASP regime and turned it to their own purposes.
If possible, even better than #4, start your own business and hire family and other whites. Get stinking rich and tithe to your church or other institution that believes in the Founders' vision of a white, Christian and English-speaking America. Be a pillar of your community.
Get a place in the country and raise some of your own food. Buy a 20 gague pump shotgun and learn how to use it. Not that you have to live there (although that would be nice) but I think that we all need a place of refuge for when the CRUNCH hits.
Support political measures, even if they masquerade behind universalist slogans, that assist whites in checking out of the Regime's institutions. These include:
school vouchers for religious schools and I think also medical insurance. The entire educational establishment is firmly in the hands of our enemies, we must defund it, kill the bureaucracy and the teachers' unions. We must remove all direct state funding to all institutions of higher learning, and put the money directly in the hands of students or their guardians. This would be a devastating blow against the Jews and their allies. -Resist things like the income tax that tax white earners and transfer their wealth to blacks, browns and Jews for their wars. Work instead for consumption taxes that give Christian homeschool families the right to control how much tax they'll pay by choosing to change their consumption patters. - -Support guys like Tancredo and the Minutemen. Subvert the Republican Party, taking it over one precinct at a time.
Be kind to a fault to your own, be a cynical, grasping prick to all outsiders.
That's the Walter Yannis Program for Racial Survival!
Of all the above, I only approach perfection on #8.[/QUOTE][u][size=3]Excellent[/size][/u]!!!
Walter, I am impressed. This is a brilliant distillation of principles. This should be required reading. :thumbsup:
2005-04-29 14:29 | User Profile
All great stuff. :thumbsup:
2005-04-30 10:55 | User Profile
Thank you for you kind words, one and all.
Say, it occurs to me that maybe we could put together a statement of concrete actions we all agree on.
I'm open to suggestions.
2005-05-02 03:00 | User Profile
An interesting article from a WN point of view:
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