An Even Sprawlier Sprawl Than the Last Verbal Sprawl I Sprawled
White nationalism and white identity politics are natural reactions to the massive demographic and social changes of the last six decades. They are also deeply flawed in their analysis, or whether there is even a problem.
Let me say at the outset that not all white nationalists hold to the following sketch given here; the more thoughtful ones understand that the problem faced by the white peoples — total extinction or massive dimunition — has deeper roots in European and American history, evolutionary psychology and accidents of culture.
There is a middle brow meta-narrative however which most of the online proponents know by heart, a brief explanation for why the race is in the dumps.
It goes: European peoples build prosperous societies, Jews see the prosperity and move in, taking via machination and co-ethnic networking the resources accumulated. They are ancient people who have ancient books in which hostility towards “the nations” is preached as a key, fundamental precept of their survival. For this reason, the Jews have traditionally lived at the power centers of white societies. In the old days, it was Rome and Athens during the time of the Empire. When the Jews became overbearing, too powerful, white societies would organize and violently throw them out.
Yet, they always end up back at the center of things as white leaders relent, find themselves in a bind and in need of financing.
Donald Trump was on the favorable end of loans for his businesses over decades and well, our foreign policy looks the way it does because he owes. Bigly. Our lives, the lives of strangers, our treasure, their treasure – it's all part of the favors owed by The Donald to various and sundry business associates who happen to be Jewish. Whether this is true or not, it is clear that he owes at least the Adlesons since he has freely admitted this in a public statement made in recent days. So, no conspiracy theory there.
This schema is applied now to the current day situation, in which European peoples everywhere are in sharp decline in both numbers, social life and overall well being. White nationalists trot out the usual talking points — about how the Jews are ultra-powerful, able to debase the culture along with its currency, reducing everything they touch to a pale, servile imitation of something that was once grand. Jews overwhelmingly run pornography, including the prostitution site Only Fans. There is some insane number of young women who sell themselves on the Internet for a few dollars of income every month and the whole operation is run by just a few people who happen to be Jewish. Somehow, they infect the minds of everyone with all sorts of bad ideas which lead to bad behavior.
Pretty much everything whites suffer could be addressed, even solved, if Jewish power were reduced via laws, forced repatriation and so on. Whites would be able to reclaim their culture, revisit and revise its own historical memory, recreate a new grand meta-narrative worthy of earlier phases in Western civilization.
This is the front porch narrative about our problems, their causes and eventual remediation. It's the brochure a lot of people pick up now at the front door as they watch their society crumble.
If you notice certain things about Jewish behavior, you are an anti-Semite; at this point, there is a lot of noticing going on. The poor ADL is working long nights and weekends issuing denunciations and fatwahs against the mounting number of influencers who are saying openly what they probably always knew but held close. There isn't a week that doesn't go by in which some gentile like Carlson or Bilzerian is given an anti-Semite of the Year award from one of the many millions of Jewish organizations organized for the betterment of Jews.
This noticing is across the spectrum.
Ana Kasparian, a woman definitely on the left, has recently made cheeky comments about the “goyim waking the fuck up” on her X account. She is saying what many non-Jewish liberals have said about Jews for years, but openly. Non-Jews are noticing. A lot. Sad Jewish violins from the Schindler's List movie don't suddenly start playing in the background on behalf of dead Palestinian kids.
I was surprised when I was much younger to learn just how aware liberals and leftists were of Jewish behavior, tactics and goals. There were sincere men of the left who had a concern for traditional issues related to the environment, worker well-being, fair distribution of wealth, peace and justice. These are all very worthy and serious concerns which have evaporated from public discussions and the folks I knew, would admit privately that they had misgivings about Jews as fellow travelers. Doubts in fact about their sincerity. Whatever causes they supported seem to be co-opted and rolled into something else less central to the concerns of true democrats.
Many parts of the world now are much more desirable as living spaces and these are not in white countries. We think here of southeast Asia, parts of Latin America and even Kenya, where Nairobi has become a destination for beleaguered Westerners who’ve grown quite tired of the negative psycho-sphere enveloping their home lands.
What we called “developing countries” are actually quite livable, quite pleasant, while traditionally white countries have continued a decades-long slide into ghetto. As in, America is pretty ghetto-looking to visitors here from other industrialized societies. One expat relative would always tell me how much more ghetto America is now than on her last visit, how in her travels, even the smaller countries she visits are so much more charming, so much more prosperous in intangible ways. America and its citizens aren't even really very prosperous. Many of us will be completely bankrupted by medical expenses as we head towards retirement, assuming that such a luxury awaits us. Consumer credit card debt has already guaranteed that millions of Americans will never have any savings.
In the old days, there was a blog called Stuff White People Liked that made fun of white quirks in matters of taste, in a sardonic way. If it were still around, one of the entries would be on non-white countries where enough white people haven't yet figured out it's more livable and flocked there. By livable, I do not mean "cheaper," but just a better, more human way of life. Better food, better conversation, more leisure, more sociability, walkable clean streets. These are the things white societies stopped producing long ago, becoming instead objects of fascination as unobtainium. Young whites with very little money will gladly risk it all to move to Vietnam to have a shot a livable life. They know the real risk to quality of life is remaining in a nominally white country.
The thesis that Jews are the root cause of the current decline is a kind of front porch, outer party take on our predicament. There is a lot of truth to it as well: We in the U.S. are fully committed to carrying out yet another Near Eastern war against Iran at the behest of Israel. In several decades as an adult, almost all of those years have been filled up with wars in the Near East (I group Afghanistan here). Wars America doesn't need, never end and will eventually cause us ruin if it hasn't already. Iran may be the rock upon on which the empire is dashed to pieces.
Donald Kagan, husband of Victoria Nuland, whom we've celebrated here on the Tangle for her warpiggery, has admitted in a recent piece for the The Atlantic that The Donald just screwed the pooch with Iran. The prospects for an American win are slim and none. Iran is in the driver's seat. It's never a good sign when the Jewish neocon head nigger-in-charge of the war propaganda thought-web calls you out as having lost militarily to Iran.
Is this a conspiracy theory, that American foreign policy is driven by Israel, at least when it comes to the Near East? Not really. The Secretary of State point blank affirmed this to be the case during a presser and by now, everyone — everyone — across the political spectrum is saying openly what I and a few others knew decades ago: Israel runs U.S. foreign policy in the Near East. Congressmen are talking about it along with respected academics, experts and influencers.
The comedian Tim Dillon said in his interview with Tucker Carlson that at the end of a society, people get to say what they want. We are there now, able to speak more truthfully because it doesn't matter. It's over. Even white goyisch liberals are now able to finally vent on the damage that's been done by Israel to their own pet causes. Jimmy Dore is a good example. Like many, he still threads the needle between the Jews and the Israelis, but from time to time, he slips up and recognizes that one isn't all that different from the other.
The State Department as Israeli-occupied territory was a fringe theory, but now, we openly discuss it because it can no longer be ignored. There is absolutely no threat posed by Iran to the U.S. as Joe Kent, a senior DNI official, revealed recently in his resignation letter and then reaffirmed in follow up interviews. Men like Mearsheimer, a Jewish intellectual, have been vindicated along with Norman Finkelstein, the child of Holocaust survivors. Remove Israel as a nation from the last 80 years, there is no non-stop military intervention by America in the Near East, no destabilizing conflicts which causes energy shocks, mass refugee dispersions into Europe.
Lost in the Jewish question, and one of the poisons of anti-Semitism, is that disliking or hating any group of people qua people is aversion. Aversion pollutes the heart, leaves it vulnerable to other pains, other grief. Does this mean for the lay practitioner that one becomes willfully blind however to patterns of abuse and exploitation? To be honest, I don't have a good answer. Does noticing lead to the alleviation of suffering? Or does it cause more of the same? Life is filled with injustices, slights and stupidities, but we deem some worth speaking against because they are so egregious. Using U.S. military hardware, intelligence and logistics to murder women, children and the elderly in the tens of thousands seems a bridge too far.
Will we see another round of kinetic anti-Semitism as the West disintegrates, goes to its final break up? Everyone is harmed by it and it will be fueled by noticers who've upgraded to something more demonstrative in the public space. And it won't change anything about the outcome anyway. Demographically, the true sons and daughters of the West are aging white people, mostly childless, vaccinated, and not in the best physical or mental health. The end of an empire seems to invite the settling of scores. Tim Dillon's "we can finally say what we really think" gives way to more visceral, hateful actions, but there's not much energy left. It's not to be praised, desired or tolerated. The cycle of violence only engenders more of the same in the future. Russians and Ukrainians will never be friends, never be able to get past the loss of 1.5 million people caused by their five year conflict.
Samsara is a big circle we each wander through over and over again. Human societies are circular as well, having a beginning, end and middle which seem predetermined to follow certain paths.
One of the things I admire about the Catholic Church is its rich body of social teachings. These are incredibly well thought out, very sensitive to the practical and theoretical constraints of establishing something like a just social order, where social classes live in harmony. When men and women are complementary, they thrive as a couple. Societies by analogy do the same, when the natural hierarchy is ordered to the general well being of everyone. It is not the rapine of capitalism, or the grossly obscene wealth inequality and power clutching of today's ever thirsty oligarchy. The old Catholic Church was solidly on the side of labor and the common good. There was no need for private wealth and labor to have an adversarial relationship.
We long for the days when a natural aristocrat would sweat in the fields with his people, would bleed with them in battle, fight for their well being in politics. This is the brahmin of the West: a lord of men who is the servant of his brothers first. It's an ideal that moves the heart, especially in a day when we've no inspiration from our leaders. One of the signs of a society in late decline is the inability to produce leaders at any level of society, in any area of human concern, from business, to the arts and academe, to politics. There are no leaders to be found in our elaborate and richly appointed social hierarchies.
Buddhism in contrast has very little to say about the social order. If you see an injustice, you can follow the Buddha's example and call it out. Brahmin is what Brahmin does, not what he's born as. The Lord saw his previous lives, from the very highest to lowest states. Did it make him indifferent to the condition of those around him in ancient India? Was his answer to say, "Seek enlightenment, skip the life of the householder?" Not as I read the texts. Householders were essential to his mission and to borrow from Jesus, the householder you will always have with you. The Buddha always had time to critique the social order he lived under, but he did not have the social justice mindset of his later followers and many modern Christian leaders.
I preach suffering and the end of suffering.
The end of suffering is not to be found in a voting booth or in charging the barricades. Still, one must say something when he sees an injustice, but don't let this become the energy of a new fake dhamma. That's not the dhamma, not to any degree whatsoever. It's the counterfeit of social justice adopted by many religious bodies now.
Refining a little more on the Buddha and social questions: In the Pali texts, we would have to say no since he still denounced the caste system, its abuses of the so-called inferior peoples. His sangha radically embraced the outcasts: liberation was something to be tasted here and now. Are the Gazans huddled in tents right now not the outcasts of Israeli society, indigenous people made aliens in their own ancestral lands? Are indigenous whites not experiencing alienation in their own lands as well?
But the Buddha's withering critiques did not lead to a body of writings, a social compendium on the felicitous organization of society. Is that a weakness? I honestly cannot say because the Buddhist countries we have in southeast Asia are reportedly happier, friendlier and more compassionate than today's modern Western counterpart. Does writing something down on a topic as slippery as the just society lead to a proliferation of laws, bureaucracies and authoritarian structures; artifacts which hinder the goal, as has happened with the so-called social systems of the West?
The West is absurd on so many levels, none more so than in its production of laws, regulations, rules, procedures, etc. Have all these made us a more just or happier as a society?
In other words, should Buddhism in its practice lead to a lot of writing and verbalizing on the themes of the just social order, or does it just do it, like the old Nike ad campaign?
Trump is George W. Bush. In every important matter, his policies have been a continuation of his Republican presidential predecessor.
WMDs about to be used against the U.S., ergo, let’s attack first? Check.
Guest worker visas doled out plentifully? Check.
Massive budgets for the military industrial complex? Check.
Massive tax cuts for the wealthy in the form of reduced corporate taxes? Check.
Today, with the Strait of Hormuz effectively blocked to most shipping traffic, the rest of the planet faces a very dire future as high energy prices lead to more inflation, increased poverty, and even famine. All agricultural goods throughout the world require cheap petroleum energy for fertilizer and food transportation. Trump’s decision to start a suicidal war with Iran, in total contradiction to his many promises over the years, reveal that he is owned and operated by his biggest financial backer, the Jewish Zionist Miriam Adelson. Of lesser benefit to himself is the cessation of all talk of Jeffrey Epstein, even in alternative media. One day there was a lot of noticing of Epstein, then it was gone as the first bombs fell on Minab and other parts of Iran.
It was revealed online that one of Epstein's emails said that, if Trump ever got cornered, he would start a conflict with Iran. "Cornered rat" was used by Epstein to describe the Oval Office's current occupant.
The problem with the exoteric white identity view of Jews is that, like all narratives about racial victimization and abuse, it conveniently removes agency from the victimized.
In the white vs. black variant, the latter are eternal victims, unable to get ahead because of white society and its racial prejudices. America is today barely a plurality of whites, with at least 40% of the population being of some other race as immigration has steadily replaced the native born. A very large percentage of so-called Americans were born in another country, or are the first generation children of immigrants, whether legal or illegal. If the white man is keeping blacks down, then they have a lot of new allies in the project in the form of brown people, who rank as top earners, most likely to succeed in business, etc. When we look at many of the top tech companies, we see Indians and East Asian CEOs.
The white supremacy model of the left is a weird ideology since on the one hand, it claims the right to do everything in the interests of whites, yet is helpless to stop the flood of immigrants who will eventually drown out whites in their own homelands.
A social commentator put it succinctly:
Humans are mammals. That so many of us now don't reproduce is a testament to just how crazy modern society is, that it can completely thwart the most primal mammalian instinct: to mate and educate offspring for the continuation of our kind.
This sounds like a cope to me, but sex and reproduction are probably the center of egoic identity. I will write more about this later in a separate post.
Of course, if you listen to or read white leftist literature on the topic, you will learn that the browns have imbibed deeply from the prevailing white American customs and are therefore, yes, actively helping to keep the black man down. This is how non-agency works and it’s how it works with exoteric white identity politics as well. You are always the victim, helpless to improve your own situation. Your people bleed endlessly, both literally and figuratively, in Near Eastern wars for Israel – and will continue to do so until the empire is spent. You have no agency, you are powerless to resist the Israel lobby. Let's have another beer, maybe grill some steaks, watch the game and wish Johnny well as he heads off to bootcamp.
Church attendance is way, way down and we learned recently that the white evangelical is now an even smaller minority in our big, vibrant, diverse America. His deep faith in Yahweh was the linchpin of military service on behalf of Israel. The New Americans find this fascination with Yahweh to be quite odd and they just don't get all excited about the construction of a new temple in Jerusalem to start the final run toward the End of All Things.
Evangelical Christianity was the fuel of American passion and devotion to Israel – and the demographic basis for it is rapidly dwindling. Like most white people, the evangelicals are having issues producing more of themselves to keep parity with the flood of legal and illegal immigrants reaching our shores. These are the battered, abused animals so demoralized they can't or won't reproduce. If Peggy stays home and raises the kids and Stan tries to keep it all going on one salary, that means fewer tax dollars to help out Yahweh and his children.
"I will bless those who bless you..."
Yahweh's blessings consist of declining birth rates, widespread mental illness, lowered standards of living, the highest suicide rate in American history over the last few decades, lots of wars and a public debt that, despite what economists say, does matter and will continue to drive the U.S. into the dirt. The evangelicals I know always say (ALWAYS), "But things would be so much worse if we hadn't supported God's Chosen People all these years..."
This is the power of faith.
"The Mossad made me launch the Tomahawk missile that slammed into the school in Minab! I didn't want to kill those 170 little girls! Really!"
Wise Harold said:
"We are jammed tight here in this pickle jar, Johnny my boy, because of the Jew! If we can just get organized, wake our people up, we can resist his predations and get back to a nice, safe, prosperous society! Always name the Jew!"
Still, the white man sleeps.
Are white nationalists scapegoating Jews, to sweep away the massive case of anhedonia which has plagued the West for many decades? Have you ever tried to watch white people organize or do anything small scale, of low impact? They don't even bother and if they do, it quickly turns into the pettifogging of status conscious morons.
Looking at the picture by the numbers, things present a little differently. The West is synonymous with white people and it is a product of their genius and their many weaknesses. To say, they have home turf advantage and responsibility for their own destiny.
It's irrational to say that millions of Americans of European descent cannot organize and peacefully end the Israeli control of American foreign policy, build a new social contract, end gross wealth disparity, end immigration and begin the process of repatriation.
AIPAC? Register as a foreign influencer.
Media? Report explicitly on Jewish groups and their pressure tactics aimed at impoverishing Americans and killing foreign peoples. Report on the lies of WMDs. There are good Jewish folks out there who would love to see the Zionist ideology weakened and ended.
Teachers? Remind your classes that America has a history of exploiting and killing other people, of stealing resources that don't belong to it for the sake of enriching the already absurdly wealth. Show how this rapacity links to modern conflicts in Russia and Iran. Teach your children well, as the CSN song goes.
It's the ugly paradox, the need to break the cycle when the cycle is baked into the fabric of reality. Anhedonia has gripped the Western man for so long that he becomes a portrait study in what spiritual slumber looks like, how it keeps beings ensnared in the same dull, endless loop.
Recently, we've heard more and more stories about how Iran was just weeks away from launching attacks against Americans. A nation which has been heavily sanctioned for decades is, we are told by Trump and his cabinet, is led by a pack of mad dogs, driven by religious zealotry to hire assassins to kill a sitting president and then attack civilian sites with nuclear weapons.
All of this came out of nowhere three or four weeks ago. We citizens of the republic hadn't even the foggiest notion that Iran was about to launch nuclear-tipped suicide drones off a ship parked in the Pacfic, into places like Pasadena and San Luis Obispo. We are so fortunate that we have a president who acted quickly and yes, it's just a coincidence that the attack was launched around the same time people were chewing non-stop on the Epstein documents.
Remember, we are owed another dump of three or so million more documents from the DoJ.
Instead, we got more black and white grainy videos of aerial doo-dads filmed by the military. Because the military has every reason to be totally objective about the aliens and their space ships. Maybe you will feel better as an American taxpayer about Trump's 1.5 trillion USD war budget. Remember, it's the Department of War now, not defense. Ergo, it's a war budget.
The story is so insane, so irrational. U.S. intelligence agencies have dismissed each of these ridiculous conspiracy theories about Iran (not the aliens), with Joe Kent, the counter-terror expert at DNI, calling them out in his resignation letter. But Israeli intelligence won out (again) over the verdict of the massive U.S. intelligence apparatus. We pay dearly for these intelligence agencies, but in matters of war and the Near East, they always, always, always lose to the Israeli lobby. Israel has the greatest intelligence gathering ever!
We are asked to believe that Iranians, who developed hypersonic missiles, something the U.S. has yet to do, are suicidal and will launch attacks that lead to their total annihilation. Of the people I've seen who have gone to the Islamic republic, they only report that what is there is not what is reported here. Its people are ancient, friendly despite the abuse they've undergone. They are moral, intelligent and gracious hosts. Maybe it's all Potemkin and they really are villains, but it still would not justify the current war.
One visitor explained Iran's mistake as being perhaps the last holdout of tradition: Abortion and birth control were banned by them along with pornography. (Birth control restrictions were eventually lifted, but still, global capitalism and The System of Anti-Christ cannot risk a nation like Iran backsliding into tradition.)
A similar claim was made about Maduro's Venezuela, which was apparently on the verge of turning into a full-on Catholic traditional society.
Will we see hordes of Venezuelan women signing up now for Only Fans now since their country is now under American direction? In the coming years, will some body novelty come from there that rivals the Brazilian wax? Repressed Iranian women are no doubt watching their Venezuelan sisters from afar, hoping one day to get a taste of the freedom they enjoy now with Maduro out of the way.
The other Muslim states of the Near East seem pretty degenerate, decadent, at end of life with Dubai – the pinnacle – basically practicing human slavery in order to builds its glimmering steel and glass towers. It and Qatar are fleshpots through and through, the playgrounds for the very wealthy. The Iranian revolution of the late 1970s was a threat to the whole plan to turn every woman on the planet into a whore and baby killer. That has and remains the plan. Every woman a whore, every man a weak simp, every child an optional consumer good who owes its existence to a merciful mummy.
In ancient Rome, pater familias meant the father had the right to slay his child at birth if he suspected it was unfit, not his, or just out of caprice, to show he wore the toga in the family. In today's Western world, the woman, in recognition that she rules the roost, now has the same exact power and so calls the shots over human life.
Feminism might be described as women attaining the mater familias rank and then surpassing its ancient male equivalent in power and scope. The mother has co-opted doctors, taxpayers, clergy, and lawmakers into her exercise of power over the 7 lb. meatball she carries inside of her body. In Roman times, it was just the father killing a newborn. Maybe his, maybe not. It was also one of those rights that was seldom if ever exercised. It was a theoretical ornament of patriarchy.
The existence of a solidly Islamic Iran was a standing repudiation of Dubai, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. Islamic extremism is very much a reaction to the perceived decline in fidelity in historically Muslim nations.
I don't know if this thesis is correct and it sounds a little hyperbolic, but there is no doubt that there is something counter-cultural about Iran that has earned the enmity of the West in a special way. Having access to so much energy-based wealth in the form of oil means Iran was uniquely positioned to stand as a sign of contradiction to the rest of the world, if it succeeded in producing prosperity and well-being in the context of traditional Islamic values.
There is a genuine fear among capitalists, that a society might exist which is prosperous, happy, upright and not open to the kinds of moral subversion it requires to feed its own existence in the global West. An entire nation where Rabbi Shmuley couldn't drop ship butt plugs and lube to any private home... horror!
Capitalism rests on amoral or immoral people being subject by their own weaknesses to the schemes of oligarchs, business leaders, elected officials, senior executives. The delusion in America is that everyone believes he's just minutes away from wealth, fame and success. So long as this is on the table, everyone will tolerate a lot. Greed means you will wallow in anhedonia for as long as it takes for your winning lottery ticket to print.
I pondered Eleanor Rigby last night. Who on earth was Eleanor Rigby for real? I knew her name from The Beatles song, "All the Lonely People," but was she an historical figure?
Turns out, yes she was a real person who lived from 1895 - 1939 and was buried in a family plot in Liverpool, England. Paul McCartney and John Lennon would meet up at the church cemetery and it was there McCartney spotted her name on a gravestone. As he confessed much later, the casual sighting probably lodged in the recesses of his awareness, until it ripened into a song lyric.
Looking at the Rigby headstone online, it struck me as supremely conceited, for someone to want to claim a small chunk of earth to house her rotting remains for decades. To erect a large stone monument over one's former carcass...
Under normal circumstances, no one would remember or care about Eleanor Rigby or her husband by say, 1975. A few family members might have vague memories of her, some photos, maybe one of her china pieces or silverware they inherited from her estate. Thanks to McCartney, her grave is visited by people from all over the world as part of Beatles tours in Liverpool. In death, Mrs. Eleanor Rigby's final resting spot is a destination for pilgrims.
In the West, we build these ridiculous monuments to our rotting corpses, making the land unusable in places like England, a tiny island where population density means every square inch of land is precious and affordable housing, scarce. From time to time, a cemetery becomes an impassible obstacle to the living and its old caskets, rotted bones and moldy cloth have to be physically moved from one place to another. In the end, the dead become an expensive nuisance, their vanity having left behind foul, unpleasant remains. It's very Western, to cling to the body, to cherish it even in death when it's become a useless hindrance.
If all the cemeteries in Europe suddenly disappeared, would the extra space help bring down housing costs?
Certain European countries require ongoing payments for the land, which seems a little more progressive. Eventually, descendants get tired of paying the rent for their dead and something is done with the remains. It's still ridiculous.
Waves of brown immigrants take up residence in the UK, once known for its fierce men, its world-spanning explorers and conquerors, its scientific and artistic geniuses. Today, those figures have female descendants – children – who are passed around by Asian rape gangs. The conquerors are the conquered, the men who bled and died at Dunkirk and Normandy only a few generations ago, have their stock overwhelmed by swarthy men from sad, remote places of the earth where inbreeding is still practiced.
Eleanor Rigby's name is remembered only because McCarthy saw it etched on a rock sitting on a small pile of earth. Therefore, the Rigby family got more than their money's worth with her burial plot. Maybe they never earned a dime, but their family name has been immortalized by The Beatles, arguably the greatest music band of all time. The name Rigby has been on the brains and lips of millions of people all over the globe.
Imagine if every human on the planet was a Westerner, who wanted his remains preserved for decades, awaiting in hopeful expectation of the day of resurrection. Such a conceit, such an imposture, such a stupendous appraisal of the self!
This I am not, this is not me, this is not mine!
Was being Eleanor Rigby that great, that you would want to come back as an improved version of her, to do it all again? Would you eat cucumber sandwiches with cream cheese, the edges of your bread neatly sliced away and saved for the birds, or perhaps set aside to be used later for homemade croutons?
England isn't even England anymore as Morrissey and John Cleese have averred in public interviews. Morrissey's albums were banned by an English record store on the grounds that they would not be purveyors of his work since he had fallen prey to xenophobia and racism. Morrissey albums are in the Current Year an auditory gateway to white nationalism.
Morrissey is part Irish, but always seemed very charming in a dual English/Irish way. Cleese? So English, so clever, so funny and likable. It cracks me up that a half-Irish pop singer has taken up the cause of England and is, naturally, shunned by the English.
When I was growing up, I loved these English types and still do, but miss them already as they fade, replaced by capitalism's dull monoculture, its digital IDs, vaccine passports, tracking devices, carbon credits, street cameras, forced intra-planetary integration, and all the rest. C.S. Lewis foresaw this eradication of merry old England many decades ago, carried out by a very dour sect of materialists hell bent on science and progress.
Capitalism is a very sad, dreary ideology and form of life. Its plastic baubles, consumer debt and empty goods wear thin quickly, but there are no human-made systems that offer any better. The pure communism of an AI-run society looks interesting, but we know that dukkha is in everything. We see it already in the suicides, human hallucinations, and mental dissonance caused by overexposure to chat bots. The AI communist future brought forth by The Monad will probably end up being very hellish.
A society of super-abundance brings its own set of problems. There are however classes of problems that are better than those sitting in the corner over there. Human life is always about polishing an ideal, making room for its delivery, setting it up, only to find out it sucks. Usually. Not always. It's that we don't really learn that the state of having to choose, to aggrandize aspects of reality to make them tolerable, is an on-going form of self-deception that turns into habit, and habit turns into a prison. Life becomes a slow shuffle through shadows.
Did the Jews make this all possible, this end of white people in their own countries? Or is this a few whites looking for a group to blame for their own collapse in fortune?
Here, the charge of scapegoating is true and false. White nationalists want to slough off the many generations of moral failure, lay everything at the feet of Jews. If we expel the Jews they say like our ancestors did 109 times, we can fix everything via repatriation of the hordes they brought onto our shores. This is magical thinking.
It is to ignore the numbers, the home turf advantage, and the craven surrender of the indigenous WASP elite (in the case of the Anglosphere) to their own greed and nihilism. Make no mistake either: the West is nihilistic and that accounts far more than the predations of Jewry.
Jews architected immigration laws to make white children aliens in their own homes. But their fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, pastors, leaders all went along with it gladly.
There is a karmic payback for Western imperialism, which has seen the attempted genocide and subjugation of cultures; of theft on a mass scale all over the globe. There is no developed notion of collective karma, but we might be excused for thinking it's real when we look at the effects of centuries of European brutality as it falls back on us. The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children generations distant.
The Lord Buddha faced off against priests who believed that they were the children of Brahma, the highest god. They sprang from his mouth – they were the utterances of God in a sense, closest to mind, proceeding from mind, manifested as the word made flesh in the here and now. These Brahmins were the priests, the seers and the oracles of divinity, the Voice of God. Their exalted status meant they were prey to self-delusion, vanity, and cruelty. The notion of the word becoming flesh is an old motif in India.
Christ's followers also claimed him to be the Word made flesh. He was the firstborn of creation and to him all things were revealed by the father, although he did not count equality with God to be grasped, having instead taken upon himself the form of a servant to save man.
He, like the Buddha, was faced with a class of people who believed that they were elevated above all other men by virtue of their birth. John the Forerunner reminded the Jews of an important point:
"And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham"
The Buddha and Christ both faced groups who believed they were closest to God by virtue of an accident of birth.
Who is a brahmin? Brahmin is as a brahmin does.
Who is a Jew? Anyone who follows Jesus, keeps his commandments, looks after the widow, the sick, the elderly, even on the sabbath.
Both founders encountered elite members of their societies who understood the message being conveyed, understood its threat to normal operations. There were brahmins by birth who approached the Buddha, to receive a salutary word or teaching; Jesus encountered the same among his kindred, the Jewish people. The majority were content to think of themselves as special people because of their parentage. Being of good caste grants one a nice identity that leads to an existential satisfaction with the now.
"I am special. I am closer to God and will be blessed in this lifetime and can look forward to an exalted place in the next world on account of my special election."
Christianity is a more spiritualized version of Judaism, so the chosen status became rebranded as St. Paul's elect, those handpicked by God before the foundations of the world to be his saints. Election in this sense can include being roasted on a spit or getting fed to the lions. There are carnal Jews, and then there are the spiritual Semites of the New Covenant.
Self-determining this status of election was a big deal at different times in history, including the Puritan. Whereas the Hindu and Jewish versions of election were carnal and easily identified by visible signs in the world, Christian election was invisible, mysterious and a question usually not pondered since it led to anxiety, fear and trepidation. "What if I am not elect? Will I burn for all eternity in a lake of fire? What if Yahweh gives me up to a reprobate mind? Do I have a mind? Hey, who's in charge here... ?"
Being a chosen person in Christianity couldn't be falsified. Still, humans have tried.
In America, prosperity was equated with election; today, we have the prosperity gospel as the latest iteration in a long line of theologizing that linked worldly success to God's special favor. This is the product of Protestant philo-Semitism, of searching the old covenant to find promises of prosperity, money, status, purpose, meaning. America's Protestant heritage made it subservient to old covenant forms. No Catholic king or pope ever spoke of needing to go bless the Jews, lest they suffer divine punishment.
For most of Christendom and its history, prosperity was not a valid litmus test of spiritual status. The prosperity gospel of the megachurches is also very similar to the New Age belief in visualizing what the cosmos should provide you. Be open to it and you will get all the material and spiritual blessings that make life so rewarding!
For those squeamish by anything sounding "religious," the latter is a secular comfort that doesn't require much.
The gift or message offered by both the Buddha and Jesus is the basic requirement for a world religion: Come and see. It is extended to everyone.
Judaism then is not a world religion even though it inspired two world religions. Judaism does not invite anyone to experience its truth, because it is a gift of election by physical birth. There are the nations – the lumpen proletariate of lower spiritual realms – and then the priestly nation of the Hebrews. If you do not bless these special people, then the Supreme Creator of the Whole Giant Cosmos, will not bless you. If you curse them, he will do the same to you on their behalf.
The brahmin literature probably reserves special punishment for people who do not respect, bless and honor them on account of their special status.
Modern Jews of a religious bent can understand their purpose as being a priestly people, a class given a mission to prepare the way for messiah so that all nations – all peoples – might benefit from Yahweh's desire to see his children happy, prosperous, peaceful. This priestly instinct is a desire to tend, to prepare, to encourage, to serve. It is not a lordly position. The same inspired sentiment is found in Hindu writings about the duty of the priestly class.
Too often though, we see these "special vocations" as a pretense for bad behavior. Jewish suffering is not like other suffering; insulting a Jew is an insult to Yahweh; not giving Israel what it demands means you will be cursed, etc. Come the messianic age, every Jew will have over 2000 gentile slaves.
This to say, the mythology of being selected out of humanity to stand in a special relationship to the Supreme Being inevitably invites the activation of greed, ill will, and a host of other vices. If you are a Jew in the messianic age and you have sex with as many of your gentile slave girls as you can handle, you are just a delusional creature suffering from the fog of the senses, anchored to a false ultimate contentment. Nothing lasts. The mistake of Yahweh is the mistake made by his sons. Like father, like son.
It is no use saying, "Yeah, but that was not the intent." The conceit once taken up is an albatross around the neck, one that leads to really bad behavior. The Buddha understood this very well and preached accordingly. Bad people end up in good earthly estates all the time.
This is why the Buddha pointedly rejected the value of caste in classical Indian society. Karma is weird; your bad karma doesn't preclude you from landing in a good body in a good life. Bad and good intermingle all the time in the churn of motion and matter.
There is a perception throughout Western history that even when the Jew is not really religiously observant, the notion of being special, set apart from the rest of humanity manifests in other ways that are just as destructive. To use modern sociological support, the precise content of a supremacist ideology is not so important as the framework given by being passed down through generations. The emails of Epstein reveal a group of people far from religious observance, but still very much besotted with being uniquely better than other races of men. The Jewish side of the Epstein social network were insiders, players, better, more capable.
The Buddha was careful to always point to the heart: It's what comes out of there that matters! Purify your heart, open yourself up to compassion! That is to be a brahmin!
You cannot rest on the unearned circumstances of birth because they do not last. Your place in the social hierarchy can be just as much a hindrance to spiritual development as wealth, maybe more so. Some of the most spiritually deluded people the Buddha encountered were brahmin priests. The heavens of Indian cosmology are filled with the most deluded beings in a sense.
Prosperity creates weak men, weak men create hard times.
Men are animals with animal needs for safety, food, shelter and some comfort. Reproduction and family formation are actually optional for individuals; no one has died because they did not start a family, at least in modern times. In the post ice age period, there is believed to have been a time when only one in ten or twenty men mated and had children. Most men's genetic lines died out, a few survived to produce the people you see walking around today.
A little food, a little comfort, a little bit of the good life... why fight? Why stick your neck out to save the republic from bad immigration laws, from deindustrialization and the lowering of standards in everything, from manners to food stuffs?
Boomers were soft creatures and most of American civilization has been ordered over the last forty years to making them the happiest, most materially successful generation humanity has ever produced. There are times in a day where I will pause and reflect in awe on the existence of the Boomer. A generation of unicorns.
Today, the empire is spending every resource to make sure they have comfortable retirements and peaceful old age free of want. Our markets of late have risen to all time highs with vast oceans of wealth propelling stock portfolios up, up, up. Boomers take profits (again) and will enjoy the mysterious, unhealthy surge at a time when the world is facing the full effects of the energy shortages caused by the Iran war. As I write this, the NQ has hit another all time high of 29,650 or so and oil reserves used to prop up the energy market are running out. Russia is able to sell on the open market again with the lifting of sanctions, but there are still a lot of places which are about to get rekt by surging gas and oil prices.
The whole Western world seems to think that peace is at hand and this conflict with Iran will all be wrapped in another day or two. We've been telling ourselves that for weeks while burning up strategic reserves. Those are running out and what little information we get out of Iran, does not suggest that anything will change soon. Secretary Rubio announced yesterday he expected to have a formal peace deal worked out this weekend; instead, we learned that there was an hours-long battle in the Strait of Hormuz that left five American sailors dead or missing, ten injured.
Blaming Boomers makes a lot of sense, but it helps also to think of them this way: If I had been born an American Boomer, would I have been any different?
No.
American Boomers are the highest achievement in terms of wealth, happiness, opportunity, success, etc. ever produced by the human race. The period from say 1950 to 1980 were, for a young adult, the pinnacle of general social well being and prosperity. The path laid before such a person was wide, pleasant, easily traveled and well tended.
The people of this time did not live like monks, did not think in terms of social obligation, of future orientation, of saving (for the unborn), of preserving and extending the benefices they enjoyed to others yet unborn. Eat, drink, and be merry was the Lebensphilosophie.
When the founders of the American project came up with the line about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they had the Boomer in mind. If they could've seen this future creation, they would've been well pleased with themselves.
As Pope Leo X said: "God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it!"
Humans do not think in terms of generations, at least in the West. Maybe the Chinese do, possibly. But in the West, we definitely do not plan anything farther out than two weeks, so it is an incredibly strange expectation that Boomers would not enjoy their papacy – spending, eating, drinking, lavishly attending to their own comforts, making endless war abroad, killing babies, etc. Here, we are thinking of the really bad popes, not the good ones.
The Boomer attitude towards the future, and their social duty to later generations, was best expressed with the Roe v. Wade decision. We can and will kill the future if it impinges on our lavish self-attention right here, right now. We are the spiritually enlightened children of the the peace movement of the 1960s afterall! Have you heard of Woodstock?
Question to ask, would we non-Boomers do any differently if placed in the same position? Would we not fuck, drink, spend, fight, kill, eat and satisfy every urge to the point of massive bankruptcy, if allowed?
The lesson here is that we are all Boomers, in potentia, if not in fact. When we talk about the excesses of Boomerism, we are speaking about a period in which the kilesas were given free reign in the lives of many. Did it produce happiness? Yes, in a human, temporary since. But remember that lots of Boomers ended up divorced, drugged out and even if they attained some materialistic pinnacle and social standing, such people never become really happy.
Again, if placed in their shoes, would we walk a different path?
The beginnings of compassion are in seeing that we are all machines following a script. Some of us have a better copy of the script, but we have a nature as humans that links us together and the illusion of being able to rest above it all, to see things clearly, is reserved to only a tiny few. These tiny few have a perspective that is itself the final end of processes so long, so hard to see that they cannot be thought of as the unique processes by Providence, or Yahweh's favor, etc.
This to say that the spiritual path achieved by the Buddha and his disciples was a natural process that began taking shape a long time ago. The ability to perceive things as they are is the essence of the enlightened mind; the human race is therefore, not this. We don't see things as they are and in fact, actively edit reality so that it becomes bearable even when the depiction is still hideous. Hating/loving are not different at all and our edits are just orbits around these poles. We say "bipolar" when speaking of certain mental conditions, but in truth, love and hate are the same. We are all bipolar. Both are transient emotions fueled by the same energy. In Buddhism, compassion is the general default state we want to cultivate and attain, not love. Love can be constraining, compassion is open.
The ordinary human mind does not measure according to causes and effects. While we have scientists who talk a lot about this and we ourselves actively determine cause and effect dozens if not hundreds or thousands of times per day, we don't really perceive it in the sense that spiritual masters do. This is why the doctrine of impermanence in Buddhism can be very unsettling, uncomfortable to the point of causing existential despair. There is little about the later stages of the practice that leaves one feeling refreshed, happy and reinvigorated with a new lust for life. Having the foundation of suffering kicked out from underneath your feet is upsetting. It's always been there, we were standing on it and we are destined to get back on top of it again. We don't see the inconstancy and the stress it induces as the problem, but rather take these as the wrong set of material conditions prevailing in the present moment. When we get rid of these, all will be well.
Impermanence reduces this conceit to ashes. There is just never ending tumult and it has no point. It's energized and lives on in our craving and aversion.
Intellectually, you can say – we all say – nothing lasts forever. Few of us ever get past the saying and begin looking moment-by-moment for any sign of the real, the unchanging, the stable.
Having your bubble popped about the Big Things in life is part of waking up, snapping out of the dream state.
White nationalism is a late period reaction to a world where evolution continues to operate, continues to weed out those who no longer can or want to participate in its big blueprint for planetary life. It is an -ism that, by the time it emerges, has already missed the boat. The planning, the preservation, the education were all things white men stopped doing a long time ago because they had a little money, a little free time, a little beer, a little pussy...
Plenty of others can and will take over vacancies in the ecosystem. They will come from larger, more populated countries where birth control isn't really a thing and where being jammed together in endless urban sprawls is fine, just fine thank you.
One can take a perverse delight in the changes taking place throughout the West; or see them as part of a process, an outcome of causes and conditions. In truth, no one really knows where any of this will go. It's best not to develop an aversion if you are a white person living in a Western country to your heritage.
This is something I struggle with, a kind of disgust for the weakness of modern European man.
