A Bottom Up Solution:
Culture Hacking & the Cultivation of Everyday Genius

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1. Charles says:

   February 26, 2011 at 6:09 am

   For the time being the focus on top-down solutions may not be practical, but if we can ever regain and hold on to the commanding heights of our society, implementing top-down solutions may be the best way to go.

   Bear in mind that most people’s sense of what is just and desirable is strongly influenced by the diktats of those who hold power. Most people are conformists; they conform their ideology to align closely with that of those who wield power. Thus most people who pass through our education system are indoctrinated by the high priests of the media and higher education to believe that multiculturalism is desirable, that no meaningful differences exist among peoples or cultures, or even between genders, and that the racial awareness is loathesome, despicalble, and small-minded.

   People do not independently come to believe these things by sheer happenstance. Rather, they internalize the dogmas that are disseminated from those who hold onto the reigns of power – in this case from those in the media and from the priesthood of civil religion that is firmly entrenched in tenured positions in the humanities and social sciences in academia.

   If we can attain political power, it will be expedient to forcibly dislodge these charlatans who seek the destruction of our people from any and all positions in media, academia, and politics. That’s how it was done in Western Europe. After the war the Allies used their proxies in the major foundations like Annenberg, Carnegie, and Ford to endow the chair of humanities and social sciences departments in all the prestige universities. Up and coming professors seek to build on the dogmas being propagated from those who are firmly entrenched in prestige positions.

   For the time being, a ground-up grassroots movement may be all we can do. We certainly need to do something to keep a viable ideological alternative alive as a seed that may someday germinate and flower. But if political winds change direction and the existing order collapses acquiring control of the media and political apparatus can better lend itself to a rapid transformation and restoration of the health and interests of our people.

   And bear in mind, collapse may be much closer than we expect. Even establishment figures like Niall Ferguson, a historian who made his name chronicling financial history and writing authorized biographies of the Rothschild and Warburg banking cartels, has recently been predicting collapse.

   If you get a chance, listen to these interviews on Jim Giles website, rebelarmy.com:

   Bill Lind & Paul Craig Roberts.

   Many people assume that America will gradually transition into a multicultural, multiracial, miscegenated state like Brazil. Frankly, I think the constant demonization of white and hatred toward white men engendered by academia will make such a transition unlikely. When things change, it won’t merely take the shape of a forseeable and readily predictable browning of America. Real collapse and fragmentation of America may occur in the future.

   Just look at the phenomenon that that delivered the coup de grâce to the ethnic cleansing of our cities:

   Watts Riots

   Detriot 1967: “It was the new Motown sound. This was equal opportunity…”

   Chicago Riots

   Cleveland Riots

   The Slaughter of Cities by E Michael Jones

   The phenomenon known as ‘white flight’ to the suburbs was largely a matter of middle and lower-middle class whites being ethnically cleansed from urban areas.

   What is all the more remarkable is that the events depicted above happened when America was near the very zenith of its prosperity. Detroit for example was every bit as vibrant and prosperous in the 1960’s as Silicon Valley is today. The collapse of American manufacturing and auto industries would not follow until several decades later.

   With all the racial animus against whites being disseminated by the universities, it may be difficult for America to cohere as a unified state. Just look at what demography holds in store for Texas as an example. Do you think America will remain unified when it is beset with crushing poverty and widespread hatred for the people who once comprised its historic majority?

   If it becomes fragmented and atomized, there may be a major exodus of whites back to Europe. As America collapses into third world corruption and squalor, Eastern Europe may attain a prominence among western powers that America once held nearly fifty years ago.

   Let us do what we can to build a movement from the ground up. But bear in mind that plan B may just be to pack your bags.

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   1. Karsten says:

      February 26, 2011 at 2:30 pm

      If it becomes fragmented and atomized, there may be a major exodus of whites back to Europe.

      You know, it’s interesting that you bring that up. It’s something that I’ve thought of for a long time. I myself am doubtful that an ethnostate could ever be created in North America. (The best chance was the Civil War, and we know how that turned out.) I mean, the practical challenges are insurmountable. But moving back to Europe, to my true homeland, is something that I’ve considered for a long time. Since my father was born in Germany, I think I’d be eligible for citizenship (but I’m not completely sure about that).

      If I had some kind of guaranteed work in Germany, I probably would move there. It’s where I feel most at home anyway, even though I was born in North America and have lived here my whole life. But when I travel, I always go back to Germany.

      That would be the ultimate dream of all dreams, wouldn’t it? To turn the white homeland, Europe, in a white ethno-continent? Spengler says that when a people is uprooted from its native soil, it loses its racial identity. I think that may be true. But by moving back, perhaps it could be regained.

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   2. Fourmyle of Ceres says:

      February 26, 2011 at 5:47 pm

      In reply to Charles:

      You made several excellent observations. I hope my comments will be worthy of them.

      You wrote:

      For the time being the focus on top-down solutions may not be practical, but if we can ever regain and hold on to the commanding heights of our society, implementing top-down solutions may be the best way to go.

      Bear in mind that most people’s sense of what is just and desirable is strongly influenced by the diktats of those who hold power. Most people are conformists; they conform their ideology to align closely with that of those who wield power. Thus most people who pass through our education system are indoctrinated by the high priests of the media and higher education to believe that multiculturalism is desirable, that no meaningful differences exist among peoples or cultures, or even between genders, and that the racial awareness is loathesome, despicalble, and small-minded.

      In reply, indoctrination has become the purpose of public “education.”

      Hence, the need for a new, ground-up system, such as home schooling.

      Linkages will continue to develop at amazing rates of speed; we simply need to be focused on the Reality-based Community.

      You wrote:

      People do not independently come to believe these things by sheer happenstance. Rather, they internalize the dogmas that are disseminated from those who hold onto the reigns of power – in this case from those in the media and from the priesthood of civil religion that is firmly entrenched in tenured positions in the humanities and social sciences in academia.

      If we can attain political power, it will be expedient to forcibly dislodge these charlatans who seek the destruction of our people from any and all positions in media, academia, and politics. That’s how it was done in Western Europe. After the war the Allies used their proxies in the major foundations like Annenberg, Carnegie, and Ford to endow the chair of humanities and social sciences departments in all the prestige universities. Up and coming professors seek to build on the dogmas being propagated from those who are firmly entrenched in prestige positions.

      In reply:
      They are being removed from relevance at an amazing rate. Look at what is happening in the Mid-East, which seems to resemble nothing so much as Europe post-1918.

      That will tie into your summary and my thoughts on your summary.

      You wrote:

      For the time being, a ground-up grassroots movement may be all we can do. We certainly need to do something to keep a viable ideological alternative alive as a seed that may someday germinate and flower. But if political winds change direction and the existing order collapses acquiring control of the media and political apparatus can better lend itself to a rapid transformation and restoration of the health and interests of our people.

      In reply, this is what happened in NSDAP Germany, when the people stopped being demoralized, stopped accepting the lies of their Enemy, and stopped being victims.

      They accepted new values, a restoration of an organic social order, and, from that, to a New Order.

      You wrote:

      And bear in mind, collapse may be much closer than we expect. Even establishment figures like Niall Ferguson, a historian who made his name chronicling financial history and writing authorized biographies of the Rothschild and Warburg banking cartels, has recently been predicting collapse.

      If you get a chance, listen to these interviews on Jim Giles website, rebelarmy.com:

      Bill Lind & Paul Craig Roberts.

      In reply:
      Thanks, I will definitely check them out. William S. Lind is absolutely preeminent as a historical analyst. Ropberts has had his political illusions removed.

      You wrote:

      Many people assume that America will gradually transition into a multicultural, multiracial, miscegenated state like Brazil. Frankly, I think the constant demonization of white and hatred toward white men engendered by academia will make such a transition unlikely. When things change, it won’t merely take the shape of a forseeable and readily predictable browning of America. Real collapse and fragmentation of America may occur in the future.

      Just look at the phenomenon that that delivered the coup de grâce to the ethnic cleansing of our cities:

      Watts Riots

      Detriot 1967: “It was the new Motown sound. This was equal opportunity…”

      Chicago Riots

      Cleveland Riots

      The Slaughter of Cities by E Michael Jones

      The phenomenon known as ‘white flight’ to the suburbs was largely a matter of middle and lower-middle class whites being ethnically cleansed from urban areas.

      In reply:
      Just so.

      And our overarching solution is…?

      Mine follows.

      You wrote:

      What is all the more remarkable is that the events depicted above happened when America was near the very zenith of its prosperity. Detroit for example was every bit as vibrant and prosperous in the 1960’s as Silicon Valley is today. The collapse of American manufacturing and auto industries would not follow until several decades later.

      In reply:
      Only one Race can make a modern economy, and make it better, year by year.

      All – repeat – ALL – other Races are essentially stagnant, seeing the world as a zero-sum Game, at best.

      You want:

      With all the racial animus against whites being disseminated by the universities, it may be difficult for America to cohere as a unified state. Just look at what demography holds in store for Texas as an example. Do you think America will remain unified when it is beset with crushing poverty and widespread hatred for the people who once comprised its historic majority?

      In reply:
      Excellent point, and one that leads to the need for political and economic alternatives for our Race.

      You wrote:

      If it becomes fragmented and atomized, there may be a major exodus of whites back to Europe. As America collapses into third world corruption and squalor, Eastern Europe may attain a prominence among western powers that America once held nearly fifty years ago.

      In reply:
      Looking at the expansion of Muslin interests throughtout Southern Europe, and our creation of a Muslim State (Kosovo) at the direct expense of the White Orthodox Christians, you see our government remains antagonistic to an Racially homogeneous ethnostate in Europe.

      I don’t see a retreat to Eastern Europe being in the cards. For example, look at the horrific maintainence of the Chernobyl era reactors in the region. When Chernobyl blew off, sheep died in Wales from the fallout.

      What do you think will happen to, say, Vienna?

      You wrote:

      Let us do what we can to build a movement from the ground up. But bear in mind that plan B may just be to pack your bags.

      In reply:
      Thank you.

      Build a “‘movement’ from the ground up?”

      The foundation of a Movement is One Cause, and we have the best Cause – that our Posterity will succeed by any means necessary, especially in the face of the deliberate national and international policy of the genocide of White Children.

      A shorthand phrase to summarize The Cause?

      Fourteen Words.

      “Pack your bags?”

      And go where, exactly?

      South Africa’s Boer farmers are seriously looking to move – wholesale – to Georgia; that is, as in “climb into the Antonovs and Start Over.”

      I could make that argument for them. I can even make a variation on that argument for our New 99ers.

      For us, the “where” is Northwest, and the “what” is the formation of a Northwest Republic, which has as its Founding Principle the SOLE purpose of creating, sustaining, and developing a White Homeland.

      My Posterity will live there, with one focus, DO BETTER, as I offer them what we uniquely can offer:

      Honor, Discipline, and the Stars.

      We can learn from this.

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2. James J. O'Meara says:

   February 26, 2011 at 7:32 am

   Interesting and important article, which is to say, I’ve been thinking along the same lines.

   I keep hearing about people, White people even, “re-claiming” areas of Detroit, turning abandoned buildings into communes and, more importantly, turning empty lots into farmland.

   Despite their overall Leftist vibe, and pomo ideas of ‘art’ that are more like ‘mental illness,’ local artist groups can I think be a valuable educational resource. Oddly enough, it’s precisely the pomo, “living art” or “performance art” poseurs who have the most useful skills to offer; not watercolors but welding. The Galopagos Institute in Brooklyn runs such classes, although I’ve only taken their course in making absinthe. Home brew however will be a useful skill in the post-economy; there won’t be any beer stores, and the mobs won’t kill the guy who knows how to brew.

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3. Karsten says:

   February 26, 2011 at 11:49 am

   I accept some of these premises, but I would argue that while going into science and math might be individually beneficial to some people, what the movement really needs, above all, is more people to go into the media — into Hollywood (film-making and television) and into the press.

   That’s why the Jews always control the nation, regardless of which party is in power, or regardless of how well or poorly the economy is doing. The entire mainstream cultural discourse is in their hands. They shape the values of the country.

   If I had my wish, I would have every single individual of a radical-traditionalist or white nationalist bent go into the media. Every one. At the very least, they would learn the technical skills for us to be able to make high-quality movies and television of our own. At best, they might actually get into the Hollywood system and change its values.

   Imagine if there were not merely one Mel Gibson, but dozens of Mel Gibsons making films in Hollywood. Suddenly, the most powerful force in the modern era, the moving picture, would be reflecting our values and pushing our agenda.

   Everything else — finance, science, technology — is secondary to the power of the media in shaping people’s thoughts. With the decline of religion, the mainstream media is more powerful than ever. If America had a radical-traditionalist/white-nationalist media, we would have a radical-traditionalist/white-nationalist nation, regardless of what the ethnic composition of the population was “at the bottom.”

   As we have seen, even corporations and even the military are falling over themselves to adopt cultural-Marxist media values. This is all because the mass media still, even in an age of the Internet, controls most people’s thoughts and shapes their values.

   A media free of Jewish influence. Nothing could be more beneficial to our cause than this. Nothing.

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   1. I says:

      February 26, 2011 at 12:29 pm

      I accept some of these premises, but I would argue that while going into science and math might be individually beneficial to some people, what the movement really needs, above all, is more people to go into the media — into Hollywood (film-making and television) and into the press.

      I agree with this. And I think there’s a lot more that can be done on the “media” front online, too. Graphic design, web design, video editing, etc. are more valuable skills for people to learn than how to make contraptions out of old washing machine parts.

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      1. Karsten says:

         February 26, 2011 at 2:39 pm

         Graphic design, web design, video editing, etc. are…valuable skills for people to learn

         Yes, I agree. Very much. I am convinced that sites like this one, TOO, TOQ, etc., are far more persuasive now than they were before simply because their layout looks more professional. The slicker, more polished, more sophisticated, more “commercial” we could make the delivery of our message, the more persuasive it would be.

         Marketing is another thing we should go into. Imagine if we had people in PR, or a PR firm “of our own.” Just to use one example, the group Prussian Blue was sadly crucified by the mainstream press, for obvious reasons. And what a pity, because it could have connected with a new audience. Imagine if there had been a traditionalist PR film that could have given them more balanced, even at least mildly favourable promotion.

         These fields, all the fields that have to do with mass persuasion, the media in every form, old and new, are very obviously the fields into which we should pour all of our resources, because they are how people are indoctrinated — or deprogrammed.

         The Jews have proven that this tactic works. We should follow their example and undo the damage that they have done, and build a media force of our own, in every manifestation.

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   2. Edison Carter says:

      February 26, 2011 at 8:30 pm

      A media free of Jewish influence. Nothing could be more beneficial to our cause than this. Nothing.

      We need a professional quality White Video News website.

      A pro-white version of CNN. Someplace that whites can go to hear the truth that the Jewish media isn’t covering, or is covering up.

      There’s no way to get into the government licensed and regulated television broadcast industry so we need to go around them using the internet. Video webcasting is the solution.

      To start it could be nothing more than a daily (or if resources were very tight a weekly) newscast from a white nationalist perspective. Just a half hour a day of quality programming. The bare minimum standard for this would be the same that’s required of a local TV station. The show must go on. Every day that webcast goes out on time. Every webcast meets basic quality standards.

      Fox News uses a tactic that we can copy. They have the best looking anchorwomen. This is important. People believe what good looking women say. That’s a large part of the Sarah Palin phenomenon. This also creates the image of success and authority, the group with beautiful women is a group with status, with power.

      Behind the scenes all that’s required is professionalism and high standards. In front of the camera you need to look good. Obviously everyone involved in should be white, especially the anchorwomen.

      To work this would have to be so good that a viewer looking at a clip of it on youtube could mistake it for a cable news program. That means good looking anchorwomen (I can’t repeat that often enough), professional delivery, multiple camera angles, smooth camera movement, a good looking set (no sitting in front of a green screen), well designed graphics and titles, fast paced live editing, and an intelligent script to read off the teleprompter.

      For content there must be a focus on white issues. Not implicit white issues, explicit ones. The stuff that Rush Limbaugh can’t talk about we should be pounding at every opportunity. Ending legal immigration. Ending all guest worker programs. Protecting our manufacturing base with tariffs. Exposing the jewish role in the financial swindles. Exposing the jewish role in promoting war.

      Eventually we should have a 24 hour video webcast.

      Dr. William Pierce accomplished a great deal with a weekly half hour broadcast on shortwave radio and uploaded to websites. If we could start with a weekly newscast, a broadcast quality production, we could reach far more people in 2011 than Pierce did in 2002.

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      1. Karsten says:

         February 27, 2011 at 8:21 am

         I agree with most of this. A half-hour of news — ideally daily, but, as you say, weekly at first, given that resources would be tight and technical facility on the part of the creators would likely be limited at first. The crew would probably need to time to learn efficiencies.

         It could even be a half-hour on a continual loop, something like CNN’s Headline News.

         Funnily enough, I’m not quite so certain on the necessity of an attractive female anchor, though, which you keep stressing. And I’m saying this as someone who completely “gets” the idea of the appeal of pretty girls on TV. I mean, I actually sometimes watch CNN for the sole purpose of hoping to catch of glimpse of the stunning Brianna Keilar, who is one of CNN’s reporters and occasional anchors, and is one of the most gorgeous women on television, period (a fair-haired, fair-skinned, soft-featured blonde with a really pretty Germanic look).

         I think for this network, it would be better to have an intelligent male anchor who was philosophically in tune with radical traditionalism. Women are simply not predisposed to be as committed to these matters as men are. They’re also not smart enough — there, I’ve said it.

         I think a young urban professional type would be the best best, someone with a confident, masculine speaking voice. The BBC and Deutsche Welle (in English) have anchors who fit this image.

         But this is an irrelevant quibble about a small detail. I agree with your premise — a half-hour news broadcast, streamed over a Web channel. The real key would be giving it a top-notch professional look in terms of camera work and editing and studio setting, not something that looks like it was Skyped from someone’s basement.

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4. Chechar says:

   February 27, 2011 at 9:23 am

   @ “At best, they might actually get into the Hollywood system and change its values.”

   That can only happen if you make such a super-bestselling film like Gibson’s Passion that you can become your own Executive Producer for your next, pro-West film (e.g., Apocalypto). Otherwise no mainstream producer will found you.

   Let’s imagine that we plan to take Pierce’s The Turner Diaries or Kurtagic’s Mister or Covington’s The Brigade to the big screen. First question: How could we, I mean realistically, film such explicit WN?

   OK: Let’s suppose that I had enough money to study cinematography and that after a decade or two I could manage to film implicit WN, for example a couple of Arthur C. Clarke’s futuristic novels where everybody is white (similar to LOTR where all the good guys were white, actually of the hyper-Nordic type).

   The trouble is that in a decade or two, when I finished my career, the US might already have gone bankrupt to afford novel Hollywood projects, not to mention that whites would be still less in the US as an approaching minority (i.e., time for explicit rather than implicit WN). To boot, how can we “might actually get into the Hollywood system and change its values” if for decades it has been controlled by the kikes? And it will be controlled by them unless a revolution takes place (cf. what the revolutionaries did to Hollywood in The Brigade).

   @ “I myself am doubtful that an ethnostate could ever be created in North America.”

   You should read the essay #2 of Toward the White Republic. Everything starts with a dream. If we had enough time, yes: I’d go to Hollywood and try to make my way among the kikes with lots of takiyas from my part. But in 2011 the situation is too far gone. If we were in the late 1960s or early 70s, perhaps.

   I wish I were wrong. Instead of trying to influence the media legally, I believe that Covington has a point by declaring all anti-white media journalists in the nation as legitimate military targets. But it’s too early to start shooting them, and perhaps too late to start a Hollywood career.

   Quite a dilemma, isn’t it?

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5. Stronza says:

   March 27, 2011 at 3:09 pm

   What’s so special about an IQ of 120? IQ is not everything and it is a bad idea for prowhites to be so fixated on it. Can it, will you.

   My IQ is 94 but I know what’s what. You guys with your giant brains still need some supposedly dim bulbs not unlike myself to clean up after you while you save our world. It’s always been this way; the women with the big IQs don’t want to do this kind of work or stay home with babies; they want to run for mayor of a big city and promote multiculturalism.

   Geeeeeze, boys, get a life.

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