Normies are the Real Schizos

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For the past two and a half years, the world has been gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic response. The disease itself, which broke out in China, turned out to be a bit of a nothingburger. Not exactly “just the flu, bro,” but not quite the doomsday plague many were hoping for. The response to the outbreak, however, has been a pandemic in its own right: a pandemic of hysteria, tyrannical government and corporate control over everyday affairs, disastrous economic policies whose effects are still with us, incautious promotion of unproven genetic therapy masquerading as a vaccine, and mistrust and division arising from the government/corporate tyrannies and vaccine mandates.

Our little corner of political space has not been spared the division and mistrust, of course, with two main camps forming. One has counselled against jumping headfirst into activism opposing COVID tyranny and vaccine mandates, while the other has maintained that it is vital that this new form of tyranny be vociferously opposed by white identitarian nationalists.

Inasmuch as it is possible, I’ve tried not to take a side in this division and maintain good relations with everyone involved for the simple reason that I see and recognize both positions as valid. It is certainly true that COVID tyranny and vaccine mandates are a danger to white populations in particular, given that it is white countries and white regions that have the highest compliance rates for vaccination and white people are the likeliest to ruin their health and livelihoods by complying with lockdown measures. This author in particular gained a tremendous amount of weight and took up heavy drinking during the lockdown period; my physical fitness levels did not return to pre-lockdown levels until June 2022.

People who’d taken the vaccine are experiencing an unprecedented rate of cardiovascular disease, to the point that schools and kindergartens now need defibrillators in the United Kingdom.

However, it is likewise true that our resources are limited, and there are already people who are pushing back against vaccines and COVID tyranny. Why should white identitarian nationalists waste time, effort, money, and human resources pushing back against this position when Joe Rogan and numerous others are already fighting this battle?

My own position has been that while I recognize the danger of mRNA vaccines, COVID tyranny, and its possible use by the ruling class to reinforce their hold on power, and while I will support opposition to this, my own efforts will be primarily directed towards counteracting demographic replacement, identifying and deconstructing anti-white narratives, and tearing down the Nuremberg Moral Paradigm. I likewise won’t let anti-COVID activism get in the way of White Nationalism. I oppose mass vaccination with the dangerous mRNA genetic slurry because it will disproportionately kill white people, not because I want to protect Africans from Bill Gates’ depopulation plans.

If only it were true! I’d set 20 years of customer loyalty to Apple and Sony on fire, always purchase original Windows, and wear this absolute dork’s ugly mug on a t-shirt. Alas, no, he is not, in all probability, a secret eugenicist, and his fiendish master plan is probably not to eradicate Africans.

But I’m not writing to relitigate those old discussions, but rather to object to a particular term which has unfortunately entered the Right-wing lexicon of late. That term is “schizo.”

Now, the words schizo and schizophrenia have been with us for a long time, and the attendant phenomenon for even longer, but in the wake of the COVID pandemic response and the resulting Great Reset, it has attained new meaning. It refers to a Right-winger who is focused on fighting back against the so-called Great Reset and Fourth Industrial Revolution and its many effects: central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), smart cities, the introduction of the subscription model for everything (“you’ll own nothing”), the elimination of motor vehicles and meat consumption, the replacement of meat with insect-derived protein (“you will eat the bugs”), and a universal reduction in living space (“you will live in a pod”) — all in the name of sustainability and fighting climate change. Of course, none of these proposed policies will do anything to counteract the existing demographic replacement and Kalergi-style admixture of all nations into one homogeneous brown goop.

The so-called schizos raise the alarm about anything leading to these possible outcomes, from government prohibition of gasoline-powered vehicles to food and fuel shortages, whether natural or engineered. They point out that these seemingly unplanned events always seem to be interpreted in a way favorable to the Great Reset and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Every heat wave is an example of climate change, every food shortage evidence of the necessity to eat bugs, and every economic crisis paves the way for smart cities and CBDCs. They warn that life is about to drastically change for the worse; that more people will be herded into these smart cities; that poor nutrition will produce weak, easily-controlled serfs; and that CBDCs will make it impossible for anyone to use resources in any way other than what the corporate governance structure deems appropriate. Forget about donating to Counter-Currents, or even purchasing a pork chop. They will warn that the ruling class is on the cusp of unprecedented levels of control over the population which will, among other things, make the pursuit of White Nationalist goals completely impossible.

Far be it from me to disavow the so-called schizos, given that I share their concerns about what our enemies might be planning and what has platformed them in the past (and I will continue to do so in the future). But I must admit that there is a kernel of truth to what the other side is saying. There is an element of throwing caution to the wind and just giving in to flights of fancy. Admittedly, I’ve never seen any nationalists who also warn about The Great Reset and COVID tyranny give in to the insanity, but it cannot be denied that there are a lot of kooks and cranks ringing the alarm bell about all sorts of insane things, such as the aforementioned narrative about Bill Gates. Another fan favorite is the notion that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is being used to open gateways to Hell and let loose demons on the world.

Thus, allow me to explain why I think the term schizo should be retained, but used more sparingly.

Again, the bulk of people who’ve lost their minds with regard to COVID tyranny and The Great Reset and those who believe that COVID was never real, or even that viruses are not real, that the natural state of the human body is health (it’s not), that disease is a product of modernity, that Klaus Schwab has personally raped thousands of children to death, or that The Great Reset itself is demonically-inspired magic are not nationalists. These are, in fact, for the most part center-Right or maybe even center-Left people whose notion of trust in public information has been shattered, but they haven’t replaced it with an alternative framework. They are, in a sense, epistemic nihilists.

Red-pilling, believe it or not, is not as simple as taking a pill. That is because it is an operation to reverse a process that’s equally complex, if not quite as difficult. That process is mind control. Mind control isn’t simple: It starts when humans are very young, and the first step is the implantation of an interpretational framework consisting of narrative cores and postulates about the nature of the world. This framework is later fleshed out with narrative and periodically updated through the process of media-signaling, especially authoritative media-signaling.

Red-pilling is a three-step process. First, the authoritative media-signaling must be interrupted; imagine breaking an antenna off a radio. Then, the faulty postulates — the narrative cores — must be extracted. Imagine computer chips being removed from brain tissue. The narrative cores having been removed, the faulty interpretative framework must be deconstructed and replaced with a correct interpretative framework; imagine the scales falling from Adam and Eve’s eyes as they took their fateful bite of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. It sounds long, painful, and unpleasant – because it is. The process of full red-pilling, of fully breaking the conditioning of a mind-controlled human being, is best described as a controlled nervous breakdown: We must break down what the old mind was if we are to rebuild it anew.

The phenomenon of the schizo, or the epistemic nihilist, arises from incomplete red-pilling — of stopping after the first or second step of the process. People who have their authoritative media-signaling interrupted, but do not proceed with further challenging of postulates — extraction of narrative cores — are stuck at the Alex Jones level of analysis, where the globalists are simply another form of Nazi eugenicists who want to exterminate our precious black people. People at this stage of partial red-pilling are vulnerable to subversion, because while they may have lost trust in the mainstream media, they can be hijacked by dissident media pretending to be friendly. They are mind-controlled opposition. MAGAtards, libertarians, and normie anti-COVID activists are at this stage: People who know that the media is lying to them, but are still trying to run the old narrative cores either alone, or under the guidance of “alternative” media.

Let’s say, however, that you’ve not only managed to break off the antenna, but also extract the computer chips — the narrative cores. The old framework still remains, however. You are still more or less a liberal thinker, just an inverted one. This puts you in the strange position of being a political Satanist in the sense that liberal democracy’s evil is now thine good. So, if freedom is good according to liberal democracy, then unfreedom is good, in your worldview. If popular government is good according to liberal democrats, then only absolute elite rule is good for you, preferably an absolutist monarchy (incidentally, the most modern, most degenerated, and least functional stage of monarchy’s development as a political system). If religious freedom and pluralism are good according to liberal democracy, then you can only be an explicit theocrat and support the burning of heretics.

This sounds cartoonishly contrarian, but there are people who seriously promote these positions, more or less for the reasons enumerated. Now, this is not to say that freedom, popular government, and religious pluralism are good, or that unfreedom, aristocratic rule, and theocracy are bad; this is only to indicate that people who still operate according to the old interpretative framework but with the narrative cores removed will simply propose a mirror image of today’s world, without any “good” to strive towards, except the old framework’s evils. Some examples of people stuck at this stage of development are all the post-libertarians, post-liberals, NRx, Catholic integralists, Western converso Orthobros (notably, not so much people who were born Orthodox), and Landian techno-utopians.

A third type of person exists who has managed to not only break off contact with the media-signaling and extract the narrative cores, but also to dismantle the old framework. Having not replaced it with a new interpretative framework, however, they are now true epistemic nihilists, unable to interpret the world as anything in particular. They genuinely believe in nothing and are in a sense nothing, coming to nothing but senseless violence. Fortunately for us, such people are rare, because man cannot live on bread alone and a man who has deconstructed the old framework will often seek out a new one, adopt it, and use it to interpret the world. Coming out the end of the process, the man can call himself fully red-pilled, awakened to the true nature of the world. Then the work begins in earnest. It is like learning to walk and talk anew, but when the process is complete, one’s understanding of the world is greatly sharpened.

In all of the intermediate stages, man suffers a form of nihilism given that his thought-process is incomplete and his means of interacting with the world is damaged. He is most susceptible to schizophrenic thinking in the first stage, when he learns to distrust the media, but still shares assumptions about the world with them. He usually resolves the resultant psychological tension by trying to flip the accusations coming in from the media and ruling class: “Democrats are the real racists,” “Bill Gates is a eugenicist,” “Klaus Schwab is a Nazi,” and so on. He is also vulnerable to enemies who try to instrumentalize him with false narratives. Hence, the ruling class is not motivated by hubris, neomania, and anti-white sentiment, but rather Satanism, pedophilia, and hatred of America (or Russia, depending of which empire the false narrative shills for).

In a sense, this paranoid ideation about Satanic pedophile elites summoning demons through the LHC at CERN and imposing Literal Nazi Eugenicist Communism on the poor Africans are epicycles which try to shore up a theory of the world built on wrong premises. Anti-white neomaniacs who think they can solve racism and end history by mixing all the races and fusing them with technology is just too mundane and boring, and besides, it would counteract the three very important narrative cores that white identitarianism is always bad, that the economy must keep growing, and that technological progress is always good.

This puts us in the curious position of having to wrangle these schizos. They are in the first stage of red-pilling, of becoming like us, but until they make the full transition, they are a liability. They look crazy to normal people and stupid to us. They still crave the approval of the mainstream, and while prepared to believe the media lies to them, they’re not prepared to believe that, whether knowingly or not, history books, their teachers, and their parents lied to them. They find our worldview repugnant and evil, and will often accuse us of being useful idiots for the globalist Nazi Satanists. Most of them will never clear this stage. Not helping matters is that if they graduate to the second stage, they become arrogant gasbags convinced they understand the world because they once Wikipedia’d Thomas Carlyle, and most of those never move on to the good stuff.

Even the schizos do not compare to the absolute insanity of the normie worldview, however, in which a DEADLY PANDEMIC VIRUS was unleashed by WHITE SUPREMACY to destroy COMMUNITIES OF COLOR and INJURE BLACK BODIES, but thankfully, THE EXPERTS, including Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, TRUSTED THE SCIENCE and managed to destroy RACIST CLIMATE CHANGE and WHITE SUPREMACIST ANTIVAXX INSURRECTIONISTS.

No matter how nutty someone may look, if they have rejected that most sacred of modern truths, that All Men Are Created Equal, they are a hundred times saner than anyone who believes any variation of the mainstream narrative. We, my esteemed readers, have the dubious privilege of being sane in a world slowly going insane, which is even worse than being right when the government is wrong.

So, let’s not call each other schizos, even if some of us may indeed go a little far afield. Compared to so-called normal people, we’re the very image of mental health.

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