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English philosopher John Gray is convinced we’re passing through a big historical moment, but he couldn’t tell you what it is.
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1998: What struck me
In 1998 it struck me that our civilization was dying. Moreover, it was dying by its own hand. Our institutions seemed to be bent on doing everything they could to destroy white society and culture, nor was any deception beneath them in their attempts to put a gloss on what they were doing. This degree of racial masochism would not reverse itself, I thought, nor would it be stopped by anything else. We were going to destroy our civilization come what may.
At the time, few people seemed to see anything amiss. When in conversation people asked me what I thought of this or that development, I would say something vague, such as that we were living in interesting times. I barely even mentioned political correctness for fear of eliciting a groan. Even my girlfriend, who understood what bothered me, didn’t see it as a problem.
2022: A Christian Speaks
Almost 25 years later, Gavin Ashenden, a former Chaplain to the late Queen, stated:
I’m not sure how long our culture and our civilization is going to survive in a recognizably present form. I think people will talk about the second Elizabethan age as bringing down the curtain on everything that we knew up to this point. Between now and 2030 the militant Left is going to try to cripple Christianity — what’s left of it — and has, by 2022, almost done it. . . . Christian teachers taken to jail simply because they refuse to accept the subjectivity of people they’re in a professional relationship with? Christian chaplains reported as terrorist threats because they do nothing more than offer a sensible and intelligent assessment of the different allegiances that our plurifom society brings? That’s now. I reckon in the next eight years it’s going to get a lot worse.[1]
2023: The Penny Drops for More People
Then, six months later, the penny suddenly seemed to drop in many other people’s minds. On May 5, 2023, Konstantin Kissin asked Andrew Klavan whether he thought the West was dying.[2] Within 24 hours, Jared Taylor, referring to the United States, said, “This country is dying.”[3] The same day, I heard someone say that our civilization was collapsing. On May 7, Emma Webb talked about the light of Western civilization going out.[4] Four days later, Melanie Phillips referred to “this great fight for Western civilization that the West is now engaged in.”[5] But in seeing a fight going on, she was being uncharacteristically optimistic. Referring to the cultural revolution, or the long march through the institutions, she had previously said more than once that the West had put up no opposition. On May 18, Calvin Robinson said that if anything was going to be conserved, only Christians could conserve it — but, he added, “I actually think it’s probably too late.”[6] His interviewer agreed, saying that he, too, had “come to the opinion that Western civilization is dead.”
2020: A Verbal Wank
What I found especially revealing, however, was an interview that could have signaled a turning point in some people’s understanding of what was going on that had come out three years earlier.
In July 2020, UnHerd published a video entitled “Philosopher John Gray: this moment is bigger than 1989” where Gray was interviewed by another intellectual, Freddie Sayers.[7] Although they seemed to sense that Western civilization was dead or dying, they didn’t treat it as anything to worry about, as they would presumably have treated something such as seeing that their houses were about to fall down or had already started doing so. They seemed to view our civilization’s impending or ongoing collapse with wise detachment. Yet, you couldn’t really say that they viewed it with wise detachment, since they never got round to saying what they were viewing. They were like great seers who for some reason couldn’t say what they had seen.
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The video’s description didn’t say what this moment was that was bigger than 1989. It suggested that “this moment of great change” may be akin to 1989, 1968, 1917, or 1848, but didn’t say what it meant by “this moment of great change.” It further stated that John Gray thought that the revelation of a “world of competing civilizational zones” wrought by “changes across the world and the retreat of the universalist ideal” could be more significant for humankind than any of those previous moments, but did not say what Gray thought these changes were, what he thought the competing zones were, or what he meant by the retreat of the universalist ideal.
The description then went on to say that in the video, Gray touched on parallels between today’s woke movement and medieval millenarianism, and said that he suggested that the world was becoming “more Game of Thrones.” He had apparently put on a “fascinating tour de force, steeped in knowledge and with a sweeping context.” It sounded more as though he had indulged in a verbal wank.
Freddie Sayers asked him in the interview whether he felt that this moment we were in was one of those “big-change” moments, a moment of revolution, or whether he thought we might carry on afterwards as we always had done. He didn’t say what moment we were in, mentioning nothing so specific as our headlong rush to abase ourselves in an attempt to appease Black Lives Matter or our frantic urge to dispose of freedom in the name of protecting ourselves from a virus.
Gray likened the situation in the West today to the collapse of Communism, implying that he saw the West as collapsing — but he, too, mentioned nothing specific. He spent eight minutes waffling on about Europe and globalism before saying that powerful movements were rejecting some of the most valuable elements of liberalism, such as tolerance and free inquiry, but he didn’t say what these powerful movements were. Then he turned to China and Russia. 13 minutes passed before either of them mentioned the lockdowns of the time. Neither of them mentioned Black Lives Matter.
Talking about the Cold War, Gray said that it hadn’t yet sunk in that the liberal West was a civilization and not the germ of universal civilization. Again, his use of the past tense suggested that he thought the West was over, but why did he presuppose this rather than asserting it? Had he ever asserted it, or was it more that now that he saw it, he preferred to act as if he had always known it?
We were learning, he said, that our civilization was only one of many, but he didn’t name the others; still less did he descend to the level of facts, which might have illustrated his thesis, if he had one. He merely stated that he hoped our civilization would survive, contradicting his implication that it was on its way out.
This is how intellectuals avoid unpleasant subjects. Year after year they go on as if everything is fine when any fool can see that it isn’t, and when it finally comes through even to them that it isn’t, they speak as though any fool can see this. The video was a real-time illustration of Schopenhauer’s dictum that all truth passes through three stages, first being ridiculed, then being violently opposed, and finally being accepted as self-evident.[8]
John Gray finally made a dumbfoundingly stupid remark when he said that mass mobility was limited by the virus. It was the virus that imposed the lockdowns, in his opinion, not the government. I say “finally,” but that wasn’t the end of the video. I just couldn’t be bothered to watch any more.
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Notes
[1] Premier Unbelievable, September 9, 2022, “Gavin Ashenden — Why the death of Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of Christendom.”
[2] Triggernometry, May 5, 2023, “Andrew Klavan: Why The West Isn’t Over.”
[3] American Renaissance, May 6, 2023, “HOW TO SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS.”
[4] The New Culture Forum, May 7, 2023, “Is The West History? Can Western Civilization Survive? Genius of Western Civilization — Episode 6.”
[5] JNS TV, May 11, 2023, “Melanie Phillips: The Great Fight for the West in an Age of Unreason.”
[6] Pints With Aquinas, May 18, 2023, “Rev. Calvin Robinson.”
[7] UnHerd, July 22, 2020, “Philosopher John Gray: this moment is bigger than 1989.”
[8] The quote, paraphrased here, is contested, although Schopenhauer apparently did say in The World as Will and Representation that “[t]o truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical or disparaged as trivial.”
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Collapses, whether of stars or civilisations are predictable, but only in a statistical sense, according to a characteristic timescale. On its current trajectory of entropy and replacement I would not give Western Europe odds of surviving for more than one additional generation. Serious trouble in France has, I think, been contained, for the present. But the UK looks certain to elect a leftist administration that will greatly augment centrifugal forces, and unlike in other European nations (but similar to the US) the electoral system prevents a true party of the right from rising. Will future historians in Warsaw and Budapest look back at the 2040s as the decade when London and Paris submitted to the sword of Islam and the lies of the Left were laid bare — but it was too late?
Maybe, but why the Islam is to blame for the WESTERN degradation and decline, which have absolutely internal causes and were not imposed from outside? And those degradation and decline began in 1789, when the Islam did not play any role in Europe.
He’s not blaming Islam for the West’s decline. He’s saying that the West’s decline and degradation (which it brought on itself due to failure to respond to internal attacks) will be the reason for any future Islamic victory over it.
As the well-known right wing extremist, the Dalai Lama has stated:
Europe is for Europeans; others should go home.
At this point I would say the number 1 issue that only transnational billionaires are discussing is lowering the birthrates of Third World peoples. We have to quash this problem at the source rather than simply yearning to rebuild our own birthrates. So this immigrant flood eventually becomes a trickle and recedes back to whence it came even without nationalist legislation. We need nonwhite countries to quickly enter their demographic transition. The most dramatic fertility decline in history occurred in Greenland because the Danes foresaw the disaster of self-rule and inevitable migration of the Inuits and interfered – reducing the tfr from over 7 children pet woman in 1961 to well under 3 by 1974, offsetting the exploding Greenlandic population to the present day. That type of birth control could not occur in the Current Year, but what can be done is exporting postmodernism, feminism, LGBT etc, which has ravaged Latin America.
What will happen to the reliability of the electric-power generating stations, as the whites decline in number..? What will happen when Air Canada, American Airlines, British Airways, hire more non-white (diverse?), pilots fur commercial fights….more air crashes? Perhaps, we are living in the last stage of the “Age of the Kali Yuga”…?
The same thing will happen to aircraft, power plants, infrastructure, etc, that happened to that submersible submarine that recently imploded. The politicians and the elites will blame the decline on whites and a lack of diversity.
So what is the reader supposed to take away from the “A Christian Speaks” section? Does the author believe that “Western Civilisation” sine qua non is just Christian civilisation? Or that it is an indispensable part? Contra multiple millenia of non-Christian and fiercely anti-Christian philosophers and statesmen that Western civilisation has produced?
Disingenous.
Anticipating the author, I imagine he thinks its complicated. A shared religion is one of the best methods for encouraging co-operation between large and widespread populations in matters vital to their survival. Like it or not Christianity, with all its schisms and brutal civil wars, was our religion for a millennium or more ( a bit less in North-East Europe ) and our culture is indelibly Christian, albeit we are currently at the drycleaners where all sorts of things are being done to remove the stain. The pagan past and dissenting philosophers during the Christian period don’t change the fact of Christianity’s inseparability from the modern West.
The following is US data because it’s easiest to build a picture of one nation with one language rather than Europe which is complicated by multiple languages and inter-European ethnic differences.
Relevant data:
Most white adults attend religious services a few times a year or less as of 2019 (57%), while “Regular churchgoers still outnumber those who infrequently or never go to religious services among black Americans (58% vs. 41%)”
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/
About 38% of white members of Generation Z are Christians, while 46% are nones [nonreligious] . . . 30% of Gen Z never attend religious services
https://religioninpublic.blog/2021/07/19/generation-z-and-religion-the-most-recent-data/
While two-thirds of seniors are white Christians, only around a quarter of people 18-29 are . . . thanks mostly to a large number of Hispanic parishioners, and the apostasy of young white people, Jones says that the church is “almost reaching parity”, and “in many areas of the country the church is majority Latino”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/20/end-of-white-christian-america
Over 40% of white U.S adults “do not believe Jesus will return/do not believe in Jesus” (Pew Research)
But Christianity is big in Africa:
“Among Christians, religion most important in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the United States: % Christians who say religion is “very important” in their lives”:
Ghana: 89%, Nigeria, 82%, Ethopia, 98%, South Africa, 79%
Phillipines: 98%, Colombia: 80%, Honduras, 94%
Percentage of Christians who attend church at least once a week:
Nigeria, 89%, Zambia, 85%, Tanzania, 83%, Central African Republic, 83%, etc. etc. In Japan, it’s 50%, in the United States, it’s 47%.
Lastly:
30% of Whites are Christian Nationalism rejectors, 38% are Christian Nationalism Skeptics
PRRI / Brookings Christian Nationalism Survey, 2023
In conclusion:
Christianity is a non-white religion, specifically an extremely black religion, and there is overwhelming public opposition to all forms of “Christian Nationalism”.
To the extent that we have any civilization left it stems from and references European Christianity. Limitless liberalism is the junk food replacement which younger generations have had slopped into their pannikin to turn them into beasts rather than moral beings. How do you propose to guide our societies to the promised land?
I don’t care about any Christianity, European or otherwise. Maybe when it finally disappears whites will stop sending food aid to Africa.
Evidently, but if not muscular, racially-conscious Christianity then what? And how?
The West is dying, but it is certainly not dead. As long as a minimally sustainable breeding population of whites exists, along with some portion of the immense archives of Western accomplishment and identity, the West lives, and can continue doing so indefinitely. Our situation is dire, and the hour is late, but we are far from defeated. For more than a century, it’s been a race between an awakening to a new and higher collective racial consciousness, one which inspires us to cast aside our petty ethnonationalisms and selfish individual interests to build a true international “brotherhood of the blood”, and the intensifying of antiwhite propaganda and persecution in de facto alliance with alien settler-colonialism. A race between “the ripening harvest and the encroaching jungle” (as Wilmot Robertson put it at the beginning of The Dispossessed Majority).
From the vantage of the wide field of history, nothing is more important, to whites and to the world, than that we should win this race. It is the supreme task of our time, for theists and atheists, for Christians as well as Romans. It matters not whether one is a Platonist, looking up, or an Aristotelian, looking down. Morality is with us, and the science is ours, too. We have a right to live, to reject imperialistic integration, to live racially free, in accordance with both our evolutionary origins, and, if one is pious in the face of creation, the will of God. If we must fight in the shadows of pseudonymity, it is out of tactical expedience alone; we have nothing to be ashamed of.
I must admit, however, that I’m glad I lived when I did (though I wish I’d been born 20 years earlier around when Biden was born, which would have seen me miss both the Korean and Vietnam wars). I’ve gotten through about three-quarters of my life. Birth and early childhood in the 60s; later childhood and adolescence in the 70s; college, grad school, and young adulthood in the 80s; prime of life in the 90s and 00s; early middle age in the 10s; later middle age in the 20s; senior citizenship in the 30s; old age and (likely for me, if I make it) death in the 40s. Things will get worse over the remaining two or so decades of my life. But they will get much, much worse after 2050, when the vast bulk of my giant Boomer generation, the last, large white generational cohort, shall have passed from this mortal coil (a few nonagenarian Late Boomers will be around, of course). After 2030, the GOP will be decreasingly viable, while at some late point in that decade, or maybe early in the next, control of the Supreme Court will permanently pass to its Ketanji Jackson wing. After 2040, the Federal Government will be as leftist/diversity-dominated as California is today. By 2050, the US shall either have split apart ideologico-geographically (Red State/Blue State divorce), or it will have become a near-universal anarcho-tyranny.
As I say, looking forward, I’m thankful to have lived when I did, dispiriting though the decades have been.
I liked the first part of your post and was expecting a call to arms, not the navel-gazing ruminations on your own mortality. No doubt you understand that your individual life is not so very important, except as it serves a higher purpose. We must use this decade when we still have some demographic heft wisely because things will not go well for our people as a demoralized minority, ruled over by Jews , white liberal women, mulattos and Asiatic hybrids.
Imperium
I have a lot of respect for you, and I agree with about 90% of what you post here, but I have to admit, the second part of your post scares me to the point of heart palpitations and dizzy spells.
I was born in 1987. I’m probably about 25-30 years younger than you are. I never got to live in the America that you had a small taste of. I primarily grew up in the 1990s and the early-2000s. While those years were “less bad” than today, they were in no means the truly historical america or without serious problems already.
I started school in 1991 (too early) and even though I was very young, I could tell even then that something was truly wrong with the USA, I just couldn’t get identify it by name. I also remember that same year, both my parents and my one grandfather were endlessly spout about how they didn’t feel the United States of that time was “The America they grew up in.” Whenever I’d go shopping with my grandfather at the local Jamesway or even Walmart and we’d see Muslims, Hindus, and Mexicans all around, my grandfather would casually mutter about how “These people weren’t here a couple of decades ago. What’s wrong? We’d also notice rampant black and Mexican criminality and 3rd world conditions when we’d have to drive through Newburgh, New York to get somewhere, and I noticed that nearly half of all movies and television shows no longer featured predominantly white actors, most children’s television shows were “diverse” and rap and R&B music was becoming more popular than rock and country music — and everything I just described to you was in 1991, let alone 2023!
As I continued growing up in the 1990s, and I can reference things from that decade on YouTube, nearly all talk shows revolved around white guilt and non-white complaining, and even when a talk show would have member of the KKK on, the Klan members would even talk like a cuckservative at times, because even THEY were afraid to be called a racist on the Ricki Lake show on worldwide television! Whites were unbelievably filled with guilt and super colorblind in the 1990s. To some extent, even worse than they are today. Interracial relationships were run rampant in the 1990s, and even most TV shows like Boy Meets World and Saved by the Bell pushed the race-mixing agenda through its characters. The church I was raised in, a 98% white denomination (Reformed Presbyterian) even made it a priority in 1994 to have at least one minority speaker and leader at every vacation Bible school and evening children’s program. They would have all of these Vietnamese Sunday school teachers, Indian lecturers, and Iranian Summer coordinators. As a 7 year old child, it was truly mysterious to me how in my day to day life I kept seeing less and less white people everywhere — from shopping, to school, to church, to movies, to housing.
In 1997, I found a copy of an American renaissance print issue at my best friend’s house one day when I was staying over. My friends’ father had been following it since 1990, as well as other white nationalist groups since the 1980s. Even though I was only 10 years old, I casually read it over and began to wonder what I was reading about race. It planted the seed I needed to understand what, in fact, was going on in the USA in the 1990s. I then read David Dukes’ book “My Awakening” in the summer of 1999, and in the early-2000s I would find things hidden in libraries by Kevin Alfred Strom, Don Black, etc. I graduated high school in 2005, and I’ve been a white advocate ever since.
While our situation is downright horrific today (it wasn’t ‘too much’ better in the 1990s, honestly) A few things are different now than 32 years ago…
1) The Great Replacement, below-replacement fertility among whites, and the Jewish question are all fervently in the open, and even our enemies don’t deny of it anymore, like they did in the last 35 years. Whites have nothing to lose here anymore.
2) There’s been a slow realization by whites since the 1990s that we are being demographically replaced in America and all of our other nations, we have been removed from nearly all entertainment, culture, education, and the private sector economy/entrepreneurship, other races and Muslims all hate us no matter what, and we are dating interracially WAY more than at any time in history — especially the last 40 years. Not a natural change.
3) Even the most cuckservative whites are starting to have conversations with me about how they’re noticing racial differences and how their small towns have become multicultural hellholes in the last 30 years. When I tell them what needs to be done about it, they no longer shriek in horror like they would have back in 1991. I think there’s a true, internal realization in whites that is brewing about the truth regarding demography.
If a number of us can lead the charge, what I’m wondering is if that would create a domino effect among other whites who know the truth and what needs to be done to save their countries and themselves, and they would stop being fearful about publicly awakening and demanding a stop to all of this? My current breakdown of American whites (roughly 200 million) is that 25% are hopelessly unreachable. 25% know the truth and what needs to be done, and half of them are not afraid to say it publicly and half are still cowards. And the remaining 50% are clueless whites, but whom “can” be reached.
I am likely to live another 50 years on this planet, and I sure as bleeping hell do not want to live through a scenario like you describe beginning in the 2030s and beyond. Whatever in heavens name it would take to stop that and prevent it, I’m in. It’ll be awful once, but then we will be free to look our children and grandchildren in the eyes again, as well as our own comfort gong to Walmart and not seeing the entire maps of Saudi Arabia and Central America in Fayette county, Kentucky.
What are your thoughts? I value your input
Thank you for your kind words. I’m exceptionally preoccupied at the moment, being set to be hospitalized this week. I’ll be indisposed for about 2 weeks (maybe a bit less). If you see me commenting on another post, and I’ve forgotten to return to this one (posts seem to remain open to comments for a couple of months), please remind me, and I’ll be happy to carry on this conversation.
I expect to celebrate my 62nd birthday next month. On the very small chance I don’t “make it”, my best advice is live your life defensively, on the very realistic assumption that, at best, life for whites qua whites (in America, but I assume also across the planet) is going to get a lot worse, physically and financially/professionally, as well as psychologically and emotionally. I think the country will continue to segregate ideologico-geographically (eg, hordes of conservatives leaving CA and NY, and moving to FL, TX, Idaho, etc). It seems obvious to me that, as a still young man (esp. if unmarried, and not absolutely attached for other family reasons to a Blue state, as I have been), you should try your best to get yourself to a state that is both high in percentage of whites (which will decline, but there is a tendency for nonwhites to congregate with their own kind, too -> one reason why so much imported diversity settled in CA: they already had earlier immigrant relatives there!), and already strongly conservative. Contrary to some wishful thinking I’ve seen at CC and AR, I hold that it will be white conservatives who’ll be the whites most likely to transition into more survivalistic and “groupish” nationalists as times worsen. White race liberals – and that is the defining characteristic of white liberalism today – are 90%+ hopeless evolutionary defectives, imo; their racial utopianism is an absolutely psychologically integral aspect of their very self-identities. They would 1000x rather live on their knee than fight back on their feet.
You don’t want to try to build your life around white leftists, as I did (though solely for family reasons; I knew all this by the time you were born, but I was stuck as an only child with long ailing parents who couldn’t professionally, later medically, get out – and now neither can I for a few more years until retirement). The longer you’re in a place, the more roots you grow, and the ever-tougher it becomes to exit. If you have some geographic latitude wrt your work, I would try to find work in a state and city you could see as relatively defensible for the longest time. I have nationalist or conservative friends who have already migrated to Utah, Idaho, TN, TX and FL (looking far forward I would reject the latter three myself, although my friends are all happy there – for now). I could one day (but before 2050) see a substantial migration of Northeastern white rightists headed to the Northern Tier states: Maine, NH and even Vermont (which is very leftist, with many NY Jews, but also very white, and small: enough WNs going there could flip it politically; ditto ME and NH).
The point is that only the maximally “in-grouped” (geographically as well as psychologically) whites will be able to achieve tolerably satisfying lives in the “gathering storm”. My prediction is that things will keep worsening (with the occasional reversion to civilization here and there, but the overall “linear regression” towards decline seems clear to me), until the Federal Government loses control, and the country goes right over the cliff. At that point, various Red (read: overwhelmingly non-leftist white) States may well secede, or at least extract greater state powers from the Feds, for a while. You will want to be in one of those states (and working for secession is a good way to do something for the prowhite cause “overtly”, while continuing covertly or quietly to educate the educable within your circles about racial realities, including the ever-increasing physical vulnerabilities of whites, in the US and across the Earth). Also, if you are unmarried, you will have an easier time finding a quality wife in a white conservative area (and that is very important for your emotional happiness, but again also for your long term well-being: my very best advice for a young prowhite man planning to make it to old age is, have some fun with that gorgeous progressive girl, but DO NOT MARRY her; you almost certainly will regret it; I’ve seen it several times). If you’re stuck in a Blue area, at least focus your dating on using the internet to find conservative girls (not easy, I know), esp. ones open to eventually moving to a safer place.
I have a lot more to say, but I do have to go now. We can speak more down the road. Good luck.
I’m three and a half years younger than you, living in the UK. I have no children and I’m too old to have them now. However, I’m self-employed and will pass my business on to a young White nationalist thirty years younger than me. Other posters have claimed you’re predictions are negative – no, your predictions are realistic. We are part of a continuous chain. We have to co-operate in order to continue.
I have a distant half memory of watching on a grainy black and white TV set with my family, the July 1969 moon mission – the rocket leaving the Earth’s darkening atmosphere – then out into the vastness of outer space; young people throwing rocks at soldiers and police armed with clubs, shields and tear gas grenade launchers – Paris, Berkeley, Belfast? I didn’t understand what was going on – I was more interested in my plate of chocolate biscuits, banana sandwiches and my toy “Thunderbirds” space rocket – but for some reason I still remember – wasn’t everything supposed to be perfect?.
That period – 1969 -’70 -’71; a mere quarter century from the failed attempt at containing Bolshevism, leaving Europe cut in half was on the surface optimistic for people to the west of the Iron Curtain. People wore smart clothes – men in jackets and ties; women of all ages feminine – the younger and pretty in mini-skirts and long zip-up boots. But the rot had already set in. Here in the UK, Enoch Powell had recently made his speech – a call to arms – a golden opportunity stolen by bombastic and pompous costume fantasists that wanted to recreate the 1930’s. Thank God they’ve all gone!
A new generation is rising
Predictions of doom will certainly come true absent a general uprising by the traditional owners of European societies, European men. Unless they can convince a significant proportion of their womenfolk to follow, then even that may not be enough. Conditions for revolt will not be better in ten years time than they are now. Hence all efforts at recruitment and resistance should be redoubled. White ingathering can be a useful part of that but we need to maintain as much presence in the power structure as possible which involves living and working in enemy-occupied territory.
I think it’s unfair to blame skinheads and neo-Nazis for the failure to heed Mr Powell. This was the opposition they wanted you to see. The publishing and electronic media complex was so thoroughly in enemy hands at that point that ‘reasonable’ opposition such as from the Australian League of Rights, if anything, received harsher treatment so as to scare off the punters. It was much harder then to find one’s own information to question a story. Newspapers, magazines, radio and television were it. Self-publishing books was nearly unheard of.
https://alor.org/
Thank you for your reply. As regards Powell; he believed that positive change would occur naturally via the established conventional political system – this did not happen. If instead during the two years immediately following his speech and subsequent expulsion from the shadow cabinet he aligned himself with the newly formed National Front, then the anti-social elements that later destroyed the party would have at least been kept in check or ideally not been present at all.
Yes, you are right – access to information at the time wasn’t as readily available as it is now; in order to back up an argument you had to have a point of reference and you would have to know what that point of reference was – hard copy books and journals etc. Without this it would be like being alone in a foreign city, unable to speak the language trying to find an address without a map.
Thank you also for the interesting link to the “Australian League of Rights”, an organisation that appears to be not unlike the “Traditional Britain Group”.
Yes. Whilst highly principled, capable and inordinately erudite, it does seem as though Mr Dr Professor Brigadier Powell was not thoroughly aware of the nature of the forces ranged against him and too enamoured of tradition to countenance the effectively fascistic BNF. By way of small consolation in your alternate timeline, there’s no guarantee that Powell might not have been taken out by a sponsored IRA hitman or somesuch, had he had any effect.
Pax vobiscum
Struggling, not dying. Fight our enemies hard, on every front, with no surrender. Do so with no fear and with absolute resolve. Honor our European ancestors and take no prisoners. Endure the insults, lies and accusations. If we do this, all of us, we cannot be defeated.
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