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Travis LeBlanc
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Domina Jalbert. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Onesime Jalbert of Quebec and his wife Celestine had 17 children. In their defense, the television had not been invented yet. Of the 17 Jalbert children, 16 of them lived and died leaving nary a mark on the world. Ah, but the 17th child, now he had a destiny! For while his beginnings were humble, he was blessed by the Almighty with a gift that would change the world.
Domina Jalbert was born in a Quebecois slum in 1904. As a youth, Jalbert became fascinated with aerodynamics. He got his pilots license in 1927 and began a career designing lighter-than-aircraft. Throughout his career, Jalbert designed various kinds of kites and parachutes. During WWII, he was commissioned to design military observation balloons. But in 1964, Domina Jalbert created his masterpiece, an invention that was a virtual revolution in aerodynamics. Jalbert’s patent application called it a “Multi-cell wing type aerial device.” Today, it is more commonly know as a “paraglider.”
On October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters used Domina Jalbert’s invention to strike a blow against Israel, causing savage reprisals in Gaza, a widening war, and a world-wide Jewish meltdown. This, combined with Elon Musk reinstating free speech on Twitter has brought a total shift in the paradigm. The anti-Zionist sentiment that flared up across the political spectrum has allowed the Dissident Right to reach new audiences, and the pro-white scene is now bigger than ever. To put it into perspective, Ricky Vaughn was the most popular Alt Right account in 2016 with 56,000 followers. There are now well over a dozen explicitly pro-white accounts with followings in the hundreds of thousands, with more crossing that threshold all the time.
On top of this, several big-name establishment conservatives have started dipping their toe into Dissident Right talking points. Charlie Kirk has discussed the inevitability of white identitarianism, while Candace Owens got fired from Daily Wire for discussing Jewish power. Dissident Right ideas have become so trendy that cynical grifters like Alex Jones and Stew Peters have been engaging in various degrees of bandwagon hopping.
While the Dissident Right is now bigger than ever, it is also dumber than ever. Historically, most people came into the Dissident Right through libertarianism and as such, were political theory nerds. There is a lot to criticize about libertarianism, but it is a good starting point because it gets people in the habit of thinking in terms of systems and big pictures, as opposed to conservatism, which is a basket of issues (pro-gun, anti-abortion, and small government).
However, a lot of the growth in the pro-white sphere these days is coming from the manosphere and conspiracy theory communities. While the scene is exponentially larger than it has ever been, the rank and file are not as fluent or as knowledgeable as they were in, say, 2016 when we were still a movement of political theory nerds.
As well as things are going, it might be tempting for us old heads to say, “My work here is done.” But in fact we are needed now more than ever. Those of us who remember the bad old days have much to offer newcomers coming into the movement. While pro-white ideas have been making headway in the mainstream, there is still a need for an intellectual elite.
We can’t just leave the fate of our race up to people like Candace Owens, who—while she is right about Jews—also says a lot of stupid things that undermine her better talking points. Having Charlie Kirk flirt with pro-white ideas is wonderful, but he is still beholden to powerful interests, so we can’t quite count on him either. It’s great to see anyone with a large audience come into the movement, even if they are doing so cynically, but grifters are known to tailor their message to maximize profitability.
Our ideas are everywhere now, but a lot of the new people doing white advocacy are doing it wrong. There are people claiming to be pro-white while also claiming Jews are white. Or maybe they will talk about the Jewish problem but insist that it can be solved by having them convert to Christianity. There are people calling out Israel but doing it by comparing Israelis to Nazis.
They have promise. They have passion. But they have a lot of contradictions and rough edges. They need a finishing school. That’s our job at Counter-Currents. So we are asking you (yes YOU!), the reader, to contribute to Counter-Currents to keep the pro-white movement from becoming too dumb. With VDare closing its doors, Counter-Currents is now more important than ever.
It’s up to us old heads who remember the bad ol’ days to mentor this new generation of pro-whites that are coming through. But we can only do so with the generosity of readers like yourself.
You might think, “But what good would my contribution do? I’m but one man! Surely my efforts won’t make a difference!”
But Domina Jalbert was also just one man. Did Domina Jalbert say, “The world already has hang-gliders, and it already has parachutes. Does it really need something that’s halfway between the two? What good would that do?” No, he didn’t overthink it. He just invented the paraglider, and without knowing it, he helped change the course of history.
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26 comments
Ad There are people calling out Israel but doing it by comparing Israelis to Nazis.
Such comparison isn’t unjustified. Kevin MacDonald:
There is an eerie sense in which National Socialist ideology was a mirror image of traditional Jewish ideology. As in the case of Judaism, there was a strong emphasis on racial purity and on the primacy of group ethnic interests rather than individual interests. Like the Jews, the National Socialists were greatly concerned with eugenics. Like the Jews, there was a powerful concern with socializing group members into accepting group goals and with the importance of within-group altruism and cooperation in attaining these goals.
Both groups had very powerful internal social controls that punished individuals who violated group goals or attempted to exploit the group by freeloading. The National Socialists enacted a broad range of measures against Jews as a group, including laws against intermarriage and sexual contact, as well as laws preventing socialization between groups and restricting the economic and political opportunities of Jews. These laws were analogous to the elaborate social controls within the Jewish community to prevent social contact with gentiles and to produce high levels of economic and political cooperation.
Corresponding to the religious obligation to reproduce and multiply enshrined in the Tanakh, the National Socialists placed a strong emphasis on fertility and enacted laws that restricted abortion and discouraged birth control. In a manner analogous to the traditional Jewish religious obligation to provide dowries for poor girls, the National Socialists enacted laws that enabled needy young couples to marry by providing them loans repayable by having children.
As in the society depicted in the Tanakh and throughout Jewish history, the National Socialists regarded people who could not prove the genetic purity of their ancestry as aliens with fewer rights than Germans, with the result that the position of Jews in National Socialist society was analogous to the position of the Nethinim or the Samaritans in ancient Israelite society, or converts in historical Jewish societies, or the Palestinians in contemporary Israel.[147] As with Israel, the state had become the embodiment of an exclusivist ethnic group.
Both groups had a well-developed ideology of historical struggle involving the group. Jewish resistance during the period “was founded on militant movements for Zionism, socialism, or Communism—movements that had always provided their members with a strong sense of historical struggle and an identification with group goals rather than individual satisfaction” (Kren & Rappaport 1980, 114)—clearly a statement that could apply not only to Zionism but to traditional Judaism as a whole. We have seen that the National Socialists had a similar ideology of historical struggle and self-sacrifice. Gordon (1984, 114) states that “it was clearly Hitler’s conception that he was working for group goals—those of the ‘Aryan people’ and that his individual fate mattered little.”
In this regard, Hitler’s attitude that death was the only honorable fate for himself and his followers was entirely similar to that of the Jewish resistors of the period (Gordon 1984, 115). Kren and Rappaport (1980, 217) describe a situation in which “the youth—the best, the most beautiful, the finest that the Jewish people possessed—spoke and thought only about an honorable death…befitting an ancient people with a history stretching back over several thousand years.
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As an evolutionary psychologist Prof. Kevin MacDonald probably believes that the Nazis were social darwinians. If so, I disagree with that view.
The 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws were not any big deal. Instead of merely defining nationality via one’s land of birth (jus solis) it also defined citizenship by who one’s parents were (jus sanguis). So you needed both Blood and Soil to be a German citizen and not merely by being a legal “GPS” resident (subject of the state). Hitler talks about this in Mein Kampf.
Until recently, all you needed to do to cross the border from Mexico into the United States is to tell the customs official that you were born somewhere in one of the 50 states. You did not actually have to give them the GPS coordinates of your place of birth, and they checked nothing. However, if you barely spoke English you might need to show them a utility bill from El Paso, Texas or something like that.
We have had de facto “GPS Citizenship” in the USA since the 14th Amendment which was meant (in part) to impose Negroes politically upon the defeated South. That was not too much of a problem elsewhere until the 1960s when the Black hordes roared out of the South and migrated everywhere else in the country ─ and not just Northern inner cities like 1920s Harlem to play Jazz music for Jews and sell dope in speakeasies ─ and then to Detroit in the 1940s to make Sherman tanks to fight the Nazis. In the mid-1960s, for example, the only Negro that you saw in Las Vegas, Nevada was a Jewish convert named Sammy Davis Jr.
Anyway, unless one brought a gaggle of Negroes back to Germany from a Great War campaign in Namibia, which would not have gone over very well, it was not that hard to make the cut of “German” blood. Lots of Germans have Slavic names, for example.
As far as Jews, they were barred after 1935 from German citizenship, but the new Nazi law reserved great respect for proportions of German blood from the product of mixed marriages.
For example, one was racially a German with full citizenship unless he had three Jewish grandparents ─ or only two if one either practiced Judaism or had a Jewish spouse, or if one had been a Communist agitator.
He might have needed a better pedigree to make the SS, but not necessarily. There were many such in the Waffen-SS. A nice guy who was a Waffen-SS veteran as a boy used to post on the Axis History Forum. I believe that he passed away quite a few years ago. He went by the handle of Dr. HaEn and was a podiatrist or something like that living in the American Northwest. He was born in the Netherlands and was a Mormon (LDS) convert and had one Jewish Grandma. He wrote a memoir about his wartime service in the SS, but his family did not let him publish it for fear of him getting Demjanjuked by the ADL or something.
Anyway, I’m told by insiders that Israel does indeed permit Arabs to become Israeli citizens, although not in the occupied territories, of course. I don’t know how true this is but it strikes me that calling Israelis “Nazis” (for whatever reason) makes about as much sense as calling them “Goyim,” and it’s probably about as effective as anti-Zionist propaganda.
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I just looked up HaEn on the Axis History Forum:
“Good Bye
Post by HaEn » 27 Jun 2013, 11:40
“Hello fellow forum members,
“I just got interrogated for about an hour about my military service in and after WWII.
“It seems that somebody has been giving out half truth information, about my involvements.
“I think that it therefor will be wise to quit all forums, to prevent this happening again.
“Thank you for your interaction, and remember there are three sides to all stories: yours, mine and the facts.
“I am in late stages of metastasized cancer, so I am at peace with it.
“Greetings from Portland Oregon,
“Haen”
One of the things that sucks so much about aging is that you can remember so many decent people who have passed before you.
“Sadly our friend Dr. Hugo Neyenhuis died just before midnight on May 8th (2014) in Portland, Oregon. Hugo believed that he was the last surviving member of the 34th SS Freiwilligen Division “Landstorm Nederland” where he had seen combat as an SS-Unterscharführer.”
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Travis says: Our ideas are everywhere now, but a lot of the new people doing white [sic] advocacy are doing it wrong. There are people claiming to be pro-white [sic] while also claiming Jews are white [sic]. Or maybe they will talk about the Jewish problem but insist that it can be solved by having them convert to Christianity. There are people calling out Israel but doing it by comparing Israelis to Nazis… It’s up to us old heads who remember the bad ol’ days to mentor this new generation of pro-whites [sic] that are coming through.
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We old heads cannot fix stupid, Travis. If these young new Whites think Jews are White or that Jews converting to Christianity (Conversos, dampened Jews, Jews for Jesus, or Episcopalians) is the answer to the Jewish Question, let them figure out how to do that on Twitter and other social media. I’ll stick with the teachings of older, wiser heads like Drs. William Pierce and Revilo Oliver who never fell for such nonsense.
Cotard does a good job of quoting Dr. MacDonald’s drawing parallels of Judaism’s racial ideology to that of the National Socialists. So what? If group-think had worked to preserve the Jewish race for so many centuries, what’s wrong with the National Socialists adopting a similar group-think that had worked to preserve the German people? That is until Jewry and her stupid allies vanquished the racially responsible National Socialists. Again, see “The Measure of Greatness” at nationalvanguard.org
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Scott: October 20, 2024 As an evolutionary psychologist Prof. Kevin MacDonald probably believes that the Nazis were social darwinians. If so, I disagree with that view.
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Whatever. That’s your prerogative. I like that KMac consistently used the term National Socialist when making his comparisons rather than “Nazi,” the dismissive, derogatory word used by enemies of Germany and of NS, like you do.
I like to capitalize the word White when referring to our race. That’s my prerogative. Maybe that simple standard of respect for our people will catch on, even with a few White numbskulls who believe Jews are White or that somehow having Jews embrace Christianity (as Conversos, Jews for Jesus, dampened Jews, or as Episcopalians) — to worship their same imaginary tribal deity — is what is needed for our kinsmen to prevail against theirs in the eternal struggle of Aryan vs. Jew.
I never said that Jews were “White.” Hitler said that Jews were a race, and that is how they think of themselves. They tend towards seeing their “race” as Jew versus Gentile rather than as skin color, however.
Also, when I write “White,” I always capitalize it if I mean something other than a color, i.e., if I mean a racial classification.
I would say that Race is skin color and everything underneath, including ancestry, culture, etc. That was the view of George Lincoln Rockwell at least. Maybe Americans tend to be a little less provincial about it than Europeans, since we have an amalgamated Anglo and German ancestry and we have a long history dealing with Negroes.
Yes, I often use the less formal term Nazi, which is just German shorthand for National (pronounced naht-zee-on-all).
I have no objection to the term National Socialist, of course, but the Nazis actually used the term “Nazi” in informal settings, and with great affection!
If some Leftist rabble thought that the term was disparaging, Dr. Goebbels would have laughed at them. He was damn proud of being a “Nazi.”
I can supply Goebbels quotes from his journals in the original German if that would help.
One example that I can think of is that Dr. Goebbels was complaining in his diary that he thought that the attorney and intellectual Arthur Seyss-Inquart who was then the Reichskommissar of the occupied Netherlands was being a little soft on Dutch resisters.
That is probably hyperbole since Seyss-Inquart answered directly to Hitler and approved hundreds of Dutch executions and was one of the main players who was hanged at Nuremberg in 1946. In his Last Will & Testament, Hitler appointed Seyss-Inquart as the German Foreign Minister in the Dönitz government.
Anyway, Goebbels says in his diaries that “he [Seyss-Inquart] is no real Nazi.”
Goebbels was probably just venting, as people often do in their diaries, but he obviously considered the good guys to be the “real Nazis.” Dr. Goebbels also frequently uses the term “Wir Nazis,” (We Nazis).
Modern Germans tend to somewhat avoid the term “Nazi” because they are afraid that it has magical powers and of their being seen or accused of talking about something scary ─ like suddenly starting to goosestep as in a wartime Disney cartoon and then tossing Jews into the ovens. Therefore they always use the more clinical term “National Socialist” instead.
I don’t have any of those kinds of trepidations, but it would be interesting to hear from modern Germans on this matter.
Like Dr. Goebbels, I am still going to use the term “Nazi” whenever it strikes my fancy.
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Scott: October 20, 2024 I never said that Jews were “White.”
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True. But Travis said “There are people claiming to be pro-white [sic] while also claiming Jews are white [sic].”
That is a bad trend, if true. Where would they get that notion, Jared Taylor?
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Also, when I write “White,” I always capitalize it if I mean something other than a color, i.e., if I mean a racial classification.
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You are setting a good example. But why the scare quotes?
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Like Dr. Goebbels, I am still going to use the term “Nazi” whenever it strikes my fancy… I can supply Goebbels quotes from his journals in the original German if that would help.
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No need for that, Scott. However, I’d be interested if you can supply examples his boss’s ever using what you say is mere shorthand for National Socialism.
In this translation of Joseph Goebbels’ 1934 speech Wesen und Gestalt des Nationalsozialismus a word search turns up zero (0) use of the derogatory term “Nazi” by Mr. Goebbels: “National-Socialism According to Joseph Goebbels” at nationalvanguard.org
I think both terms Nazi and NS are correct and usually appropriate, but one is more formal, of course. I don’t have an example of Hitler using them, either in writing or speech. I was just able to find the Goebbels diaries (in German) at an academic library a long time ago. The volumes are all now in storage although still available.
Nowadays the University Libraries no longer have books on the shelf, per se. What they have are Social Justice kiosks everywhere for Zoomers and curious Gen A’s to sift through and get pozzed. So if you want to browse LGBTQ+ or PoC stuff it is easy ─ but if you want something else for reading material, you can’t just go to the History or whatever aisle to browse now and so you will have to know exactly what you need and then request it.
I don’t put White in scare quotes. I was just showing it verbatim in my text. Frankly, I am not sure why so many fail or even refuse to capitalize White if they are referring to race and not literally to color. They always do so with Blacks. Oddly, Eric Striker always capitalized Black but refused to capitalize White.
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Scott: October 20, 2024 I think both terms Nazi and NS are correct and usually appropriate, but one is more formal, of course. I don’t have an example of Hitler using them, either in writing or speech.
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That could be because he never used the derogatory word “Nazi,” in either his speeches or written works.
Would you also say the terms Communist and “Commie” are both usually correct and appropriate? If so, why do you never see “Commie” or “neo-Commie”used in controlled media, but almost always see “Nazi” used instead of National Socialist? Could it have something to do with Jews being behind Communism, violently opposed to NS and that their Tribe controls mass media?
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I am not sure why so many fail or even refuse to capitalize White if they are referring to race and not literally to color. They always do so with Blacks. Oddly, Eric Striker always capitalized Black but refused to capitalize White.
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Wasn’t Striker the Putinist and spokesman for the failed alt-right National Justice Party? One would think NJP would have had a policy, at least for their leaders, to capitalize the word White when referring to the race they claimed to represent. How hard would that have been? He was following the Jew-controlled Associated Press’s guidelines to capitalize Black and use lower case for white when using those words in a racial context.
I made one passing reference to Nazis in the piece and the comments section becomes entirely a discussion about Nazis.
I have discussed this phenomenon before…
https://counter-currents.com/2024/04/on-second-world-war-fetishism/
See, this is why I avoid Nazi shit.
I avoid Nazi shit for the same reason I avoid Star Trek: because the people who are into it can never seem to shut up about it and I don’t want to become that guy. I don’t know why and I don’t want to know but for whatever reason, people can’t get into that shit without becoming obnoxiously obsessed with it and I have enough obsessions as it is.
Well, no offense. You might prefer to play around in Plato’s cave, but historians need to actually dive into the weeds. And, as I’ve said before, I don’t think that good politics derives from bad History. Technical details do matter.
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Travis LeBlanc: October 20, 2024 I made one passing reference to Nazis in the piece and the comments section becomes entirely a discussion about Nazis.
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Cotard responded reasonably to your one passing reference. Then Scott responded, saying he likes using the word “Nazi.” I doubt from their comments that either is obnoxiously obsessed with National Socialism. If you want to avoid what you call “Nazi shit,” you should not use the word Nazi, even in passing, in your appeals for donations to C-C.
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[T]his is why I avoid Nazi shit. I avoid Nazi shit for the same reason I avoid Star Trek: because the people who are into it can never seem to shut up about it and I don’t want to become that guy.
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You won’t. I’ve never watched a single episode of the Jewish TV show Star Trek, nor Star Wars, and never will.
My obsession, if you want to call it that, is preservation of the White race. My primary vehicle for achieving that is by promoting the teachings of William Pierce, his National Alliance and Cosmotheism. You probably tire of my doing that here on C-C and may even call that “William Pierce shit.” Get used to it.
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I don’t know why and I don’t want to know but for whatever reason, people can’t get into that shit without becoming obnoxiously obsessed with it and I have enough obsessions as it is.
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National Socialism, for what it’s worth, is an important field of study for anyone interested in preservation of our unique Aryan race. You’d do well not to label it “Nazi shit” just because you are disinterested in its ideology and history.
The word Nazi isn’t derogatory.
It is just an informal and abbreviated form in German of “Nationalist.”
And it’s a more intimate turn of phrase that Dr. Goebbels was particularly fond of ─ Wir Nazis ─ as I’ve already explained. It’s as simple as that.
I don’t understand why so many overthink this.
It makes about as much sense as the West German Bundestablishment banning jackboots after the war because of Hollywood.
I don’t really care if the Bolschewisten or the modern AntiFa find the term “Commie” to be disparaging or not. It is definitely more informal rhetoric at least.
Communists usually go by the term “Socialist” anyway ─ meaning Marxist ─ which National Socialists decidedly were not.
Btw, the German shorthand for that (Sozialistisch) would be “Sozi” but that form never really took off so much as far as I know.
A lot of common acronyms and abbreviations might seem Orwellian if one did not know better.
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The word may not be derogatory in German, but it is in English, if only by association with The Most Evil Person and Thing in History™.
Perhaps someday it can be rehabilitated.
I think the word pushes all the right buttons from the Left and the Right ─ but you don’t always need a dental drill when you can use a toothpick, LOL.
Btw, I do draw the line at esoteric Adolf surrounded by lightning and the sun and dogs and wolves and deer and fur fetish.
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Nazi vs national socialist seems like a trivial point. I saw that antelope Hill has Goebbels‘s memoir of his early life for sale. That seems like an interesting book to read. Has anyone ever read it here?
May I ask what Travis’s obsessions are? I’m only curious because I want things to be enthusiastic about in my own life. I tend to be kind of a borderline Trekkie.
I have read the book Michael (1929) by P.J.G. and supposedly published by the NSDAP against his wishes. Apparently it is incomplete. I read it a long time ago and I don’t remember being very impressed.
I actually got more out of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. (Yes, I am one of those “autistes” who made the mistake of starting Nietzsche there, LOL.)
But I am really not the best one to ask about something like this. I rarely read fiction and my interests follow more along the lines of technology and history rather than literature and especially metaphysics. I could probably tell you more about how the Volksempfänger or German television worked.
But I did thoroughly enjoy reading Goebbels’ journals.
I’m also a Trekkie, although only the original series (1966-69). It was a little preachy and could have been improved without the Negress communications officer. I hated the motion picture (1979) and won’t even watch the current woke crap.
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Thanks for your reply! I love your technical aptitude and ideological purity.
I like the later Star Trek as well, but I agree, some of the wokeness is nauseating. However, when I watch next generation, I’m struck by how thoroughly aware the writers seem to be. I believe they hold worldview very similar to ours. Although there are some token characters like the black engineer, they are very racially aware, and on page with us. It’s subtle and symbolic at times though. In one episode, they encounter a black tribe, and the psychiatrist comments that “all the men were lusting after Tasha yar” a blond white woman, lol. Also, next generation to me is obsessed with the JQ. Literally everything is about that at some level. For example, the Ferengi are obviously and often thought to be a parody of Jews. Jonah Goldberg, the conservative commentator, acknowledged this as well on his blog, so it’s not just antisemites who think this. Also, the Bajoran/ Cardassian conflict is like the Israeli/ Arab conflict, with sympathy towards the Arabs. Q rhymes with Jew, a higher being who puts humanity on trial for its historic crimes—there’s a lot to say about this one–it’s at a higher level of abstraction, but I think the frequent references as mentioned above justify this interpretation. I was doing a next gen marathon and making notes for an article on star trek and the jq.
I went through the Star Trek Experience with friends once at the Las Vegas Hilton in the mid-1990s I think. It was kind of an adult Disneyland tour or Pirates of the Caribbean ride (which I also liked). They had a copy of the ST: The Next Generation Enterprise movie set bridge than you could walk around on and Ferengi actors in character slithering the DS9 hallways and being a little too friendly with the kiddies. At the STE restaurant there was a nice Bajoran waitress, and I ordered the Cardassian calimari (surprisingly much like Terran calimari).
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I wonder what you liked about Goebbels’s diaries? What stunning revelations were there? Does he say much on the JQ?
My obsessions are shoegaze, WWI, and American movies of the 1930s.
I also go through temporary obsessions which I will usually pull an article or two out of. A few years ago, I watched every movie and documentary about nuclear war made in the 1980s and then wrote an article about it. Last year, I spent a month watch 1970s Nazisploitation movies and then wrote an article about it. This month, I am watching a lot of Golden Age slasher films and I intend to write an article about it.
But these obsessions will usually pass I run out of things to watch. Sometimes, I could keep seeking out more and more obscure titles but my academic curiosity is usually satisfied having seen all the major releases. At which point, I move on.
But if I started becoming obsessed with Star Trek or Nazi shit, that’s not going to be some passing obsession where it’s something I’m into for a couple months and then move on with my life. The Nazi and Star Trek rabbit holes go incredibly deep and I just ain’t got that kind of time.
Thank you for replying. I know what you mean about 1930s films. I watched fugitive from a chain gang which is 1929. I think, maybe the first talking movie, and there’s something incredibly strange about seeing America before all of the notable features were created. Like Chicago, before the major skyscrapers were there, or experiencing politics before the coming of the Hitler beast.
1932.
I discuss that movie at length in this article:
https://counter-currents.com/2021/06/hollywood-nazis-3/
That’s probably why I watched it in the first place come to think of it. I strive to be like you guys.
Dark Plato wrote:
“I wonder what you liked about Goebbels’s diaries? What stunning revelations were there? Does he say much on the JQ?”
Thanks. I can’t think of any pithy soundbites but the JQ is always on his mind.
Goebbels has a very authentic stream-of-consciousness style in his journals that makes you feel like you are right there with him in the trenches. He muses to himself, gripes, and sometimes deludes himself ─ like people do in their diaries.
The WWII parts are a little less interesting, perhaps, and Goebbels lost a considerable amount of street cred with Hitler over the 1938 Kristallnacht riots and the Lida Baarova scandal. Hitler ultimately appointed Dr. Goebbels to be the new Chancellor in the Dönitz government (had he not stayed in the Bunker with his family to die with Hitler).
I especially liked the parts where the Nazis had not yet or were just coming to power. For example, Dr. Goebbels heaps surprisingly-high praise on Göring, who was elected to the presidency of the Reichstag (like a Speaker of the House) when the NSDAP made its meteoric rise against the Zentrum and eventually became the plurality party seated in the body.
What I like about Counter-Currents is that lots of people are making contributions, each with their own talents. We don’t always have to agree on everything.
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