Why I write

Why write?

Writing takes energy – it was why I stopped last year and took my blog dark for a while. Yet I still return to write and that is because I primarily write for myself.

Others write to spread ideas, invent ideology, convince others, ego boost, offer critique. A plethora of reasons exist and the successful bloggers all have their own reasons.

Personally though this is about me developing my own ideas, working through my own understanding of the world and chronicling my journey towards truth. Reading what I wrote two years ago and laughing at how wrong I was is healthy, the danger would be to assume infallibility. The danger is in not facing your wrongs, or investing further into them – which can be impossible to see if you aren’t examining your thoughts.

This is not to make this a selfish endeavour, only through writing for myself can I hope to write something useful for others.

Truth stands as the light amidst the darkness. It can dim if you stray from it but the light itself does not change, only your proximity to it affects its brightness.

Here is to striving towards the light.

 

Paris and the Urban Jihadist – Mists of Albion 3

Third episode of my podcast is out focusing on Paris but instead of being the usual analysis I wanted to talk a bit more about Urban Warfare having been inspired by a talk by David Kilcullen on the ‘Coming age of the Urban Guerrilla’ and how these ideas interplay with increasing segregation of European cities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVUI9U4WQ6E – The Google Talk given, worth a watch.

The Quick and the Dead. Observations on Paris

Three days ago Paris experienced a horrific terrorist attack that appears to been carried out by Islamic State members. In the immediate aftermath much was unclear but now as the fog of war starts to lift it is time for some observations and learning from this tragedy.

Islam is showing its hand early.

Demographically Islam has the edge over Europe right now. Muslim populations are exploding, in England and Wales Muhammad is the 14th most popular boys name. It is the most popular boys name in London now. They breed faster than native Europeans and with European leaders importing even more of them as ‘refugees’ or ‘migrants’ this will only get worse. In the long run they clearly have an edge.

However as the attacks in Paris this year show, of which there have been six, Islam is showing its hand early. The violence has rocketed up and this risks causing a huge awakening of European spirit in the face of the Muslim invasion. Nationalists and other concerned parties have been campaigning about this for years. They’ve tried to silence this by calling concerns racist or ‘Islamaphobic’, this is crumbling as more and more people wake up to the reality this violence targets them.

Unfortunately we on the right must seize this opportunity as it has been presented to us. Changing the frame and bringing effective rhetoric to the fore needs to happen now in your everyday life.

France is different and this attack is different.

The prior attacks in France your average Frenchman or woman could ignore to a degree, you could silently agree that Charlie Hebdo had ‘provoked’ them, and if you weren’t Jewish or a Policeman then it seemed there wasn’t much to fear. This however was different, this was a direct assault on actual French people, there was not targeting of Jewish supermarkets or schools. The French can’t hide from this.

France is also the ‘Secular Republic”, they bandy this about with pride. It has even become part of the cultural fight back against the growth of Islam in France. A battle is being fought in school cafeterias where Pork meals were under threat. Exactly a month before the attacks “The Guardian” a notorious mouthpiece of the Cathedral ran a piece hand-wringing about this growing battleground:

When Aïcha Tabbakhe, a French nurse, went to fill out the forms for her children’s school dinners in her small town outside Paris, she was puzzled. The box she would usually tick to say that her Muslim children didn’t eat pork wasn’t there. “Confused, I called the town hall and I was bluntly told: ‘From now on, that’s the way it is,’” she said. “Pork or nothing.”

Source

France also has the second largest Muslim population in Western Europe by numbers and the largest by % of the wider population: 4.71 million and they are 7.5% of the population. Where the rest of France has abandoned faith the Islamists have consolidated theirs. The fact it is the ‘Secular Republic’ that is facing constant attack is a grim irony but undeniably valuable propaganda for the Islamists. In this age of rhetorical warfare having a religion like Islam is more valuable than the limp-wristed humanism of post-Christian secularists.

The Cathedral can’t ignore this entirely, in fact they are already trying to throw in the towel and admit defeat in the face of Islam.

France is fighting an unwinnable war against the rising threat of Islamic terrorism, leading French terror experts warned last night.

Disaffected Muslim populations at home, unpoliced European borders and battle-hardened fighters now flowing in from Syria and Iraq were creating a perfect storm of terror that is now in danger of defeating the French security services.

France is estimated to have 2,000 citizens involved in Syrian and Iraq jihadi networks and a further 3,800 individuals known to domestic intelligence services as “radicalised”, all watched over by just 3,200 intelligence officers.

Source

No doubt this will lead to increasing powers of control throughout Europe. The natural consequence of multiculturalism is a heavy police state. France is suffering heavily precisely because of their large Muslim population.

The future of the EU?

What future does the EU have now? Poland’s newly elected right-wing government has already come out and said they will halt taking refugees following this. They are also increasingly setting the right frame when talking about this as evidenced by comments from their to be Foreign Minister:

“We cannot give them the possibility to live in Poland just because they wish to have a better life. We can’t even provide a better life for millions of Poles… we cannot provide every citizen in the earth the level of living of Western European standards”.

Source.

France had kept its head down about the refugee crisis recently, Germany was leading the charge here and this now will spark further divisions between Europe. The EU has continued to survive and work largely because it is in the interests of Germany and France, should the French people really start to question this arrangement the EU could collapse very quickly. We may not even have to wait until the ‘Brexit’ vote in 2017, which seems a long way away after such intense carnage.

4th Generation Warfare gathers pace

These attackers carried out a ‘Mumbai style’ attack. Multiple targets, co-ordinated teams of dedicated gunmen. They were also all ready to blow themselves up and did. They made careful target selection and were largely successful. It is only luck really that the attackers targeting the Stade de France were less successful.

The attacks have also shown how difficult it is for even heavily policed states with modern police forces to counter such tactics. In the same way that the EU appears both an overpowerful behemoth when it comes to regulating petty matters or economic ones they are shown to be incredibly weak in the face of real crisis. There was no response force to secure borders and deal with the migration crisis. There is nothing modern states can do but ‘firefight’, this has a twofold effect:

1. Disaffected Muslims will see how relatively weak the state actually is and consequentially be drawn to those demonstrating power.
2. Ordinary French citizens will also further loose trust in the state and their loyalties will start to shift (something FN will attempt to take advantage of)

Trust breaks down and people become more fearful, this does drive the wedge between groups. The calls of Leftists not to ‘give in to hate’ or those who try telling us moderate Muslims are not to blame neglect to mention moderate Muslims are for the most part not getting caught up in these attacks.

Practical Lessons

Don’t be in a major European capital might be the most blunt advice – they are going to remain big targets for these kind of attacks. Unfortunately for many this is not always practical advice. It is unpleasant to examine the attacks in detail but doing so may save your life.

• Fireworks vs gunfire – there are numerous accounts of witnesses and victims talking of “thinking it was fireworks”. At this stage it probably is not. You need to act and act quickly.
• Flee, hide, fight should be your strategy. If you don’t have a gun you are very limited in your ability to take on multiple assailants with rifles. Get out of there, move fast. If you can’t then hide, some people survive by hiding in the basement of the concert hall. Fighting is a last ditch stand and you should do it, keep in mind all these guys were wearing suicide belts but it is infinitely better to enter the next life on your feet.
• Carry a knife. If you don’t have a tourniquet a belt is going to help but you will need to cut new holes in it. You might also need to stab a terrorist in the neck, repeatedly.
• Carry a gunshot wound capable first aid kit. Tourniquet , hemostatic agent, trauma bandage. Apply direct pressure to wounds, pack the entry/exit. Elevate limbs. Tackle shock and believe you will survive.
• Develop situational awareness. Profile: With Muslims about, watch out

Concluding remarks.

We are at war with Islam, from the terrorists who kill us to the moderate Muslims wearing headscarves at your local supermarket. Keep the facts close to hand in your debates with people. Remember multiculturalism breeds low trust. Prepare yourself as best you can and continue working towards what retaking Europe will take. Develop yourself.

*Edit* France commits to security increases*

Hollande has just announced a few interesting things that will make the geopolitical and European political scene interesting:

• Three month extension of the State of Emergency – a big deal.
• Calls for better external European border controls OR a return to national borders.
• Commits to growing the security services, at cost to austerity programs if need be.
• Changes to the French constitution to tackle Islamists holding dual passports.

These are developments that support the changing face of the narrative, and suggest it may be less unified now than we expected. Of course the other way to read it is that it is doubling down on a multicultural society and the increase in the security services and the growth of the hollow state must continue. Feel good measures that push off the inevitable chaos for a little bit…

Primary Loyalties

Primary loyalties matter, and they matter hugely.

John Robb defines them as:

A primary loyalty is a connection to a non-state group that is greater than loyalty to a state. These loyalties include those to clan, religion, tribe, neighborhood gang, etc. Look to globalization to accelerate/catalyze this race to the bottom.

When people ask about a ‘movement’ or express frustration that say NRx doesn’t do anything that is because there is nothing about NRx that inspires or creates a primary loyalty.

There have been offshoots of NRx that have created groups that look like they are becoming that, the Hestia Society would be an example of that. They’ve gone off and closed some doors and had a discussion and clearly the inner core members have a primary loyalty to that and their projects like Social Matter or The Future Primeval.

White Nationalism is another ideology that people try to make a primary loyalty and it fails miserably. The fall-out over who NPI disinvited and their reasons for that are a perfect example. People are reacting as if they have somehow been ‘betrayed’ or with outrage that this loose ideological position doesn’t offer more concrete backing of their beliefs (or not).

Could it be many who seem the most upset over this perhaps felt they did have some kind of loyalty to NPI? Possibly. In the broadest sense the Alt Right is largely composed of white straight men who no longer have a loyalty to the state, yet many lack a primary loyalty and are drifting around right now latching onto groups that form and seeing how that works out. The trouble is many seem to pick an ideology as a primary loyalty which does not work. Those on the alt-right who do have primary loyalties are also affected by this, as currently the more established primary loyalties lie in the direction of faith and organised religion.

A TradCatholic has or is building a primary loyalty to his Church. This provides a relevant framework that answers a lot of questions especially the important ones: morality, ethics, and aesthetics. The ‘white’ race doesn’t answer those questions and yet people expect it to. They bring their own beliefs and attach it to the malleable ideology that is White Nationalism and so you end up with this split that sees people either open to homosexuals playing an active part or opposed to that.

The State is meant to resolve some of these issues of course, that is traditionally what they did. At a basic level you owed your loyalty to the State because it could do things for you and make your life better. Bismarck greatly feared that Catholics would not see Germany as their true loyalty when he was setting about creating Germany. Indeed perhaps it only succeeded because they were able to accommodate Catholics in such a way that there wasn’t a loyalty split. You could be both German and Catholic without contradiction. The State had your loyalty and so did the Church. When the British defeated the Boers they worked out a way to bring them into South Africa, but Afrikanner identity never went away, they were able to co-exist for a long time (despite the eventual fracturing and end). Now of course many Afrikanners feel their primary loyalty once again lies within their Boer heritage.

The current outlook for the alt-right is the State retreating and entropy spreading. Trying to build State like loyalty then is far too ambitious. That is a tricky thing to do well, especially in fractured democracies with the multitude of problems they have. Instead reactionaries must be building institutions that they owe a primary loyalty to. This isn’t a new thing, plenty of others have already said this. Make gangs, join a Church, start a reading group, see where it goes, it might very well be what you create is an organization that will get us through the trouble ahead and then turn to the bigger problem of State building.

Black Rhetoric Matters

Following the maxim ‘Know thy enemy’ it’s worth keeping somewhat familiarized with sites such as The Atlantic or Salon and occasionally you get interesting insights.

The Atlantic is our provider today serving up a piece discussing the fractures within the Black ‘civil rights movement’ in America. The article looks at how there is a division between the old and the young. Between the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement and the older Church led Black vanguard (that unfortunately lacks a snappy name).

It’s an interesting example of how the Cathedral’s obsession with rhetoric has fractured their pet projects and caused what amounts to a power struggle. Both groups are ostensibly working for the same end goal in this case and  that appears to be lower the number of blacks shot by the LAPD. The article does say that both groups are also lobbying on a wide range of other policies which we can only imagine (assume more variations on affirmative action).

The hilarious images of communist rat Bernie Sanders having his stump in Seattle disrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters got a lot more coverage it seems than this incident when the LA mayor turned up for a community meeting at a black church:

Hundreds of black Los Angeles residents showed up for the community forum, which Black Lives Matter disrupted. “Protesters stood and turned their backs to the mayor as he spoke,” the Los Angeles Times reported. “As the meeting ended, the mayor was surrounded by a crowd of chanting activists as he tried to reach his car.”

According to Pastor Kelvin Sauls, the Black Lives Matter protestors deprived the vast majority of black people in attendance from observing or participating in the  forum. “There were about 800 people here, and 750 of those individuals were silenced because of the disrespect that they have brought to the sanctuary as well as to us as a congregation, misusing our hospitality,” he told the newspaper, adding that Black Lives Matter activists would no longer be welcome at the church.

So Black Lives Matter is not just mucking up things for average white and black people with their silly stunts but actively challenging the existing hierarchy in the activist black community. We’re all aware of the existing hierarchy of course, the race baiters like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, right through to the top dog Barack Obama. Here now there is a new challenge and as the article says:

Younger black progressives effectively asserted that their activism ought to trump the approach of other black people who are also actively working for police reform.

That is to say their rhetoric is designed to justify their increasingly violent and disruptive approach. This is the key difference between the old and the new. The new “younger black progressives” are all children of rhetoric, they have been fed their entire lives with it and because more and more blacks are being pushed into Cathedral institutions they are no longer under the direct control of the old hierarchy.

Sharpton and Jackson have been passed by, they can’t keep up with the pace of progressive bullshit that Cathedral universities teach. Frankly I think both of them would not be thrilled at the degeneracy taught in these insane classes on Gender Studies of African American Studies. The youth however, the Black Lives Matter, have fully absorbed the (((narrative))) and are enacting it in the only way they know.

Look again at the strong use of rhetoric Black Lives Matter spokesman employs when justifying their actions:

Pete White, of Los Angeles Community Action Network, said at Friday’s Black Lives Matter news conference that Garcetti has divided black residents and aligned himself with people who won’t criticize him for failing to follow through on promises.

“We are going to be loud about that and we are going to engage in tactics that are meant to save our lives,” he said.

Calling out your potential allies for not being pure enough is great rhetoric signalling. Monty Python parodied this best about the Judean Peoples Front, here the poor buggers are doing the same without even the realisation of the comedy. The rhetoric and narrative of ‘saving lives’ makes it appealing. It puts a positive twist on pointless action, that is why they are being ‘successful’, it is also why BLM is a new entropy provider.

Their simple rhetoric is paving the way for further entropy and chaos, the riots we’ve seen in Ferguson, Baltimore, and other places will continue as the young apoltical blacks react to the simpler and more appealing rhetoric of Black Lives Matter.

That young, gangster class, the apolitical thugs in the hood haven’t cared or listened to the black hierarchy for a long time, they formed a separate hierarchy; a criminal one. However they get spurned to action by the destablising events that BLM does. A community forum event in a black church is easy to ignore but a protest that can be turned into an opportunity for looting, hey that sounds great!

Even The Atlantic can’t help but observe the actual impact and pointlessness of BLM and their enslavement to rhetoric:

Many who share the ends of Black Lives Matter and like many of their reform ideas are left shaking their heads at what looks, to outsiders, like righteousness overwhelming the pragmatism required to effect change in a pluralistic democracy. (What gives them such expansive faith in the efficacy of left-wing protest tactics?) Yet unapologetic righteousness helps explain the group’s success at awareness-raising, an achievement that the older guard could not have managed on its own.

The only positive that can be taken away from this for the Cathedral is the “awareness-raising” and how do you do that best? You ramp up the rhetoric. Amusingly here they also question the tactics, but of course these tactics are ideally suited to what they have been taught in the education system. Approve or not the old black Church way of organising is suitably different, they are still going for the lobbying events, the meetings with the mayor, etc. This is the more effective way of change and BLM is causing huge disruption. The last piece of evidence of that is their demand for the LAPD chief to step down but according to one of the old guard, a black civil rights attorney:

Beck is a singularly good leader who believes wholeheartedly in humane, constitutional, public-trust policing. He needs more time to lock in the changes he has instituted and to move the department into the new policing. We are lucky to have him and should reconfirm his appointment as chief of LAPD.”

Like many things created and nurtured by the elite the danger of BLM is that it drives the rest of society towards further entropy. In this unusual case they are getting a very real feel for what their children of rhetoric are capable of.

 

Dear Libertarian/Ancaps

This is a loose response to Christopher Cantwell’s “Dear Ethnostatist Neoreactionary” and whilst those terms do not describe me perfectly I see this as a good exercise. I first heard of Chris Cantwell when he was on one of the TRS podcasts (probably TDS). The letter Chris has written is laden with rhetoric and is strongly ideological, normally these kind of pieces seem intended for the in-group as a form of signalling, not for actual persuasion or debating purposes. That isn’t meant as a criticism but more an observation in how I’m approaching this.

It is also worth mentioning Cantwell’s opposition to the State in its current form is not 100% wrong, however States can, and have been, forces for good. It’s important to remember that.

The intention of Cantwell’s piece he says is to:

I’m here to tell you, your enemy is the State.

Not any one particular government, mind you, but the State itself. The very institution of the State is the mortal enemy of mankind and planet Earth.

A bold, incendiary claim, but in fact I’d argue this is bad rhetoric simply because I could see a die hard Leftist using identical language (not meant as ad hom attack). Cantwell doesn’t take the time to explain why he grants agency to the State but it seems a key part of his thought. Many Libertarians/AnCaps do this, they ascribe full agency, or at least a very high degree of independent agency, to what they term “the State”. It reminds me of historians who talk of functionalist reasons for the Holocaust. Even if the State has agency, and is all about perpetuating itself it does not require huge ideological battles to do this. Small functioning governments exist without growing even if they are a minority (see places like Switzerland, Iceland). In the Anglo-Sphere it is the ideology that has corrupted the State and is responsible for its bad actions, ignoring this means conceding the State to the Left or the psychotic. In fact this is what has happened over time. (I go as far to argue Libertarian thought is responsible for the growth of the State in this piece on Libertarianism and Consumerism.)

What is the State anyway? Perhaps it can be described as an institution of organized patriarchy responsible for continuing civilization. That it has been corrupted is obvious, we’re living amidst the corruption and decay right now. In fact the State is breaking down because it has strayed so far from what it is meant to be. Many people within our failing States are developing a primary loyalty that is NOT the state. To quote John Robb in his post on Primary Loyalties:

A primary loyalty is a connection to a non-state group that is greater than loyalty to a state.  These loyalties include those to clan, religion, tribe, neighborhood gang, etc.  These loyalties are reciprocated through the delivery of political goods…by the group that the state cannot or will not deliver.

As the American Left continue to weaken the existing American State those with split loyalties will increase. On the alt-right we talk a lot about how Big Mother welfare state has ‘liberated’ women from men as they can provide welfare to the single mothers and cat ladies, but this flows against the tide. The alt-right must be building organizations and structures that become our primary loyalty as the State does fracture and begin to collapse. The Islamists in Europe have done very well creating parallel societies (complete with the State like structure built into Islam), the main problem is that States have thought they can buy these peoples loyalty, but that is an issue for another time.

Cantwell:

What is it that you think a State does, other than fuck the people who live beneath its boot?

This Libertarian/AnCap conception of the State and how negative it is always strikes me as incredibly ignorant of history. The history of the world really gets going when states form. The stateless Native Americans may have enjoyed a high degree of personal liberty but it was precisely why they were destroyed. They lacked the ability to function as a cohesive front against their enemies. The successful and just State does not merely “fuck the people who live beneath its boot”. The State is the embodiment of the people, it reflects their values, their traditions, enables their dreams, and provides security. The Romans succeeded where the Nazis failed because the Roman state made people Roman citizens, provided security, enabled their dreams and mostly did not interfere with their values and traditions, bar some notable exceptions like the Druids. The Romans also fell when their State began to fail, corrupted, degenerate and lacking in true power.

This is because governments and civilizations are not tied to one another. Governments are parasites which leech from civilizations. The vast majority of us, if the government collapsed tonight, would simply wake up in the morning and do exactly what we did the day before. We would wake up, go to work, feed our families, mow our lawns, etc…

Minor quibble: it’s unclear if Cantwell uses State and Government interchangeably. In this quote again huge claims are thrown around without much depth of thought (signalling being a primary goal of rhetoric). The relationship between the State and Civilization is far more complex than Cantwell suggests. Civilization is more than just people getting up and continuing everyday life, a government/State has a direct impact on civilization especially when it comes to the grand projects that help define a civilization. The impact of the Catholic Church on Europe when it was part of the State would be an example of this, issuing rulings that direct civilization, funding building projects and architectural styles, again the notion civilization is simply continuing existence doesn’t hold true upon examination. How a State impacts culture is less clear, certainly culture exists and evolves without a State (see Aboriginal cultures in Australia), but strong States can directly shape culture, in an extreme bad example DPRK, a good example might be Switzerland.

A freedom-negative ideology such as Anarcho-capitalism will struggle to produce cohesive positive advancements or grand visions, where it does often it either defaults to a charismatic individual with shekels (think Elon Musk or Richard Branson) OR purely shekels. States that carry with them the soul of the nation are far better equipped.

Really, the only reason for an ethnocentric State, is if you have some kind of inferiority complex. The only reason you would need a government to keep a society white, is if you think white people require protectionism to avoid non-white competition defeating them.

So Cantwell hasn’t really gone into much depth on the ethnostate side of things. His main assertion seems to be ‘whites’ are awesome and in a free market with nothing to help minorities whites will be successful. Looking back at South Africa it was a state that did use its government to protect whites. Apartheid was in many ways a guarantor for employment for lower class Afrikanners. The white slums you see in South Africa today are evidence of that, they lost the State’s protection. Cantwell couches it in terms of protectionism and an abstract notion of defeat. The reality in Zimbabwe and South Africa has not been so abstract, it has been brutal deaths, rapes, and continual assault from blacks, with the State turning a blind eye in many cases and actively encouraging the behaviour in others. Whilst the white states of Rhodesia and South Africa were not perfect they functioned better and generally there was a higher quality of life for blacks and whites than there is today.

Reframe “protectionism “as banding together to increase their chances in the face of “competition” (hostility) and you understand why that might happen.

Do you think you are able to outcompete non-whites?

Do you think you can outcompete non-whites who arrive in your land with huge numbers, organization, and a capacity for violence? The concern isn’t about doing better on a job interview, it’s about demographic replacement or invasion. An ethnostate is going to better protect its people.

Personally, I stand pretty confident in white people’s ability to compete, so I have no need of governments. What about you?

It’s a great notion but the reality of the world suggests that governments and States will be around for some time to come and building better ones is the best way of securing white people’s ability to compete in a harsh world. Pure ethnostates don’t have to be the answer either, but homogeneity does seem to promote harmony and stability.

This may have been a slightly jumbled response, I chose not to address the signalling to private police forces for protection mentioned as it seemed too obvious a target. Nor did I see much value in addressing the theories of resistance promoted. My own current research stand at the moment is on 4GW so expect something on that later. Libertarian/AnCap ideas are interesting to read and revisit. Like many I entertained the appeal of the ideology at one point and read my Nozick. The trouble is, the more traveling through history you do the harder it is to take libertarian/AnCap ideology seriously. Reality keeps getting in the way. The Nightwatchman state is the closest I think people could achieve, and I think it would be an autonomous region within a larger State.

Londonistan Mists of Albion Episode 2

A 25 minute podcast about Londonistan.

Topics are:

1. Overview and discussion of personal experiences
2. Examination of statistics and data, focusing on the Births by Birthplace of Mother – link to dataset.
3. Brief discussion of Tower Hamlets, a borough of London that saw a mayoral electoral campaign that was fraudulent and manipulated by the Muslim mayor and Muslim community.
4. A short note on crime in London.

Hope you enjoy.