reality duel
Levi of Siluria left some interesting comments to my recent post on the Trump shooting. Now with the predictably awful Olympics ceremony, I got to thinking about Cabal theatrics, such as the Gotthard Tunnel opening from 2016:
I used to think these things were just empty pageantry, a kind of victory lap for the Cabal, to as it were announce, “we control your banks, your politics, your media, and we worship evil.” But could all these theatrics serve some practical end? Could they influence, determine, the mass imaginal landscape?
On a small scale, I have experienced something of this; e.g. emerging from the cinema as a child, still enveloped in the atmosphere of the film, almost unable to re-engage my personality; or, about ten years ago, attending a SSPX Latin Mass in Munich - I felt the reverberations for hours afterwards (and I’m not a Christian). And my personality has been altered by books or films, even by music.
I wonder at the cultural shifts in England, the sense that the human is becoming lesser: less intelligent, less refined, less curious, less capable, but more & more violent, crude, bestial.
Or how, 30 years ago, most people (if asked) said they were Christian, and knew the rudiments of Christianity, and today it’s the province of sad old boomers who support mass immigration because Jesus said we should let Jamal rape our grandchildren or something; I know several Gen-Xers who converted to Christianity from Germanic paganism, as some sort of social gesture I suppose: they all inevitably lost interest because it was just a LARP — it was as if that path had closed forever, and no one could genuinely convert anymore. Why so? And why can some third generation “British Pakistani” be an ardent, screaming Muslim?
Why is Islam seemingly unaffected, as strong as ever, even in some grim English town? Why the fervour of Islam and the almost total eradication of Christianity?
Why does post-1945 England feel so second-rate, so naff, so failed? Why the nihilistic rage of the Sex Pistols? Didn’t we win the war?
I think it’s to do with the mass imaginal landscape; there has been a deliberate denigration of the sacred (as Millennial Woes delineates in his excellent blasphemy essays), the promotion of the wicked, the degenerate, the insane. I increasingly feel that while we on the Right vaguely sense that something bad is happening, many in the Cabal are fully aware of what they are about, and are deliberately shaping the battlespace in their favour — towards chaos, racial & cultural alienation, materialism, horror, suffering, sexual perversion, despair, and totalitarian control; thus the BBC’s Steven Moffat, via Millennial Woes’ Dr Who essays:
We’ve kind of got to tell a lie. We’ll go back into history and there will be Black people where, historically, there wouldn’t have been, and we won’t dwell on that. We’ll say, “to hell with it, this is the imaginary, better version of the world. By believing in it, we’ll summon it forth”.
It is a war on many fronts, a war not merely of foreign biomass but of symbol, tradition, belief. If we could see aright, much would fall grimly into place: the destruction of so many French churches, the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, the killing of the white stag.
The human imagination determines what is humanly possible. The Second World War was a war not merely between competing nations, but different realities; as a schizo friend recently wrote to me:
When you read about the Third Reich, you do not feel like you are reading about a regular human society that just "went a bit off the rails". You feel like you are delving into a universe which transcends standard human metaphysics to a fascinating degree.
This is, I think, one reason why Nazi Germany features so often in Hollywood films: politics aside, it just looks kino, it has a thrilling, operatic quality, a sense of being a different, grander (and often darker) reality.
Thus the strange pleasure & exaltation I took from Bronze Age Mindset — it presents, with its deranged humour, its indifference to taboo, a Nietzschean vision of man as a greater, more magnificent being. Left-wing works inevitably favour the mass-man, the lowest common denominator, the weak and the diseased. As a greasy-haired Marxist I temped with, nearly 20 years ago, put it, “I hate this Nietzsche idea of one great man who stands alone and does things himself. We should work together as a community, and no one should be special.”
Perhaps this is one reason why Trump is so hated — he is unapologetically himself, and clearly values the successful & the exceptional, and has no time for what he might call losers. Given his actual politics are mostly bog-standard Republican (Israel First, low business taxes, some Christian-talk, pro-gun), the animosity is maybe better explained as a reaction against the spirit of the man, that brash “fuck you I’m rich” 80s confidence.
I view most politics so; I’m mostly interested in the metapolitical, the mass imaginal space. In one sense, I’m just plain ignorant of actual daily politics, intrigues, tax cuts, budgetary proposals. I’m drawn to the imaginal wars, to questions of spectacle and morale; and perhaps some practical-minded men would not wholly despise me — after all, it was a logistics specialist who said “In war the moral is to the physical as three to one”.
Imaginal battles are not so evident, not as immediate & pressing as others; but they shape what is conceivable; they are of strategic import.
Thus there took place for a time a reality duel, each side attempting to bring forward more and more signs of the density, weight, scale—simply, the substantiveness— of its own beliefs.
(Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain)
There are visible and invisible planes. My guess is, the killing of the white stag, the felling of the sycamore, the destruction of Notre Dame, were primarily targeting the invisible realm, that which we barely perceive, that which encompasses & determines our little illuminated circle. And no doubt much of our modern art is designed according to more evident principles, as a kind of propaganda, to work our humiliation and denigration.
The restitution of the sacred, the acknowledgement of race & racial realities, an unashamed pride in ancestry & old custom & prowess — these are some of the tokens for which we play. In this war, Cabal have most of the money, the military, police, academia, schools, the media, the medical establishment; we have our ordinary human instincts, and the old gods.
I'm going to earn myself a bad reputation as a Trump-deflator around here, but I have to argue that he is a kind of honey trap for intellectual passion. I appreciate that you're not cheerleading for him him, I'm just saying; his totem is well placed to attract the right sentiments, but there are a million reasons to keep clear. For me though, the one that stands out is the simple fact that he is crass. I think a worthy figure can be rude, offensive, ribald, whatever, but somehow not crass, not low. That crassness is a hook for the low, and I don't think that's just a sign of cunning pragmatism.
When I have a bit more time I'd like to get into the question of symbolism and performative acts.
‘….a kind of victory lap for the Cabal, to as it were announce, “we control your banks, your politics, your media, and we worship evil.” But could all these theatrics serve some practical end? Could they influence, determine, the mass imaginal landscape?’
Re- the satanic shows they like to put on: Jeff Berwick said he refuses to watch them in their entirety, or at the point of live transmission, because he thinks there is some effect arising from the mass simultaneous participation, which he has no desire to be part of.
It has occurred to me -especially this latest one, which I haven’t watched at all btw, only glimpsing from the sidelines the furore it evoked, that they are ‘taking the piss’ – or to put it another way, they are deliberately parodying themselves, in order to press the buttons of the likes of us, and then fall about laughing at the spectacle of us getting all lathered up over it.
But of course you are right – this is a deliberate, calculated, manipulative alteration of human culture and human consciousness – operating at a partly subliminal level where those engaging with it don’t even realise what’s being done to them.
‘Why is Islam seemingly unaffected, as strong as ever, even in some grim English town? Why the fervour of Islam and the almost total eradication of Christianity?’
Great question – I mean your first one. Christians like to believe they’re being persecuted: it’s even in the Bible: ‘if you see the world hates you, know that it hated me first’ - but in fact I think as the meme has it, ‘no-one cares.’ Which ties into your other question – so clearly: no-one cares about Christianity , but someone – at least in the west – evidently cares very much about muslim religiosity…….why?.........
I used to have a friend who came to England from Pakistan at the age of 13, (in the 1970’s, when some war or other broke out over there) who told me that fanatically religious – or even just devout- muslims were far more common in England than in Pakistan, where the only women to walk around veiled were the ancient old grandmothers. From what she said (she was from Karachi) religiosity had by then degenerated to the same kind of lukewarm superficiality that you describe as having happened to Christianity. (she herself, a nominal muslim, was almost totally secular)
‘The Second World War was a war not merely between competing nations, but different realities;
……why Nazi Germany features so often in Hollywood films: politics aside, it just looks kino, it has a thrilling, operatic quality, a sense of being a different, grander (and often darker) reality.’
It's also weirdly comedic – all those Monty Python sketches in the 1970’s – [one of my favourites incidentally, ‘Hilter fur ein besseres Minehead’ – Hitler has changed his name after the war and has decided to go into local politics in Minehead – watch it, it’s hilarious] - evil characteristically operates under complete cover of darkness: cloaked in lies and deceit, either presenting itself as its opposite, as something pure, innocent or good, or else operating through patsys and MK-ultras and puppets and useful idiots, but on those rare occasions when it comes out as itself it is surprisingly clownish and ridiculous.
‘reality duel’ –I suspect you probably won’t agree with me at all on this, but I don’t think it’s a fair fight at all. I think we, the people, the masses, the slaves, have our perceptions manipulated from the shadows by an evil cabal, and for them it’s basically like taking candy from a baby -they seem to be able to get people to believe, and do, whatever they want them to, and in some instances I suspect that all they want from it is shits and giggles - they are drunk on their own power and mastery of the human mind, they can’t get over how easy it is, how stupid we are, both in the kind of complete nonsense that we will fall for, and how we will stubbornly fail to see at all what is practically spitting at us in the face.