Odds and Ends, 10/22/21

In der news.

Der Movement’s hatred of Southern Europeans is borderline psychotic. The self-obsessed egomaniacal Nordicism is also deranged.  See this.  Emphasis added:

…if Nino wins, he gets to bring his family up from impoverished, dead-end Sicily.

He likes the Swiss. They’re calm, rational, affluent, and ordered; so unlike the screwed-up Italy that offers him nothing.

Then, Nino is getting on the train to go back to Italy. He’s broken and annoyed by the other Italians on the train: chummy, cocky, singing songs like O Sole Mio; all that sun, sea, and happiness.

She’s a cut above him in that she’s educated…

shrugging off the usual Italian songs of sun, happiness, and Bella Italia. Yeah, right.

…the workers stare as the Swiss enjoy a beautiful lake. They stroll, kiss, shed their clothes, and swim, contemplating beauty like the Eloi in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine as we hear a delicate oboe solo, almost like the opening scene of the movie with its quartet and the placid Swiss by a lake. We see blonde hair and firm, naked bodies, tall and poetic on horseback, while the runty Italians stare. The Commedia dell Arte meets Wagner.

Nino, like his fellow workers, are transfixed by the Swiss. It is a defining moment in the film and our age of the relations between north and south. People come to northern Europe to work, compelled by conditions in their homelands, but there is another draw to the north as well: it’s orderly, rational, blonde, quiet, poetic, and beautiful. The southerner can’t resist it; in fact, the world can’t. Despite the south’s inefficiency and resentment against the north and its economic power, the south can’t take its eyes off the Nordic types. They are beautiful and serene.

If the Swiss as like the Eloi in Wells’ The Time Machine, the Italians are the Morlocks, but hardly savage and brutal; they’re rather penned up like chickens who are awed by the swans.

Germany and northern Europe are still the predominant economic powers, now filled with guest workers. It recalls the Taverni brothers’ film Padre Padrone, where a Sardinian farmer keeps his son in illiterate servitude. When the Germans come looking for guest workers, the son’s hopes of finding freedom up north is ended as the father drags him away from the recruiters and back to herding goats — goats who shit in his milk pail.

…he is served by a dark-haired Italian, and for a moment, he blinks . . . but he goes on. Live the vision!...He looks at himself in the mirror. That blonde hair. That strength. Beauty. Vision. His eyes widen, and he dashes his head in the mirror.

The blonde girl, who hasn’t taken her eyes off him, comes out and offers help. Nino, embarrassed, swats her away. But it’s okay, she says; I’m not one of them. I’m one of you. She whips off her blonde wig, and a cascade of black hair tumbles out. “España!” she cries in triumph.

Nino groans. “Would you believe it?” he cries, and passes out.

As the train rolls south, a man plays his guitar and sings. Yes, of happy Sicily; all we need is the sun, the warmth, the blue sea, a pretty girl . . .

That look comes to Nino again. The train rolls on, chugging away, and enters a tunnel. A pause. Nino emerges from the tunnel with his pet suitcase, eyes haunted, a zombie…

If Nino could bring his family, they would be Sicilians in Switzerland, like the Turk…

But we can still appreciate Nino and his struggle: A tramp being pulled one way and another like Sicilian taffy…

Comment from that post:

I saw “Bread and Chocolate” back when it came out, and enjoyed it, but it is truly a sad and demoralizing movie.  The setting was, of course, chosen to heighten the racial and cultural disparities between the Italians and the Swiss.  Not all Italians are Sicilians or short or dark; there is an Italian part of Switzerland that is presumably neither as dysfunctional as Sicily…

Of course, Johnson avers that there is no affirmative action in Der Movement. Obviously, a S. Italian has an equal chance of being accepted as a “movement” “leader” as a WASP, right?

The Alt Right is dead.  Those are your "leaders." Please keep in mind this is not 20-20 hindsight. I was criticizing the Alt Right before Unite the Right, and I was promoting the idea of behind the scenes quite organizing and infrastructure building during the Trump interregnum. At the very least, if you are going to have public rallies, plan for contingencies and have proper operational security. Screaming about "octoroons" isn't quite satisfactory for that.

Priority number one for any rightist dissident movement is a robust and aggressive legal infrastructure. You need that BEFORE you do your public rallies and speeches. And, yes, that costs money - better to spend $340,000 on that than for someone's "executive compensation" to "maintain an online publication." Or for "fundraising" to support the "work" of Counter-Currents. Der Movement simply is not serious.

Lawfare should be illegal. But it exists. In that context, consider this comment from Amren:

I read Parts I and II. My final assessment of the Unite the Right Rally was that it was poorly organized, involved too many clown-show racists, and was not adequately thought out. This is not to say that the government and police department of Charlottesville, as well as then-governor Terry McAuliffe, were not all despicable scum. They were - and are. But in retrospect, having Richard Spencer (who later came out of the closet as a left-wing Democrat) and Matt Parrott, a cuck and a goofball who stood by while fat boy Matt Heimbach screwed his wife, just reveals the true character of so many who attended this fiasco.

Is that who you want to have in charge?

I don't like people telling me what to do; I don't like mandatory activities. So, I don't think the vaccine mandate is ethically and morally optimal. I would rather have people do as they please, but be held accountable for their choice. So, folks who refuse the vaccination would in turn be refused medical care if they contract covid, and would be held legally responsible if they infect others. Unfortunately, that is not practical according to medical laws as well as so-called medical ethics. But it is theoretically preferable from a moral and ethical standpoint, although from a public health standpoint the mandates do have some validity.

Remember when I wrote up about the Etruscan study? Italianthro now has an analysis on that, which is reasonable.  See this quote form a paper mentioned in that analysis.

Multiple Iron Age populations characterized by different languages and cultures lived in Italy but, genetically speaking, they started to approximate the modern Italians (Aneli et al. 2021; Antonio et al. 2019).

Essentially, much of the genetics of Italy, and of Europe as a whole, were already in place in the ancient world.

Amren 2021: Jews and Filipinas.

Does White nationalism really actually exist any more? Today, Der Movement is a mash-up of HBD race realism, Trumpian populism, spiced up with a dash of Nordicism and the crazy crap of Counter-Currents. The hardcore White nationalism that existed in the 1990s (for better or worse) is gone.

Would Pierce have invited Filipinas and Jews to speak at NA meetings? Would Asian girlfriends been welcome at Rahowa concerts? Did the Creativity movement talk about Asian superiority?

Things are quite different today than in the 90s.  Back then, the bulk of the "movement" was, for better or worse, NS-oriented.  Amren stuck out like a sore thumb back then for being non-NS and moderate; today, Amren is considered "extreme" compared to America First and Trumpism. As someone who lived through all of these events, in retrospect, the death of Pierce was a dividing line between the old WN-oriented, NS-focused "movement" and today's HBD crap. I was visited by an activist, by coincidence the very day Pierce's death was reported in the media. Upon meeting, we just stared at each other for a moment without saying anything.  We knew an era ended and things would never again be the same.

Others now seem to agree. See these comments from Counter-Currents:

DonqyWashOctober 21, 2021 at 7:29 am

This is now what, the fourth or fifth article posted about this film? Does this website have some kind of stake in the ticket sales or something? There’s no such thing as a “pro-white” movie coming out of any Hollywood studio in 2021, and one would think the contributors on Counter Currents would be well aware of that fact. Why in the hell would I want to watch yet more racial replacement garbage prominently featuring a prominent hypercompetent negress character? This is a staple of virtually every movie and television show produced now, and I’ll gladly opt out. Wokeshit propaganda wearing once-enjoyable IP’s as a skinsuit isn’t something you’d expect to see promoted on a dissident platform.

Vagrant RightistOctober 21, 2021 at 8:50 am

My guess is topical film reviews help recruit new people in a gentle way. But yes it might be at the expense of focusing on other frankly more important topics. I don’t think these articles about Bond are for the converted personally.

There is a broad trend on the Right now to move ever more towards meta; film reviews, music, analysis of other people in the movement (which was mentioned critically in a comment on the podcast article about America First), philosophy, based Christianity and paganism, while some of our people are even saying that race and the JQ are passé, old news, WN 1.5 or something. I’ve even heard people apparently in our circles say we need to be less ‘about race’.

And it’s not just people like Fuentes that are an issue here. There are really smart people who only a year ago were presenting themselves as hardcore pro-white third positionists, now they present themselves as Christian theologians.

To me it looks like for many of our people – their content, frankly even their beliefs in some cases, are being shaped by our oppressors; internet censorship, fear of losing accounts and in a number of European countries harsh laws, but they are telling themselves “I’m sophisticated, I’m not just about race like you dated wignats”. I don’t buy that.

I’m not saying this is the case here though, but film reviews are like the ‘good cop’ aren’t they ? They need to be accompanied by the ‘bad cop’ or we’re not really delivering a payload.

See this.  Sallis right, and prescient, once again.

The Alt Right is a callow, superficial, moderate, intellectually and ideologically shallow version of pro-White activism; lacking seriousness and depth; oriented toward millennial snark, trolling, and social media; taking breathless excitement over discovering “rightist” truths that the rest of us knew long ago and which to a large extent are nothing more than plain fact and common sense; marked weakness with respect to science and other forms of empirical thought; prizing style over substance; and prone to exhibit, often in an enhanced form, all of the fossilized dogma, bizarre fetishes, and poor judgment of the “movement” as a whole.

Interestingly, back in 2014, Johnson reproduced one of my EGI Notes essays attacking Amren and Amren meetings. Later on, I suppose, Greggy and Sammy got a long better, so Sallis's complaints suddenly became "insanity" - a "paranoid piece of crap." Note who was it who changed based on circumstance and who has been consistent

China now has a new hypersonic nuclear-capable missile. Meanwhile, the USA uses 1960s-1980s era nuclear weapons, and our vaunted "new" GBSD ICBM will be nothing more than a souped-up Minuteman III. And many Democrats don't even think we need a ICBM leg to the triad. America is becoming a Third World country in every way. I was reading a book about American nuclear weapons history by a fellow named Goetz. He terms the "new" GBSD as an "enormous disappointment" as it just an upgraded Minuteman III (1960-70s missile), and also outlines how "new" American bombers and missile submarines are merely upgrades of old technology. He also notes an issue I have raised as a concern - the ever-diminishing yields of American nuclear bombs, to absurdly low levels. Essentially, I see the USA as undergoing de facto piecemeal unilateral nuclear disarmament. Popgun yields coupled to aging delivery systems will deter no one.