Odds and Ends, 1/2/22

In der news.

Following up on this, more Autright:

Addendum:

Also, notice the general north-south light-dark paradigm or gradient of masculinity which is hoist upon us (again, asians, as well as indians, are exceptions). Blacks are the most southerly, dark and the most masculine, mestizos are more southerly and dark than whites and whites are the palest, northmost and are less masculine than everyone but asians or indians. Intraracially - northern Europeans, especially light-complected ones, are seen as less masculine or more effeminate than "meds" for inherent reasons, often by self-interested meds, who will apparently accept their inferiority to blacks. MENAs, NECs as Sallis calls them are viewed similarly though they aren't white. The people saying this typically ignore that for all of history the opposite view of north Euros relative to "meds"/NECs was the case and the difference in body size.

I think I saw one retard claim there is a negative correlation between northerliness of indigenous homeland and testosterone, and of course many retards try to claim an inverse correlation between lighter complexion and testosterone, intelligence and testosterone.

More obsession about masculinity. I specifically object to this: "...northern Europeans, especially light-complected ones, are seen as less masculine or more effeminate than "meds" for inherent reasons, often by self-interested meds..."

Sorry, I call bullshit on that.  All of these theories about “lighter complexion and testosterone, intelligence and testosterone” are coming from HBDers who mostly are of Northern European descent.  Putting aside a single unfortunate comment Sunic said about Scandinavians years ago, the actual constant thrust of this comes from people like Lynn, Rushton, etc.  MacDonald has started promoting HBD. Cochran is an HBDer.  Sailer was adopted and may be half-Jew, but he has a “Nordish” phenotype and was raised by NE Euros. Then you have Bowery and his GOD hypothesis and ruminations about prison rape. Is there a pattern here?  HBDers are typically Nords, Jews, or non-Whites who have an agenda in dividing Whites and/or promoting Asian-friendly IQ nationalism (GNXP brownsters, Jayman, Lipton Matthews – with HBD Chick being unknown but I suspect Jewish). These are the same people who label Southern Italians are low-IQ MENA NECs. And then these memes are publicized by Nord race realists like Taylor or Nord ethnonationalists like Johnson. Where are the Meds, self-interested or otherwise?  Nowhere. Some of the aforementioned people are actually anti-Med.

It is not – repeat, NOT – “self-interested meds” who are pushing these memes. Can you name one?  Please name one “self-interested med” – not unimportant, anonymous bloggers but someone of substance like Lynn, Rushton, et al. – who is an HBDer who pushes memes about “effeminate Nords.” Meds are a victim of HBD pseudoscience coming from Nord/Jew/non-White HBDers and then, bizarrely, get blamed for memes they have little to nothing to do with. I suppose this is more of the “mild criticism” that I unfairly ascribe to Nordicism.

Speaking for myself, I am not very interested in these topics other than refuting the stupidities of Lynn, Rushton, etc. I certainly don’t ascribe effeminacy to any specific ethny.  Again, that’s the HBDers who do this. HBD is the enemy.

The covid crisis has demonstrated that what populism is good for is as a destructive force, to undermine the System, and to create chaos by getting Far Right candidates elected (or at least as viable political candidates) - but populism is no way to actually run a society, given that the average person is an easily manipulated ignorant idiot, and populism essentially conflates to catering to and/or manipulating all of those ignorant idiots.

One thing I've learned from being in STEM, and being widely read in general, is that you can find studies, analyses, books, etc. saying just about anything, no matter how absurd and how factually incorrect. Thus, citing a "study" (or whatever) in and of itself doesn't "prove" anything. You could invoke "expert consensus" (credentialism!) but sometimes that is politically influenced (e.g.., race denial). But in the latter cases, the political bias can be discerned by the observant reader, since the actual data will often conflict with the politicized consensus. For example, population geneticists will deny race, while providing data that actually prove the existence of race. So, in STEM at least, "data consensus" is more dependable than "expert consensus." But, depending on cherry picked "dissident" takes to "prove" something more often than not leads one into a conspiritard cul-de-sac.

Let us consider together. So, American Southerners were aware of the Classical World and identified with it. Very good. One of the lessons learned from the Classical world is that slavery (a) impedes technological development, and (b) is never a permanent institution; slaves inevitably become free. So, what do they do? Import large numbers of Negro slaves. I suppose that this is somehow a mark of superiority and of long-term planning, but it doesn't seem obvious to me how that would be so.

Contra the lies of the Left, including leftist "academics," "Whiteness" and "Western civilization" were not "invented" - either as a justification for "European imperialism and colonialism" or "African slavery" or for any other reason. At most, we can say that "Whiteness" and "Western civilization" were recognized, or, stretching it, discovered, as each are objectively real entities when properly described and defined. If by "Whiteness" we mean the commonalities of European ancestry, then this can be observed through a proper, objective, and contextual analysis of population genetics and the ethnogenesis of European groups, as well as the historical and civilizational components of identity. Those latter components of identity contribute to the corpus of cultural artifacts and accomplishments that constitute Western civilization. There is no need to invent what is objectively true. Indeed, such leftists attacks against the legitimacy of White and Western identity does mental harm to European-derived peoples as a group and hence violate the UN Genocide Convention.

Affirmative Right blames modernity for the plight of Whites; The Occidental Observer blames the Jews. I blame both. There certainly are broad historical trends that constitute existential challenges to societies, and those trends can exist independent of the Jews. However, an intelligent parasitic group can exploit weaknesses created by those trends to ensure that the societies cannot effectively survive the challenges. It is not "either/or." It is both in combination.

When I say I am against Traditionalism, I need to be precise about what I do and not mean. I do NOT mean that I am against the body of Western and Classical Civilization or that I dismiss the wisdom of the past or that I reject traditional social mores or that I eschew the social capital built up by our ancestors. What I DO oppose is a fetishization of the past, and what I oppose most of all is Political Traditionalism as an ideology, which is extant throughout Der Right and particularly the Far Right. There is a reason why the “Woman in a Wheat Field Nationalism” meme exists, and why I mock “Hobbit Hole White nationalism.”  The sort of reactionary, Luddite, backwards looking idealization of a dead past, with an objective of building some sort of 14th century feudal state and the epitome of White activism is what I oppose, I oppose all of the bizarre, anti-scientific theorizing and paranoid ideation that derives from ideological traditionalism, which leads inexorably to the William L. Pierce Memorial Ethnostate.

My xenophilia thesis could be falsified if one could show that, compared to Southern and/or Eastern Europeans, Northern Europeans are not relatively more likely to favor non-Europeans over Europeans of a different ethnicity/subrace than themselves. This could be assayed by behavioral examination, perhaps supplemented by brain scans (amygdala, etc.), surveys, etc. At least I put forth the possibility of falsification, as opposed to the HBDers, who NEVER admit to being wrong and who respond to others falsifying HBD by hand waving ad hoc spin and a continuous generation of permutations of repeatedly disproven ideas.

Given HBD comments about the "failed economies" of PIGS countries in Europe, a Gab correspondent who is a friend of this blog directs me to the following.  See this.  And this comment.  And this:

But what happened before the bail in became the only bank bailout allowed in Europe? According to data from the ECB in September, from 2008 to 2014, public aid to the banking system amounted to 800 billion euros, of which 330 were recovered. The country that has donated the most funds to its banking system is Germany with 238 billion in public spending (8.2% of GDP). Followed by Spain with 52 billion (5% of GDP), Ireland with 42 billion (22.6%), Greece with 40 billion (22.2%) up to the recent Italian 4 billion. For Italy, France and Luxembourg, income from aid to banks was even slightly higher than expenditure, by 0.1% of GDP.

From Jack Vance's The Eyes of the Overworld:

For a brief period after their expulsion from Cil she had carried herself with an inappropriate hauteur, which Cugel had tolerated with a quiet smile for himself. Their first couching had been both eventful and taxing; thereafter Derwe Coreme had modified at least her overt behavior.

Mr. Vance apparently had a sound understanding of proper male-female relations.

The absolute madness of leftism on display again. Advice - if you don't like the work of Vance, if it offends you, then don't read it. Problem solved.

Both Da Left and Der Right are stark raving mad, the difference is that Da Left constantly tries to impose its madness on everyone in a universal fashion, while Der Right typically just self-destructs (and hence gives Da Left its power).

I can expect a critic to say that I attack women in the "movement" in the same unfair fashion that I accuse others of attacking White ethnics. Let me answer them in advance by saying that is a false equivalence. White ethnics came into the "movement" in good faith and have been continuously shat upon for no other reason that their ethnicity. In contrast, most of the visible women in the "movement" have, like Jews in the "movement," constantly promoted destructive memes (Philosophicat being just the latest example), and they also tend to be "e-thot" types who exploit thirsty beta males for attention. Let some woman come along who stands for principles similar to mine, and stands up on her own intellectual merits, instead of trying to be an activist "sex symbol," and I'll welcome that person to the fight.

Someone with common sense, from Counter-Currents comments:

Snorri MagnússonDecember 29, 2021 at 9:07 am

Philosophicat’s conclusion is a logical output of a mind virus successfully implanted into the dissident right over the past two years.

Symptoms include:

Obsessing over the meaningless issue of Covid which is utterly irrelevant to the continuity of the white race, except in the few instances where it’s actually helping us by thwarting immigration and blunting the deleterious effects of globalization on nation-states.

Alex Jonesifaction of all things dissident right. The goals of the elite are no longer realistic goals like genociding the white race by importing immigrants and lowering birth rates. The plan now is an all-out zombie apocalypse, designed and realized by the elites who’s are injecting a gene therapeutic poison straight into the veins of the sheeple killing them all from prion disease. Furthermore, it is now the entire world the dissident right is concerned about, not just whites.

Whoever came up with this kosher virus sure knew what he was doing as he’s managed to infect, distract and turn so many in this movement towards an utterly irrelevant issue that has nothing to do with white people, and in some cases, he’s actually swayed leaders in the dissident right to abandon the cause of our continued existence and instead argue for open borders, libertarianism and more globalization.

Whatever your opinion is of Covid-19, the vaccine, or lockdowns the fact is that they have nothing to do with the Great Concern of our continued existence. If you don’t see that you not only fail to comprehend our problem, you are part of it.

Quite right.  Der Movement's stupidity about covid is something that will be long remembered by highly educated professionals, particularly STEM people.