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after the ruins

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Until about 2015 I felt that Western civilisation would inevitably collapse, over about two to three generations, and if one could go forwards to 2050-or-so, everything from California to Berlin would look like Mogadishu. But to quote Hölderlin:

Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst

Das Rettende auch

(salvation flourishes where there is danger, my loose translation)

So, as the globohomo, through Merkel et al. decided to terminate Western civilisation in a short time frame, reality itself responded in the form of e.g. The God Emperor, blessings be upon him.

Q and Trump have both signalled that the Cabal’s takeover of America (and the world) cannot be allowed to happen again. Since it seems the Storm is even now breaking, it is worth thinking, How could one Cabal-proof any system?

I can think of two useful means:

1. Foster what Anonymous Conservative calls “the myth”: of patriotism, public service, integrity.

If people think of the FBI as full of Agent Dale Coopers and Gordon Coles – upright, incorruptible men of law & order – then most recruits should be attracted to such ideals. While there will always be psychopaths and bullies, and the merely weak and corruptible, if most recruits are initially believers in “the myth”, the organisation will most likely retain a subterranean possibility of goodness, in spite of corruption.

2. Teach all schoolchildren how to analyse the news. At my school, aged 12 or so, we had an English class where we compared newspaper articles discussing the same event. The teacher drew attention to the vocabulary, so e.g. one might use “protestors” and the other “angry mob”. At a higher level one could point to what Styxhexenhammer calls “lie by structure”:

Although I was bottom of my class at school, this lesson stuck. I learnt to ask “from where does this report come?” and to look for equivocative and weasely language, for evident rhetoric, unsupported assertions, for contradictions – for basically everything you find in chaimstream media. I learnt to “delouse” as Leary puts it in In The Line of Fire.

This should be taught weekly from, let’s say, age 12. Let the young learn a healthy contempt for journalists.

the society of the lie

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The Z Man:

There was never a time when news reporters were objective or conformed to a set of ethics. In fact, the idea of journalistic ethics is an entirely new thing. The reporters in the 1920’s would have laughed themselves silly if someone scolded them about their ethics. The newspaper man was a carouser who lived rough and played rough. Until after World War II, being in the media was a working class job with the morality of carny folk.

My father tried to force me to read the dreary Times every day, “well egh to build up the vocabulary egh!” as he put it. I leafed disconsolately through this garbage every morning, praying for an earthquake or war to liven things up a bit. At the time, I thought I was totally uninterested in politics and so-called current events, and stuck to Henry James and Nietzsche.

Only in 2006 or so, I found writers like Theodore Dalrymple and Roger Scruton, who made some sense of England’s degenerate culture. And only in 2015, with the Ascent of the God Emperor, did I pay any attention to daily happenings.

I now realise that mainstream media isn’t news as such; it is commentary, spin, on the daily events, and one requires extreme caution to factor in the bias and deceit. I have met several journalists, some very high level, and found them to be astonishingly ignorant and often surprisingly unqualified. For example, I met the politics editor of a major European “intellectual” newspaper in summer 2016; he was planning a trip to the US to liaise with the Washington Post and New York Times: he had never heard of “the Alt-Right” or Stephen Bannon.

Most people will say politicians are all liars, but quite a few people still seem to trust mainstream journalism, despite many cases of outright knowing falsehood. We live in a society of the lie, and the nobility & integrity of journalism is one of the subtle little lies by which we are fed the whoppers.

Even a fairly based show like Person of Interest has an episode about a valiant and wonderful female journalist who is threatened because of her fearless exposés. In reality, she would be a corporate lackey, Left-wing, who would simply take orders to attack Western civilisation, and to cover up any Democrat/Left-wing crimes; if she got too close to a juicy story, her editors would tell her to back off. Curiously, as if reality asserts itself in spite of the narrative, she looks and acts like a slimy, opportunistic snake, with an expression of constant smug superiority:

People will accept the fundamentally Darwinian nature of society, that e.g. Google wants to be the only major search engine, that McDonald’s would be quite happy for Burger King to go bankrupt, and yet these same people don’t for a moment think the powers that be would infiltrate, subvert, and control mainstream media. Means, motive, opportunity – all three are present, and yet if you so much as suggest it, or mention Operation Mockingbird, the NPCs titter about conspiracy theories.

But then, most people are fairly honest and lack both the cognitive powers and the sociopathic detachment to conspire at length. Hence, most people cannot be journalists.