Almost thou persuadest me to be a Leftist
Posted on 14 September 2011
Once I wrote an article called ‘Eugenics and Other Evils’ whose title I stole from a book of the same name by GK Chesterton. But he, brilliantly, and I, not brilliantly, pointed out the evident inhumanity and glaring unreasonableness of a program of ‘scientifically’ managing human life, breeding men like dogs, and so on.
I received a crackpot letter in my spam filter, so I assume it is was sent out at random after some sort of automatic spambot found every article online from any source with the word ‘Eugenics’ in it.
It was addressed to me, but recoil at the thought that one of these filth knows my name, or feels familiar enough to address me, much less that he could mistake me or any Christian for one of him.
I am not going to reprint the letter, since I wish no publicity, even negative, to be given the dreary, predictable, lunatic, hateful and grotesque philosophy of that branch of modern secular thinking called National Socialism or Planned Parenthood or Nazism. I am sorry that a single partisan of that odious philosophy survived World War Two.
My dream is that Jews or Gypsies or Slavs or Blacks should shoot such vermin down in the street like the dogs they seek to breed us as, to perish in the gutter without benefit of law or benefit of clergy. Since I also dream that some day the United Nations building in New York will be trampled by a giant atomic-powered robot operated by the Israeli Secret Service, I will admit my dreams are better kept in dreamland. But I don’t have much sympathy for professional antisemitism.
I must, however reprint certain choice paragraphs of this rank dreck, to allow for that beneficent exercise of public scorn which may shame any lunatics in whom some vestige of conscience or humanity remains into silence.
I suspect the Nazis among us are not shamed into silence merely because lunatics of the Left continually tell the world that the Tea Party, the Republican Party, the Oil Companies, the Military-Industrial Complex, the Catholic Church, and all institutions not devoutly radical-leftist are Nazi institutions, and so the loons think they are in the majority, not a remnant of sick and freakish undead lingering from last Millennium.
A little bit of public mockery might convince the sad little creatures that we conservatives are not secretly their friends, as the Leftist slanders say we are, and that they are alone and isolated, and their nightmare is dead.
I do invite you as a White man to consider the relative position of White people particularly the ‘Nordid’ populations in today’s world and to ponder the need for a selective breeding program to ensure Caucasian man’s continued existence and prosperity.
(“Nordid”…?)
Since neither my marriage to my beloved, nor the marriages of any of my children in times to come, would be approved by any Eugenics board as the crackpot letter contemplated, even if the need to breed human beings like dogs were entertained hypothetically, as a practical matter, it would be against my self interest rightly understood.
Since my house is about as multiracial than the bridge of the starship Enterprise, I think I will decline the invitation to contemplate the glory of the eugenic future with a solemn curse consigning all such would-be man-breeders to the hellfire.
Now it is certainly true that people who have expended the great moral and intellectual effort needed to understand the true nature of the world in which we live know that the Conspiratorial View of History is essentially correct.
Humility is not only a great Christian virtue, it is an inoculation against all pseudo-religions and anti-religions who depend for their persuasive power on flattering the dupe into thinking he is smarter than the rest of the world.
The invitation to join the “In Crowd” is always extended in terms that tell you that you are one of the chosen few, one of those capable of the “great moral and intellectual effort” needed to see things as they really are. It is the mating cry of Gnosticism.
If you recall the Aesop fable about the fox, the cheese, and the crow will remember that if the crow had been humble enough to remember she was a crow and sounded like a crow, she would not have heeded the flattery of the fox, not opened her beak to croak her song the fox told her was finer than the nightengale’s, and not dropped the morsel of cheese, and not watched the chuckling fox skip away with her lunch in his teeth.
Those of you who notice the leitmotif of the modern age, it consists of stupid and wicked people telling us that they are smarter and more virtuous than us. Now you know why. The unearned spiritual, mental, and moral claim of superiority is the passkey that lets you join the ‘In’ crowd. The same lure is being used here, ironically, by someone who is a member of the ‘Way Out’ crowd.
This overrunning of the West by NON-WHITE non-Christian peoples is primarily designed to create massive social tensions using the old divide and rule principle which will allow the Secret Masters of the Evil Agenda to bring about the final destruction of Western Christian Civilization and the enslavement of its indigenous peoples.
The line about the world being run by the Secret Masters of Evil amused me with a bitter amusement (I assume he means the Melter, the Radioactive Man, and the Black Knight, gathered by Nazi super-scientist Heinrich Zemo rather than the later incarnation as the Thunderbolts).
Remember there is nothing un-Christian about being unflaggingly loyal to one’s own racial community indeed it is traitorous to not be.
Also bitterly amusing was the line were he says it is not unchristian to be loyal to one’s ‘racial community’. Really? I seem to recall Our Lord saying that his mother and his brothers were those who obeyed His commands and followed his Church, wherein was neither Greek nor Jew.
I also seem to recall that members of my so-called ‘community’ including Nazi Germans during World War Two and Communist Russians during the Cold War killed more numbers of innocent people than all the previous ages of all tyrants and warlords and butchers of the innocent combined, and that my government and my church and all men of good will throughout the world, including men not of ‘my community’ paid any price, fought any battle, spilled blood and spent gold and did whatever was needed to quench and halt and kill these ideological zealots, mass murderers, and wannabe supermen.
I am not sure what to say when a deadly enemy you are avowed to battle and kill whenever it is lawful to do so claims to be in communion with you. A grim smile and a drawn sword might be the apt answer.
In this connection and against the wishes of the vast majority of Westerners a secret high level policy of mass immigration of non-whites adoption of foreign non-white children and increased miscegenation aimed at radically transforming the West has been pursued and whose outrages and iniquities have been vigorously defended by professional Race Relations experts and Race Industry organizations whose disproportionate power within contemporary Western culture is not their own.
But even more bitterly amusing, almost painfully so, to read was the line where he says the Secret Masters of Evil have commanded that adopting non-White children from overseas was made easy, and was encouraged by the government.
Easy…? Encouraged…? If only!
It took the wife and I four years and endless patience, diligence, trouble and expense to go find our new daughter in China and give her a home. If the Secret Conspiracy controlling world governments is that inefficient, I suggest the lunatics should be unafraid of it.
And so the loon letter rambled on in like style, using Capital Letters to Make the Significant Points, convinced of the Evil Conspiracy, wishing for Aryan supremacy, and talking with the Self Importance of a supervillain chewing the scenery during his long-awaited monologue.
But the last paragraph did not amuse me a bit.
Why is Western Civilization the main main target? For the reason that not only is it the cradle of the ancient Sinister Plot to Transform the World but it is also its greatest impedimentor more specifically the spirituality that underpins Western Civilization which is the Christ Impulse released from the Cross at Calvary commonly called Christianity.
Note to anyone who wants to cozy up to my Christian faith in order to lure aboard his hellbound bark of pseudo-scientific, pseudo-religious science-worshiping eugenics:
If you want to convince me you are a good, humble, and faithful Christian, don’t refer to the Passion as “The Christ Impulse” and don’t call the Church “the spirituality that underpins the West” and don’t refer to Christianity as if the commoners like me call it one thing, and the elite like you call it by some airy jabberwocky of ersatz erudition.
(“Nordid”…?)
I congratulate my Nordid brother on constructing so many grammatically correct incoherent sentences. If he sends me a Form 1-WGA in triplicate, I will fill out a recommendation for his next breeding assortation.
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It is ironic that our civilization is more engaged in assortative mating than at any past time when eugenics is also more discredited than ever before. Dunno why, guilty conscience maybe?
There’s an old saying: A man whose only tool is a hammer tends to see every problem as a nail.
The corollary to this is: A man whose formative experience is of being treated like a nail tends to assume anyone he doesn’t know is carrying a hammer.
So many leftist-progressivists assume every conservative they know is actually part of this racial-eugenic totalitarianism because their first experience of real moral horror is reading about Nazism and the Holocaust. Just imagine your reaction happening at a much earlier time in your life, without benefit of experience or moral revelation, and much about this mindset may become clearer.
Stephen:
But why should the leftist-progressives associate conservatives with Nazis? The Nazis were not conservatives, but were themselves progressives, and abhorred conservative resistance to their progams (while of course harnessing what support they could from conservative groups).
The hatred between the National Socialists and the International Socialists (later the proponents of “Socialism in One Country”) was a hatred between rival brothers, not between ideological poles.
Only after the war, as the fruits of “progressive” thinking were revealed in the daylight, did a substantial campaign get under way to depict the Nazis (along with the Fascists) as of the “right”, in order to allow the surviving leftist movement in the west to dissociate itself from their failure. Hence the formative experience you refer to.
Well, the slow Leftists are just following the propaganda blindly. The bright Leftists are in Hell. They know that their cause is a total one, and if they are victorious, Eugenics will once again be the order of the day. But they don’t want that blood on their hands (one of the reasons they keep feeding and encouraging the demons who walk the Middle East), so they are trying to create a taboo. But, alas, they are Leftists, and Leftists take great joy in destroying taboos. Sisyphus was being tortured by being forced to push the boulder up the hill, forever failing. Imagine how much worse to push the boulder of your own free will, knowing you will fail, because you cannot bear the alternative, that your creed is a monstrous one that is intrinsically flawed……..
“But why should the leftist-progressives associate conservatives with Nazis?”
Because their *second* experience of moral horror is always hearing about Vietnam, which is always painted as militaristic jingoist hawks wreaking wholly pointless violence on helpless foreigners for some phantasmal ideological purpose invoked to disguise profit or powerlust. After that, anybody who approved of war or fighting was automatically held to be of the Right.
So if you admire soldiers and celebrate their service, think war is sometimes necessary, and occasionally even worth fighting on matters of principle, you’re a Nazi, because the Nazis believed all these things and killed millions because of them; and because all the people who felt this way during the Vietnam era were said (by L/Ps) to be on the Right, the Right = Nazis. Simple.
But it’s mostly because the Nazis were evil, and L/Ps know they’re the Good Guys, so anyone opposed to the L/Ps must be Evil, therefore = Nazis.
But why should the leftist-progressives associate conservatives with Nazis?
Stalin said so. Of course, he said the same thing of Trotsky, but the leftists aren’t really going to give up and admit that they shilled for the two biggest mass murderers in history, which would lead rapidly to the conclusion that it might be quite as bad as shilling for the third and so be horrible.
So, Mr. Wright, by adopting your daughter from China you are either a pawn of, or else a candidate for, the Secret Masters of the Evil Agenda?
I wish I had such an exciting private life!
Hilaire Belloc had great fun at the expense of such attitudes back in 1926, but they’re still alive and kicking, I see. Is the “Nordid” population any relation to the Nordic Man? I suppose the only good thing is that today it is crackpots sending out their lists by picking up on automated keywords, rather than the considered opinion of respected scientists (the attitude mocked by Belloc in the essay below):
http://rcatholic-l.freeservers.com/nordic.html
“A fourth correspondent, a clergyman I fancy, who signs ‘Scholasticus,’ writes me a long rigmarole (I cannot call it by any politer name), in which he calls the whole theory subversive of sound morals, and asks whether we are to believe that man ‘created in the image of his Maker, and responsible to his Creator,’ etc. etc. etc.
Really, to this kind of thing there is only one answer. Science does not clash with religion; it clashes with nothing except unreason and untruth. Science is simply organized knowledge, based upon experimental and accurate measurement over so wide a field as to be established with absolute certitude. Now Science clearly proves that these three races, the Nordic, the Alpine, and the Mediterranean, exist side by side in Europe, and affirms that the Nordic (to which all scientific men belong) possesses those qualities upon which alone men can pride themselves. Science demonstrates the defects and vices of the Alpine, and the baseness and degradation of the Mediterranean stock. If my reverend critic likes to knock his head against a stone wall, I cannot help it. But is seems to me an extra-ordinary thing to find any man possessed of enough education to write consecutively opposing (at this time of day) established scientific truths in the name of hypothetical principles the figments of imagination and vanity. His “Creator,” “image,” “responsibility,’ are all of them mere words; not one of them has been established by accurate and repeated measurement, nor have they one single experiment conducted under scientific conditions to support them; while on the other side we have the unanimous agreement of Meyerbath, Karsowitz, Brahmsohn, Farrago, Cent-Six, Blauwenfeld, Tabouche, Smith of Milwaukee (Hamilcar Q. Smith – perhaps the greatest authority of all), van Houten and his famous relative Klotz – but why should I prolong the list? My objector will look in vain though all the distinguished ranks of modern science to find a single name supporting his ridiculous assumptions of a ‘God,’ “Free Will,’ and what not. All agree that our characters and actions proceed from a cephalic index, and all are agreed upon the relative values of the three main races of Europe.”
It’s funny how the leftists portray all past European civilisation as racist, even though racism as we know it was the product, even if indirect, of Darwin. Anyone who thinks the Middle Ages were racist may read “Parzival”. (I suppose people have always been wary of strangers, to a greater or lesser extent, which is different.)
There also is no danger of the white race disappearing any time soon. There are hundreds of millions of whites: more than at any time in the past. I think the whole race issue is one big distraction.
Well, yes. A group of people who want to start at “Year Zero” have little reason to study History……
Racism is more or less a natural tendency of mankind. Of course the middle ages had racist elements along with all the other ills to which humanity is prone.
However, theorized racism is a product of the 19th.
I think tiredofthis is nearer the mark. Love of family->love of kin-> love of tribe/language group/co-religionists + wariness of strangers != racism. All racism worthy of the name is a product of the 19th century.
Huh, “Nordid” is an actual word, even if it’s pretty nonsensical. (It seems to mean “steriotypical Scandinavian”…which normal folks would just say “Nordic” for….)
“Nordid” sounds like a bit character for Star Trek.
The Inner Circle// The Mating Cry……
From dear Mr John Wright: The invitation to join the “In Crowd” is always extended in terms that tell you that you are one of the chosen few, one of those capable of the “great moral and intellectual effort” needed……
But why should the leftist-progressives associate conservatives with Nazis?”
Because Conservative Germans did associate themselves with Nazis. Of course, they did not know the depths of evil that lurked within Nazism. It was the question of saving the Central European Catholics from the fate of Russian Orthodox. Also, conservative elements in Western Democracies did flirt with Nazis for the similar reasons. The fate of Catholic Spain and Ukraine was known. The Bolshevik menace was not just a bogeyman.
“Because Conservative Germans did associate themselves with Nazis”
Since the price of openly dissociating oneself was unpleasant death, of course they did, along with everybody else. Conservative Germans also opposed the Nazis. That they did not all flee their homeland rather than accept evil rules does not identify them with those rulers.
“Conservative elements in Western Democracies did flirt…”
Really? Who did you have in mind? Certainly there was flirtation, from enthusiasts for a new, efficient, scientific way of running a modern state. What is conservative about that?
As for your last two sentences, I don’t understand what you are saying.
Catholic Spain was ruled by the Nationalist party, which was the one party to the civil war who had not gone out of their way to murder catholic clergy. Hardly the basis of a basis of a beautiful freindship, but better than the alternative.
Orthodox Ukraine, having been forcibly united with the Russian empire in the 17th century, was ruled by the Czar until the revolution. They suffered so severely at the hands of the Bolsheviks that many of them saw the Nazis as the lesser evil following Barbarossa.
In both cases, I don’t see what “fate” you are referring to, or why anybody then or now would be encouraged by them to see National Socialism as a conservative movement.
“Because Conservative Germans did associate themselves with Nazis”
As if other Leftists didn’t. Indeed, Nazi propaganda often portrayed rank-and-file German Communists as potential Nazis.
The plot to assasinate Hitler during World War II was the product of deeply conservative Germans.
The German Catholics and conservatives did throw their weight behind Hitler pre-1933 and were very useful for Nazis. The Nazi propaganda was rather more anti-Bolshevik and capitalized on the fear of Central European Catholic population that the Bolshevik victory meant that they would share the dismal fate of Orthodox Russians and Catholic Ukraine.
The Western Democracies were supporting the Bolsheviks, either directly or through proxies as in Spain,
Thats why the conservative elements supported Fascists in Italy. Evelyn Waugh who was Catholic regarded Nazis as entirely mad and who discredited “our cause” but Italian Fascists were acceptable (Farewell to Arms trilogy, first volume).
Details, Gian? When you say “The German Catholics”, I take it you are referring to the mainstream church, not to some fringe nutjobs. Documentation, please, or at least names and dates. Likewise, what conservatives? Being anti-communist is not sufficient.
“The Western Democracies were supporting the Bolsheviks”
A moment ago you were saying that they were flirting with the Nazis. Or was that just the “conservative elements”? Apart from the International Brigade – a private endeavour, surely? – how did western democracies support the Bolsheviks by proxy in Spain?? Let alone directly?
From the end of your first paragraph I take it you meant earlier that the Nazis used the fear of Bolshevik anti-clericalism to make themselves seem to Christians by comparison like acceptable allies? True enough, but you are not confusing Nazi propaganda with an accurate representation of identity of interests, are you?
Nazi propaganda was so effective only because the facts were indisputable.
Please go away if you can’t be serious.
Do you dispute that Christians suffered severe persecution under Bolsheviks and that this was well-known outside Russia?
No, of course I don’t. Is that what you are referring to? If so, you need to be a good deal clearer.
Most Nazi propaganda was not about persecution of Christians (indeed, I am not aware of any along those lines, although I might have missed it), but about the evident superiority of the “Aryan” race, the evident inferiority of other races, the sub-human character and morally degrading influence of the Jews etc. etc. ad nauseum. No, the facts in support of these things were not indisputable.
So your assertion is that German Catholics and conservatives responded to anti-Bolshevik Nazi propaganda (after June 41, I assume) by supporting the Nazis?
Evelyn Waugh had his (English Catholic) hero say in 1939 that the participation of Nazis discredited “our” cause.
I am talking about the rise of Nazis and the background was the Bolshevik atrocities and oppression of Russian Christians and the complicating factor of Jewish involvement in Bolshevism. That’s where the Nazi propaganda gained its traction.
They took a true fact-that Bolsheviks were oppressing Christians, mixed it with a lie Jew=Bolshevik.
There is also the response of Progressive Elements in Europe and Anglosphere to the Bolshevik oppression. They applauded Bolsheviks-read Orwell. Naturally the Central European Catholics and other Christians felt the footfalls of doom.
I am not convinced that fear of the Russians was at the forefront of the minds of Germans in the ’20s and early 30′s. More the disaster of 1918, the national humiliation of Versailles, and the Weimar economy. Those were the things that Nazi propaganda focused on. The Jew in charge of German banks, not the Jew in charge of Soviet gulags. I am not aware of any propaganda that even mentioned the plight of Christians in the east.
As for the claim that Christians and conservatives supported Nazism, you have not even begun to make a case. Do you have any evidence at all, or just unsupported, and oblique, assertion?
I haven’t read “Sword of Honour” (I suppose that is what you mean – “A Farewell to Arms” is Hemingway), so I cannot comment on that reference with any authority. Perhaps you should check the context, though, thinking about what Crouchback would have regarded as his cause, and what if anything it had in common with the Nazi cause? I suspect you might be surprised if you read what the text says rather than reading into the text what you say. There again, I could be wrong.
I have done quite a bit of studying about the Nazis. They were overtly anti-Christian, to the point that party members were ordered to quit attending church. This is well documented. Of course Nazis used anti-Communist propaganda about how the Bolsheviks hated Christians. One of the reasons it’s to discern Nazi roots is because they were supreme opportunists and changed their tune according to the audience. Hence you can find what seems like conservative thinking in their propaganda as well as progressive thinking. Though most of their initiatives were, of course, progressive (government control of industry, national labor organization, suppression of church).
In fact it worries me every time I hear about the president of France, for example, saying “government should have a seat at the table of big business”. Because that is, in fact, the economic basis of fascism.