Friday, March 31, 2017

The lion cub plays at the hunt

There are plans:
  • I plan to change planes in Minneapolis to reach Milwaukee.
And then there are plans:
  • John plans to earn a Harvard MBA and to rise to become CEO of one of America's top ten general building contractors.
Plans of the second kind seldom go as planned, but such plans still matter, don't they? John might earn a Yale MBA (because Harvard had kept him on the admissions waiting list), hire on to a general building contractor that goes bankrupt a few years later, specialize in building fire protection during the meantime, and end up as CEO of an insurance company.

The hypothetical war plans of which I wrote in my last article are plans of the second kind.

So are the plans of the Alt Right.

THE ALT RIGHT PLANS REVOLUTION!


One reads much loose talk of revolution on the Alt Right, in blogs and such. Who are those revolutionaries? Will you and I revolt with them? Shall we man the barricades forthwith, a broken bourbon bottle clenched in each angry fist?

Since it is impossible to plot an actual revolution in an unencrypted blog the FBI can read, since any four sherrif's deputies with a warrant and a pair of handcuffs could swiftly arrest an incipient revolt by an Alt Right blogger, one can question whether the loose talk of revolution has any value. You and I are not actually characters in a Victor Hugo novel, after all.

I suspect however that the loose talk of revolution does have value, for all that. For analogy, recall the above linked article on war plans. When a 32-year-old Army major is instructed to revise an old plan to invade Hungary, this is probably not because generals think an invasion of Hungary likely. Rather, it is chiefly because revising the plan makes good practice for the major, who might someday become a general; and because the quality of the major's work on the plan shows senior officers whether they can, during the intervening years, trust the major to help to plan something more real.

The major's Hungarian plan remains hypothetical, but hypothetical does not mean useless, does it? The major's Hungarian plan is an exercise that develops sound habits of mind. Besides, in an unforeseen emergency, one never knows: elements of the major's Hungarian plan might actually get used.

Now, admittedly, to compare hypothetical Alt Right chatter against an Army officer's hypothetical war plan strains the analogy. Indeed, measured against the latter, the former seems unserious on the face of it, hypothetical though both they be. After all, the Army officer will have trained four years at West Point, may have earned his Combat Infantryman's Badge under live fire on the high plains of Afghanistan, and might have commanded in Iraq an infantry company of 150 soldiers—to two of whose mothers he had personally written to explain their sons' deaths in action. The Alt Right blogger? He's just a blogger.

However, if the U.S. regime the major serves is deconstructing the American nation, then which of the two—the major or the blogger—may actually be doing some good? If the final measure of the major's work is to count the dead, what a tragedy! Though I would not quite say that I belonged to the ranks of the Alt Right, even I can see that the Alt Right blogger has at least a positive program of sorts to promote.

A HYPOTHETICAL REVOLUTION


Revolution is a bloody business. It does not go well. It does not end well. It is not in itself a positive program. It gets hijacked by bad men for their own wicked purposes, while artilliery shells demolish men's homes, instantly reducing whole families to blood blots. You have rubble. You have famine. Men eat rats when they can get rats, sawdust when they can't. Water does not run. Electricity does not flow. Simple cuts get infected and lead to amputations without anesthesia. And that's if the revolution doesn't get crushed by the regime—which, nine times out of ten, it usually does.

You may think that you want a revolution, but you don't. You really don't. Yet, if things keep going as they are, you may get a revolution, nevertheless.

How would a hypothetical revolution go?

I have no idea. I do not want to find out, because a future is foreseeable in which revolution were the sole alternative to the extinction of our race. And, if a revolution there must be, then a reasonable man might conclude: the sooner, the better. One observes that the European race is the most effective warlike race ever to walk the earth, so I suspect that we whites would win even if substantially outnumbered; but the less outnumbered, the better, nor is victory guaranteed.

Remember Pat Tillman. He looks as though a squadron of F-35s could do him no harm, but in fact he was felled by an ordinary rifle round.

Still, I believe that we would win. And still, I would rather not put my belief to the test.

IF NOT REVOLUTION, THEN WHAT CAN BE DONE?


Chris Matthews once rhetorically asked, "Why does the little guy love his country?" Matthews' answer: "Because it's all he's got."

What can be done? What can be done is surprisingly easy:

  • Remember that the United States is our country.
  • Decline to get sidetracked by the troublemaking question, "What about the immigrants? Isn't the U.S. their country, too?" (To the individual immigrant, the answer "You're here, aren't you?" suffices. To the collective of immigrants—well, that collective is precisely the problem, isn't it?)
  • Halt almost all immigration.
  • Have the U.S. pay incentives to a significant fraction of recent immigrants voluntarily to emigrate.
  • Criminalize Islam, with a temporary exception for Muslims who are arranging to emigrate.
  • Admit that desegregation was once a noble impulse but has become a gruesome mistake. Repeal the Civil Rights Act. Strip most blacks of the franchise.
  • Amend the tax code to further incentivize whites who earn (or whose parents earn) above-average incomes to make more babies.
  • Restrict the college-loan program to discourage our best young women from wasting their most fertile years in college. College, which is scheduled to the natural tempo of a smart young man's life, simply does not work for most women.
  • Kick the undisciplined and the badly behaved out of high school, so that our high schools can restore their rigor, affording our young women a sound education during those few, precious years they can afford to devote to full-time study.

Will we do these things? No, probably not, but we could. We choose not to.

Why we won't do these things, or something like them, is rather a mystery. None of these things is harsh. None is brutal. None is unjust. All seem necessary and desirable. Most of these measures would have been embraced by our ancestors, were our ancestors alive today to counsel us. Since our ancestors are not alive, since we will not heed their counsel, a time seems not unlikely to come—nor may it be long delayed—when circumstance forces Americans to turn to harsh, brutal, unjust measures, but that time has not yet arrived.

When? Events will ride the saddle. Events are unforeseen. You'll see.

Meanwhile, the Alt Right plays at revolution as the lion cub plays at the hunt.

2 comments:

  1. "What can be done? What can be done is surprisingly easy:"

    No, these solutions are other than easy to implement.

    "Remember that the United States is our country."

    Our country, referring to legal citizens, white and nonwhite, "Anglo" and "non-Anglo".

    "Halt almost all immigration."

    Ok.

    "Have the U.S. pay incentives to a significant fraction of recent immigrants voluntarily to emigrate."

    Out of my tax dollars? What does the program look like? How is it implemented? How much money will they receive? What happens if they say "No, thanks"?

    "Criminalize Islam, with a temporary exception for Muslims who are arranging to emigrate."

    That is a violation of the First Amendment. Never going to happen. Next...

    "Admit that desegregation was once a noble impulse but has become a gruesome mistake. Repeal the Civil Rights Act. Strip most blacks of the franchise."

    See, those greedy southrons had to ruin it. Had they simply followed through with "separate but equal", then maybe to this day we have Jim Crow laws intact. But they couldn't even get that one right. Besides, there were white southerners sought to exercise their freedom of association by publicly interacting with blacks, or by marrying them, and they were denied that fundamental freedom. Accordingly, legal segregation was obliterated. Remember, it had been European whites who invaded the world and invited the world and brought over Africans as slaves to make them money. In the end, you reap what you sow.

    "Amend the tax code to further incentivize whites who earn (or whose parents earn) above-average incomes to make more babies."

    Procreating is a personal choice, one by which the federal government has no business to financially promote. Now, I'm sure you have at least 5 white offspring, right?

    "Restrict the college-loan program to discourage our best young women from wasting their most fertile years in college."

    Which is fascism.

    In the end, how do you suggest convincing millions of white Americans without resorting to your own form of propaganda or without coercing them using force that these plans are in their best interests?

    Why don't you publicly run for office on this platform?

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  2. @Anti-Gnostic: Am I supposed to condemn fascism? Why?

    Regarding Anglos, I like Anglos. Don't you?

    Is it irrelevant to you that, on present trend, our people are being displaced? If this is not irrelevant to you, then what do you propose to do about it? Labeling me a fascist won't help.

    Thanks for the comment.

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