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Oct 28, 2010

American Third Position

 


American Third Position


European America "Built on the Desire to Live Free of Tyranny," Leif Eriksson Ceremony Told

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:45 PM PDT

European Americans were drawn to the New World out of a desire to live free of tyranny and to shape their own destinies, American Third Position national organizer Charles Dickenson told attendees at the 4th Annual Leif Eriksson Celebration in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this past weekend.

Addressing dozens of supporters in front of a statue of Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first modern European to be born in North America over 1,000 years ago, Mr. Dickenson said that it was a "a natural and innate desire of European man to shape their own life and destiny.

"Our ancestors were drawn here to live a life free of tyranny, oppression, and social and economic hardship inflicted by a degenerate state and its corrupted leaders," he said.

"The vast New World offered such possibilities to those of our ancestors with the courage to strike out on their own and shape their own destinies."

"This echoes the spirit and purpose of the platform of the American Third Position," he concluded.

The A3P members were among the scores of other attendees who gathered to celebrate the lives and deeds of Leif Eriksson (the first modern European to settle continental North America) and Snorri Thorfinnsson.

Event organizer Felix Bauriedel started the proceedings by setting the background to the celebrations, explaining that Leif Eriksson "was the first European to settle in North America at what is now known as Newfoundland around 1000.

"Several years later, Snorri Thorfinnsson was born in one of these early settlements, making him the first person of modern European origin to be born on the continent of North America," Mr. Bauriedel said.

"The purpose of this event is to honor these accomplishments of our ancestors which are truly epic in scale and to educate other European-Americans that we have a legitimate claim to this land despite the slanderous lies and mischaracterizations of those that hate us," he said.

After the speeches and ceremony, the crowd moved on to a park in the city to continue the festivities with food and fellowship, where A3P activists used the opportunity to promote the party and its platform among the other attendees.

The American Third Position exists to represent the political interest of white Americans and wholly encourages and supports events and celebrations that honor our European ancestors, heritage, and culture. Without those cultural links, we will cease to exist as a people.

American Third Position Endorses Former CIA Officer's Calls for Nuremburg Trials over Iraq War

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:43 PM PDT

The American Third Position has endorsed a call by former Central Intelligence Agency counterterrorism specialist and military intelligence officer Philip Giradli, for Nuremburg war crimes trials to punish those responsible for the invasion of Iraq.

Mr. Giraldi, who is also Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, made the call in his column on the antiwar.com website.

He also condemned America's political system which, he said, requires "neither party to behave responsibly" which meant that "decisions will be made without regard for the consequences.

"Seven years ago a major war crime was committed when Iraq was attacked yet no one has been punished, nor has anyone even been seriously challenged on the steps taken that led up to war," Mr. Giraldi, who was also Ron Paul's foreign policy advisor during the 2008 presidential primaries, wrote.

"The United States bombed and then invaded a country that posed no threat and that had no ability in any event to strike against Americans or American targets.

"In 1946, the judges at the Nuremberg Trials called the initiation of a war of aggression the ultimate war crime because it inevitably unleashed so many other evils. Ten leading Nazis were executed at Nuremberg and ninety-three Japanese officials at similar trials staged in Asia," he continued.

"In spite of the fact that a majority of Republicans now considers the Iraq war to have been a 'mistake,' a view certainly shared by most Democrats and the public, no American government official was even fired as a consequence," he said.

Mr. Giraldi's argument is correct. The main charge at the Nuremburg Trials was one of "waging aggressive war" which was predicated on the fact that Germany had invaded Poland which represented no physical threat.

The international legal precedent has therefore been set: a political leader is guilty of "waging aggressive war" if they cause another nation to be invaded which represents no threat to the invading nation.

Iraq was accused of being responsible for the attacks of 9-11, which it obviously was not. Iraq was accused of being a threat to the U.S., which it obviously was not.

Iraq was the subject of some of the most vicious public lies ever to be seen in recent American history which ranged from accusations that it was building a nuclear bomb right through to "chemical weapons factories."

All of these claims were disproved and shown to be deliberate lies. It is unlikely that anyone will ever forget the disgraceful sight of Colin Powell lying to the United Nations in the infamous presentation which "justified" the invasion.

The war in Iraq has cost in excess of $739,539,000,000 dollars at a time when America is in a deep financial crisis. Apart from the financial cost, more than 4,000 American soldiers have been killed while Iraqi deaths have been estimated to be anywhere up to 1.25 million.

Mr. Giraldi went on to name those who should be brought to justice, starting with Condoleezza Rice (who he described as "an inept National Security Adviser and then as an only marginally better Secretary of State").

"She once thrilled the American public and the fawning media by describing her vision of nuclear mushroom clouds over U.S. cities courtesy of Saddam Hussein, who, at the time, had no ability to do harm to anyone but his own people," Mr. Giraldi wrote.

"One might have expected public and congressional demands that Rice be called to account for the foreign policy shipwreck she participated in, but she has instead been rewarded and is currently both a tenured professor at Stanford University and a Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is even being spoken of as a possible Republican presidential candidate somewhere down the road."

Others named by Mr. Giraldi included George W. Bush, George Tenet, "the CIA Director . . . who cooked the intelligence to make the war possible to curry favor with the White House [and who] is now Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University."

Mr. Giraldi pointed out that Mr. Tenet's memoirs, called At the Center of the Storm, specifically admitted that the U.S. invaded Iraq for no good reason.

Another person to be put on trial, Mr. Giraldi continued, is Dick Cheney who "made numerous visits to the CIA headquarters to oversee the generation of the Iraq NIE o make sure that it said what the White House wanted it to say.

"Cheney and his colleague in crime Scooter Libby also served as a conduit for bogus information being generated by the Pentagon, bypassing the usual intelligence channels through the CIA and the National Security Adviser.

"Paul Wolfowitz, the Bush Deputy Secretary of Defense, is seen by many as the 'intellectual' driving force behind the invasion of Iraq. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

"Wolfowitz's chief deputy at the Pentagon, Doug Feith, was the architect of the invasion of Iraq. As Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, he ran the infamous Office of Special Plans (OSP).

"OSP collected and disseminated information that CIA and State Department Intelligence had found to be suspect. Not surprisingly, Feith's reports supported the case that Iraq presented a threat to the United States."

Whites Blamed for 85% Nonwhite Juvenile Incarceration Rate in NY

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:41 PM PDT

A U.S. States Governor-appointed advisory group on juvenile justice has blamed whites for the fact that 66 percent of all incarcerated juveniles nationally are nonwhite, a figure which rises to 85 percent in the state of New York.

The Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ), which claims it is a national nonprofit association, but which has nice offices and a large staff, says in a policy position paper on its website entitled "Unequal Treatment of Minority Youth in the Juvenile Justice System" that "youth of color receive harsher sanctions than their white counterparts at every stage of the juvenile court system, from the point of surveillance (including racial profiling) to disposition/trial, sentencing, and incarceration."

In other words, according to this taxpayer-funded organization, the only reason why there are more nonwhite than white juveniles in prison is because of "white racism."

This is, of course, pure nonsense but is typical of the anti-white bile and hatred which pervades the establishment, and holds that white people are to blame for all ills which affect any nonwhite community.

The CJJ paper goes on to inform its readers that "youth of color comprise more than two-thirds of the juveniles held in confinement, but less than one-third of the U.S. youth population."

Despite this statistic probably being inaccurate (primarily because the U.S. Census counts all people from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East as white) the CJJ adds that "Latino youth represent approximately 12 percent of the U.S. population, yet 15 percent of the youth population sentenced to adult prisons."

The CJJ demands that police, officers of the court, and correctional providers "ensure unbiased and rehabilitative treatment of all youth who come into contact with the justice system," plainly implying that this is not currently the case, obviously due to the evil white racists who seem to lurk everywhere, putting nonwhite people down all the time.

At a recent conference organized by the CJJ, with the grand title "Fundamental Fairness: Working to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Juvenile Justice," guest speaker Gladys Carrion, New York commissioner of children and family services, announced that her state's juvenile detention system, "where 85 percent of those incarcerated are minorities, is working to reduce racial disparity."

Ms. Carrion cited several reforms her administration has pursued, including eliminating status offenders in the system, investing in alternatives to detention, working with counties to develop risk assessment instruments, supporting home-based interventions, and introducing legislation to limit youth placement in state facilities to those who commit serious, dangerous felonies.

In other words, the way New York has addressed the embarrassing statistic which shows the amount of crime nonwhite youth commit, is to simply rearrange detention systems so that the figures are disguised.

The American Third Positions rejects the notion that white people are always to blame and demands that nonwhite communities stand up and take responsibility for their own problems instead of continuously scapegoating white Americans.

Northeast A3P Starts Coordinating Members in the Region

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:38 PM PDT

The American Third Position held "meet and greets" throughout the Northeast this past weekend to reach out and get to better know the party members in the region.

Alexander Carmichael, the New Jersey State Chairman, spearheaded the outreach effort by meeting several new party members in New York and New England.

"The enthusiasm for our agenda displayed by our new members in the Northeast is truly inspiring," said Mr. Carmichael.

"The simple fact that we have a steady influx of new membership that is willing to go out, meet people, and be active, is proof-positive that our message is being heard and embraced throughout the region," he continued.

"The enthusiasm of our activists to spread the message of the American Third Position is hands down our most effective tool in reaching the frustrated white Americans looking for a solution to the problems they currently face."

Mr. Carmichael went on to add that "every new member I have met with and spoken to was already fully aware of the grim details of the problems we face, namely Third World immigration, affirmative action, and apathy.

"All have independently come to the conclusion that the American Third Position is the only viable option to protect our liberty, sovereignty, and identity.

"The Internet has proven to be a very effective tool in our efforts to reach white Americans nationwide," he said, "but nothing is more effective than a face-to-face meeting of like-minded folk.

"We will continue with our outreach efforts to bring the message of the American Third Position to white Americans," Mr. Carmichael said, "and I encourage other A3P members to do likewise for our party."

Chairman Joins So Cal Team for Outreach

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 08:15 PM PDT

Chairman Bill Johnson, again leading by example, joined the So Cal A3P for a day of activism at the Huntington Beach pier, where the team distributed over 1000 fliers, reports activist Stacey Winters.

"This is the third or fourth time Mr. Johnson has been out with us in as many months," said Brian Alexander, who attended the event.

"To have a chairman who is so down-to-earth and who continually goes to such great lengths to support our team is an inspiration," he added.

While members of the team walked up and down the pier to deliver fliers to beachgoers, Chairman Johnson attracted an audience at the A3P table, where he engaged them with a summary of what makes the American Third Position unique and absolutely necessary.

"With elections just around the corner, people were particularly interested in hearing what we had to say," said Stacey Winters, who organized the event.

"People are furious about the continued destruction of our economy, out-of-control immigration, and purposeless wars that we are expected to pay for. They like the A3P message, and they want to learn more. "

Appealing to members and supporters across the country to recognize the importance of grassroots activism and get involved, Chairman Johnson offered the following:

The NAACP Plays the Race Card in War against Tea Party Movement

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 04:23 AM PDT

The NAACP, one of the oldest overtly black racial organizations working to advance the interests of its core racial group, has at last played the race card against the Tea Party movement in an attempt to shore up the Obama presidency.

A much-publicized "research report" issued by the avowedly black–supremacist organization entitled "Tea Party Nationalism" (which was actually written by extremists Devin Burghart and Leonard Zeskind from the well-known far left "Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights") claims that the Tea Party movement has links to all sorts of extremists including anti-immigration groups, "birthers" and "other extremists."

Although the Tea Party movement, which has no official leader and is a disparate group of individuals, has repeatedly denounced racism, this has had no effect on the NAACP and its far leftist allies.

The real issue to which the NAACP objects is the idea that white Americans might just organize themselves politically, in the same way that blacks and Hispanics have done for decades. Now that would be racism, the NAACP thought process goes.

The NAACP report puts it this way: "The Tea Party movement has unleashed a still inchoate political movement who are in their numerical majority, angry middle class white people who believe their country, their nation, has been taken from them. And they want it back. The oft-repeated Tea Party call to 'Take it Back, Take Your Country Back' is an explicitly nationalist refrain. It is sometimes coupled with the assertion that there are 'real Americans,' as opposed to others who they believe are driving the country into a socialist ditch."

Perhaps not surprisingly, the NAACP is of late spending more time being employed as a political tool for the Obama presidency, rather than actually being concerned with the welfare of the black community.

This has not gone unnoticed, with a recent article in the Wall Street Journal pointing out that the "NAACP's Unhealthy Tea Party obsession" continued while black-on-black crime remains at epidemic levels and black children continue to suffer in bad schools.

"Doesn't the organization have better things to worry about?" asks the WSJ, which then goes on to point out a number of issues upon which the NAACP would better spent its time concentrating:

- Black unemployment rates are way above everyone else's, and that black children have turned their schools into the nation's worst where they underperform and often don't graduate.

- Black boys in eighth grade read at about the same level as white girls in fourth grade, the WSJ article said.

- The achievement gap persists through high school, where the average black student is graduating with an eighth-grade education — if the student graduates at all. The situation has remained essentially unchanged for three decades.

- President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have noted that just 2,000 of the nation's 20,000 high schools produce half of all dropouts, and nearly 50 percent of black kids attend one of these dropout factories.

- In the current issue of National Affairs, David Kirp writes that 'among 16- to 24-year-old black men not enrolled in school, fewer than half have jobs; about a third are in prison or jail, or on probation or parole.'

- Blacks commit 52 percent of all murders and make up 49 percent of all murder victims — 90 percent of them are killed by other blacks.

- More than 70 percent of black children are born to single women. Compared with those born to married couples, out-of-wedlock children are more likely to live in poverty, perform poorly in school, commit crimes, and abuse drugs.

In addition, a fact which the WSJ did not mention, AIDS has taken a massive toll amongst blacks in America.

According to official figures, over 230,000 blacks in the U.S. have died of AIDS, nearly 40 percent of the total number of deaths.

Of the more than 1 million people living with HIV in the United States of America today, around half are black.

The estimated lifetime risk of becoming infected with HIV is 1 in 16 for black males, and 1 in 30 for black females, a far higher risk than for white males (1 in 104) and white females (1 in 588).

In Washington DC, which has the nation's highest district HIV prevalence, 76 percent of those infected are black.

According to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, blacks "comprise the greatest proportion of HIV/AIDS cases across many transmission categories, including among women, heterosexual men, injection drug users, and infants."

And the NAACP is worried about the Tea Party? Rather than playing the race card at a movement which, unlike the NAACP, is not even overtly racially based, that organization would do far better to try and address the immense problems within its own community than trying to lecture white people on how they should behave.

Coming soon to a Neighborhood Near You: Third World Mexican Drug War Hell "Worse than Al Qaeda"

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 03:27 AM PDT

The Third World immigration invasion from Mexico has imported that nation's drug gang violence and wars into America and official estimates state that traffickers are now entrenched in at least 270 American cities.

This figure has increased since last year, when "only" 200 U.S. cities had entrenched Mexican drug traffickers and is considerably up from three years prior to that when there were "only" 100 such cartels operating in America.

Liberals have tried to blame white Americans for the dramatic increase in drug cartels, with Hilary Clinton specifically saying that it was "America's insatiable desire for illegal drugs" which was fueling the trade.

While there has always been an element of the white American population who use drugs, the massive increase in demand has only come about since millions of Mexicans and Latinos have entered the U.S.

The territories in which the drug gangs operate proves the point: they are only active where there are large Third World origin populations. Simply put, "no Mexicans" is equal to "no Mexican drug gangs."

The violence which these gangs have used — and continue to use — is unbelievably bloody and violent, to the point where it has recently been described as "worse that Al Qaeda."

A recent MSNBC video report quoted Anthony Coulson, a recently retired DEA supervisor who ran the Tucson district office, as saying that he thought "they make al-Qaeda look tame in terms of what they do. I can't explain how someone loses their humanity and resorts to these things."

He went on to say that the amounts of illicit drugs flowing from Mexico into the United States has never been higher and that the traffickers have never been more powerful or in control of more territory than they are now.

"It's getting worse. I've never seen it at this level before," Mr. Coulson told MSNBC.

The facts bear his opinion out. In March last year, Janet Napolitano told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the U.S. Justice Department considers the Mexican drug cartels as the "greatest organized crime threat to the United States."

Official figures reflect an increase in murders, decapitations, torture kidnappings and home invasions connected to Mexico's cartels. At least 19 Americans were killed in 2008 inside our borders by these gangs, while more than 200 Americans have been killed in Mexico since 2004.

The typically Third World corruption endemic in Mexico is also a major cause of the problem. The Mexican Attorney General reported in December 2005 that nearly 1,500 of their drug agency's 7,000 agents were under investigation for suspected criminal activity and 457 were facing charges.

The drug gang wars in Mexico, which have killed more than 30,000 people in that country since 2005, is coming across the border along with the Mexican invasion.

The choice which America faces is clear: either halt and reverse the Third World invasion, or be dragged down to Mexico's level.





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Being happy–is it good for the Jews? "Before Professor Dershowitz accused me of being an anti-Semite (news to me), I was a happy person. Since then, I'm still a happy person". –Michael Santomauro

An antisemite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an antisemite.--Michael Santomauro

Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish. Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is "nothing more than a screen to present chosen views." The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually "think outside of the (Jewish) box." --Michael Santomauro

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Schopenhauer and the Perception of the Real or Surreal Postmodernity (Part 2)

Tom Sunic

October 27, 2010 

Schopenhauer is a crucial source in understanding the psychopathological impact of religions, myths and systems of beliefs. At times he labels them "allegories" whereas in other places he describes them as the "metaphysics of the masses" or "people's metaphysics" (Volksmetaphysik). Just as people have popular poetry and the popular wisdoms or proverbs, they also need popular metaphysics. They need an interpretation of life; and this interpretation must be suited for their comprehension. The great majority of humans have at best a weak faculty for weighing reasons and discriminating between the fact and the fiction.  Does this sound familiar?  

No belief system, no ideology, no religion is immune from self-serving delusional tenets linked to false perceptions of reality, although, in due time, each of them will undergo the process of demythologization and eventually become a laughing stock for those who see the illusions underlying these delusional myths.  

We can illustrate this changing masquerade of history repeating itself when observing the mindset of modern opinion makers. People have always wished, by means of different allegories, to transcend their cursed reality and make frequent excursions into the spheres of the hyperreal, the unreal, or the surreal — in order to offset the absurdity of their existence. It is natural that they resort to religious and ideological devices, however aberrant or criminal these allegorical devices may subsequently turn out to be. 

Accordingly, the motor of religious mass mimicry, which Schopenhauer describes, is again our objectified will. Consequently, the whole course of human life is patterned along the principle of imitation, where even the smallest thing in our perception is borrowed from that role model who is viewed now as a path-breaking innovator or a new messiah. Mimicry is the powerful motor of the will, the theme which was later expanded by Schopenhauer's disciples, such as Gustave Le Bon.   

Intelligent individuals amidst our modern rootless masses realize that some beliefs are fraudulent and harmful, but for the sake of social conformity they accept them. They will rather listen to others than trust their own head. As Schopenhauer writes, the bad thing about all religions is that instead of being able to admit their allegorical nature, they conceal it. Absurdities form an essential part of popular beliefs.  

Schopenhauer's teaching on religions, including his denunciation of the will to political power, was borrowed from the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism. He has good words for Catholicism though, which for him is a religion of pessimism (The World as Will and Idea, p. 372). But it would be a serious error, based on a fragmentary reading of his work, to conclude that he was rejecting one religion at the expense of the other. Although Schopenhauer may be described as an atheist or agnostic, his sense of spirituality was very strong. Of all religions Judaism is the worst religion, notes Schopenhauer in his famous book Parerga und Paralipomena. 

The genuine religion of the Jews … is the crudest of all religions (die roheste aller Religionen.) The ongoing contempt for Jews, amidst their contemporary peoples, may have been to a large degree due to the squalid (armsälig) qualities of their religion. ... In any case the essence of any religion consists, as such, in its persuasion that it provides for us, namely that our actual existence is not only limited to our life, but that it remains timeless. The appalling (erbärmlich) Jewish region does not fulfil this; indeed, it does not even try to. ... Therefore, this is the crudest and the worst of all religions consisting only in an absurd and outrageous (empörend) theism. ... While all other religions endeavour to explain to the people by symbols and parables the metaphysical significance of life, the religion of the Jews is entirely immanent and furnishes nothing but a mere war-cry (Kriegsgeschrei) in the struggle with other nations" (pp. 136–137).  

Some of Schopenhauer's words about the power of the blind will can easily be applied to our postmodern times — for example, how the will to believe in something has been hijacked by liberal political elites.  

The Hyperreal: The Denial and its Double  

We can now jump over to the 20th and 21st century and observe how Schopenhauer's ideas provide a good fit to the mass illusions accompanying the rising tide of the democratic mystique. How does the will objectify itself in the political arena today? As I wrote in my essay, Vilfredo Pareto and Political Irrationality, politicians are inclined to project their perception of the real world into its embellished Double.  

Example: None of us is entirely happy with his looks; no political theorist is happy with the world as it is. We all strive to be someone else; we all wish to project either our physique or the present political order into its loftier, distant, and more romantic substitute. As a result, the masses, but also our politicians, assess values and objective reality not as they are, but rather as they'd like to see them. Our passionate need for a change, as a rule, results in inevitable disappointments and feelings of betrayal.      

Following Schopenhauer's logic, it is a serious error to assume that some contemporary politician in the US, the UK, or in Croatia is a liar or a crook just because we feel or think that we are being cheated or oppressed by him. More likely, such wicked political leaders, are themselves the victims of self-delusions. Their manic desire for world improvement is based on honest and self-proclaimed "scientific", "reasonable," and "truthful" wishful thinking, which they benevolently wish to share with us or with their subjects or constituents.  

To illustrate the will for self-delusion, one may observe contemporary leftists and antifascist militants within Schopenhauer's framework of analysis. What they say is already based on their prior self-persuasions, which are the reflections of the prevailing beliefs of their time. Pareto, as a valiant disciple of Schopenhauer's methods, notes that "many people are not socialists because they have been persuaded by reasoning. Quite the contrary; these people acquiesce to such reasoning because they are (already) socialists." Their will, however aberrantly it may objectify itself in the ravings for some communistic mystique, defies any empirical argument. 

Schopenhauer is of paramount importance in understanding our perception of postmodern reality, or our hyperreality, as some authors call it. The surreal world of the liberal dogma — that is, the world in which we live — fits perfectly Schopenhauer's teaching on the flawed perception of the real. Moreover, Schopenhauer's work is a useful tool for deciphering liberal mendacity, which has become today the cornerstone of the new world order. The postmodern West is enveloped in the virtual reality of the electronic age (the "videosphere") and media make-believe, which incessantly turn every real political event into a virtual image.  

How does the liberal mystique or, to use Schopenhauer's word, 'allegory', operate today? The process that started with the abstraction of the objective, as a result of the mass media, has ended now in integral reality, as the postmodern author Jean Baudrillard writes.  The virtual itself is "negationist," or denial-prone. The virtual takes away the substance of the real. "We are living in a society of historical denial by virtue of its virtuality." 

Disbelief reigns everywhere, even if there are solid and empirical proofs of the opposite. No longer is some historical or political event perceived as "real" or truthful. For instance the memory of the Holocaust functions today as the largest civic religion of the West. The Holocaust is a system of belief serving not only a commemorative goal; it is also a cognitive paradigm for interpreting all aspects of our contemporary society. The issue, however, is no longer the body count of people who died in the Holocaust; rather, the issue is the fact that the postmodern virtual world by definition minimizes or maximizes the hyperreal at the expense of the real.  

This rule of the hyperreal or the double applies now to all grand narratives, especially those teeming with victimological themes. Even honest historians or social theorists can no longer be taken as real.  Why? The big postmodern question will immediately start hovering over their heads: What if that guy is telling the lies? What if he does not tell the truth? Victimologies, and victimhoods no longer sound persuasive as they have found their media hyper-substitutes, which either re-enact, or deactivate the real past crime.  

Therefore, the modern media and politicians must make post-prophylactic political decisions in a desperate attempt to dismantle the previous real, i.e., the previous bad decision, the previous inaction by making it up to the real victim with an overkill of repenting rhetoric and post-prophylactic decision making (massive security checks at airports, always new mass commemorations, etc). If the lives of the masses of people who perished cannot be restored, let us restore their memory by the hyperreal media! Why resuscitate the living, when the resuscitation of the dead is a far better business?   

One can analyze the postmodern wars, the so-called Gulf War in 1991 and the war in Bosnia in 1995 using the concepts of the hyperreal and the double. When these wars were televised and commented on by talking heads on TV screens, their real and horrible reality was cancelled out. Spectators were therefore much more likely to support these wars.  

Neither can our history writing be a matter of academic discussion any more. Historical narratives about real or surreal fascist crimes or White man crimes or the current mantra on White man guilt have attained a grotesque level of psychological saturation, to the point that for politically conscious Whites they soon sink into oblivion — and laughter — as they are deconstructed. Even if some past mass crimes are empirically verifiable, the masses will start reconstructing its negative Double — after first deconstructing its Real antecedent.  

The Age of Postmodernity is basically the age of deconstruction, where no single verity can hold sway for a long time. Here is the vicious circle of the hyperreal. If one is encouraged to deconstruct the real world and denounce political beliefs as a passing allegory, as Schopenhauer did, why not deconstruct new contemporary civic religions, such the monotheism of the capitalist market or the civic religion of victimhood? 

Spectral Verities, Viral Lies 

We all live the hyperreal, as the French philosopher Rosset writes; we all crave for the Double—be it in its negative or the positive form.  We all wish to be something we are not; the duplicate of ourselves.  "In place of the world as it is, we invent a 'duplicate' or a 'double,' a parallel universe which functions as a phantom rival to the existing world."   

The disadvantage of living in the real world is that life in it is drab, frightening, or boring; the advantage of the "doubled" life lies not only in the fact that such life does not exist, but that such life doesn't even have to exist in order for us to believe it to be true and real! In other words, this desire for a spectral world is not so much a desire for something different, as it is a desire to get rid of the real world.  

Who are the new paradigms or role models of our hyperreal postmodernity? Once upon a time the role model for Western man was a rugged individual, a Prometheus unbound, a war hero, a conqueror like Cortez, Columbus, or General Lee. Today the will for the hyperreal requires his double or his denial, or better yet the "doubled denial."  As a result, the new role models for the West are the degenerates, the retards, the non-Whites, the pederasts, the pathetic and the perverts. Baudrillard: "The Courtier was the most remarkable figure of the aristocratic order. The Militant was the most remarkable figure of the social and revolutionary order. The Penitent is the most remarkable figure of our advanced postmodern democratic politicians."

But these degenerate role models are in turn subject to deconstruction, especially by proud, psychologically healthy White people who are being victimized by the legitimization of these role models.

Granted, we are witnessing the end of the big narratives, such as antifascist victimology. However, the unresolved work of mourning the real (or hyperreal) victims of fascism or racism is in full swing. In other words, the antifascist, antiracist war (with all its political, media and legal prohibition) continues unabated. Even if real racism and fascism are dead and gone, they need to be resurrected in a negative doubled manner in order to give the mourners an opportunity to repent for the failed duty to prevent it from happening. Never again, never again! — this is a  new war cry of our hyperreal discourse. 

This strategy of the hyperreal "never again", is directed not only at preventing similar events from happening again in the future — as expressed in the forms of a myriad of  memorial centers commemorating the Holocaust. It is also meant to be a tool of unravelling, in a vicarious and imaginary way, of the real past historical disaster that befell the Jews or the non-Whites. Likewise, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are waged today as the post- prophylactic double; indeed, they are not just the wars for stopping the terror; they are the wars for removing the past sins of the political class, which led to the real terror of the dreadful 9/11! The goal is now to retroactively cancel out the inflicted national disgrace and humiliation of the ruling elites. This is why the actual wars and our public discourse all over the West are "non-events". Never again, never again!     

And this is why the hyperreal or the double are pure illusions. They cannot last.  The violent and the objective real is waiting in the wings and it will soon take the upper hand. Is it for real?

Tom Sunic (websites here and here) is author, translator, former US professor in political science and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Third Position. His new book in French, La Croatie; un pays par défaut? and the other, Postmortem Report: Cultural Examinations from Postmodernity, prefaced by Kevin MacDonald, have just been released. Email him.  

 

 
 
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