It is far easier to reflect on the art of dating than on the art of reading. For a student in humanities the main concern must not be which author he needs to read and which one he needs to discard, but rather how to read and how to interpret the text. Before he flips open a book he must ask himself a question: Who will interpret this text? Over the last several decades the focus in the humanities has not been so much the substance of the author’s work, but rather the biased interpretation of his work. The egalitarian-multicultural “paradigm” in higher education still determines how an author is studied — and hence how he is being interpreted. Here is an example: Johan W. Goethe, the German classic writer of the late 18th and early 19th century had a glowing reception in literary circles in National–Socialist Germany, a glowing reception in the postwar Allied-occupied West Germany, and a glowing one during the same period of time in the Soviet-occupied East Germany. Each political regime interpreted Goethe’s texts in accordance with the dominant political ideas of the time. The same rule of (re)interpretation applies to all authors, regardless whether they are novelists, social scientists or legal scholars.
The Frankfurt School Program in Applied Brainwashing
For many White activists, or would-be college students in humanities, it is still hard to comprehend that since the fateful 1945 the academic program in the West has been subject to a drastic methodological overhaul, which in turn resulted in gigantic brainwashing of students. The steady removal of hundreds of politically incorrect titles from library shelves on the one hand and a radically new interpretation of the classics on the other, only added insult to injury. The notion of just vs. unjust, of beauty vs. ugliness, of crook vs. hero, of truth vs. lie, has been reversed, or rather, the meaning of those words changed in accordance with the dominant leftist-liberal aka “multicultural” teaching philosophy. Very early on, largely as a result of the Frankfurt School Program in Applied Brainwashing, the System managed to conflate the notion of academic integrity with the notion of “humanism.” Any attempt by critically minded professors to examine authors lying beyond the pale of the standard curriculum, was immediately branded as a criminal, fascist enterprise, worthy of penal sanctions, loss of tenure, and academic ostracism.
Today, the choice of appropriate literature by a humanities student, or for that matter by any White activist wishing to learn more about his cultural and racial heritage, is further aggravated by his often clumsy choice of methods. Yes, titans are in town — we know that — and there are only a few honest teachers left to teach the right ropes. Without teachers to guide them, many White nationalists are inclined to start gobbling up heavy literature on race, or they may immerse themselves in academic texts on Judaism, while neglecting the simple prose of their homegrown classics. For a young White student or an activist, the unguided plowing through difficult texts on race, without prior knowledge of some of the classics, will not produce sound results. Also, there may be a strong temptation to focus on racial differences, or even show anger at lower-IQ racial groups, or make tallies of WWII body counts. Sooner, rather than later, such an approach will get a White student into trouble.
The first step for a White student or an activist is to get acquainted with at least a few classics and chose a good roadmap when reading them. Only later on, when their message begins to sink in, will he be able to grasp the criminal motives of the main movers and shakers in the study of humanities in the university. For instance, in order to understand his instructor’s palaver about Karl Marx and his epoch, a student might be well advised to combine the instructor’s mandatory reading list with his own list of authors, such as novelists Charles Dickens or Honoré de Balzac. Both novelists lived during the same epoch as the sociologist Marx, yet both were far better in graphically describing the wretched conditions of workers in early capitalist France and England.
Naturally, Shakespeare always comes in handy, not just for those wishing to understand the timeless issue of human fickleness, treachery and vanity, but also for those wishing to get a first whiff of the world of Shylock and what Shylock thinks of himself and his chosen tribe:
Shylock: “I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you,
drink with you, nor pray with you.” (I, iii)
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is an important work of literature today for students wishing to grasp the language of modern banksters and the meanings of new financial fraud originating at Goldman Sachs, or when the Fed’s “Helicopter Ben” Bernanke preaches “quantitative easing” in order to con the masses into illusions about new job openings. Endless promissory notes about monetary bonds between Antonio and Shylock did not work out, so Shylock demands from Antonio a pound of flesh cut out from his body. This must have been a Shakespearian form of “prime collateral.” The same procedure is finding its mirror image today in “subprime collateral,” or in the grand total of student loan debt which has reached $1 trillion in the USA today.
Shylock: You’ll ask me, why I rather choose to have
A weight of carrion flesh, than to receive
Three thousand ducats. I’ll not answer that. But say it is my humour. (IV,i).
And the list goes on. Reading the 18th-century French Enlightenment writer Voltaire and his passages on the religious intolerance of Jews and Christians is a much safer literature for starters than passing out Jew-baiting pamphlets, or yelling silly slogans “Sieg Heil!” or White Power!” In any case, these infantile exclamations are precisely what the enemy’s big ears want to hear. Students must be also careful with Cliffs Notes, as they often hide an oblique meta-message by a stray leftist or pederast interpreter who is smart enough to tamper, or worse, reinterpret the text in accordance with his/her sick hormones. A case in point is Friedrich Nietzsche, the great anti-egalitarian Western thinker whose texts were successfully hijacked by leftist scholars after WWII. A word of advice: always look a the name of the publisher and the pedigree of the commentator, or the name of the preface writer before starting to read the text of a classic.
Plain old novels, dramas and poetry by classic Western writers often reflect better the climate of the socioeconomic and racial environment of a given epoch than heavy handed texts in sociology or ravings by a political science teacher. Only later on can the reading of novels be supplanted by the reading of scholarly works on the subjects of liberalism, race and multiculturalism. By then, a student will be already all pruned up and equipped with the necessary conceptual weaponry for the better comprehension of the horrible world he lives in. My suggestion: The course “Literature and Politics”—of course, in an ideal college environment—should be a standard undergrad 101 course in the study of humanities. The beauty of reading novels is that they provide good conceptual tools for the better understanding not just of the world as it once was, but also as it now is.
Higher Education Fraud
Today’s courses in humanities all over the Western academia are mega-sessions in educational travesty and a waste of students’ time and money. Most college courses in the humanities are in criminal violation of the right of White student to critical thinking and free inquiry. Not that all contemporary professors in the humanities are bad. In fact most of them are just simple turncoats who toe the line of the dominant political myths and who will dump them once new political myths become trendy. More obsessed with their own egos than with the quality teaching, their classes must be structured along the mimicked verbiage on “the power of diversity.” There is no attempt to guide students through the rudimentary lessons of critical thinking; intellectual curiosity is completely left aside. The entire academic fauna — both in Europe and the USA — is made up of pathetic characters sporting fake smiles and indulging in promiscuous brownnosing of their superiors, with all of them being pathologically jealous of each other. Long ago, the so-called multiracial sensitivity training program turned the Western higher education into a grotesque entertainment industry, barring intelligent White students from any critical inquiry into the nature of the beliefs being foisted on them.
A half-decent White professor with a conservative background who wishes to bypass his compulsive neurosis of self-censorship must engage in the ritual of fawning upon the Jews. Or he must deliver occasional laudatory pep talks about the state of Israel. This is just about the only safe strategy to secure himself the miniscule perks available to “conservatives.”
On the opposite side of the teaching spectrum, for a high IQ White student, who possesses some vestiges of introspection, college courses represent emotional abuse — for which neither his teacher, nor the dean’s office, nor the upper government echelons are ever called to account. Such a situation cannot last forever.
In both Europe or the USA, the only way for a White student to survive the well-planned process of educational dumbing down and brainwashing is by setting up his own parallel niche of study in which he can read in peace the right literature. As long as he is in college he should play the game, bite the bullet, and put up with years of mental torture in an ambiance which bears the fraudulent logo of “the place of free academic research and free speech.”
In no way should a White college student ever attempt to wave revisionist literature in front of the noses of his classmates, or taunt his professor with a politically incorrect remark, let alone crack a racial joke in public. This will augur his immediate kiss of death and signal a violent foreclosure of his future professional life. Getting the degree must be his primary goal.
Just about the only advantage of going to college today is its protective symbolism of the degree. Surely, the termination of the prison-like 4-year college enclosure won’t deliver fame, money, or glory. But getting a BA, MA, or PhD and going against the academic consensus will eventually elicit tacit respect from the conformists (who must always show nothing but hatred in public). To be sure, a White student won’t learn a thing from his politically correct humanities professors, whose greatest intellectual achievements consist of working out the details of their pension plan rollovers.
White students and activists whose native tongue is English have an immense advantage over Whites in Europe. The best literature today in the humanities is available in English. Besides, US college libraries, including even small college libraries, are the best in the world. Why not take advantage of it? For a White would-be genius, or would-be writer from Russia, or Germany, or France, let alone for an intelligent young writer residing in some microscopic country in Central Europe, mastering all nuances of the English language is unavoidable if he has any intention of getting into the literary limelight. In any case most scholarly books on race, modernity, on liberal decadence, or on the Jewish question, are published in English. German self-consciousness was destroyed after WWII and along with it the German language, which, although being a very rich language, other than in Germany, is barely spoken in other parts of Europe. The gloire of France is passé and although there are good books published in French, especially in the field of the sociology of postmodernity, few White Americans or English nationalists will bother learning the French language. As a global lingua franca the American English has become the only and the best weapon for cultural battles on all fronts.
Dr. Tom Sunic (www.tomsunic.com) is a former professor, author and a board member of The American Third Position Party http://american3rdposition.com/.
Facing the Future as a Minority
Was the Immigration Act of 1924 Illiberal?
Fyi; You can get a far better and cheaper education by spending a few months on the street (without money)
Start out at the “Salvation Army” (Christianity 101)
While there you will become aquainted with “day labor” (economics 101)
After that you can make the rounds to the various Christian “Missions” where you will be introduced to race 101, 303, 505, and sociology 101
Finally, If your still alive, you advance to graduate school (living under bridges and beside railroad tracks to escape the black thugs) in this more relaxed academic setting you can contemplate philosophy and prepare your thesis, which will be to find a positive correlation between racism and multiculturalism/forced integration…..
The whole process shouldn’t take more than a few months and won’t cost you a dime…..No thanks necessary, glad to help.
@Henry Baxley: Oh, yes. Doing practical research(field trips,etc.) unpaid of course and voluntarily with a smile,(the leftist progressive type of smile, fixed and unmoving), in this study of the “humanities” should be a requirement for all university students. It would quickly make them decide whether this is their cup of tea as far as their lifes vocation goes. Of course, the term, “humanities” is not to be thought of in its “classical” sense, but in its uniquely “American” sense. That form of humanities practiced in every large American metropolis across the nation. ENOUGH SAID!!
Many years ago, a friend’s daughter asked her grandfather if she could read his doctoral thesis. He responded by asking her why she would want to read something that was written to the criteria of what someone else wanted to read.
A bright young man I know took a course in British Literature his first semester. He had to fight for the right to write his paper on Beowulf. He won, but the prof insisted he write it on the woman’s voice!!!! The fact that the author had very little to say about women in this great classic of warrior values meant nothing. When he complained about his plight, his brothers chimed in with advice. One told him what the prof wanted to hear, and coached him in the skill of echoing instructors, the other scolded him for taking a course in literature ay all. A great way to poison a good mind against all great books. This was at what passes for a fine university today. Evil.
I remember when at university I foolishly believed the professors when they said that we should explore ideas and be adventurous. Only later, after the trap had been sprung, did I realize that professors knowingly lie. On the bright side it opened my eyes and i gained a whole lot of respect for Jesus Christ who had those creeps tagged. No wonder they hate him so. And my humble apologies to those professors who being the exception to the rule, telling the truth as they see it, prove the point.
I find this to be a gross overstatement. One may study languages or music, and I am sure many other fields of the humanities as well, with a reasonable expectation of not being totally cheated. As for fame, money, and glory, those are not the purposes of education. Real education makes those things much less important. A man with a real education will not jump out of a skyscraper window just because he lost all his money, because he has something better than that.
@Hadding Scott:
I agree that some learning still takes place at college, but most of it is what used to be called instrumental training. Any glance through the comments section on this site reveals that far too many people have not been taught critical thinking skills. We are too often reduced to the sledgehammer approach or getting stuck on simplistic solutions.
We have a hell of a job ahead of us. We want to fight entrenched evil with slogans. We must learn to ask ourselves the right questions. If we are really so enfeebled that we are unable to reply to someone calling us naughty names because we state the truth – then we are lost indeed.
I’m taking mostly Classics and History courses at university. It may be that Classics is a traditional discipline but overlooked these days, or it might be that more obscure courses are better in general, but I’ve found the classes to be extremely informative and a worthwhile educational experience. The Medieval history courses I took also weren’t terrible, although there was some predictable hand-wringing over what happened to “minorities” in Medieval society. My American History course wasn’t worth taking, and the 20th century history courses have been positive torture.
Just my experiential $0.02 for anyone that finds it useful.
Only when the white middle class is completely disenfranchised, similar to the post Civil War “Reconstruction” era will they be forced to examine the foundations of their system of government and finally see it for what it is. The greatest con game ever perpetrated on mankind. Then, and only then, will they understand that Democracy, equality, freedom, and diversity are the same false Gods that have led them to ruin.
When that happens the elite will have no place to hide. Their mansions will be confiscated ala Zimbabwa and they will be killed and their children will become slaves. perhaps its natures plan,,,such a foolish people should not breed. for without common sense, IQ is useless.
@Henry Baxley:
In a Democracy you will NEVER hear a politician address the root causes of social dysfunction, be it mental illness, divorce, pornography, child neglect, overpopulation, human obsolescence, unemployment etc. You will only hear promises of eutopia if only we can defeat the evil forces of (pick a country or demographic)
Indeed, 70 % of the people on this site are flailing at the branches of the tree, oblivious to the trunk, much less the roots. RACE is just one branch of the tree…ONE BRANCH!
“The steady removal of hundreds of politically incorrect titles from library shelves….”
My former university stocked Junger, Spengler, Lothrop Stoddard, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, RP Oliver, and even Alfred Rosenberg. By accident or design the library was effectively a labyrinth featuring nerdy orientals in lieu of a Minotaur.
It is also my impression that state universities in general are much less plagued by Political Correctness than the prestigious private institutions. State universities in the South are probably the least influenced by leftists.
@Hadding Scott:
Attending college for a degree in the humanities made sense when real professors taught the courses and taught the student on how to think for themselves instead of paying enormous sums of money to listen to some half witted Marxist or multicult trash spewing agitprop and bald face lies in lieu of actual teaching.
Now the STEM courses aren’t nearly as bad since its pretty hard to substitute crackpot multicult agitprop instead of Wavelet theory and not have the students notice, but nevertheless they are slowly making progress and many in the science departments are worried.
The good news in all is that one may study all the humanities and the arts on their own without taking out a college loan that puts them into debt servitude for decades and ruin their life in the process. The fact is, via the internet and public libraries one has at their disposal a vast amount of literature from the complete works of Plato, Boethius, to Twain and everyone else in between at a very low cost.
@Hadding Scott:
No they are not, at least here in California, it’s a train wrecj here and has been for the last two decades.
Here’s a link to the National Association Scholars that illustrate this.
http://www.nas.org/articles/politics_undermining_learning_scholars_warn_university_of_california
The NAS site is a goldmine of info for whats going on in academia, and as they say in the movies “it ain’t pretty”.
@Henry Baxley:
For those who seek answers, instead of spouting two hundred year old solutions, think about the implications, both short and long term, of modern technology under the near absolute control of Big Brother….
The internet is the last wall of defense against becoming ROBOTS in his New World Order. Quite willing to defend it and him even against our own spouse and/or children.
Even now, mothers all over America are abandoning their babies to “day care” to serve him. Fathers are reduced to “sperm doners” and have no say in what their children are taught and have capitulated their role as final authority (head of household) to Big Brother.
Sure, he has his “Ministry” of Child Protective Services, but why do children NEED protecting?….Because he has systematically destroyed the traditional nuclear family and the result is parents who are mentally unstable, violent, jealous, and sensitive not to the needs of their children, but rather the demands of Big Brother.
How bad is it?…Consider a family of elephants or chimpanzees; they nurse their young for YEARS, and are NEVER out of their sight more than a few minutes. But HUMAN babies (who also need years of care) have a bottle shoved in their mouth and separated from mother AT BIRTH!…stuck with needles, handled by strangers who may harbor actual HATRED for them.
Is it any wonder that humans have degenerated to its present sorry state?
FYI most serial killers (the majority of whom live and “work” in the U.S.) are the product of severe neglect/abuse in the first years of life. Thus their brains don’t develop normally. You will NEVER hear a politician pose a question as to the roots of psychopathic killers. Only calls for “justice” what the hell is that? after ten, twenty or more children have been totured to death.
Also, this is NOT my OPINION. It is…FACT!!
“Both novelists lived during the same epoch as the sociologist Marx, yet both were far better in graphically describing the wretched conditions of workers in early capitalist France and England.”
True, but only selectively so. Conditions in the factory system were diabolical, viewed through today’s eyes, but were far from the Rousseau idyll in the country, either (Hell is green, outside of the liberal arts faculties).
Dickens had a particularly personal axe to grind in that he worked at Warren’s Blacking Company to pay his father’s debts. The tendentious Sadler Report deliberately ignored the even worse situation in rural areas, especially after the Enclosure Acts. The Industrial Revolution was the first time in human history where Malthusian constraints were overcome. Given the parlous state of economics, I don’t think one can rule out a rehabilitation of Malthus.
http://www.mackinac.org/3879
A good article, nonetheless. The humanities faculties are a wasteland for the mind. Fortunately, the natural sciences are less prone to Lysenkoism.
@Freedom Cobra:
In Rockwell’s “White Power!” there is this quote;
“Now that I have “fingered” the Jew in these pages, he will do everything in his power to prevent it’s being read”
Try to find a copy in ANY public library….go ahead, I dare you!
Not only that, you will be hard pressed to find any information on the founder of the American Nazi Party…..Not that I am a big fan of his, it’s the POINT of the thing. that others are cotrolling our information.
If I controll your information…I don’t NEED a gun!
How do. We get through to our youth before they are polluted? How?
@pessimist: Many things are different in California.@pessimist:
I don’t suppose it occurs to you that there are fields of study where the opportunity for politicization is limited.
Tom Sunic is right to tell young white nationalists to read broadly and deeply in history and literature before immersing themselves too completely in the Spenglers and the Stoddards. The gains in understanding our predicament that such reading provides are invaluable. But how to do this? The 101 survey courses usually have PC reading requirements. The textbooks are laundry lists skewed to “contributions” or “achievements” by Third Worlders.
But it wasn’t always so in the world of college books. The truth is still out there…in books…but usually not at your university bookstore.
One commenter mentioned college libraries as good resources for older, non-PC books on all subjects. Used book stores are sometimes even better. Years ago I found Ulrich Phillips’ 1918 masterpiece, AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY, at Half-Price in Dallas. One of the best survey textbooks on American history is Samuel Eliott Morison’s THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, published not long before the PC deluge began, in 1965. (It was praised by Steve Sailer a few years ago on VDARE.)
As for literature, the DWMs (dead white males) like Shakespeare and Dickens and Hardy, and a few dead ladies like George Eliot, provide a better guide into human psychology than any psych textbook.
@Henry Baxley:
Available in PDF here; http://archive.org/details/WhitePower_189 Send it to your Kindle and read at your leisure.
The most satisfying education is a Classical education: majoring in languages, or music (to become a classical musician), like Hadding suggested, or majoring in Archaeology or Astronomy would be fascinating, or majoring in Botany, or anything along these lines where one has not a mere career but a profession. I can’t even think of the half of the fields that would be fascinating. All these fields are rigorous, but judging from the professors, a profession in the Sciences, Music, Languages or English (or French or German) Literature provide a great deal of mental satisfaction and stimulation during one’s entire lifetime.
Even going into police forensics, another field that looks pretty fascinating, or some other program at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which could lead to perhaps becoming an FBI agent. There’s nothing more satisfying than the bird’s-eye view.
I don’t know why all the gloomy guss responses, when really there is so much more out there for young WNs to study and become. One may not reach the top in the chosen field, but I’m pretty much convinced they will at least have a life-long satisfying profession.
I agree with the author’s approach on all this, and for the enlightening information on how to go about learning, without becoming stuck in the mire of the Matrix. And I appreciate the nod to Charles Dickens. Indeed novels provide the best source for psychological and sociological insight. When approaching some subject I’m not familiar with, I go for a few novels first.
Incidentally, NO ONE HERE wished Charles a Happy 200th Birthday when I posted a day or two prior about it in February. I have ought against thee. Michael Hoffman, however, did make a mention in an email.
@Ritchard:
The Internet Archive is not a Public Library, which proves the point that the book is unoficially banned by the government.
A professor at UCLA named Eugen Weber did a series of programs for TV called “The Western Tradition”. Now and then they run the series, but it’s on at about 4:00 A.M. In the series he tells the history of the Western Tradition in an engrossing and insightful way.
At the youtube playlist I see the videos go up to the decline of Rome, video 13.
Eugen Weber – The Western Tradition
We read the article and expected to be rewarded with a recommend reading list. Here’s a good one for those who feel cheated:
from the comments at http://amren.com/news/2012/04/what-we-write-matters/
Why did Derbyshire write and publish it?
A: Why did Plato write and publish his Republic; Aristotle his Rhetoric and Ethics; Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Shakespeare their tragedies; Solon his Laws; Euclid his Elements; Virgil his Aeneid, St. John his Gospel, Dante his Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise; the Barons their Magna Carta; Cranmer his Book of Common Prayer; Milton his Paradise Lost; Gibbon his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Cervantes’s his Quixote; Burke his Reflections on the Revolution in France; Kipling, Brooke, Eliot their poems?
Why did Thomas Jefferson write and publish his Summary View of the Rights of British America, Declaration of Independence, Notes on the State of Virginia and Kentucky Resolves; George Mason his Virginia Bill of Rights; Alexander Hamilton and George Mason their Federalist Papers; George Washington his Farewell Address; James Madison his U.S. Constitution and Virginia Resolves?
Why did John C. Calhoun write and publish his Fort Hill Address; Francis Wardlaw the South Carolina Secession Ordinance; Raphael Semmes his Memoirs of Service Afloat during the War Between the States; Albert Taylor Bledsoe his Is Davis a Traitor; the Nashville’s Vanderbilt Agrarians their I’ll Take My Stand; Margaret Mitchell her Gone With the Wind and William Buckley his God and Man at Yale?
Why Did Hinton Rowan Helper write and publish his Impending Crisis, Negroes in Negroland, and Nojoque; Charles Carroll his Negro the Beast; Thomas Dixon his Leopard Spots, Clansman, Traitor and Flaming Sword; Savitri Devi her Gold in the Furnace and Lighting and the Sun; Carlton Putnam his Race and Reason and Race and Reality; William Gayley Simpson his Which Way Western Man; Revilio Oliver his America’s Decline; Anthony Jacob his White Man, Think Again!
Why is Dilan Thampapillai irrelevant and annoying?
“Remembering always, my son, that there is nothing in the obligations of Christ’s brotherhood that should make a Southern Patriot agree to let his nation sink into mongrelization.” -Thomas Dixon, The Flaming Sword, 1939
“It’s not that I hate the blacks, but I just can’t relax whenever they are around, and neither can you. The happiest day of our lives will be when they all get homesick enough to swim back to Africa. That’s why we play roots backwards, because we enjoy the happy ending.” -Rev. Jed DeValleyism, Nashville Camp Revival Meeting, 1986
The A3P website seems to suffer from a similar kind of myopia. Virtually all of the “featured articles” are about race and virtually none are about economic policy, globalization, foreign policy, the environment, or education policy.
@Henry Baxley:
Henry, you do deserve recognition for your insights. It is true….today we can not, or should I say do not want to look at the evil (thru denial) at the CAUSES. It is too much work for most (lazy society, instant gratifications, fantasy living, the buck $$$ first etc) to look at and dig up the root-causes and deal with them, as the symptoms (treated as justice) of the deceases occur more often in our society then we would like to see… arising out of the “new trends” so to speak, which are prescriptions for death to life itself. As you pointed out correctly.
There is no “justice” here. There is great value in the academic world, but it also has created great evil and loss, as it has falling into the hands of people with destructive impulses. There is death lingering on both sides of the spectrum (the uneducated in poverty, as well as those who are and can not pass the torch of wisdom and knowledge to the next generation due to perverse political correctness (as I agree with the article). It is a great loss in our education system.
I’ve spend 30 years of learning to “tolerate” ignorance on very basic and simple life strategies. What I’ve learned at home at age 5, I found that it was taught here in High school. Such IS the US world, and will be more so. (for those females that do not like what I’ve stated and said, accusations of anti-American, please remain in denial and lift yourself up in what a great and wonderful world we live in, and don’t read my post ) A leveling and a destruction of Europeans unprecedented. (With the help of whites here too)
This description fits my experience perfectly as a student in the humanities and liberal arts; really, it has been hell… but I am not a religious person or a political activist of any sort, so I do not find any solace in those things… and those who say nevermind going to college, just don’t go… you have missed a big point in the article, that is, it is a necessary evil to go through college. How far do you really think I will get in life if I don’t finish my PhD? Many more people who are not susceptible to being brainwashed should enter college, not stay away from it! We can crack it up from the inside… but is has to be done so subtlely that it is undetectable until it is too late… but maybe better to wait until after the degrees are in hand, not during the subjugation period!
@Henry Baxley
I never looked. “White Power” is already on my bookshelf. :)
@Henry Baxley
I never looked. “White Power” is already on my bookshelf. :)
I was a French major and switched to business halfway and then got a professional degree. Putting aside my profesional degree, that was very worthwhile in spite of varous faults, but, the undergraduate courses I enjoyed the best were French literature, philosophy and economics. I had three heavy semesters of philosophy that were really fantastic. My economics classes were captivating and relevant. I had two semesters of micro, two of macro, and a semester of marxism. The Marxism annoyed me at the time but I learned it for a good grade and in the past few years I’ve found it more relevant than I had thought. Oh I also had one class in far eastern history and another in Japanese culture and literature both of which were pure intellectual delight.
Most of my upper level business classes were a waste of time but they have come in handy in unexpected ways too.
I think people could get more out of college if they spent less time getting drunk and missing class.
College is very expensive however and less people should waste money on it. Unfortunately the deindustrialization of America has left us with piss poor employment choices. I will just leave it there, we all know about that. But before you let somebody agree to a boatload of loans, please, please explain to them this simple fact: college loans are non dischargeable in bankruptcy. What other kinds of unsecured loans are nondischargeable? I dont really know but as far as I know, none really, not that I know of. But it means a possible lifetime of debt servitude. That can be a very very bad choice and somehow kids relentlessly get pushed that way.
@Trenchant: Dickens is not to be blamed for his literary genius. Rather, those who use/abuse his art to preach distortions of history, culture, and society are the true and only villains.
As many others did, I first read Hard Times in high school (a private, low-enrollment Catholic institution). The textbook’s commentary in support of the book stressed, as Dickens does, the horrors of industrialization and the evils of child labor. When I asked my English teacher (a member of a religious order called the Christian Brothers of Ireland) why rural parents would subject their children to such wickedness, he responded (I paraphrase), “Because things in the countryside were even worse. The rural English people were starving everywhere, and industrialization, no matter its problems, seemed to them an improvement and almost a blessing. Either Dickens simply didn’t see the dimensions of the larger problem, or else he did but chose to omit them in working out his vision of the novel.”
That now, fifty-one years later, this remains the most insightful critique of Hard Times I have ever heard or read is emblematic of all that is wrong with American education at every level. Sentimentality has sabotaged history; literature, suborned, has become a counterfeit sociology’s whore; and polemical claptrap, shoved down the student’s gullet, is being assimilated as literature even as I type.
And please don’t think that Lysenkoism hasn’t won the field in the sciences, Trenchant, just because the facade of the fortess still stands! Scientific pedagogy vintage 2012 has the same relation to scientific pedagogy vintage 1962 as the real Dodge City or Tombstone does to the back lot at Paramount.
I was lucky: my college career was very heavy on the sciences. Happily, I had gotten a good grounding in critical thinking and the classics in my small town high school. If I’d lived in a larger town or a bigger city, I would have had to suffer through the new “improved” methods of teaching so stupidly popular in the ’70′s. More serious reading in the classics and philosophy, I have been able to do on my own.
I am currently enjoying rereading The Aeneid. How many college students today would know who Vergil was?
Actually, there are a lot of places to find our old, tried & true books, as well as those explicit to Aryan interests. The advent of the internet is largely to be thanked for making this possible. The old classics, GLR’s books (TTTW & White Power), sundry NS literature pre-&post-war, etc. – it’s all there.
And, much of it is available from Indian (the real ones, not the ones who met the Mayfolower) and Chinese sources; those folks do not suffer delusions of racial equality, or ‘human race’ mediocrity.
@Bear:
You ask how we protect our youth from this assault. Start young, provide your children with books written before 1950. Build character it really does matter. Give children enough religious education to enable them to understand that there really are such things as right and wrong, truth and falsehood. Let them know that everything is really not relative, and that you have strong feelings about which is which. Limit access to mass media and when you do permit it, talk with your kids about the issues raised.
All of this will still leave them vulnerable. College age is the right and proper time for young people to question received wisdom – there is nothing academia loves more then encouraging kids to scorn any advice they received from parents. Forewarned is forearmed.
A case in point is Friedrich Nietzsche, the great anti-egalitarian Western thinker whose texts were successfully hijacked by leftist scholars after WWII.
A case of the case in point is the inexpensive Barnes and Nobles translation of Zarathustra. The Translator, one Clancy Martin, writes, “Contrary to popular myth, Nietzsche was not a sexist.”
Now, for a translator, someone who is supposed to be conversant with linguistic use during the relevant periods, to even state that Nietzsche was not a sexist is to employ an anachronism, inasmuch as the feminist derived concept of sexism was wholly unknown to folks in the late 19th century. Also, it implies that Nietzsche would have not only understood feminism, but likely approved (or at least tolerated it).
In any case, the statement guides the naive reader into presuming something about Nietzsche that is quite alien to his actual thoughts. Ironically, Nietzsche could not be employed in today’s feminist academic environment, most certainly not in today’s philosophy departments where “queer studies” and “feminist” philosophy, etc. are the norm.
@European:
“What I learned at home at age five, I found was taught here in High School”
Well and truely stated. It’s as if Big Brother’s “Ministry of Education” is focusing more on “Indoctrination”
Professor Sunic, well said! Your article perfectly describes my own college “education.” Back in the age of Jimmy Carter I confess I didn’t notice much anti-White propaganda, but going to grad school back east fifteen years later I noticed some of it. After leaving one grad school and going to another, however, I was hit with WHITE HATRED full force. “Emotional abuse” is right. And as you say, neither the dean nor upper echelons wanted to hear it. It was one of the most horrible experiences of my life. And I paid tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege.
“Such a situation cannot last forever.” I hope you are right. I pray daily for signs of change.
Incidentally, as one form of escape from such abuse, I later lapped up the fiction of Harold Covington in his Northwest Quartet. See my TOO article here: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2011/03/harold-covingtons-northwest-quartet/. My original subtitle was “I’ve Had Enough of What Ain’t Right.”
His fantasy about a Northwest army attack on Hollywood was priceless. I suspect some people would love a similar piece of fiction written about the kind of academic setting you described. Only a palliative measure, to be sure, but better than nothing. Thank you for saying what so many of us feel.
@Alice Teller: I couldn’t agree more!
It all begins with family! And, may I add (at least for consideration) two things my wife and I did (for us as well as our kids), that we never regretted:
1) No TV (& internet filter too nowadays).
2) Homeschool your kids.
And, we still have no TV, and as of late had a little glimpse at a friend’s house of what we missed all those years. Ugh!
TV = Semitic emetic.
@Farnham O’Reilly:
Thanks, Farnham. We, too, home schooled our kids, but it is not always practical for everyone. Everyone should, however, expect to supplement their kids’ education.
My husband’s cure for kids who do not understand real values was to insist on hard, physical work every summer. It leaves you with real respect for labor and the men who do it. It also teaches lessons about the consequences of your actions. Built them up in every way you can and then pray.
This is a great artical by Dr. Sunic. It should be required reading in every fifth grade reading class. Even fiction has not escaped the PC police. They are trying to edit Mark twain because he used the colloquialism “nigger” in “Tom Sawyer”
…MARK TWAIN!
@Anty Ep: Ultimately, much of the student debt outstanding will be socialized. A personal and national tragedy of wasted investment.
@Farnham O’Reilly: Great advice. I’m sure your children appreciate your wisdom in hindsight.
@Edmund Connelly: OT, with apologies to Dr. Sunic. On Hollywood:
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/transcript-mel-gibson-rant-joe-eszterhas-37108
@Henry Baxley:
When they start tampering with the classics, that’s when they are going way, WAY too far. It shows right there that Academia is not free-thinking inquiry in the least. Nothing but confusion comes from tampering.
Leaving Mark Twain’s words intact, even ‘nigger’, might feel uncomfortable to some students. But is a high school teacher or university professor simply incapable of framing Twain’s work within the context in which he lived?
If Twain’s words were left alone, discussions about early American racism could rightly take place within the context of those times. What would evolve is an understanding on all sides, of the other’s perspective. I was never surprised that Twain paired Jim with Huckleberry Finn, the boy. Children discern more clearly the world of what grown ups are like.
I’ve always felt sympathetic towards Jim the slave, as have so many. The African blacks were forcibly brought to this country after all, a place well outside their own culture. If the classics are not tampered with, as with Twain, Whites in the classroom might gain however slight a perspective they can from seeing the world through the slave’s eyes. If Marxist PC or whatever it is had not infiltrated into the high schools and universities, changed perspectives might have evolved naturally over time, if students had a chance to digest classical literature. Things might have evolved differently, but a Higher Consciousness would have been the result.
Dr Sunic
This is one of the greatest articles that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. It in many ways reminds me of my time studying history at university. It was a demoralizing experience, where the only free expression allowed on the information walls was for the liberals and international socialists. The Students Union was controlled by the hard international left, and the academics openly preached the religion of Marx and Trotsky from the pulpit of the lectern. The leftist-liberals, like always, thought themselves so smart and daring, that they could read and critically examine the likes of Germaine Greer and Karl Marx and comment publicly on their positive opinions of such like. They could never though sustain even the mildest of debates against their heroes, and whilst they like to scream “McCarthyism”, the same wretched souls campaigned most vigorously, that anybody who questioned the multi-cult utopia should be expelled and silenced. Violence was never far behind them.
Sir, I commend you on your observations, and hope that you can expand on this theme further in the future.
@Pierre de Craon: Yes, I’m a big believer in Thomas Kuhn’s views on entrenched paradigms in the “hard” sciences, too. But as even Marxists have got to ride elevators and cross bridges safely, I have more faith in the integrity of the natural sciences.
@Trenchant: What follows is meant as a gloss on your link, not as a rebuke to you, a valued colleague and (so I would wish) friend, for posting it.
Joe Eszterhas has been leaching cash from Gibson for almost ten years to write the Maccabees script, for which picture Gibson had a contract with Warner Brothers. I have been told by someone I trust that following at least half a dozen postponements of deadlines for script delivery, the incomplete script that Eszterhas turned in was so blatantly inadequate that WB acted upon its contractual option to shelve the project. Had Eszterhas pulled crap like this on Spielberg or another one of Tinseltown’s kosher lords, he’d never work again and would probably have a domestic accident that mysteriously fragmented both his kneecaps.
There is no doubt in my mind that Abe Foxman and Barack Obama use language far worse than Gibson’s every day and, what is much more, use it toward people who have no option to reply in kind without potentially dire consequences to livelihood and even safety. Moreover, we both know that no report of any misbehavior of theirs would ever surface in the Establishment media, no matter what the provocation.
My point? That Mel Gibson is a man more sinned against than sinning. He has been a target of Jewish power and Jewish hate for a length of time that in recent experience finds a parallel only in the case of Joseph Sobran. (Sobran turned inward rather than outward, of course, but the hate contributed to his premature arrival at the grave.) That Gibson’s capacity for making sound judgments of character, especially concerning professional colleagues, is dubious in the extreme is neither unusual, more’s the pity (especially in the inherent moral disorder of Hollywood), nor relevant to much else—certainly not to his tendency to run his mouth nor to the unholy mess he’s made of his private life.
@Trenchant: I know too little about Kuhn for anything I might say about him to be worth reading, but my unbroken thirty-plus years of contact with academic scientists leads me to think that the problem is less shifting paradigms than outright subversion of truth by cadres of conscious liars.
Not to nitpick, but as to bridges and elevators, their construction and maintenance have really more to do with the practicalities of engineering than the falsehoods of the new and improved sciences. Even so, it might be noteworthy that here in Hymietown there have been more fatal elevator accidents (accidents attributable to failures either of engineering or maintenance, that is) during the past six months than at any other comparable period in my lifetime. I’m waiting for Mike Bloomberg to blame the problem on an insufficiency of Third World immigrants.
Personally, I find it unfortunate that the English still speak English, given that it makes our culture more vulnerable to Americanisation (and we know what *that* means, culturally and politically).
@No One: For those who can stomach the BS and are capable of getting a PhD, JD, MD, etc., it is a neccesary evil in this world of credentials. Just pretend to be a liberal multiculturalist and you can fit in just fine. I found I could write utter crapola, barely cite any proof, and get an A as long as I regurgitated what the Prof said in class. After you get tenure, then you can speak up, as well as drop a note to your former professors and let them know of your epiphany. Just don’t expect to become dept. chairman, or is that chairperson?
@Pierre de Craon: When I consider who might have certified the elevator, I get clear of the door as fast as possible!
it reminds me of the time I was driving through a ghetto on the way to an industrial appointment in an older section of town. Some black guys had a new transmission mount in their front yard, with the presumably inoperable transmission very neatly bolted to it. They were all standing around it with a look of, “What the F@#$%$# do we do now?”
As I rolled by, I yelled, “Hire a white guy if you want it fixed right!” They protested mightily with fingers and mouths, but to do such a job properly requires not just skill but years of diligent practice, patience, and mechanical aptitude. More and more things are going to start falling apart, and hopefully the people who fix things will be properly compensated, since almost all of them are white folks.
Someone made a movie called “A Day Without a Mexican” and made it look mighty inconvenient to get rid of all those Mexicans. There is a social experiment called a “city without a white man” being staged in Detroit, and it is a complete disaster. Eventually the idiots will learn they need us, or Americans are going to live like Guatemalans.
A Guatemalan squat monster is a Squatemalan.
If he is also of the negro persuasion and an environmentalist he is a Squatemelon- brown on outside, red on inside.
speaking of books that should be read, let me suggest Albert Speer’s Inside the Third Reich, all 500 plus pages. I understand that Speer is considered anathema by true believers, and that I may get keel-hauled by the National Socialist Truth Commission for taking this thing on.
A friend of some years who likes to invoke the “chief” from time to time , admitted to me that he has not read Speer’s book. This was a surprise, but not a big one, considering my personal odyssey that includes, if not shipwreck on the isle of dreams (left), then some some ‘sentimental’ charm
that kept me in the doldrums for some time, but also allowed an unsentimental glimpse into the minds of lefties….those who would not be caught dead reading a voice from the other shore. Opium of the intellectuals of both the Left and the Right. Religion also as more dope….possibly, when Darwin should be haunting our neurons.
Speer , in contradistinction to folks like David Irving, has a very long story to tell about AH that should correct the naivete and foolishness of some of us. Irving, I have seen up close and personal and do not like the man, regardless of his talents which may or may not be directed toward Truth.
Several of Speer’s comments has Hitler and his many occasions of words out Morganthauing the jew Morganthau for Germany’s Destruction. Hitler wanted to destroy Germany as being unworthy of , I guess, Hitler. Speer and others managed to outmaneuver Hitler and save most German factories, bridges, etc, that were otherwise unbombed by the West, but which HItler had ordered destroyed. This is amazing stuff.
Insane? Probably not, just a kind of murder-suicide, the jilted lover, his people unfaithful.
This gets me back to religion. Hitler had an enduring faith in Providence, which I guess is some form of God worship, of course, totally, in his case, narcissistic in character. Providence would always turn the battle/war to Hitler’s benefit so that he could say, I told you so, I am right again.
This book is either a total lie, or more or less the truth about Hitler. Speer worked with HItler for many years, as one of his most trusted ministers. Trusted, as in , competence. Speer was obviously one of the most competent of Hitler’s Ministers, probably brilliant.
Then there are some of the others, like Goering, who comes off as a barely competent but a poseur and kleptomaniac.
The book reads well and set up as a chronology of the war and Hitler’s inner circle. I have a few pages to go…more later. Joe
Let us get straight on Hitler, please. Let us get straight on dictatorship. The Fuhrer Principle, the wrecking-ball of any attempt to replace LIberalism . Joe
@pessimist:
The most recent tale I can cite is Duke. And it is southern.
Ya can google ‘what happened to the group of 80 at Duke’.
@joe webb: I think you haven’t completely recovered from your Trotskyite phase.
Literature about the Third Reich written and published under the post-war order is OF COURSE biased and unreliable. Somebody like Speer could easily have some new charges brought against him if he attracted unfavorable attention from the Allied puppet-régime.
Speer is a particularly shameful case though, insofar as the idiot disobeyed Hitler’s orders to demolish bridges to stop the Allied advance, on the grounds that those bridges would be economically useful after the war. Hitler’s complaint of having been betrayed was well justified in the case of Albert Speer. Why should WE trust him?
Why would anybody recommend Speer rather than Mein Kampf? It makes no sense. Allied propaganda liked to say that Hitler boldly declared his intentions in Mein Kampf (a claim usually accompanied by misrepresentation). Okay then that should be the book to read if we want to know about that subject.
@joe webb: I should also point out that Joachim Fest, who brought Speer the paper on which to write, was employed as a broadcaster (i.e. propagandist) by the United States government 1954-1961.
@joe webb:
Interestingly even Wikipedia says that Speer’s Inside the Third Reich has credibility problems. Inside the Third Reich contradicts what Speer said at Nuremberg. Speer also gave interviews wherein he contradicted both his memoir and what he said at Nuremberg. Really, a dubious source!
Are you sure that you want to recommend this? You should probably ask the bookseller to give you your money back.
@Pierre de Craon:
http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/antheabutler/5897/on_holocaust_remembrance_day,_catholic_%E2%80%98liberal%E2%80%99_hails_return_of_anti-semitic_group/
Pierre, the backlash will get worse but check the link for what is to come. I am wondering if the Vatican and SSPX can draw the talks out as long as possible and in so doing use tedium in the front line war?
@joe webb: I have read all kinds of Third Reich literature. It’s some of the most interesting history in the world. Many of the men that made up the Nazi elite, started off as simple soldiers in WW1. As their power grew they became corrupted more and more. Herman Goering for example, buffoon that he was as chief of the Luftwaffe, was quite a brave man in WW1, before he was on drugs and became grossly overweight. Albert Speer admitted in his book, that he was consumed by ambition, but even more so after meeting Hitler, of whom he said inspired him to no end, since they both had a passion for art and architecture. The truth is the whole National Socialist period, has been for the most part unexplored or explored dishonestly; meaning that people found in it exactly what they were looking for.
There is an endless amount of criticism from around the world, as to why and how so many of these men in the armed forces of F Germany at that time, could participate in such an “evil” regime. Is it that hard to figure out? What persons having decided to make the army, navy, airforce, etc. a career before the National Socialit seizure of power, were than going to simply give up their career because they didn’t agree with the new regime. How many examples of that are there in history? It’s hypocrisy of course, to write history in this manner and more and more is coming out about that time, that simply doesn’t agree with the existing paradigm and what many were taught in school. For all the talk about truth and intellectual integrity so many scholars babble on about, there has been very little as far as the history of the Third Reich goes.
@buckle:
Thanks for this, my friend. Institutional Rome may have apostasized, as Archbishop Lefebvre said, but its stalwart denizens remain the all-time champions of procrastination and misdirection, especially when they want to frustrate enemies to the point of madness. And enemies this overfed black woman and her Tribe- and Holocaust®-worshiping partners in perfidy certainly are.
Fortunately for us, I believe that the myth of Jewish intellectual prowess might take a big hit if the attacks are protracted or get seriously shrill. Drawing the attention of typical street-level Catholics, even hardened conciliarists, has to be a mug’s game. There is no sympathy for the Tribe among blue-collar polacks, micks, and wops or among their American spinoffs. The guilt game will play among Catholics who floss and know which fork to use, but beyond that negligible core, all bets are off. Yet the Jews’ centuries-old knack of always overplaying their hand guarantees that nothing will ever shut them up, no matter that silence—or at least confinement of their unendurable pain, horror, and other manifestations of Christophobia to the broadsheet rags, the BBC, and PBS—would be the smarter play here.
As for me, I rejoice in their attacks. If they persist, maybe one or two Vatican dicastery spokesmen or their red-hatted bosses will get annoyed enough to discover (or grow) a pair. Time alone will tell, as it will tell whether Bishop Fellay is a tower of sweet reason or just another Judas.
@Vlad Writes: “Eventually the idiots will learn they need us, or Americans are going to live like Guatemalans.” Agreed, naturally, but I’m wondering whether our idiotic white brothers and sisters will wake up to this or anything else before they are left with no recourse but the firearm or the homemade explosive device. I worry especially for folks like you and your family, who will likely have to endure things far worse than I’ll live to experience.
When in doubt, sound it out…
Description: ONE WORD in relation to a culture which does not even exist on the North American continent is enough to give this European-American kid a near heart attack!
See How Much White People Are Psycho-Linguistically Brainwashed Here!
@Pierre de Craon: And now I think of it, remember that bridge collapse at the Maccabee Games? I retract all!
This might interest you, too, on the politicization of science. Actually, everyone on this site should see it and weep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p-ttLfkZHQ
One of my sons just got his BA from Goldsmiths London. I helped him now and then with his essays, and let me tell you that I still got a serious pain in the ass from the exercise. Half of his tutors were poofs, dykes or transgenders, and what they came up with would have been an insult to every decent straydog. On the other hand he’s just worming his way through the COMMEDIA DIVINA while hanging out in a far-away place, so not all is lost.
@blue rose:
I agree, changing one word can chang the whole book and render it meaningless and confusing.
“Mary had a little lamb, it’s fleece was black as snow”
@Henry Baxley:
I don’t know if copyright laws apply to the classics, but I would think that tampering with the classics would be somehow illegal in the first place, totally REGARDLESS of what the PC crowd think. It’s a total shame. Tampering is flat out mind control.
This interview is a great aid in understanding what happened in the undermining of the humanities and literature in the US.
Norman Dodd exposes activities of non-profit / tax-exempt foundations – G. Edward Griffin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dFyYrGBjss
Tampering with the classic novels is bad enough. Awhile back the BBC did a remarkable remake of “Little Dorrit”. The hair styles and costumes were stupendously beautiful, whichever stylist and costume designer did them. Just amazing.
But there was the sound of nails scratching on a blackboard when the character of Tattycoram came in.
In the novel of Little Dorrit, Tattycoram is described as “a handsome girl with lustrous dark hair and eyes, and very neatly dressed”.
I’ve watched the drama several times, but always that sense of dissonance with a black Tattycoram. Her part in the drama simply made no sense to me. Why would a black Tattycoram comprehend the meaning of a small box containing a child’s booties and a keepsake or so hidden under the bed of the sinister and mysterious Miss Wade, and directly relate it to Arthur Clennam, the main character, and then go so far as to privately leave it in his jail cell, somehow managing this? This novel is convoluted enough and to this day I still don’t understand the entire plot, especially how Miss Wade fits into it.
In the novel Tattycoram is a rebellious servant to Pet. But I could see how Charles could imagine the restitution of Tattycoram when she found the little box of keepsakes that directly related to Arthur Clennam and decided to do the right thing. As a part of the culture of the time, a white Tattycoram would have been more alert to connections that had to do with other characters. But seems to me a black Tattycoram would not have thought along these lines at all. She would have felt more distant to her while employers and their experiences and problems, if I’m explaining myself adequately. Changing things around from what the author obviously intended, only leads to further confusion altogether in trying to look at England in the 18th Century.
Here is a completely ignorant article from the Guardian in the UK praising the fact the drama included a black Tattycoram. Imagine the logic here: Just because it’s a costume drama the Guardian writer wants to know why things shouldn’t be changed around a bit:
Why the Dickens shouldn’t costume dramas be ethnically diverse?
I feel ive done pretty good for a sixth grade education, ive avoided many of the pitfalls of p.c. indoctrination. Ive often thought about going to higher education as i did receive my g.e.d. and was in the top 5% for my year whuch was no great feat. But when I arrive on those campuses at my age… boy these kids have it hard, they with their high scores in school are the most dull, and uninteresting lot ive ever come across… so i pass, ill stay self educated!
Oh, and the make-up also — absolutely stunning.
@blue rose:
Agree
@Pierre de Craon: Sentimentality has sabotaged history
I’d like to recommend a book which deals with problem of sentimentality “Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality” by Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels), a good enough jew from UK.
@joe webb: I read Speer’s book in the late ’70s. At the time, I was already fairly well-versed in NS fact, lore & legend.
In my opinion, then and now, the book is fairly factual, at least from Speer’s point of view, which considering who he was and his position within the Third Reich should be respected.
One passage was totally ficticious, although I did not find out about it until around 1980. There is a passage where Speer is talking to a friend (it may have been Karl Hanke, but I cannot remember now) and Speer describes Hanke as being very upset at something he saw at a labor camp in upper Silesia (i.e. – Auschwitz).
This passage was not in the original manuscript; the original manuscript made no mention of the cabbalistic 6 million (for obvious reasons one cannot recall something one was not aware of), and the publisher was quite upset about this, so had the obligatory reference inserted.
Speer chickened out. he wet the bed. He saw a big bad Allied army coming from both sides and started to wonder how to explain away the fact that he had done a good job for his boss at helping lead the assembly of an amazing military-industrial complex that had held up production of armaments under the worst conditions imaginable. Speer was a type of bureaucrat, that German type that actually can help get things done right instead of just botching them up and slowing them down.
But he had the heart of a bureaucrat too and it failed. His nerve, his heart, his faith, he pussed out.
I like you Joe, and I’ll recommend two other books to counter your recommendation. First, the book that explains why it was important NOT to betray Hitler and the importance of sticking together right up to the end, is “Stuka Pilot” by Hans Rudel. In this book again and again he explains how Hitler’s planning staved off defeat and allowed millions of volksgenossen to escape certain persecution by relocating west, among other imminent disasters. He gives his opinion of the plot too. Yes, yes, Rudel and Remer were in that earliest class of postwar loyal NS– to me that’s a mark of honor for him not shame.
Second book is David Irving’s Nuremberg. In this book he shows how the fat and pompous Goering actually transformed himself when incarcerated into an elegant, forceful, and articulate defending of the Reich at the trial and stood up for the leadership in those days when everything else was ruin. In my mind, Nuremberg is by far one of Irving’s best books, and you will also be pleased to know it is half as long as some of the others or less.
@Haris:
When I was a young and foolish liberal someone gave me a bumpers ticker which said ” I love humanity, is people I can’t stand.” This concept is behind all the sentimentality you so rightly deplore. It is much easier to love poor folks we never meet than to genuinely learn to treat the real people in our lives with respect and love. The fewer marriages and children we have the more we support causes that never really touch our lives. So sad.
@Hadding Scott: never a trot, always a democratic socialist, as I still am in some sense, but for our people.
Also, I do not call people names unless I have proof of the validity of the claim.
@joe webb:
I have not read Speer’s book, but I have always liked one of his quotes. When asked if he regretted anything about Hitler he said “Yes, I wish he had expressed a fondness for modern art.” :)
@Hadding Scott: absolutely recommend it because it is something that everybody should read despite critics. I always say, read from the Other Shore. I recommended and commended Cuddihy because there is so much good information, not because he is correct about sociology, etc.
You cannot claim objectivity with regard to AH if you have not read Speer.
I have not immersed myself in NS history and AH because I am not that interested in it, because of its AH , shall we say, limitations, like hatred of Slavs, Go East young Germans, and Adolph Mistakes Hitler, starting with Poland. AH never travelled out of Germany, except when he got to Paris during the war. THis was generally true of the whole lot of them..
The main thing is to get straight on the Fuhrer Principle…total bunk, totalitarian, atavistic, and contrary to anglo-saxon history of elections of leaders.
If you have not got the courage and patience to read Speer, you are in trouble. J
@Henry Baxley:
‘It’s as if Big Brother’s “Ministry of Education” is focusing more on “Indoctrination” ‘
As if?
@Vlad Writes: ‘After you get tenure, then you can speak up, as well as drop a note to your former professors and let them know of your epiphany.’
Yes, but would tenure protect you sufficiently enough to tell them to sod off?
What Joe? AH was an elected leader. The German people elected him and for his authority the Reichstag empowered him.
Joe, perhaps you would like to read Carl Schmitt’s “Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy.” That will give you some grist for the mill where AH’s Reichschancellorship is concerned. if you like poli sci.
Today is his birthday btw. And as far as I remember, he did travel outside of Germany in fact he was born outside of it, In Austria, and during the Great war he was wounded at the Somme. In fact if you count the war years I figure he lived in France at least a year. Sure is longer than I’ve spent in France!
The notion that Hitler was a “mere houspainter,” a bumpkin, a lunatic, all these are propaganda lies.
And you can fault him for his anti slavic policies all right but they were pretty characteristic of a lot of Germans in his time.
The man was no saint but he was a visionary and yes he was a leader, Dux et Imperator, a warlord of unforgettable historic proportions, and a living embodiment of the will of our people to live.
@Haris: I very much appreciate the referral. If at all possible, I shall look into it. (Day in and day out, who has more contact with sentimentality than a Jew, after all!)
May I also take this opportunity to note abashedly that the two dates in the last sentence of the comment of mine you link to need to be reversed for the analogy I draw to make sense.
@joe webb: Joe, since you and I are pretty much of an age and since I find my own patience (i.e., with long and longish books I haven’t read) ever more sorely taxed, my hat is off to you for still exhibiting so much of that characteristic. Not to overlook the courage part either, of course.
@joe webb:
An interesting feature of the Poles is how they treated two future Popes: Pius XI and Paul VI. Neither man got on with the locals when they worked there. Neville Chamberlain disliked their leaders and AH lost his temper with them also. I would suggest that he played his hand badly.
@Trenchant: I saw this movie a year or so ago—you or someone else linked to it then—around the time when a few folks raised holy hell because I mentioned Duesberg and the AIDS fraud in a comment. Well, I watched it in its entirety again last evening, and it is just as impressive. Alas, it’s just as depressing, too, in that it underlines for the umpteenth time that our fellow citizens (I mean white ones, of course) have no interest in anything that contradicts our kosher government’s officially approved viewpoints.
As a dear old friend commented ruefully many years ago, America’s sole authentic contribution to the world’s political and social discourse seems to be know-nothingism. How heartbreakingly true.
Tom Sunić
“White students and activists whose native tongue is English have an immense advantage over Whites in Europe.”
Not really.
Actually, the fact that English is an “international language” (by that I mean that the vast majority of the people whose native language is English dont have a drop of English blood) makes it hard to develop a true nationalism on the basis of the English language and heritage in England, Australia and other Anglo-Saxon lands.
Spaniards have a similar problem… as the Spanish language is today mainly associated with Central and South America.
But I guess that is price of their colonialism…
Yet another excellent piece by Dr. Sunic; as always, he tries to lead people in the right direction (perhaps he makes some statements that are too exaggerative at times, but the general thrust is good). As I read it, I was reminded of how when I was younger I was very interested in novels and stories by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Robert E. Howard, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Arthur Conan Doyle. While some of these are probably not the particular classics Sunic had in mind while writing this article, I certainly recommend them as they not only are very entertaining to read but will also serve the purpose of immersing the reader into a more natural White/European world.
@Hadding Scott:
Why of course dear sir. It’s mostly in the STEM courses, though you may still find a few old school humanities professors who believe in educating the student rather than indoctrinating them. But one also must factor in the cost of humanities degree which has very little value out in the real world any more. Unless you are a minority trying to get a job with the government, the pickings are slim. For a White male, they better learn the phrase “Do you want fries with that?”.
As it stands with our crippled economy, one IMO best served by self-education today in regards to the humanities. All the classics are easily obtained and often at low cost or even free, you don’t have to put up with a obnoxious left wing professor trying to indoctrinate you, you don’t have take out a massive student loan, etc. All the money you save, you can spend on traveling to different parts of the U.S. and the world.
And still have money left over for beer.
Of course it lacks the panache of having a sheepskin to wave in front of the unschooled hoi polloi or the simple tradesman.
But you really ought to read what the National Association of Scholars write. It’s quite enlightening and informative by some very smart and level headed people. What they have to say is very worrisome. There is a cancer in higher education and it’s growing. Even the STEM courses are not immune. The Marxists/Leftists want nothing more than the control and debasement of science. Think Lysenkoism 2.0
For further reading:
Higher Superstition by Paul Gross and Norman Levitt
Fashionable Nonsense by Alan Sokal
Beyond the Hoax by Alan Sokal
@joe webb:
Apparently I made a mistake.
Stan Hess interviewed you on 1 February 2012 and you said this:
“I was a child of Communists and what we called a red-diaper baby, and what we still call a red-diaper baby. That is, you know, Communist parents. And, I was brought up around the family circle of Communists and fellow travelers and so on.” (4:00-4:28)
It appears from what you say (around 5:30) about your parents’ disappointment at the revelations about Stalin in 1956 that your parents were not Trotskyites but Stalinists. I don’t think you said whether they abandoned Communism at that point. Since you are 70 years old, we can say that you lived the first roughly 14 years of your life in a Stalinist home with Stalinist friends, and although you say that you were never a Communist, you continued as a Marxist of the Michael Harrington variety (44:10 in the interview), supporting anti-White causes at least into the 1960s. The acorn had traveled perhaps a stone’s throw from the tree.
I made the mistake of calling you a Trotskyite because Stan Hess admits to having been a member of the Trotskyite Young Socialist Alliance. If you say that you were a “red-diaper baby” raised by Stalinists instead of a Trotskyite, it does not weaken the point that I was making, which is that you come from a background that has an obsessive bias against Adolf Hitler and national-socialism and, I suggest, your personal evolution has not entirely eliminated that bias.
Most of us grow up with a certain amount of anti-Hitler indoctrination, but I would suggest, not to the same degree as a self-confessed red-diaper baby.
I might suggest that you work on overcoming that.
@pessimist:Social Sciences as Sorcery by Stanislav Andreski, to your list.
http://www.amazon.com/Social-Sciences-Sorcery-Stanislav-Andreski/dp/0233962263
@Trenchant: Since I’ve had the impression for some time that you are a couple of decades behind me in the race to the grave, let me ask you a question of usage and attitude. Do people ever still call the social sciences what my crowd in college called them: the pseudosciences? The term was current even among the faculty, especially the liberal arts and hard sciences guys. The engineering faculty, of course, had doubts about the worthwhileness of damn near everything.
@Pierre de Craon: Well, that race is handicapped, so I’m loathe to give you odds! But syntax and manners of speech are revelatory. You know, those software packages to identify whether material conforms to an known party’s idiosyncratic writing style (Shakespeare yes, Shakespeare no), and the amount of data mining going on by the darker agencies of Leviathan, it’s enough to make someone coy.
In my experience, engineers on campus were only interested in three things, only two of which they got – beer and exams.
@Anty Ep:
Hitler went to meet Mussolini in Venicc, Italy in June 1934. In 1938 he traveled to Rome and Naples. Here is video of that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Dh-qnsS-k Of course he also went to Paris in 1940 and he met Francisco Franco at Hendaye, a town bordering Spain.
I see where somebody writes that the “young Hitler” (apparently meaning under the age of 24) never traveled outside of Germany and Austria, but that’s misleading, since Austria was a multicultural empire that he must have experienced in all starkness at Vienna.
what good would it do for a goi to study humanities?
@Trenchant: I think we must have gone to the same college.
@Pierre de Craon: Was it me on some epistemological rant saying there are no reliable constants in the human sphere? Well, I laugh and nod at the crudest of stereotypes, just like everyone else. Shylock just ain’t Shylock.
I’m going to listen to the audiobooks of Blink, Outliers and The Tipping Point, that I better understand fine and insightful writing.
@Pierre de Craon:I haven’t, but have you read this?
http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Classical-Culture-Charles-Cochrane/dp/0865974136/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
@Trenchant: I suppose I ought to take this remark as just comeuppance for my wisecrack on the second Easter thread. OK, mea culpa. Now, how’s this: I promise never to mention anything to do with Gladwell again if you’ll do likewise. Deal?
In re your citation of the Matthew chapter and verse, thank you for the clarification. To my dismay, I have formed the impression that many of our fellow denizens of TOO don’t consider the question posed there rhetorical.
@Trenchant: No, but I just spent an hour or so reading bits and pieces online and reading the comments at Amazon. It looks very worthy. Indeed, what he is pushing is precisely the understanding that was current in my youth and education, not to mention my grandparents’ youth and education, and so it all sounds very familiar (Christopher Dawson, a now very unfashionable historian, in effect picks up where Cochrane leaves off in The Making of Europe; other books of his I can recommend are The Dynamics of History (in form a greatest hits compendium but really much more than that) and Religion and the Rise of Western Culture; much of his stuff is again in print, but knowing your adeptness at locating links, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if you turn up online copies originating in the Andaman Islands). When I started college in ’62, this approach was still second nature to the entire pedagogical establishment—save, that is, for the “cutting edge” (i.e., Jewish and LGBT) types at Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, et al., who would extirpate ten centuries of Western scholarship within a single generation and replace it with the ahistorical rubbish that passes for wisdom in virtually all the polluted groves of the higher propaganda, at the Times, and on PBS.
Apropos Cochrane and the virtual disappearance of his formerly ubiquitous point of view, almost ten years ago now, in my then professional capacity, I wrote to a certain editor of my acquaintance who shall be nameless (his magazine’s name rhymes with monocles) asking whether he knew and could recommend to my attention any sound and presently active scholars of the Renaissance and Middle Ages (my point being that I would flog his name when I wrote to them and thus have a better chance of getting at least a reply). Well, he did give me one or two names to go to (with which I struck gold, incidentally), but he also replied that finding anything trustworthy published during the past forty years about Western antiquity, the Middle Ages, or the Renaissance was a labor of Hercules. He actually did no more than reinforce what I already thought, but since he is far better read in these areas than I was or am, I was … is the correct word pleased or saddened? … to have my impression confirmed.
I’m well glad to oblige. TOO’s public is pretty much a New-Testament-free-zone, and that only refers to the Gentiles (on the right day, a minority, I’d wager). That particular book recommendation I got from an article by Gary North, with whose writing you’re probably acquainted. He’s got some good material on the Bible’s economic lessons.
@Pierre de Craon: I’ve found a downloadable version of the Cochrane work.
http://ia700405.us.archive.org/0/items/christianityclas00incoch/christianityclas00incoch.pdf
@Trenchant: I’m past being surprised at your deftness in this area (not past gratitude, however). I wish only that you could find me a link to a site from which I could download about a grand a month so I could pay all my bills without having to pray that a freelance job or two will turn up to rescue me!
@Pierre de Craon: If it helps, I’ve always been icy towards Luke 12:27.
@Trenchant: You have to put it in perspective. In one sense it’s the flip side of MT16:26: there is only one true prize; all else is either illusion or delusion. In another sense it’s a counsel of perfection, not a call to quietism; a pointed reminder that most of human life is composed of distraction wrought by tribulation, granted, but that no one will be tried beyond his strength to endure his trials.
I am not saying that buying into this perspective is always easy—indeed, for people in whom reason does not master the emotions (i.e., all of us some of the time and some of us all of the time), doing so is not possible at all—but it embodies an essential part of Christ’s message: we are to be in this world but not of it. Yes, I know: easier said than done.
I myself was a grasshopper until I got to my forties; then I switched roles and became an ant, for one reason and one only: to avoid an impoverished old age. I didn’t count on getting too ill to continue working at an office job before I got “old.” Maybe I should have run the numbers ten years sooner . . .
Hmm, I never had any problem with Matthew 16:26, but those lilies…rent-free and all!