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This review appears today at Counter Currents.  Be sure to read it there, and comment!

As a treat for Constant Readers, I've added some cool Scott videos.  Enjoy!  

No Regrets: Writings on Scott Walker
Edited by Rob Young
London: Orion, 2012.





And... sheer genius!  Scott's version of "My Death" set against the classic short, "Design for Dreaming" (it helps if you've seen the MST3K version)

Everyone's a Comedian 

Tape cassettes for the next sequence were impossible to transcribe due to some viscous liquid encrusted behind the heads.  There is a certain consistency in the garbled sounds however, indicating that almost two hours later Dr. Duke and his attorney finally located what was left of the "Old Psychiatrist's Club" -- a huge slab of cracked, scorched concrete in a vacant lot full of tall weeds. The owner of a gas station across the road said the place had "burned down about three years ago."

-- FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS -- A SAVAGE JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN DREAM by Hunter S. Thompson, © 1971 by Hunter S. Thompson

Chapter 9: Breakdown on Paradise Blvd.

Here’s some holiday cheer – a fabulous piece from Kathy Shaidle, the title of which says it all:

Ban Schools, Not Guns

I urge you to read it, since I think it’s all good, and I can’t be bothered to cut and paste her exactly.

Shaidle presents a rare instance of Thinking Outside The Box.  Essentially,

To end school shootings, don’t end guns, end schools.

After all, for well-rehearsed – though ignored by the Left, of which more below – reasons, you can’t actually “end” guns.  You’d think Liberals would know this; after all, you can’t win in Afghanistan or Iraq, you can’t close the border or round up the illegals, and you certainly can’t end drugs – despite, as William Burroughs pointed out in Junkie, when the cops bust down the door it’s hard to hide a bundle of pot the size of a Samsonite suitcase.  Add in the fact that guns are by definition tools of defense against someone trying to take something away from you, and you’d think the odds of “rounding up guns” would be insurmountable.

Of course, since Liberals tend to get their ideas of feasibility from “pop culture”, perhaps they were inspired by Demolition Man:

In Demolition Man, the entire mainstream society gets completely overhauled, eradicating violence, swearing, and anything deemed hazardous to one's health, within 30 years. There are people (or at least one police officer) who were working adults in the ultra-violent past society, who are still in the workforce.

·         There is also no information on whether these practices are in use in the rest of the USA, or for that matter the rest of the world. Dr Cocteau seems to only preside over San Angeles, so either it's the new capital or they seceded in the past (which is not entirely unlikely).

Moreover, it just makes sense.  After all, we’ve had the Second Amendment since, by definition, the start of the country.  We’ve had automatic weapons since the 30s (Remember Machine Gun Kelly?).  Talk of Steve Sailer’s urban/rural divide, there were gun clubs in freakin’ New York City high schools, well into the 70s, with students carrying their rifles on the freakin’ subways – no problem. 

So wouldn’t it make sense for the folks that proudly claim to heritage of John Stuart Mill to ask – what changed?

No, they prefer to align themselves with gun-grabbing rootless urban “intellectual” John Stewart.  I wonder if the guards at CC studios have guns?  I imagine it’s a pretty safe place to shoot… your mouth off.

And it’s not as if being anti-school wasn’t, originally, a Leftist position.  After all, isn’t that the idea – school as the training ground for little Fascists, etc.? 

Forget about home schooling; what about “teach-ins” and “student strikes” (mocked then as now by “conservative” students who “just wanted to go to class and get a job”) and indeed the whole “alternative schools” idea?  Remember “freedom schools”?

The Freedom School was located in Colorado, United States, offering a series of lectures by libertarian theorist Robert LeFevre from 1957 to 1968. LeFevre extended this work to the related Rampart College, an unaccredited four-year school, in 1963. Both shared the same campus. In 1965, a flood devastated the campus, and the school and college were moved to Santa Ana, California, where they lasted until at late 1975. They were succeeded by the Rampart Institute. 

The Freedom School was also the name of the fictional school for runaway youth depicted in the 1971 film Billy Jack and the 1974 sequel The Trial of Billy Jack.

Freedom Schools were sometimes used for alternative schools set up by civil rights activists in the southern United States in opposition to the racial segregation in public schools which was mandated at the time by Jim Crow laws.

In fact, the whole Billy Jack film phenomenon bears consideration as an example of how typical 60s hippie ideas were not all that far from a sort of, admittedly crunchy, modern “right wing” viewpoint. 

Hypothesis One: when the Left took over the schools, they decided not to tear them down, but to settle in with nice, cushy jobs (thanks to their friends, the unions and the government bureaucrats).  Of course, as Shaidle notes, there were some changes made.  Nowadays schools teach either Leftist bullshit (anti-White history, anti-male “gender studies” etc.) or else the basics, badly (producing students that rank around 37^th in math, but Number One is “feeling good about my knowledge of math”).

In the words of another old Leftist slogan, the Left has itself become “part of the problem.”

Hypothesis Two is related to something we’ve been banging on for some time.  Since the Left is crazy, they naturally think everyone else is crazy.

"They think I'm insane... they're the ones who are insane!" – ZAAT, aka Blood Waters of Dr. Z

Thus, there’s no need to “consider” alternative views.

Hence, the only “solution” is … more of the same.

This is actually encoded in the Liberal Program, aka “Progress”.  Nothing is ever negotiable or given back, there’s only more of the same.  As the woman said about San Francisco's attempt to ban public nudity [San Francisco!]: "We don't want to go back to the Dark Ages."  Ah yes, the awful Past, when people wore clothes.  Indeed, were forced to do so.  Brrrr!

 “Reactionaries” have only one choice – abandon their evil ways, “come to their senses” and “evolve” Eg. Obama on “gay” “marriage,” just in time for the re-selection. 

Once more, we see the origins of Liberalism in Christianity: proselytizing, evangelizing, conversion, metanoia, baptized at birth and then forget about it (Catholics) or “no loss of salvation” (Protestants), born again, etc.

While Lefty hero Einstein supposedly came up with the similar definition of insanity, it’s interesting that Margaret Thatcher made famous the claim that “There is no alternative” or TINA, thus demonstrating the deep roots that make liberal and libertarian still appropriate names. 

Similarly, the Fed’s QE to Infinity and Beyond strategy is not only Bank Approved but also Liberal Approved, with Krugman, of course, willingly, indeed, insistently, proudly, "I'm not nervous. What do I have to be nervous about, it’s funny you’d think that, it’s him, isn’t, not me?" identifying himself with the Double Down strategy.

 

And indeed, as we’ve commented before, he does make a great Mad Ziontist, don’t he?

"An invasion from Ming the Merciless is exactly the boost the economy needs!"

“And you can believe me, because I’m always right, and I’m not crazy; no, he’s the crazy one, not me!”

You’d think that someone, if not Liberals themselves, would have noted that the more the Left dominates the culture, the worse things get, but if so it’s only quickly pushed further down in what passes for their consciousness, or else blamed on The Man or Whitey or whoever is “really” running things;  anyone but themselves.

Sort of the way “racists” are stupid, inbred, toothless rednecks who, nevertheless, continue to run the US, and indeed the whole world, thwarting Liberal Progress at every turn; presumably by remote control from their trailer park lairs.

Today’s ZeroHedge brings another roundup of Why Things Suck More Than Ever, Especially for The Youth, to which a couple commenters make points relevant here:

GMadScientist
 

Yes, they learned how to whine and blame others from their boomer parents.

That 95% includes lowly clerking duties...get used to it or make a name for yourself.

Indeed, perhaps there’s the independent variable: in the World Liberals Made the only way  to be somebody – especially for a White Male – is to go out with a blaze of media glory.  

And this: 

Ralph Spoilsport

• A feels guilty or uncomfortable about something.
• A finds a rationale why someone else is to blame.
• A blames B.

'Twas ever thus.

Yes, but never more so.

Nite Owl: But the country is disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American Dream?

Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it.

—Watchmen

First guillotine shop of Europe opens in Madrid

Hypocrisy Thy Name is Bloombiog; or, Just Shoot Me

The Joo-Noiz that passes for "new"' in today's America is even more insufferable during the periodic fake "crises" or panics of one sort or another, when politicians and other good-thinkers take to the air to flog their opinions, parties, books, blogs, expertise for hire, and whatnot, without providing any insight or solution to the 'crisis' at hand, which itself is irrelevant to our problems anyway.  Tired of the 'fiscal cliff'?  Look, over there, a shooter!.

Awaking a little earlier than usual or necessary, I foolishly thought to catch the weather report at the top of the hour and, before I switched it off with the back o' me hand, was exposed for a few seconds to no less that the King of Smug, Little Mikey Bloomboig himself, literally -- as Joe Biden would say -- shrieking more like a strangulated Punch than ever:

"We are the only industrialized nation that has these problems!  It has to stop now!  Arggghljljjljljl.////"

Tragically, despite making more sense than Bloomie, it was Belushi who died...

I felt like Julian Huxley, when, during a debate with Bishop Wilberforce, the latter fell into some trap about "You don't mean to say my grandparents were monkeys?" and Huxley later reported thinking, "Oh Lord, thou has delivered my enemy into my hands!"

Yes, Bloomie, by all means, capital idea, let us compare the USA to the rest of the industrialized world.  Do we see lower levels of violence?  Indeed.

But ... despite what you, Bloomie, would leave your audience to assume -- after years of wallowing in the ignorance only modern, wired, turned in consumers of "news" provided by the likes of ... you, Bloomie, or  that other press lord at the Times who actually goes by the name of Punch or Pinch or whatever could be expected to manifest -- what you insinuate so Hebraically, rubbing your little hands together

"A third term?  Don't mind if I do!"

namely, that Europe basks in the afterglow of a total, effective, and permanent Gun Ban, we actually find, if we bother to look, that European nations of legendary peacefulness, such as Norway, have even higher rates of gun ownership than Arkansas.

For Christ's sake, even the holy goddamn BBC admits that gun crime increased in England after the last ban! 

And as for Switzerland, well, as some of us know, every adult male is required by law to own an assault rifle.



Sort of like Israel, Mike, the nation with which you claim your own city to be "joined to the hip".  Don't you remember your own "news" stories last month, where the upcoming assault on Gaza was telegraphed by "the reserves" being called up for readiness?  What did you think, they were marching around with shovels?

Banned from re-arming, Germans train with shovels in the "German Labor Front"

Or like the town of Kennesaw Georgia, that also required the ownership of guns.  Foolish rednecks hoist by their own petard when civilization [which your countryman Freud sneered was a 'thin veneer'] broke down?

Not so much:

25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'

Crime rate plummeted after law required firearms for residents

As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms.

Looks pretty good, compared with"gun free" NYC.  Oh, but Bloomie has the typical Judaic impudence to turn around and blame his inability to control his own scum on the gun rights enjoyed by precisely the citizens of those other states! Damn them rednecks selling guns to our nigras!

But to those of us Who Can See, the problem isn't the guns, it's the people.  That is, your people, Bloomie, not ours.

As Camille Paglia said back in 2007, with her usual take no prisoners common sense:

The horrendous problem of illegal guns now rampant among the urban underclass cannot be solved by depriving all American citizens of their Second Amendment rights. Major cities must address their internal problems, which include improving public education and vocational training, creating job-rich public works projects, and instituting on-the-street neighborhood policing. The major media, concentrated in their metropolises, should stop extrapolating their local issues to the nation as a whole. 

And that goes double for "major media" that take over the role of Mayor as well.  Talk about cutting out the middle man!  I though his people relished their traditional middle man role!?

There are, however, a couple of other, far more likely candidates for explanations of America's slide into chaotic violence; and guess what?  Not only does America differ greatly from "the rest of the industrialized world" in precisely these areas, but that difference has been escalating at a thrilling rate of speed, neck and neck with violence.  They are

1.  Large, and growing, income inequality and the consequent poverty, hopelessness and contempt for established order ["It's all rigged, it's a scam"] and

2.  Ethnic diversity [If we had the rates of gun ownership and White dominance of the 50s, America would make modern Europe look like... America today].

And yet -- oh, how iron-ic, as Bela would say -- it is precisely these two features that Bloomboig, and his party, and his people, are most proud of -- such as the preposterously false claim he makes with maddening frequency, "our diversity is our strength" -- talk to Kevin MacDonald about that one! -- and counsel ever greater doses of, as the cure for all our ills!

As Gregory Hood notes in his review of the Red Dawn remake [btw, it sucks]:

Even under foreign military occupation, the mayor [not Bloomboig!] thinks the real danger are those gun owning white workers and small businessmen with dangerous, anti-liberal ideas. The parallel with progressives quaking in their boots over some guys at a gun show but blithely unconcerned with open borders, foreign terrorists, or demographic conquest is obvious.

More generally, the Democrats, having long ago abandoned the gun-toting "Archie Bunkers" for their winning coalition of identity politics -- as I mentioned before, a coalition of blacks [he's one of us!], hispanics [open borders!], gays [marriage equality!] and urban sluts [free birth control!] -- which promotes ever greater diversity, to say nothing of "going back" to the "bad old days" of the "white bread" 50s, the high point of American White working class civilization now re-conned as the nadir of Dead White Evil; while the Republicans, who always represented the 1%, have, over a slightly later period, from say the 80s onward [Michael J. Fox rather than Mike "Meathead" Stivik] succesfully sold everyone, even nominal "liberals," on the idea that "Greed is Good" [a line penned, ironically enough, by crazy-lefty Oliver Stone only to be adopted, to his horror, as a life motto by The Youth] and that you, too, could be Steve Jobs if you bought enough iProducts.

As Morris Berman says in his wonderful screed Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline:

 That there might be something perverse about a system that allows a single individual to accumulate that sort of wealth never crossed their minds.  Thus despite the fact that America does not really provide its citizens with the basic needs for a happy, fulfilling life, in the United States the rich sleep easily in their beds.

And when they rise from their beds, like the levée of Louis XIV, they call for ... gun control

Or as Jim Goad put it:
  

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg also screamed from behind his posse of armed bodyguards for more gun control. Taking time off from repeatedly authorizing billions in taxes to bomb the shit out of the Middle East, other politicians decried the USA’s “gun culture."

 

Bloomboig is particularly odious, as he, famously running and ruling as an "independent" -  like Joe Lieberman, the "I" stands for Israel --  over "traditionally Democratic New York" -- true only in the sense that Archie Bunker, after all, for all his "Middle American-ness," proudly hailed from Queens -- does so by striding across both parties, representing wealth at its greasiness and feel-good liberalism at its smarmiest.  

But after all, the triumph of Obama, or earlier, Clinton -- represents the same merging of interests.

Remember, it was Clinton who, counseled in 'triangulation' by the ophidian Jame Carville -- whose marriage to "Republican" consultant Mary Matalan also demonstrated the meaninglessness of such labels -- "ended welfare," deregulated the banks -- with Bloomboig clone Chuck Schumer calling a press conference to claim he had "saved jobs" -- on Wall St.! -- with the legislation that brought us the later financial 'crisis' -- and rammed through border and job-destroying NAFTA.  And speaking of the 'financial crisis', did not both Obama and McCain rush back to Washington to join hands and vote for the bankster bailout?

And we haven't even mention Foreign Policy.  Jim Goad does well to remind us of Obama's primitive, insatiable African blood lust.

European Court of Human Rights Finds CIA Guilty of Torture

America must now apologise to the German citizen, a victim of mistaken identity who was kidnapped and beaten by the CIA

The CIA stripped, hooded, shackled, and sodomized el-Masri with a suppository – in CIA parlance, subjected him to "capture shock" – as Macedonian officials stood by

 In the US, mass child killings are tragedies. In Pakistan, mere bug splats

Barack Obama's tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones

But then, we only bow to the superior wisdom of The Europeans when we need to score SWPL points against Republicans, right?
 
Remember when Democrats were all Meathead and McGovern, all anti-war and shit?  Except when Clinton was bombing Christians in Bosnia to help out the Moslem terrorists that later thanked us with 9/11.  Then, when Bush was in, again.  Then, now, when Obama rules, not.

But don't think the Euros themselves haven't notice the disgusting hypocrisy of Obama weeping for the children, as he murders dozens himself each week.

The funny thing is, the Dems and Libs still love the old rhetoric, just like they love their old Motown  soundtrack LPs.  



Isn't it strange how the Left tells us all about how The Government is a big, evil, Fascist, racially profiling  monster; and that you should surrender your guns and liberty to it?  Come on guy, either it's Free Mumia or Gun Control, not both!

As Jack Donovan says,

Who Will Control The Guns?

If you're asking this question you're already in trouble

Fortunately, some people in the blogophere get it:

You can tell when someone is disingenuous if they freak out over gun violence like it is the biggest issue in America today and at the same time protect the banksters and their “too big to fail” culture, which has and continues to systemically steal trillions of dollars from the poor. This is Michael Bloomberg to a tee.

Still, Bloomie might think twice about his lazy, olde fashioned tick of whining about :"why can't we be more like Europe."  Apart from Iceland and Sweden solving their financial crises by holocausting the banksters, there's this to disturb the sleep of America's rich:

First guillotine shop of Europe opens in Madrid

 

More Proof Liberals Don't Actually Listen to Themselves

That's why we have to do it for them, poor boobies.

Public Radio is sorta the Fox News of culture; an echo chamber where no one ever has a challenging idea -- the only "new" ideas are just extensions of the current ones -- so not only, as we have mentioned before, does no one ever have to frame an argument --  professing Liberal ideas is how White people in "classless" America assert their hierarchical superiority over The Others, so one 'just is' a Liberal, the way one 'just is' royalty -- but one doesn't have to listen, to oneself or others -- a point Orwell made with his concept of Duckspeak:

Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain centres at all. This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak […]. Like various words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided that the opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but praise, and when the Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment.

Comes now one F. Paul Driscoll, supposedly the editor of Opera News, to inform us after today's WQXR broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera, that not only is the Verdi's "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" a really wonderful example of something or other [I wasn't paying attention at that point] but is especially wonderful because

"It took on new meaning during WWII, when Italy itself was under occupation." [Paraphrase]

Huh.  Oh, yes, that was that terrible period when Mussolini tried to return the Italians to their Roman greatness, only to be defeated by the combined forces of GI Joe and the Italian mob, in the form of Lucky Luciano.

In exchange for getting the dock workers to help the U.S. Navy and ordering the Italian Mafia to work against Benito Mussolini, back in Italy, Luciano was promised a parole.

Well, not quite; the Sicilian Mob had no need of  "orders" from Luciano, since they [unlike Americans today] knew all too well that Mussolini was well on the way to exterminating them. 

So, when weighing up the "horrors" of Fascism, let's not forget to add in every murder, kidnapping, extortion, etc. etc. committed by the mob in both the US and Italy, which would never had happened if they hadn't been "saved" by GI Joe. 

You know, between "saving the Mob" and "saving the Jews" [themselves, really more of an international crime family than a race, religion or ethnic group], GI Joe really seems to be the biggest sap and sucker of all time.

Evola, in Men Among the Ruins, was especially biting in describing the abject failure of the spineless Meditareanean type to 'shape up' as it were, and the disgusting carnival of jubilation when they were "liberated"  from "occupation" -- i.e., liberated from the Roman ideal,



and "free" to live as they pleased, wearing striped suits and straw hats, slurping spaghetti, and playing mandolins in hopes of collecting some quarters from wealthy American tourists. 

 "During the Springfield Mayoral recall election, Luigi threw his hat in the ring, promising to "make you the good government, just how you like it."  

 

And in his "Occult War" Evola gives us a more general -- and resolutely non-PC -- description of the true results of the Allied "victory":

As is well-known, after the collapse of the forces of the Axis, propaganda organised on a gigantic scale made every effort to make the "totalitarian" regimes of yesterday appear as the quintessence of all abjectness. An initial silence was maintained regarding the Soviet regime, a "totalitarianism" of much vaster dimensions. The passive and traumatised masses, including, unfortunately, vast strata of Germany itself, took, and still take, what they were told at face value. Now, a point must be emphasised : even if what has been put forward regarding the Gestapo, the S.S., the concentration camps, the extermination of Jews, and the so-called "war crimes" (naturally, this meant exclusively those committed by the vanquished, despite Hiroshima and so on) were true - and what truth there is in all these allegations exists only in proportions which are utterly different to those claimed by the propaganda), no price would have been too high to accept if it had led to victory in this war and the following achievements : the breaking of the back of the Soviet Union ; its exclusion from the group of the world's Great Powers ; the freeing and decommunising of an immense territory and its opening to the expansion of Central-Western Europe ; in consequence, the prevention, in all probability, of the communisation of China, which in turn would have prevented it from becoming what it is now, to wit, a new, more and more dangerous, great power, not only for the East ; the humiliation of the 'great democracy', the United States, removing it from the sphere of European interests ; and the survival of a part of the colonial heritage, whose area, in the atmosphere of the new European order, with men faithful to the idea of the different dignity of races and of the hierarchy of races, would not have at all easily become what it is becoming under the effect of the inconceivable stupidity of the exponents of the democratic gospel : the place of a massive revolt of coloured people which is rapidly putting an end to the last remains of the hegemony and prestige of Europe, in the first place to the detriment of the victorious nations themselves.

Instead, we got The World of Snooki.

We previously gave an example of that lazy Mussolini Meme in "The Gilmore Girls Occupy Wall St." [now reprinted in our book], where the eponymous Lorelei located her mother on the Scale of Evil as being close to Mussolini ... but not as bad as Stalin.

Because, after all, Stalin made some mistakes, but at least he wasn't a Fascist.

Although, as Yockey pointed out, to the incomprehension of the brain-dead American "conservatives," Stalin himself did prove to be a Nationalist, and thus, operationally defined, an "anti-Semite" and thus himself "no better than a Nazi"; hence the "bipartisan" foreign policy of "anti-communism" as well as, after the Fall, the promotion of "New Hitlers" whenever someone dares to defend his own people against the Liberal Order.

Or as Steve Sailer recently pointed out:

If Bibi Netanyahu had a better ear for American SWPL propaganda, in his U.S. appearances he’d refer to the Palestinians as “anti-immigrant hate groups.” As in, “Today, the Israeli Air Force dropped white phosphorus on a nest of anti-immigrant hate groups.”

Speaking of hangings and atrocities and such like, isn't it odd that ever since Union General Sherman introduced the ideas of Total War and Unconditional Surrender to the Morally Upright, the latter have shown themselves to have rather a taste for inflicting vast, hitherto unimaginable slaughter on "the bad guys" while still viewing themselves as "the good guys"?  And what's with the obsession with hanging and defiling bodies by mobs of "the liberated"?

 Needless to say, since WWII was "the Good War" [as in "Good for the Jews" -- see Steve Sailer's "That (Jewish) 70s Show"] both sides are allowed to wade in and enjoy themselves splashing around in the kiddie pool of idiocy.  How many times has someone on the Left or the "free-market" Right availed themselves of the "the Corporate State was Mussolini's idea", either on blogs or even, in the case of Jonah Goldberg, alleged books [unlike my own, real, book], when the reality is that the Corporate State of Fascism -- or of Catholic Social Doctrins -- was the exact opposite of the kind of corporate takeover of the government we have today.  But then Mussolini, Pound, Maj. Douglas, Hilaire Belloc, Chesterton, Pope Pius, they were all just drooling "anti-Semites" anyway, so no need to read them or understand them or even, as here, distinguish them from one another.

Thus does Liberal dominance of the political conversation prevent even those who see the problem -- corporations control the government -- from recognizing the cure, or even, in this case, conflating the two.  And dare we ask, cui bono?

But wait -- the really revealing part of Mr. Driscoll's remarks -- you thought I'd forgotten all about him, didn't you? -- was he very next line:

"There just something so moving and inspirational about a huge group of people all singing the same words together.

Right.  And especially since nothing says "anti-fascist" like... large groups singing the same words together.


That's the great thing about cultural hegemony -- you never have to think about what your're saying.  Or singing, as long as you're all singing together -- against Fascism.

Paglia and Me, Sittin' in a Tree

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Huh.  Turns Out It Is All About Me


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No one but the dead or dying back in Jim’s little town 

In his piece this week, Homeless, James Howard Kunstler (or Uncle Jim as I like to think of him) shows that when he can dial back the spittle-flecked hatred of White people (Pus!  Alien bacteria!) he's capable of some mighty fine wordsmithin’:

 I had a fugitive thought the other evening walking through my beaten-down small town in the late fall chill. I imagined that instead of the blue tomb-like glow of television emanating from house to house that I could hear the sequential music of parlor pianos, and voices singing to them, and of healthy people coming and going from warm kitchens to fetch firewood, and of groups of people gathered around tables for a meal, and generally of buildings that were truly inhabited, not just storage containers for lives unspent. I grant you it was a fleeting nostalgic fantasy. But isn’t nostalgia just a state of being homesick?

You may recall that I dealt with Jim in my own piece “The Gilmore Girls Occupy Wall St.” (reprinted now in my new book, The Homo and the Negro), particularly his inability to write about Peak Oil, the Great Reset, the Dieoff and other Leftist masturbation rituals without spinning off, like John Cleese or John Belushi…

… into dark fantasies of fat “NASCAR people” [White, of course] squirming on the ground, screaming helplessly as their Rascal scooters run out of fuel, left – by Jim and his kind -- more in sorrow, than in anger – well, maybe a lot of self-righteous anger – to be eaten by the wolverine population which, in the absence of human civilization, will be expanding wonderfully, to the delight of surviving former members of the NPR listening audience.    Sort of a “Left Behind” saga for the New York Review of Books set.

I suggested there that Jim inadvertently reveals  the real Liberal Agenda, not so much the “world domination” or NWO fantasies of the Right as simply being able to move into and take over sweet little small towns once the horrible Others are dead, there to live the Simple Life, Fair Trade Coffee style.

In the passage above, though, Jim gives us some fine writing.  First off, we note how he evokes not just Fahrenheit 451, where Montag wanders around amidst the blue light shining from the silent houses of his neighbors, truly “storage containers for lives unspent;”  but also the short story “The Pedestrian,” a, as the cliché has it, “prescient sci/fi tale” of a man walking aimlessly in some future suburb and being disturbing enough to be arrested.

But the parlor piano riff!  First this suggests the doomed fantasy wanderings in a neverland of ice cream socials and band concerts at the gazebo taken by the protagonist of “A Stop at Willoughby,” the locus classicus of midcentury weltschmertz, distilling into twenty black and white minutes what it took Mad Men six seasons of color to evoke, if you can imagine this ad man got his job through manslaughter, desertion and identity theft.

It's not easy being as smart and sensitive as Jim Kunstler 

 But it also evokes Kurt Vonnegut’s post-industrial automation apocalypse, Player Piano, an especially apt reference since it takes place in Jim’s now even more beaten down Capital District.

Of course, the difference is that neither Bradbury nor Vonnegut were anti-White, perhaps mainly due to being White.  For a pro-White look at Bradbury, see 

Ray Bradbury, R.I.P. by John Morgan

And for Vonnegut, see this by Jim's Upstate Neighbor -- whom I'm sure he's never deigned to meet: 

The Regionalist: Vonnegut’s Cradle by Bill Kauffman - 01/21/09

As Kauffman notes [or would, if he had had Jim in his sights] Vonnegut is the anti-Jim: living in Manhattan, but not dissing the old small town. 

            In his last interview, with the leftist magazine In These Times, Vonnegut said,

 “[E]veryone needs an extended family. The great American disease is loneliness. We no longer have extended family. But I had one. . . . I was surrounded by relatives all of the time. You know, cousins, uncles and aunts. It was heaven. And that has since been dispersed.”

The passive voice here carries the hint of self-exculpation. Vonnegut chose to spend his adulthood in Cape Cod and then on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a celebrity in precincts quite alien to his native ground. His hero Tarkington, by contrast, had stayed in Indianapolis. One wonders—at least I wonder—if the marked inferiority of Vonnegut’s later work was due, in part, to his immurement in that gilt sepulcher of American fiction, that anti-Indianapolis, Manhattan.

 

As  I noted in the op. cit., Jim hates Manhattan too, but only wants to live elsewhere when the rednecks have been already wished into the cornfield.

Don't make Jim angry...

 

How to square this pre-Judaic utopia with his vein-poppingly strident Zionism [unlike Vonnegut, the U.S. invasion of Iraq,” writes Kauffman, quoting his son Mark, “broke his heart not because he gave a damn about Iraq but because he loved America.” His crest fell; didn’t anyone else believe those civics lessons? “It wasn’t until the Iraq War and the end of his life that he became sincerely gloomy.”] and his murderous loathing for the South [as recently as just last week] is a mystery of the double-tracked Judaic mind.  

Perhaps he imagines, like the fond Israelis, that the ‘natives’ will simply agree to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, “healthy people coming and going from warm kitchens to fetch firewood” as Jim says, then quietly withdrawing like the better class of manservant -- one things of the arrangements made the properly unobtrusive behavior of the servants in Against the Grain; Jim's homey hometown is as phony as Des Esseintes' undersea dining room --for the privilege of their benevolent rulership.  Sort of the way Jim expects the taxi to the airport, and the plane, to be on time and waiting for him, as he jets around the world denouncing the Oil Culture that has unfairly enriched the lifestyles of “the rednecks”. 

Unfair?  Well, his fellow Lefties make the same argument against, say, ueber-rich CEO’s demanding “shared sacrifice”:

Economist Rob Johnson, director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and also a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, shared his view of the Campaign to Fix the Debt in an email. As he memorably put it, "strip-mining is not leadership": 

“I believe that a convincing argument depends upon the demonstrated self-sacrifice of the leader offering a vision.”

The Obscenely Rich Men Bent on Shredding the Safety Net
 By Lynn Stuart Parramore

No Jim, moving to Schenectady isn’t enough; as I’ve said, you countrified yuppies can have whatever you want trucked in [more oil!].

Another interesting contrast with Jim: Morris Berman.

In Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline (Wiley, 2012),  Morris Berman insists that America has always been a “nation of hustlers” on the make; interestingly for an academic leftist, he has kind words for the cavalier culture of the South.  

He now lives in Mexico.   I guess while he thinks he's "outlived his country" he didn't want to live with soured old goodthinkers like Jim.

See the interview on Alternet here and especially the review at Second Vermont Republic here.  This would be in accord with the general European Right view of America as essentially a Judaic creation in the New World, destined to destroy White homelands. 

Whoops, just noticed this over at Amazon:

"Morris Berman noticed that it's not morning in America anymore. His message may wake up the millions who are oversleeping while the late-day storm clouds gather over this land." —James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency 

 Guess he didn’t read the chapter on the nobility of the South.  Or read the book, period, period?  Why pass up a chance to flog your own book at Amazon?  Talk about a nation of hustlers.

Unlike Jim, Vonnegut “was not a misanthrope, just a man who never lost his capacity for righteous outrage.”

Kauffman, writing of Vonegut, has the last word; he, unlike Jim, knew that:

You need village atheists—you just don’t want atheist villages.

But that’s what happens when the Gilmore Girls occupy Wall St.

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They Call the Wind ... Sandy?

Constant Readers are no doubt concerned about my condition post-Sandy; in fact, a few have indeed contacted me to ascertain same. 

Well, due to our possessing the Mandate of Heaven [and please, no jokes about 'man dates'], we were completely spared the Jerry Bruckheimer special effects.

Unfortunately, the same was not true of my recent part-time employer, who has been closed this entire week.  In addition, by not reporting to work and doing her damn job, some HR drone has failed to approve my timesheet from last week, thus depriving me of another check.

I think they call this a 'setback'.  In theory, things should get back to normal next week, but the current shortfall will make things skirt even closer to disaster and oblivion.

So therefore, I thought it appropriate to ask you all to review the reasons given in the post below, and ask yourselves if, having gained some pleasure or insight or something else of value from your Constant Reading, now might not be an excellent time to make a small donation; or even, as one kind soul did last week, a purchase from our Amazon Wish List, providing material for future informative and thought-provoking posts.

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