Glad to meet a fellow Coleman fan, you might very well enjoy my essay on him. In addition to the book, it was on Counter-Currents, and you can also find it on academia.edu.

Skydivers, of course, I have no idea why I interchanged that with RZC. Although in my essay I note that the items in the Coleman Francis Trilogy are essentially interchangeable, the same movie made three times, three ways.

That whole scene features a huge cast of local weirdos, giving Ed Wood or Fellini a run for their money. First seen briefly in the background, when she reappears Crow shouts “The big one’s back!” He seems to be keenly aware of Coleman’s choice of actresses.

Yeah, I noticed that. If not, it’s a prime example of the mentality that got us where we are.

Physics wannabe’s who use a pseudoscience (psychology) and a soft science (biology) to “prove” that only physicists are “smart.”

They conclude that the liberal arts are for dummies, and even use that to “explain” why they’ve been overrun by Marxists and Postmods. Having shamed every “smart” White kid into physics, what do they expect?

Meanwhile, the liberal arts set the agenda for the rest of the culture, including the sciences.

They wake up one day to find physics is full of Woke women and brownies, and they wonder how that happened.

You’ll notice that the really “smart” guys, the Phoenicians, never made that mistake. The founders of Critical Theory, Adorno and Horkheimer, were Jews, but they were steeped in classical German Kultur, which is why they knew how to take over a society (and why they had such contempt for American “high” and “low” “culture.”) (*) Horkheimer looked to Schopenhauer for wisdom, not some glorified test tube washer in a lab coat.

So no, AI won’t save us. Even now social media companies etc. are whining about ‘racist” AI programs and the need to “fix” them so as to get the “right” results.

(*) Marcuse was an exception: he was a CIA stooge from the start.

And yet Steve Sailer and other IQ fetishists would have to admit he’s a borderline genius (IQ tested at 130). Believe the “science.”

When he mutters, “well, Iraq, too” it kinda stops being a misstatement.

“Get on the google”
“Can’t be fooled again”
“The Constitution is just a piece of paper.”

As a member of the Upper Class, Bush frequently feels the need, and ability, to just flat out state the truth, while others have to “keep up appearances” (Cf. the late Prince Phillip).

Like his famous malaprops and grammatical blunders, it’s s sign that Bush, uber-WASP, thinks English is his people’s language and he’ll use it any way he wants. Only bourgeois social climbers worry about “proper” language.

“He was born with a silver foot in his mouth” sneered that woman before she had her ass handed to her by Bush in the election.

So here Bush is saying “Look, we all know that every invasion is brutal and unjustified, that’s just how we major powers operate in the real world. Morality is just some bullshit we slop onto the proles to keep them occupied. Now watch this putt.”

If said Federal official were a SCOTUS justice voting the wrong way, the Biden admin would encourage death threats in the name of “our democracy”.

None. I predict it will be cutting capital gains taxes and repealing “Obamacare”. Always a “winning” combination.

Wow, thanks for the info on “hard lookin’ woman”! That amplifies a joke made on Mystery Science Theater many moon ago.

In Coleman Francis’ first “film”, Beast of Yucca Flats, an “actress” named Marcia Knight briefly appears, and Crow remarks “That’s a hard face. That a face that challenges you.”

8:23 here: https://youtu.be/wzpiKNtwHH0

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Remarkably, in his next “movie,” Red Zone Cuba, she “stars” as a small town femme fatale (or “femmy fatalee” as Crow calls her) whose devastating beauty indeed leads to a fatal love triangle.

Here, as she says “My pa gave me too much” Crow replies “He gave me Michael Landon’s face.” This was before Quentin Tarantino was famous, of course.

This, and the evidence of his “films”, suggest that Coleman had some kind of eye problem.

For more on Coleman Francis, see the title essay of my collection Passing the Buck: Coleman Francis and Other Cinematic Metaphysicians (Melbourne, Australia: Manticore Press, 2021)

” why has Russia failed to bring their operation to a quick conclusion when they had the upper hand? ”

Objection, asked and answered, a millions times here and elsewhere (other than the MSM).

Amber Heard’s judge: Sustained.

“How could they be duped so easily into taking an eternity to allow for the “safe passage of civilians” at the Mariupol plant when in fact Zelensky was using that as a delaying tactic? ”

Objection, leading, compound, lack of foundation.

Amber Heard’s judge: Sustained.

“Why did the US enter the the war so late in 1944?”

Well, the Germans hadn’t bombed Pearl Harbor yet.

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I note that Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne started his college experience in physics and received an undergraduate degree. He then, presumably finding physics too hard, changed his studies to physiology and philosophy and entered Oxford where he received a degree.

Wow, only 3 comments before the IQ fetishist shows up. I was just about to comment that his STEM background means Unzmenschen (like untermenschen) should obey his pronouncements.

But, you beat me to it, noting that his change of major to philosophy means he’s stupid. Because, of course, that must be the explanation. It couldn’t be because he got bored with studying grains of sand and looked for something more interesting. It couldn’t mean he had finished up the rather limited study of tiny objects in space and time, and moved on. (Why physiology? Perhaps he wanted to help people, but you probably can’t understand that either). At least, unlike Newton, he didn’t take up the Book of Revelation. Maybe he was inspired by Einstein, Aristotle, or more recently, Brian Josephson.

As I’ve pointed out before, people study what interests them (or else for money), they don’t all try to become physicists and then wash out and have to ‘make do” with kindergarten stuff like biology. (An odd view for an IQ fetishist, but then noticing contradictions is a philosopher’s job, and hence for the stupid)

What’s funny is that you were so busying creaming your jeans over physics that you didn’t notice the real reason he went to Oxford: a Rhodes Scholarship. That’s where he was recruited into the globohomo movement. The really smart people — Jews, for instance — realize that philosophy is more important than physics: why study dead matter when you can change the world (as Marx, a Jew with a philosophy degree — on ancient materialism — pointed out). Now you’re butt hurt because this non-physicist is changing social reality and wiping you out. Enjoy your physics until it gets replaced with PC Physics.

I recently look up a survey I recalled from childhood, estimating the IQ of various historical figures. Goethe, as I remembered, was on top, at 215! He tried to teach Newton a thing or two about light. And look, there’s my boy, Schopenhauer — a great enthusiast for natural science — coming in at 185. Think of the two of them, conversing in Weimar, the height of White civilization. (Horkheimer, whose Critical Theory so scares you, eventually got bored with that and took up the study of Schopenhauer. But what did he know, a non-physicist?)

But they didn’t wear lab coats, so we’re much more advanced today.

Anyway, because the highest morality of Christianity is so impossibly lofty, it logically leads to anti-nature and anti-life. If indeed the celibate Jesus and His Disciples led the most exemplary life and if the highest Christian morality consists of emulating them, then if every man becomes an ideal Christian and lives like Jesus and His Disciples, mankind will soon disappear since no one will have sex and have babies. There is a similarly anti-nature and anti-life lesson at the core of Buddhism, which is closely associated with Jainism. If every living thing is trapped in an illusion, and if the goal of every living being is to be reincarnated as a human[as only humans can reach Nirvana], and if the ideal of every human is to attain eternal self-extinction via attainment of Nirvana, then it means that if everything goes according to plan, there will be no life. All life forms would eventually have been reincarnated as humans, and all humans would have reached Nirvana. Such ultra-idealism is anti-nature and anti-life, since nature and life are inherently imperfect and chaotic.

This is profound stuff, and “family values” conservatives never face up to it. Christianity in its original form was an apocalyptic cult. Eventually, people noticed that Jesus hadn’t returned, so they either gave up or began to “modify” the religion to make it compatible with “modern” (100AD) life. Celibacy, for example, is possible and even sensible, if Jesus is coming back any day now. And as you say, if people did stick to the original message, and it spread, humanity would die out.

I have discussed, in several articles on Counter-Currents (another to soon appear) the Overcomer Ministry of Bro. Stair, as an example of a real-world cult based on original Christianity. (Stair is a cult leader and serial sex offender, but that’s another issue). Stair preached that Jesus was coming soon (any day now!) so to get right with God (and avoid damnation) you had to “come out of her” or “leave the camp, touch not the unclean thing” (various OT quotes) and submit to God, not the world, which is the system of the AntiChrist. This meant:

1. Get rid of your TV
2. No credit (thus, no car, no house, etc.)
3. Get out of the cities (God will nuke them)
4. Quit your job (you only have it to make money to pay your credit card for junk)
5. No marriage or children (another way to trap you in a job and credit)
6. Get out of the churches (this is what I was talking about, the “compromises” with the world. RC = Whore of Babylon, Protestants = Daughters of the Whore).

These are all “snares” to trap you in the world and damnation.

Sell all you have (see Jesus and the rich young man), give it to Bro. Stair, join the farm and wait (cf. the communal life of the apostles).

As you can see, this is very much compatible with various alt-Right, incel, anti-capitalism/jewry sorts of positions. And very much anti-modern life, and even anti-life. But then “life” is the kingdom of Satan, right?

Original Christianity is anti-society, anti-world, anti-life. The “Christianity” conservatives call “the soul of the West” and which they think will solve our problems if we “return” to it, “Family values” Christianity, is no more than “doing what seems right in your own eyes” = “walking in the way of the world” = iniquity = submitting to the Mark of the Beast = damnation.

(Funny how “conservatives” freaked out about Last Temptation, but then they were never self-aware).

Forget “the Germanization of Christianity”. It started in 100AD. If you don’t accept original Christianity, you are for all intents and purposes a pagan. (or a Jew).

Boy, there’s a lotta schnozz in that photo. Did the ancient Israelites fuck camels?

As that Republican congressman (?) famously said, if rape is inevitable, just lie back and enjoy it.

Will the heirs of Mel Brooks be forced to pay reparations to Berlin for the lèse-majesté of The Producers?

Actually, as I’ve pointed out many times now, the whole Zelensky idea of starting a war he can’t possibly win, demanding billions in “aid” from the West, which will disappear into his bank accounts, is essentially the plot of The Producers, right down to the costumed Nazi supplying the “worse play ever written”.

Chomsky may be a total tool or he might be a deluded politically correct intellectual whose Jewish derivation allows him some latitude in hacking away at some of the overhanging branches of corporatist, high finance shenanigans….

Or he may just be seeking media attention (“Chomsky agrees with Trump!”) or senile. He looks really bad in that Trump clip, worse than Biden, more like the Cryptkeeper. What is he, over 100 by now?

Yes, they do inflate the Russian monster myth, only to then puncture it with the myth of Sampson defeating Goliath.

Huh?

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Senator Blutarski begs to differ:

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In a sane world, Putin would get the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping and exposing the USNATO bio-weapons scheme, and those involved would get war crimes trials.

But, as it is…

All Leftist “thought” boils down to Who/Whom. Once you realize that, you will never have to read/listen to them again; rather than trying to foresee what convoluted “reasoning” could lead them to think X is OK in one case but not in another. It’s just Who/Whom, every single time.

One reason “black” music became popular with White kids is that recordings intended for the “black” market were less regulated; no one cared what they sang about. So there were lots of songs — actual recordings, released and sold — about sex, drugs and guns. Sort of like the filthy “comedy” records of Red Foxx, Moms Mabley, Pigmeat Markham and others who re-emerged in sanitized forms in the 70s. (Laugh In, etc.)

It’s like in The Godfather, where they decide to let drugs be sold, but only “in the darker parts of town”, since the bleks “are just animals, let them lose their souls.” That’s also how Greenwich Village became the HQ of degeneracy: Italian widows would rent apartments to anyone, and didn’t care what you did, since non-Italians were just animals.

It’s funny to hear public or college radio hosts lament “America’s racist past” as exampled in “race records,” since that was in fact the only reason black culture, such as it is, survived; otherwise it would have been amalgamated into pop in general and disappeared.

It seems genetic, like the various stages of the Xenomorph in Alien. They all eventually “discover” their roots and become raging, ranting Zionists. Perhaps it’s really an act all along?

“The Old, Weird America.” This of course was Harry Smith’s thesis, which he assembled his Anthology of American Music to demonstrate, mixing “white” and “black” 78 recordings. This kicked off the “folk music” fad, whose lasting contribution was Bob Dylan, though songs from Smith’s anthology continue to be covered by a wide variety of acts — eg., Nirvana.

Add to that the Depression, which wiped out the record companies and thus the careers — such as they were — of all these black and white artists. The only economically viable music was, ironically, big band jazz, broadcast over the radio from hotel ballrooms, which thus became “America’s Pop(ular) Music” by default. Postwar inflation then wiped out big bands, leaving only small combos — hence, R&B and R&R. Just like dinosaurs and mammals.

Unemployed big band arrangers switched from piano to the new Hammond organ, added drums and one other instrument, and went on the road: the “organ trios” people mock in lounges across America in the 50s-70s. Add a singer, and you have Bill Murray’s SNL lounge lizard character. Fun Fact: what was the last big organ trio? The Doors.

It’s almost as if economics is an important factor.

the white clientele and Country culture are mainly spoofed and ridiculed(though not too nastily as in our ‘woke’ era), also partly true of NASHVILLE by Robert Altman. (The Nazis are the top villains in the movie,

Here’s where I’d put an endnote about Henry Gibson being both the Illinois Nazi leader and the unctuous country music “star” in Nashville.

They don’t, Mr Bonkers! The Palestinians are the Hebrews, the original, real Jews.

Indeed. As I pointed out in another thread, the current situation in Palestine is an exact re-run of the past.

The so-called “Books of Moses” were forged by Hebrews returning from Persia after being Zoroatrianized (Persian = Parsee = Pharisee) and convincing the Persian emperor their tribal god, YHVH, was the same as the Universal God of the Persians (see the article above on Jewish tribalism, and the articles of Laurent Guyenot here on Unz). These books, with their story of “conquering” the Promised Land, exterminating the idolatrous indigenous Canaanites, etc., were a cover story to justify these Pharisees doing exactly that to the actual Hebrews, still living in Palestine, who were portrayed as “backsliding”. (And forget about the Samaritans, who stayed behind in Palestine and still practiced the original, non-Jerusalem version of Judaism; sweet, gentle Jesus calls them “you dogs” and “swine” toward whom he will cast no pearls of wisdom).

And, as you say, we see exactly the same thing today: Poles pretending to be “Hebrews” and claiming the land from the actual Semites who have lived there for centuries.

I am reminded of a pal I had in graduate school — Canadian, today would be called ‘prog” or “woke” (except, of course, for treating every woman as available, as per the standard then), a kind of folkie-beatnik type in fact. In those pre-internet days, he would carry clippings from Noam Chomsky articles in his wallet to refute “fascists”.

Anyway, his doctor told him to stop consuming (what we would call) MSM, like those Nazis at the CBC, so as to moderate his blood pressure. One day he announced that he had finally found a source of pure, unbiased news: Radio Moscow.

He was serious.

Because, like everything “stated” by the Empire of Lies, it’s a lie, designed to goad Putin into attacking the US. Because the Empire of Lies thinks Putin is like their own media-saturated citizens, who believe and react to anything the Empire “states.”

Please note that it’s the “reality is what we say it is”/End of History/Psychohistorians of the CIA and State Dept. issuing these “statements,” which are immediately denied by the Pentagon. According to the official story, some Arabs with box cutters flew a plane into the Pentagon; they don’t want Putin to use a hypersonic missile.

“I don’t think the church was particularly effective in passing on Biblical teaching in the former Catholic strongholds of MA, CT, and RI.”

The Catholic Church has no interest in “Biblical teaching”. The Church is supposed to produce people like Mussolini, Franco, and even Hitler. “Biblical teaching” produces Evangelicals, who are cuckoo for Zionism.

More likely, the American Catholic Church abandoned Catholic teachings and replaced them with exactly those “Biblical teachings” those New England Puritan/Calvinists have been shoving down our throats for centuries.

Good points. The chutzpah includes not only claiming that Mayorkas is a “Cuban-American” though really a dual-citizen Phoenician, but then putting him in charge of “homeland security”. That famous sense of humor!

Re La Nina, recall the appointment of “Justice” Kagan, who became a law school dean without publishing or practicing, and then appointed to SCOTUS without deciding any known cases. A miracle!

Indeed. As I pointed out over on the AA thread, this beatch’s definition of “what we’ve dubbed ‘malign creativity’ — the coded language, memes, and context-based content which allow harmful posts to avoid detection,” is a pretty good description of the coded literary genre known as “apocalyptic” such as the Book of Daniel or the Book of Revelation (aka the Apocalypse of John, which is the trope-namer). I wonder what the Evangelicals think about their sacred books being so described?

“what we’ve dubbed ‘malign creativity’ — the coded language, memes, and context-based content which allow harmful posts to avoid detection,”

That’s a pretty good description of apocalyptic religious texts, like the Book of Daniel or the Book of Revelation. Has anyone asked all those Evangelicals about them being characterized this way?

his Delaware-Syracuse half-wit side-kick

Joe was always just a half-bright placeholder; as senator from DE, his only job was to vote for anything the banking/insurance guys wanted. A Freddo in Las Vegas, if you will, or that guy pretending to run the casino in, Casino.

So the second-tier background was used to polish his “ordinary Joe” cred. Like when he boasted about commuting to work just like a regular guy, talking to folks on the platform, etc., meaning he spent 1000s (or billed the taxpayers) taking the ACELA from DE to DC. He was briefly known as “Acela Joe” after that.

They all wanted to be on the Supreme Court, which means you gotta go to Harvard or Yale law school.

Unless you want to, you know, run the court.

“John Roberts is the first of the 17 chief justices to have attended either Harvard or Yale. His predecessor, William Rehnquist, graduated from Stanford Law. Rehnquist’s predecessor as chief justice, Warren Burger, went to St. Paul College of Law (later renamed Mitchell Hamline School of Law) in Minnesota. Going back further, Earl Warren went to UC Berkeley; Fred Vinson went to Eastern Kentucky University Law. A couple of early-to-mid-20th-century chief justices (Harlan Stone and Charles Evans Hughes) graduated from Columbia Law. But former president William Howard Taft, who attended Yale as an undergrad, got his law degree from the University of Cincinnati.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/supreme-court-ivy-league-snobbery-is-a-recent-development.html

“E. Michael Jones said that the purpose of voting is to ratify the candidates and issues which have already been chosen for you by the oligarchs.”

“Another telltale sign of whether a potential politician is controlled opposition is did they convert to Romanism at a later stage in life. If one wants to advance their political career it is incumbent upon them to cozy up with the Jews and the Jesuits. If one were to seek to find why the American experiment in liberty has crashed start with the religious backgrounds of the current Justices on the Supreme Court. The Protestant virtue of individual liberty is being crushed by foreign Tribes.”

Will you guys decide on a script and stick to it? How am I supposed to know whether to vote or not? Is “Romanism” the solution or the problem? You guys presume to argue about The Way Forward for America but you still haven’t figured out if the Jews control the Jesuits or the Puritans. Pathetic.

The Jew Book wasn’t written by God. It wasn’t even written by Jews. Well, sort of.

Modern scholarship (admirably summarized by Unz’ own Laurent Guyenot) has converged on the hypothesis that Jews taken into exile in Babylon converted to or absorbed Zoroastrianism (life after death, Satan not as “the accuser” but as a Evil God; “Pharisee” = parsee = Persian, etc.), then fooled Cyrus into thinking their tribal god was equal to the Zoroastrian God of Gods, so that he would let them return to Palestine to set up a new temple.

The OT was written then, to justify their rule. There never was a Moses, invasion and genocide in the Promised Land, Solomon the Wise, etc. All bullshit. They projected back into the mythical past their own contemporary invasion.

Talk about chutzpah: just read the Book of Ezra: the OT itself says it was “discovered” and then read out to the people, who swore allegiance to the Law. Obviously, it was written then, and rather than “reaffirming” the covenant in the desert, this was the first time it was unveiled.

These Pharisees had nothing but contempt for the “people of the land (am ha’aretz, like the newspaper ) who were the original Hebrews. Their “backsliding into idolatry”. as endlessly condemned in the OT, was the people returning to their original cult. The Samaritans, for example, rejected the newcomers and retained their own Torah and temple. Everyone knows about “The Good Samaritan,” but who remembers gentle Jesus calling the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well “a dog” and proclaiming that he has come only for “the lost sheep of my own tribe”?

Anyway, what’s truly amazing is that the exact same thing is going on today. Ashkenazis from Central Europe invade, declare themselves to be the real Hebrews, and begin dispossessing and exterminating the actual native population. (Mormon did the same thing, of course).

Even funnier, while the goyim still worship the Jew Book, the so-called Jews themselves kicked it to the curb after the temple was destroyed, and wrote a new one, the Babylonian Talmud (note the name!), which is what they use for guidance today.

Evangelicals do not care. They don’t believe Catholics or any of the Orthodox branches are practicing Christians. All that matters to them is Jews and end times. Jews killing off “Arab” occupiers and their false gods in Palestine will bring about their beloved rapture, which then leads to a thousand year Jew rule ( what are we in now?) until tribulation occurs.

Utterly insane, but alas quite true.

As AA pointed out in his piece here on the Times attack on Tucker, there’s nothing Jewier than trying to “psychoanalyze” people you disagree with.

Wherever did you get that idea?

Endnotes are magick. Just a hint.

I can usually discern the thread of J/F thought, beneath the flow of his word-hoard — which I would describe as “paranoiac-critical”, a la Dali — but this puzzles me:

While the Nazis did pose a genuinely genocidal threat to Russians and other Slavs, they only demanded compliance and alliance from the UK. Indeed, the UK would have done better to ally with Germany in WWII if its only interest was narrow self-interest. Now, given the radical evil of Nazi Germany, the Brits were right to forge alliances even with the USSR to defeat Nazi Germany.

So the Nazzies were so “radically evil” (a Kantian notion brushed off and proffered by neocons like John Silber, but I’ll let it pass) that the UK had to join the side of the Bolsheviks, despite their own self interest? What did this “radical evil” consist in? As Revilo Oliver said, if a nation wants to exterminate its vermin, what business is it of any other nation?

I recall that Guy Crouchback, in Waugh’s Sword of Honor trilogy, echoes the author’s belief that he had been tricked into supporting the war when the Hitler Stalin pact showed them united as threats to Christendom, only to have the rug pulled out when Churchill and FDR welcomed Stalin as their new “ally” and Guy was sent to the Balkans to fight for Stalin.

Delusions of grandeur, as usual. You, the Christian West were the true barbarians. You learned science from the Arabs and forgot what the Greeks had taught.

Indeed. Byzantium was the true HQ of the Christian church, most of which was in the East (Antioch, etc., and as far as China), a fact buried by the Islamic conquest, which, after Constantinople was betrayed and sacked by the Pope and his pet “Holy Roman” Emperor, under the guise of a “crusade” to “liberate” the Holy Land (some things never change), left only a rump church of barely converted barbarians to claim to be “Christendom”.

Constantinople was also the center of what remained of Greek wisdom, which only flowed West after the aforementioned sacking of Constantinople, leading to the Renaissance and, you know, the modern world. Otherwise, we’d likely be living in mud huts and dominated by loony priests. Sort of like Africa.

All this is either forgotten, or denied, or just not taught, or buried beneath the Islamic conquest, or attributed to the Arabs (anything rather than admit the existence of Constantinople; guilty much?)

In fact, the chronological revisionists discussed here on Unz have proposed that ROME NEVER EXISTED, only Constantinople, and the whole story of Rome and the Western Empire was fabricated by Emperor Otto, retconning events from the true history of Byzantium.

You Unz people should get together and get your stories straight, this back and forth is too confusing.

That was essentially Evola’s take on Hitler. Pure mobocracy, defended by saying “We’d be kangz if not for the Jews.”

So the president of France was re-elected by 38.5 percent of voters while the real second place, Absention/Nullified/Blank got 34.2 percent.

IIRC, Maggie Thatcher served the longest of any XXth century British PM, but never actually got 38% of the vote herself. I believe Bill Clinton got barely 40-some percent against Bush and Perot.

The genius of the British parliamentary system is that it separates the head of state (the monarch) from the head of government (the PM). The US tried to do this with the Electoral College, which is a kind of Parliament which meets once and does one thing: select the President. The British system works better, avoiding the divided government that ignorant Americans are so proud of: “muh checks and balances!” The PM always has a majority (if only as a coalition) and can push through legislation.

The French seem to have created a system in which the President, who should be elected by the nation as a whole, is elected in the same way as PM, thus losing the advantages, and adding up the disadvantages, of the US and UK systems.

I thought they were supposed to be big brains, these French. Or is this nullification of suffrage the goal?

The Judaic Mind Trick to to sell the somewhat plausible idea that more education = more knowledge. Hence, the more schoolin’ the smarter you are. We’re supposed to look down on the “uneducated” farmer, hick, hillbilly, whatever, on the assumption “what could they know”?

As I say, it’s plausible, and true in some ways. But you’ll notice how it favors Jews, who eschew farming and handwork for book learning. That’s why Jews are “naturally” in the elite of a meritocracy; it’s just fair and objective, right?

Anyway, the trick is that “education” actually means “brainwashing.” As Chomsky, a renegade Jew, put it, “the educated classes are the most programmed.” Or as Orwell put it in 1984, “Proles and animals are free.” Actually, proles, animals, and the Inner Party. The Outer Party — Winston and Julia — are programmed to a fare thee well, while the Inner Party — O’Brien, or Huxley’s Mustapha Mond, the World Controller — know its all bullshit (O’Brien’s telescreen is the only one that can be turned off, Winston and Julia are constantly under tele-surveillance).

And OTOH, the “farmer” knows quite a bit, from the evidence of his own eyes. This is why the Phoenicians always disparage such “mere common sense” in favor of some grand Theory of what’s “really” going on. Freud, Marx, Critical Theory, etc. Pervasive racism, systematic “white supremacy” etc., despite the lack of “evidence.” (Marcuse covers this in One Dimensional Man: demands for “evidence” or “proof” are attempts to steer the masses away from the Grand Theory that explains how they are “really” enslaved, etc.)

“That’s what actually made them freak out entirely. They thought the fix was already in, so they didn’t bother putting in the fix…”

Right, the “fix” was selecting Trump in the first place. They thought he’d simply lose legitimately, since no one would actually vote for him; even protest voters from the primaries would sober up. They didn’t count on how much the proles hated Them; as Michael Moore said, it was the ultimate FU to the elite.

It was like when Pauline Kael said she didn’t understand how Nixon could have been elected, she didn’t know anyone who voted for him.

I’m sure they’ve made sure that never happens again.

Acronyms are bandied freely now a days so I have coined a new one FCKJWS. This is an original I have coined.

“It turns out that in the end Miss Elk’s new theory on brontosauruses is rather shallow, at best. Her true concern is that she receive full credit for devising this new theory stating, “That is the theory that I have and which is mine and what it is, too.”

https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Anne_Elk’s_Theory_on_Brontosauruses

I thought people were going to complain about me being too mean about HST! With that assumption, I guess I didn’t feel the need to make it clear that I was being snarky by calling him a “class act.”

BTW, in poking around the intertubes, I found a guy promoting the idea the HST was, in fact, murdered — his well known propensity for recording himself torturing animals, as I mentioned here, was only the tip of an iceberg of snuff productions, this guy claims, and he was snuffed himself before blowing the whistle on some kind of snuff ring. This guy worked out a long explanation, Jim Garrison style, of how someone could have climbed in a window and made the deed sound like a suicide to his wife on the phone. I guess there’s a conspiracy for everything today.

Jew teams up with Nazi, starts production sure to fail, and thereby is able to pocket the proceeds. Where have I seen this movie before?

Ordinarily he’d be a great advertisement for “modern medicine,” but I assume he ‘s an insider who gets the real stuff, and the rest of us get the placebos or poisons.

For some weird reason, Matt Weiner decided to pretend Don Draper came up with “It’s Toasted” off the top of his head in the 60s, when indeed it dates back to the 30s or so. Obviously the fictional “Don Draper” never invented anything, but at least he was usually in the right decade. It’s as if The Big Bang Theory had an episode where Sheldon split an atom.

Lovecraft is just childish nonsense about Satanic cults dragging people into vast underground tunnels to breed and perform human sacrifices. That stuff never happens. I prefer to read about hard, sensible reality.

“This might be our last address to the world… We have over 500 wounded and hundreds of civilians (at the Azovstal). We ask the world leaders to help take us to a third country.”

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1516668142856159232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1516668142856159232%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailystormer.in%2Fputin-tells-military-not-to-storm-azovstal-underground-city-says-to-seal-it-and-starve-them-out%2F

“The Jews” is a bit of a generalization. Don’t you think? It would be helpful for the sincere but less enlightened elements of the Resistance (like me) to know WHICH Jews. We need an organization chart.

This “devastating” comeback has been noted and dealt with years ago. For example, should we welcome Jewish “fellow nationalists”?

Ans: No. Not enough “good ones” to matter. Out with them all. (Let God sort them out).

Why is it we can always find, eventually, the German government on the Wrong Side of History?

Is it a bug or a feature?

The Germans simply have no talent for government. Something else — like delusions of being a Master Race, enthusiasm for genocide, etc. — they share with their doppelganger, the Jews.

The Jews at least have a sense of humor.

What’s that old joke ?

Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it’s all organised by the Swiss.

Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover’s Swiss, the police German and it’s all organised by the Italians.

They made it illegible so that we haters will divert our time and attention to trying to find ourselves therein.

I went on the underlying website and perhaps it is there, but it is in German.

“I thought all you doctors was good at fixin’ people up” — Legend of Boggy Creek

I thought all you hate-speakers knew German!

Oh, I didn’t mean to imply he never admitted writing from his hotel. Actually, Jann Wenner himself suggested that to overcome his writer’s bloc (already setting in during the early 70s) he should “write what was around him”, so most of pieces start or end in a hotel room. Also, Thompson frequently justified himself by saying that it “was obvious” when he was fantasizing, and it was up to the reader to be “smart enough” to notice.

But I’m not talking about obvious fantasies — Nixon being a werewolf, for example — but all the times that HST invented supposed happenings, fabricated quotes, even creating fictional characters to attribute the quotes to. Wills book is about 500 pages and he documents it all (and he’s not anti-HST) He started doing this when writing for the base newspaper in the Air Force, and just kept doing it. Before RS started indulging him, editors were terrified of libel suits and loss of reputation from publishing his reporting, and he went from one publication to another (lying on his resume too, btw.) Those National Observer pieces are certainly well written but until you read Wills book you won’t know how much of that was totally fake.

Here’s an example of what Wills thinks was OK: “a sick fantasy in which a politician is drugged and forced to rape a child so that he can be blackmailed.” This “makes the (’72) campaign trail sound exciting” and suggests “the shady backroom dealings that occur throughout the political world.” It’s a fictional technique used to convey an opinion about what’s going on, a la Wolfe or Capote and other “New Journalists.” The reader is supposed to be smart enough to “get it” and not believe it’s true. Really? In the wake of Epstein/Maxwell, is this obviously “impossible”? Aren’t people likely to dismiss reports of the Lolita Express as “more of that Thompson bullshit”?

Thompson was a sociopath with a great imagination and writing ability. He wanted to be the Great American Novelist but, being a sociopath, was unable to convincingly write about characters other than himself. So he used his cardboard characters to write fake journalism, so that magazines would pay his hotel and drug expenses. In the process he popularized a mode of journalism — “Gonzo” — that laid the groundwork for CNN-style Fake News, just substituting Trump for Nixon: “I don’t have any evidence that Trump is a Russian agent, but it must be true, so I’ll make up a story about blackmail and pee tapes. Hey, the end justifies the means, right?”

Johnny Depp and other sycophants held a funeral at which his remains were shot out of a canon. Thompson shot himself while on the phone to his wife; a class act right to the end. (Wills book tries but fails to prevent the reader from deducing that Thompson was a classic sociopath, from childhood to his suicide; e.g., he liked to not only torture animals, but to record their sounds and play it back to visitors).

Thompson had wanted something similar in his “eulogy” on Nixon’s death: “If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles.”

The detailed specificity of the image, as Wills points out, is typical of Thompson’s genius at humor. He notes, without noticing the irony, that Thompson’s hatred of Nixon was so intense as to make him his muse throughout his career; when Nixon died Thompson lost any reason to go on living.

“Perhaps, Jews in politics are especially crazy because they couldn’t cut it in the truly brainy fields of science, math, medicine, and the like, therefore compensating with an extra dose of Tough Jew antics.”

As L. Guyenot and myself have pointed out many times, the “brainy” Jew excels only in the purely quantitative realms, which he vainly imagines to the “more real” than the qualitative realms of spirituality, art, etc. (A trait oddly shared by the IQ fetishists, hmmm). He even tries to drag them down to his quantitative level, spreading materialism (“materia signate quantitate” — St. Thomas) wherever he is allowed entrance.: behaviorism, “abstract” art, atonal music, etc.

The Jew is actually notably bad at politics — conquered over and over, expelled over and over, which he obtusely brags about as “survival” a la the cockroach. So the Jew who is not “schmart” enough for science, being also not cut out for politics, must be a truly self-hating creature. No doubt this explains their “Samson Option” and their provoking WWIII.

But, when a particularist agenda seeks hegemony over others, it is tribalism on a universal scale with serious contradictions. And Nazism and Zionism were alike in this sense. At their cores, both were defined by tribal uniqueness so extreme as to foster a coldly contemptuous supremacist worldview.

This is the mind-blowing, epoch-making point L. Guyenot made in his book From Yahweh to Zionand in articles on this site. The first goyim the Jews fooled were the Persians; they convinced Cyrus that their tribal god, YHVH, was the same as the Persian/Zoroastrian God of All Peoples. The trickery has been maintained to this day.

Beneath the word games, there is all the difference in the world between the one God of true monotheism, and the puffed-up tribal god of the Jews, who merely denies the existence of other gods and commands all people to worship him and his people. (For the Gnostics, Jehovah was the blind, idiot demiurge who thought he was the real god, and the Torah was delivered by evil angels to ensnare mankind).

Oh, and again sir, I recommend the use of endnotes.

“The general quality of journalism appears to have been degraded since the 1970s. This may seem odd given the professionalization of the field, with many more journalists with academic credentials than in the past. ”

I recommend the new bio of Hunter Thompson, High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism by David S. Wills, which I will be reviewing at Counter-Currents at some point soon. Thompson believed that he “knew” the truth of any story, even if he never left his hotel room (or, eventually, even if he never left his “bunker” in Colorado), and this gave him the justification to not only write anything he wanted, but to even plant rumors and then “report” on them.

Thompson’s fame — starting right then, in the 1970s — helped spread or retroactively justify an existing line of self-justification among liberal and leftist journos. Nixon was “evil” and so any lie could be justified if it harmed his reputation; and he was capable of anything anyway, right, so who knows if he really was a werewolf or ate children.

Ironically, Thompson himself had nothing but contempt for “professional” journos, but while he was correct that they were just re-writing press releases, his alternative was to just make up your own reality.

I believe (Wills doesn’t say it) Thompson was the father of Fake News. Kids who legitimately criticized the press for lying in Vietnam are now making up fake stories about Putin and Russia.

“He’s not a serious leader. He’s actually a comedian, and these statements he makes are intended to be hilarious jokes.”

Ah yes, the famous tradition of “Jewish Humor”. First Andy Kaufman, then Sasha Cohen, now Zelensky.

If you think about it, the idea of starting a war you know you can’t win, then getting billions in “aid” that will never be accounted for, is exactly the plot of The Producers. So perhaps Mel Brooks is the real inspiration? Will he demand royalties?

Maybe he just needs a thesaurus?

“Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: ‘The precision-jackhammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jackthrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends…’ Right. And there was the genius of Grantland Rice. He carried a pocket thesaurus, so that ‘The thundering hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen’ never echoed more than once in the same paragraph, and the ‘Granite-grey sky’ in his lead was a ‘cold dark dusk’ in the last lonely line of his heart-rending, nerve-ripping stories…” (Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72).

“After all, when they lose no one is going to seriously question where all the funds went or how they were used in “defense”, since the losers won’t be around to answer the questions. ”

That’s the plot of The Producers, by noted Judaic “comedian” Mel Brooks. As always, they love to reveal their plots right in the goyim’s faces.

Ralph Lauren, KBE (né Lifshitz; born October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, best known for the Ralph Lauren Corporation, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise. — Wikipedia

We were promised David Bowie, Susan Sarandon and Peter Murphy. I want my money back!

“A sufficiently developed technology is indistinguishable from magic” — A. C. Clarke

As I pointed out in an article on Counter-Currents a while back, the “we’re race realists not racists” crowd hasn’t even begun to grapple with the implications of the genetic technology they like to cite. (*)

If White people are to be favored because of their IQ’s not because you just irrationally hate black skin, what happens when we can (as a transhumanist article I cite says) “produce black bodies with white IQ”?

At the highest level, the perfection of the technologies you describe shows that Spengler, Yockey and Evola were right, and Revilo Oliver and Steve Sailer are wrong. IF technology (i.e., the spirit, in the German sense of Geist) can change Bruce Jenner into a woman, then biology is not all-determining, in fact it is irrelevant. Evola’s “race of the spirit” trumps the race of the body, what Trotsky called “zoological racism”. An Italian fascist official sneered that Evola’s doctrine of race meant that “A Jew could have the body of an Aryan, which makes nonsense of our racial policies.” Looks like Evola will have the last laugh.

(*)”Look out honey, ’cause I’m using technology! Eumaios, Evola, & Neville on Race”
https://counter-currents.com/2021/03/eumaios-evola-neville-on-race/

Nazism sought to create the perfect hero, and communism sought to create the ideal worker. But perfectionist radicalization of ideals can be dangerous, and both Nazism and communism did incalculable harm to mankind.

“The problem with Mr. Hitler is that he has made the intelligent discussion of anti-Semitism impossible for at least a generation.” — T. S. Eliot.

Indeed. Fritz Squarehead and Ivan Vodkavich, with their typical “humorlessness,” took the idea of eugenics (based off the Englishman, Darwin), which the Anglosphere was pursuing with common sense, mechanized it, automated it, stepped on the gas, and made the whole idea toxic for the rest of the century. A point to consider for those on the “Dissident Right” who those ideas so much sexier than those of the bland, “bourgeois” Anglosphere, a “nation of shopkeepers.” Please, no more heroic “New Soviet Man” or “Ubermensch” or “Fourth Political Theories” and just get a job and raise a family.

“So, what good is all this ‘canceling’? West can cancel Tchaikovsky, but we still got the music.”

As Solzhenitsyn, I think, said, the West allows “freedom of press” etc. because no one in the West takes books seriously.

Ah, Non-Cardinal Ligano! Haven’t seen you in a while.

When Papa Francesco failed to create him as a Cardinal, he issued his August 2018 “Tentimonianza” which was what the Watergate coverup calls a “limited hangout,” in which the far-right Vigano, disappointed to not be named a cardinal, attempts to name names in order to put the blame on Francis for what he calls the “corrento filoomosessuale” (the “pro-homosexual trend”) in the Vatican. The vengeful little queen’s plan backfired when he wildly included allies of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, thus cutting himself off from the conservatives themselves (where the homosexuals predominantly lurk; as always, They accuse You of what They are doing).

Not a great military strategist.

I wonder if he is now apostatizing, currying favor with the Orthodox?

“with such a stupid slogan painted on it.”

Another Kubrick fake.

Surely no one thinks he’s really dead?

“This page has been blocked by Brave.”

LOL. So they’re “pro-privacy” because they don’t track you, but they just decide where you can go. Clown World.

The Phoenicians discovered long ago that the way to control the Goyim is to lie to them, and then admit it to their face. Due to some odd psychological quirk — like chickens drinking the rain until they drown — this actually increases the Goy’s respect for you. Rinse, repeat.

It’s called “Revelation of the Method.”

Interestingly, an Austrian named A. Hitler discovered this in the 20s, and called it “the Big Lie technique.” The Phoenician response was to tell everyone on TV or in high school that it was Mr. Hitler who used the “Big Lie” technique to fool the Germans.

Magic Bullet.
Aviation fuels melts steel.
Bodies lie undisturbed in street for 2-3 weeks.

What’s the problem? You some kinda conspiracy nut?

“Think Yiddish, dress British” — Wall St. motto.

I can’t recall if the brokerage firm head Tom Wolfe mentioned in Bonfire, who had a wood burning fireplace installed in his skyscraper office, was Jewish or not. I think he had to get a special exemption from the zoning commission.

Posted this yesterday elsewhere, and glad to see my “zombie” meme is spreading!

“These zombie guys do not give up.” Readers of my essay on the film A Dandy in Aspic (reprinted in my collection Passing the Buck (Manticore, 2021) will recall my discussion of the Russian fascination with the word “zombie” in the film’s book, and its use by fellow Russian Ayn Rand. Here we find it again in this interview with Sergey Glazyev of the Bank of Russia. Note recurrence of the ‘puppet’ theme from the film’s opening credits as well.

“In 8 years the Americans have managed to fool the Ukrainian people so much that the people who resist the Russian army, the so-called Armed Forces of Ukraine, look simply zombified. They are manipulated like puppets. It is not Zelensky who commands the Ukrainian Army, not even the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the General Staff – but the Pentagon. It commands very effectively from the point of view in the fight of “to the last Ukrainian soldier”, because these zombie guys do not give up. But they are in an absolutely hopeless situation. All experts have already acknowledged that Russia won the military special operation, that the Ukraine has no chance of resistance, that the entire military infrastructure has been destroyed… The Armed Forces of Ukraine is only left with surrendering in order to minimize human losses. However, Ukrainian officers (and especially, of course, nationalists) act like zombies controlled from the outside – they follow instructions from the Pentagon that come to their personal computers and special tablets.”

Video Link

Serious Question:

What do you folks make of Sontag’s adulation of Cioran? (She deplores his “tone deaf” take on the Jews, but otherwise…). Is Cioran another one of those “ultra Right” figures, like Nietzsche and Heidegger, that rightwingers are supposed to idolize despite being loved by the ultra Left?

Compare: Zelensky’s “nazis”.

If you think about it, Cioran is just like Sontag: hating Western civ, but living off it.

“One does not have to read far in his work before understanding Susan Sontag’s enthusiasm: in Cioran she found a kindred spirit, an inspiration, a writer who preserved the appearance of serious intellectual inquiry while giving absolute priority to rhetorical gestures, verbal extravagances, and modishly provocative poses.”

https://newcriterion.com/issues/1988/3/the-anguishes-of-em-cioran

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al,

Fifth column membership clue.

Russia must dejewdefy the Ukraina. The Jews are far more war criminals than the young radicals. The above Zelenski video is proofing that.

Indeed. Removing the small hats would eliminate the problem at the root. (Radical). The “nazis” are controlled zombies, “small potatoes” as Hyman Roth would say.

“The people who would believe something this stupid are simply zombies.”

This. This is becoming the theme of the whole situation.

Readers of my essay on the film A Dandy in Aspic (reprinted in my collection Passing the Buck (Manticore, 2021) will recall my discussion of the Russian fascination with the word “zombie” in the film’s book, and its original use by fellow Russian Ayn Rand already back in the 1940s.

https://counter-currents.com/2016/12/passing-the-buck-spy-dandy-ubermensch/

Here we find it again in this interview with Sergey Glazyev of the Bank of Russia. Note recurrence of the ‘puppet’ theme from the film’s opening credits as well.

“In 8 years the Americans have managed to fool the Ukrainian people so much that the people who resist the Russian army, the so-called Armed Forces of Ukraine, look simply zombified. They are manipulated like puppets. It is not Zelensky who commands the Ukrainian Army, not even the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the General Staff – but the Pentagon. It commands very effectively from the point of view in the fight of “to the last Ukrainian soldier”, because these zombie guys do not give up. But they are in an absolutely hopeless situation. All experts have already acknowledged that Russia won the military special operation, that the Ukraine has no chance of resistance, that the entire military infrastructure has been destroyed… The Armed Forces of Ukraine is only left with surrendering in order to minimize human losses. However, Ukrainian officers (and especially, of course, nationalists) act like zombies controlled from the outside – they follow instructions from the Pentagon that come to their personal computers and special tablets.” (https://youtu.be/OZiTCsDeT28)

Needless to say, all this ties in with the absurd fad for zombie movies, games, etc. in the West.

They make a virtue and a show of despising the world which excludes them.

Chafing under domination by one empire after another, the Jews invented a new genre: apocalyptic. The world is under the control of Satan (“the Lord of this Eon”) but YHVH will soon appear in the sky with his thousands of angels, to drench the world in blood and fire. Oh, and smite the evil doers.

The early Christians were such a cult, whose dead Messiah would actually return any day now, not as a lamb of God but as God’s sword, wreaking vengeance on those who reject the Gospel of Love. (The Christian God is a 12 year old girl: “I hate you because you won’t love me! You’ll see! You’ll all see!”)

The Pharisees who re-invented Judaism post-temple had a different strategy: the world is broken and must be “fixed”: tikkun olam.

So yeah, basically Christianity and Judaism were created by and for Pee Wees. Jew vs Christian: “I know you are, but what am I?”

“I’m not saying it was Jews…but it was Jews”

The fast-talking, quick thinking (Jewish) outsider geek who wins by outfoxing the bigger and more numerous Goyim around him is a trope for the ages in Hollywood.

It goes back to Genesis, literally. Sometimes the Jew tricks another Jew (Jacob and Esau) but the basic lesson is “win by deception” (motto of the Mossad). The Jewish plan — infiltrate, take over, kill the goyim — is right out there in the open, in the Joseph in Egypt story, or later Esther, but the goyim are so stupid they not only don’t see it, they actually teach there children to worship and emulate such “doers of God’s will.” Incredible.

My favorite example is David, always presented from Sunday School to Nobel literature as “the underdog triumphs over the unjust” or some such. pious nonsense. Actually, David “wins” by approaching “unarmed,” using his slingshot to sucker punch Goliath from a distance, then runs up and uses Goliath’s own sword to cut off his head. In short, he cheats, just like a wrestling “heel” who grabs a chair and knocks out the good guy from behind, while the referee (YHVH) looks the other way.

Next to “the sin of Sodom is homosexuality” (the men of Sodom aren’t homosexual, or else why does Lot offer his daughters? The sin is desiring intercourse with angels, a sort of “higher” form of bestiality. Cf. the earlier “Sons of God” — angels — who mate with earth women and produce the Nephilim) it’s the most (deliberately?) misunderstood story in the Bible.

Alan Watts told the story of the vicar who heard two students discussing their atheism. Thinking to refute them, he broke in: “Well, why don’t you atheists just run wild and indulge yourselves? That’s what I would do.”

Friedman has spoken! What could go wrong?

According to The Saker, Russia is winning the ground war, but losing the PR war big time. That’s one thing the Empire of Lies stills does well.

Putin lacks the homo element, which would have enabled him to create PR like this:

All hail Marx and Lennon!

(Firesign Theater fans will get the reference)

The Russian intelligentsia ( call them their liberals) are fleeing. They know they have no future in Putin’s Russia. Flights out of Russia to Istanbul or Georgia are fully booked and hotel rooms unavailable. … These emigres are not 75 year old babushkas looking to retire in Florida but educated people in their 30’s and 40’s. One cried that m’fer in the Kremlin has stolen my future. Wail till the 70 percent who still support this dictator realize he has done the same to them.

By “intelligentsia” you mean Jews, right?

((Jews)) aren’t even a race, but a shit-mix of races united by pretensions of some ancient and noble Hebrew background that somehow makes them kin to Bible characters from thousands of years ago. The ((Jews)) are also united by a common background of being molested and brainwashed by rabbis and ((Jewish)) gurus, making them perfect adherents to a secret society and parallel government called ZOG.

Now that is one damn good summary. The role of the rabbis in brainwashing the Phoenicians themselves (not everyone is part of the Elders of Zion and those who aren’t are just as expendable as the goyim: eg,, Maxwell, Weinstein, Epstein, the 6 million, etc.) is seldom appreciated.

One can also seem them as an international crime family, and despite the Godfather romanticism (alt right types love to laud the mafia as “traditionalists”), everyone below the capos is an expendable “earner”. “He’s small potatoes” — Hyman Roth, about Frank Pantangeli, a “mere” under boss.

In my review of de Palma’s Untouchables, I compared Capone’s mob to Ahab’s crew, and coined the term “bad Mannerbund” for an organization that pretends to be pursuing some noble aim but only exists to feed the greed or madness of its ruler(s). Such are the Phoenicians.

https://counter-currents.com/2012/04/brian-de-palmas-the-untouchables/

Interesting that the shitlibs hate both AP and Triumph. As for Ridgemont, I guess it’s “too white.”

I saw the name and was trying to place it. Did she marry Henry VIII? Was she a character in a Barbara Pym novel? Did Renee Zellwegger play her in some romcom? It is a puzzlement.

The victim, in this case, simply reacted in a way that would best ensure his own safety. That’s called self-defense which is perfectly legal.

You don’t follow the news in the USA much, do you? I guess you’re White, so we need to know the race of the knife guy.

And hello to you, Richie. Glad to meet you. BTW, it’s Dr. Jimmy, a al Quadraphrenia. But in truth, it’s Mr. Jim. I have a Master’s degree … in Science.

And why the Sarah Lawrence hate?

Anyway, despite your attempt to dismiss my comments as merely subjective, the reader will see that my remarks were directed at the logic (a science, last time I checked, and a rather hard one, like mathematics) of the author’s paragraph (which, itself, had nothing to do with the book under review, but rather an example of the sort of personal animus the author attributed earlier to academics themselves).

Of course, poorly reasoned prose is common enough; what makes this worth examining is that it exemplifies a common attitude among the “hard headed, no nonsense” (yet strangely, always losing) Right in postwar America: “Eh, what do you expect, it’s not STEM, so who cares anyway?”

I agree with the author, and you, on the state of the humanities. Unlike the author, and the IQ fetishists, I don’t shrug my shoulders and pin my hopes on STEM. I, like Sherlock Holmes, observe and deduce.

Question 1: was this always the case with the humanities, by their nature? (“Of each thing ask what is its nature” — Marcus Aurelius via Dr. Lechter — he’s smart!) Or is it a recent phenom?

Aristotle (he invented physics, so he must be as smart as Sheldon) said that the wise man expects as much precision from a discipline as possible, and no more; one does not expect a demonstration from a historian, nor does one chide the historian for failing to do so.

But this does not mean, as Paul Feyerabend would say, “Anything goes.” Any Man of the Right in the pre-WWII era, would have dismissed the statement “The humanities is all bullshit anyway, it’s not STEM” as philistinism, and a danger to society (given that the humanities are more important to society than the sciences). There were standards of discourse, and what has happened is that those standards have been eroded or destroyed. That is the issue.

Question 2: What happened? Short answer: the Frankfurt School. (But only at a Fox News level of understanding. The Frankfurters in fact were steeped in Germanic Kultur, and the vulgar capitalist society they critiqued was exactly the STEM-made, “one-dimensional” world of today). (*)

Long answer: the admission of Jews into the academy, bringing with them not only their hatred of White civilization, but their Talmudic, backwards-reading, mirror-logic mentality. In the 60s, Jews were still whining about how Lionel Trilling became the first Jew to get tenure in the English department at Columbia, because it had ben “felt” that “Jews couldn’t be trusted to teach English literature without corrupting it.” There we have it: the “gentleman’s agreement” that ensured the trustworthiness of the humanities.

” she returns to the gelatinous, primordial ooze that life originated from…”

Pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul….

God’s will? Perhaps they need the paycheck. There’s more money in it than, say, answering random questions from Unz commenters.

A long time ago I read someone who opined that the popularity of lesbians in pornography targeting heterosexual males was simply a function of “you don’t have to look at another guy’s junk”. That still seems to make the most sense, rather than any interest in lesbians as such, especially Really Existing Lesbians.

“Academics in the humanities are generally there because academia suits them, not because they suit academia. In a physics or mathematics department, you will find people with genuine intelligence and insight into their subjects (although this is changing for the worse as standards are lowered to admit more Blacks and women). In a humanities department, you will find people without genuine intelligence and insight.”

It has often seemed to me that the IQ fetishists have this notion in the back of their minds, and it’s nice to see it formulated so openly. If this merely means that some “people with genuine intelligence and insight into their subjects” can be found in the sciences, while some “people without genuine intelligence and insight ” can be found in the humanities, it is true but utterly trivial. I wouldn’t even dispute the idea that more can be found in the sciences, especially today but that would be only slightly more trivial.

But surely the author is not dealing in trivialities. He intends to inform us that people wind up in the humanities because they lack intelligence and insight, and vice versa mutatis mutandis. If someone is, say, a professor of English at Oxford, we can infer that he is a relative dumbass, and dishonest about it to boot. By contrast, someone lucky enough to be a lab assistant at Cornfield University is, ipso factor, highly intelligent and with penetrating insight into the depths of physical reality.

The core notion here — worthy of the worst kind of economic “models” — is that people naturally strive to attain the highest cognitive position — “measured” by IQ — they can get, only “settling” for lesser pursuits. Joyce must have wanted to be physicist, but wasn’t smart enough, so he had to settle for scribbling.

In TV terms, everyone wants to be Dr. Sheldon Cooper, theoretical physicist, with two PhD’s and “nobody’s snuggle bunny.” This is the sort of “world as cram school” mentality typical of narcissists, spergs, autistes, etc. Baker isn’t a professor of English because he’s interested in the subject, it’s because he’s not smart enough to be a physicist. Also, he’s a sissy, so there.

In the real world, people tend to try to do what they want to do. To continue with my TV example, while Sheldon believes that Amy is stuck in biology because she’s not as “smart” as he is, she, like most females, is in biology because though she is likely as smart as Sheldon, she prefers biology to string theory. And poor Howard! A paltry MSc. from MIT, and a Jew as well, yet obviously (to Sheldon), another dumbass.

(Actually, it occurs to me that Howard is a dumbass. Never the less…)

Speaking of “The introverted but resentful and subversive psychology of academics”, what is this about:

Baker is a Professor of English Language at Lancaster University in the north of England, but I don’t think he would hold that post if there were a lot of competition for it or if his subject required a great deal of intelligence and insight.

Given the state of the profession and the economy, I would think there would be a great deal of competition for a professorship; most PhD’s are stuck with adjunct and other temporary or low paid and low status positions, if they can find any at all.

And why would a Professor of English not “require a great deal of intelligence and insight”? Is this the stink of IQ fetishism (speaking of perversions) so common among the Men of Unz? The notion that some test-tube washer at a cornfield university is, ipso factor, smarter, and better, than, say, Goethe? I’ll let others here consider whether J. R. R. Tolkien, for example, or F. R. Leavis, had much “intelligence and insight”.

This is one of those American philistinisms that make one long for Russia — where literature, chess and ballet are respected national achievements, along side the sciences — to soon wipe away the grinning clown West for once and all.

I’m reminded of a professor at my two-bit graduate school — a cornfield university, indeed — who, when he noticed I was reading a grammar written by Michael Coulson, Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford, sneered “I’m sure there was a lot of competition for that position.” In fact, the whole department was filled with people who considered anything outside their own narrow specialty to be “silly” or “nonsense” even if it was the subject of study at infinitely more respectable institutions like, say, Harvard.

Speaking of Polari (which always looks like Polidari to me), consider my review of a classic work by and about late 50s London queerdom and its camp mannerisms, “The Decline of Wit into Camp: Sour Cream: Michael Nelson’s A Room in Chelsea Square”
https://counter-currents.com/2014/01/sour-cream-michael-nelsons-a-room-in-chelsea-square/

That explains the bald guy on the Ukrainian negotiation team who looks like Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad.