DESCRIBING THE PAST AND PREDICTING THE FUTURE | 2007-08-20
I might as well keep talking to myself here.
As I discussed in an ignored article below, our previous problem was that we had to settle for organizing the masses, since the top of the idea chain was carefully protected at Harvard and in New York. Now the top of the idea chain is literally at our finger tips.
This changes EVERYTHING.
Someone dealt with my article Pro-White Collaborators on Stormfront with the reasonable suggestion that a real history of the pro-white movement be written. But that won't do it PRECISELY because of what I just mentioned. All the sex appeal is in Torch Light Parades a la Hitler or the forty thousand Klansmen marching in DC in 1927.
Trying to describe the importance of the intra-conservative battle which led to the "Wallace" vote becoming the Reagan Democrats and therefore to the end of the Soviet Empire holds no place in history compared to "Mr. Gorbeczev, tear down this wall!"
In the American media, as I said an ignored article, the emphasis is on shouting enemy victories and minimizing our wins. All the Torchlight Parade stuff is THEIRS.
No, a history won't do it, because a history of events has very little to do with a history of real power.
History and predicting the future have this same problem. In order for there to be a book on the future, somebody has to PAY for it. The whole field of Futurology has no connection to the future at all. Successful futurologists are people who get money and fame for predicting what people who have money and who buy books and who grant academic titles TODAY want to hear and deem reasonable.
The future is NEVER what people today deem reasonable. Least of all is the future ever what people in power and money TODAY deem reasonable.
Pain asks me to be more specific abut what I EXPECT. I can't, precisely because I don't KNOW what the future holds.
I do know that every Tough, Practical Man would have said I 1980, "So the whole Soviet Empire is just going to fold up and go away? Don't be RIDICULOUS!"
In 1980, you would find out about the future of the Soviet Union by talking to a Sovietologist. Not one of them predicted anything like what happened. That is because Sovietologists concentrate on getting PAID, not on predicting the REAL future.
The end of the Soviet Union was being determined inside the minority party, getting them to go for the "Wallace" vote. How in Heaven's name could a professional historian or Futurologist or Sovietologist, whose JOB depends on ignoring anything outside of Harvard and New York, POSSIBLY have a clue about THAT?
This is an example of how making a living predicting the future makes one absolutely helpless in the fact of the REAL future. The strategy Reagan used to bring down the Soviets had been publicly discussed among paleoconservatives for decades. Burnham talked about it for years in National Review.
Reagan found his Last Straw for the Soviet camel in the Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI. Senator Kennedy called it "Star Wars." He never knew how close he was. SDI was invented by a SCIENCE FICTION WRITER, Larry Niven, in a conference Reagan had with science fiction writers.
Why would an incoming president have a conference with people no PAID "intellectual" would take seriously?
Because Reagan did not need someone to organize a torchlight parade. He needed people who could THINK. He did NOT need more people who knew how to say what they could get PAID for in the Fashionable Opinion market place.
In other words, a history of pro-white victories wouldn't do the job because most pro-whites wouldn't recognize a victory when they SAW one.