#4 AFKANNow | 2008-12-21 02:27
in considered reply:
This topic has been a major concern of mine of late, as I saw the electorate motivated by feelings of revenge - the young, and the Left - and feelings of surrender - the old, and the Right.
Neither side offers anything remotely resembling solutions, and I think the Internet powered people are fully aware of this; those still stuck in mass media suspect it, but can not put their finger on what the problem is.
This goes MUCH deeper than the desire to elect the first FCC to the White House; it is almost as if those who COULD make a difference are tired of fighting the Zeitgeist - mandated equality, and explicit attacks on Whites, in general, and White Male, in particular.
The overarching theme is simple - The Children of the Sixties decided to force America to commit suicide, and most of what MADE America great decided the Swarm was not worth fighting DIRECTLY any more.
I've noticed this, in casual conversations with people I know who are sixty and over. They are literally retreating to watching old movies - the classic, black and white movies of the Thirties on, where the men wear suits and ties, and the women wear dresses, hats and gloves.
AS I noted before, the moment of White America's greatest technological achievement - men on the Moon - was mirrored in the hallmark of the beginning of the Collapse of the society, the Chicago Democratic Convention Riots of '68.
The implicit acceptance of, and support for, core Values made the issues of right and left marginal issues, as there was agreement on the fundamentals of who we were, and what we do.
So many of the implicit values in the middle were mocked, undermined, and ignored, and with them went the middle as a meaningful source of stability.
So, the extremes became ever more extreme, with only each other to define each other; the Middle, that broad, national, intergenerational consensus, was gone.
And, at Core, at the end of the day, the unspoken Center was founded on the values of Western Civilization, Family, Christianity, and, uniting them all, Race.
When Race went, and was actively scorned by our people, it was easy for Western Civilization, Christianity, and the Family, to be redefined by the Left, and constructively undefended by the Right.
Thus, the Abyss, and thus, the Wasteland.
What is seen as indifference is actually, in large part, the constructive equivalent of despair for "Better" being possible, much less an actual goal to be defined and achieved.
And, as we all know, Hedonism is the Cultural reaction to Despair.
Seen any hedonism in this Culture over, say, the last forty or so years?
Seen it becoming ever more manifest, to the point that it is all but a new "Family Value?"
I have been working on an alternative biography of Dr. Sam Francis - a work of fiction, you may rest assured - and the Francis-like character looks around him in 2020 and realizes the answer is a Renewal, that must come from within, and from the ground, up.
I suspect a good part of the despair people feel for politics at the moment is because they have seen eight years of ever-greater centralization transforming the social order, and now, it has failed to make things remotely better, and some things are much, much worse.
The collapse phase of this System takes twenty years to fully manifest, but the Rebuilding begins on the foundation of a Positive Theory of Race.
More to follow.