What We Are Told
In the West we believe that our permissive liberal democracy is among our greatest achievements and the high water mark of government. We think it is the ultimate evolution of society. Democracy sits on a pedestal. It must never be criticised because we mistakenly conflate democracy with freedom. The progressive belief is that the fundamental nature of democracy is sacred and must never be changed or tinkered with, but the same people who tell us this also say we still have work to do to achieve full social equality and fairness. We’ve been befuddled into this ridiculous belief that extending a say in the running of our countries to every single person, no matter how stupid they may be, or how little investment they hold in the future of the nation, is in the best interests of our nation and everybody within it. The modern age has carried us to the perverse situation where being critical of democracy is considered treasonous, and true patriotism, a love of your nation and its people is labelled as hatred.
These beliefs are reinforced at every turn. The dogma of equalism begins in the public school system where there are no winners or losers anymore. Our own history is betrayed and blackened in comparison to the current democratic system to which we have evolved. Our children are taught that everybody is equal and ultimately, equally worthless, in preparation for their lives as drones in the system. As we grow up politicians tell us that public schooling and a free press are essential for us to be free and it reinforces everything you were told in school. We are told by a media, that tentacle of the liberal leviathan, that democracy is our most wondrous achievement and we are lucky to be living under it, unlike those poor people in other times and places. Career politicians and journalists are untrustworthy weasels but despite everybody knowing this somehow they are convinced in the myth of the democratic system and that it works, even as it is staffed wholly by duplicitous confidence tricksters. Government, the media and the public school system exist in a synergy of mutual, self serving, congratulatory back-slapping.
We’ve Been Sold a Lie
Journalists proclaim that they need their freedom of speech but then use it to antagonise our enemies, incite conflicts between nations and within cultures inside our own borders. They manipulate public opinion, stir up support for more costly wars abroad and further the cultural marxist agenda at home. Wars are tolerated for just as long as the sacrifice is seen as worthwhile and the cause just and the media tells you that they are.
Crucially, the media keeps reinforcing the idea that as long as you can vote, then you are free. One man, one vote is the central tenet of democracy, and we are constantly told that as long we can vote we are free. No matter how many of our liberties are stripped away, we can still vote so we are still free. No matter how much of our privacy is stepped on by an ever obtrusive government, we can vote so we are free. No matter how much of your income is leached away at source by an increasingly money hungry democratic government, it’s okay because, that’s right, you can vote so you are free. Around half of your income, and therefore half of your working life goes into the coffers of an ever increasing government, and in return they let you put a tick in a box once every four years.
Comparing us to developing countries, the media leads us to believe that the patriarchal societies of foreign lands lag behind us in terms of development, as if development is the ultimate metric by which to measure the success of a society. We are supposed to find these foreign patriarchies abhorrent because they deprive their citizens of rights that we in the West enjoy. Words such as backwards and medieval are bandied around in a pejorative sense. Our own past is portrayed darkly, as a time where we had to overcome ourselves to get to these enlightened times in which we live today, as if the men who conceived and built Chartres cathedral were somehow uncivilised and oppressive barbarians.
The prevailing school of thought is that a society which does not send its women to universities is somehow holding itself back and will not attain what it is capable of. Our society says that we must simply do something about the poor women of Saudi Arabia who are not permitted to drive, or the girls in Pakistan who are not allowed to go to school and that when they do we will have gone some way to lifting up that society towards the shining ideal that is us. But these are the very societies that are more successful. They are more successful and when they come up against a society which is weaker, more fragile, porous and tolerant and less fruitful, such as ours, they will eventually prevail. The future does not care about your rights. The future belongs to societies which beget more children.
Looking From the Outside In
We are gauging the success or failure of our society, and others, with the wrong metrics. The success of a society isn’t measured on the scale of how far along the road it has come from medieval feudalism to modern liberal democracy. Of course, from the shortsighted perspective of the modern liberal, who doesn’t have his eyes on the horizon and only cares about the physical pleasures he can enjoy today, we are winning. In the West one can get drunk, take drugs, have sex in public and marry another man or whatever perversities one cares to indulge in. We can do some of these things legally, others are given the tacit approval by a society that shrugs its shoulders, looks the other way and doesn’t seem to give a fuck in which direction it is heading or what sort of world our children will grow up in.
We don’t remember the Roman Empire for its progressive political reform or for its enduring commitment to equality. The truly memorable societies were the ones which conquered and then endured and left an indelible mark on history. Equality, fairness, technological advancement, none of these things mattered when the hordes scaled the city walls and the light of society died out. We remember these societies because they stamped their authority on the world around them. They had a legacy of tradition which was handed down through the generations by men who wanted to build and be a part of something that was bigger than themselves.
Democracy is the Beginning of the Decline
The current generation has nothing to hand down to the next generation. It has no tradition, save for the nihilistic cult of atheism. It worships popscience and whichever transient celebrity currently occupies the headlines. It has no respect for its ancestors, and no regard for the next generation, which it is barely even begetting. We gauge our society on its technological advancements and GDP and while these are just one way to compare nations and societies they take no account of the human, social aspect of society. Western society is crumbling into the abyss. Right now it’s uncertain whether the West will save itself or if we will have to forge something new from the ashes. We are in occupied territory. Whether we reverse the decline or reboot and start again it will take a new breed of men to assert themselves over what remains of society.
With democracy you are held hostage to the whims of the lazy, uneducated majority. Far from being the high water mark of civilisation, democracy is really mob rule, the lowest common denominator ring of scum left around the bath tub as society spirals into the sewer.
We all here need to ask ourselves if we are content to take the easy path, to sip cocktails poolside and enjoy the fruits of the decline, or whether we look inside ourselves and decide if we want to take the difficult steps towards being great men, taking responsibility and saving our people. This blog is for The Resistance.