The big turnout in Paris was bracing but it also might reveal a sad fallacy of Western idealism: that good intentions will safeguard soft targets. The world war underway is not anything like the last two. Against neo-medieval barbarism, the West looks pretty squishy. All of the West is one big fat soft target.
Recriminations are flying — as if this was something like a Dancing with the Stars contest — to the effect that the Charlie Hebdo massacre should not be labeled as “France’s 9/11.” It’s a matter of proportion, they say: only 12 dead versus 2977 dead, plus, don’t forget, the shock of two skyscrapers pancaking into the morning bustle of lower Manhattan. Interesting to see how the West tortures itself psychologically into a state of neurasthenic fecklessness.
The automatic cries for “unity,” only beg the question: for or against what? The same cries went up in the USA after the Ferguson, Missouri, riots and the Eric Garner grand jury commotion, pretty much disconnected from the reality of ghetto estrangement, as if unity meant brunch together. The demonstrators quickly reminded everybody that Homey don’t play brunch. If French politicians think that some magical overnight state of fraternité will congeal between the alienated Islamic masses and the rest of the citizenry, they’re liable to be disappointed. If anything, mutual distrust is only hardening on each side, and, anyway, I think that is not the kind of unity they have in mind. Over in Germany, they don’t have to travel very far psychologically to recall the awful efficiency of Hitler in purifying the social scene according to some dark cthionic principle that remains essentially unexplained even after all these years and ten thousand books on the subject. It happened that he picked on a group that wasn’t disturbing the peace in any way; if anything, the Jews were busier than anyone contributing to Western culture, knowledge, and science.
It is at least well-understood that there are seasons in history, but they seem to have a mysterious, implacable dynamism that mere humans can only hope to ride like great waves, hoping to not get crushed. In the background of the present disturbances are not only the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, but the imminent collapse of the machinery that boosted up the greater Islamic economy of our time: the oil engine. It was oil and oil alone that allowed the populations of the Islamic world to blossom in a forbidding desert in the late 20th century, and that orgy of wealth is coming to an end. So will the ability of that region to support the populations now occupying it.
The violent outreach of Islamic wrath is actually a symptom of the region’s death throes, already obvious in the disintegration of one nation-state after another across North Africa and the Middle East. Saudi Arabia will only be one of the last dominoes to fall because it is so stoutly girded by desperate American support. The current theory is that Saudi Arabia can ride out $40-a-barrel oil because of its built-up cash reserves. But that seems mostly a schematic idea. Long before Saudi Arabia goes absolutely broke, it will face terrible internal political strife between the clans and the princes who happen not to be descendants of Muhammad ibn Saud — which represent only 15,000 of the roughly 29 million in the kingdom, and only about 2,000 of those actually in the power loop. King Abdullah is past 90 years old, a mere bit of fragile baling wire holding the whole thing together. Islamic violence is fierce as it is because the Islamic world is actually losing its mojo.
These are the stresses that are boiling over into the West these days. The West itself faces desperately terminal problems around its oil supply, too, mostly having to do with 100 years of the relationship between oil and finance in debt creation. The banking armature that is the dwelling place of all that debt is coming apart just as surely as the 20th century Muslim nation-states that were largely a creation of the West. The long war underway is a race to the bottom where the human project has to re-set the terms of a life above savagery.
Note: JHK’s 2015 Forecast is available now at this link: Forecast 2015 — Life in the Breakdown Lane
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“The automatic cries for “unity,” only beg the question: for or against what?” —— JHK
Multiculturalism! Tolerance! We are all one village. I’d like to teach … the world to sing … a song of perfect harmony …
That’s what the leaders are touting.
Not all the people are buying in. Sure, in Germany pro-mooslim protests out-number anti-mooslim protests … but, only by a factor of two. Hitler’s henchman caused havoc and terror with a FAR FEWER percentage of people.
Nationalism IS on the RISE in Europe. You won’t find dick about that in the MSM. It’s even difficult to find on the internet. But, yeah, it’s increasing throughout the continent. Look no further than the Nazi Ukies. And, this terrifies the leaders. So, they pretend nationalism is not an issue, and they hold hands and sing Kumbaya My Lord, hoping like fuck the shit won’t hit the fan until some other day down the road. But, deep down in their blackened hearts, they know its coming.
@ Stucky,
I’ll take nationalism over globalism any day.
The anti-muzzie protesters in Germany are not “Nazis”. Anyone thinking they are have fallen for the left’s slanderous narrative against them. 10 minutes of research about PEGIDA will dispel any fears about them being Nazis…
Merkel is a politician and even though she’s a member of Germany’s supposedly “neo-con” political group, the CDU, she’s still allying herself and the CDU with the whole “multicultural Nirvana” narrative, along with notorious leftist political groups. The fact that PEGIDA is anti-political correctness, oppose the Islamization of Europe and multiculturalism in general is enough to get them branded “Nazis” – even though they say the exact same things that we say here on TBP – and things I have also heard voiced in other self-determinist groups here in the US…
PEGIDA is just common folks using common sense, resisting the whole PC, multi-culti brown soup Nirvana being foisted on them by EU elites… and it has gotten so much traction, it literally has Merkel and her ilk shitting their britches… which is a good thing. Arrogant pukes running the EU see good, honest folk flexing their muscles for the first time in a long time, and they go into a full-blown Spaz-Ex…
How dare those commoners think they know what’s best for them and their country?
The author states,
“Over in Germany, they don’t have to travel very far psychologically to recall the awful efficiency of Hitler in purifying the social scene according to some dark cthionic principle that remains essentially unexplained even after all these years and ten thousand books on the subject. It happened that he picked on a group that wasn’t disturbing the peace in any way; if anything, the Jews were busier than anyone contributing to Western culture, knowledge, and science.”
Is he being serious or is he a fucking idiot? Yeah, the Germans are known for their irrationality and hysteria. I’m sure they had no reason whatever to pick on the jews. Just like the English before them who expelled the jews from England for over 300 years. I guess the English were just being irrational hate-mongers right? And Spain too? And Portugal? and Switzerland? And Russia? And fill in the fucking blank you fucking idiot. All irrational jew haters! Yup, the jews were just trying to sell their kosher baloney sandwiches on the street. They didn’t do nuffin right? You’re a fucking idiot.
Yeah the jews were too busy contributing to western culture, knowledge and science. Yeah, when I was in Europe that’s all I could think of walking by beautiful cathedrals. “Look at what the jews have given Europe!” I said to myself. When I ate cured ham at a tapas bar in Granada I thought to myself, “Thanks jews!” It was the same thought running through my head when I gorged on Epoisses cheese and steak frites in Paris, after having visited the Louvre, which was packed to the gills with beautiful Jew art. Taking the Eurorail from country to country my solitary thought was “If only the Gentile could build a train like this one!” While in Venice drinking expresso, in the sun dappled Piazza San Marco, all I thought of was “Wow, look at what the Jew has done here! If only the Christian could do this!” When I was in boarding school, I would go to Princeton University frequently and just walk around campus marveling at the architecture. And I went to a few hockey games. I used to curse my Christian heritage and yelled to God, “Why can’t we be like the Jew who built these buildings and created this wonderful sport!!” When in graduate school reading Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Heidgger, Nietzsche, Locke, Hume, et al. how I wished the gentiles could have contributed to philosophy like the jews!
Did you notice I was being sarcastic there Cuntsler? Fuck you you fucking idiot.
@ Stucky,
Here. Read this… it lays it out better than I did…
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/07/the-european-civil-war-elites-vs-people-in-a-fight-for-survival/
@ archie,
Kuntsler is a Noo Yawk Joo. Apparently, he never met a German he didn’t hate. Or a Southerner.
Even though the Joos were tossed out of every single country in Europe – in some cases, multiple times – it seems the Germans are everyone’s favorite whipping boy…
He has to turn the conversation – any conversation – into “Boo Hoo. Us poor Joos”…
And he’s not alone…
On PEGIDA: “Josef Schuster, chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, voiced his opposition to the group, saying that the possibility of an Islamic conquest of Germany would be as “absurd” as a resurrection of the Nazi regime.”
First, they dismiss the PEGIDA marchers’ cause as being non-existent… then, when that doesn’t work, they play the “Reductio Ad Hitlerum” card… “Well, since the Nazis were against Europe being overrrun, then anyone opposing Europe being overrun must be Nazis!”
Fuckers… I now understand why the Germans shot communists in the streets. There’s a certain undeniable efficiency about it… the Leftist motherfuckers are trying to destroy your country and all of Europe. Easiest way to be rid of them is just shoot the motherfuckers right there on the spot…
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“On Sunday, April 12, 1919, the Communist Party seized power (in Munich), with Eugen Leviné as their leader. Leviné began to enact communist reforms…
At the suggestion of Vladimir Lenin, Leviné took hostages from among the elite. When his troops refused to execute the hostages, Russian soldiers were sent to do it…
Soon after, on 3 May 1919, remaining loyal elements of the German army (called the “White Guards of Capitalism” by the communists), with a force of 9,000, and Freikorps (such as the Freikorps Epp and the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt) with a force of about 30,000 men, entered Munich and defeated the communists after bitter street fighting in which over 1,000 supporters of the government were killed. About 700 men and women were arrested and summarily executed by the victorious Freikorps troops. Leviné was condemned to death for treason, and was shot by a firing squad in Stadelheim Prison.”
Hmmm… Levine?
Now what kind of name is that? Eugene Levine… hmmmm….. let’s take a look.
Here’s a picture of the little fucker…
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From Wiki: “Leviné was born in St. Petersburg to a wealthy Jewish family. His parents were Julius and Rozalia (née Goldberg).[1][2][3][4] Leviné was educated in Germany. He returned to Russia to participate in the failed Russian Revolution of 1905 against the Tsar. For his actions, he was exiled to Siberia. He eventually escaped to Germany and began studying at Heidelberg University…
Well, well, well…
Not saying anything specific… just making some uncomfortable points that people don’t like to recognize…
That’s a nice article by Breitbart.
European leaders are supporting mooslims …. the very same mooslims whose own countries murder Christians with vigor and glee. That is so nuts! Germany has two options (as all the other countries); 1) become Germistan or 2) get rid of the vermin. Which option they will choose is still up in the air.
@Billy — I am not equating PEGIDA to Nazi’s. I think they are doing the right thing. Nationalism can quickly morph into an UGLY series of events. OTOH, so is letting masses of mooslims to overrun a country. So ‘Germany for Germans’ (or, pick-another-country) … I don’t have a big problem with that.
Dammit!!
Both those Anons were me….
Stupid, stinkin’ computer… have to have filters and blockers running just to keep the damn page simple… guess it deletes my info every once in awhile…
Still better than never ending ads and popups…
I think a big problem is that many of these Muslim countries are socialistic and turd world.
Did you ever buy anything made in Egypt? Iran? Iraq? Yemen? – except for their crude oil – they don’t even refine that. These people get a hand-out from their socialist government.
Much like the neegrows in the US – their country is one big ‘hood’ – these fucker’s never had a job. They have lots of free time to wash their fucking feet like 5 times a day, and pray (for what), they nothing to focus on, other than hating the rest of the world – for some obscure reason.
They should all get a fucking job, and maybe they’d have something else to think about.
@ Stucky,
Oh, I agree.
Unchecked nationalism can quickly change into seriously ugly events… but I despise Globalism – and it’s proponents – with a burning passion only equaled by my hatred of Communism (both the economical and cultural flavors).
It’s not that there are folks who think they know better than I do – there undoubtedly are those who actually do know better – it’s just that those elites currently pushing this Culture of Death on us are, to borrow a phrase:
1. Liberating, too, it is to realize that the Noam Chomskys and Michael Moores and Robert Fisks of the world (and their thousands of lesser imitators in faculty lounges everywhere) are not brave transgressive forward-thinkers but pathetic memebots running the program of a dead tyrant.
Those pushing old Soviet-era memes – and their derivatives, such as “multiculturalism” and “political correctness” – they know what they are pushing is a Culture of Death. What they push is for you and yours, you pathetic little snotty-dicked peon – not for them…
“They” are so much better than you that – by Divine Right – they crown themselves your rulers… don’t you see?
These people are exactly why the T-shaped and cruciform bayonets were invented…. insert, twist hard 90 degrees, withdraw. Move on to the next one.
(Seriously – the right angle puncture wound is the hardest wound to heal. A T-shaped or cruciform bayonet wound had 2 or 4 corners, respectively. Any movement caused it to open again, and you were more likely to die from sepsis resulting from infection than the wound itself… I know, you’re thinking “Christ on a bike, Billy! How do you know these things?!? Why would you even want to know these things?!? Answer: because I’m thinking that some day this esoteric information will come in right handy… just sayin’…)
Kunstler is totally wrong if he thinks that it is Westerners trying to get oil out of their sands that makes Muslims boil over.
It is Islam itself, which has been on the warpath since the founding of the religion, which occurred AFTER the establishment of Christianity (which itself predated Judism). Read the Koran. It is about 10% about peaceful coexistance and 90% about war/conquest/rape/pedophilia, etc.
Islam is the worlds most perfect killing machine, probably accounts for 250 million plus deaths since its founding, sorry, but that is the truth of it. In NO country, not one, where Islam is the majority religion is there any kind of freedom of speech, equality for women or minorities, economic opportunity or a equality under the law. Not one. The problem isn’t Arabs, it is Islam.
It certainly isn’t a “lack of oil” since we are literally floating on seas of it.
oh, and BTW, all this ISIS threat, both from physical damage and cyber attacks (which is real and these guys sure like special ops to me), is just the excuse that our fed.gov needs to clamp down on the internet and tighten the screws even farther on the police state.
THAT is what should concern JHK. He’s a Big Gov Guy, well, he’s soon gonna get a whole lotta Big Gov right where the sun don’t shine.
They want our stuff. They want to make us slaves so we can work and make more stuff for them. They use a made up religion to justify their ruthless actions.
archie: I thought exactly the same thing when i was in Europe this past summer. The Jews simply don’t belong there. Nor do the muzzies. Europe is a White, Christian continent and anyone else is an outsider, not required. It also turned me into a backer of Israel like never before. That’s where the Jews belong and the sooner the better.
Hope is correct – Islam is not a religion of peace. Surely, wars in the name of Christianity have killed untold millions, but Islam has been on a holy war since its inception, and there will be no end to it.
Billy, thanks for the history lesson. I’ve seen that photo. I’m sick of the anti-European white propaganda in general and the anti German venom in particular. To be truthful I didn’t even read past that bit about the Germans in the article. I just saw red.
You ever read the autobiography of Markus Wolf, the head of the Stasi? I read it years ago but I do remember he talked about turning two Americans around. They were bomb throwing communists who fled Germany, and were granted asylum here. The OSS recruited them and hence knew a ton of shit. They thanked Uncle Sam by betraying him. Wanna guess what tribe they come from? I suppose they weren’t doing nuffin.
Ragman, the more I think about it, the more I arrive at your conclusion. I went to Europe as a kid. I’d like to go back.
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