WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT EVERYTHING

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule? ~ Anton Chigurh

Of what use was the rule to whom, is the whole, non-truncate-tricked question.

I always thought of the Prussians as all-caps-plus-exclamation-points-Germans. With maybe an even stiffer stick up their asses. But Kuehnelt-Leddihn writes (The Menace of the Herd) they were more Frenchified than anything else. And imbued of that particularly (well, maybe not…) f’d up revolution.

“XIV. There is a very small minority in the Germanies deadly set against the *regime.* We must first of all realize that 95% of modern people have no ideas or convictions of their own. Five percent have views & convictions but again 95% of these do not dare to stand up for them. There are 5% of 5% who have courage & convictions. These make history for good or evil. And if we ask ourselves why there is such little evidence of the 3-4 millions who have convictions without having the determination to stand up for them we must come to the clearcut conclusion that *the civilized & cultured Europeans of the Northwest have become trembling cowards.* We must never underestimate the influence of a whole century of materialism, love of comfort, & determinism which deprived us, almost all of us (Christians & materialists alike), of our personal dignity, our courage, our honor, our elan. *We are afraid of death, torture, exile, & concentration camps, but we are even more afraid of the deadliest weapon in the hands of the totalitarian state – loss of employment, poverty, destitution.* With a stroke of the pen, the totalitarian state can deprive us (mainly the city dwellers) of every possibility to earn our livelihood, the grimmest damnation in urban civilization. The menace of no employment, no salary, no food, & no roof has created in our day a dearth of great saints like Edmund Campion, St. Thomas More, or the Christians of the Arena. Only at the “periphery,” in Macedonia, Spain, Finland, Russia, are things different. Only there do we witness the will to rebellion, self-sacrifice, & freedom from time to time. The “civilized” Europeans are hominess oeconomici & the homo oeconomicus is born to be a slave. Only the saints are free. “There is but one sadness: lack of sanctity,” says Leon Bloy’s Femme pauvre. And that, exactly, is the great calamity of modern society.

One only has to compare (the more cultured & less civilized) Austrians with their northern blood brothers. While the National Socialists were able to dissolve the parties of the Reich by mere decrees, the Austrian Socialists fought bravely to the death. It was a foolish & suicidal stand which benefited only the Nazis, but it was honorable. The Austrian National Socialists instead of waiting for “elections” fought with the same insistence. The Spaniards on both sides rather wanted to die than to submit. The Finns & Greeks fought like lions, while the Danes put down their arms after losing 28 men. The Poles were not crushed until the Russians attacked them in the back, while the more progressive Czechs (in an equally hopeless situation) never fired a shot.

For greater convenience we shall put these 14 points, just listed, & the elementary facts about the Germanies, in a shorter syllabus:

1. Prussia was nourished by France & England for selfish & psychological reasons into greatness. When they wanted to stop her it was too late.
2. Prussia was not a typically feudal country but a bureaucratic middle-class state. Not the *Junkers* but the Huguenot refugees became the basis of modern commercial & industrial Prussia.
3. Frederick II followed a traitorous, anti-German policy. His education, mind, & ancestry was largely French. Brutal, militaristic, agnostic, & “progressive,” he had a deep admiration for the civilized West.
4. Prussian militarism is not “aristocratic.” Neither is conscription a Prussian invention. Militarism & conscription are phenomena of the French Revolution. Modern militarism is fundamentally connected with nationalism, ochlocracy, & industrialism
5. The greatest mistake of the century – committed by certain Prussian noblemen, American columnists, & English bankers – was to see in nationalism a Rightist idea.
6. Captialism is not less “leftish” than socialism. Capitalism as well as socialism accept technical “progress” *unreservedly.* Between excessive private capitalism & state capitalism there is a relationship as between nationalism & internationalism. The difference is one of intensity but not of essence.
7. The Austrians are Germans & probably the “best” ones. The Germanic character of the Prussians is doubtful. When the *Nibelungen Saga* was first sung in the Austro-Bavarian dialect the old Prussians & Pomeranians still worshiped their Slavic & Baltic gods.
8. Even Francis Joseph considered himself to be a “German Prince.” In 1866 he headed a German coalition against Prussians & Italians. The rule of progressive, Protestant Prussia finally affected the German character.
9. National Socialism is the bureaucratic, Germanized version of the French Revolution.
10. Practically all ideas in National Socialism can be traced back to the following sources:
a) The French Revolution & its immediate offshoots.
b) The Old Testament (misapplied) & the Talmud (part of it).
c) The Industrial Revolution.
d) Calvinism191
e) Karl Marx & Socialism
f) Biologism (Darwin, Grant, Stoddard, Chamberlain, Gobineau).
g) Richard Wagner.
It lacks tho one “modern” influence – whiggish, pre-Manchesterian liberalism.
11. There is no “putting the clock back” in the Third Reich which is the millennium of modernity.
12. WW1 was a struggle concerning Austria-Hungary.
13. Brest-Litovsk & Bucharest were not brutal treaties.
14. Germany won the war when Austria-Hungary was dismembered.
15. The Treaty of Versaille *itself* is not the cause of National Socialisms, its rise & its victory. But the *circumstances* of the treaty accelerated the development.192
16. The Third reich is not less a *democracy* in the classical & scholastic sense than the Soviet Union.193
17. The leaders of these totalitarian superdemocracies frequently acknowledge the “democratic” character of their governments, but the “Fascists” will seldom confess to be “Leftists.”
18. The German character – outside of *urban* Prussia – is not in the least herdist by nature. Prussia & Austria alone have a truly military tradition. One must not forget that the Germans still preserved their individualistic separatism & federalism long after all other European nations had been united for some time into centralistic, unulingual states.
19. National Socialism is the fulfillment of *Continental* “liberalism” which stems largely from Rousseau & the ideas of Adam Smith in a collectivized version. The continental Liberals were never liberals in the English sense; their “liberalism” was nothing else but the struggle against the existing order & ther old tradition. Foolishly enough the English Liberals supported their continental “coreligionists,” never being fully aware of the abyss which actually divided them.
The continental Liberals were the most narrow-minded & destructive intriguers between Calais & Constantinople. With their appeal to the upper middle classes they never foresaw the day when the masses would take over their ideas (after having twisted them about to suit their own taste). The great ideas of Nazidom – utilitarianism, anticlericalism, anti-Catholicism, compulsory education, mass production, regimentation – were taken from their catechism. They had fought grimly against the great medieval heritage & they have succeeded in destroying the bulk of it, thus paving the way for the Fascists & National Socialists who did nothing but popularize the continental brand of liberalism, which in turn was nothing else than democritism in disguise. (Similarly continental writers made the mistake of confusing the labels “democratic” & “liberal” entirely. German essayists coined the term “demoliberal” which was used as a label for all sorts of democrats who sailed under the liberal flag. The support given to these continental Liberals by their naïve English confreres strengthened the belief on the Continent that half of England was basically “Left” & that most of the English tradition was “Left.” European conservatives coming to liberal England for the first time were puzzled to find a country far more aristocratic (& undemocratic) than any other European country with the possible exception of Poland, Hungary, & San Marino.) The *modern* Anglo-Saxon type of liberalism, otoh, with its relativism in the matters of ideas, philosophies, & religions will hardly ever appeal to the Continental who will never be induced to believe that if A is true & B contrary to A, B nevertheless can represent truth. If Catholicism is right then Protestantism is wrong & vice versa. Things on the Continent are white or black & if they are actually gray they are worse than black because they might cause confusion. There is a grim & inescapable logic in this attitude.”

So. You know about JT Gatto, his exposure of Prussian schooling methods imported lockstock&barrel to Amerika. Are most made better off by being drilled with the 3R’s? Do the R’s help the ones who cannot – are cowardly-afraid to – think? The ones who refuse the scary evidence their own eyes see?

If the rulers rules you followed brought you to this, of what use – to whom – were the rules?

Anton, the sociopath, knows the answer. Cue the scenes where he politely asks the 3R to step out of the car & to step to the boltgun, & to get the chicken crates off the back of the truck & then come to the boltgun. siRRR, yes siRRR!

RRRespect the chain-chain-chain, ya’ fools. ~ Aretha Force your way onto the chaingang. ~ CoolHandLuke